The Work, Family and Health Network organizational intervention: core elements and customization for diverse occupational health contexts.

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• Personal Author:
  Brockwood K ; Kossek EE ; Thompson R ; Wipfli B
• Description:
  Interest is growing in the occupational health field regarding workplace interventions targeting the work-family nexus and addressing the growing diversity in occupational health contexts. Work-family conflict, which refers to incompatible expectations between work and family role demands, is a growing occupational and public health concern that impacts employees, employers, and families (King et al., 2012). Growing numbers of employees of all cultural backgrounds, ages, and marital and family status are reporting rising levels of work, family, and other nonwork conflicts, and stress in industrialized (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011) and developing (Baral & Bhargava, 2011) countries. Despite a burgeoning literature, work-family research has had limited impact on occupational health and organizational change practice (Kossek, Baltes, & Matthews, 2011). The goals of this chapter are to provide a literature review integrating work-family and occupational health perspectives and to discuss the content, design, and customization of the Work, Family, and Health Network (WFHN) intervention. The WFHN intervention was created for one of the largest work-family randomized field control studies in U.S. history. Up until the WFHN study, there had not been a large-scale, rigorous, randomized work-family and health intervention study targeting how work organization can foster work-family conflict in occupational settings in the United States. By work organization, we refer to "the way work processes are structured and managed, such as job design, scheduling, management, organizational characteristics, and policies and procedures" (DeJoy, Wilson, Vandenberg, McGrath-Higgins, & Griffin-Blake, 2010, p. 139). We define work-family interventions as comprehensive organizational interventions designed to foster a healthy psychosocial work environment by preventing stressors in the organization of work that can lead to work-family conflict (Kossek, Hammer, Kelly, & Moen, 2014). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Healthcare Disparities Minority Health Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Occupational health disparities; Public-health; Workers; Worker health; Families; Health care; Work-life balance; Intervention; Diversity; Occupational health; Occupational health programs; Racial factors; Minority health; Health disparities
• ISBN:
  9781433826924
• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association (APA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Minnesota ; Ohio ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  181-215
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048605
• Citation:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers. Leong FTL, Eggerth DE, Chang C-H, Flynn MA, Ford JK, Martinez RO, eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA), 2017 Feb; :181-215
• Editor(s):
  Leong FTL; Eggerth DE; Chang C-H; Flynn MA; Ford JK; Martinez RO
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050901
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers
• End Date:
  20081130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248290/cdc_248290_DS1.pdf
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