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What do Social Processes mean for Quality of Human Resource Practice?

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Does International Migration Pay Off? The Labor Market Situation of Finnish Return Migrants Based on Longitudinal Register Data

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Health-Promoting Leadership in Municipal Organizations: Managers’ Experiences with a Leadership Program

open access: yesNordic 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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Can High-involvement Innovation Practices improve Productivity and the Quality of Working-life simultaneously? Management and Employee Views on Comparison

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Fire and Water combined: Understanding the Relevance of Working Life Studies through a Concept of Practical Activity

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Autonomy and Control when Working with Humans—A Reflection on Sociotechnical Concepts

open access: yesNordic 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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Without a Safety Net: Precarization Among Young Danish Employees

open access: yesNordic 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
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incorporating online reference in teaching photographic education for photography students / Wan Nor Ayuni Wan Mohd Zain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In a visual world where messages are often carried by visual means, our attitude towards photography is changing to accepting the potential of the beyond its factuality.
Wan Mohd Zain, Wan Nor Ayuni
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