Flyktingströmmen till Europa är en faktor som har påverkat inflödet av nyanlända i landet. Nyanländas etableringsprocess har därför blivit en betydelsefull aspekt för Sveriges folkhälsa. Väsentliga aspekter utifrån ett folkhälsoperspektiv kan vara individers sysselsättning och arbete, då det kan främja deras stimulans och delaktighet. Arbetsförmedlingen är en myndighet som arbetar med Sveriges arbetsmarknad. Myndigheten har som avsikt att etablera nyanlända på arbetsmarknaden, vilket benämns som etableringsuppdraget. Arbetsförmedlarna på Arbetsförmedlingen skulle kunna betraktas som en heterogen arbetsgrupp, då de har olika akademiska bakgrunder. Frågan är hur de professionella kan utveckla kompetens, eller har kompetens för att kunna bidra till en etableringsprocess där nyanlända upplever hanterbarhet och meningsfullhet i sin etablering. Studien har haft en kvalitativ ingång och inspirerats av en fenomenologisk ansats, där syftet har varit att genomföra sju semistrukturerade intervjuer. En kvalitativ innehållsanalys har därefter genomförts för att låta resultatet framhävas i sin annanhet. Resultatet lyfte fram betydelsen av tre teman, processer, lärande och utveckling, som kan tolkas som väsentliga för arbetsförmedlarnas lärande i arbetet. Därutöver lyfter resultatet stöd och förutsättningar som betydelsefulla aspekter för lärande. / The influx of refugees to Europe has influenced the quantity of newly arrived immigrants in Sweden. The process of establishment of newly arrived has therefore become an important aspect of the country's public health. Significant aspects from a public health perspective involve employment and work, as it promotes stimulation and participation. The Employment Agency, Arbetsförmedlingen, is an authority on the Swedish labor market. It has the intension to establish newly arrived on the labor market, which is the purpose of to the establishment programme. The professionals at the Employment Agency could be considered a heterogeneous working group, as they have different academic backgrounds. The question is whether the professionals have competence, or can develop competence, to contribute to an establishment process where newly arrived will experience manageability and meaningfulness in their establishment. The study has had a qualitative method inspired by a phenomenological approach, with the purpose of conducting seven semi-structured interviews. A qualitative content analysis has been conducted to let the result appear independently. The result highlighted the importance of three themes, processes, learning and development, that may be interpreted as essential to the professionals' learning at the Employment Agency. Furthermore, the results indicate that support and conditions are important aspects for learning.

Many successful professionals, recognized for their experience, knowledge, competence and commitment to their field, experience a contradiction when they realize that their contributions are no longer valued by decision-makers in their organizations. Professionals, regardless of gender, position, education, race or profession, who experience workplace devaluation agree that this experience devalues their contributions and demeans their sense of self. This study illuminates the professionals' perspective of workplace devaluation through their experience. Within the framework of grounded theory methodology, this research examined three research questions: (a) What is the experience of professionals' workplace devaluation? (b) How did professionals learn from the experience? (c) What did professionals learn from the experience? The unit of analysis is the professional within an organization. Four participants were selected who (a) had several years experience with their organization; (b) were previously valued by the organization; (c) were current in their field; (d) had experienced workplace devaluation; and (e) were able to articulate insights, thoughts, and emotions on their experience. Multiple interviews with each participant provided the data. A comparative, iterative analysis of the data yielded: (a) a seven-phase process of the experience; (b) six constructs embedded in the process, and (c) four categories of learning. The dialogic interview method facilitated the participants' apperception, reflection, and progress through the process. Three emotions--fear, powerlessness, anger--and their interaction with the other constructs (autonomy, communication, personalization, authority, and recognition) influenced coping strategies and actions taken by each participant. The four narratives explicate the interrelationships of the findings. Three major conclusions are: (a) A rich description of the workplace devaluation experience offers a glimpse into the complexity of this topic and into the professionals' "lived world." (b) The learning process, grounded in the data, depicts how these four professionals used the power of their emotions to create balance within themselves as they attempted to explicate their situation of workplace devaluation. (c) The results indicate that greater learning occurred in organizational knowledge and intrapersonal knowledge for these professionals. Questions for further research are noted along with practical suggestions and recommendations for the praxis of adult educators, decision-makers, and professionals. / Ph. D.