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Lack of Commitment? Work Orientations of Finnish Employees in a European Comparison
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 It has been argued that individuals’ employment commitment, that is, their commitment to work in general is crucial in today’s labor markets where life-long employment relationships are less frequently offered by organizations.
Teemu Turunen
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Defining 'Indigenous': Between Culture and Biology [PDF]
, 2013 This essay considers a range of discourses on identity and the definition of culture. I have little doubt that, generally speaking, Indigenous people are quite capable of defining the meaning of ‘Indigenous person’ or ‘culture’ in a way that satisfies ...
Pritchard, Stephen
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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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Ceramics and coastal communities in medieval (12th-14th Century) Europe: negotiating identity in England's Channel ports [PDF]
, 2017 Using the example of pottery imported into the Channel ports of southern England, an approach to examining the role of pottery in the emergence and mediation of coastal communities is proposed.
Jervis, Ben
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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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Cultural Pluralism and Epistemic Injustice [PDF]
, 2019 For liberalism, values such as respect, reciprocity, and tolerance should frame cultural encounters in multicultural societies. However, it is easy to disregard that power differences and political domination also influence the cultural sphere
Collste, Göran
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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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