Search for dissertations about: "Workplace Studies"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 261 swedish dissertations containing the words Workplace Studies.
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1. Learning Dynamics of Workplace Development Programmes : Studies in Swedish national programmes
Abstract : The thesis focuses on workplace development programmes (WPDPs) that operationalize national policies on workplace development. WPDPs are time-limited and they provide support to organizations that aim to improve their operational performance or employees’ work conditions. READ MORE
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2. Constituting the Healthy Employee? : Governing gendered subjects in workplace health promotion
Abstract : With a post-structural approach and an analytical focus on processes of governmentality and biopower, this study is concerned with how discourses of health are contextualized in educational practice and interaction between educators and participants in workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions. Of concern are issues of the discursive production, regulation and representation of power, knowledge and subjects as gendered beings in workplace health promotion interventions. READ MORE
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3. Enhance your workplace! : a dialogue tool for workplace health promotion with salutogenic approach
Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to develop and make a quality assessment of a tool, which includes a questionnaire and a dialogue process that could be useful for workplace health promotion from a salutogenic point of view. The studies have been performed within two health care organizations between 2005 and 2009, together with hospital staff. READ MORE
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4. The Mediated Representation of Working Conditions in the Global South : Discourse, Ideology and Responsibility
Abstract : This thesis examines the mediated representation of workers’ working conditions in the Global South. Using a qualitative approach inspired by Critical Discourse Studies, it focuses on ideological representation in newspapers from Sweden, the USA, Chile and China/Hong Kong. READ MORE
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5. Gender equality and health experiences : workplace patterns in Northern Sweden
Abstract : Gendered practices of working life create gender inequalities through horizontal and vertical gender segregation in work, which may lead to gender inequalities in health experiences. The workplace is an important part of the social circumstances under which health opportunities and constraints are shaped. READ MORE