Thesis (M.A.I.S.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 53-58). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T23:44:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 6 Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz11.pdf: 1064164 bytes, checksum: 54dea2d101132f62277aa0ca1605f345 (MD5) Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz22.pdf: 1078947 bytes, checksum: a1635fa04f26b96913a6f953f6e90658 (MD5) Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz33.pdf: 1102470 bytes, checksum: d958115381754fa56843bd8933a7e609 (MD5) Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz44.pdf: 559240 bytes, checksum: 845b570e69129938806ab09588620cdf (MD5) Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz55.pdf: 595708 bytes, checksum: 851a5deb7f0140bc8232369eeae5a2d1 (MD5) Alessandra Maria Cerqueira Lima Horschutz66.pdf: 1036764 bytes, checksum: 714b119414c98ab7ccba062107ce3734 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-06 / This research aims to study the corporate offices occupancy changes occurred between different decades, considering as a case of study the IBM Tutóia building, located in São Paulo, since its inauguration in 1977 until the year of 2005. First will be presented an over view of the offices occupancy concepts evolution, which has proliferated in United States and Europe, and that are the basis of the actual concepts. Following it will be presented a short description of the corporate office buildings in São Paulo and its internal arrangement, focusing on the business districts that concentrates these buildings in the city. Following will be demonstrated how the occupancy concepts were implemented in the American and Brazilian IBM offices, for further analysis and better understanding of the case of study. Finally, the IBM Tutóia building will be presented emphasizing it conception, architecture, occupancy changes throughout the years, population density increase and their consequences. Due to the fast launching of new technology and the constant changes in the way of working, new types of spaces are required all the time. In this manner, the purpose of this research is to establish concepts for the analysis of the future corporate buildings transformation. / Este trabalho objetiva estudar as transformações dos conceitos de ocupação física dos escritórios corporativos em diferentes épocas, ao apresentar como estudo de caso o edifício IBM Tutóia, localizado na cidade de São Paulo, desde a sua inauguração em 1977 até o ano de 2005. Primeiramente será apresentado um panorama geral da evolução dos conceitos de ocupação de escritórios, que se proliferaram nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, e que foram base para os conceitos utilizados atualmente. Em seguida será observado um breve histórico dos edifícios-sede de empresas em São Paulo e suas organizações internas, observando os pólos de negócios que concetram os mesmos na cidade. Depois será demonstrado como esses conceitos de ocupação foram empregados nos escritórios da IBM norte-americanos e brasileiros, para posterior análise e melhor entendimento do estudo de caso. Finalmente, o edifício IBM Tutóia será apresentado com destaque para sua concepção, arquitetura, transformações da ocupação ao longo dos anos, aumento da densidade populacional e suas consequências. Com o rápido surgimento de novas tecnologias e as constantes mudanças na maneira de trabalhar, novas necessidades de tipos de espaços aparecem a todo momento. Assim, o propósito deste trabalho é estabelecer parâmetros para a análise futura da transformação de outros edifícios-sede de escritórios.

