Appraised leadership styles, psychosocial work factors, and musculoskeletal pain among public employees

Fjell, Ylva; Österberg, Mia; Alexanderson, Kristina; Karlqvist, Lena; Bildt, Carina

doi:10.1007/s00420-007-0189-9

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“…These findings were in line with some previous studies (10,19). Additionally, statistical test on the mean scores of transformational and laissez faire leadership styles showed a significant difference between the two groups with and without reported MSDs complaints.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 81%

“…Participants reported whether they had pain or any other complaints in a certain region of their bodies in the past 12 months. This method was vastly applied to study MSDs complaints in an ample of previous studies (19,28). The validity and reliability of the Persian version of NMQ were examined and confirmed by Choobineh et al (29).…”

Section: Standard Nordic Musculoskeletal Disorders Questionnairementioning

confidence: 99%

“…An ample of research is conducted to investigate the relationship between workplace psycho -social factors and work -related MSDs (18)(19)(20)(21). For instance, in a study conducted by Barzideh et al (2014), it was concluded that inappropriate psycho -social factors including high level of job stress induced by high job demands as well as low decision latitude may contribute to MSDs among employees (20).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It means that today managers should seriously attempt to afford personnel welfare and communicate with them (18). Management and leadership, therefore, are considered as pivotal pillars playing a key role in promoting the working conditions and more importantly, caring personnel health (19).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Relationship Between Organizational Leadership Style and Musculoskeletal Injuries Among Workers of an Iranian Process Industry

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Background and Objectives: The organizational leadership style can be considered as an important psychosocial factor that may affect workers' health, safety, and productivity. The current study aimed at investigating the relationship between organizational leadership style and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among workers. Methods: The current descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted on 188 employees, including 10 leaders and 178 followers of an Iranian process industry. Nordic MSDs questionnaire (NMQ) and leadership style questionnaire (MLQ) were used as data collection tools. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS version 19. Results: Totally, 71.7% of the participants reported experiencing the symptoms of MSDs during the last 12 months. The highest prevalence of MSDs was in lower back (47.2%), shoulder (34.8%), and neck (32.4%), respectively. Statistical analysis revealed that the mean scores of transformational and laissez faire leadership styles in the two groups of with and without MSDs were significantly different. Conclusions: MSDs had high prevalence among workers of the studied process industry. Higher rate of MSDs was observed among the workers with higher scores of laissez faire leadership style. In contrast, the employees under transformational leadership style as the dominant management method, reported lower rate of MSDs complaints. As a conclusion, a relationship was observed between the leadership style and MSDs occurrence in the studied industry.

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“…Employees led by such superiors reported better health and such result could be observed among employees from all 16 studied countries. Another research revealed that employees who assessed their superiors' style of leadership as poor as regards their attitude towards changes or considering the superiorsubordinate relationship reported higher levels of musculoskeletal pain [7]. Wegge et al [8] identified 3 levels, on which relationships between superiors' style of leading and subordinates' health could be expressed.…”

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Why do employees follow their superiors’ instructions? Identification of the reasons to comply with superiors’ will in a group of Polish employees

Wójcik¹,

Merecz-Kot²,

Andysz³

2015

Med Pr

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Background: Managers influence the way organization works as well as the functioning of subordinates -in the context of their work life but non-professional functioning as well e.g., attitude towards work-life balance or taking care of health. We focused on the superior-subordinate relation, referring to social power bases theory by Raven. We identified the reasons why subordinates decide to follow their superiors' orders and determined specific styles of compliance with superiors' will. Understanding why employees listen to their superiors may be valuable in the context of supporting healthy organizational climate and atmosphere of co-operation or communicating values -for example, as regards taking care of own health. We discussed the results referring to the issue of influencing employees in the context of their health behavior. Material and Methods: The research involved 100 Polish employees, aged 28 years old on average, who filled in the Interpersonal Power Inventory by Raven et al. for subordinates in a Polish adaptation by Zaleski. The questionnaire includes 11 subscales referring to power bases. Results: Based on the cluster analysis results, we recognized people who complied because of: all kinds of power bases (typical for 46% of the respondents); the respect for superiors' professionalism (34%); and formal/objective reasons (20%). Conclusions: Employees differ in terms of their styles of compliance. Their motives to comply with superiors' instructions constitute compilations of power bases. The superiors' awareness of the reasons why their employees decide to follow orders is necessary for successful management. It may motivate employees to work but also to take care of their own health. Med Pr 2015;66(5):605-614

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Work and back pain: A prospective study of psychological, social and mechanical predictors of back pain severity

Christensen

Knardahl

2011

European Journal of Pain

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Studies relating occupational psychological and social factors to back pain have traditionally investigated a small number of exposure factors. The current study explored longitudinally a comprehensive set of specific psychological/social and mechanical work factors as predictors of back pain severity (defined as the product of back pain intensity and duration). Employees from 28 organizations in Norway, representing a wide variety of occupations, were surveyed with a follow-up period of 2 years. Several designs were tested: (1) cross-sectional analyses at baseline and follow-up; (2) prospective analyses with baseline exposure; (3) prospective analyses with average exposure over time [(T1+T2)/2]; and (4) prospective analyses with measures of change in exposure from T1 to T2. A total of 2808 employees responded at both time points. Fourteen psychological/social and two mechanical exposures were measured. Odds ratios (ORs) were computed by ordinal logistic regressions. Several psychological/social factors predicted back pain severity. After adjustment for age, sex, skill level, back pain severity at T1 and other exposure factors estimated to be potential confounders, the most consistent predictors of back pain were the protective factors decision control [lowest OR 0.68; 99% confidence interval (CI): 0.49-0.95], empowering leadership (lowest OR 0.59; 99% CI: 0.38-0.91) and fair leadership (lowest OR 0.54; 99% CI: 0.34-0.87). Some of the most important predictors included in this study were factors that have previously received little attention in back pain research. This emphasizes the importance of extending the list of factors possibly contributing to back pain.

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Appraised leadership styles, psychosocial work factors, and musculoskeletal pain among public employees

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Relationship Between Organizational Leadership Style and Musculoskeletal Injuries Among Workers of an Iranian Process Industry

Relationship Between Organizational Leadership Style and Musculoskeletal Injuries Among Workers of an Iranian Process Industry

Why do employees follow their superiors’ instructions? Identification of the reasons to comply with superiors’ will in a group of Polish employees

Work and back pain: A prospective study of psychological, social and mechanical predictors of back pain severity

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