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Work place interventions 1

Work place interventions 5

Work place interventions

Desmond Graham

Grantham University

Introduction

An intervention is defined as the act or process of intervening in a process or affairs. An intervention involves intentional involvement in regards to a difficult situation with the sole aim of improving and/or preventing the situation from getting out of hand/control (Xu, Mishra & Jones, 2017). An intervention therefore broadly refers to any form of program, communication, and/or event that is intended to improve personal as well as organizational performance, therefore improving productivity and service delivery.

Interventions at individual and work levels

Interventions in the personal/individual, workgroup, department, as well as divisional levels, are mainly aimed to prevent individuals as well as teams from burnout, emotional fatigue as well as underperformance. Interventions including prioritization of tasks in the work and departmental levels aim at reducing the amount of work and time wasted on unimportant work with preference to important work (Rydenfält et al., 2020). The use of a dedicated and universally agreed-upon system to keep track of all work that needs to be done in the office environment. This will help define and monitor the office workload concerning their importance, for example, the use of a dedicated email system to send and define important workloads to their employees would be ideal in the work set up. Employees and individuals should be encouraged to work within their specialization zones to enhance productivity (Rydenfält et al., 2020). The division of labor and workload amongst the workforce is also ideal when it comes to interventions in the work environment. This ensures that important work is given priority while the rest is taken care of by the rest of the department.

The families of interventions

Interventions are classified into different classes popularly known as families, the families of interventions are particularly helpful when it comes to implementations in various organizations. The families of intervention include the following; information, consequences, design, capacity & capabilities, action, and congruence-focused families (Blade, 2021). Each of these families has different labels that help establish credibility as well as provides a platform where one can compare and select the appropriate intervention. For example, in the Information focused group, the various labels provided include interventions that inform activities that assist in communicating the goals, objectives, expectations as well as results (Blade, 2021). Also, include interventions that document to a great level of detail the activities that code information to preserve and make the information accessible as compared to consequences-focused groups whose family label includes interventions that help to enforce activities that actualize on the provided sequences and achieve compliance.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the best interventions that are suitable for client organization include action, design, and capacity & capabilities-focused families of intervention. Based on the client's wants, needs and preferences, the best interventions include the action-focused intervention that serves the activities that assist others as well as advocating for raising awareness and provoke action on a political and social scale. Design focused interventions design the activities that are easy to use and safe concerning the work-based environment as well as the appropriate working tools. The capacity & capabilities-focused interventions are specifically tailored to expand skills and knowledge, the intervention also assists individuals to deal with both work and personal issues single-handedly or on a collective scale.

References

Balde, M. D. (2021). Coverage of RMNCH interventions: more analysis is needed. The Lancet Global Health, 9(8), e1037-e1038.

Rydenfält, C., Holgersson, C., Östlund, B., Arvidsson, I., Johansson, G., & Persson, R. (2020). Picking low hanging fruit–A scoping review of work environment related interventions in the home care sector. Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 39(4), 223-237.

Xu, X., Mishra, G. D., & Jones, M. (2017). Evidence on multimorbidity from definition to intervention: an overview of systematic reviews. Aging research reviews, 37, 53-68.