The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework
© 2020 The Authors Work plays a central role in health. A conceptual model can help frame research priorities and questions to explore determinants of workers' safety, health, and wellbeing. A previous conceptual model focused on the workplace setting to emphasize the role of conditions of work...
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| author | Sorensen, Glorian Dennerlein, Jack T Peters, Susan E Sabbath, Erika L Kelly, Erin L Wagner, Gregory R |
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| description | © 2020 The Authors Work plays a central role in health. A conceptual model can help frame research priorities and questions to explore determinants of workers' safety, health, and wellbeing. A previous conceptual model focused on the workplace setting to emphasize the role of conditions of work in shaping workers' safety, health and wellbeing. These conditions of work include physical, organizational, and psychosocial factors. This manuscript presents and discusses an updated and expanded conceptual model, placing the workplace and the conditions of work within the broader context of socio-political-economic environments and consequent trends in employment and labor force patterns. Social, political and economic trends, such as growing reliance on technology, climate change, and globalization, have significant implications for workers’ day-to-day experiences. These structural forces in turn shape employment and labor patterns, with implications for the availability and quality of jobs; the nature of relationships between employers and workers; and the benefits and protections available to workers. Understanding these patterns will be critical for anticipating the consequences of future changes in the conditions of work, and ultimately help inform decision-making around policies and practices intended to protect and promote worker safety, health, and wellbeing. This model provides a structure for anticipating research needs in response to the changing nature of work, including the formation of research priorities, the need for expanded research methods and measures, and attention to diverse populations of enterprises and workers. This approach anticipates changes in the way work is structured, managed, and experienced by workers and can effectively inform policies and practices needed to protect and promote worker safety, health and wellbeing. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1337462023-11-08T21:35:44Z The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework Sorensen, Glorian Dennerlein, Jack T Peters, Susan E Sabbath, Erika L Kelly, Erin L Wagner, Gregory R Sloan School of Management © 2020 The Authors Work plays a central role in health. A conceptual model can help frame research priorities and questions to explore determinants of workers' safety, health, and wellbeing. A previous conceptual model focused on the workplace setting to emphasize the role of conditions of work in shaping workers' safety, health and wellbeing. These conditions of work include physical, organizational, and psychosocial factors. This manuscript presents and discusses an updated and expanded conceptual model, placing the workplace and the conditions of work within the broader context of socio-political-economic environments and consequent trends in employment and labor force patterns. Social, political and economic trends, such as growing reliance on technology, climate change, and globalization, have significant implications for workers’ day-to-day experiences. These structural forces in turn shape employment and labor patterns, with implications for the availability and quality of jobs; the nature of relationships between employers and workers; and the benefits and protections available to workers. Understanding these patterns will be critical for anticipating the consequences of future changes in the conditions of work, and ultimately help inform decision-making around policies and practices intended to protect and promote worker safety, health, and wellbeing. This model provides a structure for anticipating research needs in response to the changing nature of work, including the formation of research priorities, the need for expanded research methods and measures, and attention to diverse populations of enterprises and workers. This approach anticipates changes in the way work is structured, managed, and experienced by workers and can effectively inform policies and practices needed to protect and promote worker safety, health and wellbeing. 2021-10-27T19:56:27Z 2021-10-27T19:56:27Z 2021 2021-03-12T15:39:23Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133746 en 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113593 Social Science and Medicine Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | Sorensen, Glorian Dennerlein, Jack T Peters, Susan E Sabbath, Erika L Kelly, Erin L Wagner, Gregory R The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
| title | The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
| title_full | The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
| title_fullStr | The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
| title_short | The future of research on work, safety, health and wellbeing: A guiding conceptual framework |
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