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Enhancing teacher occupational wellbeing: the critical role of working environment in Chinese primary schools [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
Background/Introduction Based on the Job Demands-Resources model, this study examines how six dimensions of the working environment shape teacher occupational well-being (TOWB) in the context of high-stakes primary education systems. Methods
Xue Xia, Guang Li, Hongmei Liang
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Individual differences in affect: explaining work environment perceptions and later wellbeing [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Abstract Individual differences in employees’ affective dispositions influence how they perceive the work environment and report their well-being. A recurring challenge in this literature is that self-reported measures of working conditions and well-being cannot easily distinguish objective environmental features ...
Lucas H. Craven, Petri J. Kajonius
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Changing work environments and employee wellbeing: an introduction

International Journal of Manpower, 2012
PurposeThe purpose of this overview is to provide a brief introduction to the theme of the special issue, the expert commentary, and six papers included in the special issue. The authors conclude by articulating four avenues of future research that are likely to contribute significantly towards building work‐environments in which employees and ...
Kalliath, Thomas, Kalliath, Parveen
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Working Environment Activities in Hospitals: Expansion of Scope and Decentralization of Responsibility

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021
This article analyzes how two development traits in the regulatory requirements for Working Environment (WE) activities – an expansion of scope and a decentralization of responsibility – are understood and handled over time by actors responsible for WE ...
Per-Christian Borgen, Bente Vibecke Lunde   +1 more
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Perceived Collective Use of Selection, Optimisation, and Compensation: Associations with Work Ability

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022
Background: Individual use of selection, optimisation, and compensation (SOC) is positively associated with work ability; however, this association has never been explored at the group or leadership levels.
Annette Meng, Iben Louise Karlsen, Vilhelm Borg, Thomas Clausen   +3 more
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Do Low-quality Leader-Member Relationships Matter for Subordinates? Evidence from Three Samples on the Validity of the Norwegian LMX Scale

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2015
Theories on the relations between leaders and subordinates have been of interest to researchers for decades; however, these theories have received less attention in the Nordic countries.
Trude Furunes, Reidar J. Mykletun, Ståle Einarsen, Lars Glasø   +3 more
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Influence at Work tied to Materiality in Danish Care Work

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021
Influence at work is known to be an important factor for workers health. Researchers have called for studies on influence at work as a contextualized phenomenon.
Peter Aske Svendsen, Johan Simonsen Abildgaard, Lene Tanggaard, Ida Elisabeth Huitfeldt Madsen, Malene Friis Andersen   +4 more
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Achieving employee wellbeing in a changing work environment

International Journal of Manpower, 2012
PurposeThe purpose of this expert commentary is to provide an overview of current scholarship on changes occurring in the work environment and its impact on employee wellbeing. The commentary touches on frontier issues such as measurement of healthy work environment, positive and negative changes in work environment influencing employee wellbeing, link
Kossek, Ellen Ernst, Kalliath, Thomas, Kalliath, Parveen   +2 more
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Evaluation of Lifelong Work Satisfaction among Former Postal Service Workers

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020
While policymakers emphasize the need to delay retirement age, numerous traditional industries, among them postal services, emphasize the need for employee downsizings. These can be contradictory needs. Downsizings can reduce work life satisfaction (WLS)
Miira Niska, K.C Prakash, Anna Siukola, Hanna Kosonen, Jari Luomanen, Kirsi Lumme-Sandt, Subas Neupane, Pirjo Nikander, Clas-Håkan Nygård   +8 more
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Reshaping wellbeing in changing care and paid work environments

Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2022
This introductory paper offers insights into the importance of care work for wellbeing, introducing key themes evident in this special issue that span the theoretical and empirical boundaries of care and paid work for wellbeing. The focus is predominately on caring for adults, whether dependent adult children, spouses, or elderly family members/friends.
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