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Coworkership and Prolific Behaviors in Modern Work Life

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There is a consensus in most organizations that in order to develop a healthy and productive work environment, you have to arrange for a good job design that promotes engagement and positive health and have a competent, good leader. This creates a good basis for a sound and sustainable environment. But a good working environment is not something you get, but something you actively take part in creating through your own efforts and in relation to your managers and colleagues. The collective effort from both the organization and the coworkers is essential for a healthy and productive organization. The coworkers’ individual role in organizational development is often somewhat overlooked; however, in this chapter, we argue that coworkers individually play an active and important part in creating a sustainable work place.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

    Martin Schrøder, Marit Christensen & Anette Fjeld

  2. Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Siw Tone Innstrand

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    Marit Christensen

  2. Department of Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

    Per Øystein Saksvik

  3. Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Maria Karanika-Murray

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Schrøder, M., Christensen, M., Innstrand, S.T., Fjeld, A. (2017). Coworkership and Prolific Behaviors in Modern Work Life. In: Christensen, M., Saksvik, P., Karanika-Murray, M. (eds) The Positive Side of Occupational Health Psychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66781-2_9

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