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Brown, Barry, and Kenton O'Hara. "Place as a Practical Concern of Mobile Workers." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 35, no. 9 (September 2003): 1565–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a34231.
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In this paper we examine the spatial practices of mobile workers—how mobile workers manage their use of technology and place. Data from interviews with highly mobile workers and ‘hot-deskers’ are used to explore the reciprocal relationship between practice and place: how places change work, but also how work changes places. Mobile workers often need to configure their activities to take account of the different places in which they find themselves. This can involve considerable ‘juggling’ of their plans, humble office equipment, and their coworkers. In turn mobile workers change places, as they appropriate different sites for their work. Specifically, technology allows for the limited reappropriation of travel and leisure sites as places for work (such as trains and cafés). Time is also an important practical concern for mobile workers. Although mobile work may be seen as relatively flexible, fixed temporal structures allow mobile workers to ‘accomplish synchronicity’ with others. Although this paper focuses on the specific practices of mobile workers, it also explores how ‘grand social theory’ can help us understand the practical details of mobile work, yet how practice cannot be simply reduced to theory.
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Pehkonen, Aini, and Riitta Vornanen. "Social change and social work – changing societal conditions of social work in time and place." Social Work Education 35, no. 7 (May 20, 2016): 856–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2016.1184486.
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Zhang, Shiyu. "Diversification propaganda work with foreign audiences." Век информации (сетевое издание) 4, no. 4(13) (September 30, 2020): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33941/age-info.com44(13)4.
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Over the past decade, bilateral relations between China and Russia have attracted the attention of the whole world. As neighbors and rapidly developing countries, China and Russia are becoming increasingly important in the international arena. The strategic partnership and interaction between China and Russia occupy a significant place in the politics of both countries. Cooperation is developing dynamically in various fields, primarily in politics. After 2012, a change of government took place in China and Russia, which brought new changes to international relations. Studying the involvement of the media in this process can clarify their impact on international relations, in particular, their role in the relationship between China and Russia.
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Zhang, Shiyu. "Diversification propaganda work with foreign audiences." Век информации (сетевое издание) 4, no. 4(13) (September 30, 2020): 31–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33941/age-info.com44(13)4.
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Over the past decade, bilateral relations between China and Russia have attracted the attention of the whole world. As neighbors and rapidly developing countries, China and Russia are becoming increasingly important in the international arena. The strategic partnership and interaction between China and Russia occupy a significant place in the politics of both countries. Cooperation is developing dynamically in various fields, primarily in politics. After 2012, a change of government took place in China and Russia, which brought new changes to international relations. Studying the involvement of the media in this process can clarify their impact on international relations, in particular, their role in the relationship between China and Russia.
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Irvine Fitzpatrick, Linda, Donald Maciver, Leeann Dempster, and Kirsty Forsyth. "Gamechanger: harnessing football for social change." Journal of Integrated Care 28, no. 2 (March 9, 2020): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jica-09-2019-0043.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a case study of an intersectoral partnership that has taken place in Scotland (United Kingdom) entitled Gamechanger. The main idea of Gamechanger was for statutory, commercial and voluntary organisations to work in partnership to harness the power of football (soccer), to tackle health inequalities and social exclusion. The paper will detail how Gamechanger has been developed, with reference to the newly developed “Incite” model for effective intersectoral partnership working.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on the authors’ experiences of leading and evaluating intersectoral partnerships from 2015 to 2019. The report draws on the work which took place during that period, and the achievements in relation to Gamechanger.FindingsGamechanger has led to significant innovations. It has encouraged sectors to work together, and develop new ways of responding to difficult societal problems.Originality/valueGamechanger is believed to be the first initiative of its kind developed with a football club in Scotland.ConclusionsThis work has been developed through robust community-informed efforts. The scope and scale of the projects to deliver community benefits is significant. Gamechanger has provided a means for football to take a different approach to how it works to benefit communities.
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ROBERTSON, H. "Poor Knowledge and Misunderstandings: Perinatal Data Validity and Work Place Change in Midwifery." International Journal for Quality in Health Care 7, no. 4 (December 1, 1995): 391–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/7.4.391.
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Radant, Olaf. "Demographic Change." International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals 5, no. 1 (January 2014): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijhcitp.2014010104.
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The skill shortage is becoming an ever-increasing challenge for Information Technology (IT) departments. To allocate the resources in the best possible way is even more important. The challenge is to improve the company not only on the side of the organizational and process level, but to develop new strategies and approaches in human resource management. Only a symbiosis of these disciplines will enable relevant and indispensable employees to promote loyalty to the company. A frequent change of the work place, for a well-trained professional, is so long associated with normality until they find the best environment for their needs and expectations. These expectations are no longer just on a financial level. This work will analyse the previous work on these topics and demonstrate first conclusions regarding a way forward.
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Cherry, Kevin. "Book Review: Social change and social work: The changing societal conditions of social work in time and place." Affilia 31, no. 4 (July 27, 2016): 521–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886109916654734.
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Johansson, Gunn. "Introduction: Organizational Change and Work Reforms at the Levels of Society, Trade Union, Work Group, and Task." International Journal of Health Services 19, no. 2 (April 1989): 315–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/x870-1hbq-v0fk-tamu.
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This article introduces the third series of articles in the Special Section on work organization and health. The authors follow up on themes addressed in earlier articles, among them the interrelations between work organization and health, organizational obstacles to democratization at the work place, and the need for employee involvement in attaining and developing democratic forms of work organization.
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Featherstone, Simon. "Place and Politics in the Work of George Sturt." Victoriographies 11, no. 1 (March 2021): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0410.
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Since the 1930s George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912) and The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) have been associated with the cultural theory of the journal Scrutiny and its idealised concept of a rural English ‘organic community’. Focusing on his earlier writing as contexts for these works, this essay offers a reappraisal of Sturt as a self-consciously political analyst of late-Victorian agrarian experience. His contributions to The Commonweal, the newspaper of William Morris's Socialist League, in the 1880s mark out a distinctively dissentient position that was developed through contributions to periodicals such as Country Life and in the two ‘Bettesworth’ books that drew upon the oral histories of local labour. These contributions to the developing commercial genre of English ‘country writing’ in the period are also critical reflections upon its modes and media. Formally experimental and uncomfortably reflective upon what he termed his ‘misery of being a Socialist employer of labour’, Sturt's examination of the relationship of agrarian tradition and modernity in West Surrey represents a distinctive contribution to the radical social history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Relph, Edward. "Spirit of Place and Sense of Place in Virtual Realities." Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 10, no. 3 (2007): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne20071039.
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About forty years ago, when print media were still in their ascendancy, Marshall McLuhan argued that all media are extensions of the senses and that the rational view of the world associated with print is being replaced by a world-view associated with electronic media that stresses feelings and emotions (McLuhan, 1964). In 2003 researchers from the School of Information Management Sciences at Berkeley estimated that five exabytes (five billion gigabytes) of information had been generated in the previous year, equivalent to 37,000 times the holdings of the Library of Congress and that 92.00% of this was on magnetic media, mostly hard disks, while only 0.01% was in print (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu, 2003). This SIMS estimate could be wrong by several orders of magnitude and it would still be clear that the era of the printed word is waning rapidly. We are well-advised to pay attention to McLuhan’s suggestionthat electronic media change how we think and how we feel.Sense of place and virtual reality are both inextricably caught up in this cultural-technological upheaval. I have written about the concept of ‘place’ from a phenomenological perspective for many years and have achieved a reasonable understanding of its subtleties, but I have a limited knowledge of digital virtual reality and its technical attributes. Nevertheless, it seems to me that a mutual interaction is at work between what might be called ‘real’ place and virtual places, that digital virtual reality shares characteristics with other electronic media and that our experiences of real places are being changed those same media. This essay explores these issues particularlyfrom the perspective of the distinction between spirit of place and sense of place.
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Pipitone, Jennifer M. "Place as Pedagogy: Toward Study Abroad for Social Change." Journal of Experiential Education 41, no. 1 (January 7, 2018): 54–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1053825917751509.
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Background: Emergent bodies of literature have uncovered problematic trends in U.S. study abroad that reproduce hierarchies of power and colonialism, perpetuate views of an exotic cultural “other,” and privilege tourism over education. Purpose: This work responded to these problems by exploring ways of teaching and learning in study abroad that embrace the pedagogical power of place to foster awareness of the self in relation to other, cultivate relationality, and deconstruct the exotic. Methodology/Approach: Reflecting on two major findings from a longitudinal comparative case study with 19 students on short-term study abroad programs to Morocco and Bali, this article considers how educators can adapt the intentions and practices of their programs to embrace the pedagogical potential of place to foster the renegotiation of representations and heightened relationality. Findings/Conclusions: Findings indicate engagement with place was fundamental to the production of experiential learning space, mediated through pedagogies that engaged students with local rhythms, meanings, and histories; social interactions; and cultural tools that engaged students in alternative ways of knowing and being in the world before and during the trip. Implications: This article offers five epistemological commitments and several pedagogical strategies to guide future program development with an eye toward social change.
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Piasna, Agnieszka, and Jan Drahokoupil. "Gender inequalities in the new world of work." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 23, no. 3 (June 29, 2017): 313–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258917713839.
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Digitalisation, automation and technological change have brought about shifts in the occupational structure, the place and the timing of work, and career patterns, putting a further strain on the standard employment relationship. In the recent research on digitalisation, scant attention has however been paid to the gender impact of these changes. This article addresses this gap by developing a gender perspective on digitalisation, considering how these developments interact with existing social inequalities and gender segregation patterns in the labour market. We identify two broad areas in which digitalisation has thus far had a pronounced effect on employment: the structure of employment (including occupational change and the task content of jobs) and forms of work (including employment relationships and work organisation). We find that, despite the profound changes in the labour market, traditional gender inequalities continue to reassert themselves on many dimensions. With standard employment declining in significance, the policy challenge is to include new forms of work in effective labour protection frameworks that promote equal access of women and men to quality jobs and their equal treatment at work.
