Implementing Health-Promoting Leadership in Municipal Organizations: Managers’ Experiences with a Leadership Program

The aim of this study was to analyze how line and middle managers experience and describe barriers and enablers in the implementation of a health-promoting leadership program in municipal organizations. A qualitative case study design was applied to examine the leadership program in a case involving implementation of an organizational health intervention. Data were mainly collected using semi-structured interviews with line and middle managers participating in the leadership program. Interviews with senior managers, notes from meetings/workshops, and written action plans were used as complementary data. The interview data were analyzed using a thematic analysis, and the complementary data using a summative content analysis. The findings show that the interviewed line and middle managers experienced this leadership program as a new approach in leadership training because it is based primarily on employee participation. Involvement and commitment of the employees was considered a crucial enabler in the implementation of the leadership program. Other enablers identified include action plans with specific goals, earlier experiences of organizational change, and integration of the program content into regular routines and structures. The line and middle managers described several barriers in the implementation process, and they described various organizational conditions, such as high workload, lack of senior management support, politically initiated projects, and organizational change, as challenges that limited the opportunities to be drivers of change. Taken together, these barriers interfered with the leadership program and its implementation. The study contributes to the understanding of how organizational-level health interventions are implemented in public sector workplaces

Allmänhetens syn på våldsbejakande extremism: En balans mellan sociala, ekonomiska och polisiära åtgärder

AbstractThe so-called Swedish model of trust is characterised by strong public support for the idea of an individual-based and extensive welfare state, well-developed state individualism, high levels of social trust, widespread appreciation of the judiciary, openness, tolerance, and a free and independent press. Today, Swedish society faces several challenges. Will the Swedish model of trust be eroded or is it relatively resilient to stress? A Novus survey from 2019 found that a total of 74 percent of the Swedish population were very or quite worried about Islamic extremism, 66 percent very or quite worried about right-wing extremism and 46 percent very or quite worried about left-wing extremism. Other surveys show that the public is also concerned about the deterioration of the welfare state, social gaps, the increased number of refugees to Sweden and xenophobia. Moreover, the Novus survey shows that 65 percent believe that violence-promoting extremism will increase in Sweden in the coming ten-year period. 22 percent indicate that they have become suspicious of people they have encountered in everyday situations and 15 percent  have avoided large crowds, e.g. shopping malls, pedestrian areas and subways. When asked which measures are good for increasing security in society, common answers were to reduce social exclusion, increase camera surveillance in public places and provide more information on democratic principles and values. These answers indicate that Swedish public opinion has a relatively balanced view of public measures against violent extremism, which is consistent withthe Swedish model of trust. In general, the public does not propose the implementation of overly excessive measures against violent extremism. However, given continued public concern over the development of violent extremism, the long term stability of the Swedish model of trust remains in question

Dielectric disorder in two-dimensional materials

Understanding and controlling disorder is key to nanotechnology and materials science. Traditionally, disorder is attributed to local fluctuations of inherent material properties such as chemical and structural composition, doping or strain. Here, we present a fundamentally new source of disorder in nanoscale systems that is based entirely on the local changes of the Coulomb interaction due to fluctuations of the external dielectric environment. Using two-dimensional semiconductors as prototypes, we experimentally monitor dielectric disorder by probing the statistics and correlations of the exciton resonances, and theoretically analyse the influence of external screening and phonon scattering. Even moderate fluctuations of the dielectric environment are shown to induce large variations of the bandgap and exciton binding energies up to the 100 meV range, often making it a dominant source of inhomogeneities. As a consequence, dielectric disorder has strong implications for both the optical and transport properties of nanoscale materials and their heterostructures

Spatial extent of the excited exciton states in WS2 monolayers from diamagnetic shifts

We experimentally study the radii of excitons in hBN-encapsulated WS(2 )monolayers by means of magneto-optical reflectance spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures in magnetic fields up to 29 T. We observe field-induced energy shifts of the exciton ground and excited states due to valley Zeeman and diamagnetic effects. We find the g factor of the first excited state of -4.2 +/- 0.1 to be essentially equal to that of the ground state of -4.35 +/- 0.1. From diamagnetic shifts, we determine the root mean square radii of the excitons. The radius of the first excited state is found to be 5-8 nm and that of the ground state around 2 nm Our results further confirm the Wannier-Mott nature of the exciton quasiparticles in monolayer semiconductors and the assignment of the optical resonances in absorption-type measurements. They also provide additional support for the applicability of the effective mass hydrogenlike models in these systems

