Administration of Occupational Safety and Health, Health and Research department, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Am J Ind Med. 2013 Sep;56(9):1095-106. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22210. Epub 2013 Jun 24.
The study considered psychological distress among surviving bank employees differently entangled in downsizing and restructuring following the financial crisis of 2008.
A cross-sectional, nationwide study was conducted among surviving employees (N = 1880, response rate 68%). Multivariate analysis was conducted to assess factors associated with psychological distress.
In the banks, where all employees experienced rapid and unpredictable organizational changes, psychological distress was higher among employees most entangled in the downsizing and restructuring process. Being subjected to downsizing within own department, salary cut, and transfer to another department, was directly related to increased psychological distress, controlling for background factors. The associations between downsizing, restructuring, and distress were reduced somewhat by adding job demands, job control, and empowering leadership to the model, however, adding social support had little effect on these associations.
Employees most entangled in organizational changes are the most vulnerable and should be prioritized in workplace interventions during organizational changes.
本研究考察了在 2008 年金融危机后，深陷裁员和重组的幸存银行员工的心理困扰。
这是一项在全国范围内进行的横断面研究，对象为幸存员工（N=1880，响应率为 68%）。采用多变量分析评估与心理困扰相关的因素。
在所有员工都经历了快速且不可预测的组织变革的银行中，深陷裁员和重组过程的员工心理困扰程度更高。在自己所在部门被裁员、减薪和调往其他部门，与心理困扰的增加直接相关，控制了背景因素后依然如此。将工作需求、工作控制和赋权型领导加入模型后，裁员、重组和困扰之间的关联有所减少，但增加社会支持对这些关联影响不大。
在组织变革期间，最受组织变革影响的员工最脆弱，应成为工作场所干预的重点。
