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Psychosocial risks in the workplace result from the nature and organization of work, interpersonal relationships in the workplace and the balance of work and family life. We decided to conduct the research project to identify and assess the psychosocial risks in the sector of postal services in the Czech Republic. In cooperation with trade unions a special questionnaire with 25 items was prepared and administered to employees of the postal services in the Czech Republic from February to November 2020. To date, a preliminary analysis of 648 questionnaires was made. These results show some signs of the psychosocial work-related risks (verbal violence from clients, dissatisfaction with financial evaluation, shift work and poor quality and quantity of sleep) but also some positive findings (interesting work, use of skills, sufficient managerial appreciation, good health protection).
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Lipsova, V., Mrazova, K., Batrlova, K., Zonova, J., Brabec, R. (2022). Occupational Psychosocial Risks Identification and Assessment in the Czech Republic. In: Ahram, T., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V. IHIET 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 319. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85540-6_149
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