Organizational-level interventions in small and medium-sized enterprises: Enabling and inhibiting factors in the PoWRS program

Safety Science

Volumn 71, Issue PC, 2015, Pages 264-274

  Ipsen, Christine ^a   Gish, Liv ^a   Poulsen, Signe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case study; In house facilitator; Organizational change; Organizational level interventions; SMEs

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

INTERVENTION PROGRAMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL-LEVEL INTERVENTIONS; PROGRAM COMPONENTS; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; SMES; WORK-RELATED STRESS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; DENMARK; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; MANAGER; OCCUPATION AND OCCUPATION RELATED PHENOMENA; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED ENTERPRISE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84912099680     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2014.07.017     Document Type: Article

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