General Research Findings No. 10
Footnotes
1 'Scottish Executive' refers to all core departments, Scottish Executive Agencies and Associated Departments. For the purposes of this investigation, Communities Scotland is not included in the overall results, due to them having only recently become part of the Executive. However, results for Communities Scotland are available as a separate report.
2 Tackling work-related stress: A managers' guide to improving and maintaining employee health and well being. HSE Books, 2001
3 The Perspectives Database (developed by ORC International contains data for over 150 organisations, and is broken down into different industry specific sectors. The Scottish Executive is compared against the Government average, which includes organisations such as the DETR, DTI, DASA and the Cabinet Office.
4 This analysis explored whether there was a relationship the way individuals responded to the overall question ' I feel that pressure I experience at work is reasonable' and the way they answered other questions in the survey.
5 This examined groups of staff who were more stressed by demographic variables and the overall question
6 This aimed to link the output of the survey with other Human Resources measures (such as staff turnover and absenteeism rates), in order to examine correlations.