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- Bejerot, Eva, et al.
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Reintegrating studies of organizations, work and health : some methodological experiences
- 2010
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Ingår i: The dynamics of organization and healthy work. - Växjö : Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, Linnéuniversitetet. - 9789186491581
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Integrating data at the macro-level, such as changes in the labour market, data at the meso-level such as phenomena in organisations and workplaces, and data at the micro-level such as individual’s working conditions and health is indeed a complex matter. A single study alone can seldom work out the problems of generalisation, hypothesis testing, and a deeper understanding of new as well as previously known occurrences and processes within the realm of complex systems.The authors of this chapter present some experiences of integrating data at several levels. Some of these experiences emanate from the chapters presented in this book, while others are from other projects. Methodologies based on a quantitative approach as well as experiences of using qualitative methods are presented.
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- Bejerot, Eva, et al.
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Reintegrating studies of organizations, work and health - some methodological experiences
- 2010
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Ingår i: The dynamics of organizations and healthy work, in Work life in transition, nr 5. - Växjö : Linnéuniversitetet. - 9789186491581 ; , s. 140-156
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- A primary interest throughout this book has been organisations and working conditions, the relationships between them, and their relationships to the labour market context and to health outcomes. These relationships can be studied as causal relations or as selection processes. A single study alone can seldom solve the problems of generalization and hypothesis testing. we argue for a renewed interest in a structural perspective in organization research. Even if the working life is a volatile arena of social life, there are always structures that influence power relations between agents at different levels and in different parts of the local, national and global labour markets. These structures, such as class and gender, maybe stable over time but we cannot take that for granted. They have to be explored and scrutinized over and over again. Some progress and an increased interest in this issue can be seen, but it is still a big challenge to work-life scientists, organization researchers and occupational health researchers to explore the connection between the structures and processes, conditions and strategies that affect the possibilities for the workers to enjoy a good and healthy working life. We argue that a theory which borrows elements from organization theories, social stratification theories and occupational health studies is capable of creating a better understanding of the organization of work and working conditions and the health of the workers. Important factors from these areas can be integrated and made intelligible. In the preceding chapters, several types of data have been analysed with a broad variety of methods. Some studies were explorative, empirically driven, and aimed at generating ideas, theories and hypotheses. Others were theory-driven and used for testing hypotheses to acquire a deeper understanding of phenomena at the workplace and individual levels. This is in line with a mixed methodological approach that has been suggested as appropriate to use when testing elements in an emergent theory. Performing different studies in a sequence has the advantage of spreading experiences from one study to the next by alternating between quantitative and qualitative approaches. Positivistic and interpretative approaches are mutually supportive whether they are achievable within a single study or conducted across different studies, by the same or different researchers. In this chapter we share some of the problems we have met in our research on working life, and also try to describe the ways we worked some things out, drawing also on the experience of other researchers. We will touch upon both quantitative and qualitative methods, and the message is the same: to try to combine and oscillate between methods, levels and perspectives.
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- Berntson, Erik, et al.
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Employability and work-related health
- 2010
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Ingår i: The dynamics of organizations and healthy work. - Växjö : Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper. - 9789186491581
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- About the book: Increasing international interdependency has intensified the need for organizational changes and changes in employment conditions in the private sectors in Sweden. For a number of reasons, economic as well as political, even the public sector has changed. Large shares of its services have been transformed into private and semi-private forms of ownerships. Economic restrictions and new management ideologies after the early 1990’s have forced many private enterprises and public administrations to initiate organizational reforms. Some of these changes and their consequences for working conditions and health of the employees are described in the different chapters of this publication. The publication is the result of a number of research projects that were initiated at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life in the early 2000’s. The main idea behind these projects was to empirically as well as theoretically capture the dynamics of a rapidly changing working life. This means that a range of different aspects were studied from multidisciplinary perspectives. Studies of changes in how individuals’ working conditions and health had changed were related to organizational factors as well as to structural conditions. Although some of the chapters are focusing on the individual level, the work place level or the structural level, the ambition has been to integrate the different levels and to develop research designs and theories that allow such integration.The book is suitable for everyone interested in how Swedish working life has changed in later years, but it can also be used in undergraduate teaching on courses dealing with occupational health, working life and research design.
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- Bolin, Malin, et al.
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Organizational effects on working conditions and health
- 2010. - 1
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Ingår i: The dynamics of organizations and healthy work. - : Växjö : Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper. - 9789186491581
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Härenstam, Annika, 1949
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Assessing organizational change - the impact of different informants
- 2010
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Ingår i: The Dynamics of Organizations and healthy work In Work Life in transition nr 5. - Växjö : Linnéuniversitetet. - 9789186491581 ; , s. 42-63
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter investigates the assessment of organizational changes and their possible effects on working conditions. Three methodological and empirical issues are raised. First, the meaning of the construct of organizational change is explored. The second issue raised is what kind of organizational changes are implemented in different organizations in Sweden. The final question is how organizational phenomena affect psychosocial working conditions. The focus is on the significance of who is the informant about organizational change and the impact on working conditions.
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- Marklund, Staffan, et al.
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The Dynamics of organizations and healthy work - an introduction
- 2010
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Ingår i: Arbetsliv i omvandling. - Växjö : Linnéuniversitetet. - 9789186491581 ; , s. 1-6
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Work Life in Transition 2010:05 The Dynamics of Organizations and Healthy Work Staffan Marklund och Annika Härenstam (eds) Increasing international interdependency has intensified the need for organizational changes and changes in employment conditions in the private sectors in Sweden. For a number of reasons, economic as well as political, even the public sector has changed. Large shares of its services have been transformed into private and semi-private forms of ownerships. Economic restrictions and new management ideologies after the early 1990’s have forced many private enterprises and public administrations to initiate organizational reforms. Some of these changes and their consequences for working conditions and health of the employees are described in the different chapters of this publication. The publication is the result of a number of research projects that were initiated at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life in the early 2000’s. The main idea behind these projects was to empirically as well as theoretically capture the dynamics of a rapidly changing working life. This means that a range of different aspects were studied from multidisciplinary perspectives. Studies of changes in how individuals’ working conditions and health had changed were related to organizational factors as well as to structural conditions. Although some of the chapters are focusing on the individual level, the work place level or the structural level, the ambition has been to integrate the different levels and to develop research designs and theories that allow such integration. The book is suitable for everyone interested in how Swedish working life has changed in later years, but it can also be used in undergraduate teaching on courses dealing with occupational health, working life and research design.
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