International Journal of Workplace Health Management: Volume 16 Issue 2/3

Editorial: Knowledge transfer and exchange through interactive research: a new approach for supporting evidence-informed occupational health and safety (OHS) practice

Ulrik Gensby, Dwayne Van Eerd, Benjamin C. Amick, Hans Jørgen Limborg, Johnny Dyreborg

Changes in sick leave utilization at an academic medical center during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kelly Lancaster, Dmitry Tumin, Kendall M. Campbell

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic drastically changed work arrangements, but COVID-19's impact on employee leave utilization is unclear. The authors sought to…

Protecting workers' well-being in times of crisis: the first wave of COVID-19 in an Australian healthcare setting in 2020

Helen M. Achat, Joanne M. Stubbs, Rakhi Mittal, Suzanne Schindeler, Nicole Gilroy

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to challenge healthcare systems worldwide. The authors examined the lived experiences and perceptions of healthcare workers (HCWs) in managerial…

Cyberbullying at work: an extension of traditional bullying or a new threat?

Jordan Platts, Iain Coyne, Samuel Farley

Research comparing offline and cyberbullying is relatively sparse, with scholars suggesting the need for empirical investigations to clarify whether cyberbullying and offline…

Pregnancy-related discrimination and expectant workers' psychological well-being and work engagement: understanding the moderating role of job resources

Juliet Hassard, Weiwei Wang, Lana Delic, Ieva Grudyte, Vanessa Dale-Hewitt, Louise Thomson

In this paper, the authors apply the Job Demand-Resource Model to investigate the association between pregnancy-related discrimination (conceptualised as a job demand) and…

Employee culture of health perceptions and the development of a training intervention

Kristen L. Farris, Michael E. Burns, Tricia J. Burke, Janet R. Bezner

The authors used a case study approach to explore employees' perceptions of one institution's culture of health. The authors then applied a needs-centered training model to create…

Socializing employees into a culture of health

Natalie Martin, Maria Brann, Elizabeth Goering

A culture of health within an organization offers benefits such as managing healthcare costs and supporting employees in becoming and staying healthy. This study aims to identify…

The relationship between physicians' ingroup favoritism to patients and workplace violence: regulatory role of physicians' psychological resilience

Olcay Okun, Korhan Arun

This research aims to reveal the relationship between ingroup favoritism, seen as a theoretical cause of workplace violence experienced by physicians, with pre-violence, the…