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Karaseva, Larisa, and Sergey Dvoynikov. "The place and role of nursing training in the workplace." Medsestra (Nurse), no. 9 (September 9, 2020): 57–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/med-05-2009-07.
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Currently, due to the changing external conditions that affect the organization of labor, most medical organizations are required to pay special attention to training nursing staff for the work process. The principles of nursing staff management are also subject to changes, which is the reason for the change in the personnel policy. The key point is training nursing staff in order to improve the specialists’ skills and the efficiency of the organization.
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Lachance, Laurie, Martha Quinn, and Theresa Kowalski-Dobson. "The Food & Fitness Community Partnerships: Results From 9 Years of Local Systems and Policy Changes to Increase Equitable Opportunities for Health." Health Promotion Practice 19, no. 1_suppl (September 2018): 92S—114S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839918789400.
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The Food & Fitness (F&F) community partnerships, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation from 2007 to 2016, were established to create community-determined change in the conditions that affect health and health equity in neighborhoods. The focus of the work has been to increase access to locally grown good food (food that is healthy, sustainable, fair, and affordable), and safe places for physical activity for children and families in communities with inequities across the United States through changes in policies, community infrastructure, and systems at the local level. This article describes the outcomes related to systems and policy change over 9 years of community change efforts in the F&F partnerships. Characteristics of the F&F communities where the work took place; the change model that emerged from the work; efforts and changes achieved related to community food, school food, and active living/built environment; overall factors in the community that helped or hindered the work of the partnerships; and a depiction of the community-determined process for change employed by the partnerships are described. Local systems and policy change is a long-term process. Community-determined efforts that build capacity for systems change, commitment to long-term funding, and provision of technical assistance tailored to community needs were elements that contributed to success in the F&F work. Achieving intermediate outcomes on the road to policy and systems change created a way to monitor success and make midcourse corrections when needed.
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Lehtonen, Turo-Kimmo. "Objectifying Climate Change." Political Theory 45, no. 1 (November 30, 2016): 32–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591716680684.
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For quite some time, reinsurance companies have been pricing the ongoing climate change using weather- and catastrophe-related instruments and thus have been able to make money through climate change. Yet, at the same time, for reinsurance companies it is crucial that the likelihood of the events they underwrite is diminished as much as possible. Consequently, while profiting from the situation, these key actors of global capitalism also work to prevent climate change from taking place, and support the kinds of measures, on all political scales, that diminish the likelihood of severe climate change destruction. This article analyzes the materials that the reinsurance company Munich Re has distributed to stakeholders and asks how climate change is objectified by the reinsurance industry. How are weather-related catastrophes made into a financial risk and opportunity? The key conceptual tools for answering these questions are provided by Michel Serres’s work on world-objects.
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Roberts, Brent W., Kate Walton, Tim Bogg, and Avshalom Caspi. "De‐investment in work and non‐normative personality trait change in young adulthood." European Journal of Personality 20, no. 6 (September 2006): 461–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/per.607.
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The present study investigated the relationship between experiences of de‐investment in work and change in personality traits in an 8‐year longitudinal study of young adults (N = 907). De‐investment was defined as participating in activities that run counter to age‐graded norms for acceptable behaviour. De‐investment in work was operationalised with a measure of counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), which included actions such as stealing from the work place, malingering and fighting with co‐workers. CWBs were used to predict changes in personality traits from age 18 to age 26. Consistent with hypotheses, greater amounts of CWB was associated with changes in the broad trait domains of negative emotionality and constraint. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Huang, Huichin, and Shenglin Elijah Chang. "Place-based Learning and Change of Sense of Place: Educational program in a historic town." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 2, no. 6 (October 8, 2017): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i6.927.
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Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic buildings of streets. It began to build the home identity of the locals from the 1990s. By the community participation shown the ancient culture of the town successfully, it became an attractive place for the tourism in Taiwan during the recent ten years. While the industry and lifestyle in the town are changing, it has a bearing on the power of the community groups. The life in the town is not convenient and low quality. Young people were left to work outside the community, and the social relation is to harden into stone. By the time goes on, the sense of place is changing to reconstruct the “Local.” While the industry changed, the culture is much different from the traditional, and the young people have a different dream of their home community. We found some alienated feeling in young people of the town from the workshop discussion of the “Dasi-field school”.However, in recent three years, the eco-museum project by participating with the local people, and it stimulated some learning programs in the community. In these two years, some young people would like to stay in the community and have some creative businesses. The occurrence of educational activities facilitates the translation of local knowledge. Through this study, we tried to understand if local people's sense of place was changed, as well as young people's identity of community life.In this action research, firstly, we had data analysis about the community learning-landscape of the community. Finally, we want to discuss how learning programs make sense of the neighborhood change and flow. Based on experiential research, we came up with a learning landscape model, in an attempt to construct the interactive relation between learning and community identity. Furthermore, we presented a new partner relation between community development and the design of educational courses.
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Reilly, Doug, and Stefan Senders. "Becoming the Change We Want to See: Critical Study Abroad for a Tumultuous World." Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18, no. 1 (August 15, 2009): 241–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v18i1.265.
