The me-too petition #TystnadTagning received media- and political attention in Sweden and the performing arts became a case illustrating a larger problem on the Swedish labor market: health effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence and the culture of silence that surrounds them.

Diversity is seen by Volvo as a tool for recruiting sought-after staff that can contribute to strengthened innovation capacity. For this to become a reality, research shows that diversity needs to be paired with active work for inclusion.

In a globalized and rapidly changing world of increasing complexity and uncertainty, organizations need to attract, develop and retain competent leaders, which makes competence and leadership development a priority. The program addresses the challenge of how to recoup investments in leadership.

Since the turn of the millennium, a research group has studied the phenomenon of shared leadership between managers in Swedish working life. Managerial shared leadership is a practice that goes beyond traditional, singular ways of organising leadership functions. It has long been hidden behind our societies’ individualistic, heroic view of leadership. 

A new manager enters the workplace with no previous knowledge of employees, organizational culture, or history and is supposed to lead a development project for six months with no future in the business. This scenario is increasingly common in contemporary working life. But what happens when even the manager is there temporarily?

Falls among older people are a serious problem that causes both human suffering and high social costs. There is extensive knowledge about how falls can be prevented, but there is often a lack of knowledge about the conditions required for this to be put into practice, by older people themselves, by staff in social services, home care and healthcare.

The Swedish curriculum for preschool education states that preschool should provide opportunities for children to develop adequate digital skills and a critical attitude towards digital technology. This project aims to investigate how workplace learning amongst preschool teachers about digital technology takes place.