{"title":"Creating Clarity and Crew Courage: Preventive and Promotive Measures for a Maritime Industry Without Bullying and Harassment.","authors":"Magnus Boström, Cecilia Österman","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00129-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-022-00129-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seafaring shares many characteristics with contemporary working life ashore. However, a major difference is that seafarers can spend up to 12 months aboard a ship that constitutes a work, living and recreational environment. Onboard work includes many stressors that can potentially contribute to workplace bullying and harassment, which in turn can affect safety critical operations. The aim of this study was to identify underlying causes in the organizational and social work environment that can cause workplace bullying and harassment at sea, and to suggest appropriate preventive and promotive strategies and measures. Data were collected mainly through World Café workshops with 56 participants from the Swedish maritime industry. Seafarer occupational health, safety, and wellbeing is largely determined by interdependent factors at micro, meso, and macro levels, where different stakeholders play various roles. Strategies and measures starting at the individual seafarer, and gradually expanding outwards toward the maritime industry are suggested. It is important that a victim of bullying or harassment receives adequate support. Creating crew courage enables employees to both recognize troubling situations and know how to act and respond to a situation. To bridge the gap between policy and practice, the legislative framework needs translating into practical procedures to make sense to the middle manager at the sharp end, with limited knowledge, time, resources, and decision latitude. Future research should evaluate the effectiveness of work environment interventions - what works, for whom, and under which circumstances.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9631593/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10429452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keeping Up With Work Email After Hours and Employee Wellbeing: Examining Relationships During and Prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Archana Manapragada Tedone","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00107-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00107-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employees to work from home (WFH) and more heavily rely on technology to conduct work, calling for further empirical investigation into the effects of work-related technology and the WFH environment on employee wellbeing. This study investigates the relationship between work-related email (WRE) use during nonwork hours and emotional exhaustion in a sample of U.S. employees required to WFH during the pandemic, with results suggesting that psychological detachment and work-family conflict (WFC) play important roles in this relationship. Furthermore, telepressure (i.e., the preoccupation/urge to promptly respond to WRE) moderated the relationship between WRE use and psychological detachment, which offers insight into the psychological processes behind WRE use after hours. Direct and indirect effects between WRE use and emotional exhaustion were also compared to effects generated using data from an independent sample of pre-pandemic in-office employees to determine whether the pandemic context has amplified the observed relationships. Results show that all direct/indirect effects, except for the effect of WRE use after hours on psychological detachment, were stronger in those required to WFH. These findings shed light onto the similarities and differences between the current and pre-pandemic work landscapes and have important implications for lawmakers, organizational leaders, and employees.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39873840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Thoughts Have No Off Switch: The Cost of Telepressure and Message-based Communication behaviour within Boundary-crossing Contexts.","authors":"Ruben Cambier, Peter Vlerick","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00127-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00127-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communication technology enables employees to be constantly connected at the cost of potentially blurring the boundaries between work and private life, which can be detrimental to their well-being. The present study utilised a quantitative diary approach (<i>N</i> = 269 employees, <i>N</i> = 1256 data points) to provide further evidence on the association between telepressure and ruminative thoughts within boundary-crossing contexts (i.e., including work-related behaviour and cognitions during leisure time as well as private-related behaviour and cognitions at work). On a day-to-day level, we examined if context-incongruent telepressure had a positive effect on context-incongruent affective rumination through context-incongruent message-based communication behaviour. Multilevel analyses supported our hypothesised mediation models. Altogether, findings reveal that quickly replying towards messages or its related cognition (i.e., telepressure) may result in a resource-draining experience in terms of affective rumination within both boundary-crossing contexts. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research avenues are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9628384/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10367147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebecca J Thompson, Stephanie C Payne, Allison L Alexander, Vanessa A Gaskins, Jaime B Henning
