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Karina Nielsen is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on health professions, with a substantial number of publications related to workplace health and well-being.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Health Professions

Subfields of study span several areas, emphasizing organizational and management perspectives:

  • General Health Professions
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Management Science and Operations Research

The main topics covered in their work highlight concerns related to occupational environments and policies:

  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Evaluation and Performance Assessment
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout

Karina Nielsen has contributed to various scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Work & Stress
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Applied Psychology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Safety Science

The researcher has also published a book through Oxford University Press titled Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Sustainable Interventions in Organizations, projected for 2025.

Recent papers by Karina Nielsen, along with publication year and venue, are:

  • How to design, implement and evaluate organizational interventions for maximum impact: the Sigtuna Principles (2020), European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • Challenges influencing the safety of migrant workers in the construction industry: A qualitative study in Italy, Spain, and the UK (2021), Safety Science
  • Organisational interventions to improve employees' health and wellbeing: A realist synthesis (2021), Applied Psychology
  • Design of a safety training package for migrant workers in the construction industry (2021), Safety Science
  • Positive Participatory Organizational Interventions: A Multilevel Approach for Creating Healthy Workplaces (2021), Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Karina Nielsen include:

  • Glorian Sorensen
  • Carolyn Axtell
  • Michela Vignoli
  • Marit Christensen
  • Siw Tone Innstrand

Best Publications

  • Are leaders' well-being, behaviours and style associated with the affective well-being of their employees? A systematic review of three decades of research

    Janne Skakon;Karina Nielsen;Vilhelm Borg;Jaime Guzman

  • The effects of transformational leadership on followers' perceived work characteristics and psychological well-being: A longitudinal study.

    Karina Nielsen;Raymond Randall;Joanna Yarker;Sten-Olof Brenner

  • Workplace resources to improve both employee well-being and performance: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Karina Nielsen;Morten Birkeland Nielsen;Chidieber Ogbonnaya;Marja Känsälä

  • Conducting organizational-level occupational health interventions: What works?

    Karina Nielsen;Raymond Randall;Ann-Louise Holten;Eusebio Rial González

  • Opening the black box: Presenting a model for evaluating organizational-level interventions

    Karina Nielsen;Raymond Randall

  • The mediating effects of team and self-efficacy on the relationship between transformational leadership, and job satisfaction and psychological well-being in healthcare professionals: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey

    Karina Nielsen;Joanna Yarker;Raymond Randall;Fehmidah Munir

  • How do transformational leaders influence followers' affective well-being? Exploring the mediating role of self-efficacy

    Karina Nielsen;Fehmidah Munir

  • Organizational interventions: A research-based framework for the evaluation of both process and effects

    Karina Nielsen;Johan Simonsen Abildgaard

  • Meta-synthesis of qualitative research on return to work among employees with common mental disorders

    Malene Friis Andersen;Karina Marietta Nielsen;Svend Brinkmann

  • The importance of employee participation and perceptions of changes in procedures in a teamworking intervention

    Karina Nielsen;Raymond Randall

  • What works for whom in which circumstances? On the need to move beyond the ‘what works?’ question in organizational intervention research

    Karina Nielsen;Mariella Miraglia

  • Review Article: How can we make organizational interventions work? Employees and line managers as actively crafting interventions:

    Karina Nielsen

  • The importance of transformational leadership style for the well‐being of employees working with older people

    Karina Nielsen;Joanna Yarker;Sten-Olof Brenner;Raymond Randall

  • The development and validation of a job crafting measure for use with blue-collar workers

    Karina Nielsen;Johan Simonsen Abildgaard

  • Mediating the effects of work-life conflict between transformational leadership and health-care workers job satisfaction and psychological wellbeing

    Fehmidah Munir;Karina Nielsen;Anne H. Garde;Karen Albertsen

  • Does shared and differentiated transformational leadership predict followers' working conditions and well-being?☆

    Karina Nielsen;Kevin Daniels

  • The future of organizational interventions: addressing the challenges of today's organizations

    Karina Nielsen;Toon W. Taris;Tom Cox

  • Success or failure? Interpreting and understanding the impact of interventions in four similar worksites

    Karina Nielsen;Hanne Fredslund;Karl B. Christensen;Karen Albertsen

  • Predicting flow at work: investigating the activities and job characteristics that predict flow states at work.

    Karina Nielsen;Bryan Cleal

  • Participants' appraisals of process issues and the effects of stress management interventions

    Karina Nielsen;Raymond Randall;Karen Albertsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Daniels
Kevin Daniels University of East Anglia
Morten Birkeland Nielsen
Morten Birkeland Nielsen National Institute of Occupational Health
Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz
Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz Complutense University of Madrid
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University
Tom Cox
Tom Cox Birkbeck, University of London
Jeremy Dawson
Jeremy Dawson University of Sheffield
José M. Peiró
José M. Peiró University of Valencia
Magnus Sverke
Magnus Sverke Stockholm University
Marisa Salanova
Marisa Salanova Jaume I University

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