Employees’ Conceptions of Coworkership in a Swedish Health Care Organization
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The concept of coworkership is widely established as a top-down communication strategy within organizations. However, interpretations may differ between organizational levels, and the employees’ point of view is still largely unexplored.
Caroline Bergman +3 more
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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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Communication in the Digital Work Environment: Implications for Wellbeing at Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2018 This article examines digital communication in the workplace and its association with wellbeing at work. The analysis is based mainly on workshop discussions and is complemented with log data (N = 36).
Laura Bordi +3 more
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Healthy universities: an example of a whole-system health-promoting setting [PDF]
, 2016 The health-promoting settings approach is well established in health promotion, with organisational settings being understood as complex systems able to support human wellbeing and flourishing. Despite the reach and evident importance of higher education
Bauer G +13 more
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Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 This article investigates the probability of turnover to three destinations following hospital merg- ers: within the hospital sector, out of the hospital sector, and out of work.
Mari Holm Ingelsrud
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Paid Sick Leave as a Means to Reduce Sickness Presenteeism Among Physicians
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Recurrent international data show that physicians often attend work while ill, termed sickness presenteeism. The current study investigated if sickness presenteeism scores among European physicians varied according to national paid sick leave legislation.
Ingrid Steen Rostad +3 more
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Being There No Matter What: Working in Publicly Provided Homecare Services
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021 The aim of this article is to critically explore how formal and informal work practices interplay with gender in the shaping of homecare service’s work environments.
Annika Vänje, Karin Sjöberg Forssberg
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Significance of Monitoring and Control for Employees’ Felt Trust, Motivation, and Mastery
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The aim of the current study is to investigate the importance of monitoring and employee control for employees’ felt trust, as well as felt trust as a mediating variable between monitoring and control, intrinsic motivation and mastery. A random sample of
Vilde Hoff Bernstrøm, Helge Svare
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Meditation Awareness Training (MAT) for Work-related Wellbeing and Job Performance: A Randomised Controlled Trial [PDF]
, 2014 Due to its potential to concurrently improve work-related wellbeing (WRW) and job performance, occupational stakeholders are becoming increasingly interested in the applications of meditation.
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Ethical Infrastructure and Successful Handling of Workplace Bullying
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Antecedents and consequences of workplace bullying are well documented. However, the mea- sures taken against workplace bullying, and the effectiveness of such measures, have received less attention.
Kari Einarsen +4 more
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