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Centre for Work Life and Evaluation Studies
Studies (CTA)
At the centre, we conduct multidisciplinary research focused on work life and organization. Our research concerns work environment, collaboration, leadership and organization. We develop tools and methods that can contribute to the application of research. CTA is a hub where researchers and practitioners can meet, discuss, and learn more.
The working life is important in people's lives. We conduct practice-oriented research on work-life issues of socially relevance. Our mission is to conduct useful and applicable research.
Hanne Berthelsen, Director
Working in healthcare - current research
Workload, stress and staff turnover
- Why do carers leave and how can staff turnover be reduced?
A few studies, primarily cross-sectional, indicate associations between illegitimate tasks and stress, exhaustion, and depression. This study investigates how illegitimate tasks affect the health and well-being of different groups in the workforce over time.
Threat and violence against healthcare professionals
The research study investigates the prevalence and experiences of threats and violence caused by patients or relatives in surgical wards.
Read more about the study about threats and violence against healthcare professionals
Elderly care
The project aims to increase the knowledge of responsible municipal politicians about the organisational and social work environment in elder care.
More about the project to increase the knowledge about the work environment in elderly care
Current
Malmö Work Science Meeting
Malmö Work Science Meeting
CONFERENCE: We invite researchers and practitioners on Friday 4 October 2024 in Niagara, Malmö University. We encourage research and dialogues on different perspectives of work science. The meeting will be held in English and Swedish.
Incivility can lead to workplace bullying
Incivility can lead to workplace bullying
Employees who have previously been the subject of incivility at the workplace run a greater risk of later being bullied at work. These are the findings of a study by Kristoffer Holm, a researcher at Malmö University and PhD in psychology focusing on work and organisational psychology.
Our research
CTA researchers study various aspects of work and work life. Several research projects are currently underway and the centre also conducts evaluations and mission research in collaboration with external stakeholders.
Established in 2007, CTA has since its inception focused on research on working life and evaluation. There is a strong link to society and the centre has an explicit ambition to improve conditions in people's working lives.
All researchers at Malmö University who conduct working life research with a focus on conditions and prerequisites for management and organisation, as well as social relations in working life, are welcome to be part of CTA.
More about the research program OSSC
The research program contributes to the field with a new concept, organisational and social safety climate. The concept is inspired from two different directions, partly psychosocial safety climate, partly the new regulations from the Swedish Work Environment Agency, organisational and social work environment. Together with the JD-R model, this forms the theoretical framework for the program.
The program is based on ongoing and planned research projects which serve as a knowledge base for the development of new projects, and contribute to creating continuity and a long-term perspective within the research area. The overall goal is to develop approaches, empirically validated and reliable tools that can be used for research, practice and interventions in order to develop a sustainable work environment in human care organisations.
This will be achieved by including the perspectives of senior management, first line managers and employees on the organizational and social safety climate within various human care organisations.
During the first three years of the program, we aim to:
- continue to develop existing methods and instruments that can be used to assess the organizational and social safety climate within various human care organisations,
- conduct studies of the work situation for employees and first-line managers,
- conduct studies on bullying in working life and abusive behaviour with a focus on victims and witnesses.
The subsequent three years of the program will be devoted to intervention-oriented studies with the aim of developing work methods that promote a healthy organisational and social safety climate within human care organisations. The results can contribute to meeting future challenges such as stress, abusive discrimination, high staff turnover and recruitment problems within these organisations.
Research projects and publications
Anyone who conducts research within work life and evaluation studies is welcome to join the cohesive and multidisciplinary research centre CTA. Our interests include management, organization, social relations in working life as well as interactions between working life and leisure.
Find out more about our ongoing projects.
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Research project
How can we combat future labor shortage in the healthcare sector? – Analyses of factors related to high staff turnover and of how...
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On the road to gender equality? Gender-integrating processes in the truck driver profession
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This is not part of my job! Longterm health consequences of illegitimate tasks in welfare work
hanne.berthelsen@mau.se -
Research project
Development, evaluation and implementation of a digital education for Swedish municipal politicians with responsibility for care of the...
