Senior managers’ mental models: Perceptions of mental health and organizational mental health intervention strategies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RPfyNvYwbj" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=RPfyNvYwbj</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJWHM-07-2023-0087" target="_blank" >10.1108/IJWHM-07-2023-0087</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Senior managers’ mental models: Perceptions of mental health and organizational mental health intervention strategies

Original language description

PurposeThis study aimed to explore senior managers&apos; mental models regarding perceptions of mental health and how these perceptions might inform intervention strategies.Design/methodology/approachThe study is part of a broader European project aiming to design, develop, implement and validate assessment, intervention and evaluation toolkits to promote mental health in the workplace across Europe. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews were conducted among senior managers as part of a needs analysis in small-to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and public workplaces in four European countries (Italy, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany) in 2020 and 2021.FindingsThe results showed that the interviewed senior managers had two different mental models regarding their perception of mental health, which differed with respect to the conceptualization and thereby their perception of strategies for organizational interventions for improving mental health and well-being. The individual-centric mental model is focused on problem solving and treatment of mental illness at only the individual level. The holistic multilevel mental model is focused on mental illness as well as mental health and well-being at multiple levels of the organization through prevention and promotion strategies. The senior managers&apos; mental models seem to inform their perceptions of suitable strategies for organizational interventions for improving mental health and well-being.Originality/valueThe study supports previous calls for more research on how senior managers&apos; perception of mental health inform their strategies when planning for organizational interventions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Workplace Health Management

ISSN

1753-8351

e-ISSN

1753-836X

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

42-63

UT code for WoS article

001366036900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85210480211