Changing work, changing health: can real work-time flexibility promote health behaviors and well-being?
J Health Soc Behav
; 52(4): 404-29, 2011 Dec.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22144731
ABSTRACT
This article investigates a change in the structuring of work time, using a natural experiment to test whether participation in a corporate initiative (Results Only Work Environment; ROWE) predicts corresponding changes in health-related outcomes. Drawing on job strain and stress process models, we theorize greater schedule control and reduced work-family conflict as key mechanisms linking this initiative with health outcomes. Longitudinal survey data from 659 employees at a corporate headquarters shows that ROWE predicts changes in health-related behaviors, including almost an extra hour of sleep on work nights. Increasing employees' schedule control and reducing their work-family conflict are key mechanisms linking the ROWE innovation with changes in employees' health behaviors; they also predict changes in well-being measures, providing indirect links between ROWE and well-being. This study demonstrates that organizational changes in the structuring of time can promote employee wellness, particularly in terms of prevention behaviors.
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Temas:
ECOS
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Estado_mercado_regulacao
Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tolerância ao Trabalho Programado
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Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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Saúde Ocupacional
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Modelos Organizacionais
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Soc Behav
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos