Dissertation Proposal: Impact of Workplace Factors on Mental Health

This dissertation proposal aims to evaluate the effect of communication issues, team incapability, workload, and organizational culture on mental health issues in the UK. The proposal outlines a literature-based study that will explore the contribution of stress, anxiety, and depression in the workplace to mental health problems, examining how these factors lead to employee absence, fines, compensation claims, and loss of income. The research strategy involves classifying the study into four chapters, focusing on stress as a public health issue, common workplace issues, work-related stress and mental health, and strategies for reducing stress levels at the workplace. The proposal details the data collection methods, sampling techniques, inclusion and exclusion criteria for literature selection, a timeline for the research, and ethical considerations to ensure the authenticity and integrity of the study. The ultimate goal is to provide insights that can inform the development of effective strategies for mitigating the negative impact of workplace stress on employees in the UK.

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Title
To evaluate the effect of communication issues, team incapability, workload and breeds
in relation to culture at workplace contribute the increase of mental health issues in the UK
Introduction:
The chief rationale of this research includes understanding the impact of communication
issues, workload and team incapability on the mental health of the healthcare providers in UK.
The term workplace stress can be defined as the response that individuals experience when
presented with excessive work pressure. According to Whitaker et al. (2015), excessive work
demand elicits work pressure which assumes a major form on account of lack of coordination,
knowledge and expertise of the professionals to handle their professional responsibilities. Over
the year, researchers have come up with various reasons that cause workplace stress (Jacobs et
al. 2014; Antonopoulou, Killian and Forrester 2017). The reasons include, poor work
organization, poor work design, communication issues, team incapability, excessive work load
and poor organizational culture. Excessive work stress has thus emerged out to be a matter of
serious concern in the world today. In this research, a literature review will be conducted the
structure of the literature review will be as follows:
 Chapter 1: Stress, anxiety and depression as public health issue
 Chapter 2: Common workplace issues that people may likely to come across
 Chapter 3: Work-related stress and mental health
 Chapter 4: Reducing stress level good practice
Aim and objectives

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The chief aim of the research is to evaluate the impact of lack of communication, workload as
well as work culture on mental issues at workplace in UK
The chief objectives of the research are as follows:
1. To explore the contribution of stress, anxiety as well as depression in the workplace on
mental health issues in UK, which is also, considered to be one of the public health issues
(Haque and Aston 2016).
2. To evaluate how stress, anxiety and depression lead to absence of employees, fines,
compensation claims as well as loss of income and eventually contributes to increased
poverty.
Rationale
According to Beehr (2014), in today’s world, about 45.6 percent of the physiological
health related issues take place due to workplace stress. Workplace stress, attitude as well as
stigma towards employees suffering from physiological illness as well as mental illness have
been researched and various interventions have been developed. However, mental stress of the
health care providers has still remained a neglected aspect across various countries, including
UK and only a few learnings have been implemented in reality (Cooper 2018; Haque and Aston
2016). Through this research, the researcher will conduct an in depth analysis about the effect of
communication issues, team incapability and workload stress that breeds disrespect when it
comes to healthy organizational culture at workplace and contribute to the increase in the mental
health issues within UK. This in turn will help the future researcher to develop effective
strategies for diminishing the negative impact of work stress among the employees of UK and
thus help them to balance their professional and personal life in a better and an effective manner.