This study intends to shine a light on the psychological phenomenon that is the imposter syndrome, and the role that the employer and human resource departments play in this condition. Based on theories and previous research about learning, competence, leadership and human resources we’ve intended to examine how employers need to consider the Swedish work environment law when handling employees with critical self-doubt in work-related situations. We’ve investigated which work-related situations the study's interview participants experience self-doubt and insecurity, by conducting qualitative interviews. Using their stories, the study has achieved a result that shows a correlation between the importance of genuine feedback, transparent communication, healthy organizational culture and the handling of work-related self-doubt. / Studien avser undersöka det psykologiska fenomenet bluffsyndromet och arbetsgivarens roll ihanteringen av dess symptom i det systematiska arbetsmiljöarbetet. Utifrån teorier och tidigareforskning om bluffsyndromet, lärandets processer, kompetens, HR och ledarskap. Teorierna och dentidigare forskningen har ställts i relation till arbetsmiljölagen och det systematiska arbetsmiljöarbetetför att undersöka HR:s roll i frågan. Med hjälp av kvalitativa intervjuer har det undersökts i vilkaarbetsrelaterade situationer studiens intervjudeltagare upplever självtvivel och osäkerhet. Med hjälp avderas berättelser har studien uppnått ett resultat som visar korrelation mellan vikten av genuinfeedback, transparent kommunikation, sund organisationskultur och hanteringen av arbetsrelateratsjälvtvivel.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:56:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LILIAN CRISTINA TEIXEIRA PIMENTEL.pdf: 1194315 bytes, checksum: b2094114582008a73c72297aad0304f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-01-31 / This research sought to identify the implications of environmental, social and work in the process of health - disease of women seamstresses by faction of the Metropolitan Area of Goiânia. Had as reference the Doctoral Thesis, Mujeres del trabajo that live at home - El tiempo de las trabajadores own de la ropa de Goiás dress, the type of study and research subjects 10 years later, it is referenced in this study as research-reference (Jonas / 2001). This is a qualitative study conducted with 34 seamstresses by faction in their own home which was located among the 59 selected intentionally seamstresses who participated in discussion groups of research-reference (Jonas/2001). Data were collected through interviews and the results obtained allowed to identify most of these women are older than 55 years, white, married, partisan, included in this work is by vocation, need to help out financially at home or lack of better job opportunities. Mostly have low education, excessive working hours, work more than 12 hours per week, shift work beyond 8 hours without receiving extra compensation and receive one to two minimum wages. Besides the professional work they perform domestic chores in their homes, which characterizes the double workday. The work environment is usually devoid of visual comfort, thermal, acoustic, securities with inadequate and mingles with the familiar environment. They are exposed to several risk factors physical, economic and environmental manifested in health problems identified at all partisan. They are more common: the musculoskeletal disorders, spine problems, digestive disorders, hypertension and varices. Most seamstresses identified as a disadvantage in that said free work, lack of rights and social guarantees, and the advantage of the fact that he reconciled the various roles of mother, wife and homemaker. Regarding the expected achievements expressed that most of them, was to contribute to education and training of children. Passed 10 years after the 1st investigation that served as reference for this work, the seamstresses attribute the health problems faced by them as hereditary factors, without a conscious attitude on the conditioning to which they are referred by the type of work.Therefore, it can be stated that, in general, they still are not aware of the current issues that occur in the workplace and is permeated by violations of the diversity of risk factors present in the work of faction at home, and impact of work overload accumulated work at home with the day's housework and care of the family, responsible for diseases and painful manifestations. / Esta pesquisa buscou identificar as implicações decorrentes das condições ambientais, sociais e do trabalho no processo de saúde - doença das mulheres costureiras por facção da Região Metropolitana de Goiânia. Teve como referência a Tese de Doutorado, Mujeres que viven del trabajo a domicílio El tiempo próprio de las trabajadoras de la ropa de vestir de Goiás, quanto ao tipo de estudo e os sujeitos investigados 10 anos depois, e será referenciado neste estudo como pesquisa-referência (Jonas/ 2001). Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo realizado junto a 34 costureiras por facção em seu próprio domicílio que foi localizado dentre as 59 costureiras selecionadas intencionalmente que participaram dos grupos de discussão da pesquisa-referência (Jonas/2001). Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade e os resultados obtidos possibilitaram identificar que a maioria dessas mulheres tem idade acima de 55 anos, são brancas, casadas, faccionistas, inseridas neste trabalho seja por vocação, necessidade de ajudar financeiramente em casa ou por falta de melhores oportunidades de trabalho. Em sua maioria, têm baixa escolaridade, jornada de trabalho excessiva, trabalham mais de 12 horas semanais, trabalham além da jornada de 8 horas diárias sem receber nenhuma remuneração extra e recebem de 1 a 2 salários mínimos. Além do trabalho profissional elas realizam trabalhos domésticos em suas moradias, o que caracteriza a dupla jornada de trabalho. O ambiente de trabalho geralmente é desprovido de conforto visual, térmico, acústico, com mobiliários inadequados e se mistura com o ambiente familiar. Estão expostas a vários fatores de riscos físicos, econômicos e ambientais manifestados nos problemas de saúde identificados em todas as faccionistas. São mais frequentes: as disfunções musculoesqueléticas, os problemas na coluna vertebral, digestivos, varizes e hipertensão. A maioria das costureiras identificou como desvantagem nesse trabalho dito livre, a falta de direitos e garantias sociais, e como vantagem o fato de ter conciliado os vários papeis de mãe, esposa e dona de casa. Quanto às realizações esperadas manifestaram que a maior delas, foi contribuir para a educação e formação dos filhos. Transcorridos 10 anos após a 1ª investigação realizada que serviu de referência para este trabalho, as costureiras atribuem os problemas de saúde enfrentados por elas como de ordem hereditária, sem ter uma postura consciente sobre o condicionamento a que estão submetidas pelo tipo de trabalho. Portanto, pode-se afirmar que, de uma maneira geral, elas ainda não se atentaram às questões atuais que ocorrem no mundo do trabalho e que está permeado por violações, para a diversidade de fatores de risco presentes no trabalho por facção em domicílio, e o impacto da sobrecarga do trabalho profissional no domicílio acumulado com a jornada de trabalho doméstico e dos cuidados com a família, responsáveis pelas doenças e manifestações álgicas.