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Buzzwords like "global competency" sound compelling initially, but without a critical definition, the danger is that the rhetoric becomes an empty sales pitch. In this essay, we argue that we can no longer afford to allow study abroad to be reduced to such catchphrases. We propose a new model for understanding the work of study abroad; Critical Study Abroad. Critical Study Abroad is a structured way of framing our work with direct reference to the current state of the world, and it suggests concrete changes in the work of our programs. It rejects many of the assumptions of previous frames: in place of class-reproduction it offers class-analysis; in place of self-development through accumulation it offers self-development through commitment; in place of internationalism it offers a critical and global perspective; in place of “global competence,” it offers global citizenship. Critical Study Abroad requires that we reevaluate our knowledge production and our teaching, and more specifically, that we reconstitute the field in which study abroad operates.
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Erdogan, İrfan. "Missing Marx: The Place of Marx in Current Communication Research and the Place of Communication in Marx’s Work." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 349–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.423.
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This study was designed (1) to test Marx’s theoretical statements on the nature of dominant ideas in a society by investigating the character of scholarly practices in academic publishing, and (2) to demonstrate the falseness of claims about Marx’s disinterest in communication by presenting and evaluating his writings on communication. The study combines quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis. It has two study populations and multiple samples. The first one includes the articles in communication journals cited by Thomson Reuters’ Social Sciences Citation Index. The second one contains all writings of Marx on communication. The findings indicate that (1) the articles are mostly functional to the ruling interests, (2) they mostly exclude Marx and critical issues that question the ruling material and immaterial mode and relations in communication and society, (3) most alternative approaches are controlled alternatives and overtly or covertly directed against Marx’s method and explanations. Regarding Marx’s interest in communication, contrary to the claims that he had no or minimal interest, Marx provided invaluable explanations about communication. Hence communication scholars should pay close attention if they want to understand the nature and function of communication in society and social change.
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HYGGEN, CHRISTER. "Change and Stability in Work Commitment in Norway: from Adolescence to Adulthood." Journal of Social Policy 37, no. 1 (December 3, 2007): 103–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279407001511.
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The individual's commitment to work has occupied a central place in much welfare state research. This centrality relates to beliefs that welfare system design influences the ways in which people come to value employment. If, as believed, generous benefit systems diminish citizens' willingness to work, then these systems undermine both the legitimacy and the performance of the welfare state. This article explores change and stability in work commitment in a Norwegian cohort born between 1965 and 1968. We investigate whether and if so how individuals' experience with the welfare system and their personal, family or work experiences influenced their level of work commitment between 1993 and 2003, from adolescence to adulthood. Findings show work commitment as relatively stable across the ten years, with some individual-level change relative to changes in family life (such as becoming a parent) and in work experience (such as long-term unemployment). Results indicate that the fear of disincentive effects on individuals' work commitment is exaggerated.
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HIBINO, Naohiko, Masahiko SAKAMOTO, Naoki OKUNOBO, and Shigeru MORICHI. "FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR CLARIFICATION OF THE INFLUENCE IN COMMUTING BEHAVIOR AND WORK PLACE AND RELOCATION OF DWELLING BY CHANGE OF WORK STYLE." Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management) 75, no. 5 (2019): I_627—I_640. http://dx.doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.75.i_627.
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Hutton, C. W., S. Kienberger, F. Amoako Johnson, A. Allan, V. Giannini, and R. Allen. "Vulnerability to climate change: people, place and exposure to hazard." Advances in Science and Research 7, no. 1 (April 26, 2011): 37–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/asr-7-37-2011.
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Abstract. The Human Dimension of the Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to Enhance Capacity and Implement Adaptive Management Approaches Project (EC-Project BRAHMATWINN) is aimed at developing socio-economic tools and context for the effective inclusion of the "Human Dimension" or socio-economic vulnerability into the overall assessment of climate risk in the twinned basins of the Upper Brahmaputra River Basin (UBRB), and the Upper Danube River Basin (UDRB) . This work is conducted in the light of stakeholder/actor analysis and the prevailing legal framework. In order to effectively achieve this end, four key research and associated activities were defined: 1. Identifying stakeholders and actors including: implement an approach to ensure a broad spread of appropriate stakeholder input to the assessment of vulnerability undertaken in Asia and Europe within the research activities of the project. 2. Contextualising legal framework: to provide an assessment of the governance framework relating to socio-environmental policy development within the study site administrative areas leading to the specific identification of related policy and legal recommendations. 3. Spatial analysis and mapping of vulnerability: providing a spatial assessment of the variation of vulnerability to pre-determined environmental stressors across the study areas with an additional specific focus on gender. 4. Inclusion of findings with the broader context of the BRAHMATWINN risk of climate change study through scenarios of hazard and vulnerability (subsequent chapters). This study utilises stakeholder inputs to effectively identify and map relative weightings of vulnerability domains, such as health and education in the context of pre-specified hazards such as flood. The process is underpinned by an adaptation of the IPCC (2001) which characterizes Risk as having the components of Hazard (physiographic component) and Vulnerability (socio-economic component).
