Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
Is Work Group Social Capital Associated With Sickness Absence? A Study of Workplace Registered Sickness Absence at the Work Group Level (Original Article)
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
Is Work Group Social Capital Associated With Sickness Absence? A Study of Workplace Registered Sickness Absence at the Work Group Level (Original Article)
Is Work Group Social Capital Associated With Sickness Absence? A Study of Workplace Registered Sickness Absence at the Work Group Level (Original Article)
Subject
Absenteeism, Intervention study, Job resources, Longitudinal study, Psychosocial work environment
Description
Background: The concept of social capital has its focus on cooperative relations in the workplace. This study investigates the association between social capital and sickness absence among workers in 41 work groups in the Danish dairy industry and examines the possible effects of an intervention on social capital in the workplace on sickness absence.
Methods: A sample of 791 dairy workers working in 41 work groups that participated in an intervention
study on social capital filled in a questionnaire on four subtypes of social capital, and social capital scores from individual participants were aggregated to the level of work groups. Sickness absence was
measured at the level of work groups in company registers as the two-year average percentage of
working time lost to sickness absence. Group-level associations between social capital and sickness
absence were analyzed using multilevel linear regression analysis. Analyses were adjusted for age,
gender, group size, and random effects at the workplace level.
Results: We found statistically significant associations between social capital within work groups, social capital in relation to the immediate manager, and social capital toward the workplace as a whole on the one side and sickness absence on the other side. We found no support for any effects of the intervention on sickness absence.
Conclusion: The work group level of social capital is associated with the work group level of sickness
absence. However, the intervention to enhance group-level social capital had no effect on reducing
sickness absence in the intervention group.
Methods: A sample of 791 dairy workers working in 41 work groups that participated in an intervention
study on social capital filled in a questionnaire on four subtypes of social capital, and social capital scores from individual participants were aggregated to the level of work groups. Sickness absence was
measured at the level of work groups in company registers as the two-year average percentage of
working time lost to sickness absence. Group-level associations between social capital and sickness
absence were analyzed using multilevel linear regression analysis. Analyses were adjusted for age,
gender, group size, and random effects at the workplace level.
Results: We found statistically significant associations between social capital within work groups, social capital in relation to the immediate manager, and social capital toward the workplace as a whole on the one side and sickness absence on the other side. We found no support for any effects of the intervention on sickness absence.
Conclusion: The work group level of social capital is associated with the work group level of sickness
absence. However, the intervention to enhance group-level social capital had no effect on reducing
sickness absence in the intervention group.
Creator
Thomas Clausen, Annette Meng, Vilhem Borg
Publisher
Elsevier Korea LLC
Date
June 2020
Contributor
Sri Wahyuni
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Text
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Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
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Citation
Thomas Clausen, Annette Meng, Vilhem Borg, “Safety and Health at Work Vol. 11 Issue 2 2020
Is Work Group Social Capital Associated With Sickness Absence? A Study of Workplace Registered Sickness Absence at the Work Group Level (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 21, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1989.
Is Work Group Social Capital Associated With Sickness Absence? A Study of Workplace Registered Sickness Absence at the Work Group Level (Original Article),” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 21, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1989.