Organisational Changes and Psychosocial Work Factors: Prospective Findings From the National French Working Conditions Survey
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Organizational changes like downsizing can worsen job insecurity and stress for employees. These workplace changes may negatively impact employee health through psychosocial factors.
Area Of Science
- Occupational Health
- Organizational Psychology
- Sociology of Work
Background
- Limited research exists on how organizational changes affect employee health.
- Understanding the mechanisms linking workplace changes to health outcomes is crucial.
Purpose Of The Study
- To prospectively examine associations between organizational changes and the deterioration of psychosocial work factors.
- To investigate the mediating role of psychosocial factors in the relationship between organizational changes and health outcomes.
Main Methods
- Utilized prospective data from the French national working conditions survey (2013, 2016, 2019).
- Included 5200 private sector employees.
- Employed multilevel mixed-effects robust Poisson regression models.
Main Results
- Organizational changes were prospectively linked to worsened psychosocial factors, including job insecurity, role stressors, and job demands.
- Downsizing showed the strongest association with increased job insecurity.
- Psychosocial work factors may mediate the impact of organizational changes on health.
Conclusions
- Organizational changes significantly predict the deterioration of psychosocial work factors.
- Job insecurity, role stressors, and job demands are key pathways through which organizational changes may affect employee health.
- Further research should explore these mediation pathways to inform interventions.
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