Turn to Practice Within Working Life Studies

Quality of Working Life: An Antecedent to Employee Turnover Intention

Background The purpose of this study was to measure the level of quality of work life (QWL) among hospital employees in Iran. Additionally, it aimed to identify the factors that are critical to employees’ QWL. It also aimed to test a theoretical model of the relationship between employees’ QWL and their intention to leave the organisation. Methods A survey study was conducted based on a sample ...

Case Studies of User Orientation in Working Life

Despite all the research and development that have taken place on user centered methods, techniques and tools, the actual user influence in the development of their own work situation shows to be rather limited. User involvement is regarded as time consuming and tends to receive low priority in working life development projects. This often results in systems with severe usability defects. Quest...

To the Framingham data, turn, turn, turn.

The practice turn in nursing epistemology.

Nursing is a fascinating discipline. Nurses have the honor and expertise to participate closely in human healing processes of individuals, families, communities, and other systems of care. Yet, because the practitioner’s expertise in healing is not fully understood, some account for it by relying on concepts (like intuition, tacit knowing, and gut feelings) that render nursing knowledge more my...

Strategy as Practice and the Narrative Turn

This paper argues that organizational communication research, and in particular a perspective that focuses on narrative, can contribute in important ways to understanding the practices of strategy. Narrative is believed to be critical to sensemaking in organizations, and multiple levels and forms of narrative are inherent to strategic practices. For example, narrative can be found in the micro-...