Roald Arild Bjørklund

• Myklebust, Trond; Motland, Karoline; Garnås, Alexander; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Bjørkli, Cato Alexander & Fostervold, Knut Inge (2020). An Empirical evaluation of the relationship between human relations climate and readiness for change. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. ISSN 2002-2867. 5(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.16993/sjwop.74. Full text in Research Archive
• Lone, Jon Anders; Garnås, Alexander; Myklebust, Trond; Bjørklund, Roald; Hoff, Thomas & Bjørkli, Cato (2017). Organizational climate and investigation performance in the Norwegian police: A qualitative study. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. ISSN 1544-4759. 14(3), p. 227–245. doi: 10.1002/jip.1474. Show summary

  The present study aimed to identify organizational climate dimensions that are salient for police investigation performance and to explicate the mechanisms of the relationship between organizational climate and investigation performance. We conducted 38 semistructured interviews with participants at three job levels of police investigative work (chiefs of police, n = 11, senior investigating officers, n = 14, detectives, n = 13) in 11 Norwegian police districts. We analyzed the interview data by using a model of organizational climate based on the competing values framework (Quinn & Rohrbaugh, 1983). Two types of climate, human relations climate and rational goal climate, were perceived to enhance investigation performance. The findings indicate that a human relations climate enhances investigation performance by developing collective human capital and by supporting internal and external cooperation and coordination of resources. Moreover, the findings suggest that a rational goal climate increases investigation performance by encouraging planning, goal setting, and task focus.

• Lone, Jon Anders; Riege, Anine Cecilie; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Hoff, Thomas & Bjørkli, Cato Alexander (2017). The relationship between the broader environment and the work system in a university setting: a systems approach. Studies in Higher Education. ISSN 0307-5079. 42(1), p. 3–22. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1034259.
• Lone, Jon Anders; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Østerud, Kaja Brynildsen; Anderssen, Line; Hoff, Thomas & Bjørkli, Cato Alexsander (2014). Assessing knowledge-intensive work environment: General versus situation-specific instruments. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. ISSN 1359-432X. 23(3), p. 469–482. doi: 10.1080/1359432X.2012.750449.
• Hannevik, Martine B; Lone, Jon Anders; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Bjørkli, Cato Alexsander & Hoff, Thomas (2014). Organizational climate in large-scale projects in the oil and gas industry: A competing values perspective. International Journal of Project Management. ISSN 0263-7863. 32(4), p. 687–697. doi: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2013.08.006. Show summary

  The aim of the present study was to identify central dimensions and develop a model of organizational climate in large-scale project organizations in the oil and gas industry. Interviews with 18 employees (15 men, 3 women) in a project organization in the Norwegian oil and gas industry were content-analyzed on two models: The global instrument, the Organizational Climate Measure (OCM) based on the Competing Values Framework, and the domain-specific instrument, Project People Survey (PPS). The findings indicate that a climate characterized by a strong focus on a) communication and cooperation with actors in the external environment such as vendors, and b) internal cooperation and communication with other projects and with the line organization, is perceived as critical to success in large-scale projects in the oil and gas industry. We propose a new model called the Organizational Climate Measure for Large-Scale Project Organizations in the Oil and Gas Industry (OCMP).

• Lone, Jon Anders; Bjørkli, Cato Alexsander; Bjørklund, Roald Arild; Ulleberg, Pål & Hoff, Thomas (2011). Organizational Climate and Innovation in the Norwegian Service Sector. Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology. ISSN 1891-473X. 3(1), p. 3–17. Show summary

  The aim of this article was to investigate the generalizability of existing research on the relationship between organizational climate and innovation in the service sector. The study was carried out in four large departments in an international service organization (N=409), representing different industries in the service sector. The Norwegian Organizational Climate Measure (NOCM) was administered as a measure of the climate of the organization. Encouragement and support of new ideas were positively related to innovation, whereas holding on to established ways of performing work was negatively related to innovation. The results indicate that certain dimensions of the organizational climate are related to innovation, and of importance for innovation in service sector organizations. The present study discusses the generalizability of prior findings, the relationship between climate and innovation in the service sector, and suggests how organizations within the service sector can promote innovation.

• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2010). Factors Affecting the Length of Responses in Field Investigative Interviews of Children (FIIC) in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. ISSN 1321-8719. 17(2), p. 273–289. doi: 10.1080/13218710903421290.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). The Child Verbal Competence Effect in Court: A Comparative Study of Field Investigative Interviews of Children (FIIC) in Child Sexual Abuse Cases. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. ISSN 1544-4759. 6(2), p. 117–128. doi: 10.10002/jip.97.
• Hoff, Thomas; Ellen, Flakke; Anne-Karin, Larsen; Lone, Jon Anders; Bjørkli, Cato & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). On the Validity of M-SWOT for Innovation Climate Development. Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology. ISSN 1891-473X. 1(1), p. 3–11. Show summary

  The idea behind M-SWOT is to assess the organization by way of mapping the participants’ responses to open and general questions onto specific, research based models in a particular domain; in this case innovation climate. The present article attempts to conceptually validate SWOT by way of providing a link to the Organizational Climate Measure (OCM), and to demonstrate discriminatory validity of SWOT towards other related, but unspecific models (the Job Characteristics Model (JCM)), based on SWOT interviews with 15 managers in two highly innovative Norwegian companies. The hypotheses are that there will be a positive correlation between the OCM dimensions and the SWOT statements; that the four quadrants of OCM will cover the SWOT statements in a particular order, and that more SWOT statements will be aligned with OCM than JCM. All hypotheses were confirmed. The results indicate that an M-SWOT approach to innovation climate development is viable with respect to the type of content that the SWOT interviews elicit.

• Hoff, Thomas; Straumsheim, Per Atle; Bjørkli, Cato & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). An External Validation of Two Psychosocial Work Environment Surveys – A SWOT Approach. Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology. ISSN 1891-473X. 1(1), p. 11–28. Show summary

  The present article attempts to conceptually validate two established surveys for measuring psychosocial work environment; The General Nordic Questionnaire for Psychological and Social Factors at Work (QPSNordic), and the Organizational Climate Measure (OCM). Five respondents in a financial institution were asked to reflect freely on the topic of the psychosocial work environment of the company, only guided by the SWOT format. The main hypothesis was that even though QPSNordic is comprehensive and developed specifically for measuring psychosocial work environment, the thematically broader OCM – with less items – would capture more of the statements from the transcribed interviews. In addition, it was assumed that the SWOT format would provide statements not covered by any of the statements. Both hypotheses were confirmed, and OCM proved to be more sensitive to the statements than did the QPSNordic. The SWOT format turned out to be even more sensitive, but this might be due to the nature of the SWOT questions, rather than the conceptualizations of the respondents.

• Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2008). Organisasjonspsykologiske suksesskriterier. Psykologisk tidsskrift. ISSN 1501-7508. 12(2), p. 4–10.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Einarsen, Ståle (2006). Alvorlige arbeidskonflikter og familieliv. In Roness, Atle & Matthiesen, Stig Berge (Ed.), I klem eller balanse. Om arbeid, stress og familieliv. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 8245003255. p. 92–108.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). The Effect of Long-Term Training on Police Officers`Use of Open and Closed Questions in Field Investigative Interviews of Children (FIIC). Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. ISSN 1544-4759. 3, p. 165–181.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). Psykologisk sakkyndighet med vekt på psykologisk profilering. Kritisk juss. ISSN 0804-7375. 32(3), p. 168–182.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2005). Persepsjon og kommunikasjon: De basale mekanismer for menneskets fungering. In Einarsen, Ståle (Eds.), Den Dyktige Medarbeider. Fagbokforlaget. ISSN 82-450-0234-8. p. 13–42.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2002). Hverdagens skulte ondskap - Fysisk vold og mobbing, Hverdagens skjulte ondskap - psykisk vold og mobbing. N.W. Damm & Søn. ISSN 82-496-0405-9. p. 211–237.
• Dunlop, Oona; Bjørklund, Roald; Bruun, Johan N; Evensen, R.; Goplen, Anne Kristin & Liestøl, Knut [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2002). Early psychomotor slowing predicts the development of HIV dementia and autopsy-verified encephalitis. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. ISSN 0001-6314. 105, p. 270–275.
• Dunlop, Oona; Bjørklund, Roald; Bruun, Johan N; Evensen, R.; Goplen, Anne Kristin & Liestøl, Knut [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2002). Early psychomotor slowing predicts the development of HIV dementia and autopsy-verified HIV encephalitis. Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. ISSN 0001-6314. 105(4), p. 270–275.
• Røe, Cecilie; Bjørklund, Roald; Knardahl, Stein; Wærsted, Morten & Vøllestad, Nina Køpke (2001). Cognitive performance and muscle activation in workers with chronic shoulder myalgia. Ergonomics. ISSN 0014-0139. 44(1), p. 1–16.

