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Rydell, A., MacKenzie, R., McLachlan, C., Hobbins, J. & Ahlstrand, R. (2024). Displaced steel workers long-term experiences of post-redundancy transition support. In: : . Paper presented at The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Annual Conference 2024, Industrial Relations in the Era of Multiple Crises: Inequalities, Industrial Action, & Intersectionalities after COVID-19, Queen Mary, University of London - School of Business and Management, July 17th - 19th, 2024. Queen Mary University of London, UK
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2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Queen Mary University of London, UK: , 2024
National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-49211 (URN)
Conference
The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) Annual Conference 2024, Industrial Relations in the Era of Multiple Crises: Inequalities, Industrial Action, & Intersectionalities after COVID-19, Queen Mary, University of London - School of Business and Management, July 17th - 19th, 2024
Available from: 2024-08-10 Created: 2024-08-10 Last updated: 2024-08-26Bibliographically approved
Ahlstrand, R., McLachlan, C. J., MacKenzie, R., Rydell, A. & Stuart, M. (2024). Restructuring regimes in and between two crises: A comparison of Sweden and the UK. European journal of industrial relations, 0(0), 1-21
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2024 (English)In: European journal of industrial relations, ISSN 0959-6801, E-ISSN 1461-7129, Vol. 0(0), p. 1-21Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This paper compares responses to crises through analysis of labour market policy in Sweden and the UK between the Global Financial Crises to the COVID-19 pandemic. In drawing on 'restructuring regimes' we offer insights into the dynamics of change in the two countries, focussing on the development of short-time working schemes. We argue that Sweden learned lessons from the GFC that helped prepare for future crises, whereas the UK's muted response left it ill-prepared for the COVID-19 crisis. The paper contributes to debates around restructuring regimes through an analysis of the journey between two crises in which we characterise Sweden's approach as proactive and pre-emptive and the UK's as reactive and ad hoc. By locating analysis in traditions of self-regulation and voluntarism in Sweden and the UK, respectively, we expand upon the role that industrial relations play in maintaining the stability, or not, of national restructuring regimes. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2024
Keywords
Restructuring regimes, Industrial relations, global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic, Sweden, UK
National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-49113 (URN)10.1177/09596801241267113 (DOI)001274436000001 ()2-s2.0-85199483618 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2018-00760
Available from: 2024-07-22 Created: 2024-07-22 Last updated: 2024-09-27Bibliographically approved
MacKenzie, R., McLachlan, C., Ahlstrand, R., Rydell, A. & Hobbins, J. (2024). Strategic, episodic and truncated orientations to planning in post-redundancy career transitions. Human Relations, 1-31
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2024 (English)In: Human Relations, ISSN 0018-7267, E-ISSN 1741-282X, p. 1-31Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This article examines different orientations to planning in the context of the post-redundancy transition of workers in the Swedish steel industry. The aim of the article is to extend our understanding of the role of planning in careers transitions. Drawing on careers transitions theories, the article explores the qualitative experience of the journey between a redundancy event and the employment situation several years later. Within the careers literature planning is regarded as important to transitions, yet there is a tendency to present planning as an ongoing and lifelong process. By going beyond the prevalent focus within the career literature on managerial, professional or creative industries workers, the article raises the question of whether highly agential, ongoing, lifelong approaches to planning apply to everyone. Data are based on working-life biographical interviews conducted several years after redundancy. The findings show that although some participants resembled assumptions within the careers literature, there are key variations relating to ongoing planning, reflecting differences in the expectations of agency and perceptions of structural constraint. The analysis identifies three orientations to planning – strategic, episodic and truncated – and explores these in relation to both post-redundancy transition outcomes and, crucially, the experience of the transition journey.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2024
Keywords
agency, career adaptability, career planning, career transitions, churn, planning, post-redundancy transitions, redundancy, restructuring, working-life biographies
National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-48176 (URN)10.1177/00187267241233494 (DOI)001177723800001 ()
Available from: 2024-03-04 Created: 2024-03-04 Last updated: 2024-07-30Bibliographically approved
Storman, E. & Rydell, A. (2024). The Liminal Space Between Employment and Unemployment: The Transition Journey of Displaced Hotel Workers in Sweden. In: : . Paper presented at BUIRA Annual Conference 2024: Industrial Relations in the Era of Multiple Crises: Inequalities, Industrial Actions & Intersectionalities after COVID-19, Queen Mary, University of London - School of Business and Management, July 17th-19th, 2024.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Liminal Space Between Employment and Unemployment: The Transition Journey of Displaced Hotel Workers in Sweden
2024 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-49254 (URN)
Conference
BUIRA Annual Conference 2024: Industrial Relations in the Era of Multiple Crises: Inequalities, Industrial Actions & Intersectionalities after COVID-19, Queen Mary, University of London - School of Business and Management, July 17th-19th, 2024
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2024-08-26 Created: 2024-08-26 Last updated: 2024-08-26Bibliographically approved
Storman, E. & Rydell, A. (2023). Att förflyttas utanför lönearbetets gränser: en studie om ofrivillig arbetsförlust i hotellsektorn under pandemin. In: : . Paper presented at Forum för arbetslivsforskning, FALF 2023. Helsingborg, 14-16 juni. (pp. 62-62).
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att förflyttas utanför lönearbetets gränser: en studie om ofrivillig arbetsförlust i hotellsektorn under pandemin
2023 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Vad händer när en anställd förflyttats utanför lönearbetets gränser, det vill säga från att varai en anställning till att ofrivilligt bli av med arbetet? Vi närmar oss frågan genom att fokusera på arbetsförlusters individuella konsekvenser samt omställningsstödets betydelse för övergången till ny sysselsättning. Studien bygger på 28 semistrukturerade intervjuer med uppsagda inom hotellsektorn under Covid-19 pandemin, samt 18 intervjuer med chefer, representanter från omställningsorganisationer, arbetstagar- och arbetsgivarorganisationer. Analysen är pågående och resultat kommer att presenteras på konferensen.

