scholarly journals Systematic Work Environment Management: Experiences from Implementation in Swedish Small-scale Enterprises

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina GUNNARSSON ◽  
Ing-Marie ANDERSSON ◽  
Gunnar ROSÉN
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environment Management

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Employees’ Experiences of a Support model for Systematic Work Environment Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (19) ◽  
pp. 3551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Hellman ◽  
Fredrik Molin ◽  
Magnus Svartengren
Keyword(s):  
Focus Group ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Support Model

Background: The aim is to explore how an organisational work environment support model, the Stamina model, influences employees’ work situations and the development of sustainable work systems. Methods: It was a qualitative study with semi-structured, focus-group interviews, including 45 employees from six work groups. Eighteen focus group interviews were conducted over a period of two years. Data were analysed with constant comparative method. Results: The core category, shifting focus from an individual to an organisational perspective of work, illustrated how communication and increased understanding of one’s work tasks changed over time and contributed to deeper focus on the actual operation. These insights were implemented at different time points among the work groups during the two-year process. Conclusions: Our results indicate that working with the model engages employees in the work environment management, puts emphasis on reflections and discussions about the meaning and purpose of the operations and enables a shared platform for communication. These are important features that need to continue over time in order to create a sustainable work system. The Stamina model, thus seems to have the potential to promote productive and healthy work places.

The Service Environment in Relationship-based Practice: “It's Like a Community”

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Reimer
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Readiness To Change ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Family Services ◽  
Family Service ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Delivery Options ◽  
The Relationship

The family service work environment has been linked to the parent–worker relationship (relationship) for many years. However, there is still much to understand about how the working environment and these relationships are connected. This paper reports on a small-scale qualitative study exploring the story of eight relationships between parents and family workers in four rurally based family services in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Hermeneutics provided a way of examining the dynamics of the relationships, as it enabled an in-depth exploration and interpretation of the participants’ perspectives of how they experienced and understood the relationship. It became apparent that the work environment is an important influence on the relationship. New insights that emerged include the important role that staff not directly involved in the relationship (such as other family workers, supervisors, and administration and other professional staff) may play in assisting relationships. They also include the way in which flexible service delivery options support parent feelings of comfort, readiness to change, reciprocity, a sense of ownership to the service and need for support outside of planned appointments (both during and after intervention has ceased). These all support the development and maintenance of such relationships.

scholarly journals First-Line Managers’ Experiences of Working with a Structured Support Model for Systematic Work Environment Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 3884
Author(s):  
Fredrik Molin ◽  
Therese Hellman ◽  
Magnus Svartengren
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Work Groups ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
First Line ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
One Year ◽  
Monitoring Progress ◽  
Support Model

Background: This paper describes the experiences of first-line managers when working with a structured support model for systematic work environment management in their work groups. First-line managers play a key part in influencing the work environment. Methods: In this study, a sample of managers implementing a structured support model, the Stamina model, in Swedish municipalities were interviewed. A total of 31 (n = 31) interviews were conducted at two time points during a one-year period. The collected data were analysed using a qualitative thematic approach. Results: The results showed that managers experienced discomfort when giving the responsibility of working with work environmental issues to employees. However, managers also experienced and were impressed by how well it worked in allowing employees to take on work environmental issues. Managers found that they balanced between being quiescent and, at the same time, actively monitoring progress in the work groups. Conclusions: The results from this study implicate that managers need to be sensitive to the needs and capacity of their work groups. The oracle in Delphi stated know yourself. We conclude: Know your group!

scholarly journals How Human Resources Index, Relational Justice, and Perceived Productivity Change after Reorganization at a Hospital in Sweden That Uses a Structured Support Model for Systematic Work Environment Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11611
Author(s):  
Erebouni Arakelian ◽  
Sofia Paulsson ◽  
Fredrik Molin ◽  
Magnus Svartengren
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Productivity Change ◽  
Positive Trend ◽  
Production Loss ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Relational Justice ◽  
Support Model

To facilitate systematic work environment management, which should be a natural part of business development, a structured support model was developed. The Stamina model has previously been used in Swedish municipalities, showing positive results. The aim was to study how the Human Resources Index (HRI), relational justice, short-term recovery and perceived productivity changed in a recently reorganised perioperative setting in a hospital in Sweden that uses a structured support model for systematic work environment management. A longitudinal design that took measurements at four time points was used in a sample of 500 employees in a perioperative hospital department. The results for the overall sample indicated a positive trend in the HRI (Mt1 = 48.5, SDt1 = 22.5; Mt3 = 56.7, SDt1 = 21.2; p < 0.001). Perceived health-related production loss (Mdt1 = 2, IQR = 3; Mdt3 = 0, IQR = 3; p < 0.001) and perceived work environment-related production loss (Mdt1 = 2, IQR = 3; Mdt3 = 0, IQR = 4; p < 0.001) showed major improvements. Short-term recovery showed a minor improvement (Mt1 = 2.61, SDt1 = 1.33; Mt3 = 2.65, SDt3 = 1.22; p = 0.872). In conclusion, the implementation of the Stamina model, of which the HRI constitutes an important part, seems to be a helpful tool to follow-up on work environment processes, and minimise production losses due to health and work environment-related issues.

scholarly journals Commitment or Compliance? Institutional Logics of Work Environment Management

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (S2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Uhrenholdt Madsen ◽  
Peter Hasle
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
The State ◽  
Environment Management ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
The Ideal

Scholars of the work environment have pointed out how management ideas and practices inspired by a human resource approach are influencing the work environment efforts in Nordic organiza tions. In this paper, we use the ‘institutional logics’ perspective to propose heuristic ideal types of two institutional logics of work environment management:The logic of compliance as the ideal type of the ‘traditional’ approach to work environment management and the logic of commitment as the human resource informed approach. Through a side-by-side comparison of key characteristics, we analyze the two ideal types as instantiations of institutional orders on the societal level with the compliance logic being rooted in the orders of the state and the corporation, and the commitment logic as based on the orders of the corporation.The paper ends with a discussion on the how the two logics can influence concrete work environment practices and approaches to management in organizations. 

Simplified Design Method of Debris Arch Detention Dams Structure and Its Application in Highway

2012 ◽  
Vol 446-449 ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
Zhong Li ◽  
Yan Peng Zhu ◽  
Xiao Ri Song
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Storage Capacity ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Structure Design ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Radial Deformation ◽  
Gravity Dams ◽  
Arch Dams ◽  
Simplified Method ◽  
Deformation Compatibility

As a debris detention structure, small arch dams have some characteristics of small size, big storage capacity, and economic compared with gravity dams In this paper, according to the work environment and force behaviors of debris detention structure, adopting Trial-load Method, and only considering the conditions of radial deformation compatibility at arch crown, a simplified method is derived, which is suitable for the calculation of small-scale debris arch dams. Examined by calculating an example, this method is simplified, and convenient to programmed, and easy to be mastered by engineering and technical personnel for debris detention structure design and calculation, and calculation accuracy can meet the project requirements.

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