Sørensen By Ole H
Center for Industrial Production, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, A. C. Meyer Vaenge 15, DK-2450, København SV, Denmark.
Stress Health. 2016 Oct;32(4):270-274. doi: 10.1002/smi.2699. Epub 2016 Aug 8.
Organizational-level occupational health interventions have great potential to improve employees' health and well-being. However, they often compare unfavourably to individual-level interventions. This calls for improving methods for designing, implementing and evaluating organizational interventions. This paper presents and discusses the regression discontinuity design because, like the randomized control trial, it is a strong summative experimental design, but it typically fits organizational-level interventions better. The paper explores advantages and disadvantages of a regression discontinuity design with an embedded randomized control trial. It provides an example from an intervention study focusing on reducing sickness absence in 196 preschools. The paper demonstrates that such a design fits the organizational context, because it allows management to focus on organizations or workgroups with the most salient problems. In addition, organizations may accept an embedded randomized design because the organizations or groups with most salient needs receive obligatory treatment as part of the regression discontinuity design. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
组织层面的职业健康干预措施在改善员工健康和福祉方面具有巨大潜力。然而，与个体层面的干预措施相比，它们往往显得逊色。这就需要改进组织干预措施的设计、实施和评估方法。本文介绍并讨论了回归间断点设计，因为与随机对照试验一样，它是一种强有力的总结性实验设计，但通常更适合组织层面的干预措施。本文探讨了带有嵌入式随机对照试验的回归间断点设计的优缺点。它提供了一个干预研究的例子，该研究聚焦于减少196所幼儿园的病假情况。本文表明，这样的设计适合组织环境，因为它允许管理层关注问题最突出的组织或工作小组。此外，组织可能会接受嵌入式随机设计，因为作为回归间断点设计的一部分，需求最突出的组织或小组会接受强制性治疗。版权所有© 2016约翰·威利父子有限公司。
