In the present study we investigated employees' experiences of personal and collective work-identity in the context of an organizational change. Data consisted of semi-structured interviews with employees that will be affected by the change. We conducted a theory-driven thematic analysis based on four predetermined main themes: personal and collective emotional, and cognitive work-identity. Respondents experienced distinct and unambiguous proudness, bonding, familiarity and missing in their personal emotional work-identity, and quite distinct and unambiguous coherence, reflection, mental time travel, but ambivalent, or even lack of, correspondence in their personal cognitive work-identity. They experienced a mix of distinct and ambiguous organizational proudness, esteem and affective commitment in their collective emotional work-identity. They experienced distinct and unambiguous identification with the organization, but ambivalent assimilation and incorporation of the organization in their collective cognitive work-identity. Such a complexity in the employees' work-identity experiences also indicates complexity in their organizational change reactions.

Rapporten En egen plats bygger på en forskningsstudie genomförd av Nationellt centrum för kvinnofrid (NCK) vid Uppsala universitet på uppdrag av Länsstyrelsen Gävleborg. Studien förenar flera perspektiv: den analyserar hur våld beaktas i socialtjänstens handläggning av ärenden om boende, belyser professionellas perspektiv på hinder och utvecklingsmöjligheter, och ger röst åt våldsutsatta kvinnors erfarenheter av bostadslöshet och bostadsinstabilitet i spåren av våldet. Den omfattar även en kunskapsöverblick och en genomgång av lagstiftning och andra regelverk samt hur dessa kan användas för att stärka våldsutsattas faktiska tillgång till stadigvarande bostad.

Studien visar hur vägen från skydd till varaktig trygghet ofta bryts av juridiska, organisatoriska och strukturella hinder. Ansvarsförskjutning mellan myndigheter, brist på samordning och ojämlika förutsättningar mellan kommuner gör att skyddsbehov och långsiktig stabilitet i praktiken blir beroende av lokala tolkningar, organisationsstrukturer och förhållningssätt till våldsutsattas behov. Den nationella likvärdigheten brister, och våldsutsatta kvinnor och barn riskerar att stå utan tryggt och stadigvarande boende långt efter att de lämnat förövaren.

Resultaten av denna studie visar att brist på stadigvarande bostad inte endast är ett socialt problem, utan en förlängning av våldet. När kvinnor tvingas tillbaka till osäkra eller tillfälliga lösningar undergrävs såväl trygghet som återhämtning. Våldets konsekvenser följer dem i nya former – ekonomiska, juridiska och rumsliga. Bostaden framträder därmed som en del av våldets samhälleliga struktur, men också som en avgörande del av lösningen. Att tillgängliggöra stadigvarande bostäder med flexibla stödsystem blir inte en biståndsfråga, utan en investering i trygghet, våldsprevention och ett samhälle som håller samman.

Rapporten identifierar flera centrala utvecklingsområden. För det första synliggörs platsförlust som en central konsekvens av våldet. När kvinnor och barn tvingas lämna sina hem utan möjlighet att påverka situationen uppstår inte bara praktiska utan existentiella förluster – av minnen, identitet och tillhörighet. Att återuppbygga livet på en plats blir en del av återhämtningsprocessen vilket understryker behovet av stabilitet och egenmakt i boendelösningar.

För det andra framträder glesbygdens särskilda utmaningar. I mindre kommuner försvåras tillgången till skydd och stöd genom långa avstånd, brist på specialiserade verksamheter, svag anonymitet och av social kontroll. Trygghetsarbetet behöver därför anpassas efter geografiska och sociala förutsättningar för att säkerställa likvärdighet i hela landet.

Vidare visar resultaten att barns rättigheter riskerar att försvagas när boendefrågan hanteras som en tillfällig insats för tak över huvudet. Barnets rätt till kontinuitet, skolgång och trygghet behöver vara styrande i beslut om våldsutsattas tillgång till stadigvarande bostad efter våld, i enlighet med barnkonventionen som svensk lag. Barns återhämtning är beroende av stabila miljöer fria från våld, där trygga relationer och rutiner kan etableras och bevaras. 

Ett annat återkommande mönster gäller bristande övergångar mellan kommuner. När kvinnor och barn behöver flytta till en annan kommun för att undkomma våld uppstår glapp i ansvar, insatser och samordning. Behovet av nationella riktlinjer för överlämning, överflyttning och gemensamt ekonomiskt ansvar är tydligt, för att säkerhet och skäliga levnadsvillkor inte ska äventyras av administrativa gränser, vilket ofta är fallet idag.