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• Bjørkli, Cato A; Myklebust, Trond; Lone, Jon Anders & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2013). Exploring the practitioners perspective: A model for investigation in the Norwegian Police. The importance of the investigative interview.
• Lone, Jon Anders; Myklebust, Trond; Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Bjørkli, Cato Alexsander (2013). The IGLO Model: An Empirical Investigation of a Four-Level Model of Work Characteristics.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). Analysis of field investigative interviews of children. Presentasjon av hovedfunn i doktorgradsavhandlingen.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). Analysis of Field Investigative Interviews of Children conducted by specially trained police investigators.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). The child verbal competence effect in court. A comparative study of Field Investigative Interviews of Children (FIIC) in Child Sexual Abuse Cases.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2009). Are some of the variables affecting field investigative interviews of children (FIIC) also affecting the outcome as judged by the prosecutors or the court?
• Bøhn, Siv Kjølsrud; Myhrstad, Mari Charlotte; Thoresen, Magne; Marciuch, Anne; Vasstrand, Ann kristin & Carlsen, Monica Hauger [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2009). Effect of berry and grape polyphenols on cognition and blood parameters in normal, aged men with subjective memory decline.
• Flekkøy, Kjell- Magne; Engedal, Knut Arne; Bohn, Siv kjølsrud; Myhrstad, Mari; Thoresen, Magne & Carlsen, Monica h. [Show all 11 contributors for this article] (2008). Effect of berry polyphenols on cognition and clinical parameters in normal, aged men with subjective memory decline. A pilot study.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2008). Keep it simple - The effect of the interviewers`utterances on the number of words in the children`s responses.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2008). Training the trainers - Analysis of investigative interviews of children.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2008). “Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers” Analysis of Investigative interviews of children.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2008). Effective Communication in Child Sexual Abuse Cases.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2007). How you ask is what you get. Structured analyses of investigative interviews.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). The effect of interviewer competence, type of utterances and the age of the interviewee on the length of the interviewed children’s responses.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). The effect of investigative interview training on the number of words in the children’s responses.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). Does theoretical and practical training of investigative police officers affect the number of words in the children’s responses in interviews?
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). Training investigative police interviewers: The effect of long term training in the use of open and closed questions.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). Training investigative police interviewers: The effect of long term training in the use of open and closed questions.
• Myklebust, Trond & Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2006). Training investigative police interviewers: The effect of long term training in the use of open and closed questions.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Myklebust, Trond (2005). Investigative interviews of children.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Myklebust, Trond (2005). Time analysis of open and closed questions in police interviews: evidence for a structured or dynamic interviewing model?
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Myklebust, Trond (2005). Training investigative police interviewers: The effect og theoretical and practical training on the use of open and closed questions among 100 Norwegian police officers.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Myklebust, Trond (2004). Statement Validity Assessment of investigative interviews conducted by special trained police investegators in Norway.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild & Myklebust, Trond (2004). Norwegian police officers interviewing style - analysis of structure in investigative interviews conducted by special trained police investegators.
• Bjørklund, Roald Arild (2004). Experimental approach to cognitive abnormality among victims to bullying at work.
• Røe, Cecilie; Bjørklund, Roald; Wærsted, Morten & Vøllestad, Nina Køpke (1997). Pain, muscle activation and behavior among VDU-operators with unilateral shoulder myalgia and controls.

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