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- Bernhard-Oettel, Claudia, et al.
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The role of social embeddedness for remaining in non-desired workplaces and mental health consequences : Results from Scania Public Health Cohort
- 2019
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. - : SAGE Publications. - 1403-4948 .- 1651-1905. ; 47:3, s. 334-343
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: The aim of the study was to investigate the role of social embeddedness on and off the job in relation to remaining in non-desired workplaces (NDWs) and the development of mental health. Method: The study used questionnaire data from the Scania Public Health cohort (N=2410) that were collected in 2000 (T1), 2005 (T2) and 2010 (T3). Logistic regression models were calculated to probe how NDWs and social embeddedness factors measured at baseline (T1) related to NDWs five years later (T2), and to investigate how NDWs and social embeddedness factors at T2 related to poor mental health at T3. Synergy indices were calculated in both analyses to test for additive v. interactive effects between NDWs and social embeddedness factors on the outcomes. Results: NDWs at baseline and low social embeddedness on and off the job was associated with NDWs at T2. For those in a desired workplace, low support from co-workers as well as low workplace affinity increased the risk to be in an NDW at T2. NDWs and low social embeddedness also associated with impaired mental health (T3). For those in an NDW, low support from co-workers as well as low workplace affinity increased the risk of poor mental health at T3. Conclusions: This study underlines the importance of social embeddedness for NDWs and the development of poor mental health over time. Particularly low social support from co-workers and low workplace affinity seem to be risk factors for future experience of an NDW and impaired mental health.
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- Aronsson, Gunnar, et al.
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A systematic review including meta-analysis of work environment and burnout symptoms
- 2017
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Ingår i: Bmc Public Health. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1471-2458. ; 17:264
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Practitioners and decision makers in the medical and insurance systems need knowledge on the relationship between work exposures and burnout. Many burnout studies -original as well as reviews-restricted their analyses to emotional exhaustion or did not report results on cynicism, personal accomplishment or global burnout. To meet this need we carried out this review and meta-analyses with the aim to provide systematically graded evidence for associations between working conditions and near-future development of burnout symptoms. Methods: A wide range of work exposure factors was screened. Inclusion criteria were: 1) Study performed in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand 1990-2013. 2) Prospective or comparable case control design. 3) Assessments of exposure (work) and outcome at baseline and at least once again during follow up 1-5 years later. Twenty-five articles met the predefined relevance and quality criteria. The GRADE-system with its 4-grade evidence scale was used. Results: Most of the 25 studies focused emotional exhaustion, fewer cynicism and still fewer personal accomplishment. Moderately strong evidence (grade 3) was concluded for the association between job control and reduced emotional exhaustion and between low workplace support and increased emotional exhaustion. Limited evidence (grade 2) was found for the associations between workplace justice, demands, high work load, low reward, low supervisor support, low co-worker support, job insecurity and change in emotional exhaustion. Cynicism was associated with most of these work factors. Reduced personal accomplishment was only associated with low reward. There were few prospective studies with sufficient quality on adverse chemical, biological and physical factors and burnout. Conclusion: While high levels of job support and workplace justice were protective for emotional exhaustion, high demands, low job control, high work load, low reward and job insecurity increased the risk for developing exhaustion. Our approach with a wide range of work exposure factors analysed in relation to the separate dimensions of burnout expanded the knowledge of associations, evidence as well as research needs. The potential of organizational interventions is illustrated by the findings that burnout symptoms are strongly influenced by structural factors such as job demands, support and the possibility to exert control.
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- Aronsson, Gunnar, et al.
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The long arm of the job – work characteristics and recovery windows in social welfare work
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Workplace Health Management. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 1753-8351 .- 1753-836X. ; 12:1, s. 15-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Social welfare work contains elements that may be difficult for employees to put out of their minds when the working day ends, which may affect the recovery. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the length of recovery in relation to different work characteristics and to two types of welfare work.Design/methodology/approach: All 1,365 employees, excluding managers, of two municipality administrations were invited to a survey study. Of these, 673 (49 percent) responded. After adjusting for partial missing, the effective sample included 580 employees (43 percent). Retrospective ratings of four recovery windows were analyzed: recovery after one night’s sleep, weekends, shorter holidays and vacations.Findings: Employees with a university education were less recovered than those with a shorter education. For those with a university education, the long arm of the job mainly involved failures regarding qualitative job demands (task difficulty). For those with a shorter education, quantitative job demands (too much to do) were most prominent for their prolonged recovery. Feedback from managers had consistent and positive associations with all four recovery windows among employees with a university education, but not among those with a shorter education for whom instead having too much to do and social support had significant spillover effects.Originality/value: The identified differences may relate to employees with a university education having more problem-solving tasks, which may result in a higher need of work-related feedback but also in difficulties detaching from work. Thus, education and job characteristics have differential associations with self-rated recovery.
