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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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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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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 International mobility is a form of flexible labor market adaptation available for young Nordic nationals who have the privilege of relatively easy return if life abroad does not work out.
Saara Koikkalainen +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 The aim of this study was to analyze how line and middle managers experience and describe barriers and enablers in the implementation of a health-promoting leadership program in municipal organizations.
Robert Larsson +3 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 This paper examines the association of high-involvement innovation practices (HIIPs) and simultaneous improvement of productivity and the quality of working life (QWL).
Elise Ramstad
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015 When I presented the basic ideas of this paper at a conference, a Swedish colleague commented: ‘you manage to combine water and fire.’ I understood his kind comment to mean that he used water and fire as metaphors for practice and theory.
Keijo Räsänen
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Competence development of entrepreneurs in innovative horticulture
, 2006 The purpose of this paper is to study the learning of entrepreneurs in authentic learning environments. The research questions are: How do entrepreneurs assess their compentencies, and how do employees and external consultants assess the compentencies of
Mulder, M. +5 more
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Autonomy and Control when Working with Humans—A Reflection on Sociotechnical Concepts
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The sociotechnical concepts of responsible autonomy and to be in control were originally developed from men’s work in order to describe and develop mostly industrial work.
Nina Amble
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Curriculum based measurement – demonstrated through the development of writing competence in primary school [PDF]
, 2010 In diesem Beitrag wird das Verfahren der Lernverlaufsdiagnostik im Bereich der Rechtschreibung weiter entwickelt und erstmalig getestet, wie sich die Erzeugung von Aufgabenstichproben durch einen Zufallsgenerator bewährt.
Greisbach, Michaela +2 more
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Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Precarisation’ is one of the concepts that has become important in efforts to explain how neoliberal politics and changed economic conditions produce new forms of marginalization and increased insecurity.
Mette Lykke Nielsen +3 more
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