Análisis de las condiciones del clima laboral y su posible relación en los niveles de estrés en el personal de enfermería del área de cirugía en la Fundación Cardioinfantil 2013-2014

Abstract

This study will take into account the organizational climate definition of Méndez, (2006) which refers to the organizational climate as the organization's own environment, produced and perceived by the individual according to the conditions found in the process of social interaction and in the organizational structure expressed by variables (objectives, motivation, leadership, control, decision making, interpersonal relationships and cooperation). Since Hans, 1956 (cited by Sierra, Jaime and Medina, 2005) introduced in the field of health the term "stress", this has become one of the most used words, both by professionals from different areas of health, as in colloquial language. From this time to the present, literature shows a great wealth of conceptualization and studies, based on the general definition proposed by Seyle (1968), who presents it as a general response of the organism to any stimulus or stressful situation. In the labor context, this has not been the exception, finding definitions that range from the one posed by Lazarus and Folkman (1986, cited by Davis and Newstrom, 1999), who affirm that the stress process is cognitive, since the individual continually submits each vital event to an evaluation process that results in personal meaning, as well as the assessment of the resources and coping options available, up to the definition proposed by Davis and Newstrom (1999), who defines it as a generic term that it applies to the pressures that people experience in life. Robbins (1999, cited by Sierra, 2005), for its part, groups stress agents in labor contexts as environmental, individual, group, organizational and social. Therefore, this document aims to find direct or indirect relationships between the organizational climate as a condition of work stress in a cohort of workers of the Fundación Cardioinfantil.