Workplace relationships as health-promoting resources at work
(2019) In Lund University, Faculty of Medicine Doctoral Dissertation Series 2019(60).- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis was to explore workplace relations as resources for health and well-being from a salutogenic perspective. The number of elderly people is increasing in the population and elderly care has already a strained workload, why it is urgent to pay more attention to the salutogenic aspects for employees’ in elderly care. The studies have been carried out within a municipal healthcare organization between 2012 and 2016 together with healthcare employees. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used in the thesis process. Methods that have been used for data generation have been two individual interviews using thematic respectively hermeneutic analysis, questionnaire analyzed with multiple linear regression... (More)
- The purpose of this thesis was to explore workplace relations as resources for health and well-being from a salutogenic perspective. The number of elderly people is increasing in the population and elderly care has already a strained workload, why it is urgent to pay more attention to the salutogenic aspects for employees’ in elderly care. The studies have been carried out within a municipal healthcare organization between 2012 and 2016 together with healthcare employees. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used in the thesis process. Methods that have been used for data generation have been two individual interviews using thematic respectively hermeneutic analysis, questionnaire analyzed with multiple linear regression and multistage focus group interviews analyzed by using deductive content analysis. The results indicate that relationships with care recipients, colleagues and managers were important to the employees' health and contributed to the well-being of the employees'. The opportunity and time to be able to be personal in the relationship with the recipient were important prerequisites for the relationship to arise and be maintained. Belongingness with colleagues was an important prerequisite for the employee's health and wellbeing, where the relationship with the manager could be a means of promoting belongingness among colleagues. The result also showed that the relationship between employees’ and managers can be a resource for performing a good job. Different expectations of each other in the relationship, an increased awareness of each other's perceptions and role expectations are prerequisites for creating promoting relationships between the employees’ and the managers. The thesis also suggests that formal and informal meetings can be a resource for improvement work at the workplace. Multistage focus groups turned out to be an opportunity to explore and understand workplace relationships as a resource, using the Flourishing theory, in health promotion efforts and improvement work. By promoting workplace relationships, the health and well-being of health care employees’ can be promoted, as well as contribute to thriving workplaces. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Syftet var att undersöka arbetsplatsrelationer som resurser för hälsa och välbefinnande från ett salutogent perspektiv. Antalet äldre människor ökar i befolkningen och äldreomsorgen har redan en ansträngd arbetsbörda, varför det är angeläget att ägna mer uppmärksamhet åt de salutogena aspekterna för arbetstagarna inom äldreomsorgen. Studierna utfördes inom en kommunal vård- och omsorgsorganisation mellan 2012 och 2016 tillsammans med vårdpersonal. Både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder användes i avhandlingsprocessen. Metoder som användes för datainsamlingen var individuella intervjuer med tematisk respektive hermeneutisk analys, frågeformulär analyserat med multipel linjär regression och multisteg fokusgrupper. Fokusgruppintervjuer... (More)
- Syftet var att undersöka arbetsplatsrelationer som resurser för hälsa och välbefinnande från ett salutogent perspektiv. Antalet äldre människor ökar i befolkningen och äldreomsorgen har redan en ansträngd arbetsbörda, varför det är angeläget att ägna mer uppmärksamhet åt de salutogena aspekterna för arbetstagarna inom äldreomsorgen. Studierna utfördes inom en kommunal vård- och omsorgsorganisation mellan 2012 och 2016 tillsammans med vårdpersonal. Både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder användes i avhandlingsprocessen. Metoder som användes för datainsamlingen var individuella intervjuer med tematisk respektive hermeneutisk analys, frågeformulär analyserat med multipel linjär regression och multisteg fokusgrupper. Fokusgruppintervjuer analyserades med hjälp av deduktiv innehållsanalys. Resultaten visade att relationer med vårdmottagare, kollegor och chefer var viktiga för anställdas hälsa och bidrog till medarbetarnas självskattade hälsa. Möjlighet och tid att kunna vara personlig i förhållandet med vårdtagaren var viktiga förutsättningar för att förhållandet skulle uppstå och bibehållas. Tillhörighet med kollegor var en viktig förutsättning för arbetstagarens hälsa och välbefinnande, där förhållandet till chefen kan vara ett sätt att främja tillhörighet bland kollegor. Resultatet visade också att förhållandet mellan anställda och chefer kan vara en resurs för att utföra ett bra jobb. Olika förväntningar på varandra i relationen, ökad medvetenhet om varandras uppfattningar och rollförväntningar är förutsättningar för att skapa främjande relationer mellan de anställda och cheferna. Avhandlingen föreslår också att formella och informella möten kan vara en resurs för förbättringsarbete på arbetsplatsen. Flerstegsfokusgrupper visade sig vara en möjlighet att utforska och förstå arbetsplatsrelationer som en resurs, med hjälp av Flourishingteorin, i hälsofrämjande insatser och förbättringsarbete. Genom främjande arbetsplatsrelationer, kan hälsa och välbefinnande hos vårdpersonal stärkas, och även bidra till blomstrande arbetsplatser.
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- Schön Persson, Sophie LU
- supervisor
- opponent
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- Senior Professor Eriksson, Monica, Department of Health Science , University West, Trollhättan
- organization
- alternative title
- Arbetsplatsrelationer : som hälsofrämjande resurser på arbetet
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- 2019
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- Thesis
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Health and well-being, Workplace health promotion, Workplace relationships, Salutogenic
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- Lund University, Faculty of Medicine Doctoral Dissertation Series
- volume
- 2019
- issue
- 60
- pages
- 66 pages
- publisher
- Lund University: Faculty of Medicine
- defense location
- Agardsalen, CRC, Jan Waldenströms gata 35, Skånes Universitetssjukhus i Malmö
- defense date
- 2019-06-10 09:00:00
- ISSN
- 1652-8220
- ISBN
- 978-91-7619-789-9
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- English
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