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Managements organisational and social work environment during the pandemic in Sweden
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. (HUMAN)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3899-9107
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. (HUMAN)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7017-379X
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Innovation and Product Realisation. (HUMAN)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1277-4877
2022 (English)In: Conference Proceedings of the 51st NES Conference / [ed] Jessica Lindblom; Cecilia Österman, 2022, p. 1-8Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Managements working conditions during the pandemic are important since they are the ones who had to motivate, encourage, and navigate their team during this unique time in history. Managers are vital in forming the working environment conditions for others. When they feel stressed and overwhelmed, this acts as a barrier to caring for and supporting their team members. Our study aimed to investigate managers’ organisational and social work environment conditions and health when working from home during the pandemic.This study has a cross-sectional design. Survey data were collected one year into the COVID-19 pandemic from April-May 2021. We used a survey with fixed questions to collect data from four different organisations and through an open online survey. Data on the 161 managers out of a total of 888 respondents is included in the present study. We compare the manager’s data to pre-pandemic reference values.The respondents report on average a PSC-score of 14. Quantitative demands, work pace, social support from colleagues & supervisors and work life balance were better for managers during the pandemic. There was no difference in burnout scores compared to pre-pandemic reference values. Male managers reported significantly lower levels of work demands compared to female managers and better work life balance. Male managers also reported lower social support from their supervisor.Workplaces should pay attention to differences in working conditions provided for male and female managers going forward.The way the data is presented in this paper could be useful for practitioners to use when introducing PSC and COPSOQ to the workplace.

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2022. p. 1-8
Keywords [en]
Managers, COPSOQ III, Work from Home, Psychosocial Safety Climate
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Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-60360ISBN: 978-91-506-2975-0 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-60360DiVA, id: diva2:1705960
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The 51st NES Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 23-25 October, 2022
Available from: 2022-10-24 Created: 2022-10-24 Last updated: 2022-11-08Bibliographically approved

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