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Positive factors at work – a new perspective

What makes workers happy and content, and what keeps organisations healthy and productive? What makes workers resilient and good at adapting when more and more is demanded of them in an ever changing environment?
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Marit Christensen Marit Christensen
  • Leader for the Nordic project Positive factors at work
  • PhD student, Institute of Psychology
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
About the project
  • “Positive Factors at Work” is a three year Nordic collaboration financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, executed between 2006 and 2008.
  • Project leader was fellow Marit Christensen, Department of Psychology, NTNU.
  • The project gathered participants form several Nordic countries: Jari Hakanen and Kari Lindström from The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Gunnar Aronsson, Klas Gustafsson and Ulrika Lundberg from the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University , Vilhelm Borg and Thomas Clausen from the National Reseach Centre for the Working Environment in Denmark, Lisa Vivoll Straume from the Department of Psychology, NTNU and Karoline Hofslett Kopperud, Norwegian School of Management, BI, Norway.
  • Two reports were written during this period, one being
    ”Positive Factors at Work – the first report”, published through TemaNord in 2008.
  • The project's first report introduced the general framework for researching positive factors in working life.
    The report provides an overview of the theory, method, selection and measuring tools which form the basis for the development of knowledge and method adapted to Nordic working conditions.
  • The main aim of the second report was to test the reliability and validity of measuring tools and to suggest material for mapping positive factors in work, adapted to Nordic conditions. We also tested correlations between resources, positive states of mind and well-being, health and productivity by using the material and measuring tools we mapped.
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