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The Wicked Character of Psychosocial Risks: Implications for Regulation
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Psychosocial risks constitute a significant problem in most workplaces, and they are generally considered more difficult to regulate than many other occupational health and safety risks. This article investigates the challenges of regulating psychosocial
Anne Helbo Jespersen +2 more
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Work Coordination as a Social Interaction Process in Nursing Staff Meetings
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Work coordination, which here refers to organizing, planning, discussing, and negotiating work, is done through social interaction. Because coordination is essential to work quality and well-being at work, it is important to understand the processes that
Eveliina Pennanen, Leena Mikkola
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The aim of this study was to compare the possibilities of experiencing positive well-being in call centers and other service sector work. The article focuses on the prevalence of working conditions (job demands, autonomy, and social support) in call ...
Armi Mustosmäki +2 more
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Coping With Moral Stress in the Swedish Public Services
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This paper examines how today’s public workers cope with moral stress in organizations where new public management reforms have been implemented. More specifically, the interest is focused on examining which practices are developed in order to fulfill ...
Elin Thunman
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Sorting Out Agencies in AI-supported Radiological Work Practices
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesThe article examines how narrow-task artificial intelligence (NT-AI) implementation reconfigures professional practice and agency in radiology departments.
Astrid Galsgaard, Anders Buch
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Managers’ psychosocial working conditions are important for managerial sustainability in the public sector. The job demands-resources (JD-R) model is a widely applied and well-recognized framework for measuring psychosocial working conditions.
Linda Corin, Lisa Björk
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Remote Work and the Psychosocial Work Environment: The Role of Contact
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesRemote work is fundamentally changing the organization of work, replacing the physical work environment of the office and creating a spatial distance between colleagues.
Mari Holm Ingelsrud +2 more
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Attending Weak Signals: The Prevention of Work-related Illnesses
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 This article examines the characteristics of communication among managers, human resource (HR) experts, and occupational health care specialists, as they deal with such informal information as weak signals in the prevention of work-related illnesses ...
Roy Liff +2 more
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Exploring the Concept of Integrity—Toward a CraftInspired Interpretation
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The concept of integrity is used as a psychosocial concept to describe tensions and dilemmas experienced by professional and semi-professional workers in a neoliberal working life.
Ole Jacob Thomassen +2 more
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Employees’ Conceptions of Coworkership in a Swedish Health Care Organization
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The concept of coworkership is widely established as a top-down communication strategy within organizations. However, interpretations may differ between organizational levels, and the employees’ point of view is still largely unexplored.
Caroline Bergman +3 more
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