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Covid-19 som spegelbild av samhället

Det har nu gått två år sedan vi såg början på det som har kommit att kallas corona-pandemin. I backspegeln kan vi konstatera att ett virus, hur osynligt det än må vara för det mänskliga ögat, kan omkullkasta mycket av det som vi tar för givet i vardagen – hur vi människor kan och får röra oss i offentligheten, umgänget med andra eller graden av, möjligheterna till regelbunden fysisk aktivitet och fördelar/nackdelar med vaccin. Annat som pandemin har kastat ljus på är mediernas och myndigheterna sätt att rapportera och informera om covid-19, synen på fakta, kunskap och experter, medborgarnas förtroende för myndigheter och oro för yttringar och effekter av viruset och vaccinering – för dem själva, andra människor och samhället stort. Det har även blivit tydligt att konsekvenserna av en pandemi alltid är mångfacetterade och mångfaktoriella och därtill ser delvis olika hos olika segment av den svenska befolkningen. Dessa aspekter av pandemin är några som detta temanummer kretsar kring

The true identity of identity

Todas as pessoas têm uma necessidade psicológica de identidade, tal como qualquer grupo de pessoas, cultura ou sociedade precisa de se centrar numa identidade partilhada colectivamente. Para as pessoas individuais ou os grupos, uma identidade representa uma concepção (tanto ilusória, mas ainda relativamente persistente) de quem e do que se é e define as fronteiras físicas, psicológicas e socioculturais na relação com outras pessoas e com o mundo circundante. A vida e o desenvolvimento pessoal consiste na descoberta do eu, na presença simultânea da mudança e da continuidade pessoal. Every human being has a psychological need for an identity, the same way any group of people needs to focus on a collectively shared identity. For the people, individuals or groups, an identity represents a concept -somewhat illusory although relatively persistent- of whom and of what one is, thus defining both the physical, psychological, social and cultural relations with other people and with the surrounding world. Life and the individual growth comprise the discovery of oneself with the continuing presence of change and personal evolution

The true identity of identity

Todas as pessoas têm uma necessidade psicológica de identidade, tal como qualquer grupo de pessoas, cultura ou sociedade precisa de se centrar numa identidade partilhada colectivamente. Para as pessoas individuais ou os grupos, uma identidade representa uma concepção (tanto ilusória, mas ainda relativamente persistente) de quem e do que se é e define as fronteiras físicas, psicológicas e socioculturais na relação com outras pessoas e com o mundo circundante. A vida e o desenvolvimento pessoal consiste na descoberta do eu, na presença simultânea da mudança e da continuidade pessoal. Every human being has a psychological need for an identity, the same way any group of people needs to focus on a collectively shared identity. For the people, individuals or groups, an identity represents a concept -somewhat illusory although relatively persistent- of whom and of what one is, thus defining both the physical, psychological, social and cultural relations with other people and with the surrounding world. Life and the individual growth comprise the discovery of oneself with the continuing presence of change and personal evolution

Akademiskt samskapande och Agenda 2030: Kommunikation, tillit, integritet och makt

Lärosäten i Sverige och övriga världen har en viktig roll att spela i Agenda 2030-arbetet och det finns idag allt större krav på att ”öppna upp” vetenskapen och samverkan och samskapande/samproduktion mellan lärosäten, civilsamhälle, näringsliv och offentlig sektor (kvadrupel helix). Denna text diskuterar dessa frågor i ljuset av akademins värden och möjliga dilemman vid kvadrupel helix samarbeten. Diskussionen utgår från egna erfarenheter av olika typer av samverkansarbete och samskapande samt 14 fokusgruppsintervjuer inom ramarna för Accomplissh-projektet. Dessa intervjuer genomfördes i tolv länder där representanter för akademi, civilsamhälle, näringsliv och offentlig sektor diskuterade hinder för och möjliggörande av samverkan och samskapande. I diskussionen kopplas resultaten till mer allmänna resonemang och samskapande. Diskussionen utmynnar i några tips som kan vara till nytta i samproduktionsarbetet kring Agenda 2030