ABSTRACT

Participation is generally recommended when implementing organisational interventions, however, understanding how participation works remains understudied. In a cluster-randomised, controlled intervention employing a wait-list control design, we explore whether perceptions of individual or collective participation had the greatest impact on a participatory organisational intervention’s outcomes; work engagement and burnout. We conducted the study in the Danish postal service (N = 330). Using multi-level analyses, we found that perceptions of individual participation predicted improvements in work engagement and reductions in burnout post-intervention, however, these relationships became non-significant after including perceptions of being part of a collective participatory process in the model. Our findings add to the understanding of the role participation and in particular, perceptions of a collective participatory intervention process, plays in ensuring interventions achieve their intended outcomes.

摘要

在实施组织干预时，通常建议参与，但是，对参与如何运作的理解仍未得到充分研究。在采用候补名单控制设计的整群随机控制干预中，我们探讨了个人或集体参与的看法是否对参与式组织干预的结果影响最大；工作投入和倦怠。我们在丹麦邮政服务 ( N = 330）。使用多层次分析，我们发现个人参与的看法预测了工作投入的改善和干预后倦怠的减少，然而，在模型中包含作为集体参与过程的一部分的看法后，这些关系变得不显着。我们的研究结果增加了对参与角色的理解，特别是对集体参与式干预过程的看法，在确保干预达到预期结果方面发挥了作用。