Academic Workload: quando il prof va in sovraccarico

[automatically translated] The assessment of work-related stress is probably one of the best occasions to promote the development of organizations towards a better balance between the objectives of those and welfare needs of the workers who live there. In Italy this opportunity for development, the implementation of the Decree. 81 of 2008, in fact, is struggling a bit 'to take shape, mainly because of a certain reluctance on the part of labor organizations, to want to deal with the so-called psychosocial risks that a thorough evaluation would allow to bring out clearly. There are many academics who in recent years have lent their scientific and professional contribution to the understanding of the methods through which prevent these risks in organizations: by good doctors do not cure themselves, however, little has been done to understand what psychosocial risks are exposed academics. This paper aims to address the issue of so-called Academic Workload (Houston, Paewai & Meyer, 2006), understood as a complex workload and individual responsibility that in recent years the research report to be greatly increased in our profession (Tight, 2010). In the assessment procedure put in place at the University of Palermo has decided to proceed without waiting for the outcome of the preliminary assessment, the in-depth evaluation, involving qualitative methodologies through a quota of workers and, through the administration of a questionnaire, the entire population. The survey respondents about 2/3 of the respondents, including 417 professors and researchers of the University. Among the scales used was inserted a measure Academic Workload (Boyd & Wylie, 1994), along with a few stairs of the Questionnaire On The Experience And Evaluation Of Work (vanVeldhoven & Meijman, 1994) and the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978 ). The results show a clear impact of the state of overload manifested by the teachers on the level of business involvement and general wellbeing. 1994) and the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978). The results show a clear impact of the state of overload manifested by the teachers on the level of business involvement and general wellbeing. 1994) and the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1978). The results show a clear impact of the state of overload manifested by the teachers on the level of business involvement and general wellbeing.