The juggling act of pharmacists in Sweden: a qualitative study on balancing healthcare professionalism and retail employment.

Background: Community pharmacies in Sweden merge a state-funded professional community service with a retail business. While previous research has recognized its challenges, less attention has been paid to the potential conflict of interest it could result in regarding the work of pharmacists. This study aims to increase understanding of how pharmacists in Sweden combine their healthcare ambitions and obligations with those concerning being employees in a retail business.

Understanding salutogenic approaches to managing intensive work: Experiences from three Swedish companies.

Background: Recent research has highlighted the risks involved in work intensification; i.e. the risk of human resources being consumed, incurring higher risks of emotional ill health such as burnout among employees.

The effects of dialogue groups on physicians' work environment: A matter of gender?

Background: Over the past decades, the work environment of physicians has been deteriorating, particularly for female physicians.

Objectives: In this study, we evaluated the effects of dialogue groups on the work environment of physicians in relation to gender.

Methods: Sixty physicians (38 women) at Sachs' Children's Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, participated in dialogue groups once a month during a period of one year.

Employee perceptions of managers' leadership over time.

Purpose: This paper aims to explore if and how employees in a healthcare organisation perceive changes in their managers' leadership behaviour over time.

Design/methodology/approach: An interview study was conducted with employees whose managers had participated in a two-year leadership development programme offered by their employer, Healthcare Provision Stockholm County. Qualitative content analysis was applied, and the interview discussions focused on areas in which the majority of the informants perceived that a change had occurred over time and their answers were relatively consistent.

Managing implementation: roles of line managers, senior managers, and human resource professionals in an occupational health intervention.

Objective: To contrast line managers', senior managers', and (human resource) HR professionals' descriptions of their roles, tasks, and possibilities to perform them during the implementation of an occupational health intervention.

Methods: Interviews with line managers (n = 13), senior managers (n = 7), and HR professionals (n = 9) 6 months after initiation of an occupational health intervention at nine organizations.

Results: The groups' roles were described coherently, except for the HR professionals.