Organizational climate and occupational stressors as predictors of withdrawal behaviours and injuries in nurses

Hemingway, Monica A.; Smith, Carlla S.

doi:10.1348/096317999166680

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“…(2) non-optimal work arrangements [4][5][6] ; (3) patient care demands 4,7 ; (4) working in collaboration with others 4,8,9,6 ; (5) workloads 8,9,6,2 ; (6) role conflict and role ambiguity 8,5 ;…”

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The effect of aromatherapy massage with music on the stress and anxiety levels of emergency nurses

Davis

Cooke

Holzhauser

et al. 2005

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

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Introduction: Emergency department staff are subject to significant stressors during their work. Recent studies have provided links between high levels of stress and sick leave. Nurses who work in emergency and intensive care units and new graduates suffer from high levels of stress. This research evaluated the use of aromatherapy massage and music as an intervention to decrease the occupational stress and anxiety levels of emergency nurses.

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The effect of aromatherapy massage with music on the stress and anxiety levels of emergency nurses

Davis

Cooke

Holzhauser

et al. 2005

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

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“…Other researchers agree that it is crucial to investigate specific work-related stressors like work-family conflict instead of only examining overall job stress in relation to workplace safety behaviors Hemingway & Smith, 1999;Probst, 2002). This is in line with the matching/specificity hypothesis that speaks to the importance of examining specific types of stressors and moderators in order to predict strain (Cohen & Wills, 1985).…”

Section: Work-family Conflict and Safety Performancementioning

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“…Role conflict and role ambiguity were significantly related to work injuries in a sample of nurses in Canada (Hemingway & Smith, 1999). Hofmann and Stetzer (1996) examined perceptions of role overload and found a significant association with safety performance.…”

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A Macroergonomics Approach Examining the Relationship between Work-family Conflict and Employee Safety

Murphy¹

2000

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In 2008, there were more than 5,200 workplace fatalities in the United States (BLS, 2010b). During the same time period, U.S. employees missed almost 1.1 million days from work (BLS, 2010c). Accidents are unexpected outcomes that result not only from individuals' behaviors, but also from contextual factors (Krause, 1997;Reason, 1990). Therefore, unsafe behaviors have to be interpreted according to a combination of what is occurring in the environment and what the individual is doing in that environment. The present study sought to create a more comprehensive model of safety by means of macroergonomics. Macroergonomics utilizes sociotechnical systems theory to posit that a work system is composed of a personnel subsystem (i.e., ways individuals perform tasks), a technological subsystem (i.e., tasks to be performed), and external factors (Hendrick, 2002a).Perceived control over work hours, an aspect of the technological subsystem, was examined as an antecedent of work-family conflict. Supervisor instrumental support, an aspect of the personnel subsystem, was examined as a moderator of the relationships between perceived control over work hours and work-family conflict. Supervisors have an imperative role in employees' perception of control over their work hours (Kelly & Moen, 2007). Supervisor instrumental support was also hypothesized to moderate the relationships between work-family conflict and safety performance. Supervisors who support their employees in their work-family matters exceed mandatory requirements set forth to protect workers' safety and health (Mearns, Hope, Ford, & Tetrick, 2010).A majority of the 360 participants in the present study were grocery store employees who worked in the front end of the store as cashiers. Job tenure in this particular grocery store chain was an average of 7 years (SD = 5.96) and the average number of hours worked per week was 31 (SD = 8.55). The employees were an average age of 38 years old (SD = 15.25). Two hundred and sixty-two (73%) of the participants were female, 330 (92%) were White, 196 (55%) employees were married or living as married, 146 (41%) employees identified themselves as parents with children living at home, and 58 (16%) employees provided elder care.The data were analyzed using a moderated mediation model. An employee's perceived control over his/her work hours was negatively associated with work-to-family and family-to-work conflict. Work-to-family conflict was not significantly associated with either safety compliance or participation. In contrast, family-to-work conflict was significantly associated with both safety compliance and participation. These findings replicate Cullen and Hammer's (2007) findings that family-to-work conflict, but not work-to-family conflict, is negatively associated with safety compliance and participation. The replication of these significant findings gives support to macroergonomics' assertion that external forces (i.e., family) can affect the safety of employees.All of the meditating and moderating relationship...

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“…Research has generally linked occupational stressors to increased workplace accidents and injuries (Abbe, Harvey, Ikuma, & Aghazadeh, 2011;Ahlberg-Hulten, Theorell, & Sigala, 1995;Bigos et al, 1991;Goldenhar, Williams, & Swanson, 2003;Hemingway & Smith, 1999;Spector, Coulter, Stockwell, & Matz, 2007;Yang, 2009), however fewer studies have focused on the specific link between workplace aggression and safety outcomes, and those that have report mixed findings. For example, Bruk Lee (2006) failed to find a significant relationship between interpersonal conflict and accidents in a sample of participants from diverse occupations.…”

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Workplace Aggression: A Multi-Study Examination of Work and Nonwork Consequences

Demsky¹

2000

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Workplace aggression has been associated with a number of detrimental employee and organizational outcomes, both at work and away from work. This dissertation includes three studies that expand our knowledge of the implications of workplace aggression in the work and nonwork domains. Further, this research illuminates the processes through which this relationship occurs by utilizing various sources of data from employees in a variety of contexts including universities, long term health care, and the USDA Forest Service. In Study 1, which was published in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, multi-source data are utilized to identify the indirect effects of coworkerreported workplace aggression on self and significant-other reported work-family conflict via self-reported psychological detachment from work. Study 2 identifies an indirect effect of workplace aggression on parental warmth via increased perceived stress utilizing longitudinal data from the Work, Family, and Health Network. Finally, Study 3 utilizes data from the USDA Forest Service to examine associations between workplace aggression and safety outcomes. Workplace aggression was found to be associated with increased resource depletion (i.e., rumination, cognitive failure) and decreased workplace safety (i.e., increased workplace accidents, decreased safety compliance). Workplace aggression was indirectly associated with safety participation and workplace injuries via cognitive failure and rumination, respectively. Safety climate, an organizational resource, moderated the relationship between rumination and safety behaviors. Finally, the indirect effect of coworker aggression on safety compliance via rumination was found to be conditional on low levels of safety climate, while the indirect effect of supervisor

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Organizational climate and occupational stressors as predictors of withdrawal behaviours and injuries in nurses

Cited by 215 publications

References 24 publications

The effect of aromatherapy massage with music on the stress and anxiety levels of emergency nurses

The effect of aromatherapy massage with music on the stress and anxiety levels of emergency nurses

A Macroergonomics Approach Examining the Relationship between Work-family Conflict and Employee Safety

Workplace Aggression: A Multi-Study Examination of Work and Nonwork Consequences

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