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Callaghan, Gill. "The Interaction of Gender, Class and Place in Women's Experience: A Discussion Based in Focus Group Research." Sociological Research Online 3, no. 3 (September 1998): 40–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.142.
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There has been considerable debate about the relative significance of class and gender as factors structuring women's lives. This article reports focus group research which reflects upon that relationship. It argues that we must also understand the significance of place if we are to make sense of the ways in which women's domestic and working lives are shaped and their action in response to structural change. The research is situated in an old industrial city which has experienced very fundamental processes of restructuring. Changes in the nature of work, the move from full to part time, from permanent, skilled manual to casual semi and unskilled work has been reflected in the gendered restructuring of the workforce and a considerable rise in male unemployment. The article reports focus group work with women at mother and toddler groups. These groups were important as a way of gaining access to women who were at a particular point in the lifestage when the dominant concerns might be expected to be domestic ones. Mother and toddler groups are also locality based allowing the significance of place in people's discussions to be understood. The groups discussed experiences of work and domestic relations which expressed identifications and differences based in class, gender and place. While the effects of restructuring were universally recognised as bringing change, women identified differences in the nature and pace of change based on the interaction of structural forces.
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Gunaydin, M. "The meaning characteristics of explaining the change of place work verbs in Azerbaijan Turkish and turkey Turkish." International Humanitarian University Herald. Philology 40, no. 2 (2019): 32–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32841/2409-1154.2019.40.2.7.
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Racko, Girts. "Values of Bureaucratic Work." Sociology 51, no. 2 (July 11, 2016): 374–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038515604106.
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While understanding values of bureaucratic work has been a fundamental concern of organizational sociology, research has remained divided over the nature of the values that underpin it. Examining the more generalized sociological insights on the values of bureaucratic work using a rigorous approach to value measurement, this study contributes to the reconciliation of the divergent conceptual insights on these values. Using the European Social Survey data of highly rationalized societies, this study finds employed senior managers to place systematically higher value on self-enhancement and openness to change and lower value on self-transcendence and conservation than their self-employed, entrepreneurial counterparts. The study also contributes to the understanding of the values of bureaucratic work, by examining the value implications of the duration of the employment of senior managers in bureaucratic organizations, and the organizational and the managerial bureaucratization of their work.
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Filby, Michael P. "The Newmarket Racing Lad: Tradition and Change in a Marginal Occupation." Work, Employment and Society 1, no. 2 (June 1987): 205–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017087001002004.
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This paper describes the work of a widely seen but little known occupation, the racing lad. It relates some changes which have taken place in the organisation of work and the subjective responses to these of a significant minority of the occupation in the locality studied. Such changes as are apparent are accounted for in terms of developments in the local labour market which have served to erode the traditionalist framework within which work has been organised. At root, the core activity is seen to depend on some particularly intangible qualities which working class youngsters have typically brought to this form of work.
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Wendelen, Elisabeth. "Training Programs: Towards Transformation of Work Situation." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 44, no. 12 (July 2000): 2–728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193120004401278.
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This paper discusses an experience of training in ergonomic work analysis (EWA). Two ergonomists of the National Institute for Research on Working Conditions (INRCT, in French) trained a group of employees in the Brussels plant of a multinational company. This training took place after having checked about fifty VDU (video display unit) workplaces. None of these 50 VDU users was aware of the possibilities of adjusting his or her specific workplace. The manager and the union decided to train one or two persons in each department, to enable them to answer minor questions of their unit's employees relating to adjusting their own workplace. It was agreed that more difficult problems raised by the employees would be transferred to external experts. The paper seeks to analyse the impact of this experience on the VDU workers: are they able to change their working conditions? What exactly did change? To conclude, some conditions necessary for the success of such training programmes are highlighted.
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Cohen, Marvin T. "Changing Schools from Within." Journal of School Leadership 3, no. 3 (May 1993): 269–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105268469300300305.
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This article will focus on a collaboration between two urban intermediate schools and the Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education. The collaboration took place over a four year period and focused on bringing about changes that would enable the schools to better serve their student bodies. The plans and processes varied in each school based on the needs as perceived by those involved. In order to reform schools and support systemic change, there must be a change in teacher beliefs and attitudes about teaching and learning. Our work suggests that there are bureaucratic and cultural supports that need to be in place to bring about change. These include 1) time for teachers to talk together; 2) administrative support; 3) a structure that supports variety and innovation; 4) allowance for design changes; and 5) district support and flexibility.
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Versey, Shellae, and Emily Greenfield. "TOWARD A NETWORK OF CHANGE: PROMOTING AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES FROM THE INSIDE OUT." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.095.
