Outcomes of a Leadership Intervention for a Metropolitan Fire Department

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• Personal Author:
  Beaton R ; Bond G ; Infield S ; Johnson LC ; Ollis T
• Description:
  Poor leadership can contribute to job dissatisfaction and employees' "burnout." Perceived lack of leadership skills is also a source of stress for supervisors. This study evaluated the efficacy of a brief multicomponent leadership intervention provided for fire service supervisors in an urban fire department. Ratings by 51 line firefighters and 8 first-line supervisors documented improvements in their immediate supervisors' performance at 3 mo. postintervention. Self-reports by line firefighters also showed improvements in perceptions of their ability to attain career goals, which were sustained at 9 mo. postintervention. There were also improvements on certain stress related symptoms indices reported by the sample of firefighter supervisors at both the 3-mo. and 9-mo. follow-ups. No significant changes on any of these measures, obtained at comparable time points, were observed in a (nonequivalent) control sample of firefighters and their first-line supervisors in an "untreated" urban fire department. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Firefighters Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Fire-fighters Fire-fighting Job-analysis Job-stress Psychological-stress Stress Work-environment
• ISSN:
  0033-2941
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  88
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024338
• Citation:
  Psychol Rep 2001 Jun; 88(3)(Pt 2):1049-1066
• Contact Point Address:
  R. Beaton, Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, School of Nursing, University of Washington, PO Box 357263, Seattle, WA 98195-7263
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Performing Organization:
  Washington University, Seattle, Washington
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Part Number:
  2
• Start Date:
  19980930
• Source Full Name:
  Psychological Reports
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7c360d780dead4f4e4cf11eb309b624eadc622dc4728bcd830aafed2c79d9c03b8cf0ff521fb276f57bc858d45029c21a69eb648eabf5fc9f0ca8fbba1f633dd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196188/cdc_196188_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 665.60 KB ]