Chefers förutsättningar till stressförebyggande arbete : En intervjustudie i kommunal verksamhet

Sammanfattning: Abstract Fredriksson Malin (2019). Managers requirements for stress prevention - a qualitative study in municipal context. Project work in Health at work 15 credits, University of Gävle.  Stress is an increasing problem in Sweden and municipal organizations are workplaces where it´s common. The first line manager has an important role in stress prevention, but factors in the organizations might affect their possibility to focus on this problem.  The purpose of this study was to examine municipal first line managers experience of organizational requirements of stress prevention in the workplace and how to improve these requirements. Qualitative interviews were made with first line managers in a Swedish municipal organization and analyzed with Qualitative content analysis. The result revealed that the managers experiences was that the organization offered resources like education, social and organizational support from HR and occupational health service, policies and good structure in the occupational health work. Economic pressure, constant changes and structures in the organization that the manager cannot have an impact on, and the managers own workload were demands that made the work with stress prevention harder. Unclear structures in the information flow and lack of communication about stress is also factors that might affect stress prevention in the organization