Project (B.A.)--James Madison University, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references.

Zugl.: Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2008

Bakgrund: Hösten år 2019 bröt Covid-19 viruset ut i Kina och kom att klassas som en pandemi. Hela samhället påverkas, men i frontlinjen av pandemin står vårdpersonalen. Deras arbetsmiljö påverkas kraftigt på grund av att patientintaget ökat och de förväntas utföra högklassig vård. Det är chefens ansvarsområde att se till att arbetsmiljön upplevs som god samt att förebygga olycksfall och ohälsa på arbetet. Arbetsmiljöarbetet är lagstadgat och ska utföras planerat och systematiskt, även kallat systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete. Centrala delar i systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete är undersöka, riskbedöma, åtgärda och kontrollera. Föreliggande studie utgår från riskbedömning och åtgärd. Syfte: Studien syftar till att ge en beskrivning av och ökad förståelse för hur chefer inom ett sjukhus i en medelstor stad i Sverige arbetar med systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete. Fokus ligger på frågor utifrån enhetschefers riskbedömning och åtgärder som påverkar vårdpersonalens arbetsmiljö under Covid-19 pandemin. Metod: Studien utgår ifrån en kvalitativ metod med en abduktiv forskningsansats. Insamlad empiri utgår från två perspektiv, enhetschefer och vårdpersonal, för att ge studien en ökad trovärdighet. Det genomfördes åtta semistrukturerade intervjuer, fyra med enhetschefer och fyra med vårdpersonal, på ett sjukhus i en medelstor stad i Sverige. Resultat och slutsats: Studiens resultat visar på att chefers arbete med systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete inte har ökat under Covid-19 pandemin utan snarare förändrats. Förändringen ligger främst i att den fysiska och psykosociala arbetsmiljön påverkas i form av utsatt arbetssituation som chefer haft begränsad möjlighet att påverka. Kommunikationen förändras genom att fysiska möten minimeras som bidrar till att chefer behöver hitta komplement för att bibehålla kommunikationen med vårdpersonalen. Den långsiktiga planeringen förändras i avseendet att riskbedömningar och åtgärd snarare övergår till att göras på kort sikt under Covid-19 pandemin. / Background: In the autumn of 2019,the Covid-19 virus exclaimed in China, which later came to be classified as a pandemic. The whole society is affected, but the care staff is at the forefront of the pandemic. Their work environment has a strong impact due to the increase in patient intake and they were expected to perform high-quality care. It is the managers responsibility to ensure that the work environment is perceived as good and to prevent accidents and ill health at work. The environment work is statutory and must be carried out planned and systematically, also called systematic environment work. Central parts of systematic environment work are investigation,risk assessment, action and control. The study is based on risk assessment and action. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to provide a description of increased understanding of how managers in a hospital in a medium-sized city in Sweden work with systematic environment work. The focus is on external issues, strengthening risk assessment and measures that affect the care staff's work environment during the Covid-19 pandemic. Method: The study is based on a qualitative method and abductive research approach. Collected empirical data is based on two perspectives, unit managers and care staff, for study and increased credibility. Eight semi-structured interviews, four with unit heads and four with care staff, were conducted at a hospital ina medium-sized city in Sweden. Results and conclusion: The results of the study show that managers working with systematic environment work have not increased during the Covid-19 pandemic but rather changed. The change is mainly in the fact that the physical and psychosocial work environment affects in the form of a vulnerable work situation that managers can limit the opportunity to influence. Communication has changed by minimizing physical meetings as a contribution to the managers having to find a complement to maintain communication with the care staff. Long-term planning has changed in the sense that risk assessments and measures have rather shifted to short-term Covid-19 pandemics.

