Jatkoilla / After work

How are you, how are you doing? It is easy to respond to these questions with something vague, so that the conversation can then move on. But how are you really doing? This can even be an uncomfortable question, because it offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on who you are, what you need, […]

The 21st European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance took place on 13–14 November at the CESI Engineering School campus in Paris-Nanterre. The event brought together timely discussions on leadership, showcasing research across a wide spectrum – from digitalisation and sustainability to cross-cultural collaboration. A shared underlying question was how organisations and leaders can act […]

Working life is changing perhaps faster than ever before, requiring continuous learning and the updating of skills. At its best, learning, development, creating new things, and ideation are rewarding, motivating, and meaningful. Through the exchange of ideas, observations, and experiences in workplace collaboration, insights emerge that advance the skills of both individual employees and entire […]

Interculturalism is today’s workplace reality. Work teams are increasingly composed of professionals with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and customers likewise come from many different backgrounds in Finland. This offers vast opportunities: multicultural teams can generate new perspectives, creativity, and innovations. They also help to understand customers better and meet their varied needs. At the same […]

Creative self-image is a belief about the importance that an individual assigns to their creativity in relation to the broader sense of self. In other words, the creative self-image is about how important it is to an individual to be creative in different areas of their lives, at work and in the free time. Already […]

Managing employees’ learning takes place in everyday work and is therefore part of modern supervisory work. It requires supervisors to be actively present and engaged in employees’ daily problem-solving and learning situations. Leading learning combines the supervisor’s role as a coach, consideration of the motivational factors underlying learning, and learning as a process at both […]

My research on the working life experiences of women diagnosed with ADHD began earlier this year and took off quite rapidly. Nina Venhe, a communications specialist at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland, wrote an online article about the study, which was widely shared in various Facebook groups. The interest in participating […]

As June draws to a close, the academic calendar signals a shift into holiday mode for researchers. Spring in the JATKOT group has been steadily productive—at times exhausting, but also rewarding. At the beginning of the year, we welcomed two new members: doctoral researcher Mia, who is exploring the work-life experiences of highly educated women […]

Uncertainty and excitement, satisfaction and wonder. The final weeks before submitting my dissertation for pre-examination were filled with these emotions—and many more. One moment I was questioning the results of my research; the next, I found myself actually feeling rather satisfied with the work. According to my supervisor’s reassuring words, such feelings are completely normal. […]

The internship we completed in the research group was one of the most rewarding and interesting experiences of our pedagogical studies in adult education. We had the opportunity to gain insight into academic work and the functioning of a research community, as well as to learn from inspiring and highly skilled experts. The Versatility of […]