Search for dissertations about: "Employment contract"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Employment contract.

2. 1. Alternative employment and well-being : Contract heterogeneity and differences among individuals

   Author : Claudia Bernhard-Oettel; Magnus Sverke; Kerstin Isaksson; Gunnar Aronsson; Sabine Raeder; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Employment contract; temporary work; part-time work; individual characteristics; contract motives; work involvement; job characteristics; work-related attitudes; well-being; health; Psychology; Psykologi; psykologi; Psychology;

   Abstract : The increasing use of temporary and part-time employment in recent decades was initially expected to lead to negative effects for the individual. The empirical evidence, however, has been equivocal and the consequences are therefore still unclear. READ MORE

4. 2. The Employment Contract between Ethics and Economics

   Author : Lars Lindblom; Sven Ove Hansson; Peter Fabienne; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Justice; work; efficiency; desert; consent; contestability; workplace inspections; whistleblowing; the market; equality of resources; justice as fairness; the employment contract; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Practical Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates what work ought to be like. The answer it presents consists of an outline of a liberaltheory of justice in the employment contract based on theory developed in the area of political philosophy. READ MORE

5. 3. The Ethics of Workspace Surveillance

   Author : Elin Palm; Sven Ove Hansson; Jeroen van den Hoven; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; asymmetric relations; autonomy; consent; contract theory; contractualism; employment; ethical technology assessment; ethics; monitoring; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Abstract : The general framework of this thesis is that of ethical Technology Assessment (eTA). Whereas the first essay proposes an inclusive approach to technology assessment by delineating an ethical checklist, the following essays focus on two of the checklist points, i.e. READ MORE

6. 4. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems

   Author : Anders J Persson; Sven Ove Hansson; Matti Häyry; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Philosophy; Ethics; contract of employment; ethics; ethical criteria; health and safety standards; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen; Philosophy;

   Abstract : The aim of the present thesis is twofold: first, to analyse some practical ethical problems that stem from the workplace and the working environment and to offer guidelines concerning how such problems can be solved; second, to illuminate how the specific nature of work and the working environment is intimately connected to the relation between the employee and the employing entity, as set forth in an employment contract, and how the form and content of such contracts are, among other things, determined by culturally and socially established ideas. The normative question to be addressed is thus: which of these ideas should be maintained? This can be seen as a second-order, or more fundamental, ethical question whose answer depends on determining which normative principles are right. READ MORE

7. 5. Ethical problems in work and working environment contexts

   Author : Anders J. Persson; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; contract of employment; double standards; drug testing. ethics; ethical justification; exposure; genetic testing; health and safety standards; privacy; surveillance; risks; work; work environment; Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis identifies and systematizes two categories ofpractical problems that stem from work and working environmentcontexts: workplace privacy and occupational health risks. Thefocus of the discussion is on ethical justification. READ MORE