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Adapting ‘The Normal’ – Examining Relations between Youth, Risk and Accidents at Work

open access: yesNordic 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

open access: yesNordic 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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The Performance Appraisal Interview – An Arena for the Reinforcement of Norms for Employeeship

open access: yesNordic 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

open access: yesNordic 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

open access: yesNordic 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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Understanding identity in the thought of Charles Taylor and Dariush Shayegan [PDF]

open access: yesرهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی
Extended 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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Institutional Hybridity in Networked Cultural Organizations through Boundary Work

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies
The article studies the impacts of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus on cultural festival organizations in Finland. Festivals have been institutionalized as network organizations, which presumes boundary work with partner organizations from ...
Arja Haapakorpi   +4 more
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‘Daring Leaps’ Construction of Meaning and Individual Agency in Career Change Narratives in the Media

open access: yesNordic 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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Technology’s Dual Role in Challenging and Supporting OSH and VDC Professionals

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies
In this study, we examine how occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals and virtual design and construction (VDC) professionals navigate the use of technology for OSH purposes and how the interdisciplinarity between the two professions affects ...
Emilie Marie Rudolf   +2 more
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

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