The construction industry is an exciting and community developing industry, but it is also very much talked about because of the high injury frequency that the industry is characterized by. As a part of preventing accidents at work, the employer conducts systematic work environment work to detect risky parts of the work and to remedy these. Despite the elimination of risks at work, accidents and incidents - so-called deviations in the working environment - occur. Deviations in the working environment must be reported immediately to the employer. Within the company that is subject of this study, the deviations are reported and stored a system called BIA. BIA enables, based on the deviation reports, to create statistical data for the company with respect to different parameters. This report is based on this deviation statistics with regard to accidents and incidents, produced from the reporting tool BIA. The study has investigated in which stages/phases incidents and accidents occur, which work operations that cause incidents and accidents, as well as injury risks and causes of injury behind accidents and incidents. The majority of the company's incidents and accidents occur during construction projects, production and land work. Incidents are caused by work tasks such as excavation work, work at/with passing vehicle traffic and movement within the area. Accidents are caused by work at/by machine, manual handling of material / product and work at/with handheld work equipment. The damage risks in the event of incidents are vehicle accidents, hit by falling or flying objects and stuck or clamped between objects. The causes of injury caused by accidents are damage by self-handled objects, fall at the same level and contact with sharp objects. Fall from height and fall at the same level are the cause of damage in a large part of the accidents. The result of the study also shows that the information given in the event reports in BIA, either lacks of information or that the information is inadequate. / Byggbranschen är en spännande och samhällsutvecklande bransch, men den är också mycket omtalad med anledning av den höga skadefrekvens som branschen karakteriseras av. Som ett led i att förebygga olyckor i arbetet bedriver arbetsgivaren ett systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete för att upptäcka riskabla moment i arbetet samt åtgärda dessa. Trots eliminering av risker i arbetet, inträffar olycksfall och tillbud – så kallade avvikelser i arbetsmiljön. Avvikelser i arbetsmiljön skall omedelbart rapporteras till arbetsgivaren. Inom det företag som utgör föremål för denna studie rapporteras och lagras avvikelserna i ett system som kallas för BIA. BIA möjliggör att, utifrån avvikelserapporter, skapa statistiskt underlag för företaget med avseende på olika parametrar. Denna rapport är baserad på denna avvikelsestatistik med avseende på olycksfall och tillbud, framtaget ur rapporteringsverktyget BIA. Studien har undersökt i vilka skeden/faser tillbud och olycksfall inträffar, vilka arbetsmoment som föranleder tillbud och olycksfall samt skaderisker och skadeorsaker bakom tillbud och olycksfall. Majoriteten av företagets tillbud och olycksfall inträffar vid anläggningsprojekt, produktion och markarbete. Tillbud föranleds av arbetsmoment som schaktningsarbete, arbete vid/med passerande fordonstrafik samt förflyttning inom området. Olycksfall föranleds av arbete vid/med maskin, manuell hantering av material/produkt samt arbete vid/med handhållen arbetsutrustning. Skaderiskerna vid inträffade tillbud är fordonsolycka, träffas av fallande eller flygande föremål samt fastnat eller klämts mellan föremål. De skadeorsaker som olycksfall innebär är skada av egenhanterat föremål, fall i samma nivå samt kontakt med vasst föremål. Fall från höjd och fall i samma nivå utgör orsak till skada i en stor del av olycksfallen. Resultatet av studien visar också att det saknas information i de händelserapporteringar som inkommer i BIA, alternativt är den tillgängliga informationen bristfällig.