De preliminära resultaten visar dock att uppsägningarna, i kombination med användning av korttidspermitteringar (inledningsvis i pandemin var även uppsagda under uppsägningstid korttidspermitterade inom hotellsektorn), bidrog till ett abrupt avslut av anställningen. Avslutet med få arbetsdagar under uppsägningstiden skapade en utmanande situation vilket medförde en snabb omställning till en vardag som arbetssökande. Konsekvenser som uppstod för de uppsagda inkluderade försämrad ekonomi, hälsa och välmående samt oro inför framtiden. Uppsägningarna upplevdes dock inte enbart negativt utan också, för vissa uppsagda, bidrog till möjligheter genom till exempel aktiv karriärplanering i form av utbildning eller nytt arbete. De uppsagdas ekonomiska situation och livssituation inverkade på hur konsekvenserna upplevts.

De preliminära resultaten visar också en diskrepans mellan objektiv och subjektiv kompetens där det externa stödet varit viktigt i att översätta kompetensen från en kontext till en annan vilket varit en bidragande faktor till att överbrygga friktionsarbetslöshet. Avslutningsvis indikerar resultaten olika typer av barriärer i tillgången till omställningsstödet som erbjudits via omställningsorganisationerna och hur stödet upplevts har skiljt sig åt mellan de uppsagda.

National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-46657 (URN)
Conference
Forum för arbetslivsforskning, FALF 2023. Helsingborg, 14-16 juni.
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2023-08-07 Created: 2023-08-07 Last updated: 2023-08-07Bibliographically approved
Storman, E. & Rydell, A. (2023). Consequences of job loss and the role of transition support: Experiences from the Swedish hospitality sector during the pandemic. In: : . Paper presented at Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, "Labour and Value" AIRAANZ 2023 Conference, 8-10 February 2023.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Consequences of job loss and the role of transition support: Experiences from the Swedish hospitality sector during the pandemic
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Work Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-43349 (URN)
Conference
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, "Labour and Value" AIRAANZ 2023 Conference, 8-10 February 2023
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2022-11-28 Created: 2022-11-28 Last updated: 2023-03-17Bibliographically approved
Rydell, A. & Storman, E. (2023). Job retention schemes and its effect on working conditions: The case of the hospitality sector in Sweden. In: : . Paper presented at Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, "Labour and Value" AIRAANZ 2023 Conference, 8-10 February 2023.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Job retention schemes and its effect on working conditions: The case of the hospitality sector in Sweden
2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Work Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-43356 (URN)
Conference
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Conference, "Labour and Value" AIRAANZ 2023 Conference, 8-10 February 2023
Available from: 2022-11-28 Created: 2022-11-28 Last updated: 2023-03-17Bibliographically approved
Ahlstrand, R. & Rydell, A. (2023). Lokala partsrelationer och organisatorisk flexibilitet: omställningar inom hotellbranschen under covid-19-krisen 2020–2021. In: : . Paper presented at Forum för arbetslivsforskning, FALF 2023. Helsingborg 14-16 juni.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Lokala partsrelationer och organisatorisk flexibilitet: omställningar inom hotellbranschen under covid-19-krisen 2020–2021
2023 (Swedish)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [sv]

