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Table 3 Understanding cooperation

From: Work resumption at the price of distrust: a qualitative study on return to work legislation in the Netherlands

   

Year 1

Year 2

Motivationa

 

Employee

- (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ (1,2,3,6)

  

HR professional

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Abilitya

 

Employee

+ - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ - (1,2,3,6)

  

HR professional

+ - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Understanding motivation to cooperate

Experienced dependence on the other a

Employee

Goals: primary goal is medical recovery (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) / Resources: medical treatment (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), time without contact with employer (4,5) / Feelings of dependence on employer: - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Goals: primary aim is RTW (1,2,3,6) / Resources: intervention to find new job (1,2,6), modified or new work (3) / Dependence: + (1,2,3,6)

HR professional

Goals: primary aim is RTW (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) / Resources: information about employees’ RTW possibilities (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), effort from employees to achieve RTW (1,2,3,5,7) / Feelings of dependence on employee: + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Goals: primary aim is RTW (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) / Resources: information about employees’ RTW possibilities (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8) / Dependence: - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Perception of the otherb

Employee

+ (1,2,5), - (3,4,6,7,8)

+ (1,2), - (3,6)

 

HR professional

+ - (1,2,4,6,7,8), - (3,5)

+ - (7), - (1,2,3,4,5,6,8)

Legislationc

Employee

- (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Legislative reduction pay + (1,2,3,6)

 

HR professional

Feels responsible for meeting legislative requirements + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Distrust of the othera

Employee

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ - (1,2,3,6)

 

HR professional

- (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

 

Norms about the goalsd

Employee

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ (1,2,3,6)

HR professional

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

+ (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Understanding ability to cooperate

Legislationc

Employee

- (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

- (1,2,3,6)

 

HR professional

Legislation supports planning meetings + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

- (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Resourcese

Employee

Time to meet + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), knowledge of law + (1) / - (2,3,4,5,6,7,8) feeling well enough - (1,5,6)

Time to meet + (1,2,3,6), knowledge of decision discretion regarding RTW - (2,3,6)

  

HR professional

Time, place to meet + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), policy, budget + (1,2,3,4,8) / - (5,6,7), communicative skills - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), knowledge about information employers are allowed to ask employees for - (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)

Time, place to meet + (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8), communicative skills - (1,2,3,4,5,6,8), policy, budget + (1,2,3,4,8) / - (5,6,7)

  1. a + high, + - moderate, - low.
  2. b + positive, + - neutral, - negative.
  3. c + high degree of favourability, + - moderate favourability, - low favourability.
  4. d + norms about the timing of medical recovery and RTW are experienced.
  5. e + has resource, - lacks resource.