Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe first-line managers’ (FLMs’) experiences and reflections on structural conditions for management practice within hospital settings using Kanter’s theory of structural empowerment. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative deductive approach with a descriptive design was used. Interviews were conducte...
Providing conducive working conditions is essential for fostering the personal and career growth of employees, ultimately ensuring their psychological well-being. This study aims to investigate the impact of workplace conditions on the psychological well-being of university teachers in Slovakia and to examine how factors from the Luxembourg Workpla...
Diversified farming systems appear to be one means of meeting the sustainability challenges facing livestock farming systems and of facilitating the renewal of future generations of farmers in a context of climatic, economic and social change. However, although work seems to be an essential issue for livestock farms, few studies have explored the i...
V diplomski nalogi je obravnavano področje delovnih obremenitev poklicnih voznikov tovornih vozil. V prvem delu so opredeljeni poklicni vozniki in njihove značilnosti ter značilnosti dela, ki ga opravljajo. Pri tem se osredotočamo na delovne pogoje poklicnih voznikov tovornjakov, varnost pri njihovem delu in potrebo po usposabljanju. V drugem delu ...
Despite alternative work arrangements becoming more prevalent, existing work design approaches are mostly based on research and practice of traditional on-site work. Struggles with capturing employee performance are reported across different off-site, non-traditional forms of work, such as remote and hybrid. This article performs a comprehensive fu...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Managers’ mental health has only been a topic of interest for a few years, whereas employees’ mental health has been widely discussed in the scientific literature. Managers are exposed to specific psychosocial risk factors and their effects may vary according to their hierarchical level and gender. The COVID-19 crisis and the many changes in the wo...
Published in Family practice
The shortage of general practitioners (GPs) is a growing concern in Europe, especially in France. This problem is likely to continue until the end of the 2020s. To study the GPs' perceptions of access to care in medically underserved areas (i.e. with low physician density), its consequences on their working conditions, and how they cope with the re...
