Elucidation of the stress of employees entrusted with vague, unexpected tasks and the alleviation of such stress

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530448
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: IWATA ittetsu 弘前大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (70345859)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KONO Ryoji 長野大学, 企業情報学部, 准教授 (30350424)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 過労自殺 / ストレス / 役割葛藤

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The author analyzed the relation between depression, which leads to overwork-triggered suicide, and work-related factors based on a questionnaire survey, and discussed the factors that cause depression. As a result, it was found that the main factors are role conflict, which emerges when an employee takes roles entrusted by many people, and role ambiguity, which indicates that an employee cannot understand which roles he/she should take at his/her workplace. Another main factor is the personality of maintaining interpersonal relationships. Meanwhile, the effects of overtime working hours were not observed, and so we should pay attention to the contents of work, rather than the shortening of working hours.
In addition, the details of vague, unexpected tasks were studied through the surveys by industrial cluster coordinators.

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