title: Production loss among employees perceiving work environment problems.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The overall aim of this explorative study was to investigate the relationship between factors in the psychosocial work environment and work environment-related production loss.
  
  
  METHODS
  Employees at a Swedish university were invited to answer a workplace questionnaire and were selected for this study if they reported having experienced work environment-related problems in the past 7 days (n = 302). A stepwise logistic regression and a modified Poisson regression were used to identify psychosocial work factors associated with work environment-related production loss as well as to identify at what level those factors are associated with production loss.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Employees who reported having experienced work environment problems but also fair leadership, good social climate, role clarity and control of decision had significantly lower levels of production loss, whereas employees who reported inequality and high decision demands reported significantly higher levels of production loss. Never or seldom experiencing fair leadership, role clarity, equality, decision demands and good social climate increase the risk of production loss due to work environment problems, compared to those who experience these circumstances frequently, always or most of the time.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Several psychosocial work factors are identified as factors associated with a reduced risk of production losses among employees despite the nature of the work environment problem. Knowledge of these factors may be important not only to reduce employee ill-health and the corresponding health-related production loss, but also reduce immediate production loss due to work environment-related problems.
authors.affiliation: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, malin.lohela.karlsson@ki.se.
authors.forename: Malin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lohela-Karlsson
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hagberg
authors.forename: Gunnar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bergström
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016272:Occupational Health; D010465:Perception; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*