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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The dominant research strands into social interaction in culturally diverse workplaces have focused on issues of organizational efficiency and discrimination, and they have treated cultural identity as static, monolithic, and universally shared.
Malgorzata Lahti
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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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Making Materials Matter—A Contribution to a Sociomaterial Perspective on Work Environment
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 This paper aims to discuss the implications of adopting an STS (science and technology studies)- based conceptualization of the psychosocial work environment.
Johan Simonsen Abildgaard +1 more
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Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture: from spectacle to metapicture [PDF]
, 2016 Purpose – This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways.
Bell, Emma, Sinclair, Amanda
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Active causation and the origin of meaning [PDF]
, 2014 Purpose and meaning are necessary concepts for understanding mind and culture, but appear to be absent from the physical world and are not part of the explanatory framework of the natural sciences.
van Hateren, J. H.
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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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‘Because it’s our culture!’ (Re)negotiating the meaning of lobola in Southern African secondary schools [PDF]
, 2001 Payment of bridewealth or lobola is a significant element of marriage among the Basotho of Lesotho and the Shona of Zimbabwe. However, the functions and meanings attached to the practice are constantly changing.
Appadurai A. +18 more
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The Ambiguity of Work: Work Practice Stories of Meaningful and Demanding Consultancy Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This article contributes to the current debate among organizational and work-life researchers on the double-sided nature of knowledge work, which offers great freedom and satisfaction on the one hand and the potential to be overly demanding and stressful
Didde Maria Humle
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Young Long-term Unemployed and the Individualization of Responsibility
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 In Sweden, as in most Western societies, a common belief is that unemployment is somehow linked to the individual, her lack of work ethic, or other personal shortcomings rather than to structural causes.
Jennifer Hobbins
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