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Antecedents of Norwegian Adolescents’ Choice of Educational Pathway in Hospitality and Tourism
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 This study investigates the extent to which Norwegian adolescents (age 15–16 years) choose vocational foundation classes for high school related to the hospitality industry and intend to complete their certificate of apprenticeship in this field ...
Åse Helene Bakkevig Dagsland +2 more
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Resources and Constraints of Line Manager Agency in Municipal Reforms
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The context of this study is the nation-wide reform of local government in Finland, focusing on line managers and their scope of agency. Our data comprise two large-scale surveys of 40 municipalities in 2009 and 38 in 2011.
Tuula Heiskanen, Esa Jokinen
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The present study aimed at identifying the attitude-related barriers that older unemployed, jobseeking workers (50+) face when they endeavor to reenter the labor market and to investigate employers’ attitudes and perceptions of older workers. Two studies
Roland Kadefors, Jan Johansson Hanse
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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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