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Abstract The experience of aging is often framed by the communities in which we live, work and play. At the same time, these communities are also impacted by individuals as they age in place. This symposium presents research using community-partnered methods to highlight the agency of local actors—including older residents themselves—as they work to change their local communities. At the broadest level of geographic scale, Black illustrates how information from population surveys with older adults can be leveraged to mobilize public-private partnerships from the local to state level to advance policy and practice on housing and transportation to support aging in place. Focusing regionally in New Jersey, Greenfield and Reyes analyze longitudinal, qualitative interview data from leaders of age-friendly community initiatives to develop empirically-grounded theory on the range of roles of older adults in aging-friendly community change processes. The final two papers present depth in understanding how older adults actively construct their own sense of community vis-à-vis more micro-social processes. Yeh uses Photovoice methodology to understand how older adults aging in place manage the societal trends of urbanization and social inequalities as they manifest within their own city. Versey examines how older adults aging in place in the context of neighborhood gentrification mobilize networks to preserve a community “sense of place” when sociocultural resources are displaced. Consistent with a community gerontology framework, the presentations demonstrate how community-level dynamics around aging are shaped not only by macro-social influences, but also micro-social interactions including, and sometimes initiated by, older residents themselves.
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Nuraeni, Eny. "Pengaruh manajemen perubahan terhadap kepuasan pengguna jasa kelompok mahasiswa dan dampaknya terhadap peningkatan kualitas kerja pegawai pada Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto." JEBDEER: Journal of Entrepreneurship, Business Development and Economic Educations Research 1, no. 1 (October 25, 2017): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.32616/jbr.v1i1.52.
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Terminal as road transport infrastructure in carrying out its function as a place of need to raise and lower people or goods, resting place for bus and vehicle crew before starting the trip again, and arranging arrival and departure of public transportation, which is the shape of transportation network node.
The purpose of this research are: 1) To know and analyze the effect of routine change to the improvement of work quality of employees. 2) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes to the improvement of work quality of employees. 3) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on the improvement of work quality of employees. 4) To know and analyze the effect of routine changes on student service group student satisfaction. 5) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes on student service group user satisfaction. 6) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on student service group satisfaction. 7) To know and analyze the effect of improving the quality of work of employees to the satisfaction of student service group. 8) To know and analyze the influence indirectly Management of changes to user satisfaction services group of students through the variable between improving the quality of work employees.
This research was conducted at Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto, while the time of the research was conducted in August 2016. The population in this research is the user of student group service of Kertojoyo Mojokerto Terminal, from the very large population and the unknown number, using Cochran formula taken samples of 73 respondents .
From the results of the study can be concluded as follows: 1) Regular changes have no significant effect on the quality improvement of employee. 2) Changes in the increase significantly affect the improvement of employee quality. 3) Innovative changes have a significant effect on improving the quality of work of employees. 4) Regular changes have a significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 5) Changes in the increase significantly affect the user satisfaction of student group services. 6) Innovative change has no significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 7) Improving the quality of employees' work has no significant effect on student service group satisfaction. 8) Management of each change directly affects the user satisfaction of student services group through the variable between improving the quality of work of employees.
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Nuraeni, Eny. "Pengaruh manajemen perubahan terhadap kepuasan pengguna jasa kelompok mahasiswa dan dampaknya terhadap peningkatan kualitas kerja pegawai pada Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto." Ta'dibia: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Agama Islam 7, no. 1 (August 18, 2017): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.32616/tdb.v7.1.42.111-118.
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Terminal as road transport infrastructure in carrying out its function as a place of need to raise and lower people or goods, resting place for bus and vehicle crew before starting the trip again, and arranging arrival and departure of public transportation, which is the shape of transportation network node.
The purpose of this research are: 1) To know and analyze the effect of routine change to the improvement of work quality of employees. 2) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes to the improvement of work quality of employees. 3) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on the improvement of work quality of employees. 4) To know and analyze the effect of routine changes on student service group student satisfaction. 5) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes on student service group user satisfaction. 6) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on student service group satisfaction. 7) To know and analyze the effect of improving the quality of work of employees to the satisfaction of student service group. 8) To know and analyze the influence indirectly Management of changes to user satisfaction services group of students through the variable between improving the quality of work employees.
This research was conducted at Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto, while the time of the research was conducted in August 2016. The population in this research is the user of student group service of Kertojoyo Mojokerto Terminal, from the very large population and the unknown number, using Cochran formula taken samples of 73 respondents .
From the results of the study can be concluded as follows: 1) Regular changes have no significant effect on the quality improvement of employee. 2) Changes in the increase significantly affect the improvement of employee quality. 3) Innovative changes have a significant effect on improving the quality of work of employees. 4) Regular changes have a significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 5) Changes in the increase significantly affect the user satisfaction of student group services. 6) Innovative change has no significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 7) Improving the quality of employees' work has no significant effect on student service group satisfaction. 8) Management of each change directly affects the user satisfaction of student services group through the variable between improving the quality of work of employees.
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Nuraeni, Eny. "Pengaruh manajemen perubahan terhadap kepuasan pengguna jasa kelompok mahasiswa dan dampaknya terhadap peningkatan kualitas kerja pegawai pada Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto." Ta'dibia: Jurnal Ilmiah Pendidikan Agama Islam 7, no. 1 (August 18, 2017): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.32616/tdb.v7i1.42.
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Terminal as road transport infrastructure in carrying out its function as a place of need to raise and lower people or goods, resting place for bus and vehicle crew before starting the trip again, and arranging arrival and departure of public transportation, which is the shape of transportation network node.