Syftet med denna studie var att bidra med fördjupad förståelse för vilka friskfaktorer som är avgörande för långtidsfriskhet ur ett medarbetarperspektiv. Detta genom att studera vad medarbetare inom sociala sektorn i Borlänge kommun upplever bidrar till välbefinnande och friskhet på arbetsplatsen. Vidare ämnade denna studie ge förslag på hur arbetet med friskfaktorer inom Borlänge kommun kan utvecklas. För att på bästa sätt kunna besvara syftet valdes en kvalitativ metod där tillvägagångssättet för insamling av empiri var semistrukturerade intervjuer med långtidsfriska medarbetare från verksamhetsområdet personlig assistans.  Resultatet visar att begreppen stödjande ledarskap, god kommunikation, delaktighet i beslutsfattande, balans mellan arbetsliv och privatliv samt ett positivt arbetsklimat är faktorer som tenderar att ge positiva effekter för hälsa då de finns på arbetsplatsen. Ytterligare faktorer som kunde identifieras var trygghet till följd av lång erfarenhet samt arbetsmoral kopplat till lojalitet. Erfarenheten beskrivs som ett hjälpmedel att hantera olika situationer som kan tänkas uppstå i arbetssituationen samt som stressreducerande eftersom det skapar en tydlighet kring vilka förväntningar som finns i arbetet och mellan kollegorna. Hög arbetsmoral till följd av lojalitet verkar bottna i en vilja att bidra till en medmänniskas nytta genom att vara en viktig resurs i dennes liv.   Denna studie visar betydelsen av ett stödjande ledarskap för förtroendet och tilliten dels mellan chef och medarbetare, dels medarbetare emellan, vilket i förlängningen även påverkar möjligheten till delaktighet samt tryggheten i den egna arbetssituationen. Slutligen visar studiens resultat att friskfaktorer under vissa omständigheter kan bidra med nya möjligheter till främjande arbetsmiljöarbete. / The purpose of this study was to contribute to a deeper understanding of factors that are crucial for long-term well-being and health from an employee perspective. This by studying what employees in the social sector in Borlänge municipality experience contributes to well-being and health in the workplace. Furthermore, this study intended to give suggestions on how the work with health factors in Borlänge municipality can be developed. To best answer the purpose, a qualitative method was chosen in which the approach for collecting empirical data was semi-structured interviews with long-term healthy employees from the area of personal assistance. The results showed that factors such as supportive leadership, participation, autonomy, positive work climate and work-life balance were common in the respondents work situation, which are factors that has shown to have a positive effect on employees' health. Furthermore, the respondents' long-term well-being and health could also be explained by additional health factors that were identified in their work environment. The respondents described that security due to long work experience and work ethic linked to loyalty were factors that contributed to their well-being. The experience is described as a means of handling various situations that may arise in the work situation as well as stress reducing as it creates a clarity about what expectations are in the work and between colleagues. High work ethic due to loyalty seems to be rooted in a desire to contribute to the benefit of another human by being an important resource in his or her life. All in all, the results show that the foundation for successful environment work with health factors requires security and trust partly between the manager and employees and partly between the employees. Finally, the study's results show that, in certain circumstances, health factors may contribute to new opportunities for promoting work environment work.

