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feature of the workplace which helps with their everyday experiences of stress via mechanisms such as reducing
demands, and providing support should a particular experience become too stressful.
Results of the MSIT also presented ‘Role’ and ‘Control’ as further areas requiring improvement. Role, which
refers to the employee understanding of their role in the organisation and a lack of role conflict, was not found in
the qualitative phase as an area which required improvement when participants were asked about it. Similarly
Control, or the amount of say that individuals have within his/her work, was an area of psychosocial risk in the MSIT
but had no direct relationship from qualitative results.
10) Local Stress Theory
Among the included objectives of the presented thesis, the first was the design of a ‘Local Stress Theory’
based on the results of the mixed methodology analysis which can be applied to the population of Service 6.
Figure 20 therefore depicts the outcome of the local stress theory.
The design of this local stress theory was facilitated by the convergent mixed methods data analysis, as
demonstrated throughout Section 9 of this chapter. Quantitative and qualitative results which complimented
each other, presenting confirmatory research outcomes, become part of the either the ‘stressor’ or ‘buffer’,
depending upon whether each area was working well or needing improvement. Additionally, where there was no
potential for convergent outcomes (for example where the qualitative results described phenomena not measured
in the quantitative surveys), these areas were added to the stress theory also.
Those subjects presented as a ‘Stressor’ below represent the outcomes which were clearly found to require
improvement, whereas the ‘Buffer’ concepts relate to those working well. Throughout the Appreciative Inquiry