title: Evaluating an Organizational-Level Occupational Health Intervention in a Combined Regression Discontinuity and Randomized Control Design.
abstract: Organizational-level occupational health interventions have great potential to improve employees' health and well-being. However, they often compare unfavourably to individual-level interventions. This calls for improving methods for designing, implementing and evaluating organizational interventions. This paper presents and discusses the regression discontinuity design because, like the randomized control trial, it is a strong summative experimental design, but it typically fits organizational-level interventions better. The paper explores advantages and disadvantages of a regression discontinuity design with an embedded randomized control trial. It provides an example from an intervention study focusing on reducing sickness absence in 196 preschools. The paper demonstrates that such a design fits the organizational context, because it allows management to focus on organizations or workgroups with the most salient problems. In addition, organizations may accept an embedded randomized design because the organizations or groups with most salient needs receive obligatory treatment as part of the regression discontinuity design. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors: Center for Industrial Production, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University, A. C. Meyer Vaenge 15, DK-2450, København SV, Denmark. ohs@business.aau.dk.
authors: By Ole H
authors: BO
authors: Sørensen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D009786:Occupational Health Services / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards*; D012574:Schools / Q000592:standards*
keywords: RCT design; job design; organizational stress interventions; regression discontinuity design; well-being