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Job control mediates change in a work reorganization: intervention for stress reduction

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Bond, Frank W. and Bunce, David. 2001. Job control mediates change in a work reorganization: intervention for stress reduction. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Vol. 6(No. 4), pp. 290-302. ISSN 1076-8998 [Article]

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    This longitudinal, quasi-experiment tested whether a work reorganization intervention can improve stress-related outcomes by increasing people's job control. To this end, the authors used a participative action research (PAR) intervention that had the goal of reorganizing work to increase the extent to which people had discretion and choice in their work. Results indicated that the PAR intervention significantly improved people's mental health, sickness absence rates, and self-rated performance at a 1-year follow-up. Consistent with occupational health psychology theories, increase in job control served as the mechanism, or mediator, by which these improvements occurred. Discussion focuses on the need to understand the mechanisms by which work reorgnization interventions affect change.

    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: The following statement is included at the request of the publisher. "This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record."
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Work reorganization participative action research (PAR) intervention occupational health psychology
    Departments, Centres and Research Units: Psychology
    Item ID: 61
    Date Deposited: 11 Aug 2008 14:10
    Last Modified: 29 Sep 2010 16:40
    URI: http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/61

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