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The Prison ServiceIn the past month we have decided, with some urgency due to the very high number of officers in that field approaching us for help, to engage upon a broad study on the motivations and slow-stressors for prison officers with the intention of formulating more effective clinical interventions for prison staff declaring excess stress issues. Our budget for this will include working with just over 100 officers declaring high levels of anxiety over periods exceeding 6 months - for reasons other than violent attacks, or threats they consider serious. Will speaking up just make matters worse?’ Examining diverse perceptions, within organisational structures, about the likely risks, consequences and outcomes of reporting job-stress.This study is examining how pre-existing perceptions affect the frequency and quality of job-stress reporting – comparing different levels within the organisational structure – and similar structures in the private and public sectors. It concentrates upon cases of absenteeism and presenteeism in nursing, The Prison Service, higher education and financial management. We begin the most comprehensive survey of HR and OH policy on job-stress ever in the UK in 2008.
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Research areasJob-stress in the public sector
Job-stress in the banking & finance sector When & how job-stress should be reported
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