Jari Hakanen is a research professor at the National Institute of Occupational Health (TTL)
For more than 20 years, Jari has studied Finnish working life from the perspective of well-being at work: good management and proactive tuning of one's own work, reconciling work and life, and mental health and the ability to work from the perspective of well-being. He has also been developing and implementing many development projects on the above-mentioned themes.
He has received, among other things, the Golden Special Medal of Merit for the Development of Work Environment Work, as well as the Advocate for Good Working Life and the Finnish Working Life Researcher of the Year recognition awards.
In 2005, Jari defended his dissertation on social psychology at the University of Helsinki. The theme was burnout, job intake and the interaction between work and other life during one's career (burnout, commitment and employee well-being.)
He started as a researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in 1998. Since 2013, he has been a research professor and is also a docent in social psychology at the University of Helsinki.
His current research focuses on positive work psychology, employee engagement, exhaustion, salutogenesis, and the interaction between work and family life.
For more than 20 years, Jari Hakanen has studied Finnish working life from the perspective of well-being at work: good management and proactive tuning of one's own work, reconciling work and other life, and mental health and ability to work from the perspectives of well-being. He has also been developing and implementing many development projects on the above-mentioned themes.
He has received, among other things, the Golden Special Medal of Merit for the Development of Work-Environment Work, as well as the Advocate for Good Working Life and the Finnish Working Life Researcher of the Year recognition awards.
His professional mission / dream is to promote change toward more positive and healthier work practices.
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