Municipal middle managers: psychosocial work environment in a gender-based division of labor

Leadership and management skills of first-line managers of elderly care and their work environment

“…The present results on job satisfaction support the research findings of Laschinger et al. (2008) on FLMs in Canada and of Westerberg and Armelius (2000) on managers in Sweden.…”

Nurse managers' professional networks, psychosocial resources and self‐rated health

“…In the test for possible effect modification regarding the association between level of job demands and self‐rated health, professional network, job support and emotional support outside work did not seem to modify this relationship in the present study. These results were supported by a study by Westerberg and Armelius (2000), who investigated psychosocial work environment in municipal middle managers. The study showed that a high level of control and a satisfactory level of social support did not seem to compensate for the high levels of demands in terms of psychosomatic reactions due to work.…”

Inclusion, sustainability, and equality: how can research contribute?

“…This deterioration is an example of how a sector that is very gender segregated and organised in a way that was supposed to suit women instead led to large differences in comparison with male-dominated sectors and services. The same development did not occur in male-dominated municipal services that have been observed in several studies of employees and managers in the public sector (Björk, 2013;Björk & Härenstam, 2016;Forsberg Kankkunen, 2014;Westerberg & Armelius, 2000). Changes of contextual factors at a macro level can thus mean that the prerequisites to organise for healthy work can also change and lead to increased gender differences (Härenstam, 2009;Härenstam, Bejerot, Schéele, Waldenström, & Leijon, 2004).…”