...Swarnima Tiwari Purpose In recent years, stress has increasingly become a significant concern for healthcare professionals. It is widely documented that stress arises from an individual’s perception of stressful situations and affects both the individual and the organization, often leading...

... approach in mitigating psychosocial risks, particularly stress. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative exploratory pilot study was employed, utilizing non-directive interviews with 66 healthcare professionals. The study aimed to gather in-depth insights into participants’ subjective experiences...

... is an important requirement for nursing staff that helps to mitigate the stress of the working environment, particularly in the acute care setting. However, the managerial strategies required to build resilience are not well known or applied. The findings of this research may help to design cohesive...

...David Giauque Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify social and organizational antecedents of stress. This paper also investigates whether attitudes toward organizational changes and reforms might explain stress perception (SP) and mediate the relationships between social...

...Vathsala Wickramasinghe Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine associations between career commitment, job stress, and work-related dimensions of work routinization, role clarity, social support, and promotional opportunity. Design/methodology/approach – In all, 408 employees...

... Canada took part in an intensive weekend retreat and a follow-up webinar on mindfulness awareness. Perceived stress and leadership effectiveness were assessed pre- and post-intervention (i.e. four and eight weeks). A control group (n=10) also completed the same measures twice. Additionally...

...Aoife M. McDermott; Mary A. Keating; Denis Chênevert; Genevieve Jourdain; Nina Cole; Brigitte Banville Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate Greenberg's perspective on the connection between injustice and stress in order to clarify the role of organisational justice, burnout...

... Senior management leadership Social support Stress United Kingdom Hospitals Leadership The responsibility that falls under senior management leadership is viewed as an integral part of continuous quality improvement and as pivotal in health care reforms (Goodwin, 2003 ; Degeling and Carr...

...Ellinor Tengelin; Rebecka Arman; Ewa Wikström; Lotta Dellve Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore managers' boundary setting in order to better understand their handling of time commitment to work activities, stress, and recovery during everyday work and at home. Design/methodology...

... patient care is based on the premise that stressed, dissatisfied, burned out, anxious, and depressed doctors are not able to fully engage with patients. The evidence that does exist suggests a strong link between mistakes and burnout. For example, stressed, burned out, and dissatisfied physicians do...

... Bartram can be contacted at: t.bartram@latrobe.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Role conflict Hours of work Health services Employee behaviour Stress Australia Work‐family conflict is a common source of work stress (Demerouti et al., 2001 ; Frone et al...

... Medical personnel Stress Individual conflict Slovakia © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 The proportions of subject exceeding the risk value of 10 for hostility, and 7 for cynicism, anger and aggression, respectively, are presented in Table II . The number of subjects...

... of the emotions and relationships that initiate and sustain gossip. Practical implications Because gossip makes people feel better it may serve to reinforce the “stress mask of professionalism”, hiding issues of conflict, vulnerability and intense emotion. Managers need to consider what the emotions expressed...

... that the concern for the majority was workplace stress. Stressors that were identified as important to the groups were, for example, the nature of the work they were undertaking, staffing levels, volume of the work, management styles and their work environments. Health promotion and prevention topics...

...Sybil Myerson Explores the stresses of seven women GPs and the impact of these on their work and home life. It is a qualitative study which uses a free flowing interview approach. The aim is to reflect the perceptions of these women GPs rather than the assumptions of the researcher...

...Sybil Myerson Doctors′ activities and stresses are linked and can be viewed closely only as a sequence of actors and behaviours, or a narrative. Examines such narratives from which the individualized stress emerges plainly. Emphasizes that the researcher is involved in a narrative of her own life...

...Marianne Pitman; Moira Hamlin Investigates the effect of change, both structural and in process, in the NHS with regard to the capacity of public health doctors and dentists in the South Western Regional Health Authority to cope with the inherent stresses. Sixty‐three public health doctors...

... will have to be carefully maintained. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Employees Graduates Management Stress United Kingdom Supporting New Graduates in the Health Service: The Experiences of Entrants to the Speech and Language Therapy Profession Elspeth McCartney University of Strathclyde, UK Jane...

...Sybil Myerson Investigates the effects of policy change‐the Government New Contract (1990) – on the workload and lives of family doctors,using an open‐ended interview approach and numerical research adapted from it. Provides an account of 20 urban general practitioners′perceptions of their stresses...