Wellbeing at work

​​​​​Profiling action Emergent Work in the Digital Era (EWIDE) brings together perspectives from various disciplines, including organizational and management studies, communication studies, information technology and educational and organizational psychology to produce new knowledge on emerging work processes and practices in the digital era. The aim of the profiling area is to evaluate and rethink traditional theories in organization, communication and information systems studies and create new ways of leading and managing future work through the perspectives of ethical organizing and wellbeing.

Ethics, responsibility and sustainability are central concepts in many research groups and research projects operating at the Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE). For example, the Ethos research group focuses on timely ethical questions concerning organizations from the lenses of leadership and human resource management (HRM). In relation to leadership, JSBE has also conducted research on careers, equality in working life, and work-family balance.

Wellbeing at work is also a core research theme at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. Many of the research projects ran by the Department of Psychology center around work and organizational psychology. Research in the field predominately examines wellbeing at work from an ethically sustainable perspective by studying individual employees, different occupational groups, teams, and organizations.

Learning and wellbeing at work are central research topics at the Department of Education. Research projects have, for instance, examined the processes of development and change concerning work environments and ways of working, as well as the cognitive, social and  affective difficulties associated with adult learning and wellbeing resulting from digitalization and the diversification of careers. Research themes in these projects include managing wellbeing at work, the workload of teachers, study counselors and principals, as well as the wellbeing of the school community.

Relevant research projects

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Project

Enhancing Research on the Integration of Formal Educational Programmes and Workplace Learning (FEWL) -project

The purpose of the FEWL project is scientific research on the integration of education and workplace learning.
Research group

Organisational Ethics, Leadership and HRM (ETHOS)

The ETHOS research group focuses on ethically sensitive issues in and of organizations from the viewpoint of leadership and human resource management (HRM).

Work and Organizational Psychology

Research in Work and Organizational Psychology specialises in the development of ethically sustainable well-being skills in a working world with increased learning demands.
Research group

Empirical Microeconomics (EME)

Empirical microeconomics research group conducts research on labor economics, health economics, regional economics and economics of education.
Project

The workplace well-being of international experts from the perspective of language proficiency

The workplace well-being of international experts from the perspective of language proficiency
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Project

CEMIS-HYVIS - Predict, innovate, measure and analyse - wellbeing from lifestyle changes, safe and healthy working environment and safe products

Development of a ife style change supporting predictive user interface (first prototype).