Occupational Pressure–Targeting Organisational Factors to Ameliorate Occupational Dysfunction

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Siew Yim Loh1, Winn Than2, Kia Fatt Quek3
1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2Department of Population Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Technology MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
3School of Health and Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia

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Introduction Chronic pressure at work has debilitating impact on healthcare employers (e.g. reduced productivity, high costs, poor patient care) and on female healthcare employees (e.g. sickness, dysfunction). This paper highlights relationship at work as the key occupational source of work-stress which is organisational in nature. Methods A cross-sectional study (n = 230) was conducted using the Pressure Management Inventory on several female dominated health professions within a large public hospital. Analysis of variance was used to show relationship between sources and outcome of pressure. Linear regressions were used to predict which sources of pressure (IV) was linked to the outcomes of occupational pressure (DV). Results The number one source of occupational pressure is Relationships at work (i.e. with supervisors), and not workload. ‘Relationship’ is also the key predictor of several negative outcomes of pressure at work. Analysis of variance showed significant differences in two sources of pressures, i.e. Workload (P = 0.04) and Home-work balance (P = 0.03). Conclusion This paper provides insights into the occupational pressure of women health professionals by highlighting the organisational sources of pressure and the implications for preventing occupational dysfunction secondary to stress at work.

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