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The physical work environment and employee perceived health and wellbeing [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis investigated the impact of the physical work environment on health and wellbeing as perceived by employees. Utilising a mixed method approach the research developed a new model of environmental satisfaction that highlighted the central role of occupational wellbeing and its relationship to employee perceived performance and productivity ...
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Safeguarding Health at the Workplace: A Study of Work Engagement, Authenticity and Subjective Wellbeing among Religious Workers [PDF]
, 2019 : Research in work and organizational psychology has paid little attention to religious workers, something certainly surprising as faith-based organizations play a key role in the welfare state of many countries.
Ariza Montes, José Antonio +3 more
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Increased Participation Among Cleaners as a Strategy to Improve Quality and Occupational Health
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Like many other industries, today the cleaning industry is affected more than ever by competition and pressure toward low prices, which leads to a nonadvantageous situation for cleaners. These days many Swedish municipalities choose to outsource cleaning
Therese Öhrling
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Influence at Work tied to Materiality in Danish Care Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021 Influence at work is known to be an important factor for workers health. Researchers have called for studies on influence at work as a contextualized phenomenon.
Peter Aske Svendsen +4 more
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Precarious Employment Relations as a Factor of Social Pollution [PDF]
, 2016 The paper discusses the assessment of precarious employment relations as one of the systemic factors of social pollution. The social pollution phenomenon in employment relations is caused by employers who use a strategy for the reduction of labour costs ...
Dvorakova, Z. +2 more
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Globalization and Job Insecurity in Danish Firms: A Multilevel Study
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 Globalization is on the agenda as a cause of job insecurity, but knowledge regarding the relationship between globalization, management practices, and employee job insecurity is in fact limited. This study aims to investigate this multilevel association,
Sabine Raeder +8 more
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Beyond Planning: The Implementation of a Worksite Health Promotional Scheme
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aim of this article is to provide insight into how the presence of diverging organizational logics influences the outcome of worksite health promotion projects. The study is based on a one-year qualitative single-case study of the implementation of a
Thor Christian Bjørnstad +1 more
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Evaluation of Lifelong Work Satisfaction among Former Postal Service Workers
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020 While policymakers emphasize the need to delay retirement age, numerous traditional industries, among them postal services, emphasize the need for employee downsizings. These can be contradictory needs. Downsizings can reduce work life satisfaction (WLS)
Miira Niska +8 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Certified occupational health and safety (OHS) management systems have become a global instrument in regulation of the work environment. However, their actual impact on OHS—in particular on softer psychosocial issues in the work environment—has been ...
Pernille Hohnen +3 more
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Maori family culture: a context of youth development in Counties/Manukau [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reports on a study designed to bring the voices of young people directly into the social science literature on environmental influences on wellbeing.
Edwards, Shane +2 more
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