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Method
Data collection
Considering the fact that a literature based study will be conducted for this research,
secondary data will be collected. Secondary data refers to the information that is collected
through newspaper, magazines, journals, books as well as online portals. For this research review
of scholarly articles that are relevant to the research issue that is the effect of communication
issues, team incapability, workload and breeds disrespect in relation to culture at workplace
contribute the increase of mental health issues in the UK, will be conducted.
Research strategy
The research will be classified in 4 chapters in order to conduct an in depth analysis of
the research issue. While searching for the research papers, research papers that have focused on
stress, anxiety as well as depression as a public health issue will be focused on for Chapter1.
This will provide the researcher with the factors that triggers stress, anxiety and depression, the
effect of the same on the health and major mental as well as physical health issues associated
with stress, anxiety and depression. For chapter 2, research paper focused on Common
workplace issues that employees face in UK will be selected. This may include, communication
issue at workplace, team incompetency, workload, discrimination, job dissatisfaction as well as
interpersonal conflict. In Chapter 3, the researcher will chiefly focus on Work-related stress and
mental health. Research paper that are focused on the impact of stress anxiety and depression on
business and economic growth, the effect of workplace environment on worker’s psychological
health and productivity and the importance of healthy workplace on workforce will be chosen.

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Finally, in Chapter 4, reevent articles focused on reducing stress level at workplace will be
focused on.
Sampling
In order to conduct the research, 30 literatures that is relevant to the research topic will be
selected. For this research paper, only the literatures that are relevant to the research issue that is,
the effect of communication issues, team incapability, workload and breeds disrespect in relation
to culture at workplace contribute the increase of mental health issues in the UK, will be
selected.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for search strategy
Inclusion Criteria Exclusion criteria
 Journals that have been published
within the last 10 years will be selected.
 All the research paper that will be
selected for this study will be peer
reviewed.
 All the relevant articles that will be
selected has to be written in English
language only (Taylor, Bogdan and
DeVault 2015)
 All the literatures that will be selected
for reviewing must be highly relevant
 Papers that were established before 10
years will be excluded
 Non-reviewed articles will be excluded
 Articles that are written in any
languages other than English will be
excluded.

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to the research topic that is the impact
of workplace stress on the employees of
UK.
Time scale
1-2 weeks 1-3 weeks 1-2 weeks 1-2 weeks 2-4 weeks 1-2
weeks
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weeks
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Selection of
research
issue
Conducting
research
proposal
Proposal
approval
Literature
review
Data
analysis
Writing the
first draft
Final
submission

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Ethics
While conducting the research, the researcher will follow all ethical considerations in
order to ensure the authenticity of the research. Ethics associated with research is defined as the
norms and standards for conduct that distinguishes right from wrong. They help the researcher to
determine the difference between unacceptable as well as acceptable behaviours (Silverman,
2016). While conducting the research, the researcher will strictly prevent any falsifying as well
as fabrication of the data and therefore promote the pursuit of knowledge and truth which is the
chief and primary goal of this research paper.

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Reference list
Antonopoulou, P., Killian, M. and Forrester, D., 2017. Levels of stress and anxiety in child and
family social work: Workers' perceptions of organizational structure, professional support and
workplace opportunities in Children's Services in the UK. Children and Youth Services
Review, 76, pp.42-50.
Beehr, T.A., 2014. Psychological stress in the workplace (psychology revivals). Routledge.
Cooper, C.L. ed., 2018. Managerial, occupational and organizational stress research.
Routledge.
Haque, A.U. and Aston, J., 2016. A relationship between occupational stress and organisational
commitment of IT sector’s employees in contrasting economies. Polish Journal of Management
Studies, 14(1), pp.95-105.
Jacobs, S., Hassell, K., Ashcroft, D., Johnson, S. and O’Connor, E., 2014. Workplace stress in
community pharmacies in England: associations with individual, organizational and job
characteristics. Journal of health services research & policy, 19(1), pp.27-33.
Silverman, D. ed., 2016. Qualitative research. Sage.
Whitaker, R.C., Dearth-Wesley, T. and Gooze, R.A., 2015. Workplace stress and the quality of
teacher–children relationships in Head Start. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 30, pp.57-69.
Wright, K., 2014. Alleviating stress in the workplace: advice for nurses. Nursing
standard, 28(20).

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Taylor, S.J., Bogdan, R. and DeVault, M., 2015. Introduction to qualitative research methods: A
guidebook and resource. John Wiley & Sons.