Search for dissertations about: "workplaces"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 153 swedish dissertations containing the word workplaces.
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1. Mission Impossible? Universal Alcohol Prevention at Workplaces in Sweden
Abstract : Since the mid 1990s, alcohol policy in Sweden has undergone major changes and the restrictive policy instruments have been weakened. Alternative and compensatory preventive measures have been sought and the workplace is repeatedly referred to as an important and appropriate arena for prevention. READ MORE
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2. Mapping Gender in Academic Workplaces : Ways of reproducing gender inequality within the discourse of equality
Abstract : Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. READ MORE
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3. Changes in Workplaces and Careers
Abstract : Organizational Change and Productivity Growth − Evidence from SwedenThis paper uses two different firm level surveys matched with employer-employee data to investigate both determinants and effects of different types of organizational change. The results support the competition hypothesis for inducing organizational change. READ MORE
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4. Healthy workplaces : factors of importance for employee health and organizational production
Abstract : The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate one aspect of healthy workplaces; namely, how psychosocial work factors affect employees’ general health and organizational production. The aim of Study I was to identify psychosocial factors at work that promote positive changes in employee health and factors that prevent negative changes in employee health. READ MORE
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5. Mathematics at work : a study of mathematical organisations in Rwandan workplaces and educational settings
Abstract : To make mathematics more significant for the beneficiaries, the problem studied in this thesis is to investigate how to connect mathematical daily practices with educational contexts. The overarching aim is to investigate how to contextualise school mathematics within Rwandan cultural mathematics practices. READ MORE