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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Predicting work stress compensation claims and return to work in welfare workers |
Author: | Dollard, M. Winefield, H. Winefield, A. |
Citation: | Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1999; 4(3):279-287 |
Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
ISSN: | 1076-8998 1939-1307 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Maureen F. Dollard, Helen R. Winefield, Anthony H. Winefield |
Abstract: | Occupational stress is prevalent in work areas in which there is high contact with distressed or dependent members of the public. However, little is known about the prediction and management of stress-related compensation claims, which can be expensive for employers. The authors interviewed all staff members of a large public sector welfare agency who had made a compensation claim for work-related stress during a 12-month period (N =19) and obtained in-depth information from 16 of the 17 who were still available. A clear relationship was found between type of stress precipitant and length of stress-related leave, suggesting that the organizational response to specific stressful incidents was much more effective than its response to chronic work stressors. Demographic data for all 19 claimants showed that they had taken twice as many days of sick leave as the organizational average in the year preceding their claim. There are important implications for personnel management practices that may reduce and prevent work stress for vulnerable workers. |
Keywords: | Humans Prognosis Rehabilitation Stress, Psychological Social Work Sick Leave Workers' Compensation Organizational Case Studies Australia Female Male Workforce |
Rights: | © 1999 by the Educational Publishing Foundation |
DOI: | 10.1037/1076-8998.4.3.279 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1076-8998.4.3.279 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 5 Psychiatry publications |
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