title: Implementation of an organizational-level intervention on the psychosocial environment of work: comparison of managers' and employees' views.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare employees' and managers' perceptions of implemented changes in an organizational-level workplace intervention.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nine departments participated in an intervention aimed at reducing adverse psychosocial work environment factors. On the basis of a prior risk evaluation, department managers were responsible for decisions and implementation of the intervention, that is, work changes. These were recorded in logbooks, which were compared to employees' questionnaire ratings of the changes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  For half of the changes, proportion of employees reporting that a specific change was implemented did not correspond with the amount of manager-reported changes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Evaluation of employees' and managers' perceptions of an organizational-level intervention is crucial, since these perceptions do not necessarily fully correspond. Employees perceived changes that were not reported by department managers and they also did not perceive exposure to all changes reported by the managers.
authors.affiliation: Santé des populations: URESP, Centre de recherche FRSQ du Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Quebec, Canada. henna.hasson@ki.se
authors.forename: Henna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasson
authors.forename: Mahée
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gilbert-Ouimet
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Baril-Gingras
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brisson
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vézina
authors.forename: Renée
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bourbonnais
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Montreuil
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*