Building Psychosocial Safety Climate: Evaluation of a Socially Coordinated PAR Risk Management Stress Prevention Study

Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice, Volume 1

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 208-233

  Dollard, Maureen F ^a   Karasek, Robert A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Building PSC a multilevel socially coordinated response; Building psychosocial safety climate; Healthy conducive production model; Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) appropriate technique for data analysis; Interactions between PSC indicators and decision influence; Middle level management support key to success in work related stress management interventions; Organizations, into higher levels of complexity with effective alternative actions; Participatory action research risk management (PAR RM) intervention in reducing stress; Social structures and PAR RM intervention in reducing stress; Socially coordinated PAR risk management stress prevention study

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958237753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661550.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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