Work environment as assessed by medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
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The period of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the management of the work environment of organizations representing all sectors of the economy and social life. In relation to entities employing medical workers, this impact was particularly noticeable. The study, carried out by the research team of the Faculty of Management of the Częstochowa University of Technology in the first year of the pandemic, was aimed at finding out the opinions of medical workers on their functioning during this crisis time.
The aim of the article is to learn about the general regularities occurring in the work environment of medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The research results revealed that the respondents' opinions about the work environment were most significantly influenced by management issues and not the socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents or organizational units. Moreover, the use of the statistical method of cluster analysis allowed us to distinguish five types of work environment, which include: satisfactory, non-singular, negative, unstable and bureaucratic work environment.
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