Line manager training and organizational approaches to supporting well-being.


Journal

Occupational medicine (Oxford, England)
ISSN: 1471-8405
Titre abrégé: Occup Med (Lond)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9205857

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 Jul 2024
Historique:
medline: 11 7 2024
pubmed: 11 7 2024
entrez: 11 7 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Employee mental health and well-being (MH&WB) is critical to the productivity and success of organizations. Training line managers (LMs) in mental health plays an important role in protecting and enhancing employee well-being, but its relationship with other MH&WB practices is under-researched. To determine whether organizations offering LM training in mental health differ in the adoption of workplace- (i.e. primary/prevention-focused) and worker-directed (including both secondary/resiliency-focused and tertiary/remedial-focused) interventions to those organizations not offering LM training and to explore changes in the proportions of activities offered over time. Secondary analysis of enterprise data from computer-assisted telephone interview surveys. The analysis included data from organizations in England across 4 years (2020: n = 1900; 2021: n = 1551; 2022: n = 1904; 2023: n = 1902). Offering LM training in mental health was associated with organizations' uptake of primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-level MH&WB activities across all 4 years. The proportion of organizations offering primary-, secondary- and tertiary-level interventions increased over time. On average, tertiary-level activities were most adopted (2020: 80%; 2021: 81%; 2022: 84%; 2023: 84%), followed by primary-level activities (2020: 66%; 2021: 72%; 2022: 72%; 2023: 73%) and secondary-level activities (2020: 62%; 2021: 60%; 2022: 61%; 2023: 67%). Offering LM training in mental health is associated with the adoption of other MH&WB practices by organizations. Suggesting that organizations that are committed to the mental health agenda are more likely to take a holistic approach (including both worker and workplace strategies) to promoting workforce mental health, rather than providing LM training in isolation.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Employee mental health and well-being (MH&WB) is critical to the productivity and success of organizations. Training line managers (LMs) in mental health plays an important role in protecting and enhancing employee well-being, but its relationship with other MH&WB practices is under-researched.
AIMS OBJECTIVE
To determine whether organizations offering LM training in mental health differ in the adoption of workplace- (i.e. primary/prevention-focused) and worker-directed (including both secondary/resiliency-focused and tertiary/remedial-focused) interventions to those organizations not offering LM training and to explore changes in the proportions of activities offered over time.
METHODS METHODS
Secondary analysis of enterprise data from computer-assisted telephone interview surveys. The analysis included data from organizations in England across 4 years (2020: n = 1900; 2021: n = 1551; 2022: n = 1904; 2023: n = 1902).
RESULTS RESULTS
Offering LM training in mental health was associated with organizations' uptake of primary-, secondary-, and tertiary-level MH&WB activities across all 4 years. The proportion of organizations offering primary-, secondary- and tertiary-level interventions increased over time. On average, tertiary-level activities were most adopted (2020: 80%; 2021: 81%; 2022: 84%; 2023: 84%), followed by primary-level activities (2020: 66%; 2021: 72%; 2022: 72%; 2023: 73%) and secondary-level activities (2020: 62%; 2021: 60%; 2022: 61%; 2023: 67%).
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Offering LM training in mental health is associated with the adoption of other MH&WB practices by organizations. Suggesting that organizations that are committed to the mental health agenda are more likely to take a holistic approach (including both worker and workplace strategies) to promoting workforce mental health, rather than providing LM training in isolation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38990655
pii: 7712333
doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqae051
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : Economic and Social Research Council
ID : ES/V002740/1

Informations de copyright

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine.

Auteurs

T Dulal-Arthur (T)

School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

J Hassard (J)

Queen's University Business School, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

J Bourke (J)

Department of Economics, Spatial & Regional Economics Research Centre, Cork University Business School, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

S Roper (S)

Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick University Business School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK.

M Wishart (M)

Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick University Business School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK.

V Belt (V)

Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick University Business School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK.

C Bartle (C)

School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

S Leka (S)

Centre for Organisational Health and Well-Being, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.

N Pahl (N)

Society for Occupational Medicine, London, UK.

L Thomson (L)

School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

H Blake (H)

School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, UK.

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