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  • Swedes at the top

    In the ongoing debate, Swedes tend to be portrayed as suffering from illness most often, compared to the rest of Europe. “That’s totally wrong!” says Paula Liukkonen, Senior Lecturer of Business Management, who has carried out extensive research on personnel policy and working environment.

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  • A free labour market demands practical solutions

    “We shall spare no efforts to make the Nordic and the Baltic countries the best when it comes to integration within the EU. Not until then may we influence the other member states, and further broaden the common labour market.”

    3 minutes

  • The fight against increasing sick leave

    Sweden and Norway are well off compared to the rest of Europe when one considers the living standard, the working environment, social security and average life expectancy. The economy of these societies is threatened, however, by ill health and overwhelming numbers of sick notes.

    5 minutes

  • Women on the board – threat of quotas makes the debate pick up pace

    In both Norway and Sweden, legislation is underway for the purpose of placing more women on the boards of private companies unless trade and industry, on its own initiative, increases the women’s share of these positions. Despite the strong presence of equality rights in the Nordic countries, this has still to reach the boardrooms.

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    Women on the board – threat of quotas makes the debate pick up pace

  • Book in review: Managing Workplace Health

    The EU takes the notion of the global network-society seriously and, it seems, finds a network to fit every good cause.

    3 minutes

  • Aluminium, Jobs and Environment

    Six hundred new jobs in a small fjord in eastern Iceland can save a community facing difficult times. This is the point of view of local people in the East fjords who now have high hopes that an aluminium plant will be built in Reydarfjördur in the nearest future.

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    Aluminium, Jobs and Environment

  • Weekend in mid-week

    Three days’ work and three days off is a model that is increasingly being tried out in Sweden, especially in the health service and care of the elderly.

    3 minutes

  • Long term trends in the Nordic discourse on work organization

    The long term trend in work organization has clearly been in the direction of more autonomy and responsibility associated in the work role. This has been combined with a greater emphasis on the ability of each and every member of the organization to communicate directly with other members of the organisation as well as with…

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  • In Hillerød they sleep at work

    Employees work better after an afternoon nap, which is a good thing both for them and for their employer.

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  • Well-being at work

    Nordic efforts to improve working environments are now beginning to show results. Tarja Filatov, Finland’s Minister of Labour, has brought the attention of the Nordic Council to the economic significance that a good working environment can have for businesses and the national economy.

    3 minutes