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Karlsson, L., Erlandsson, L.-K., Cregård, A., Nordgren, L. & Lydell, M. (2023). Taking control of one's everyday life - a qualitative study of experiences described by participants in an occupational intervention. BMC Public Health, 23(1), Article ID 605.
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2023 (English)In: BMC Public Health, E-ISSN 1471-2458, Vol. 23, no 1, article id 605Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

BACKGROUND: Sick leave due to stress-related ill-health is increasing and is often caused by occupational imbalance. These types of issues tend to affect both the ability to work and cope with everyday life, as well as the overall experience of health, negatively. There is still little knowledge on how to prepare people and workplaces for the return-to-work process after participation in a work rehabilitation program due to stress and occupational ill-health. Therefore, this study aimed to describe what is needed to achieve a balanced everyday life that includes paid work as experienced by individuals who had participated in a ReDO® intervention due to occupational imbalance and ill-health. METHODS: The concluding notes from 54 informants' medical records were used for qualitative content analysis. The informants had participated in an occupational therapy group intervention to promote occupational health and regain full work capacity. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in one major theme and four categories describing how the informants perceive that they must take control of their everyday life as a whole. By doing so, they need to work with structurization and prioritization, social interaction, boundary setting, and occupational meaningfulness. CONCLUSION: The study indicates a highly relational process, where it is impossible to divide life into private and work, and presupposes balance in everyday life in multiple dimensions. Its contribution includes the formulation of perceived needs in the transition between intervention and return to work and could, through further research, be used to generate a more effective and sustainable return- and rehabilitation models. © 2023. The Author(s).

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: BioMed Central (BMC), 2023
Keywords
Empowerment, Everyday life, Health, Home-related demands, Mental illness, Occupational balance, ReDO®, Stress, Work
National Category
Occupational Therapy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51219 (URN)10.1186/s12889-023-15515-z (DOI)000984101900002 ()36997894 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85151315898 (Scopus ID)
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Funding agency:

Centre of Clinical Research at Region Sormland

Halmstad University

Available from: 2023-07-06 Created: 2023-07-06 Last updated: 2023-08-28Bibliographically approved
Karlsson, L., Erlandsson, L.-K., Ivarsson, A., Cregård, A., Nordgren, L. & Lydell, M. (2023). What if we should add activites rather than scale them down during stress-related ill-health to promote health?. In: Lindgren, Eva-Carin; Violin Lönnesjö, Vivian (Ed.), 10th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference. Sustainability and the impact on health and well-being: Abstract Book. Paper presented at 10th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Halmstad, Sweden, June 14–16, 2023 (pp. 34-34). Halmstad: Halmstad University Press
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2023 (English)In: 10th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference. Sustainability and the impact on health and well-being: Abstract Book / [ed] Lindgren, Eva-Carin; Violin Lönnesjö, Vivian, Halmstad: Halmstad University Press, 2023, p. 34-34Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Introduction: Stress-related ill-health is one of the fastest-growing reasons for sick leave and an extensive societal problem. It affects the individual, the workplace, and society at large. People can experience stress in all areas of everyday life and often cope by stopping prioritizing themselves. Agenda 2030 third goal aims to promote good health and well-being for all and ensure people's opportunity to reach their full potential and contribute to society's development. However, the focus is often on interventions to rehabilitate people back from ill health, not to promote their health.

The aim was to explore what the risk factors, and what promotes well-being in people with stress-related ill-health from both a work and everyday perspective.

Method Through mixed methods with both quantitative tree analysis of 218 people before entering a work rehabilitation program, and qualitative content analysis of concluding notes of 54 people after the intervention a compilation was made.  

Results The findings of the studies show a highly relational process, where it is impossible to divide life into private and work, and presupposes balance in everyday life in multiple dimensions. It also indicates that risk factors aren’t about gender, age, or education- but about complex occupational patterns in daily life and a lack of social context.

