Bringing Organizations Back in: Going from Healthy Work to Healthy Workplaces

Bolin, Malin; Olofsdotter, Gunilla

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“…To identify the barriers to equality in organizations, Acker (2006a) developed the concept of inequality regimes as a way of investigating how inequalities are created and maintained in the local practices of work in various types of organizational structures, jobs, and positions. Thus, the concept facilitates a mapping and exploration of inequality patterns in working conditions and work environment of employees, their association with how work is organized, governed, and valued, and how these processes intersect with gender (Acker 2006a(Acker , 2012Bolin et al 2019). Acker (2006a) defined inequality regimes as […] systematic disparities between groups of organizational participants in control over organizational goals and outcomes, work processes and decisions, in opportunities to enter and advance in particular job areas, in security of positions and levels of pay, in intrinsic pleasure of the work, and in respect and freedom from harassment.…”

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“…The theoretical concepts of inequality regimes developed by Joan Acker (2006aAcker ( , 2009 will serve as a basis for explaining and understanding the multiple and intersecting processes. Acker's concept of inequality regimes merges an analysis of gendered processes with an analysis of how activities are organized and staffed (Bolin et al 2019). The study contributes to knowledge of how work is organized in grocery stores such that it can contribute to unequal working conditions.…”

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Inequality Regimes in Grocery Stores: Intersections of Gender, Hierarchies, and Working Conditions

Olofsdotter

Bolin

Mathiassen

2023

NJWLS

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This article explores the extent to which spatial and hierarchical divisions of work in grocery stores intersect with gender, and resulting inequalities in employees’ working conditions. Our empirical basis is individual and group interviews conducted with managers and employees at two grocery stores in Sweden. The theoretical concept of inequality regimes serves as an analytical tool for understanding if and how multiple intersecting processes produce and maintain inequalities in working conditions. The findings show that hierarchical and gendered inequalities are (re)created in the stores, for both permanently and temporarily employed workers. The organizing processes include a functional and gendered division of the workforce together with a division based on terms of employment mainly based on the profit generated by the goods handled in each department. The study shows how spatial divisions related to hierarchy, status, and gender intersect in creating inequalities in employees’ working conditions, career opportunities, and the physical and psycho- social working environment.

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Inequality Regimes in Grocery Stores: Intersections of Gender, Hierarchies, and Working Conditions

Olofsdotter

Bolin

Mathiassen

2023

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“…Unhealthy work organizations, that are not concerned with creating the conditions that lead to enhanced wellbeing, can create enormous human and financial costs (Cooper, 1994 ). Therefore, organizations should be diagnosed in the same way as employees in the empirical analysis of working conditions and health (Bolin and Olofsdotter, 2019 ).…”

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Corporate social responsibility and workplace health promotion: A systematic review

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The complex situation that global society is facing as a result of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of companies committing to the principles of social responsibility. Among the internal initiatives, those related to the health of workers are, obviously, highly topical. The objective of our research is to provide concise knowledge of the relationship between workplace health promotion (WHP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) so that the relevant specialized research was gathered in a single document that lays the foundations of its applicability. A systematic review, following the PRISMA method, has been carried out. Twenty-seven articles have been selected from the main scientific databases. Their qualitative analysis concludes that CSR and WHP are linked, have beneficial reciprocal effects, need committed leadership respectful of autonomy and voluntariness, and require the establishment of specific goals within the framework of the organizations' sustainability policies. Future studies should establish the impact of the pandemic on these aspects.

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“…With its roots in a gender equality act from 1980, the Discrimination Act from 2008 regulates gender equality with the aim to combat discrimination and promote equal rights. Thus, gender is still a stratifying mechanism in the Swedish labour market, which often is described as one of the most gender segregated in the world (Bolin & Olofsdotter, 2019; SOU, 2004). Accordingly, processes of gender discrimination continue to be an impediment to gender equality in Sweden.…”

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Gender equality and managers' work in elderly and social care: A structural equation modelling approach

Allard

Hasselgren

Dellve

2021

J Nursing Management

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Aim The study explores whether, and how, gender equality is associated with key aspects related to operative managers' improvement work. We explore the possible associations between gender equality and; prioritization of social regulations in operative decision‐making, engagement in operative improvement work, group dynamics challenges and collaboration between managers and subordinates. Background Regarding organizational relations and preconditions for providing good care and developing operative work in the social and elderly care sector, the value of having organizational gender equality is unknown. Method Associations were analysed using structural equation modelling of questionnaire data. The questionnaire was distributed to first‐line managers in a large city in Sweden (n = 598, response rate 56%). Results Positive perceptions of organizations' gender equality were significantly associated with more engagement in operative improvement work, fewer group dynamics challenges and higher priority of social regulations in unit decision‐making, also when controlling for confounders. Gender equality had no association with managers' collaboration with subordinates in this study. Conclusion(s) This study demonstrates that equal opportunities for male and female workers could benefit operative managers' improvement work. Implications for Nursing Management Organizations that strive to improve conditions for operative work, which strengthen preconditions for service development, should include values of gender equality.

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Bringing Organizations Back in: Going from Healthy Work to Healthy Workplaces

Cited by 6 publications

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Inequality Regimes in Grocery Stores: Intersections of Gender, Hierarchies, and Working Conditions

Inequality Regimes in Grocery Stores: Intersections of Gender, Hierarchies, and Working Conditions

Corporate social responsibility and workplace health promotion: A systematic review

Gender equality and managers' work in elderly and social care: A structural equation modelling approach

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