Percentages of potential concerns and positive reasons for hiring, and multiple regression analyses between demographics, workplace characteristics, experiences with people with MHP, potential concerns regarding employees with MHP and dependent variables intention not to hire someone with current/past MHP
| | Yes (%) | Intention not to hire someone with current MHP | Intention not to hire someone with past MHP | ||
| Beta | 95% CI | Beta | 95% CI | ||
| Constant | |||||
| Age | 0.01 | (−0.00 to 0.01) | 0.00 | (−0.00 to 0.01) | |
| Gender (0=male) | −0.09 | (−0.26 to 0.08) | −0.20 | (−0.39 to –0.01) | |
| Education (0=high school degree or less) | 0.25 | (0.05 to 0.44) | 0.13 | (−0.09 to 0.35) | |
| Marital status (0=married) | −0.07 | (−0.23 to 0.09) | −0.08 | (−0.25 to 0.10) | |
| Company size | 0.00 | (0.00 to 0.00) | 0.00 | (0.00 to 0.00) | |
| Personal net monthly income | 0.00 | (0.00 to 0.00) | 0.00 | (0.00 to 0.00) | |
| Personally (have) had MHP (0=no) | −0.13 | (−0.34 to 0.08) | −0.41 | (−0.65 to –0.18) | |
| Knows someone outside work environment (0=no) | 0.09 | (−0.10 to 0.28) | −0.14 | (−0.34 to 0.07) | |
| Knows someone in work environment (0=no) | 0.15 | (−0.04 to 0.34) | 0.03 | (−0.18 to 0.24) | |
| Does not know anybody who has (had) MHP (0=no) | 0.24 | (−0.06 to 0.53) | 0.10 | (−0.22 to 0.43) | |
| What are your potential concerns, as a manager, about having an employee with MHP? (for each statement: 0=no, 1=yes) | |||||
| The employee cannot handle the work | 55.4% | 0.16 | (0.00 to 0.33) | −0.11 | (−0.29 to 0.07) |
| It will lead to long-term sickness absence | 43.1% | 0.39 | (0.23 to 0.55) | 0.19 | (0.01 to 0.37) |
| You cannot count on this employee | 41.3% | 0.41 | (0.23 to 0.58) | 0.21 | (0.02 to 0.41) |
| It will have a negative impact on the workplace atmosphere | 39.8% | 0.07 | (−0.11 to 0.24) | 0.05 | (−0.14 to 0.24) |
| I’m not sure how to help this employee | 39.3% | −0.01 | (−0.17 to 0.15) | −0.08 | (−0.26 to 0.10) |
| The employee will make mistakes | 33.8% | 0.07 | (−0.10 to 0.25) | 0.18 | (−0.02 to 0.37) |
| The employee poses a danger to him or herself or to others in the workplace | 31.5% | −0.05 | (−0.22 to 0.12) | −0.06 | (−0.25 to 0.13) |
| It will lead to conflicts | 30.4% | −0.16 | (−0.34 to 0.02) | −0.08 | (−0.28 to 0.12) |
| The employee will cause damage to relationships that are important to me/the organisation (such as company customers, or students at a school) | 27.0% | 0.13 | (−0.06 to 0.32) | 0.08 | (−0.13 to 0.29) |
| I need to take over his/her duties | 26.3% | 0.02 | (−0.16 to 0.21) | 0.09 | (−0.11 to 0.29) |
| I’m not sure how to deal with this employee | 19.2% | −0.06 | (−0.26 to 0.15) | 0.07 | (−0.16 to 0.30) |
| The employee has a lower work tempo | 15.3% | −0.13 | (−0.36 to 0.10) | −0.03 | (−0.28 to 0.22) |
| He/she can damage my or the organisation’s reputation | 11.7% | −0.03 | (−0.29 to 0.24) | −0.05 | (−0.34 to 0.25) |
| Talking about the problems will take up a lot of the other employees’ time | 11.7% | 0.19 | (−0.57 to 0.44) | 0.06 | (−0.22 to 0.34) |
| I don’t feel like talking about the employee’s personal problems | 4.1% | −0.06 | (−0.46 to 0.34) | 0.03 | (−0.41 to 0.47) |
| Something else | 1.3% | ||||
| What could be positive reasons for you to hire a job applicant while knowing that he/she has significant MHP? (for each statement: 0=no, 1=yes) | |||||
| If I think that the applicant will do a good job | 75.1% | −0.09 | (−0.27 to 0.09) | −0.36 | (−0.56 to –0.16) |
| If the applicant has relevant work experience | 41.3% | −0.15 | (−0.31 to 0.00) | −0.16 | (−0.33 to 0.01) |
| If there is no financial risk involved, for instance through a wage subsidy | 28.9% | 0.07 | (−0.10 to 0.24) | 0.02 | (−0.17 to 0.21) |
| If someone I like recommends this applicant to me | 14.8% | −0.03 | (−0.24 to 0.19) | −0.07 | (−0.31 to 0.17) |
| Because I am in favour of diversity and/or inclusive enterprise, out of principle | 13.0% | −0.64 | (−0.87 to –0.41) | −0.29 | (−0.54 to –0.04) |
| If I like the applicant as a person | 11.9% | 0.03 | (−0.21 to 0.27) | 0.14 | (−0.13 to 0.40) |
| Something else | 1.3% | ||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.187 | 0.103 | |||
A higher beta (β) on the dependent variable means a lower intention to hire someone with current/past MHP.
Bold values are significant with p < 0.05.
MHP, mental health problem.