{"title":"A Taxonomy of Employee Motives for Telework.","authors":"Rebecca J Thompson, Stephanie C Payne, Allison L Alexander, Vanessa A Gaskins, Jaime B Henning","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00094-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00094-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This qualitative research contributes to the telework research literature by identifying and categorizing employee motives for teleworking. Motives for telework contextualize teleworking behavior, represent proximal telework outcomes, and serve as potential boundary conditions for telework-outcome relationships. Role identity theory (Burke & Tully <i>Social Forces, 55</i>(4), 881-897, 1977) and the uncertainty-reduction hypothesis (Hogg & Terry <i>Academy of Management Review, 25,</i> 121-140, 2000) suggest that motives may be driven by role salience and the ability to meet work and nonwork demands. In this research, we sought to identify a comprehensive list of motives as well as reconcile the wide range of categories and labels given to telework motives in the literature. We asked two independent samples of workers comprised of two subsamples of teleworkers (<i>n</i> <sub>1</sub> = 195; <i>n</i> <sub>2</sub> = 97) and a subsample of nonteleworkers (<i>n</i> <sub>3</sub> = 947) why they telework or would like to telework. A total of 2504 reasons were gathered across the three subsamples. Most respondents reported multiple reasons, especially when encouraged to list all of their reasons. After distinguishing preconditions from motives to telework, ten categories emerged from the qualitative data with \"avoid commute\" emerging as the most frequently reported motive. Other frequently reported motives included \"tend to family demands\" and \"productivity.\" Additional motives are discussed along with implications for telework research and policy development and implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415699/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39411356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Your help isn't helping me!\" Unhelpful workplace social support, strain, and the role of individual differences.","authors":"Ian M Hughes, Lindsey M Freier, Clare L Barratt","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00115-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-022-00115-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the reception of social support at work is generally considered a net positive for employees, researchers have identified that particular kinds of social support, such as unhelpful workplace social support (UWSS), tend to evoke stress and contribute to strain for recipients. Although (Gray et al. <i>Work and Stress</i>, <i>34</i>(4), 359-385, 2020), when validating the novel UWSS measure, uncovered relations between UWSS and various outcomes, more research is needed to further understand the impacts of UWSS. Furthermore, the extant social support literature is currently lacking in its understanding of how individual differences strengthen or weaken the relations such support has with strain. Drawing from the Theory of Stress as Offense to Self (Semmer et al. <i>Occupational Health Science</i>, <i>3</i>(3), 205-238. 10.1007/s41542-019-00041-5, 2019), we, through two studies (<i>N</i> <sub>1</sub> = 203, <i>N</i> <sub>2</sub> = 277), further explore the relations of UWSS, focusing on behavioral and psychological strain, and examine how these relations are influenced by relevant individual differences (e.g., Big Five traits). Results from our first study replicate key findings from (Gray et al. <i>Work and Stress</i>, <i>34</i>(4), 359-385, 2020), providing additional validity evidence for the novel measure of UWSS, and demonstrate that UWSS is related to various types of behavioral strain. Our second study shows that the strength of these deleterious relations varies based on characteristics of the recipient of UWSS. Altogether, the present research contributes to the literature on social support as a stressor by elucidating further the effects of UWSS, and, perhaps more importantly, for whom UWSS is particularly deleterious.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8951663/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89396120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Work-Related Spousal Support and Recovery Experiences among Dual-Earner Couples—Work-Linkage as Moderator","authors":"J. Walter, Verena C. Haun","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00104-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00104-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91190666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Dugan, Rick A. Laguerre, J. Barnes-Farrell, J. Cavallari, Jennifer L Garza, Lindsey A. Graham, Gretchen A. Petery, N. Warren, M. Cherniack
{"title":"Musculoskeletal Health and Perceived Work Ability in a Manufacturing Workforce","authors":"A. Dugan, Rick A. Laguerre, J. Barnes-Farrell, J. Cavallari, Jennifer L Garza, Lindsey A. Graham, Gretchen A. Petery, N. Warren, M. Cherniack","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00106-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00106-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80702571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Franziska J. Kößler, K. Fujishiro, Susanne Veit, A. Hoppe
{"title":"Ethnic Differences in Context: Does Emotional Conflict Mediate the Effects of Both Team- and Individual-Level Ethnic Diversity on Emotional Strain?","authors":"Franziska J. Kößler, K. Fujishiro, Susanne Veit, A. Hoppe","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00105-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00105-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84601929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of Social and Occupational Stress, and Physical Strain on Suicidal Ideation Among Law Enforcement Officers","authors":"A. Beauchamp, K. Jetelina","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00103-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00103-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88614189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James V. Simms, Alexandra R Thelan, S. Domoff, E. Meadows
{"title":"An Examination of Vicarious Trauma Among Refugee Mental Health Interpreters","authors":"James V. Simms, Alexandra R Thelan, S. Domoff, E. Meadows","doi":"10.1007/s41542-021-00101-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-021-00101-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80832600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}