Effort-Reward imbalance in a company in sector during the SARS CoV2 health emergency / Desequilibrio Esfuerzo-Recompensa en una empresa del sector esencial durante la Emergencia Sanitaria

Resumen

Introduction: During the contingency, in Mexico, some economic activities during this emergency did not stop work activities because they belonged to essential branches; therefore, these activities require greater demand from workers.

Methods: For this descriptive research, 128 workers were studied in a company of essential branch in which the Siegrist Effort-Reward Imbalance (ERI) questionnaire was applied, evaluating the effort-reward and over-involvement as well as; the level of stress presented by the workers was also evaluated.

Results: An effort-reward imbalance was perceived in operative workers, the administrative personnel did not present an imbalance concerning their task. The level of stress was present in 79% of operative and operative-administrative workers; 21% of administrative personnel were in a pre-stress state.

Conclusions: The preventive measures for workers in administrative operational areas, for those individuals under stress, are: to reduce the work pace and accumulation of work, prioritize the most important tasks, in the same way, to implement activities that involve physical activity outdoors, provide psychological support services; as well as to increase the reward.