2010 Volume 3 Issue 2 Pages 111-118
Objective: Although numerous corporations have mental health management, there is no clear association between those mental health management and the work outcomes of sick-listed employees. The present study investigated the association between implementation of corporate management and work outcomes.
Methods: A questionnaire was sent to 10,000 randomly selected corporations, and 1,361 (13.6%) responses were received. After excluding invalid responses, 171 of these were subjected to analysis. The number of full-time workers, implementation of corporate management, and the number of incidences of each work outcome (sickness absence, employee attrition, relapse, and return to work) were collected and analyzed using logistic regression.
Results: There were six to 12 significant positive associations observed between corporate management and each work outcome, and three to five of these remained after adjusting for company size.
Discussion: Relatively higher proportions of sickness absence, employee attrition, and relapse were observed in corporations which implemented mental health management. This does not necessarily mean, however, that implementation of mental health management leads to the occurrence of mental health problems. Rather, it is appropriate to interpret these associations as reflecting the reality that employees in each work outcome category tend to be identified more readily in corporations which implement mental health management.
