Impacts on work performance; what matters 6 months on?

Wynne-Jones, G., Buck, Rhiannon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4256-4598, Varnava, Alice, Phillips, C. J. and Main, C. J. 2011. Impacts on work performance; what matters 6 months on? Occupational Medicine 61 (3) , pp. 205-208. 10.1093/occmed/kqr005

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Abstract

Background Presenteeism often precedes and follows a period of work absence. Cross-sectional analysis of a workforce survey highlighted health, psychosocial and work characteristics as being particularly important in understanding current work performance, but it is unclear whether these variables predict future work performance. Aims To establish whether self-reported health, perceptions of work and objective characteristics of work measured at baseline can predict performance at 6 months follow-up. Methods Self-completed questionnaires to assess health, objective characteristics of work and perceptions of work were completed at two public sector organizations. Follow-up questionnaires were completed at 6 months to assess workplace performance using a visual analogue scale for self-rated performance and the Stanford Presenteeism Scale 6 (SPS6). Results Five hundred and five employees completed questionnaires at baseline and 310 (61%) of these completed follow-up questionnaires. Psychological distress as measured with the General Health Questionnaire and perceptions of work predicted both self-rated performance and SPS6 score. Objective characteristics of work were relatively unimportant in the prediction of future performance. Conclusions This study has provided an initial indication of the factors that may predict performance at follow-up in the population studied. These findings may be used to generate hypotheses for future studies and highlights the need to assess a range of factors in relation to an individual's performance at work including health and perceptions of work.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Employee health; occupational epidemiology; work performance; workplace
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0962-7480
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 09:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/31549

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