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Accounting practices in the everyday life of a refugee
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Research project
Development and implementation of an evidence based method to improve the social work environment
kristoffer.holm@mau.se -
Research project
Workers as Agents of a Green and Just Transition. A real-life experiment in Sweden and Spain
anna.seravalli@mau.se -
Research project
The Organization of Inequality - an Intersectional Study of the Municipal Home Care Work in Malmö
el.hakkinen@mau.se -
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Everyday Life, Worklife and Education in Rural Sweden
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Digital harassment and cyberbullying – A new work environmental risk in schools
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Research project
Organisational and social safety climate in human service organisations – Developing proactive approaches and tools for research, practice...
tuija.muhonen@mau.se
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2024 | Article in journal
Financialization the Swedish way: How Vonovia became the largest owner of former public housing estates through transaction pathways and calculative practices
Martin Grander, Stig Westerdahl
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2024 | Article in journal
Work-related cyber mistreatment from guardians, members of the public, and pupils in the context of educational work: From incivility to aggression
Rebecka Cowen Forssell, Lisa Ringblom, Sandra Jönsson, Hanne Berthelsen
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2024 | Article in journal
The role of political fit and self-censorship at work for job satisfaction, social belonging, burnout, and turnover intentions
Samantha Sinclair, Artur Nilsson, Kristoffer Holm
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2024 | Article in journal
Negotiating for influence and resources: A study of Swedish teachers' and principals' experiences of aggressive emails from parents
Rebecka Forssell, Hanne Berthelsen, Sandra Jönsson
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2024 | Article in journal
Predictors of work-related cyberaggression in a random sample of the Swedish working population
Samuel Farley, Rebecka Cowen Forssell, Kristoffer Holm, Hanne Berthelsen
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2023 | Article in journal
Consequences of implementing activity-based flexible offices in academia: a follow-up study of perceived changes in the physical and psychosocial work environment after relocation
Susanna Toivanen, Hanne Berthelsen, Tuija Muhonen
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2023 | Conference paper
Attracting and maintaining competence in construction: Interviews and fieldwork on recriutment, maintenance and work environment in the construction industry
Susanna Lundberg
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2023 | Article in journal
Can digital nomads solve the problem of tourist economy? The case of Croatian islands
Peter Gladoic Håkansson, Predrag Bejaković
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2023 | Conference paper
From National Policy to Local Practices: Systematic Quality Work in Education from the Perspective of Local Authorities
Tuija Muhonen, Margareta Serder, Magnus Erlandsson, Anders Edvik
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2023 | Article in journal
Registered nurses’ exposure to workplace aggression in Norway: 12-month prevalence rates, perpetrators, and current turnover intention
Solveig Osborg Ose, Signe Lohmann-Lafrenz, Silje L. Kaspersen, Hanne Berthelsen, Gunn Hege Marchand
Researchers active in CTA
Rebecka Cowen Forssell
Peter Gladoic Håkansson
Kristoffer Holm
Gustav Hägg
Our research
Participation in EU conference on health and safety at work
Participation in EU conference on health and safety at work
CTA's Hanne Berthelsen, Associate Professor in Leadership and Organisation participated as an expert in a high-level meeting on the work environment in May 2023. She presented the COPSOQ measurement tool and participated in a round table discussion.
Research contributing to a better working environment
Research contributing to a better working environment
Problems related to the organisational and social work environment are the most common cause of work-related ill health. A research team headed by Hanne Berthelsen, Associate Professor in Organisation and Leadership, has been responsible for further developing and validating the COPSOQ measurement tool for the Swedish labour market.
Collaboration
CTA collaborates with a variety of stakeholders, both nationally and internationally. Collaboration can take place within: the framework of existing projects; as part of the start-up of a research project; during follow-up research; within evaluation assignments; and through contract research.
For instance, CTA is currently collaborating with researchers from Australia as part of the OSSC research programme. There are also ongoing collaborations with researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, Finland and Denmark. In Sweden, CTA interacts with other universities, colleges and research centres, such as the Stress Research Institute and the Institute for Stress Medicine.
We have previously collaborated with the City of Malmö, Finsam Mittskåne, the Swedish Teachers Union, Folktandvården, IKEA, Scania, occupational health companies and a large religious organisation. We also arrange various types of activities such as conferences and seminars for researchers, practitioners and students.
If you are interested in collaborating with CTA, please contact director Hanne Berthelsen or a specific CTA researcher.
Organisation
Strategies, affiliated researchers and Advisory board
Advisory board
Chair
Maria Hultin, Quality and Development Manager, Malmö Stad
Members:
- Fredrik Dahl, HR-strateg Koncernstab HR, Region Skåne
- Patrik Hall, Professor, Malmö University
- Linda Clavier, Senior Lecturer, Malmö University
- Malin Lundberg, EY
- Cecilia Strandberg, Interim Consultant - at Ulfsdotter Konsult AB
31 January 2022 – 31 December 2024