The Impact of Prescribed Work on Psychosocial Risks and Mental Health in Medico-Social Establishments
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Prescribed work, psychosocial risks, mental health, job satisfaction, medico social sector, work psychology, management, employee well-being
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Discover how prescribed work impacts mental health and job satisfaction in the medico-social sector. Learn about the psychosocial risks and consequences of obstructed work, and explore management strategies to alleviate employee suffering and promote a capacitating work environment.
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[...] The prescribed work, one factor in the development of psychosocial risks for employees A. Impacts on the mental health of employees The prescribed work also risks weakening job satisfaction and generating frustration, and sometimes even unhappiness, among employees. Prescribed work becomes constraining, preventing the employee from realizing themselves and identifying with their work. This leads to the employee feeling a lack of recognition of the work as individualized production, followed by suffering at work with the development of mental health problems, and absenteeism. [...]
[...] Prescribed work generates psychological risks: for the employee, the risk of not being able to identify with their work, generating suffering at work. To accompany these situations of suffering at work in the face of the prescriptions of prescribed work, it is necessary for managers to exchange within the framework of work collectives on the obstacles generated by prescribed work. And thus find collective solutions in order to evolve the prescriptions. Bibliography Diard, C. (2017). Human Resources / Caroline Diard, Emmanuel Baudoin, Sylvie Berthet. [...]
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[...] What possible impacts on psychosocial risks, on the mental health of employees? How can management accompany this evolution? In the first part, we will see that the increase in prescribed work in medico-social structures produces effects contrary to those sought, in the second part, we will see that they have otherwise harmful impacts on the mental health of employees, with the need for management to accompany this evolution. I. Effects contrary to those sought A. Increase in multi-source and multifaceted requirements All professional sectors of activity are affected by the increase in prescribed work practices. [...]
