The purpose of this study is to examine experiences of the psychosocial work environment and conflict management, from both a managerial perspective and an employee perspective. To answer the purpose and the four issues, three different conflict management strategies, the concept ofpsychosocial safety climate and the theory of social ties have been used. With a qualitativeapproach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 6 respondents from different industries, four managers and two employees. The data material was analyzed using thematic analysis. The overall result mainly shows that a good psychosocial safety climate depends on a well-functioning communication among both employees and managers, this because lack of communication is perceived as the most common cause of conflicts, and good communication is the solution to conflicts.

Abstract Fredriksson Malin (2019). Managers requirements for stress prevention - a qualitative study in municipal context. Project work in Health at work 15 credits, University of Gävle.  Stress is an increasing problem in Sweden and municipal organizations are workplaces where it´s common. The first line manager has an important role in stress prevention, but factors in the organizations might affect their possibility to focus on this problem.  The purpose of this study was to examine municipal first line managers experience of organizational requirements of stress prevention in the workplace and how to improve these requirements. Qualitative interviews were made with first line managers in a Swedish municipal organization and analyzed with Qualitative content analysis. The result revealed that the managers experiences was that the organization offered resources like education, social and organizational support from HR and occupational health service, policies and good structure in the occupational health work. Economic pressure, constant changes and structures in the organization that the manager cannot have an impact on, and the managers own workload were demands that made the work with stress prevention harder. Unclear structures in the information flow and lack of communication about stress is also factors that might affect stress prevention in the organization

Nina Fällstrand Larsson Psychosocial safety climate for workers with temporary employment in elderly care. Master Thesis in Occupational Health Science (15 credits). Faculty of Health and Occupational Studies. University of Gävle. Sweden Psychosocial safety climate for workers with temporary employment in elderly care Psychosocial safety climate refers to workers psychological health, well-being and safety in an organisation, and it reflects the organisations’ ability to protect workers health and safety. Psychosocial safety climate can be measured with the PSC-4 tool consisting of 4 dimensions covering organisational policies and practice. The aim of this study is to examine in what extend job preferences and job security can predict psychosocial safety climate for workers with temporary employment in elderly care. The design is cross sectional with data collected by a survey from the research program Flexible working (Flex-A) at University of Gävle. The respondents were 109 workers with temporary employment in care facilities for elderly. The variables job preferences and job security have been analysed with a linear regression analysis including age and gender as cofounders. The unadjusted analysis did not reach significance, but the age and gender adjusted analysis did. However, none of the predictors were significant. The conclusion is that psychosocial safety climate cannot be predicted by job preferences and job security for workers with temporary employment in elderly care. In addition, gender and age should be considered as possible confounders in future studies. Keywords: Psychosocial safety climate, Temporary employment, Job insecurity, Employment preference / Psykosocialt säkerhetsklimat hos timanställda inom äldreomsorgen Stress och ohälsa är ett stort problem på dagens arbetsmarknad, speciellt för medarbetare inom vård och omsorg. Det psykosociala arbetsklimatet återspeglar organisationens förmåga att skydda medarbetarnas hälsa och säkerhet, och innefattar medarbetarnas psykiska hälsa, välbefinnande och säkerhet i en organisation. Det psykosociala säkerhetsklimatet kan mätas med verktyget PSC-4 som består av 4 dimensioner och ger uttryck för organisationens värderingar, kommunikation och engagemang. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka betydelsen av anställningspreferens och anställningstrygghet för det psykosociala säkerhetsklimatet hos timanställda i kommunens äldreomsorg. Frågeställningen är i vilken utsträckning anställningspreferens och anställningstrygghet predicerar psykosocialt säkerhetsklimat. Studien har en tvärsnittsdesign där det empiriska materialet är sekundärdata från forskningsprogrammet Flexibelt arbete (FlexA) vid Högskolan i Gävle. Urvalet i studien består av 109 timanställda inom kommunens äldreomsorg. Variablerna anställningspreferens och anställningstrygghet har använts i en linjär regressionsanalys. Resultatet visar att det inte finns något signifikant samband som kan predicera det psykosociala säkerhetsklimatet. Den justerade regressionen med kontrollvariablerna ålder och kön är signifikant (p = 0,006). Däremot är inga av de ingående prediktorerna signifikanta, men resultatet visar att ålder och kön är viktiga att beakta i analyser av det psykosociala säkerhetsklimatet. Slutsatsen är att anställningspreferens och anställningstrygghet inte kan predicera psykosocialt säkerhetsklimat för timanställda inom kommunens äldreomsorg.