Intervention development and implementation: Understanding and addressing barriers to organizational-level interventions

This chapter summarizes recent evidence on the development and implementation of interventions to address psychosocial risk in the workplace, in particular outlining current understandings of barriers to organizational-level interventions and ways to overcome those barriers. This chapter and this book are premised on the need for organizational-level intervention to effectively manage workplace psychosocial risk. This premise is based on principles from relevant disciplines (e.g. public health, occupational health, health promotion, and organizational psychology (LaMontagne, Keegel, and Vallance, 2007) combined with empirical evidence from intervention research.