Tomika W Greer, Stephanie C Payne, Rebecca J Thompson
{"title":"Pandemic-Induced Telework Challenges and Strategies.","authors":"Tomika W Greer, Stephanie C Payne, Rebecca J Thompson","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00151-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00151-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, telework was an established discretionary practice with a considerable amount of research. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced people who had never worked from home before to do so. Our two-wave descriptive investigation provides a historical snapshot of what approximately 400 teleworkers experienced in the first two to three months of the pandemic. We explored how this experience differed for those who had previously teleworked, those who had children in their home, and those who had supervisory responsibilities. The data exposed telework challenges and pandemic-specific challenges. The results support job crafting theories that teleworkers proactively implement strategies to adjust their boundaries and relationships to meet their need (Biron et al., <i>Personnel Review</i>, 2022). The data also revealed that employees were still struggling two months later, despite implementing strategies like self-care, taking breaks, and psychological reframing. This research provides detailed evidence of how pandemic-induced telework is not the same as traditional telework and some initial evidence of the pandemic-induced telework adjustment time period.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s41542-023-00151-1.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199446/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714676","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}
Chelsea LeNoble, Anthony Naranjo, Mindy Shoss, Kristin Horan
{"title":"Navigating a Context of Severe Uncertainty: The Effect of Industry Unsafety Signals on Employee Well-being During the COVID-19 Crisis.","authors":"Chelsea LeNoble, Anthony Naranjo, Mindy Shoss, Kristin Horan","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00155-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00155-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Complex disaster situations like the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) create macro-level contexts of severe uncertainty that disrupt industries across the globe in unprecedented ways. While occupational health research has made important advances in understanding the effects of occupational stressors on employee well-being, there is a need to better understand the employee well-being implications of severe uncertainty stemming from macro-level disruption. We draw from the Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress (GUTS) to explain how a context of severe uncertainty can create signals of economic and health unsafety at the industry level, leading to emotional exhaustion through paths of economic and health anxiety. We integrate recent disaster scholarship that classifies COVID-19 as a transboundary disaster and use this interdisciplinary perspective to explain how COVID-19 created a context of severe uncertainty from which these effects unfold. To test our proposed model, we pair objective industry data with time-lagged quantitative and qualitative survey responses from 212 employees across industries collected during the height of the initial COVID-19 response in the United States. Structural equation modeling results indicate a significant indirect effect of industry COVID-19 unsafety signals on emotional exhaustion through the health, but not economic, unsafety path. Qualitative analyses provide further insights into these dynamics. Theoretical and practical implications for employee well-being in a context of severe uncertainty are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-37"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10183695/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10116129","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}
Xi Wang, Yisheng Peng, X. Xu, Elizabeth Arenare, Wenqin Zhang
{"title":"The Effect of Coworker Incivility on Knowledge Sharing: The Roles of Interpersonal Justice and Communion Striving","authors":"Xi Wang, Yisheng Peng, X. Xu, Elizabeth Arenare, Wenqin Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00152-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00152-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"103 1","pages":"453 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72890535","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":"The Role of Wellness Climate in Small Business Health Promotion and Employee Wellbeing.","authors":"G Shawn Reynolds, Joel B Bennett","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00148-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00148-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wellness involves physical, emotional, behavioral, social, and spiritual dimensions. A climate for wellness exists at both the psychological and organizational levels, consisting of individual and shared perceptions of policies, structures, and managerial behavior that support or promote employee wellbeing. This study explored the associations between psychological and organizational wellness climate and the effectiveness of a team health promotion training on employees' perceived physical and mental wellbeing and substance use. Employees from 45 small businesses completed self-report measures of wellness climate, wellbeing, positive unwinding behavior, work-family conflict, job stress, drug use, and alcohol use, assessed before, and one and six months after, attending either of two types of onsite health promotion training. Team Awareness training targeted improvements in the social climate at work. Healthy Choices training targeted individual health behavior. A control group did not receive training until after the study. Businesses were randomly assigned to conditions and data were analyzed using multi-level modeling. Models that included wellness climate as a mediator fit the data significantly better than models without climate as a mediator. Team Awareness participants showed greater improvements in wellness climate and wellbeing compared to the control group. Healthy Choices participants showed no changes in climate and no mediation effects of climate. Health promotion efforts may be enhanced by including wellness climate as a target in program design at multiple levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131546/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9717197","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}
