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Sustainable Work Environment and Occupational Well-Being

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 6628

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1. School of Science and Technology, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
2. Associate Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aerospace (LAETA-INEGI), Rua Dr. Roberto Frias 400, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
3. Algoritmi Research Centre/LASI, School of Engineering, University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Interests: safety engineering; occupational health and safety management systems; risk management; quality and environmental management systems; sustainability and environmentalism; circular economy; project management; human factors and ergonomics; benchmarking; nanotechnologies; cost–benefit analysis; medical textiles; tourist safety
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Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics, (PROA-LAETA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: safety engineering; risk assessment; risk management; industrial ergonomics; industrial hygiene; occupational health; accident costs; human engineering; mining project
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Associated Laboratory for Energy, Transports and Aeronautics, (PROA-LAETA), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: occupational hygiene; risk assessment; ergonomics and human factors
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The global ecological footprint has been growing significantly since the mid-20th century. In response to this exponential increase, in 2015, the United Nations presented a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Of these, particularly important for this Special Issue are those related to environmental and occupational health and the well-being of individuals.

Initiatives are being taken across various continents to control climate change and consequently improve people’s quality of life and the planet's future. Examples of initiatives with significant impact include the "Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis" in the USA and the 2030 Agenda for the SDG in the European Union. In addition to these initiatives, many others across all continents set mitigation and adaptation to climate change, human health and the environment as main goals. To this end, the circular economy, the responsible use of resources, decent work and well-being are at the core of all sustainability policies. 

In this framework, this Special Issue aims to bring together the research being conducted in the framework of the UN SDGs, namely Sustainable Work Environment and Occupational Well-Being.

Dr. Delfina Gabriela Garrido Ramos
Dr. João dos Santos Baptista
Dr. Joana Cristina Cardoso Guedes
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Keywords

  • health and well-being
  • health behaviour change programs
  • health inequalities
  • human health
  • occupational Health
  • occupational risk
  • decent work and economic growth
  • telework
  • digitization
  • industrial sustainability and work
  • sustainable industrial design
  • trends, perspectives, and responses in work sustainability
  • social environment
  • work environment
  • environmental health
  • clean technologies and work environment
  • environmental risk
  • climate changes, work, and well-being
  • renewable energies and work environment
  • green jobs
  • emerging risks for environmental and occupational well-being
  • heat stress and work
  • cold work environment

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Manager–Team (Dis)agreement on Stress-Preventive Behaviours: Relationship with Psychosocial Work Environment and Employees’ Well-Being
by Stefano Toderi, Glauco Cioffi, Joanna Yarker, Rachel Lewis, Jonathan Houdmont and Cristian Balducci
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2024, 21(8), 989; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21080989 - 28 Jul 2024
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The “Management Competencies to Prevent and Reduce Stress at Work” (MCPARS) approach focuses on identifying the stress-preventive managers’ competencies able to optimise the employees’ well-being through the management of the psychosocial work environment. Considering leadership as contextualised in complex social dynamics, the self–other [...] Read more.
The “Management Competencies to Prevent and Reduce Stress at Work” (MCPARS) approach focuses on identifying the stress-preventive managers’ competencies able to optimise the employees’ well-being through the management of the psychosocial work environment. Considering leadership as contextualised in complex social dynamics, the self–other agreement (SOA) investigation of the MCPARS may enhance previous findings, as it allows for exploring the manager–team perceptions’ (dis)agreement and its potential implications. However, no studies have tested the MCPARS using the SOA and multisource data. Grounded in Yammarino and Atwater’s SOA reference theory, we conducted an in-depth investigation on the MCPARS’s theoretical framework by examining the implications of manager–team (dis)agreement, regarding managers’ competencies, on employees’ psychosocial environment (H1–H2) and affective well-being (H3). Data from 36 managers and 475 employees were analysed by performing several polynomial regressions, response surface, and mediation analyses. The results reveal a significant relationship between SOA on MCPARS and employees’ perceptions of the psychosocial environment (H1). Employees report better perceptions when supervised by in-agreement good or under-estimator managers, while lower ratings occur under over-estimator or in-agreement poor managers (H2). Moreover, the psychosocial environment significantly mediated the relationship between SOA on MCPARS and employees’ well-being (H3). The MCPARS theoretical model’s soundness is supported, and its implications are discussed. Full article
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