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Front Public Health
January 2025
Faculty of Health and Public Services, Semmelweis University, Health Services Management Training Centre, Budapest, Hungary.
Background: Human services occupations are highly exposed to mental health risks, thus psychosocial risk management is critical to assure healthy and safe working conditions, promote mental health and commitment, and prevent fluctuation of employees. However, still little is known about prominent psychosocial risk factors in various human services work.
Objectives: To identify prominent psychosocial risk factors of mental health in human services occupations and to explore their individual and organizational correlates in 19 European countries.
J Appl Psychol
January 2025
SKK Business School, Sungkyunkwan University.
Do unions facilitate or hamper the effectiveness of high-performance work systems (HPWS)? Despite the long-standing interest among labor and human resource scholars on this matter, relevant studies are limited and dated. This research investigates whether and how the interplay between HPWS and unions affects both organizational performance and employee well-being outcomes. The authors argue while unions may attenuate the HPWS effects on organizational performance due to decreased performance climate, the overall impacts of unions are likely beneficial, as they facilitate cooperative climate that contributes to organizational performance and enhances employee well-being, which positively affects longer term organizational outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient advocacy is a duty for professional nurses; however, not all nurses are empowered to advocate for meeting patients' needs. Participation in labor unions may serve as a venue for nurses with limited institutional decision-making authority to advocate for patient needs; however, unionization can be a time-intensive and fraught process. This study examined how nurses participating in a new union in an urban United States hospital described their reasons for participating in a labor union during collective bargaining.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppl Nurs Res
February 2025
The University of Texas School of Nursing at Austin, United States of America. Electronic address:
Objective: This study aims to understand the lived experiences of nurse practitioners (NPs) providing patient care during a nursing strike in a hospital setting.
Background: The nursing shortage afflicts the provision of health care. A recurring loss of seasoned nurses represents a loss of expertise and organizational knowledge, leading to internal burnout, inadequate resources, and recently, nursing strikes.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
December 2024
Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, University of Thessaly, Karies, 42100 Trikala, Greece.
Background: Migrant construction workers involved in building infrastructure for mega-sporting events face elevated risks of illness and death. However, specific health outcomes for these workers have not been systematically reviewed, limiting opportunities to identify and address their challenges.
Methods: This study systematically reviewed health outcomes among migrant construction workers involved in mega-sporting events.
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