Industrial Management Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India.
Ind Health. 2023 Jul 29;61(4):240-249. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2022-0071. Epub 2022 Jul 9.
The present study analyses the effect of job control at work on psychological stress for Indian Middle-Level Managers (MLMs) of a public telecom organisation. Two hundred ten MLMs from different parts of India have participated in the survey. Three dimensions of job control visualize control over work (CoW), control over working time (CoT1) and control over working days (CoT2), were considered. The validity and reliability were confirmed using Factor and reliability analysis. A Binary Logistics Regression (BLR) was performed to find the effect of job control on behavioural, somatic and cognitive stress controlling for age, gender, and experience. The Odds Ratio and Adjusted Odds ratio were calculated. 56% of the participants reported suffering from psychological stress. Results showed that CoT1 had a significant association with somatic stress while CoT1 and CoT2 with cognitive stress. Low CoW and low CoT2 were associated with high psychological stress among middle-level managers while low CoT1 to low psychological stress. The findings indicate that job control have both positive and negative relationships with psychological well-being depending on its dimension. Increasing job control cannot entirely ensure the psychological well-being of employees. Therefore, organisations need to assess different dimensions of job control carefully before providing work flexibility to employees.
本研究分析了工作中的工作控制对印度中层管理人员（MLM）的心理压力的影响。来自印度不同地区的 210 名中层管理人员参与了调查。考虑了工作控制的三个维度，即对工作的控制（CoW）、对工作时间的控制（CoT1）和对工作天数的控制（CoT2）。使用因子和可靠性分析验证了有效性和可靠性。进行了二元逻辑回归（BLR），以发现工作控制对行为、躯体和认知压力的影响，同时控制年龄、性别和经验。计算了优势比和调整后的优势比。56%的参与者报告患有心理压力。结果表明，CoT1 与躯体压力有显著关联，而 CoT1 和 CoT2 与认知压力有关。低 CoW 和低 CoT2 与中层管理人员的高心理压力有关，而低 CoT1 与低心理压力有关。研究结果表明，工作控制与心理健康既有积极的关系，也有消极的关系，这取决于其维度。增加工作控制并不能完全确保员工的心理健康。因此，组织在向员工提供工作灵活性之前，需要仔细评估工作控制的不同维度。
