Sökning: "contingent workers"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden contingent workers.
1. Liminality at Work : Mobile Project Workers In-Between
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis addresses how mobile project workers; technical consultants working in projects, experience and deal with project-based work. The thesis consists of a compilation of five papers and an extended summary. It is based on three qualitative studies including methods like interviews, diaries, and observations. LÄS MER
2. Work Liminality and Liminality Competence : a study of mobile project workers
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about people engaged in project-based work, a work context that is becoming increasingly common since more and more firms are relying on project-based forms of organization. More specifically, the thesis deals with a specific condition arising in projectbased work, namely that of ‘work liminality’. LÄS MER
3. Multilingual Life in Dementia Care : Crossing Linguistic Boundaries and Cognitive Gap: Navigating Mutual Understanding
Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents empirical research in the field of multilingual communication in residential homes of people living with dementia. Prior research has emphasised the crucial function of a common language and culture between care workers and residents in such settings. LÄS MER
4. Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context
Sammanfattning : Background: In Bangladesh, on an average 62% of total healthcare spending was borne by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments annually during 2000- 2015. Because of such high OOP payments, a sizable proportion of households (15.7%) faced catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and a number of them fell into poverty in 2010. LÄS MER
5. Making Questions and Answers Work : Negotiating Participation in Interview Interaction
Sammanfattning : The current thesis explores conditions for participation in interview interaction. Drawing on the ethnomethodological idea that knowledge is central to participation in social situations, it examines how interview participants navigate knowledge and competence claims and the institutional and moral implications of these claims. LÄS MER