Improving job satisfaction with different intervention methods among the school personnel in Estonia and Latvia
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Kuupäev
2017
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Autorid
Hrenov, G.
Vilcane, I.
Urbane, V.
Tint, Piia
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This investigation was carried out in two high schools: one in Estonia (EST1) and one
in Latvia (LAT1). The offices EST2 and LAT2 were chosen from the countryside of the both
countries. Office EST1 is situated in an atrium-type building for educational and research needs.
The second building is mainly for education (auditoriums) and the offices LAT1 are situated on
the ground floor. The third and the fourth offices were taken for comparison. Office EST2 is
situated in a countryside in an old wooden building; the fourth office LAT2 is located in a new
building in Latvian countryside. All together 181 office-workers were involved. At first, the work
environment conditions were measured. The ergonomics of workplaces was assessed with ARTtool
and Kiva-questionnaire was used to study psychosocial conditions and job satisfaction at
computer-equipped workplaces. Occupational hazards were measured to clarify, do the work
environment influence on the behaviour and the job motivation and satisfaction of the worker at
workplace? After the first questioning of workers using Kiva-questionnaire, the Metal Age
programme was implemented and after the intervention, the Kiva-questionnaire was carried out
again. The results showed that if the preventive measures for solving the problems at workplace
are implemented, and the employers and the employees are trained and consulted using the
appropriate programmes, the stress situations could be avoided. The workers in all offices were
confident that the discussion about the problems is very important as the work with computers is
intensive and there is a very short time to communicate with each other. The educational work is
also stressful.
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work conditions, ergonomics, computer-use, psychosocial climate, high-schools, articles