Success or failure? Interpreting and understanding the impact of interventions in four similar worksites

By K. Nielsen, H. Fredslund, Karl Bang Christensen, K. Albertsen. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research

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Organizational interventions: A research-based framework for the evaluation of both process and effects (2013, background): “These events include the implementation of new organizational structures concurrent to the intervention (Nielsen et al., 2006), other conflicting change initiatives (Guastello, 1993; Nielsen et al., 2010a), lack of integration of the intervention with corporate strategic planning (Schurman &…”
Participants' accounts of a stress management intervention (2007, background): “In job stress intervention research it is not uncommon for change in dependent variables to be in the opposite direction to that hypothesized, or for an intervention to produce both positive and negative, or unexplained changes within a group of outcome variables, or for effect sizes to be small or ”
The development of five scales to measure employees’ appraisals of organizational-level stress management interventions (2009, methodology): “In addition, strong quasi-experimental designs are often impractical to establish and maintain within organizations, thus adding to the uncertainty about the effectiveness of an intervention (Cox, Griffiths, Barlow, Randall, Thomson, & Rial-Gonzaléz, 2000; Cox et al., 2007; Nielsen et al., 2006).”
Workhours and worklife balance (2008, methodology): “Studies should also be supplemented by process evaluations with systematic documentation of the change process and the implementation of the intervention (85, 86).”
Review Article: How can we make organizational interventions work? Employees and line managers as actively crafting interventions (2013, methodology): “…processes and use these analyses to develop intervention design rather than engaging in post hoc analyses of what went wrong, as has been done in previous research (Aust et al., 2010; Biron et al., 2010; Dahl-Jørgensen and Saksvik, 2005; Mikkelsen and Saksvik, 1998, 1999; Nielsen et al., 2006).”
Evaluating organizational-level work stress interventions: Beyond traditional methods (2007, background): “…the decision-making process, the resources available to support change, and the quality of social relations and trust within the organization (Cox, Karanika, Mellor, Lomas, Houdmont, & Griffiths, 2007; Nielsen et al., 2007; Nytrø, Saksvik, & Torvatn, 1998; Nytrø et al., 2000; Taris et al., 2003).”
The second version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (2010, background): “These studies concern the work environment for: women [8], human service workers [9], computer users [10], dentists [11], correctional officers [12], hospital workers [13], pig-farm workers [14], office workers [15] and also workplace interventions [16].”
Process evaluation for organizational stress and well-being interventions: Implications for theory, method, and practice. (2014, methodology): “…to evaluate the effects, and qualitative methods to describe the development, implementation, and participants’ appraisals of the intervention (Bourbonnais, Brisson, Vinet, Vézina, et al., 2006; Bourbonnais, Brisson, Vinet, Vezina, et al., 2006; Brun, Biron, & Ivers, 2008; Nielsen et al., 2006).”
Opening the black box: Presenting a model for evaluating organizational-level interventions (2013, methodology): “Factors at both the intraorganizational (e.g., introducing conflicting initiatives; Nielsen et al., 2006; Randall et al., 2007) and national level (e.”
The future of organizational interventions: Addressing the challenges of today's organizations (2010, background): “Examples of such studies are Kompier, Geurts, Grundemann, Vink, and Smulders (1999), Mikkelsen and Saksvik ( 1999 ), Nielsen, Fredslund, Christensen, and Albertsen ( 2006 ), Nielsen, Randall, and Christensen (2010b), and Tvedt, Saksvik, and Nytro ( 2009 ).”
Participants' appraisals of process issues and the effects of stress management interventions (2007, methodology): “This questionnaire survey was supplemented with a thorough qualitative process evaluation to gather detailed data about the nature of the interventions and the processes that supported them (Guichard et al., 2004; Nielsen, Fredslund, Christensen, & Albertsen, 2006 ).”