Psychosocial safety climate in Japanese workplaces
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2023
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Dollard, M.
Loh, M.Y.
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Journal of Occupational Health, 2023; 65(1):1-3
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Work stress is a global burden affecting millions of workers worldwide and should be prevented. In Japan, even though much effort has been given to reducing workplace psychosocial risks, there remains a high level of the tragic phenomena “karojisatsu” (work-related suicides) and “karoshi” (death from overwork). More than half of Japanese workers are troubled with extreme work stress. Exploration of antecedents to workplace psychosocial risks (social factors that cause stress) is urgently needed to find solutions about how to prevent work stress and create psychological healthy workplaces. Thus far, work stress interventions have mostly highlighted individual-focused strategies such as building individual resilience and personal coping strategies, putting the burden of solutions on individuals, or have focused on job redesign. These approaches neglect influential social context and structural factors, evident in the psychosocial safety climate of the organization.
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Copyright 2023 The Authors. Journal of Occupational Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of The Japan Society for Occupational Health. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)