The purpose of this research are: 1) To know and analyze the effect of routine change to the improvement of work quality of employees. 2) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes to the improvement of work quality of employees. 3) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on the improvement of work quality of employees. 4) To know and analyze the effect of routine changes on student service group student satisfaction. 5) To know and analyze the effect of improvement changes on student service group user satisfaction. 6) To know and analyze the effect of innovative change on student service group satisfaction. 7) To know and analyze the effect of improving the quality of work of employees to the satisfaction of student service group. 8) To know and analyze the influence indirectly Management of changes to user satisfaction services group of students through the variable between improving the quality of work employees.
This research was conducted at Terminal Kertojoyo Mojokerto, while the time of the research was conducted in August 2016. The population in this research is the user of student group service of Kertojoyo Mojokerto Terminal, from the very large population and the unknown number, using Cochran formula taken samples of 73 respondents .
From the results of the study can be concluded as follows: 1) Regular changes have no significant effect on the quality improvement of employee. 2) Changes in the increase significantly affect the improvement of employee quality. 3) Innovative changes have a significant effect on improving the quality of work of employees. 4) Regular changes have a significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 5) Changes in the increase significantly affect the user satisfaction of student group services. 6) Innovative change has no significant effect on student service group user satisfaction. 7) Improving the quality of employees' work has no significant effect on student service group satisfaction. 8) Management of each change directly affects the user satisfaction of student services group through the variable between improving the quality of work of employees.
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Safari, Shahram, Jafar Akbari, Meghdad Kazemi, Mohammad Amin Mououdi, and Behzad Mahaki. "Personnel's Health Surveillance at Work: Effect of Age, Body Mass Index, and Shift Work on Mental Workload and Work Ability Index." Journal of Environmental and Public Health 2013 (2013): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/289498.
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Introduction.Two great changes in developed countries are taking place: populations are ageing and becoming increasingly overweight. Combination of these factors with shift work is a risk factor for work ability and mental workload that are dynamic processes which change greatly throughout an individual's work life. The aim of this study was to investigate mental workload and work ability in textile workers and to identify factors which affect work ability and mental workload.Methods.This cross-sectional study was carried out among 194 male workers in textile industry. Employees based on their job group and work conditions have been divided into 6 categories. They completed work ability index and mental workload questionnaires during three work shifts. Body mass index (BMI) and demographic details were recorded.Results.All of the participants rated their work ability as moderate with high mental workload. The mean WAI and mental workload in age group were significant. The mean BMI was 25.5 kg/m2(standard deviation 4.1) and the mean age was 40.22 years. There was a statistically significant correlation between work ability index and shift work.Conclusions.Unlike the previous study, a decrease point in WAI started in early age that may be due to life-style work and another psychological factor; on the other hand, NASA-TLX revealed high score in six subscales that can be another reason for low WAI.
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Zickgraf. "Keeping People in Place: Political Factors of (Im)mobility and Climate Change." Social Sciences 8, no. 8 (July 29, 2019): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8080228.
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While those ‘trapped’ or who choose to stay in areas affected by climate change represent a substantial policy issue, there only a small amount of empirical work specifically targeting such populations. The scant attention that is afforded to immobility often emphasizes financial constraints as factors driving (involuntary) immobility. As an essential part of the mobility spectrum, the complexity of immobility in crisis, including its political dimensions, warrants thorough investigation. In response to these gaps, this contribution locates environmental immobility within mobilities studies, its conceptual complexities, and, finally, illustrates the importance of political factors in shaping (im)mobilities. The findings are based on semi-structured interviews conducted in two developing countries experiencing the impacts of climate change. We delve into the socio-cultural and economic nature of (im)mobilities as they interact with political forces, specifically by exploring international bilateral agreements (Senegal) and a relocation program (Vietnam). In political spaces that are dominated by a desire to limit human mobility and (re)produce stasis, we challenge traditional dichotomies between mobile/immobile and sedentary/migration polices by underlining how policy interventions can simultaneously promote mobility and immobility, demonstrating complex co-existing mobilities. Keeping people in place can, in fact, mean allowing the very same people to move.
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Grover, Samantha, and Joshua Gruver. "‘Slow to change’: Farmers’ perceptions of place-based barriers to sustainable agriculture." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 32, no. 6 (January 12, 2017): 511–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170516000442.
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AbstractSmallholder farmers are an important and growing segment of the farm population in Indiana and in the USA. Past research regarding farmer decision-making has been inconsistent and has largely focused on the larger-scale, conventional farmer, leaving smallholders poorly understood. There is a need to better understand the management decisions of smallholder farmers within their regional context to promote efforts toward environmental, social and economic sustainability. Through in-depth qualitative inquiry, this study investigated the impact of regional factors that influence farmers’ decisions and the barriers and opportunities most relevant to farm viability and sustainability in the context of East Central Indiana (ECI). Semi-structured interviews with 15 key informants and 33 farmers informed our understanding of the factors most relevant to small-scale farming in the region. Several important themes emerged related to perceived barriers to sustainable farm management, including markets; structures and regulations; time and labor; environmental/ecological factors; and networking and access to educational support. The results of this study complement the findings of previous work that describe the complex framework farmers navigate when making decisions on the farm. Further, subtle regional factors emerged that significantly impact farmers’ decisions, emphasizing the importance of local context in crafting agricultural policies and outreach efforts. Implications and recommendations for ECI are discussed.
