Wellbeing at work research in Finland 2010–2013 – A Review Funded by Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Kirsi Heikkilä-Tammi, Jaana-Piia Mäkiniemi, Nina Laine & Laura Bordi programme director, Ph.D. [email protected]Research and Education Centre Synergos School of Management University of Tampere
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Wellbeing at work research in
Finland 2010–2013 – A Review
Funded by Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Kirsi Heikkilä-Tammi, Jaana-Piia Mäkiniemi, Nina Laine & Laura Bordi
• For example, during 2008–2011 Academy of Finland
granted 8 million euros for studies through Future of
Work and Well-being research program.
• Ministry of Social Affairs and Health wanted to find out
what kind of research has been done.
Aim
• To describe the nature of wellbeing at work
research in Finland
• What are the main topics?
• How easily research findings can be found and
utilized by wellbeing at work professionals?
Method
1) Information seeking and information retrieval using
relevant keywords (”wellbeing at work” in title, in
keywords, in research design)
1) Different databases (Ebsco, Medic etc.)
2) Conference catalogues
3) Web pages of relevant research groups and funding
organizations
2) Contents of the studies were analysed
- Studies were saved to REFWORKS
- Different themes were created – one study can belong to various
themes
- Wide concept of wellbeing at work was used as a framework
RESULTS - Research themes
• Traditional research themes are stress, exhauston at work, recovery (health sciences, psychology), rehabilitation and occupational healthcare promoting wellbeing at work.
• General research themes are wellbeing at work in differentoccupations, working conditions, organizational change, work-family life balance (sociology, work research).
• New themes are drawn from positive psychology(psychological capital, mindfulness), wellbeing technologies, art methods in promoting wellbeing at work (theatre), socialaspects of wellbeing at work (organizational citizenshipbehaviour, interaction), outcomes and productivity of work connected to wellbeing (economics)
• Action research – different kinds of interventions
Wellbeing at Work Reseach in Finland –
the main themes during 2010–2013
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Organizational change
Orgazinational justice
Temperament and personality
E-health and healthcare devices
Occupational health services
Burnout
Recovery
Gender, sosioeconomic status, ethnic background
Age and life course
Rehabilation
Work engagement
Developing wellbeing at work
Management / leadership
New forms of work
Sosial capital and social interaction
Organizational performance
Working conditions
Job insecurity
Early / disability retirement
Work-non-work balance
Jobstrain / work stress
Different occupations
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The most popular research themes (altogether
about 500 studies)
1) Wellbeing at work in different occupations
2) Job strain/work stress
3) Work-non-work balance
3) Early/disability retirement
4) Job insecurity
5) Working conditions
6) Organizational performance
RESULTS
Conclusions
• Finnish wellbeing at work research is multidisciplinary
covering a large variety of topics
• Psychology, health sciences/medicine and sociology are
the typical disciplines
• The raise of positive organizational psychology –
resources, work engagement
• Most of the research is only reported in international
journals
• The studies are not easily available for professionals in
the field
1) Wellbeing at work in different occupations
– examples of the studies
• Elovainio, M., Salo, P., Jokela, M., Heponiemi, T., Linna, A., Virtanen, M., & Vahtera,
J. (2013). Psychosocial factors and well-being among Finnish GPs and specialists: A
10-year follow-up. Occupational & Environmental Medicine 70(4), 246-251.
• Ervasti, J., Kivimäki, M., Pentti, J., Suominen, S., Vahtera, J. & Virtanen, M. (2011).
Sickness absence among Finnish special and general education teachers.
Occupational Medicine, 61(7) 465-471.
• Kallioniemi, M. (2013). Well-being at work on farms in Finland – Stress, safety in
animal handling and working conditions of women on dairy farms. Academic
Dissertation. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. Available at:
http://www.mtt.fi/mtttiede/pdf/mtttiede21.pdf
• Koivu, A., Saarinen, P. I. & Hyrkäs, K. A. (2012). Does clinical supervision promote
medical-surgical nurses' well-being at work? A quasi-experimental 4-year follow-up
study. Journal of Nursing Management 20(3), 401-413.