Psychology of Organization and Work, POW

Purpose: to develop and test a methodology to achieve a well-functioning and continuous improvement in work environment. This is done in smaller construction companies within entrepreneurial chains in large construction projects.
Project manager: Anders Pousette

Purpose: to evaluate the effects of organizing and conducting employee-driven change in which interdisciplinary focusteams acts as change agents. The aim is to improve work environment.
Projectleader: Max Rapp Ricciardi

The project "Information Security Culture in Practice" is led by FOI and has a total budget of 15 million SEK. Its goal is to investigate how the information security culture in organizations can be measured and improved. The project is carried out by researchers at FOI, the University of Gothenburg, and Örebro University. The subproject " Training for Improved Information Security Culture (TIISC)," which is one of five subprojects, is led by the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg and focuses on testing to what extent it is possible to improve workgroups' information security culture. Through a longitudinal randomized controlled trial, it examined whether the combination of managerial behavioral training for the managers and information-security training for the employees could improve information security culture.

Sub-project manager: Martin Grill

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Training for Improved Information Security Culture (TIISC)

Purpose: to explore mobile phone behavior, focusing on the phenomenon of prioritizing the phone over physically present persons, in traditional social situations in the workplace and to investigate whether mobile behavior is related to factors in the social working environment.
Project manager: Sara Thomée

More than 450 billion SEK annually are spent worldwide on leadership development interventions. Despite this, research on the effectiveness of leadership development interventions is still rudimentary, partly due to a lack of randomized controlled trials. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective method for developing functional behaviors and developing managers' leadership behaviors with CBT have shown promising results. The purpose of the Functional-leadership project is to improve managers' leadership by developing managers' leadership behaviors using CBT-based managerial behavioral training. This research project is a collaboration between Gothenburg University, Stockholm University and the Center for Leadership Development in the City of Gothenburg.

Project manager: Martin Grill

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Functional leadership: Developing functional leadership behaviours among managers in local government organizations

The research aim was to investigate how construction site managers influence–and are influenced by–the safety culture in the Swedish construction industry, and how site managers' leadership can be developed through individualized behavior-based safety-leadership training (IBST). The project comprised a longitudinal questionnaire study, a randomized controlled trail and an interview study. The project's results indicate that site managers influence their supervisors' safety leadership and their employees' safety behaviors. Furthermore, individualized behavior-based safety-leadership training–including behavior analysis, goal formulation, and behavioral training with behavior-specific feedback–increase site managers' use of positive feedback and active listening, as well as their transformative and contingent-reward leadership.

Project leader: Martin Grill

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Safety leadership: A collaborative project for safety leadership and safety culture in the construction industry