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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Participatory approaches to jointly address development and change processes are increasingly applied in Nordic working life research. One approach, the Chronicle Workshop (CW), aims at facilitating collective history through collaborative exploration ...
Ulrik Gensby
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Young People’s Attitudes to Attractive Work, During and After Upper Secondary School
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Attractive work has been defined as a job position which an individual wants, where the employee experiences job stability and where employee identification and dedication are fostered.
Ing-Marie Andersson +3 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 Neoliberal policies such as new public management (NPM) have been pivotal to the Swedish elderly care system for two decades. This article explores the discourses of NPM and work by focusing on how a good workplace is represented by professionals and ...
Britt-Inger Keisu +2 more
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Unnoticed Professional Competence in Day Care Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This article presents a double perspective on social educators’ professional competence: It discusses how everyday life in day care centres (preschools) is dependent on professional competences that can be conceived as “unnoticed.” These aspects of ...
Annegrethe Ahrenkiel +4 more
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Changing Occupational Roles in Audit Society—The Case of Swedish Student Aid Officials
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 This article is about occupational change concerning a non-professional group of Street Level Bureaucrats—student aid officials at the Swedish Board for Study Support (SBSS).
Anders Bruhn
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Team and Project Work in Engineering Practices
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 In this article, we investigate teamwork amongst professionals in engineering consultancy companies in order to discern how teamwork affects the collaboration and work practices of the professionals.
Anders Buch, Vibeke Andersen
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Turn to Practice Within Working Life Studies
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 What does practice theory and practice-based studies have to offer working life studies? This is the seminal question this special issue poses. In seven articles, researchers with an affiliation to Nordic working life studies and with a background in ...
Anders Buch +2 more
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Struggles of Professionalism and Emotional Labour in Standardized Mental Health Care
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This article points out how recent public sector reforms under headings as New Public Management, Lean and Quality Reforms entail different forms for standardization, and examines how this development instigates a transformation of interdisciplinary and ...
Annette Kamp, Betina Dybbroe
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Pengembangan Kompetensi Pegawai Aparatur Sipil Negara (Asn) Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri (Stain) Curup Melalui Metode Pendidikan Dan Pelatihan [PDF]
, 2017 Development of employee competency State Civilian Officials (ASN) basically aims to ensure and maintain the ability of employees to meet the qualifications so as to provide optimal contribution to the organization.
Fathurrochman, I. (Irwan)
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What do Social Processes mean for Quality of Human Resource Practice?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Well implemented human resource practice (HRP) is linked to increased performance, innovation, and the well-being of both managers and employees. In the literature, a distinction between the hard and the soft HRM-models is drawn: the hard model focuses ...
Kjeld Nielsen, Louise Møller Pedersen
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