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Juggling on a tightrope: Experiences of small and micro business managers responding to employees with mental health difficulties
International Small Business Journal: Researching Entrepreneurship ( IF 6.413 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 , DOI: 10.1177/02662426221084252
Jane Suter, Annie Irvine, Carole Howorth

This article presents findings from an in-depth qualitative study focused exclusively on the first-hand experiences of small and micro businesses managers who have responded to employees with mental health difficulties. Despite growing policy focus on workplace mental health, empirical research evidence on management experiences of responding to mental health issues in a small or micro business context is rare. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 21 UK-based small and micro business managers who described 45 individual employee cases, we examine how managers traverse a support-performance continuum, and use a tension-based lens to analyse the tensions that managers experienced. We examine three key tensions for small and micro business managers that surfaced when responding to employees with mental health problems: (1) Individual vs Collective; (2) Confidence vs Caution; (3) Informal vs Formal. Our analysis exposes how managers handle tensions when managing at the nexus of support and performance and contributes a deeper understanding of the dynamics and challenges of managing mental health problems in small and micro businesses.



中文翻译:

走钢丝:小微企业管理者应对心理健康困难员工的经验

本文介绍了一项深入的定性研究的结果,该研究专门针对小微企业管理者对心理健康困难员工做出反应的第一手经验。尽管政策越来越关注工作场所的心理健康,但关于在小型或微型企业环境中应对心理健康问题的管理经验的实证研究证据很少。通过对 21 位英国小型和微型企业经理的深入访谈,他们描述了 45 个员工个人案例,我们研究了经理们如何跨越支持绩效连续体,并使用基于张力的镜头来分析经理们所经历的压力。我们研究了小微企业经理在应对有心理健康问题的员工时出现的三个主要矛盾:(1)个人与集体;(2) 信心与谨慎;(3) 非正式与正式。我们的分析揭示了管理者在管理支持和绩效的关系时如何处理紧张局势,并有助于更深入地了解小微企业管理心理健康问题的动态和挑战。

更新日期:2022-04-23
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