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The psychosocial work environment in hard professions is hardly studied and this study was implemented to observe port workers psychosocial work environment in ports of Västerås and Köping. There are two purposes with this study: firstly, to examine how ports of Västerås and Köping, Mälarhamnar AB, can improve and develop their business by using psychosocial methods. To do this, a questionnaire study and three interviews with workers were done and the results were used in a SWOT- analysis. Secondly, the aim is to be able to use the results and make a difference in the business development by adjusting the psychosocial work environment. The results show that the employees are happy at work and are happy with their work colleagues. The feeling of demand and control is higher for officials than for dockers. The feeling of being involved in decision making varies from interviews and survey. The interviews show that dockers are involved in decision making, while the survey shows low involvement. Generally the employees have good relationship to the immediate supervisor. To improve the business development Mälarhamnar AB need to identify which factors motivate their employees and which factors they use to motivate their employees. They also have to focus on the communication from foremen to employees and the communication should include feedback and recognition for well performed work.

The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between person-environment fit (P-E fit) and occupational stress in Ball State University employees. A randomly-selected stratified sample of 400 employees from four different employee categories were invited to participate in this study anonymously. Participants completed a demographic information sheet and three questionnaires: the Work Environment Scale, Ideal (WES-I) and Real (WES-R) versions, and the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI). Two hundred and thirty one subjects returned test packets. One hundred and sixty and one hundred and forty seven participants, respectively, had complete sets of information for the actual discrepancy and perceived discrepancy which could be used for data analysis. Canonical correlation was used to examine the number and nature of mutually independent relationships between occupational stress and person environment fit (three subscales on the OSI and three subscales on the WES). The results showed no significant canonical correlation for perceived discrepancy. The significant canonical correlation indicates that the occupational roles subscale of the OSI is strongly correlated with the P-E fit system maintenance and change and less strongly related to the P-E fit relationships subscale of the WES. This study has implications for worksite stress management interventions. It is recommended that organizational interventions be emphasized more than individual interventions. These results also provide empirical support for an ecological model of health promotion and a systemic or organismic view of the world. Further study is recommended. / Institute for Wellness

Darbo tikslas – ištirti slaugytojų darbo aplinką ir su darbu susijusį nugaros skausmą. Darbo uždaviniai. 1. Ištirti slaugytojų darbo aplinką, susijusią su nugaros skausmo rizika; 2. Įvertinti slaugytojų patiriamą, su darbu susijusį, nugaros skausmą; 3. Nustatyti sąsajas tarp slaugytojų darbo aplinkos ir patiriamo nugaros skausmo; Tyrimo metodika. 2013m. rugsėjo – lapkričio mėn. Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universiteto Kauno klinikose, apklausta 384 slaugytojos, dirbančios 13 konservatyvios medicinos (KMP) ir 16 operacinės medicinos (OMP) profilio skyriuose. Į anketos klausimus atsakė 320 slaugytojų, atsako dažnis – 83,3 proc. / Aim of the research – to assess working environment and work-related back pain in nursing personnel Goals of the research. 1. To assess work environment of nurses associated with the risk of back pain; 2. To evaluate work-related back pain; 3. To identify relationship between working environment and experienced back pain in nursing personnel; Methodology. Research was performed in 13 conservative (CMP) and 16 surgery (SMP) medicine departments of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Hospital Kauno klinikos in September – November 2014. 384 nurses were involved in the research, 320 of them answered the questionnaire (response rate - 83,3%).

This dissertation is located within debates around post heroic leadership. It takes as axiomatic the argument that we need to rethink leadership in ways that are not irredeemably bound to ideals of instrumental rationality, hegemonic masculinity and competitive individualism but are, instead, informed by the ‘feminine’ principles of mutuality, care and what Deborah Kerfoot (1999) terms ‘emotional intimacy’. I call this alternative construct ‘relational leading’ in order to underline my position that leading is about connecting (in an authentic, empathic and ethical way) with others and across functions. This alternative understanding of leadership draws on Joyce Fletcher's (1999) model of a relational practice grounded in the ‘disappeared’ feminine. While positing relational leading as a feminist alternative to dominant masculinist conceptions of leadership, this dissertation attempts to avoid reinvoking dualistic representations. It does this by thinking leadership as a practice undertaken by complex, embodied subjects whose capacity to creatively transcend binaries of masculine/feminine, reason/emotion, and power/powerlessness opens up possibilities for, in the words of Amanda Sinclair (1998), ‘doing leadership differently’. There is, however, a cautionary note in the recognition that identities and practices are discursively regulated or culturally patterned, so that men and women who ‘do’ leadership face constant pressures to masculinise or feminise their identities. Such processes perpetuate both gender stereotypes and the privileging of a masculinised notion of leadership that Sinclair (1998) calls the heroic archetype. Nonetheless, the dissertation ends on an optimistic note, proposing reflexive practice as the agent of change and the condition for being/becoming a practitioner of relational leading, against the grain of masculine heroism and rational instrumentalism.

Thesis (Ph.d) - Swinburne University of Technology, Graduate School of Management, 2000. / Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Organisation dynamics, Swinburne University of Technology, Graduate School of Management, 2000. Typescript. Bibliography: p. 197-207.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2006. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Arts. Bibliography: leaves 333-374.

Thesis - DPsych(Counselling Psychology) -- Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. / A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the [degree of the] Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-162).

Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Graduate School of Management, 1999. / Bibliography: leaves 353-372.

Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1993. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).