Search results for "Workplace"

Oikealle alalle? : logistiikka-alan ammattikoulutuksen ja työelämän osaamisen todellisuuksien kohtaaminen

2016

The aim of this doctoral thesis was to study how vocational education and training (VET) and working life encounter each other. Naturally the research topic chosen was selected from the researcher´s own professional field, i.e., logistics education. The research task was to examine, how VET-students' professional expectations in the study field of logistics encounter with the working life realities. The main research question was “How do the logistics (driver training) students’ vocational expectations encounter with the requirements of dynamically changing working life from the point of view of the vocational competence, the time span of 2001-2025?” The two sub-questions were 1) How do the…

Opiskelijoiden oppiminen ammatillisen peruskoulutuksen työssäoppimisen järjestelmässä

2013

Vocational teachers' professional agency in the stream of change

2013

Focusing on Workplace Communication

2019

Communication has a constitutive role in the workplace; in workplace communication the organization comes into being. In workplace communication workers create and negotiate meanings and a shared understanding of important work-related issues. Communication is also essential for a functional working environment. Especially in knowledge-based work members of the workplace aim at success, efficiency, and productivity by discussing, conversing, debating, and providing and receiving feedback. Hence, when striving to establish a healthy workplace with high levels of satisfaction and well-being, one has to understand the dynamics of workplace communication. This chapter examines interpersonal com…

Hoitohenkilöstön käsitykset työyhteisön vuorovaikutuksen merkityksestä hyvinvoinnille

2015

Sairaalaorganisaatiossa hoitohenkilöstön työhyvinvointi kohtaa monenlaisia haasteita, jotka kumpuavat sekä työn luonteesta että organisaation rakenteista ja hierarkiaverkostoista. Tämän artikkelin tavoitteena on ymmärtää työhyvinvoinnin rakentumista sairaalatyöyhteisön vuorovaikutuksessa jäsentämällä hoitohenkilöstön käsityksiä vuorovaikutuksen ja työhyvinvoinnin yhteyksistä. Tutkimusasetelma on laadullinen. Tutkimusaineistona oli yhdeksän hoitohenkilöstön jäsenen respondenttihaastattelua. Aineisto kerättiin erään suomalaissairaalan yhdestä työyksiköstä. Analyysin lähtökohtana käytettiin fenomenografisen lähestymistavan näkemystä käsityksestä: pyrkimyksenä oli ymmärtää merkityksenantojen mo…

Emotional Dissonance in workplaces: dierences between jobs and perceived well-being

Theoretical background. The connection between work-related stress and psychosocial risks and workers’ health and safety has been confirmed in a wide range of studies all over the world. According EU-OSHA (2016), "while acknowledging the role of individual dispositions and general life circumstances, it has been shown that stress stemming from work-related factors may significantly affect workers’ functioning in and outside work". According with a recent EU-OSHA research, among the sources of major stress there is some connected to emotional regulation, such as "having to deal with difficult customers, patients, pupils, etc. (58%) or "poor communication or cooperation within the organisatio…

Eudaimonia Wellbeing Beliefs and its implications for employees´ wellbeing, organizational performance, and helping others

2018

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to examine the impact of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs – people conception of the nature and experience of wellbeing – on their wellbeing at workplace, on the organizational performance focused on helping others and on specific prosocial behaviours. Three empirical studies were conducted to this end, using different research designs and samples. Study 1 analyses the moderating role of the two dimensions of eudaimonia wellbeing beliefs (contribution-to-others and self-development) in the relationship between surface acting and exhaustion. We use a cross-sectional self-reported design and a sample of 817 front line employees working in 118 health care organiz…

Variability and trajectories in workplace mood over time: an intra-individual perspective

2021

La presente tesis doctoral ofrece una perspectiva dinámica e intraindividual del constructo de bienestar afectivo en el ámbito laboral. El bienestar afectivo laboral se define como la experiencia frecuente de reacciones afectivas agradables (como la felicidad o la alegría) y la ausencia de reacciones afectivas desagradables (como la ira o la ansiedad) en el trabajo. Experimentar un alto nivel de bienestar afectivo laboral está relacionado con una serie de implicaciones positivas para los individuos. Por ejemplo, los individuos con un mayor nivel de bienestar afectivo laboral tienen una mejor salud mental y física (Wilson et al., 2004), y experimentan una felicidad aumentada en otros ámbitos…

Teachers’ professional agency in a centralisation-decentralisation system and a hierarchical cultural context : the case of Hong Kong

2022

Teachers are frontline actors in actualising educational innovations. In some contexts, teachers’ professional agency is undervalued. This study investigated teachers’ agency and its related workplace affordances in Hong Kong, which features a centralised-decentralisation education governance system, and a hierarchical work culture. The study was based on 21 semi-structured interviews with teachers, and employed a deductive thematic analysis. Agency enactment was categorised into 1) pedagogical agency within classrooms, and 2) relational agency in the professional community. The factors contributing to workplace affordances were grouped as pertaining to 1) the collegial community, 2) school…

The relationship of collective creativity with managerial work and workplace climate in hierarchical and less hierarchical organizations

2023

Collective creativity, managerial work, and workplace climate can influence innovation, organizational learning, and productivity at work. However, little empirical research has examined these factors in everyday work, especially in relation to organizational hierarchies. This study explores the relationships among collective creativity, managerial work, and workplace climate in hierarchical and less hierarchical organizations. A quantitative empirical analysis was conducted using data from a survey of 265 respondents from six Finnish organizations. The findings show that managerial work and workplace climate that focus on building and maintaining trust and highlight empathy, fairness and e…