Sökning: "Organizational downsizing"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Organizational downsizing.
1. Seeking Individual Health and Organizational Sustainability : The Implications of Change and Mobility
Sammanfattning : Extensive changes are taking place in working life and creating new and important areas for research. New knowledge is needed in order for individuals and organizations to be able to maintain long-term development. LÄS MER
2. Challenges for end-use energy efficiency
Sammanfattning : The scientific community has reached close to a consensus that anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are causing a change of the global climate. These emissions arise foremost from the burning of fossil fuels, and secondly from land use change. LÄS MER
3. The worries of working : Longitudinal studies on the impact of employment uncertainty and employment transitions on clinically defined mental health conditions
Sammanfattning : While mental health problems according psychotropic drug purchases and sick leave spells for psychiatric disorders have increased in Sweden the past 15 years, this is not reflected in trends of psychiatric diagnoses or suicide mortality. In parallel, labor markets have undergone structural changes pressuring employers to increase their flexibility to ensure permanence. LÄS MER
4. Energy Efficiency Versus Gains in Consumer Amenities
Sammanfattning : This thesis, consisting of five papers, addresses the question of what share of technological development results in increased energy efficiency rather than offsetting improved consumer services in the form of gains in consumer amenities? In the first paper economic and organizational explanations are given for stagnating energy efficiency trends in the Swedish residential building sector. The results show that changes in energy prices to a large extent explain the observed stagnation. LÄS MER
5. Stress of conscience and burnout among healthcare personnel working in residential care of older people
Sammanfattning : Background This thesis was part of the research programme ‘Stress of Conscience and Burnout among Healthcare Personnel in Elderly Care’ at Umeå University. Relationships have been found between stress of conscience, perception of conscience, burnout, and social support. LÄS MER