Social Dialogue and Psychosocial Risk Management: Added Value of Manager and Employee Representative Agreement in Risk Perception and Awareness

Irene Houtman, Marianne van Zwieten, Stavroula Leka, Aditya Jain and Ernest de Vroome
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Irene Houtman: TNO, Work Health Technology, 2301 DA Leiden, The Netherlands
Marianne van Zwieten: TNO, Work Health Technology, 2301 DA Leiden, The Netherlands
Stavroula Leka: Cork University Business School, University College Cork, T12 K8AF Cork, Ireland
Aditya Jain: Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Ernest de Vroome: TNO, Work Health Technology, 2301 DA Leiden, The Netherlands

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 10, 1-18

Abstract: The present study aimed to explore the added value of managers’ and employee representatives’ agreement in risk perception and awareness in explaining the management of more ‘subjective’ psychosocial risks as compared to the more ‘objective’ traditional OSH risks. The general assumption tested was whether the added value of agreement in risk perception and awareness between these parties would be larger for psychosocial risk management as compared to traditional OSH risk management. European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-1) data were used from 7226 enterprises in which both managers and employee representatives were interviewed. Answers by employee representatives and managers to mirror questions on risk perception and awareness were used as independent variables, and answers to questions on risk management by the manager were used as dependent variables. Polynomial regression with response surface analysis was used. Differences in risk perception and awareness between managers and employee representatives explained more variance in psychosocial risk management as compared to more traditional OSH risk management. The implications of these findings and the importance of ‘social dialogue’ particularly in the case of psychosocial risk management as opposed to general OSH management are discussed.

Keywords: risk perception and awareness; psychosocial risk management; manager; employee representative; social dialogue; ESENER (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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