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  • ”Aikuismaisen järkevää” : suojainten käyttöön liitetyt merkitykset rakennusalan kulttuurisena ilmiönä 
    Åberg, Jaana-Mari (2014)
    Goals. This master's thesis research was aiming at discovering from interaction between the employee and supervisor, the kind of information that will increase the use of protective equipment (PPE) and improve safety in the construction site. The study examined the meanings that the supervisors associate with PPE, as well as situations in which a manager should point out the employee to use protective equipment. Methods. This qualitative research belongs to socio-cultural communication research tradition. This speech communication study was carried out from the perspective of ethnography of communication. The study included five semi-structured interviews, 8 video recordings from construction sites, an online discussion, observation notes from 16 different construction work situations, as well as 10 journal articles, including photographs. The method of analysis was the cultural discourse analysis (CUDA). It was used to study how managers produce meanings related to the use of protective equipment in interaction. The concept of relational work was used to study the interaction between the supervisor and the employee from the supervisor's point of view. Results and conclusions. The study showed that employee's objections to the use of protective equipment carry a strong cultural message. The study also showed two different cultural ways of speech, "getting involved" and "taking notice". The main differences were with the meanings related to the use of protective equipment and the interaction with employees. "Getting involved": managers linked the PPE with a lot of different meanings, many of which were negative. For example, PPE prevented working or the use of PPE was considered unmanly. They perceived that reminding about the use of PPE was negatively marked, impolite and inappropriate. "Taking notice" managers related the PPE with professionalism and safety. They also perceived that reminding about the use of PPE was unmarked or positively marked, polite and appropriate. The results can be utilized in helping the interaction between the manager and the employee associated with the PPE.
  • Työntekijöiden käsityksiä elinikäisestä oppimisesta 
    Tukiainen, Miili (2017)
    The aim of this study was to examine what kinds of views do employees have on lifelong learning and what kind of phenomena they include in it. There has not been much research on this subject from the viewpoints of employees. It is possible to mirror the results of this study to some earlier theories on lifelong learning, which are handling lifelong learning as a concept and examine if the employees’ views and the earlier theories from different decades match. The employees’ views on lifelong learning are therefore reasonable to examine because lifelong learning has been a part of the discussion in education policy and working life for many decades now. This study’s method was qualitative. Three employees from different parts of Southern Finland were interviewed in this study, by using semi structured interview. The interviews were transcribed afterwards. The material of the study was analyzed using mainly inductive content analysis but abductive reasoning was also benefited. Using the inductive content analysis, the material was first reduced, then clustered and finally abstracted into five integrative categories. These categories represent the results of the study. There were a lot of variation to be noticed in the examples the employees gave of lifelong learning, even though the discussions handled similar themes. The first integrative category handled the bases of lifelong learning, which the employees associated specially with permanent education. For example learning new and adaptation to environment were linked to permanent education. Some different forms of learning, like education and self-study, arose from the speech of the employees and were perceived as a part of lifelong learning. The status of an individual was seen as a third integrative category especially through motivation. Motivation was a central phenomenon in the speech of every employee, but the examples linked to it varied between the interviewees. The workplace and particularly the work community were seen as an important part of lifelong learning and they formed the fourth integrative category. The closing category handled interaction, which was a part of every employees’ speech in different aspects. The results of the study attached well to earlier theories, although there were also some abnormalities in the study, for example in the interviewees’ positive attitude towards lifelong learning.

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