Journal article
Associations Between Organizational Culture, Workplace Health Climate, and Employee Smoking at Smaller Workplaces
Tobacco use insights, Vol.12, pp.1179173X19835842-1179173X19835842
2019
DOI: 10.1177/1179173X19835842
PMCID: PMC6421609
PMID: 30906195
Abstract
Smaller workplaces frequently employ low-wage earners, who have higher smoking rates. Organizational culture and workplace health climate are two characteristics that could influence employee smoking. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between organizational culture, workplace health climate, and smoking among employees at small (20-99 employees) and very small (<20 employees) workplaces. We proposed the following hypotheses: a stronger clan culture will be associated with a better workplace health climate (HP1); a better workplace health climate will be associated with lower odds of current smoking (HP2); and there will be an association between workplace health climate and smoking intensity (HP3) and between workplace health climate and quit intention (HP4).
Executives and employees completed separate online questionnaires. Data collection occurred between June and October 2017. We used regression and Fisher's exact tests to answer study hypotheses.
Workplaces with stronger clan cultures had a better workplace health climate (b = 0.27,
< .05), providing support for HP1. A better workplace health climate was associated with lower odds of being a current smoker (odds ratio [OR] = 0.08; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.01, 0.53), providing support for HP2. No significant relationship existed between workplace health climate and smoking intensity (
= .50) or between workplace health climate and intention to quit smoking (
= .32); therefore, HP3 and HP4 were not supported.
Certain culture types may inform an organization's health climate. Despite a lower likelihood of current smoking in workplaces with better health climates, a better health climate may not be sufficient to produce changes in smoking behavior and intentions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Associations Between Organizational Culture, Workplace Health Climate, and Employee Smoking at Smaller Workplaces
- Creators
- Christine M Kava - Health Promotion Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USAEdith A Parker - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USABarbara Baquero - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USASusan J Curry - Department of Health Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAPaul A Gilbert - Department of Community and Behavioral Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USAMichael Sauder - Department of Sociology, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USADaniel K Sewell - Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Tobacco use insights, Vol.12, pp.1179173X19835842-1179173X19835842
- DOI
- 10.1177/1179173X19835842
- PMID
- 30906195
- PMCID
- PMC6421609
- NLM abbreviation
- Tob Use Insights
- ISSN
- 1179-173X
- eISSN
- 1179-173X
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- P30 CA086862 / NCI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2019
- Academic Unit
- Public Health Administration; Sociology and Criminology; Health Management and Policy; Biostatistics; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984063125302771
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