Betydelsen av ledarskap och arbetsklimat samt stresshantering för känslan av sammanhang på arbetsplatsen

The study was performed to investigate, from a salutogenetic perspective, what influences peoples perception of well-being and their work related sense of coherence. In the study a questionnaire was distributed to 120 employees in a hospital. The questionnaire consisted of The work related sense of coherence (WSOC), The Change-, production- and employee-centered ledership (CPE), The Organisational climate questionnaire (GEFA), The Copenhagen burnout inventory (CBI) and a stressmanagment question-naire (Coping scale). A total of 63 questionnaires were returned. The result indicated that the organizational climate was quite innovative; the employee-centered leadership style was the most obvious. The nurses and the employees that was working daytime shift had a higher level of WSOC than the assistant nurses and the employees that worked at night. The participants WSOC were mainly influenced by the organisational climate (p < .05) and the absence of physical stress (p = 0,04). Keywords: Salutogenesis, Workrelated sense of coherence, Leadership style, Organiza-tional climate, Stress, Coping.