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- Svensson, Lennart, 1948-, et al.
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Hållbart arbetsliv - projekt som gästspel eller strategi i hållbar utveckling
- 2007
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Hållbarhet och hållbar utveckling har blivit ledord för omställningsprocesser både på samhälls- och företagsnivå. Samtidigt sker mycket av förändringsarbetet i projektform där betoningen ofta ligger på att åstadkomma snabba resultat under en begränsad projekttid då nästa projekt redan konkurrerar om uppmärksamhet. Mera sällan fokuseras långsiktiga effekter och vad som krävs för att projekttidens aktiviteter skall överleva och bli hållbara.I boken analyserar och diskuterar författarna konflikten mellan det korta projektet och de önskade långsiktiga effekterna. Bakgrunden är ett stort nationellt hälsoprojekt inom offentlig sektor. Forskningen har varit interaktiv, dvs. ambitionen har varit att forska med - inte på - deltagarna. Bok visar att det finns många faktorer – delaktighet, förankring, ägarskap, lärande och reflektion, styrning, spridning - som behöver diskuteras och genomarbetas inför och under ett utvecklingsarbete i synnerhet om projektet har som mål att leda till långsiktiga effekter
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- Aronsson, Gunnar, et al.
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Healthy workplaces for women and men of all ages
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this knowledge compilation is to contribute with knowledge about the work environment in relation to the ever-older workforce. How do employee needs and possibilities change from a course of life perspective? What should the employer and other work environment actors think about in order for the workforce to be able to and want to work to a high age?The Swedish Work Environment Authority wishes to give an overarching knowledge profile of different aspects of the work environment and the ageing workforce, and we therefore asked seven researchers to summarise the research-based knowledge within each of their areas, from a course of life and gender perspective. An eighth researcher acted as an editor for the anthology, and has also written the preface.In summary, the report shows that we are becoming even healthier, living ever longer and working to an ever higher age. Older people in the workforce are positive for the economy because productivity increases, and the business sector can make use of competent and experienced staff for a longer time. But for the older labour force to be healthy and want to work at higher ages, one needs to take into consideration how ageing influences health and the capacity to work. With age, all people are affected to different degrees by reduced vision, hearing and physical capacity, as well as longer reaction times. Even their cognitive capacity changes. Certain cognitive abilities are strengthened with rising age, while others deteriorate. With an ageing workforce, more employees have chronic illnesses, which, however, seldom affect the actual working ability. Changes in working life also affect health and wellbeing, for example deregulated work and the technical development. Age and previous experiences impact upon our ability to adapt to these changes. One factor that promotes adaptation is partly resilience (that is to say, resistance and the ability to adapt to the new), partly compensation strategies when the mental and physical resources change. There are no great differences between gender when it comes to the consequences of ageing on health and wellbeing in the work. On the other hand, the public health trend shows increasing differences in health between the lower educated and the higher educated - a difference increasing more quickly among women than among men. The gender-segregated labour market also means that more women than men work in physical and mentally burdensome work. Attitudes at the workplace also affect wellbeing and the will to continue working at higher ages. Men tend to be more sensitive to age discrimination while women run the risk of double discrimination, that is to say based upon both gender and age. Work environment and the attitude to an older workforce are central to the considerations that an employee makes in the choice between continuing to work and retiring. Other prerequisites that influence the decision are one’s own health, private finances and self-fulfilling activities.The employer can do a great deal to lengthen and improve their employees’ working life. Systematic work environment management benefits everyone, and it can contribute to everyone keeping their working ability and to older people wanting to and being able to work for longer. Occupational health services of good quality also play an important role. Technical aids and adaptation of the working pace and working tasks are other measures that improve the work environment for the older workforce. The employer can also contribute to stimulating work arrangements and organisational support for the employees in order to strengthen their resilience and promote the development of compensation strategies.
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- Allvin, Michael, et al.
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Den utbredda flexibiliteten : ett försök att beräkna förekomsten av lågreglerade arbetsvillkor
- 2012
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Ingår i: Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv. - Stockholm : Arbetsmarknadsstyrelsen. - 1400-9692 .- 2002-343X. ; 18:1, s. 9-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nästan 30 år efter det att begreppet flexibilitet i arbetslivet kom i bruk råder det fortfarande stor osäkerhet om vad begreppet innebär och hur vanligt det egentligen är. I artikeln diskuteras flexibilitet utifrån en representativ studie av den svenska arbetskraften. I studien konstateras att både traditionellt organiserade och helt fria arbeten är relativt ovanliga. Däremot är flexibla arbetsvillkor desto mer vanligt förekommande och spridda i varierande grad bland den svenska arbetskraften.
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- Aronsson, Gunnar, 1943-, et al.
