The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs

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Autor(a) principal: Wagner, Elisa
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/107204
Resumo: The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people’s wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogsThis paper studies the effects of dogs on the work climate, the work community and employeewellbeing in the office setting and looks into under which circumstances companies can benefit from pet-friendly policies. Based on an inductive research approach, interviews were used as data collection.Results indicate that dogs can lower stress for employees, increase communication and foster higher social cohesion if a flexible organizational culture and policies with job autonomy, open communication and trial and error mentality is in place. But if companies are inflexible, allowing pets at work can create more pressure and stress for the employees.
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spelling The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogsHuman-dog relationshipPet-friendly policiesDomínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e GestãoThe influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people’s wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogsThis paper studies the effects of dogs on the work climate, the work community and employeewellbeing in the office setting and looks into under which circumstances companies can benefit from pet-friendly policies. Based on an inductive research approach, interviews were used as data collection.Results indicate that dogs can lower stress for employees, increase communication and foster higher social cohesion if a flexible organizational culture and policies with job autonomy, open communication and trial and error mentality is in place. But if companies are inflexible, allowing pets at work can create more pressure and stress for the employees.Cunha, Miguel PinaRUNWagner, Elisa2020-11-16T14:54:29Z2020-01-202020-01-022020-01-20T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/107204TID:202496260enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-03-11T04:51:54Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/107204Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T03:40:53.258054Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
title The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
spellingShingle The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
Wagner, Elisa
Human-dog relationship
Pet-friendly policies
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
title_short The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
title_full The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
title_fullStr The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
title_full_unstemmed The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
title_sort The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people's wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogs
author Wagner, Elisa
author_facet Wagner, Elisa
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Cunha, Miguel Pina
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Wagner, Elisa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Human-dog relationship
Pet-friendly policies
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
topic Human-dog relationship
Pet-friendly policies
Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão
description The influence of dogs on the work climate, the community and people’s wellbeing in the office and prerequisites under which companies can benefit from the presence of dogsThis paper studies the effects of dogs on the work climate, the work community and employeewellbeing in the office setting and looks into under which circumstances companies can benefit from pet-friendly policies. Based on an inductive research approach, interviews were used as data collection.Results indicate that dogs can lower stress for employees, increase communication and foster higher social cohesion if a flexible organizational culture and policies with job autonomy, open communication and trial and error mentality is in place. But if companies are inflexible, allowing pets at work can create more pressure and stress for the employees.
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