Øivind Hagen

Hagen, Ingunn & Hagen, Øivind (2024)

The impact of yoga on occupational stress and wellbeing: exploring practitioners’ experiences

Frontiers in Public Health, 12 Doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1352197 - Full text in research archive

Background: Workplace stress is a serious problem globally. It represents a major threat to the UN’s sustainability goal of good health and wellbeing (SDG 3). The purpose of this article is to explore how yoga may be a tool for increased wellbeing and stress management at work and in everyday life. Methods: To examine how yoga can facilitate employees’ wellbeing and ability to cope with stress, we performed qualitative interviews with practitioners who did yoga regularly. We focused on how yoga was experienced by each of our interviewees and what practicing yoga meant to them. Our data material consists of 13 semi-structured lifeworld interviews. The sample consisted of 10 female and 3 male in the age range of 20–55  years old. The data were analyzed through a thematic analysis. Results: The themes identified in the thematic analysis include: (1) yoga as a tool for increased wellbeing, (2) yoga for coping with stress and dealing with challenges, (3) the role of breathing, and (4) contextual factors. While confirming other research findings, this article elaborates on aspects informants described as induced by yoga, like self-awareness, calmness, balance, moodlifting, focus, presence, self-care, and mastery. The reported positive outcomes of yoga constituted increased wellbeing, and also facilitated the ability to cope with stress and experience less stress. Informants also emphasized that yogic breathing was a central factor in inducing wellbeing and feeling less stressed. They also expressed that contextual factors, such as time, teacher, and location, influenced how practicing yoga was experienced and made sense of. Conclusion: The study concludes that the interviewees experienced practicing yoga as positive, by reducing their occupational stress. Moreover, yoga increased their wellbeing, as well as their ability to cope with stress. These experienced changes were especially

Sonnenschein, Katrine Biering; Hagen, Øivind, Rostad, Ingrid Steen & Wiik, Ragnhild (2022)

“Make it possible for more people to work at home!” representations of employee motivation and job satisfaction in Danish and Norwegian newspapers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 13 Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.972562

Carson, Siri Granum; Hagen, Øivind & Sethi, Prakash S. (2015)

From Implicit to Explicit CSR in a Scandinavian Context: The Cases of HÅG and Hydro

Journal of Business Ethics, 127(1), s. 17- 31. Doi: 10.1007/s10551-013-1791-2

Carson, Siri Granum & Hagen, Øivind (2014)

Loosening or tightening the bindings? Renegotiating the social contract through deregulation and organizational expressiveness

Focus Journal, 9(2), s. 42- 50.

Hagen, Øivind (2011)

“Individualitet og kollektivitet i moderne verksemder: Mot den kulturlause organisasjon?” (revidert/3. utgave av boka Ny personalpsykologi for et arbeidsliv i endring. Nye perspektiver på samspillet organisasjon og menneske (tidligere registrert i 2003/2006))

Saksvik, Per Øystein (red.). Arbeids- og organisasjonspsykologi - Aktuelle tema til inspirasjon for et bedre arbeidsliv

Hagen, Øivind (2021)

NTNU vs. Eikrem – en leksjon i konflikthåndtering.

Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]

Hagen, Øivind (2019)

«Stort sprik i reklamekostnader for landets universiteter og høgskoler»

Khrono [Avis]

Hagen, Øivind (2019)

«Snur opp ned på jobbkaffen»

Dagbladet nettutgaven [Avis]

Hagen, Øivind (2018)

Statoil Beyond Petroleum

Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]

Hagen, Øivind & Lyngstadås, Hakim (2018)

Når reklame utfordrer.

Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]

Lyngstadås, Hakim & Hagen, Øivind (2024)

Kvalitative metoder for handelshøyskoleutdanningen. Et tankesett for morgendagens ansatte og ledere.

[Textbook]. Fagbokforlaget.

Hagen, Øivind (2023)

“Stories of adjustments and hope: How the pandemic took away the future of work, and how newspapers reconnected us with it. A study of how daily newspapers covered Scandinavian working life’s dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic”.

[Academic lecture]. Haravard University, SCANCOR Weatherhead Alumni Conference 2023.

Hagen, Øivind (2023)

“Qualitative methodology for economics education – A necessary mindset to educate tomorrow's managers and employees”. A text book-project.

[Academic lecture]. Harvard University, Weatherhead SCANCOR seminar-series.

Hagen, Øivind (2023)

“Stories of Adjustments and Hope: How the Pandemic took away the Future of work, and how Newspapers Reconnected us with it”.

[Academic lecture]. Harvard University, Weatherhead SCANCOR seminar-series.

Hagen, Øivind; Sonnenschein, Katrine Biering, Rostad, Ingrid Steen & Wiik, Ragnhild (2023)

Kampen om fremtidens arbeidsplass

[Popular scientific article]. BI Business Review