Studien i den här rapporten pekar på att bostaden är en våldspreventiv infrastruktur och en förutsättning för kvinnors och barns frihet och trygghet, och för social hållbarhet i linje med Agenda 2030. Den sociala hållbarheten i bostadspolitiken kan inte uppnås utan att frågan om könsrelaterat våld inkluderas. Våldets konsekvenser: ekonomiska och sociala, psykologiska och fysiska, följer kvinnor och barn långt efter separationen. Att säkerställa tillgång till stadigvarande bostad är därför en fråga om rättssäkerhet, folkhälsa och samhälleligt ansvar. 

The frequent use of telework during the COVID -19 pandemic has created a more challenging work situation for managers who need to lead effectively in the virtual space, this especially concerns female managers. Therefor it is of importance to investigate female managers’ experiences of job related demands, control and support within this work context. Accordingly, we investigated female managers’ experiences of demands, control and support in their organizational leadership during telework. The present study used a deductive, theory-driven, qualitative approach with predetermined themes defined within the demand-control-support model. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews. The female managers had at least 50% of their working hours as telework. The results showed that the female managers experienced demands in terms of hard, fast or even excessive work in order to be available and solve complex problems, and control as varied work content, new learning, planning and decision freedom. Support was experienced in terms of attentive superior manager, good cooperation and helpfulness among colleagues. Theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed in terms of telework situation for female managers.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the landscape’s cultural values in the practical work of biosphere reserves and to identify what opportunities there are to increase awareness and knowledge about these values. The paper draws upon data collected in a Swedish biosphere reserve, including a survey of residents, interviews with public officials involved in cultural heritage management, and an analysis of documents produced by the Biosphere Reserve Association. Residents showed a broad knowledge about the landscape’s cultural values, and they linked immaterial heritage to material objects. The residents’ strong identity and pride in relation to the landscape were confirmed by the officials, who argued that it is the deep layers of history and the cultural diversity of the landscape that make the biosphere reserve attractive. However, concepts related to the landscape’s cultural values were barely touched upon in the documents analysed; the landscape’s cultural values were presented as a background—as an abstract value. The findings reveal several unexplored opportunities and practical implications to increase awareness and knowledge of the landscape’s cultural values. Suggested actions include definition of goals, articulation and use of concepts, inventories of actors, increased collaboration, and use of residents’ knowledge. Cultural values of landscapes are often neglected in the practical work of biosphere reserves, despite the social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development being an important component of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. This research indicates several ways of bridging this gap between theory and practice.

Pilots in long-duration flight missions in single-seat aircrafts may be affected by fatigue. This study determined associations between cognitive performance, emotions and physiological activation and deactivation – measured by heart rate variability – in a simulated 11-hours flight mission in the 39 Gripen aircraft. Eleven participants volunteered for the study. Perceived fatigue was measured by the Samn-Perelli Fatigue Index (SPFI). Cognitive performance and objective fatigue were measured by non-executive and executive tasks. Emotions were assessed by the Circumplex Affect Space instrument. Heart rate variability (HRV) was considered in relation to the cognitive battery test in four time points – Hours 3, 5, 7, 9 – and their associations with emotional ratings. Results indicated decrease in performance in the non-executive task after approximately seven hours. This result was correlated with self-reported measures of fatigue. Heart rate variability, assessed by indices of parasympathetic modulation – RMSSD, pNN50 and mean RR Interval – remained unchanged for both non-executive and executive tasks over time. There were associations between increased boredom as well as passiveness and decrease in stimulation as well as activeness, and increased HRV. This suggests that a low self-regulatory effort for maintaining performance in these tasks in these environmental conditions was required. Combined results indicate that pilots may be able to adapt to environmental demands and fatigue in long-duration missions providing that low self-regulatory effort is prevalent. Keywords: fatigue, heart rate variability, cognitive performance, emotions, long-duration military missions 

In this chapter, we examine the effect of catastrophic landscape change on individual’s connections to their everyday landscape. The study investigates relationships between perceptual qualities of a forest landscape and connection to place, before and after a large forest fire in Sweden. The findings presented in this chapter are based on results from 656 questionnaire responses from individuals living near the fire area. Using measures of landscape perceptual quality (naturalness, coherence, complexity, stewardship, disturbance, and scale/openness. Accessibility, sound, safety, and overall experience), we reveal the relevance of age and gender on changes in these perceived qualities and relation to attachment to the landscape. We found that women considered the landscape less easy to access, less safe and more disturbed than men. While the elderly experienced less accessibility and openness than did young respondents. We conclude that this everyday landscape has become a non-familiar place for the residents, creating a loss of attachment and a sense of spatial anxiety. Yet this loss and anxiety are not consistent across the population.

