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Does Organization Matter for Health? The Association Between Workplace Social Capital and Self-Rated Health
Sehee Han1, Kwang Kook Park, Jong Won Lee
1Institute of Social Sciences, Kookmin University (Dr Han); Department of Public Administration, The Catholic University of Korea (Dr Park, Dr Lee), Seoul, South Korea.
Objective:
This study aimed to investigate the association between workplace social capital at the individual and government organizational levels, and self-rated health among public employees in South Korea.
Methods:
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of public employees at government organizations in South Korea from June 2018 to December 2018. In total, 815 respondents in 31 government organizations were analyzed. We fitted two-level random intercept logistic regression models.
Results:
We found that the vertical component of workplace social capital at the individual and organizational levels was positively associated with good self-rated health.
Conclusions:
Our results suggest that decision-makers targeting public interventions at the government organizational level to improve employee health are unlikely to observe an appreciable impact since a relatively small proportion of the variation in self-rated health was attributed to this level.
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