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A total of 2969 hospital employees from 162 wards participated in a 2-year follow-up study that examined the relationship between job decision latitude, organizational justice and employee health in Finland. We used medically certified sickness absence records as indicators of health problems. Multilevel covariance structure analysis was applied to take into account the hierarchical nature of the data. Responses from individuals within work units seem not always to be independent, and any models that ignore this lack of independence may incorrectly estimate the between individual relationships. Our results suggest that both job decision latitude and organizational justice varied considerably between work units in addition to individual level variation. Furthermore job decision latitude was associated with organizational justice both at individual and work unit level. Justice evaluations predicted sickness absence only at the individual level. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author(s): Elovainio M, Kivimaki M, Steen N, Vahtera J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Social Science and Medicine
Year: 2004
Volume: 58
Issue: 9
Pages: 1659-1669
ISSN (print): 0277-9536
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5347
Publisher: Pergamon
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00366-6
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00366-6
PubMed id: 14990368
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