Dimensions of control as related to work organization, stress, and health.
The aim of this article is to examine how increased worker control-on the individual as well as on collective level-may be a means to reduce the risk of work environment-related stress and diseases. Control is also an important element in socialization processes and in work reform activities directed to a democratization of working life. The concept of control connects a number of research perspectives. It deals with the individual and the collective level, as well as the relationship between them, and it may be a bridge between a social psychological and a psychobiological perspective. In this article, the author considers the control concept primarily from a stress perspective, but also examines how production techniques, legislation, and management strategies create the structure of control at work.
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National Institute of Occupational Health, Solna, Sweden.
D006262:Health; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012951:Socialization; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014937:Work