Impact of Night Shifts on Health and Wellbeing of NZ Employees

This research project investigates the impact of night shifts on the health and wellbeing of employees in a New Zealand organization, Oji Fiber. The study aims to determine the adverse effects of frequent night shifts on employee health. Data collection involves surveys distributed to 50 employees and interviews with 5 managers, employing random probability and convenience sampling methods. Ethical considerations are paramount, ensuring confidentiality, informed consent, and the avoidance of any commercial benefits. The research adheres to ethical principles, including protecting participant data and respecting their autonomy, while also considering the application of existing research for future studies. The project utilizes existing research aspects, facilitating new theories and concepts, thus ensuring integrity, ethicality, validity, and reliability throughout the research process. The research is designed to contribute to a deeper understanding of workplace health issues related to night shift work and provides insights into how organizations can improve employee wellbeing.

Name of Course and Level (e.g. "Level 5" or "2nd year of degree")
Researcher(s) Name – all group members must be named
Faculty
Title of Research Project: Impact of night shifts on the health and wellbeing of the
employees of an organisation
Brief description of project
The aim of the project is to determine the impacts that have been caused on the employee
health due to the high occurrence of attending night shifts within the workplace
The research will be carried out in New Zealand, which can ensure determining the
condition of New Zealand workplace and also about the night shifts, which have
impacted the health and wellbeing of the employees largely. The research will be done in
one of the workplace of organisation named Oji Fiber in New Zealand.
Who will be the participants?
The participants of the research are actually considered as the research samples, who
have been taken into consideration for the collection of data and information, required to
be analysed and interpreted for drawing positive outcomes. The participants are the
employees of Oji Fiber who have been doing night shifts. Few of the managers are also
considered as the respondents from whom necessary data and information have been
derived based on their responses.
The participants of the research are 50 employees of the organisation, i.e., Oji Fiber and
5 managers of the organisation (Dembe & Yao, 2016).
Methods
The survey process is done with the help of distributing the survey questionnaires to the
respondents, based on which, their responses and opinions were considered as
quantitative data. This has been done with the consideration of random probability
sampling method whereas the non-probability convenience sampling technique helped in
conducting interviews with the managers, who provided their valuable responses,
opinions and feedbacks regarding the impact of night shifts on the employee health.
Industries or groups who will be contacted or involved (even if they will not be
participants).
The 50 employees are to be considered as samples while ding the survey process and to
these individuals, the survey questionnaires are to be distributed. The information and
data of the participants of research are to be kept confidential for preventing any kinds of
unauthorised access, furthermore, prevent loss of confidential data and information too
for maintaining confidentiality, ethicality and business values too.
Ethical considerations.
The ethical principles are managed here with the consideration of human participants and
thus those, who have been considered during the survey process, all their personal

information and data have been kept confidential and private. This would be possible by
storing the data and information in databases to prevent unauthorised access and
maintain confidentiality. The informed consent has been managed by allowing the
employees with freedom to gain knowledge about the purpose of research and the
researcher made sure to instruct them as well. Due to this, they would be aware of the
research’s academic purposes and it has not been done for gaining any commercial
benefits (Frei & Grund, 2017). Moreover, none of the respondents have been pressurised
to take part in the research and it was considered not to create any major negative impact
on the physical or external environment too.
To ensure furthermore, the ethical principles, there is also need to use the existing
research aspects and determine new research aspects, thereby, faciliatte the scope for
futher research too. By managaing the ethical principles, aligned with the kaupapa maori
protocols, the existing infromation and data would be much easier to access and thus
new theories and cocnepts would arise, which should benefit the research and ensure
integrity, ethicality, validity and reliabaility all throughout the research.
Prior training and/or experience in research (including class sessions)
Supervisor's Name and Signature
Contact person name and email address.
(If submitting a group proposal, nominate one person to receive email about the project.)

References
Dembe, A. E., & Yao, X. (2016). Chronic disease risks from exposure to long-hour work
schedules over a 32-year period. Journal of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine, 58(9), 861-867.
Frei, I., & Grund, C. (2017). Antecedents of Overtime Work: The Case of Junior Academics.