Pandemic preparedness in shaping psychosocial working conditions – insights for occupational safety and health from a longitudinal mixed-methods study during the COVID-19 pandemic at six company sites of one organization in Germany
Our findings contribute to a contextualized understanding of how the design of good and sustainable working conditions ensuredwork ability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. They highlight the importance of pandemic preparedness in an organization's psychosocial work design to successfully manage challenging times. The derived learnings for organizational pandemic preparedness on a meso-, macro-, and micro-level are of lasting significance with a view to future global challenges in terms of the design of good psychosocial working conditions.
Authors
- Falko Papenfuss
- Jana Soeder (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2263-3012)
- Juliane Schwille‐Kiuntke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5224-4881)
- Anna T. Neunhöffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5898-6066)
- Anke Wagner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5053-1753)
- Andrea Wittich
- Esther Rind (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8200-4862)
- Monika A. Rieger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7855-3663)
- Christine Preiser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-6336)
Institutions
- Universitätsklinikum Tübingen (DE)
- University Children's Hospital Tübingen (DE)
- Association of Child Psychotherapists (GB)
- Robert Bosch (Germany) (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-08-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0328410
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.82
Funders
- Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg