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From 24-26 November 2004, the 6h Annual Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology ‘Healthy, Efficient & Productive Organisations’ was held in Oporto, Portugal. During this conference, the Workshop ‘Organisational interventions to combat psychosocial factors of stress’ was organised by PEROSH, Partnership for European Research in Occupational Safety and Health. This syllabus contains the separate papers of various European countries that were delivered to the workshop. In the introduction the outline of the ‘call for papers’ is summarized. Chapter 2 presents an overall analysis of all papers.

Stress is vaak het gevolg van problemen in de besturing en inrichting van de organisatie. In dit artikel wordt een door TNO Arbeid ontwikkeld werkstressinstrument beschreven (Tripod Sigma) dat managers in staat stelt werkstress in hun eigen onderdeel te beheersen. Het instrument is zo opgezet dat de resultaten laten zien hoe de problemen die werkstess veroorzaken ook een bedreiging vormen voor het primaire proces. Managers zien hierdoor duidelijk wat er voor hen te winnen is en kunnen pro-actief de bestaande problemen oplossen en toekomstige problemen voorkomen. P&O'ers helpen zonodig bij het invoeren van de verbeteringen die de managers initiëren.

Veel organisaties zoeken manieren om de productiviteit van hun medewerkers te verhogen zonder hen daardoor te veel te belasten. Een manier is het geven van meer zelfstandigheid bij het regelen van het eigen werk. Bevoegdheden worden lager in de organisatie toegekend. Veel medewerkers hebben hier moeite mee doordat de bedrijfsculuur in de weg staat. Het invoeren van goed werkoverleg en het mogelijk maken van deeltijdarbeid zou kunnen helpen. Het management moet op alle niveaus een organisatiecultuur ontwikkelen waarin mensen in staat zijn regelmogelijkheden te benutten. Vakmedia

Work related stress is an important causes of disability and absenteeism. TNO Work and Employment has developed an instrument, called Tripod Sigma, that identifies risks to work stress and provides tools for remedying these risks. The Tripod Sigma model is developed analogous to the Tripod philosophy which Shell has initiated to identify and proactively control safety risks. This model is used to measure latent failures in the working environment that can cause human error. The main philosophy behind Tripodis that human error can most effectively be controlled by controlling the working environment and the organisation of work. Work stress, like human error, is something that occurs on the level of the individual. Research shows that causes which contribute to work related stress can also be traced back to conditions of the working environment of employees. The project described in this paper has the aim to develop an instrument for analysis of risks for work related stress ‘all the way back’ to the level of management decisions. An instrument that not only identifies risks, but also provides directions for management to reduce or prevent risks.

Uitgangspunt voor dit onderzoek van TNO Strategie, Technologie en Beleid met medewerking van TNO Arbeid, is de gedachte dat als gevolg van een proces van 'ontgrenzing', de manier waarop medewerkers in een organisatie vorm geven aan hun interne en externe werkverbanden en aan hun werkprocessen sterk zal veranderen. Dit proces is onder meer door ICT-ontwikkelingen in gang gezet. In deze studie onderzoeken we dit proces van ontgrenzing binnen de overheidsorganisatie. Doel van het hier gepresenteerde onderzoek is om input te leveren voor een debat over ontgrenzing en beleidsvorming op strategisch niveau, meer concreet in het Directeurennetwerk Strategische Kennisontwikkeling van het Ministerie van BZK. Het project 'Ontgrenzing en beleidsvorming' valt uiteen in drie delen; een analytische verkenning, een empirische verkenning en een strategische verkenning.

This leaflet summarises the results of a literature review and two analyses of the findings of the Third European Survey on Working Conditions concerning the relationship between organisations, working conditions and health outcomes. According to these studies, different forms of work organisation ('old' and 'new' forms) are structured along two dimensions. This approach makes it possible to distinguish between four types of work organisation (Taylorism, Human Relations, Lean Production, Sociotechnology). For each of these forms of work organisation, the potential impact on working conditions and workers' health is assessed. Finally, moderators which have a positive impact on working conditions and health will be identified. There are only a few studies which examine the relationship between different forms of work organisation and health and they use different conceptualisations for the same topic. This leaflet presents the relationship between forms of work organisation and health in two steps: 1. What are the working conditions arising from the different forms of work organisation? 2. What are the effects on health and working conditions?

This leaflet summarises the results of a literature review and two analyses of the findings of the Third European Survey on Working Conditions concerning the relationship between organisations, working conditions and health outcomes. According to these studies, different forms of work organisation ('old' and 'new' forms) are structured along two dimensions. This approach makes it possible to distinguish between four types of work organisation (Taylorism, Human Relations, Lean Production, Sociotechnology). For each of these forms of work organisation, the potential impact on working conditions and workers' health is assessed. Finally, moderators which have a positive impact on working conditions and health will be identified. There are only a few studies which examine the relationship between different forms of work organisation and health and they use different conceptualisations for the same topic. This leaflet presents the relationship between forms of work organisation and health in two steps: 1. What are the working conditions arising from the different forms of work organisation? 2. What are the effects on health and working conditions?