Conclusion: Work and everyday life are highly intertwined. Perhaps the key to promoting our health and preventing stress-related ill-health is not to scale down on occupations and sleep more, but to add more meaningful occupations that give us a sense of participation and fellowship.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Halmstad: Halmstad University Press, 2023
Keywords
Health promotion, stress-related ill-health, occupational balance, work, social belonging
National Category
Occupational Therapy Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-53092 (URN)978-91-89587-41-0 (ISBN)
Conference
10th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, Halmstad, Sweden, June 14–16, 2023
Available from: 2024-04-05 Created: 2024-04-05 Last updated: 2024-06-14Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A. (2022). Municipal technostructure: reacting to team development education from above. Public Money & Management, 42(8), 616-626
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2022 (English)In: Public Money & Management, ISSN 0954-0962, E-ISSN 1467-9302, Vol. 42, no 8, p. 616-626Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper explains a growing function in today’s public organizations: the technostructure. It reports on the outcomes of an educational programme to develop teams comprising HR, financial and organizational development managers in a Swedish municipality in order to achieve joint support to line managers. The three groups emphasized the importance of their dissimilar work areas and their differences vis-à-vis other administrative occupations with presumably simpler tasks, and showed their indispensability. The groups’ relations were strengthened, but not their actual joint support to line managers. The paper contributes to the literature on professionalized technostructures and organizational change. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxon: Routledge, 2022
Keywords
Boundaries, professionalism, taskwork, teamwork, technostructure
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-46480 (URN)10.1080/09540962.2020.1838089 (DOI)000586056300001 ()2-s2.0-85095813064 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2022-03-29 Created: 2022-03-29 Last updated: 2023-01-12Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A. & Corin, L. (2019). Public sector managers: the decision to leave or remain in a job. Human Resource Development International, 22(2), 158-176
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2019 (English)In: Human Resource Development International, ISSN 1367-8868, E-ISSN 1469-8374, Vol. 22, no 2, p. 158-176Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The public sector faces a grave problem as far as managerial retention as the result of the increasing number of retirements and of voluntary resignations. Despite the vital interest in managerial turnover in the public sector, research is scarce. This study, which increases our understanding of why public sector managers leave their positions, takes a qualitative and narrative research approach in examining voluntary turnover. Interviews were conducted with operations managers (in education, social care, and technical activities) at three Swedish municipalities. We identify a multitude of environment push and pull factors with a focus on administrative support, supervisory support and illegitimate tasks. The narratives of managerial turnover reveal the complexity of the decision to leave or remain in a job, containing a mixture of push and pull factors, negative feelings, unmet expectations and extraordinary events. Three possible HRD actions to decrease undesirable managerial turnover are identified: re-work organizational structures; re-model job characteristics; and re-examine managerial turnover decisions as a long and complex process. Our hope is that the findings are used for ultimately create healthy organizations. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2019
Keywords
Manager, mobility, public sector, turnover, working conditions
National Category
Business Administration
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41473 (URN)10.1080/13678868.2018.1563749 (DOI)000470068000004 ()2-s2.0-85059911503 (Scopus ID)
Funder
AFA Insurance, Dnr 100100
Available from: 2020-01-31 Created: 2020-01-31 Last updated: 2020-03-24Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A., Berntson, E. & Tengblad, S. (Eds.). (2018). Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet. Stockholm: Natur och kultur
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2018 (Swedish)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018. p. 219
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38588 (URN)978-91-27-82254-2 (ISBN)978-91-27-82429-4 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2019-01-17Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A. & Eriksson, N. (2018). Chefskap i professionella organisationer: Läkare som chefer. In: Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad (Ed.), Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (pp. 71-84). Stockholm: Natur och kultur
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2018 (Swedish)In: Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet / [ed] Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018, p. 71-84Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38590 (URN)978-91-27-82254-2 (ISBN)978-91-27-82429-4 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2019-02-05Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A., Berntson, E., Tengblad, S., Andersson, P. & Lindgren, H. (2018). En introduktion till ledarskap och organisatorisk komplexitet. In: Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad (Ed.), Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (pp. 9-21). Stockholm: Natur och kultur
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2018 (Swedish)In: Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet / [ed] Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018, p. 9-21Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38589 (URN)978-91-27-82429-4 (ISBN)978-91-27-82254-2 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2019-02-05Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A. (2018). Inter-occupational cooperation and boundary work in the hospital setting. Journal of Health Organization & Management, 32(5), 658-673
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2018 (English)In: Journal of Health Organization & Management, ISSN 1477-7266, E-ISSN 1758-7247, Vol. 32, no 5, p. 658-673Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to add a little piece to the research on boundary work and inter-occupational cooperation by addressing two questions: how do actors perform boundary work in an inter-occupational cooperation project that seeks to improve the personnel health work in a hospital setting? What impact does the boundary work have on such cooperation in the personnel health project?

Design/methodology/approach: The study is based on individual, in-depth interviews and participative observations of focus group discussions conducted at a regional municipal organization in Sweden. Respondents are hospital line managers, experts and strategists in the HR departments, and experts from the internal occupational health service.

Findings: The concepts on boundary work, which include closing/opening boundary strategies, provide the framework for the empirical illustrations. The cooperation runs smoothly in the rehabilitation work because of an agreed upon process in which the professionals’ jurisdictions are preserved through closing strategies. Illness prevention and health promotion are not areas of inter-occupational cooperation because the stronger actors use closing strategies. While the weaker actors, who try to cooperate, use opening boundary strategies in these areas, they are excluded or marginalized.