Ignoring the historic and cultural dimensions of landscapes makes environmental planning unsustainable, which in the long run, will have a negative impact on both the environment and society. This paper examines the work and perceptions of practitioners with a focus on the role of historic and cultural landscape dimensions and their relation to the recent implementation of the ecosystem service framework in sustainable environmental planning. Semi-structured interviews with officials at local and regional planning levels in a Swedish case study showed that the historical landscape forms the basis for environmental work. Respondents expressed an integrated view of the landscape, and historic and cultural landscape dimensions were considered important in the initial planning process. However, several challenges existed later in the planning process and final decision-making, such as conceptual ambiguities, unclear policy and assignments, limited cross-sectorial coordination and lack of awareness, knowledge, resources and other priorities. The results also show that the respondents worked regularly with intangible landscape dimensions, which can be defined as cultural ecosystem services, but they do not label them as such. Furthermore, established knowledge and expertise of heritage planning was not activated in the implementation of the ecosystem service approach. We conclude that historic and cultural landscape dimensions are not ignored in practice, but there is a need to articulate these aspects more clearly in order to achieve sustainable environmental planning. There is also an unexplored opportunity to connect skills and create new forms of cross-sectorial collaboration between heritage planning and the ES approach.

Dynamic decision-making in aviation involves complex problem solving in a dynamic environment characterized by goal conflicts and time constrains. Training mostly focuses on testing domain-specific knowledge and skills that may result in context-specific rather than general problem-solving skills. A low-fidelity decision-making simulation may favour the understanding of the decision process rather than the decision outcome alone. We investigated airline pilots’ decision-making strategies and task performance through the use of the low-fidelity computer simulation (microworld) COLDSTORE, a non-linear, opaque, time-delayed task. Almost thirty percent of pilots adapted (Adaptors) to the task’s demands, reaching the desired objective. About thirty five percent of pilots approached the task using a cautious strategy (Cautious). However, the success rates in reaching the task’s objective revealed that performance was compromised for the cautious group. A changing (Changers) and oscillating (Oscillators) approach was also observed. More experienced pilots differed from least experienced pilots in strategy and performance adopted. We suggest that low-fidelity dynamic decision-making simulations offer an environment for practicing and understanding the decision-making process. That may contribute to pilots’ ability to coordinate monitoring, recognition, planning, judgement and choice when acting under flight environment time constraints.

The aim of this study was to investigate emotional and cognitive processes involved in the formation of personal and collective work-identity by variable- and person-oriented analyses. A digitized questionnaire was answered by 768 participants. In line with an autobiographical (personal) memory view, we showed that: (1) emotional processes positively predicted cognitive processes (variable-oriented analyses), and (2) emotional profile had an effect on cognitive processes (person-oriented analyses), with regard to personal work-identity formation. Regarding collective work-identity formation, and in line with a social-identity and self-categorization perspective, we showed that: (1) cognitive processes positively predicted emotional processes (variable-oriented analyses), and (2) cognitive profile had an effect on emotional processes (person-oriented analyses). Our results indicate that emotion and cognition play different roles in personal- and collective work-identity formation; additionally, suggesting that the theoretical views of both personal and social psychology as well as analyses at different levels should be involved in order to gain a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of people-work bonding.

Background: Fatigue of air force pilots has become an increasing concern due to changes in mission characteristics. In the current study we investigated fatigue, emotions and cognitive performance in a simulated 11-hours mission in the 39 Gripen fighter aircraft.

Methods: A total of twelve subjects were evaluated in a high-fidelity dynamic flight simulator for 12 consecutive hours. Perceived fatigue was measured by the Samn-Perelli Fatigue Index (SPFI). Emotions were assessed with the Circumplex Affect Space. Cognitive performance was assessed by five cognitive tasks.

Results: Significant increase in self-reported fatigue, general decrease in two positive emotional states, as well increase of one negative emotional state occurred after approximately seven hours into the mission. Self-reported fatigue negatively correlated with enthusiasm and cheerfulness (r’= -0.75; -0.49, respectively) and positively correlated with boredom and gloominess (r’ = -0.61; r’ = -0.30, respectively). Response time in the low-order task negatively correlated with enthusiasm, cheerfulness and calmness (r’= - 0.44; r’= - 0.41; r’= - 0.37, respectively) and positively correlated with boredom and anxiousness (r’ = 0.37; r’ = 0.28, respectively). Mission duration had an adverse impact on emotions in these environmental conditions, particularly after seven hours.

Discussion: These results contribute to the understanding of fatigue development in general and of emotion-cognition relationships. These findings emphasize that both emotional states and the type of cognitive tasks to be performed should be considered for planning long-duration missions in single-piloted fighter aircrafts as to increase the probability of missions’ success.

Keywords: military missions, fighter aircraft, objective and subjective pilot performance