Departement for Psychology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Ind Health. 2011;49(3):353-64. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.ms1211. Epub 2011 Mar 1.
The study objective was to investigate the impact of different kinds of organizational changes, as well as anticipation of such changes, on work-related stress, sleep, recovery and health. It was hypothesized that impaired sleep and recovery increase the adverse health consequences of organizational changes. The data consisted of cross sectional questionnaire data from a random sample of 1,523 employees in the Swedish police force. It could be shown that extensive organizational changes including downsizing or a change in job tasks were associated with a small increase in work stress, disturbed sleep, incomplete recovery and health complaints. However, less extensive organizational changes like relocation did not affect these outcome variables. Anticipation of extensive organizational changes had almost the same effect as actual changes. Furthermore a moderating effect of sleep and work stress on gastrointestinal complaints and depressive symptoms was found. Thus, like former studies already suggested, extensive organizational changes resulted in increased stress levels, poorer health and impaired sleep and recovery. Furthermore, organizational instability due to anticipation of changes was as negative as actual changes. There was also some evidence that disturbed sleep increased these adverse health effects, in particular with respect to anticipation of organizational changes.
本研究旨在探讨不同类型的组织变革，以及对这些变革的预期，对与工作相关的压力、睡眠、恢复和健康的影响。研究假设睡眠和恢复受损会增加组织变革的不利健康后果。数据来自瑞典警察部队随机抽取的 1523 名员工的横断面问卷调查数据。结果表明，广泛的组织变革，包括裁员或工作任务的变化，与工作压力、睡眠障碍、恢复不完全和健康投诉的小幅度增加有关。然而，像搬迁这样不那么广泛的组织变革不会影响这些结果变量。对广泛的组织变革的预期几乎与实际变革具有相同的效果。此外，还发现睡眠和工作压力对胃肠道投诉和抑郁症状有调节作用。因此，正如先前的研究已经表明的那样，广泛的组织变革会导致压力水平升高、健康状况恶化以及睡眠和恢复受损。此外，由于对变革的预期而导致的组织不稳定与实际变革一样具有负面影响。还有一些证据表明，睡眠障碍会增加这些不良健康影响，特别是在对组织变革的预期方面。
