Browsing by Subject "työntekijälähtöinen kehittäminen"

The aim of the Master´s Thesis was to examine and describe prison staff´s transformative agency. The working life is constantly changing and pushing staff for developing know-how and expanding professional identity. The models of work need to be changed so that work meet society´s demands. In this thesis, Developmental work research offered a method which gave an opportunity for prison staff to develop their work models and practices. When staff developed their work, they embodied transformative agency. This thesis was carried out with qualitative research extract. The ready-made data was used in this thesis which was collected by Finnish Institution of Occupational Health in Interactive Work project in 2013–2016. Data was collected using a modification of Change Laboratory in where the staff developed their work. Three Finnish prisons took a part of this project and their staff members. Five Change Laboratory sessions were arranged for each prison and their staff, and those sessions were recorded. The discussion data was analysed with content analysis method. The analysis was made with data-based analysis and with abductive reasoning. Prison staff embodied seven different forms of transformative agency: resisting, criticising, explicating, envisioning, committing to actions, taking actions, and tackling a problem. Tackling a problem is a new form of transformative agency which reflects a sorting way of talking about the roots of disturbances, conflicts, and problems. In developmental work research it is important to examine this more. Each form of transformative agency was found in fifth workshops but committing to actions and taking actions were not found in first workshops. Most embodied form of transformative agency was criticising and least embodied was taking actions.