Conflict Management in Small and Medium Enterprises

Steinar Widding

Researcher Steinar Widding, Work Research Institute (WRI), is the project coordinator of the new EU-project “Conflict Management in Small and Medium Enterprises” which has bullying at workplaces as its theme.

Facilitating Ethical Reflection Among Scientists Using the Ethical Matrix

Ellen-Marie Forsberg

Together with an international research team, Ellen-Marie Forsberg, senior researcher at the Work Research Institute (WRI), has published a paper discussing the method and results from a series of five ethics workshops with animal disease genomics researchers carried out from 2007 – 2009.

Inspiring Respect for Animals Through the Law?

Ellen-Marie Forsberg

Ellen-Marie Forsberg, senior researcher at the Work Research Institute (WRI), has studied the development of the value basis for animal welfare in Norway over the last years. This has resulted in an article in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics.

Turning to Practice with Action Research

This book, edited by the researchers Benedicte Brøgger (Work Research Institute) and Olav Eikeland (Akershus University College), shows how action research and related approaches have turned to practice by developing knowledge both from practice and for practice without giving up on theoretical and methodological ambitions.

New book: Missing Links in Labour Geography

Ann Cecilie Bergene

Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Senior researcher Ann Cecilie Bergene, Work Research Institute, is one of the editors of and contributors to the book.

Exclusion of mothers from Norwegian law firms

Selma Therese Lyng

“Mothered” and othered”. (In)visibility of care responsibility and gender in processes of excluding women from Norwegian law firms. The article is written by researcher Selma Therese Lyng, Work Research Institute.

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• Measures to prevent and avoid excluding people from the labour market (23.02.2010 16:03)
• Consequences for Action Research and Regional Development (14.01.2010 09:56)
• How to Generate Knowledge from Single Case Research on Innovation? (14.01.2010 08:14)
• The Work Research Institute (WRI) has initiated an EU- project on language learning in work settings (02.10.2009 14:39)
• New project: Career transitions in times of economic crisis (02.09.2009 10:54)