Anne Richter

Anne Richter

Principal Researcher
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset, Tomtebodavägen 18A, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C7 Lärande, Informatik, Management och Etik, C7 MMC Augustsson, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am a senior researcher specializing in work and organizational psychology. My research focuses on understanding organizational change on different levels. More specifically, I am interested in understanding the implementation and change processes and particularly leadership that can facilitate these processes. Moreover, I am interested in intervention design and evaluation and I have a strong focus on work environment research, where I have been investigating work stressors such as job insecurity [1] as well as their mechanisms. I also run a research project on the [2]implemention [3] and evaluation of the activity based office [4] at GIH and collaborate in a research program (NOWSTARS [5]-New Organization of Work in Self-employment, Temporary Agency, Academia, and Retail in Sweden) hosted by Stockholm University, where I investigate job insecurity in Swedish academic. Please find my complete publication list under 'Documents' below. *2014* Global Bridges to Advance Health Care Research Careers for Junior Researchers *2012* Post doctoral fellowship AFA (Arbetsmiljö Post dok) *2009 * ICPSR scholarship from the Swedish national data service *2017* Docent/Associate Professor in Psychology, Stockholm University *2011* PhD in Psychology, Stockholm University, Department of Psychology PhD thesis: Job Insecurity and Its Consequences: Investigating Moderators, Mediators [6]and [7] Gender [8] *2007* Licensed Psychologist with a specialization in work and organizational psychology and medicine, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Department of Psychology, Germany [1] http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:453238/FULLTEXT01.pdf [2] http://www.gih.se/OM-GIH/Press-och-media/Pressmeddelanden/Hur-paverkas-vi-av-aktivitetsbaserat-kontor/ [3] http://www.gih.se/OM-GIH/Press-och-media/Pressmeddelanden/Hur-paverkas-vi-av-aktivitetsbaserat-kontor/ [4] http://www.gih.se/OM-GIH/Press-och-media/Pressmeddelanden/Hur-paverkas-vi-av-aktivitetsbaserat-kontor/ [5] https://psychology.su.se/nowstars/english/ [6] http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63877 [7] http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63877 [8] http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63877

Research

  • *Leadership during implementation* Healthcare organizations need to undergo changes constantly to adopt the newest technologies and implement evidence-based methods 1 in order to secure the best quality care, patient safety and cost efficiency as required by the Health and Medical Services Act (1982:763). Therefore, successful implementations are in particular important for these organizations. One key factor that affects the implementation success is leadership. However, besides the importance of leadership, we know little about how and which leadership is important in implementation. In my research I focus on the investigation of effective leadership behavior during an implementation process. A leadership training is developed focusing on strengthening leadership behaviors of line managers. This research has been conducted in collaboration with Centrum för [1]epidemiologi [2] och samhällsmedicin [3](CES). /Grants related to this reserach:/ * Leadership- Key to successful implementation in healthcare (AFA AFA dnr: 140114) PI: Anne Richter Read more about this project in Swedish media: Suntarbetsliv 2014 [4] Suntarbetsliv 2018 [5] Vårdfokus 2018 [6] Read more about the products with developed as part of the project as well as find the invitation to participate in the leadership training. [7] Watch a short filmclip about the implementation leadership (iLead) intervention [8] *Work environment* Organizational changes have resulted in increased occupational stress, which has not only affected the workforce negatively in terms of health and work outcomes, but at the same time organizations are affected through decreased productivity and increased costs that arise with the decreased well-being of their employees. When translating this occupational stress into hard financial facts, it has been found that stress at work is one of the most costly factors for organizations, the society as well as insurance companies. One of the stressors that has contributed to an increase in stress levels and a decrease of the working environment quality is job insecurity, which has been defined as the uncertainty about the future employment and/or employment conditions. In my reserach I focus on the investigation of mechanisms that consist of inter-individual differences in the employees’ reaction to job insecurity as well as to study the factors that connect job insecurity to its negative outcomes in order to get a more holistic understanding of this important phenomenon as well as make job insecurity research applicable in organizations. /Grants related to this reserach:/ * Identification of individual and organizational mechanisms of job insecurity. (FORTE dnr 2012-0947) PI: Anne Richter * Positive psychology in the context of job insecurity (AFA arbetsmiljö [9]post doc [10] 2011 [11]) Läs mer här. [12] The Swedish healthcare sector is one of the sectors where gender segregation is most visible with over 90% female employees. Reports have over and over shown the alarming fact that women have been on sick leave more frequently and longer. In the search for the causes of this societal problem working conditions in the female dominated sectors have been identified as problematic. Another problem in health care are the continuous changes to employees' work practices for patientsto receive updated and high quality care. However, 2/3 of these changes fail, resulting in negative consequences for patients, employees and organizational efficiency. Hence, there are two challenges health care needs to approach to create sustainability, where a) changes in work practices are realized to provide high quality care, but at the same time b) where employees can maintain a good health. This is the target of a new project we work on. /Grants related to this reserach:/ * Investigating and creating sustainable change in Swedish health care [13](FORTE dnr 2016-07182) Read more about this project in Swedish media: FORTE [14] *Research visits*: *2015* Department of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Collaboration with Kathleen Otto *2014* Department of Psychology, KU Leuven, Belgium. Collaboration with Hans De Witte, Tinne Vander Elst *2013* Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences (DBOS), Claremont Graduate University (CGU), USA. Collaboration with Stewart Donaldson and Meghana (Meg) Rao *2010* Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Collaboration with Saija Mauno, Anne Mäkikangas and Ulla Kinnunen [1] http://ces.sll.se/ [2] http://ces.sll.se/ [3] http://ces.sll.se/ [4] https://www.suntarbetsliv.se/forskning/organisatorisk-och-social-arbetsmiljo/nya-vardmetoder-stressar-kan-utbildning-hjalpa/ [5] https://www.suntarbetsliv.se/forskning/ledarskap-och-organisation/chefer-fick-trana-pa-forandringsarbete/ [6] https://www.vardfokus.se/webbnyheter/2018/april/motiverande-chefer-viktigt-for-att-forandringar-ska-lyckas/ [7] https://www.folkhalsoguiden.se/amnesomraden1/implementering-och-utvardering/implementering1/kort-fakta-om-implementering-och-utvardering/leda-implementering/ [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSrLt2d83KM [9] https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/miljonstipendium-till-ung-arbetsmiljoeforskare-805523 [10] https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/miljonstipendium-till-ung-arbetsmiljoeforskare-805523 [11] https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/miljonstipendium-till-ung-arbetsmiljoeforskare-805523 [12] https://www.suntarbetsliv.se/forskning/ledarskap-och-organisation/forsta-arbetsmiljostipendiet-till-forskare-i-psykologi/ [13] https://forte.se/app/uploads/2017/04/kvinnodominerade-sektorer-webb-02.pdf [14] https://forte.se/artikel/sjukvarden-behover-hallbar-forandring/

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Grants

  • Resebidrag: ’11th International Conference of Occupational Stress and Health: Protecting and Promoting Total Worker Health’
    Swedish Research Council for Health Working Life and Welfare
    1 March 2013 - 30 May 2013

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