Managing Well-Being at Work during 2010s—Expert Viewpoints

Sinisammal, Janne; Belt, Pekka; Härkönen, Janne; Möttönen, Merja; Väyrynen, Seppo

doi:10.4236/ojsst.2012.21004

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“…Many published citations to the concept of work system, the work system framework, WSLC, and WSM revealed contributions to a researcher's thinking. The following examples date from 2006 to 2012: Benbasat and Zmud (2006), Cuellar, McLean, and Johnson (2006), Curtin, Kauffman, and Riggins (2006), Davamanirajan, Kauffman, Kriebel, and Mukhopadhyay (2006), Gray (2006), Møller (2006), BenMoussa (2007, Goodhue (2007), Kurpjuweit and Winter (2007), Sewchurran and Petkov (2007), Davison, Ou, Li, Martinsons, and Bjorksten (2008), Kosaka (2008), Lyytinen and Newman (2008), Petkov and Petkova (2008), Petersson (2008), Singh and Woo (2008), Beekhuyzen (2009), Gericke and Winter (2009), Gregory and Descubes (2011), Kosaka (2009), Lafaye (2009), Madsen and Vigden (2009), Misra, Petkov, and Petkova (2009), Mettler (2009), Ou and Banerjee (2009), Pinhanez (2009), Ralph and Wand (2009), BenMoussa 2010 2012, Sinisammal, Belt, Härkönen, Möttönen, and Väyrynen (2012). While an increasing number of citations have appeared, the extent to which WST and its applications and extensions will prove useful in IS research is not yet fully evident because of the lengthy time lags in diffusion of new ideas, use of those ideas in research, and eventual publication.…”

Section: Usage In Researchmentioning

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Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future

Alter

2013

JAIS

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This paper presents a current, accessible, and overarching view of work system theory. WST is the core of an integrated body of theory that emerged from a long-term research project to develop a systems analysis and design method for business professionals called the work system method (WSM). After discussing WST's basic premises and its two central frameworks, this paper summarizes the relationship between WST and WSM. It shows how experience with early versions of WSM led to three extensions of WST that addressed limitations-inuse in one of the central frameworks in WST. After comparisons with related theories, this paper closes with an evaluation of progress to date, new directions for research related to WST, and implications for the IS discipline. The two appendices summarize the long term research from which WST emerged and use a positioning map to show how WST is related to other topics in the IS discipline.

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Section: Usage In Researchmentioning

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Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future

Alter

2013

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“…By way of interviews with researchers, consultants and managers who work for public and private organizations, a study conducted in Finland by Sinisammal et al (2012) identified factors that influence occupational wellbeing. The content of the interviews resulted in five categories: employee (need for self-realization, equilibrium between work and private life, and health promotion), work (possibilities of self-development, significance of the work), group work (companionship, teamwork, positive attitudes in relation to diversity, mutual trust), management (clear practices and rules; communication and transparency; and managerial abilities), and external factors (macro-issues such as the local and global economy; laws; and microissues such as family, friends, personal relations and leisure time).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework 21 Well-being In the Workplacementioning

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“…Administrating them has become the greatest challenge for managers that seek to create value, satisfaction and necessary conditions for the good performance of their employees, identifying effective strategies for promoting well-being in the workplace. Sinisammal, Belt, Härkönen, Möttönen, and Väyrynen (2012) affirmed that the benefits of well-being at work are extendable to employees, employers and the national economy. In the case of organizations, an appropriate level of well-being would increase quality and productivity, as well as positively influence the reduction of health problems that lead to sick leave.…”

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Antecedents of Well-Being at Work: Trust and People Management Policies

Oliveira

Júnior

Poli

2020

RAM, Rev. Adm. Mackenzie

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of people management policies and organization trust on well-being at work, the latter being defined as the predominance of positive emotions at work and the individual’s perception that, at work, he/she can express and develop his/her potential and, therefore, he/she progresses to achieving his life’s goals. Originality/value: The hypothesis underlying this research is that the work context presents itself as a privileged place for emotions and, fundamentally, for the realization and construction of personal happiness. The premise that the attainment of personal happiness is possible at work encourages people-management professionals to identify effective strategies for promoting well-being. Design/methodology/approach: The sample consisted of 212 workers from various organizations who answered to instruments with evidence of validity and reliability. The model was tested by structural equation modeling and the reliability coefficients of the scales tested using Cronbach’s alpha. Findings: The results showed that the adjustment of the model is only reasonable, although, depending on the adjustment indices, it can be accepted. The results are discussed in terms of the contributions of the study to the expansion of knowledge in the area of organizational behavior and its implications for managerial actions. It is also suggested to carry out other studies covering larger samples and different natures.

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“…However, agri-food facilities must ensure not only the consumers' hygiene safety, by adopting all the precautions and building solutions which may guarantee adequate safety levels for product contamination, but also an adequate safety level for workers (Sinisammal et al, 2012). Recently, EU-27 has implemented the European 2007-2012 strategy on health and safety at work (European Commission, 2007) establishing six intermediate objectives in order to achieve a 25% reduction in the total incidence rate of accidents at work.…”

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A fuzzy-based model to implement the global safety buildings index assessment for agri-food buildings

Barreca

Cardinali

Fichera

et al. 2014

J Agricult Engineer

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The latest EU policies focus on the issue of food safety with a view to ensuring adequate and standard quality levels for the food produced and/or consumed within the EC. To that purpose, the environment where agricultural products are manufactured and processed plays a crucial role in achieving food hygiene. As a consequence, it is of the outmost importance to adopt proper building solutions which meet health and hygiene requirements as well as to use suitable tools to measure the levels achieved. Similarly, it is necessary to verify and evaluate the level of workers’ safety and welfare in their working environment. Workers’ safety has not only an ethical and social value but also an economic implication, since possible accidents or environmental stressors are the major causes of the lower efficiency and productivity of workers. Therefore, it is fundamental to design suitable models of analysis that allow assessing buildings as a whole, taking into account both health and hygiene safety as well as workers’ safety and welfare. Hence, this paper proposes an assessment model that, based on an established study protocol and on the application of a fuzzy logic procedure, allows assessing the global safety level of an agri-food building by means of a global safety buildings index. The model here presented is original since it uses fuzzy logic to evaluate the performances of both the technical and environmental systems of an agri-food building in terms of health and hygiene safety of the manufacturing process as well as of workers’ health and safety. The result of the assessment is expressed through a triangular fuzzy membership function which allows carrying out comparative analyses of different buildings. A specific procedure was developed to apply the model to a case study which tested its operational simplicity and the validity of its results. The proposed model allows obtaining a synthetic and global value of the building performance of each of its functional areas, in terms of food hygiene and workers’ safety and welfare, as well as highlighting possible weaknesses. Though the model may be applied in either the design or the operational phase of a building, this paper focuses on its application to certain buildings already operating in a specific productive context.

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Managing Well-Being at Work during 2010s—Expert Viewpoints

Cited by 7 publications

References 22 publications

Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future

Work System Theory: Overview of Core Concepts, Extensions, and Challenges for the Future

Antecedents of Well-Being at Work: Trust and People Management Policies

A fuzzy-based model to implement the global safety buildings index assessment for agri-food buildings

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