Search for dissertations about: "workplace safety"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 46 swedish dissertations containing the words workplace safety.
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1. Promoting safety in organizations : The role of leadership and managerial practices
Abstract : Workplace accidents and injuries are a growing problem for organizations in Sweden as well as in many other countries. As a consequence, improving workplace safety has become an area of increasing concern for employers and politicians as well as researchers. READ MORE
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2. Constructing Safety - Workplace Safety in Construction Industry with Emphasis on Safety Climate and Empirical Base in a Large Construction Project
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3. Workplace Ethics : Some practical and foundational problems
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
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4. Rummet som resurs för förändringsarbete
Abstract : This thesis focuses on the relationship between spatial and organisational issues, and how they relate to the development of organisations. The objective is to support organisational development by viewing space as a resource in processes of change and development. The thesis is based on two studies. READ MORE
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5. "I know where you live" : Statutory social work, client violence, and dilemmas for safety and practice
Abstract : Violence from service users towards social workers (client violence) has been a growing concern over the last decades. Statutory social work is among the occupations with a high risk of client violence. Sweden has a long history of legislation on workplace safety, yet client violence in social work is perpetual. READ MORE