Momentum lost or creating new constellations? Insights from an exercise-at-work project during the Covid-19 pandemic - a mixed methods approach
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- Overbye & Wagner_International Journal for the Sociology of Sport_2023_Vol 58(2)_278-307
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Exercise-at-work programmes have been identified as venues to decrease inequalities in physical activity and exercise between socioeconomic groups and to improve employees' health and wellbeing. Drawing on a multiple institutional logics perspective and adopting a mixed-methods approach, this paper investigates how employees, exercise-ambassadors and managers at five Danish workplaces experience Covid-19 induced changes to a 1-year exercise-at-work project, and how these changes impacted upon the workplace. Our results suggest that Covid-19 and the altered format of exercise and delivery polarized employees' opportunities for exercise at work. However, the generally positive experiences of exercise-at-work activities and their influence on social environment and collaboration (identified prior to Covid-19 lockdown) remained among those employees who continued with activities. Self-organized adaptions and models of employee exercise which emerged suggest that community logic endured despite the crisis. We show how Covid-19 induced organizational changes led to interplays between institutional logics, with family and state logics becoming more prominent. Specifically, the exercise-at-work programme changed from an aligned model, with complementary logics and minimal conflict, to a model where logics of profession and corporation became dominant at the expense of community logic (exercise-ambassadors activities), but constrained by a state and a family logic.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | International Review for the Sociology of Sport |
Vol/bind | 58 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Sider (fra-til) | 278-307 |
Antal sider | 30 |
ISSN | 1012-6902 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2023 |
Bibliografisk note
CURIS 2023 NEXS 032
- Det Natur- og Biovidenskabelige Fakultet
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