Denna kvalitativa studie har till syfte att öka förståelsen kring tjänstemännens egen upplevelse om sin arbetsmiljö inom socialförvaltningen, och de möjliga risker som arbetsmiljön kan komma att innefatta. Studien genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer som kom att tematiseras och presenteras i resultatet. Det resultat som framkommit i studien presenteras genom tre teman; Förväntning och verklighet, Samverkan samt Utveckling. Det finns delar som socialförvaltningens tjänstemän upplever vara påtagligare än andra, och det är de riskfaktorer som kom att belysas genom dessa teman. Riskfaktorerna som framkom var dock inte de som förväntades enligt forskningsgenomgången, utan det påvisades finnas större betydelse av de interna faktorerna (strukturer, handlingsplaner, samverkan med mera) än det tidigare förväntade externa faktorerna (möten med klienter, politiska beslut med mera). Detta gjorde att det finns ett större intresse för vad vidare forskning kan komma att finna utifrån förutsättningen av de inre påverkningarna hos socialförvaltningen. Den teori som studien använt sig för att tolka resultatet om framgång och ett hållbart arbetssätt för socialförvaltningens tjänstemän är det salutogena perspektivet samt arbetets förutsättning utifrån KASAM. / The purpose of this qualitative study is to increase the understanding of the employees' own experience of their work environment in the social administration, and the possible risks that the work environment may include. The study was conducted with semi-structured interviews that came to be thematized and presented in the results. The results obtained in the study are presented through three themes; Expectation and Reality, Collaboration and Development. There are parts that social service officials find to be more evident than others, and these are the risk factors that were highlighted through these themes. However, the risk factors that emerged were not those expected according to the research review, but the internal factors (structures, action plans, collaboration, etc.) were found to be more important than the previously expected external factors (meetings with clients, political decisions, etc.). This meant that there was a greater interest in what further research might find based on the assumption of the internal effects of social management. The theory that the study used to interpret the results of success and a sustainable way of working for social service officials is the salutogenic perspective and the work's premise based on KASAM.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain an increased understanding of how emotional work affects the psychosocial work environment within Socialförvaltningen’s child and adolescent care. The aim is also to identify the measures taken to promote a good psychosocial work environment. Method: This study deals with the phenomenon of emotional work and its impact on the psychosocial work environment of child and adolescent care. The starting point of this study is thus qualitative with an abductive research approach. Furthermore, the study has applied a cross-sectional design where the data collection of semi-structured interviews has been used. Conclusion: The results of this study shows that emotional work greatly affects the psychosocial work environment. This study has highlighted various factors that interact with emotional work, which then characterize what efforts are already being taken, and should be taken to promote a good psychosocial work environment. Based on this, we can conclude that the psychosocial work environment is a particularly important part of emotional work, if it is not promoted or maintained, it can instead lead to ill health for the employees.

<p>In the beginning of this millennium the increasing level of work related illness was de-scribed, in the public debate, as one of the most serious and costly social problems of our times. An important question in the present study is whether or not the newspapers contributed to make their readers, the politicians and other social actors aware of this vast and growing problem.</p><p>Thus, the main purpose was to find out the extent of the news media coverage on occupational health/ill-health in Swedish newspapers in the end of the 1990s, and the ways in which the topic was framed. Furthermore the intent was to produce a better and deeper understanding of the factors influencing the coverage.</p><p>Theoretically the study draws on framing theory. Framing here refers to the process through which complex issues are reduced to journalistically manageable dimensions in the construction of news stories, resulting in a text, a news story that presents and high-lights some aspects and perspectives of the perceived reality but not others.</p><p>A combination of research methods was used - A content and frame analysis of six months of occupational health coverage in seven newspapers; an interview study with journalists and their scientific sources about the news production; a one week’s news-room study aimed at observing the everyday production of news; and finally, a short email survey directed to the editorial staff at the examined news papers, with the purpose to get some indication on how the coverage of occupational health was organised and prioritized at the different newspapers.</p><p>In the empirical analysis the newspapers´ picturing of occupational health/ill-health was compared with picture emerging from official statistics on occupational sickness and injury. In many respects a deviation was found between the two. Furthermore, simi-larities and differences in content between different newspapers, between different news sections and between news stories written by journalists of different sex, were examined.</p><p>A key finding is that the Swedish newspapers did not draw their readers’ attention to the extensive and growing problem at the places of work. A majority of the stories related to occupational health/ill-health were episodic, and treated the issues as isolated and random events rather than predictable and preventable problems, although there were also more thematic articles written during special circumstances. The results indicate that a primary cause of the topics low priority in the newspapers was that the coverage of occupational health/ill-health had not been integrated into the journalistic routines.</p>

In the beginning of this millennium the increasing level of work related illness was de-scribed, in the public debate, as one of the most serious and costly social problems of our times. An important question in the present study is whether or not the newspapers contributed to make their readers, the politicians and other social actors aware of this vast and growing problem. Thus, the main purpose was to find out the extent of the news media coverage on occupational health/ill-health in Swedish newspapers in the end of the 1990s, and the ways in which the topic was framed. Furthermore the intent was to produce a better and deeper understanding of the factors influencing the coverage. Theoretically the study draws on framing theory. Framing here refers to the process through which complex issues are reduced to journalistically manageable dimensions in the construction of news stories, resulting in a text, a news story that presents and high-lights some aspects and perspectives of the perceived reality but not others. A combination of research methods was used - A content and frame analysis of six months of occupational health coverage in seven newspapers; an interview study with journalists and their scientific sources about the news production; a one week’s news-room study aimed at observing the everyday production of news; and finally, a short email survey directed to the editorial staff at the examined news papers, with the purpose to get some indication on how the coverage of occupational health was organised and prioritized at the different newspapers. In the empirical analysis the newspapers´ picturing of occupational health/ill-health was compared with picture emerging from official statistics on occupational sickness and injury. In many respects a deviation was found between the two. Furthermore, simi-larities and differences in content between different newspapers, between different news sections and between news stories written by journalists of different sex, were examined. A key finding is that the Swedish newspapers did not draw their readers’ attention to the extensive and growing problem at the places of work. A majority of the stories related to occupational health/ill-health were episodic, and treated the issues as isolated and random events rather than predictable and preventable problems, although there were also more thematic articles written during special circumstances. The results indicate that a primary cause of the topics low priority in the newspapers was that the coverage of occupational health/ill-health had not been integrated into the journalistic routines.