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Arbetsvillkor, återhämtning och hälsa - en studie av förskola. hemtjänst och socialtjänst
- 2010
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Studiens övergripande syfte var att undersöka arbetsförhållanden som är förknippade med ackumulering av stress och bristande återhämtning och att studera hur återhämtning är relaterat till hälsoaspekter. Studiegruppen var anställda inom förskola, hemtjänst och socialtjänst och kom från två relativt stora kommuner (n =193). Återhämtning eller brist på återhämtning antogs vara en betydelsefull förmedlande länk mellan arbetsvillkor och hälsa/ohälsa och sjukfrånvaro. Datainsamling skedde genom en enkät och den totala svarsfrekvensen var 79 %. En klusteranalys gav tre kluster "Återhämtade“ och “Ej återhämtade“ är yttergrupper, som omfattar 36 respektive 25 procent av totalgruppen medan mellangruppen utgjorde 39 procent. Gruppen ej återhämtade får ses som en riskgrupp för ohälsa. Gruppen uppvisar hela kedjan av riskfaktorer – problematiska arbetsvillkor på vilka de svarar med ökad ansträngning och kompenserande strategier. Trots betydligt högre ohälsorapportering har de inte högre sjukfrånvaro, vilket sannolikt hör samman med att de ersätter sjukfrånvaro med sjuknärvaro. I socialtjänsten är det hela 43 procent som tillhör den ej återhämtade gruppen. Regressionsanalyser med kontroll för bakgrundsvariabler visar att den icke återhämtade gruppen hade en signifikant högre relativ risk för sämre självskattad hälsa än personer i den återhämtade gruppen. Ännu kraftigare riskökningar fanns för de fem symtom som därutöver analyserades. Avslutningsvis diskuteras praktiska slutsatser och nya forskningsfrågor.
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- Aboagye, Emmanuel, et al.
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What is Number of Days in Number of Times? : Associations Between, and Responsiveness of, Two Sickness Presenteeism Measures
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. - : Wolters Kluwer. - 1076-2752 .- 1536-5948. ; 62:5, s. e180-e185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: To examine the associations between sickness presenteeism (SP) reported as number of days with SP reported as number of times and to evaluate their responsiveness.Methods: The study population (n = 454) consisted of employed individuals, at risk of long-term sickness absence. Correlation analyses were performed to examine associations between the two SP measures and external constructs such as work performance, general health, and registered sick leave. Both SP constructs were measured several times to examine responsiveness.Results: The SP measures are moderately correlated. They moderately correlated with work performance and health status measures. SP reported as number of times seems to be more sensitive than number of days in detecting changes after rehabilitation.Conclusions: Numerical or categorical constructs are valid sources of data on SP. However, categorized SP seems to be more responsive.
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- Jacobshagen, Nicola, et al.
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Illegitimate tasks : a meaningful stressor across countries
- 2013
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Ingår i: Imagine the future world. - : Münstersche Informations- und Archivsystem multimedialer Inhalte. ; , s. 100-101, s. 101-101
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Purpose: Task characteristics have been a focus of occupational stress research for many years. Workload and conflicting expectations have been especially prominent in this research. Recently, an additional feature of tasks as a source of stress has been suggested: Their perceived lack of legitimacy. We consider tasks to be illegitimate to the extent that it is perceived as improper to expect employees to do them. For example, tasks can fall outside of the range of one’s occupation or role differences within a profession, such as when employees are assigned tasks that do not match their levels of experience.Design/Methodology: We discuss our research with the Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale in different countries - Switzerland (French and German part), Sweden, and Germany - analyzing scale properties (measurement models) and associations of illegitimate tasks with strain (six data sets, N=2498).Results: The Bern Illegitimate Tasks Scale was shown to be a sound measure, and it explained variance in several strain parameters, above and beyond the effects of other important predictors (stressors and resources).Limitations: All studies were questionnaire studies.Research/Practical Implications: Illegitimate tasks need more attention from supervisors; they should be part of management training. Research should be extended to other designs (e.g., diary studies) and to investigating moderators of the effect of illegitimate tasks (e.g., breadth of role definition).Originality/Value: Our studies show that not just work demands or resources count with regard to stress, but also the perceived legitimacy of demands.
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- Allvin, Michael, et al.
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The Diffusion of Flexibility : Estimating the Incidence of Low-Regulated Working Conditions
- 2013
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. - : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 2245-0157. ; 3:3, s. 99-116
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study is to determine the actual occurrences of flexible working conditions and to demonstrate an instrument for their assessment. Flexibility is discussed as a concept and defined in terms of deregulation of work, and a corresponding increase in self-government and ambiguity. Using empirical data from a national survey of the Swedish labor force, the results show that almost half (47%) of the jobs on the Swedish labor market can be characterized as low, or even unregulated. This means that almost half of the Swedish work force is subjected to working conditions involving a nonnegligible requirement for self-government.
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