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Adapting ‘The Normal’ – Examining Relations between Youth, Risk and Accidents at Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 People between 18 and 24 years of age are more exposed to accidents at work than anyone else. This article examines how safety is experienced and practiced among young employees.
Mette Lykke Nielsen
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Welfare Technologies in Care Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 Welfare technologies have within the last few years become a new mantra for reforming the Nordic public health and social care, and are increasingly making their impact on working life of care professionals. Welfare technologies – a term exclusively used
Annette Kamp +2 more
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Meaningfulness in the Work of Language Professionals
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022 This qualitative study explores the changes that a specific group of knowledge workers – language professionals in Finland – have undergone in their work and how they perceive the meaningfulness of their work as a result.
Jenni Virtaluoto, Satu Selkälä
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The Performance Appraisal Interview – An Arena for the Reinforcement of Norms for Employeeship
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2011 In the present paper, we report findings from a study of performance appraisal interviews between middle managers and employees. The study is based on analysis of video uptake of authentic performance appraisal interviews, and through detailed ...
Erica Sandlund +4 more
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Work Organization and Professionalization in New Media Industry – The Case of a Finnish Company
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The article explores work organization in one new media company in a turning point of the business, in the 2000s. The company had changed from a small workshop to a medium-sized company in a few years.
Arja Haapakorpi
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Welfare Professions in Transition
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Welfare professions constitute one of the backbones in the development of the Nordic welfare states. Working in the public sector was for decades associated with high status; public sector employees were trusted employees.
Annette Kamp
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The implicit meaning of British fashion into English culture identity
The Research Journal of the Costume Culture, 2013 The modern fashion was developed the basis on the western dress structure and its historical flow was continued until today. Particularly, the Britain has coexised the unique cultural identity in the aristocratic high culture and rebellious tendency of the subculture so it is necessary to the consideration about whole culture in order to grasp the ...
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Identity Construction Among School Superintendents in Sweden: A Study of Educational Leadership
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesThe study explores how Swedish school superintendents form their professional identities while navigating the dual demands of managerial and educational leadership.
Joakim Krantz
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Understanding identity in the thought of Charles Taylor and Dariush Shayegan [PDF]
رهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللیExtended AbstractIntroduction: What is identity? Concisely, identity tells us who we are and creates a connection between the past, present, and future; and it has a meaningful characteristic. Identity is one of the centric and yet controversial concepts
Meysam Nazari +1 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 The role of individual agency in crafting meaningful work has attracted increasing interest in recent studies of careers and working life. The purpose of this paper is to make visible the role of the media in reproducing and shaping understandings of ...
Kirsi LaPointe, Pia Heilmann
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