Team-based occupational stress reduction: a European overview from the perspective of the OSCAR Project.
Ryan, P;
Hill, R;
Anczewska, M;
Hardy, P;
Kurek, A;
Nielson, K;
Turner, C;
Oscar Group;
(2005)
Team-based occupational stress reduction: a European overview from the perspective of the OSCAR Project.
International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England), 17 (5).
pp. 401-408.
ISSN 0954-0261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540260500238645
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Work-related stress is a significant impediment to job satisfaction and healthy psycho-social functioning. It can alter the behaviour of the person involved and impair the quality of their life. In the European Union (EU), over the last decade, work-related stress has been consistently identified as one of the major workplace concerns--a challenge not only to the health of working people but also to the healthiness of their organizations. The study reported below attempted to address the issue of work-related stress through whole team training programmes, on a background of largely ineffective stress reduction training programmes offered to individuals within the workplace. This EU 'framework 5 Quality of Life' project focused instead on tackling the organizational level through training of mental health teams in five countries. The findings have significant implications to the conceptual, methodological and everyday organizational practice levels of tackling this central issue to the health of the workplace.