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Increased Participation Among Cleaners as a Strategy to Improve Quality and Occupational Health
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Like many other industries, today the cleaning industry is affected more than ever by competition and pressure toward low prices, which leads to a nonadvantageous situation for cleaners. These days many Swedish municipalities choose to outsource cleaning
Therese Öhrling
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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 +4 more
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Globalization and Job Insecurity in Danish Firms: A Multilevel Study
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2019 Globalization is on the agenda as a cause of job insecurity, but knowledge regarding the relationship between globalization, management practices, and employee job insecurity is in fact limited. This study aims to investigate this multilevel association,
Sabine Raeder +8 more
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SEISENSE Journal of Management, 2023 Purpose- It is known that working mother faces work-family responsibilities that likely affect their well-being. There is also a few research on conflict differentiated by work status and gender or on the moderating role of perceived supervisor support.
Eern Yie Choo
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Beyond Planning: The Implementation of a Worksite Health Promotional Scheme
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aim of this article is to provide insight into how the presence of diverging organizational logics influences the outcome of worksite health promotion projects. The study is based on a one-year qualitative single-case study of the implementation of a
Thor Christian Bjørnstad +1 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 +8 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 Certified occupational health and safety (OHS) management systems have become a global instrument in regulation of the work environment. However, their actual impact on OHS—in particular on softer psychosocial issues in the work environment—has been ...
Pernille Hohnen +3 more
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Dagstuhl Reports, 2021 We are living in a world where ubiquitous computing devices are becoming parts of the fabric of our lives. At work and at school, devices such as calculators, tablet computers, mobile phones, and different electronic measurement devices, support our work and learning.
Brewster, Stephen +3 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 The purpose of this article is to describe a broader concept of the psychosocial work environment, a concept that not only is limited to the individual and her immediate environment but also takes into account a broader context that includes production ...
Lena Abrahamsson, Jan Johansson
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Feasibility Study of a New Approach to Balance Job Demands and Resources
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesChildcare workers are faced with high job demands. The use of selection, optimization, and compensation strategies (SOC) may help reach a better balance between job demands and resources.
Annette Meng, Birgit Aust
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