Företag idag är pressade och måste prioritera sina primära arbetsuppgifter, vilket ofta leder till att arbetsmiljöarbetet blir svårt att upprätthålla eller kan ses som en omotiverad kostnad. För att bespara tid och inte störa den dagliga verksamheten förekommer det att representanter väljs ut som får agera länk mellan slutanvändare och systemutvecklare vid framtagandet av nya system. Det leder till att viktiga kunskaper och behov inte kommer fram under utvecklingsfasen. Bristande utformning av datorsystem kan leda till att de inte nyttjas eller att arbetsmiljöarbetet blir lidande. Vid utformning av datorsystem är det viktigt att ta hänsyn till användbarhet. Ett datorsystem som är byggt med användaren i fokus verkar ha en större acceptans hos företag.   Syftet med undersökningen var att identifiera behov av datorstöd till systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete (SAM) hos företag som sedan tidigare arbetar med AFS 2001:1. Metoden för denna uppsats bestod huvudsakligen av litteraturundersökningar och intervjuer med chefer samt medarbetare (alternativt skyddsombud). Insamlad data jämfördes mellan chef och medarbetare och skillnader mellan företagen analyserades.     Resultat visade att det inte fanns skillnader av den insamlade data mellan chef och medarbetare (alternativt skyddsombud) inom samma företag. Detta betyder att deltagarna från samma företag har samma bild över deras arbetsmiljöarbete. Mellan företagen råder det dock olikheter då kunskapsnivån spelar roll och vilken slags kunskapsöverföring som finns idag.   Det som var en gemensam bristande faktor för samtliga företag var det sista steget i det systematiska arbetsmiljöarbetet ”Undersöka-Bedömning-Åtgärda-Kontroll”. Samtliga företag var duktiga på att åtgärda arbetsmiljöbrister som var av den akuta karaktären. Akuta ärenden är något som upptäcks direkt exempelvis personskada på grund av snubbling. Medan långsiktiga brister ses som större processer med längre implementeringsperioder exempelvis kartläggning av fallande produktivitet på grund av arbetsmiljöbrister.   Slutsats av resultaten visade på att det finns behov av ett ledningssystem med IT-stöd som är användaranpassat. Det bör ge stöd istället för att belasta arbetsgivaren med mängder av dokumentation och administration. Inför designfasen av ett ledningssystem är syfte och mål viktiga delar att definiera tillsammans med utvecklaren för att kunna skapa ett användarvänligare system.   Något som genomsyrade resultaten av undersökningen var att samtliga deltagare inte genomförde någon form av uppföljning. Därför blir det viktigt att i framtida utvecklingsprojekt ta hänsyn till den delen av systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete för att säkerställa att det inte glöms bort. Detta steg är en viktig del av systematiskt arbetsmiljöarbete och måluppfyllning samt utveckling. Bättre uppföljning ger bättre beslut. / Companies today are pressed and need to prioritize their primary work tasks which often means that work environment management is hard to maintain or can be seen as an unmotivated cost. To save money and avoid disturbing the daily operations representatives are sometimes chosen to be the link between the end-user and the system developer during the development of a new system. That means that important knowledge and needs aren’t included in the development phase. Poorly designed computer systems can lead to it not being used or the fact that the work environment management becomes suffering. During the development of a computer system it’s important to consider the usability. A system that is built focused on the end-user seems to have a higher level of acceptance at companies.   The purpose of this essay was to identify the needs of computer aid for the systematic work environment management at companies that have previously worked with AFS 2001:1 (Swedish law for systematic work environment management).  The method for this essay mainly consisted of literature studies and interviews with managers and co-workers (alternatively safety representative). Collected data from managers and co-workers were compared and the differences between the companies were analyzed.   Results show that there wasn’t any difference between the data collected from the managers and the co-workers in the same company. This means that participants from the same company had the same view on their work environment management. When the companies were compared to each other there were differences related to the level of knowledge and the ability to pass the knowledge along.   A common factor that was lacking for all companies was that the final step in the systematic work environment management which is control. All companies were good at addressing occupational safety deficiencies that were of the acute nature. Acute cases are something that is detected directly, for example, injuries due to tripping. While long-term deficiencies are seen as major processes with longer implementation periods, such as mapping of declining productivity due to workplace shortcomings.   Conclusion of the results showed that there is a need for a management system with IT support that is user-adapted. It should provide support rather than burden the employer with a load of documentation and administration. Before the design phase of a management system, the purpose and goal are key elements to define with the developer in order to create a user-friendly system.   Something that permeated the results of the survey was that all participants didn’t do any kind of follow-up. Therefore, in future development projects, it is important to take into account that part of the systematic work environment management to ensure that it is not forgotten. This step is an important part of systematic work environment management and goal fulfillment as well as development. Better follow up leads to better decisions.