Effectiveness of a Healthy Work Organization Intervention: Ethnic Group Differences

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• Personal Author:
  Dejoy DM ; Griffin-Blake CS ; Park KO ; Schaffer BS ; Vandenberg RJ ; Wilson MG
• Description:
  This study examined ethnic group differences in the effectiveness of a healthy work organization intervention on organizational climate and worker health and well-being. Our sample consisted of employees from 21 stores of a large national retail chain. The intervention involved establishing and facilitating employee problem-solving teams in 11 of the stores. Teams were charged with developing and implementing action plans tailored to the needs of their specific site. Pre- and postcomparisons of the treatment and control groups showed that the intervention produced positive effects on both the climate and health and well-being outcomes; however, these effects varied significantly by ethnic group. Particularly in terms of organizational climate, black and Hispanic employees were the primary beneficiaries of the participatory intervention process. These results are interpreted in terms of social identification and self-categorization theories and are contrasted with traditional participatory and diversity training approaches. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Demography Mental Health Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Job-analysis Models Psychological-factors Racial-factors Sampling Sampling-methods Training Work-environment Worker-health
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  46
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029404
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2004 Jul; 46(7):623-634
• Contact Point Address:
  Workplace Health Group, Department of Health Promotion & Behavior, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
• Email:
  kopark@ewha.ac.kr
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc., Athens, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20030929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:737cf72b2592774267f8b6fb299d1cf9dd6480090254fabfb4046b6a607d47c80646ed4639d8edc1c146f7065daa980306496854bbe584d57e8776fce4f3c7ba
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190389/cdc_190389_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 286.03 KB ]