Sökning: "transformative work"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 70 avhandlingar innehållade orden transformative work.
1. Turning Work Inside Out : Exploring Outdoor Office Work
Sammanfattning : Why don't we usually work outdoors? While some professions require it, most white-collar workers remain indoors, sedentary, and screen-bound. Yet, the potential benefits of outdoor work on health, well-being, learning, and creativity are significant and underexplored, especially given the demands of today's knowledge-intensive work life. LÄS MER
2. A systemic stigmatization of fat people
Sammanfattning : The aim of this work was to develop knowledge about and awareness of fatness stigmatization from a systemic perspective. The stigmatization of fat people was located as a social problem in a second-order reality in which human fatness is observed and responded to, in turn providing it with negative meaning. LÄS MER
3. Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel
Sammanfattning : In this thesis the overall aim is to analyse conceptions of change with the point of departure being texts developed within the framework of three development partnerships financed by the European Social Fund's Equal Programme 2001-2007. The development partnerships, consisting of collaborating parties from both the public and private sector, aimed at developing new methods and ideas in order to counteract discrimination and all kinds of inequality in working life. LÄS MER
4. Ambiguity at the heart of design work : Sensing and negotiating ambiguity in knowledge-creation work
Sammanfattning : Ambiguities have long intrigued design and new product development (NPD) researchers: The fascination seems rooted in an endeavor to understand how design outcomes may be created despite the ambiguous nature of such work. There are several classic contributions on how to categorize, avoid and approach ambiguities. LÄS MER
5. Transformative Power Challenged : EU Membership Conditionality in the Western Balkans Revisited
Sammanfattning : The EU is assumed to have a strong top-down transformative power over the states applying for membership. But despite intensive research on the EU membership conditionality, the transformative power of the EU in itself has been left curiously understudied. LÄS MER