"It depends on us": employee perspective of healthy working conditions during continual reorganisations in a radiology department.
BACKGROUND
This study focuses on employees' experience of occupational health in a radiology department within a Swedish university hospital during years of continual reorganisations. This department's stable personal health trends in terms of self-rated mental health and sick-leave rates diverged from the general trends of deteriorating working conditions in the hospital.


OBJECTIVE
The aim was to identify dimensions of working conditions as positive determinants contributing to occupational health in a department of radiology undergoing continual reorganisations.


METHODS
Open-ended interviews with twelve employees were transcribed and analyzed using content-analysis.


RESULTS
The employees experienced their new stimulating working tasks and a supporting organizational climate as important contributors to the healthy work condition.


CONCLUSIONS
The positive effects of handling new technical challenges and the positive organisational climate, which were characterized by mutual trust, as well as work-confidence and respect for each others' competence, seem to function as buffering factors, balancing the negative effects of parallel downsizing and restructuring processes.
Nilsson
Kerstin
K
The Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Institute of Health and Care Sciences, Göteborg, Sweden University of Skövde, School of Life Sciences, Skövde, Sweden. kerstin.nilsson@fhs.gu.se
Hertting
Anna
A
Petterson
Inga-Lill
IL
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010557:Personnel Administration, Hospital; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*