Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting Subjects—Key Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research
The Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are societies that share many features among themselves that also distinguish them from other industrialized countries. The paper poses the question whether the distinct character of the Nordic societies has generated working life re...
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ftkbcopenhojs:oai:ojs.tidsskrift.dk:article/26743 2023-05-15T16:50:31+02:00 Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting Subjects—Key Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research Hasle, Peter Sørensen, Ole Henning 2013-09-01 application/pdf https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/26743 https://doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v3i3.3009 eng eng Aalborg University, Denmark https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/26743/23515 https://tidsskrift.dk/njwls/article/view/26743 doi:10.19154/njwls.v3i3.3009 Ophavsret (c) 2013 Author and Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies; Årg. 3 Nr. 3 (2013); 9-29 Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies; Vol 3 No 3 (2013): Theme: In Search of Nordic Working Life Research Perspectives; 9-29 2245-0157 Health working environment & wellbeing Innovation & productivity Labor market institutions & social partners Organization & management info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2013 ftkbcopenhojs https://doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v3i3.3009 2020-07-18T23:13:09Z The Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are societies that share many features among themselves that also distinguish them from other industrialized countries. The paper poses the question whether the distinct character of the Nordic societies has generated working life research that is clearly distinguishable from similar research in other countries in terms of distinctness in topics, methods, empirical findings, or theoretical concepts. The aim of this paper is to answer this question by identifying, analyzing, and discussing selected key contributions from Nordic working life research to understand how they research and construe the conditions of humans at work with a special focus on the psychosocial well-being of industrial workers. The paper concludes that the key contributions to Nordic working life research have a distinctive emphasis on collective employee voice and autonomy and an extensive use of empirical and actionoriented research methods. Employees are construed not only as workers resisting exploitations from management or as workers pursuing individual careers, but also as members of collectives who share ideas and aspirations and who legitimately influence the management (and research) using cooperation and pressure. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Tidsskrift.dk (The Royal Library, Denmark) Norway Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 3 3 9 |
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The Nordic countries—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—are societies that share many features among themselves that also distinguish them from other industrialized countries. The paper poses the question whether the distinct character of the Nordic societies has generated working life research that is clearly distinguishable from similar research in other countries in terms of distinctness in topics, methods, empirical findings, or theoretical concepts. The aim of this paper is to answer this question by identifying, analyzing, and discussing selected key contributions from Nordic working life research to understand how they research and construe the conditions of humans at work with a special focus on the psychosocial well-being of industrial workers. The paper concludes that the key contributions to Nordic working life research have a distinctive emphasis on collective employee voice and autonomy and an extensive use of empirical and actionoriented research methods. Employees are construed not only as workers resisting exploitations from management or as workers pursuing individual careers, but also as members of collectives who share ideas and aspirations and who legitimately influence the management (and research) using cooperation and pressure. |
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Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting Subjects—Key Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research |
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