Abstract
Participation is generally recommended when implementing organisational interventions, however, understanding how participation works remains understudied. In a cluster-randomised, controlled intervention employing a wait-list control design, we explore whether perceptions of individual or collective participation had the greatest impact on a participatory organisational intervention’s outcomes; work engagement and burnout. We conducted the study in the Danish postal service (N = 330). Using multi-level analyses, we found that perceptions of individual participation predicted improvements in work engagement and reductions in burnout post-intervention, however, these relationships became non-significant after including perceptions of being part of a collective participatory process in the model. Our findings add to the understanding of the role participation and in particular, perceptions of a collective participatory intervention process, plays in ensuring interventions achieve their intended outcomes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 374-397 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Work & Stress |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 17 Feb 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Multi-level
- burnout
- facilitator
- organisational intervention
- participation
- work engagement