Carlo Isola, Steve Granger, Nick Turner, Manon Mireille LeBlanc, Julian Barling
{"title":"Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence, Partner Interference, and Family Supportive Supervision on Victims' Work Withdrawal.","authors":"Carlo Isola, Steve Granger, Nick Turner, Manon Mireille LeBlanc, Julian Barling","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00150-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00150-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the link between intimate partner violence (IPV) and work withdrawal (including absence frequency, partial absenteeism, and turnover intentions) in the context of partners' interference with victims at work and family supportive supervision of victims at work. Using the work-home resources model, we propose that (1) partner interference with victims at work will worsen the relationship between IPV and work withdrawal, and (2) family supportive supervision of victims at work will alleviate this relationship. Our analysis of a sample of 249 female employees found a three-way interaction between IPV, partner interference, and family supportive supervision on victims' absence frequency: IPV victims whose partners interfered with their work had lower absence frequency when they received high (compared to low) levels of family supportive supervision at work. Importantly, family supportive supervision was only related to lower absence frequency when both IPV and partner interference were present. This suggests that organizations have a unique opportunity to reduce the negative effects of IPV and partner interference not only for the victim but also for other employees who are indirectly affected. Our findings have significant implications for organizations, which have ethical, legal, and practical responsibilities to create a safe working environment for all employees.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10126564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9714679","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}
César Merino-Soto, G. A. Calderón-De La Cruz, Manuel Fernández-Arata
{"title":"Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey’s abbreviated measurement: validation in Peruvian teachers","authors":"César Merino-Soto, G. A. Calderón-De La Cruz, Manuel Fernández-Arata","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00149-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00149-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"299 1","pages":"631 - 644"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77332507","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":"The Ramifications of State Affect on the Relationship Between Workday Coworker Incivility and Counterproductive Work Behavior","authors":"Gargi Sawhney, Mallory A. McCord","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00147-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00147-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"41 1","pages":"557 - 574"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82142753","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}
Dārta Vasiļjeva, Annika Nübold, Ute R. Hülsheger, C. Nederkoorn
{"title":"Daily Work Stressors and Unhealthy Snacking: The Moderating Role of Trait Mindfulness","authors":"Dārta Vasiļjeva, Annika Nübold, Ute R. Hülsheger, C. Nederkoorn","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00146-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-023-00146-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"6 1","pages":"603 - 630"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81726168","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}
Declan O Gilmer, Vicki J Magley, Alicia G Dugan, Sara Namazi, Martin G Cherniack
{"title":"Relative Importance of Incivility and Loneliness in Occupational Health Outcomes.","authors":"Declan O Gilmer, Vicki J Magley, Alicia G Dugan, Sara Namazi, Martin G Cherniack","doi":"10.1007/s41542-023-00145-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s41542-023-00145-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Researchers have studied loneliness as a modern health epidemic which is associated with myriad negative health effects, yet the literature lacks evidence of loneliness' correlates, including incivility, in the workplace. This paper not only replicates previous work on incivility, a pervasive interpersonal workplace stressor, it also contributes novel findings on the relative importance of loneliness in explaining variance in occupational health outcomes. We tested hypotheses using two cross-sectional datasets containing data from the general working population (Sample 1) and state corrections supervisors (Sample 2). Through relative importance analyses, including relative weights analysis, we found that both general and workplace loneliness explain substantial variance in several outcomes (e.g., emotional exhaustion, depression symptoms, and turnover intentions) relative to the variance explained by workplace incivility. When controlling for perceived work stress, general loneliness appears to be more important than incivility in explaining variance in emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, and depression symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9910234/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10869453","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}
Marianne Six Dijkstra, H. Bieleman, R. Soer, M. Reneman, D. Gross
{"title":"Exploring the Arena of Work Disability Prevention Model for Stay at Work Factors Among Industrial Workers: A Scoping Review","authors":"Marianne Six Dijkstra, H. Bieleman, R. Soer, M. Reneman, D. Gross","doi":"10.1007/s41542-022-00125-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s41542-022-00125-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29938,"journal":{"name":"Occupational Health Science","volume":"72 1","pages":"321 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86339573","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}