New Publication: Organizational Uncertainty and Stress among Teachers in Hong Kong
Health Promotional International has published an article led by Dr Juliet Hassard, and co-authored by Kevin Teoh and Professor Tom Cox.
Health Promotional International has published an article by researchers from the Centre for Sustainable Working Life. The paper, titled ‘Organizational uncertainty and stress among teachers in Hong Kong: work characteristics and organizational justice’, was led by Dr Juliet Hassard and co-authored by Kevin Teoh and Professor Tom Cox.
The paper focused on teachers in seven Hong Kong primary schools that were experiencing organisational uncertainty due to possible school closures. Specifically, the main, interaction and additive effects of work characteristics and organisational justice perceptions to employees' experience of stress were examined.
Among the key findings was that perceptions of psychological demands (job demands) and the extent to which employees have a say or perceived influence in resource-allocation decisions (procedural-voice justice), predicted both teachers' feelings of helplessness and perceived coping ability. Furthermore, teacher's perceived coping was predicted by job control and a significant interaction between procedural-voice justice and distributive justice.
The study concludes that in addition to ‘traditional’ work characteristics, health promotion strategies should also address perceptions of organisational justice during times of organisational uncertainty; and, in particular, the value and importance of enhancing employee's perceived ‘voice’ in influencing and shaping justice-related decisions.
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