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The Management Standards Indicator Tool and evaluation of burnout

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posted on 2023-07-26, 13:08 authored by Jermaine M. Ravalier, Andrew J. McVicar, Carol Munn-Giddings
Background: Psychosocial hazards in the workplace can impact upon employee health. The UK Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) Management Standards Indicator Tool (MSIT) appears to have utility in relation to health impacts but we were unable to find studies relating it to burnout. Aims: To explore the utility of the MSIT in evaluating risk of burnout assessed by the Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS). Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey of 128 borough council employees. MSIT data were analysed according to MSIT and MBI-GS threshold scores and by using multivariate linear regression with MBI-GS factors as dependent variables. Results: MSIT factor scores were gradated according to categories of risk of burnout according to published MBI-GS thresholds, and identified priority workplace concerns as demands, relationships, role and change. These factors also featured as significant independent variables, with control, in outcomes of the regression analysis. Exhaustion was associated with demands and control (adjusted R 2 = 0.331); cynicism was associated with change, role and demands (adjusted R 2 =0.429); and professional efficacy was associated with managerial support, role, control and demands (adjusted R 2 = 0.413). Conclusions: MSIT analysis generally has congruence with MBI-GS assessment of burnout. The identification of control within regression models but not as a priority concern in the MSIT analysis could suggest an issue of the setting of the MSIT thresholds for this factor, but verification requires a much larger study. Incorporation of relationship, role and change into the MSIT, missing from other conventional tools, appeared to add to its validity.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

63

Issue number

2

Page range

145-147

Publication title

Occupational Medicine

ISSN

1471-8405

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

  • other

Legacy posted date

2013-05-30

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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