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Emotional Agency at Work: The Development and Validation of a Measure
2022
Despite intensive research on agency in education and work environments, the topic remains underexplored through the lens of emotions. This study conducted the development and validation of a quantitative measure to explore emotional agency in working life. Empirical data (N = 240) were collected via a web-based survey within the professional domains of healthcare and real estate services. The participants’ age, educational level, and gender corresponded to the domain-specific and general employee distribution in Finland. The questionnaire items were based on a theoretical construct of emotional agency at work. Exploratory factor analysis indicated that emotional agency includes two dimensi…
”Yhteisvanhemmuus – sehän olisi aivan mahtavaa, jos se toimisi!” Eronneiden isien ja äitien puhetta yhteistyöstä ja vanhemmuudesta
2022
•Yhteisvanhemmuudella tarkoitetaan kahden tai useamman aikuisen vastuunjakoa ja sitoutumista lapsen hoivaan ja kasvatukseen. •Eron jälkeistä yhteisvanhemmuutta on tutkittu toistaiseksi Suomessa vähän. •Tutkimus selvitti, millaisia toimijuuksia ja positioita vanhemmat ottavat puhuessaan yhteisvanhemmuudesta. Yhteistä kaikille oli puhe lapsen parhaasta sekä vanhemman ja lapsen suhteen tärkeydestä. •Yhteistyökykyisessä yhteisvanhemmuudessa korostuvat luottamus, kunnioitus ja toimiva vuorovaikutus sekä yhteinen ymmärrys lapsen edusta. •Tutkimuksen tulokset auttavat perheammattilaisia ymmärtämään yhteisvanhemmuuden esteitä ja mahdollisuuksia sekä löytämään perheiden tarpeista lähteviä tuen muot…
Between a rock and a hard place : middle managers' ethical decision making and behaviour in the organisational context
2018
This study increases knowledge and understanding of middle managers’ ethical decision-making and behaviour within the context of Finnish higher education. The aim of the research is to develop a new framework for ethical decision-making and behaviour by combining prior theories and empirical knowledge. This dissertation consists of an introductory essay and three articles. The main argument of this research is that through organisations’ socialisation processes, middle managers adopt socially defined managerial roles, which affect their ethical decision-making and ethical conduct. We can say that especially the ethical organisational culture is significant for middle managers’ understanding…
Toimijuuden tukeminen ikääntyneiden pitkäaikaishoidossa
2018
Ikääntyneiden kotona asumista pyritään tukemaan monin eri tavoin, onhan se myös yksi valtakunnallisista vanhuspoliittisista linjauksista. Lisäksi 1.7.2013 voimaan tullut laki ikääntyneen väestön toimintakyvyn tukemisesta sekä iäkkäiden sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluista painottaa ikääntyneen mahdollisuutta asua omassa kodissaan tai avohuollon palveluasumisessa mahdollisimman pitkään. Siitä huolimatta osa ikääntyneistä joutuu väistämättä pitkäaikaiseen laitoshoitoon. Tutkielman tehtävä on tutkia, millaisena ikääntyneen toimijuuden tukeminen näyttäytyy ikääntyneiden pitkäaikaishoidossa ja mielenkiintoni kohdistuu siihen, millaisena se näyttäytyy ympäristössä, jossa arkea määrittävät rutiinit sek…
Participant-induced elicitation in digital environments
2020
This chapter discusses participant-induced elicitation interview (PIE) in the light of two fieldwork cases focusing on Finnish lifestyle blogging and older adults as ICT users. By definition, elicitation refers to a process where something, such as a response, meaning, or answer, is evoked in or drawn out from an interviewee. PIE is based on photo-elicitation, where the interviewee is asked to take photographs dealing with the topics of the research. The central idea of PIE as participant-induced elicitation is based on the active agency of the person collaborating with the researcher. Under the premises of the research, the interviewee creates something subjective and personal that can be …
Small agency and precarious residency in Afghan refugee families
2020
This chapter examines agency and ways of enduring suffering in Afghan families in a small Finnish town. Three stories, where the mothers and children have lived in Finland for some years already, but the fathers have arrived during the 2015 large-scale migration, are presented and analysed. Ethnographic methods are used in enquiring how family members endure suffering when they are faced with the threat of deportation of a family member. Our results show that fathers’ precarious residency has an impact on family members’ agency. First, the informants were enduring alone, and thus the social element, being able to share one’s struggles of enduring, was missing. Second, it was not only one ty…
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union
2020
Creating and Governing Cultural Heritage in the European Union: The European Heritage Label provides an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which European cultural heritage is created, communicated, and governed via the new European Heritage Label scheme. Drawing on ethnographic field research conducted across ten countries at sites that have been awarded with the European Heritage Label, the authors of the book approach heritage as an entangled social, spatial, temporal, discursive, narrative, performative, and embodied process. Recognising that heritage is inherently political and used by diverse actors as a tool for re-imagining communities, identities, and borders, and for gene…
Non-abusing mothers’ agency after disclosure of the child’s extra-familial sexual abuse
2020
This qualitative study analysed the agency of eight non-abusing mothers in the Turkish Cypriot Community after disclosure that their child had been sexually abused by someone outside the family. The aim was to discover how, after disclosure, such mothers act to protect their children in the contexts of their family and community. The data were gathered via semi-structured in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). In the nuclear family context, maternal agency emerged in the form of motherhood skills, including emotionally supporting the abused child, double-checking the child’s safety or limiting the child’s mobility, and controlling the actions…
Staff Members’ Professional Agency within the Staff Community and the Education Policies: Supporting Integration in Multicultural and Multiling…
2022
In recent decades, increased diversity and migration have challenged school staff members’ ways of working. This study aimed to identify the challenges faced by Finnish school staff in supporting students with migrant backgrounds, and to elaborate on how they enact professional agency toward these challenges. The data consist of 15 thematic interviews with staff members across various work positions in two Finnish lower secondary schools. Based on thematic analysis, the challenges within the staff community and the education policies were found to include the following: (1) the diversification of students makes tensions more visible in the staff community, and (2) inflexible education polic…
Factors Constraining Teachers’ Wellbeing and Agency in a Finnish University : Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022
The COVID-19 pandemic forced teachers to undergo a sudden shift toward technology-enhanced teaching and learning, challenging their capacities for change in many ways. This study explores those factors constraining teachers’ wellbeing and agency that influenced their capacities as teachers in a Finnish university during the first year of the pandemic. Two sets of data were collected, with an online survey in the spring (n = 297) and autumn (n = 246) of 2020. At both times, challenges with workload, time management, and interactions with colleagues were found to be the most constraining factors. Difficulties with work–life balance and home office facilities seemed more of an issue in the spr…