Psychosocial risks

A collaborative Finnish–Dutch study by Jari Hakanen and Markku Jokisaari from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH [1]) and Arnold B. Bakker from Erasmus University Rotterdam [2], examined the impact of events during life on job burnout (Hakanen et al, 2011). The researchers combined

A new book, Elderly care in transition: Management, meaning and identity at work. A Scandinavian perspective, published by Copenhagen Business School Press, discusses how care of the elderly in Scandinavia has been transformed by the modernisation of the public sector. This reflects the reduction in

The study, Recherche sur le burnout au sein de la population active belge [1], aimed to estimate as objectively as possible the prevalence of burnout among Belgian workers through the identification of cases by general practitioners (GPs) and occupational health physicians (OPs). The study was

The Health and Career (SIP) survey 2007 [1] was jointly developed by Dares, the Ministry of Employment’s Office for Research and Statistics, DRESS [2], the Directorate of research, studies, evaluation and statistics, and the Centre of Employment Studies (CEE [3]) and carried out by the French

In 2009, researchers from the Mykolas Romeris University (MRU [1]) in Vilnius carried out a survey (in Lithuanian) [2] which sought to identify the key factors motivating social workers in their professional activities in different types of institutions delivering social services in Lithuania. The

We already know that green environments have a positive effect on recovery from stress, but it is only recently that scientists have explored the possibility of achieving the same result on a virtual basis. In a recent collaborative study between the Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences (SLU

A questionnaire-based survey carried out by Adecco Greece [1] in March–May 2011 investigated the outlook and expectations of Greek employees amid the economic crisis. [1] http://www.adecco.gr/

Two recent reports from the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA [1]) examine the situation of social workers in Poland based on extensive qualitative and quantitative research. Since the fall of communism in 1989, social assistance has been distinguished from the Polish health care system and