Denna studie fokuserar på de lokala partsrelationernas betydelse för utvecklingen av den organisatoriska flexibiliteten under en större hotellkoncerns omställningar under covid-19-krisen 2020–2021. Studien bygger på 26 semistrukturerade intervjuer med representanter för arbetsgivarorganisationer och fackliga organisationer på branschnivå, samt chefer och fackliga företrädare på koncern- och hotellnivå. Intervjuerna transkriberades och tematiserades med hjälp av NVivo 12. I ljuset av en dramatisk nedgång i kundunderlaget mer än halverades antalet anställda: tillsvidareanställda sades upp och kontrakten för tillfälligt anställda blev inte förlängda. Vid sidan av ”tillfälligt anställda” tillkom en ny form av numerisk flexibilitet, korttidspermitterade, baserad på lagen om stöd vid korttidsarbete från 2013. Samtidigt genomfördes omfattande organisationsförändringar: avdelningar slogs samman, antalet chefer reducerades och i stort sett samtliga yrkestitlar förändrades. Anställda skulle arbeta i ”service team”, chefer skulle vara ”service lead” och andra, t ex receptionister, kockar, bartenders och städare, skulle tituleras ”hosts”. De fackliga organisationerna menade att denna form av funktionell flexibilitet, att ”alla skulle kunna allt”, ledde till ett allt stressigare jobb och var ett hot mot yrkesstoltheten. 

I syfte att analysera de lokala partsrelationernas betydelse för utvecklingen av den organisatoriska flexibiliteten tar vi avstamp i tidigare forskning om lokala partsrelationer. Den tidigare forskningen har till stor del handlat om parternas förhållningssätt till varandra när de arbetat för att nå lösningar och resultat i olika avseenden, hur intressen och maktresurser mobiliseras, förhandlingsstrategier och den fackliga organiseringens betydelse för den fackliga styrkan. Det finns begränsat med forskning om de lokala partsrelationers roll när det gäller organisationsförändringar med bäring på organisatorisk flexibilitet. I den här artikeln fokuserar vi på de lokala parternas betydelse för utvecklingen av den organisatoriska flexibiliteten med hänsyn tagen till de institutionella förutsättningar som rådde under pandemin

National Category
Work Sciences
Research subject
Forskargrupp/Seminariegrupp, Arbetsvetenskapliga seminariet
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-46831 (URN)
Conference
Forum för arbetslivsforskning, FALF 2023. Helsingborg 14-16 juni
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2023-08-28 Created: 2023-08-28 Last updated: 2023-08-28Bibliographically approved
Rydell, A. & Storman, E. (2023). Short-time Work, Redundancies, and Changing Work Environment: The Hospitality Sector During COVID-19. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 13(S10), 97-117
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2023 (English)In: Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, E-ISSN 2245-0157, Vol. 13, no S10, p. 97-117Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article focuses on the restructurings that took place within the hospitality sector during the economic downturn caused by the pandemic. The aim of this article is to examine how STW (short-time work) schemes and redundancies affected the psychosocial work environment. The data material consists primarily of 36 interviews with employees and managers from three hotels in Sweden that implemented STW schemes, where some employees were also made redundant. The results show that during the rather long period of government restrictions, radical shifts in hotel occupancy rates, and implemented STW schemes, the work environment changed in terms of employees’ perceptions of job (in)security; workload and work extension; time and financial structures; and workplace relations. Further, the results illustrate how hotel employees’ perceptions of the psychosocial work environment shifted over the course of the pandemic.

Keywords
Health, Working Environment & Wellbeing, Employment, Wages, Unemployment & Rehabilitation, Work/Life Balance, Labor Market Institutions & Social Partners, Organization & Management
National Category
Work Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-43357 (URN)10.18291/njwls.134827 (DOI)
Funder
AFA Insurance
Available from: 2022-11-28 Created: 2022-11-28 Last updated: 2024-01-17Bibliographically approved
Ahlstrand, R., Hobbins, J., MacKenzie, R., McLachlan, C., O'Brien, M., Rydell, A. & Stuart, M. (2023). Variation in the nature of occupational communities and their role in the navigation of post-redundancy transitions in the Swedish, British and Australian steel industries. In: : . Paper presented at Work, Employment & Society Conference.
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2023 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
National Category
Work Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-46991 (URN)
Conference
Work, Employment & Society Conference
Available from: 2023-09-18 Created: 2023-09-18 Last updated: 2023-09-19Bibliographically approved
Organisations
Identifiers
ORCID iD: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-9476-1561

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