Sygdom og trivsel: betydningen af personaleforandringer og offentlige lederes personlighed for hospitalsansattes sygefravær, jobtilfredshed og ledelsestilfredshed

Personalereduktion og personaleforøgelse i den offentlige sektor kan være forbundet med usikkerhed og stress hos medarbejdere. Det er vigtigt, at offentlige ledere kender til de mulige konsekvenser af sådanne markante forandringer for deres medarbejdere. Det er også en ressource, hvis lederne har en personlighed, som modvirker potentielt negative konsekvenser. I dette studie undersøger vi, hvordan personalereduktion, personaleforøgelse og lederens personlighed hænger sammen med langtidssygefravær, jobtilfredshed og ledelsestilfredshed blandt 146 afdelingssygeplejersker og deres 3426 ansatte fra Region Hovedstadens hospitaler. Personalereduktion er forbundet med øget langtidssygefravær men ikke jobtilfredshed eller ledelsestilfredshed. Personaleforøgelse har derimod en sammenhæng med både mindre langtidssygefravær og større ledelsestilfredshed. Ledere, der er mere følelsesmæssigt afbalancerede, har medarbejdere med større jobtilfredshed og ledelsestilfredshed

Comparison of results from different imputation techniques for missing data from an anti-obesity drug trial

BackgroundIn randomised trials of medical interventions, the most reliable analysis follows the intention-to-treat (ITT) principle. However, the ITT analysis requires that missing outcome data have to be imputed. Different imputation techniques may give different results and some may lead to bias. In anti-obesity drug trials, many data are usually missing, and the most used imputation method is last observation carried forward (LOCF). LOCF is generally considered conservative, but there are more reliable methods such as multiple imputation (MI).ObjectivesTo compare four different methods of handling missing data in a 60-week placebo controlled anti-obesity drug trial on topiramate.MethodsWe compared an analysis of complete cases with datasets where missing body weight measurements had been replaced using three different imputation methods: LOCF, baseline carried forward (BOCF) and MI.Results561 participants were randomised. Compared to placebo, there was a significantly greater weight loss with topiramate in all analyses: 9.5 kg (SE 1.17) in the complete case analysis (N = 86), 6.8 kg (SE 0.66) using LOCF (N = 561), 6.4 kg (SE 0.90) using MI (N = 561) and 1.5 kg (SE 0.28) using BOCF (N = 561).ConclusionsThe different imputation methods gave very different results. Contrary to widely stated claims, LOCF did not produce a conservative (i.e., lower) efficacy estimate compared to MI. Also, LOCF had a lower SE than MI

100 Years of Scientific Evolution of Work and Organizational Psychology: A Bibliometric Network Analysis From 1919 to 2019

In this study, we explore a 100 years of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP). To do this, we carry out a bibliometric performance and network analysis (BPNA) to understand the evolution structure and the most important themes in the field of study. To perform the BNPA, 8,966 documents published since 1919 were exported from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The SciMAT software was used to process data and to create the evolution structure, the strategic diagram, and the thematic network structure of the strategic themes of the field of WOP. We identified 29 strategic clusters and discuss the most important themes (motor themes) and their relationship with other clusters. This research presents the complete evolution of the field of study, identifying emerging themes and others with a high degree of development. We hope that this work will support researchers and future research in the field of WOP

Partisanship and violent intentions in the United States

We have witnessed a drastic increase in partisanship in the United States in the past decades. This increase has sparked concern about the risk that the effects may not be as benign as the positive political engagement and activism behaviors that the political science literature has traditionally investigated. This paper explicitly targets the risk that increased partisan identities may lead to stronger intentions to engage in violent political behaviors. By integrating insights form the literature on radicalization to political violence, and using three original, population representative cross-sectional and experimental studies of adult Americans (total n=3,797), this paper shows that stronger partisan identities drive stronger intentions to engage in political violence, but that this effect holds for partisans with a callous, manipulative personality structure only

In sickness and in health: The impact of personnel changes and public leaders’ personalities for healthcare employees’ sickness absence, job and leadership satisfaction

Redundancy and staff expansions in the public sector are events associated with employee uncertainty and potential work-related stress. It is therefore essential for public leaders to be aware of potential consequences for such changes in employee units. We explore the relationship between redundancies, staff expansions and leadership personality on the one hand and long-term sickness leave, job satisfaction and leader satisfaction on the other hand among 146 head nurses and their 3426 employees in Hospitals in the Capital Region of Denmark. We find that redundancies are associated with higher levels of long-term sickness leave. Staff expansions are related to lower levels of illness and higher leader satisfaction ratings. Leaders who are more emotionally stable have employees with higher job and leader satisfaction

The Danish IPIP-NEO-120

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