| Title |
Author/s & Year |
Findings |
| 1. A narrative review on the effect of economic downturns on the nursing labour market: implications for policy and planning. |
Alameddine et al., 2012 |
In health sector workplaces downsizing have negative public health impacts. |
| 2. Perceived Effects of Organizational Downsizing and Staff Cuts on the Stress Experience: The Role of Resources. |
Boyd et al., 2013 |
A safe psychological climate may lessen the negative effects. |
| 3. Struggling to adapt: caring for older persons while under threat of organizational change and termination notice. |
Fläckman et al., 2009 |
In health sector workplaces downsizing have negative public health impacts. |
| 4. The Impact of Organizational Changes on Work Stress, Sleep, Recovery and Health. |
Greubel & Kecklund, 2010 |
Poor sleep, sleepiness and incomplete recovery increased with downsizing and the anticipation of changes. |
| 5. Interventions that facilitate sustainable jobs and have a positive impact on workers’ health: an overview of systematic reviews. |
Haby et al., 2016 |
Flexible arrangements centered on the worker may lessen the negative effects. |
| 6. Employees’ drug purchases before and after organizational downsizing: a natural experiment on the Norwegian working population (2004–2012). |
Kasperson et al., 2017 |
Downsizing increased consumption of medicines. |
| 7. (Dis)placing trust: The long-term effects of job displacement on generalised trust over the adult lifecourse. |
Laurence, 2011 |
Downsizing undermines social trust. |
| 8. Demand, control and social climate as predictors of emotional exhaustion symptoms in working Swedish men and women. |
Linda et al., 2008 |
Downsizing could predict emotional exhaustion or burnout. |
| 9. Job insecurity during recessions: effects on survivors’ work stress. |
Modrek & Cullen, 2013 |
Downsizing led to persistent work stress. Increased work stress leads to adverse health outcomes. |
| 10. Evidence that brief self-affirming implementation intentions can reduce work-related anxiety in downsize survivors. |
Morgan & Harris, 2015 |
Brief psychological interventions may lessen the negative effects. |
| 11. “It depends on us”: Employee perspective of healthy working conditions during continual reorganizations in a radiology department. |
Nilsson et al., 2009 |
Mutual trust and work-confidence and respect balancing the negative effects of downsizing |
| 12. Organisational restructuring/downsizing, OHS regulation and worker health and wellbeing. |
Quinlan, 2007 |
Downsizing increase the risk of work-related injury, occupational violence, cardiovascular disease and psychological distress/mental illness. |
| 13. Overstretched and Unreciprocated Commitment: Reviewing Research on the Occupational Health and Safety Effects of Downsizing and Job Insecurity. |
Quinlan & Bohle, 2009 |
Poor outcomes of the occupational healthand safety (OHS) in the past 20 years. |
| 14. Long-term impact of role stress and cognitive rumination upon morning and evening saliva cortisol secretion. |
Rydsted et al., 2011 |
Stress-induced disturbances of endocrine system that have been related to disease. |
| 15. Sickness and sickness absence of remaining employees in a time of economic crisis: A study among employees of municipalities in Iceland. |
Sigursteinsdóttir & Rafnsdóttir, 2015 |
Employees of downsized workplaces were more likely to be sick. |
| 16. Mortality Patterns following Downsizing at Pan American World Airways. |
Steenland & Pinkerton, 2007 |
No significant increase in overall mortality attributable to downsizing. |
| 17. Work-Related Psychosocial and Organizational Risk Factors for Headache. |
Tynes et al., 2013 |
Downsizing more than doubled the risk of headache. |
| 18 Perceived job insecurity as a risk factor for incident coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis. |
Virtanen et al., 2013 |
A modest association between perceived job insecurity and incident coronary heart disease. |
| 19. Occupational musculoskeletal and mental health: Significance of rationalization and opportunities to create sustainable production system – A systematic review. |
Westgaard & Winkel, 2011 |
Anticipation of job loss or dismissal is associated with negative health effects. The participation of the workers may lessen the negative effects. |