Research limitations/implications: The empirical investigation concerns one cooperation project and was completed at one data collection point.

Originality/value: No similar study of boundary work and inter-occupational cooperation in a hospital setting is available despite the frequency of this professional group configuration in practice. A more inclusive concept of professionalism may facilitate the study of boundary work and inter-occupational cooperation among actors with different professional authority. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2018
Keywords
Collaboration, Cooperation, Boundary work, Jurisdiction, Occupation, Personnel health
National Category
Public Administration Studies Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38592 (URN)10.1108/JHOM-10-2016-0188 (DOI)000443420800002 ()2-s2.0-85050680926 (Scopus ID)
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2021-06-14Bibliographically approved
Cregård, A., Forsberg, T. & Berntson, E. (2018). Models for cooperation between line-managers and techno structure experts: creating value and professionalization in local government. In: : . Paper presented at XXII IRSPM Annual Conference 2018, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 11-13 April, 2018.
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2018 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In recent years the number of people working within the techno structure in public sector organizations has increased, for example within human resource, communication, financial control, and general administration, just as Mintzberg (1993) foresaw already in the beginning of the 1980’s[1]. Many of these occupations have initiated a professionalization process, which among other things has resulted in an increased focus on developing the profession itself, strengthening boundaries towards other occupations and functions, and elevating the jurisdiction. For example within local government human resource and communication functions the jurisdictional claim has been transferred from the operative, hands-on work to more strategic work and in partnership with strategic management[2]. The techno structure experts can be described as more professional, more knowledgeable and highly skilled, but also more detached from the everyday work of civil servants and operative managers trying to execute the public organization’s mission, hence creating public value.

Professionalization within the local governments’ techno structure is theoretically interesting. For example there is a matter of gender, since women mostly inhabit the techno structure functions. It is also interesting from a cooperation and boundary work point of view, since different models of cooperation contain different logics of negotiations, conflict and agreements. And cooperation is hard to achieve, since that requires actual prioritization and redistribution of resources[3]. In this study our aim is to develop knowledge on cooperation models between the techno structure experts and line-managers in order to create sustainable and healthy organizing that can foster public value creation. Following Zhou, et al.[4] inter-occupational cooperation is defined here as working together across boundaries in order to achieve common goals, emphasizing the multi-actor and multi-occupational relationships.

In order to investigate the content and effects of different models of cooperation we have conducted case studies in three Swedish local governments, including focus group interviews, survey data and secondary sources. We have also re-analyzed both survey data and interview data from our previous investigations on related issues in local governments.

We present three analytical models of cooperation between line-managers and techno structure experts, derived from the empirical investigation. The three models are built up by different logics, and hence create different levels of value to the public organization and common good on the one hand, and to the different functions and professions involved on the other hand. The models may be used as analytical tools for empirical and normative work for the development of the public organization, but also as a foundation for adding a little piece of the theoretical puzzle of how to create cooperation and value within local government organizations. 

  

[1] Mintzberg, H. (1993). Structure in fives: Designing effective organizations. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 

[2] Condrey, S.E. (2015). Public Human Resource Management: How We Get Where We are Today. Riccucci, N. M. (ed) Public Personnel Management. 1-13. Routledge. 

[3] Ashkenas, R. (2015). There’s a Difference Between Cooperation and Collaboration. Harvard Business Review, April 20, 1-6. 

[4] Zhou, J., et al. (2014). Making collaborators happy: The outcome priming effect in integrative negotiation. Public Personnel Management, 43(3), 290-300.

National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38593 (URN)
Conference
XXII IRSPM Annual Conference 2018, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 11-13 April, 2018
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2019-01-04Bibliographically approved
Tengblad, S., Berntson, E. & Cregård, A. (2018). Organisatorisk komplexitet är också en möjlighet. In: Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad (Ed.), Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet (pp. 183-195). Stockholm: Natur och kultur
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2018 (Swedish)In: Att leda i en komplex organisation: Utmaningar och nya perspektiv för chefer i offentlig verksamhet / [ed] Anna Cregård, Erik Berntson & Stefan Tengblad, Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018, p. 183-195Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Natur och kultur, 2018
National Category
Public Administration Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-38591 (URN)978-91-27-82429-4 (ISBN)978-91-27-82254-2 (ISBN)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
Available from: 2018-12-13 Created: 2018-12-13 Last updated: 2019-09-27Bibliographically approved
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