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Sasse, Robert. "Social Media against the Backdrop of Socioeconomic Change." International Journal of Marketing Studies 8, no. 6 (November 11, 2016): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v8n6p58.
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<p>The ongoing development of technology made it possible to use Social Media (SM) in the work world. The intensification of the incorporation process of Social Media into work culture caused diverse socioeconomic changes. The goal in this paper is to highlight drastic changes and tendencies that have occurred and to provide an analysis of these changes. The strategy in this paper is to provide a theoretical basis along with analysis, providing statistics and explanations. The paper is organised as follows. Section 2 describes new ways of working that have recently appeared in work culture. The increasing loyalty to private and professional responsibility takes place of hierarchy that used to be a classic model of working in previous years. Section 3 explains how new forms of communication change working habits and shows the change of users’ nature - from pure consumers to co-creators. Section 4 discusses the tendency of sharing personal information on the Web and probable risks of revealing so much information. Section 5 provides information on the anonymity and its role in communication. Finally, the last section presents findings and conclusions.</p>
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Muir, Laurelle. "Whose plan is it? The importance of place." April 2021 10.47389/36, No 2 (April 2021): 54–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.47389/36.2.54.
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The effects of climate change are escalating and developing and maintaining disaster resilience in communities is a major objective. Yet the active involvement of communities as major stakeholders in building their capacity to prepare, respond to and recover from natural hazards has had less focus in emergency management planning. For communities living in hazard-prone areas, the continuity of risk and disaster awareness and the significance of preparation at the local level can be critical to people’s capacity to appropriately respond to disaster events. In 2011, the significant flood event in Brisbane saw community-led response and recovery efforts supported by place-based organisations that traditionally work within communities. However, as communities evolve and change, learnings can dissipate over time. As such, 10 years on from the 2011 floods, how well prepared are communities living in flood-prone areas of Brisbane? This paper outlines how community and stakeholder engagement can develop disaster resilience at the local level. The focus is on strong working relationships between participants in emergency management planning and response including community-based organisations and, by extension, the community.
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Sætra, Henrik Skaug, and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga. "Healthcare Digitalisation and the Changing Nature of Work and Society." Healthcare 9, no. 8 (August 6, 2021): 1007. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9081007.
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Digital technologies have profound effects on all areas of modern life, including the workplace. Certain forms of digitalisation entail simply exchanging digital files for paper, while more complex instances involve machines performing a wide variety of tasks on behalf of humans. While some are wary of the displacement of humans that occurs when, for example, robots perform tasks previously performed by humans, others argue that robots only perform the tasks that robots should have carried out in the very first place and never by humans. Understanding the impacts of digitalisation in the workplace requires an understanding of the effects of digital technology on the tasks we perform, and these effects are often not foreseeable. In this article, the changing nature of work in the health care sector is used as a case to analyse such change and its implications on three levels: the societal (macro), organisational (meso), and individual level (micro). Analysing these transformations by using a layered approach is helpful for understanding the actual magnitude of the changes that are occurring and creates the foundation for an informed regulatory and societal response. We argue that, while artificial intelligence, big data, and robotics are revolutionary technologies, most of the changes we see involve technological substitution and not infrastructural change. Even though this undermines the assumption that these new technologies constitute a fourth industrial revolution, their effects on the micro and meso level still require both political awareness and proportional regulatory responses.
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Bagdonaite-Stelmokiene, Ramune, and Vilma Zydziunaite. "Personal Change of Social Work Students through Establishing the Relationships in Professional Practice." SOCIETY, INTEGRATION, EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 1 (May 16, 2015): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2015vol1.293.
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<p><em>The article presents the results of qualitative research carried out with</em><em> 53 social work students</em><em> in Lithuania.</em><em> The research focused on the personal change in social work students taking place during the professional practice in which students establish relationships with different participants in the practice. . The use of unstructured reflection as a data collection method enabled students to remember, think over and put their practice experiences in writing. The data were analysed by applying grounded theory </em><em>(Strauss & Corbin, 1990). Findings revealed that social work students differently experience the establishment of relationships in the professional practice. These experiences lead to students’ professional growth and personal change. The findings provide an opportunity to deepen the knowledge about students’ experiences of relationships. These new experiences can promote students’ self-awareness, the change of worldviews, beliefs and values as well as adding the new trends for the analysis of goals in professional practice of social work.</em></p><p> </p>
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Bauwens, Aline. "Organisational Change, Increasing Managerialism and Social Work Values in the Belgian Houses of Justice, Department of Offender Guidance." European Journal of Probation 3, no. 3 (December 2011): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/206622031100300302.
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This paper examines the impact of organisational change in the Belgian Houses of Justice, Department of Offender Guidance. The change that occurred in the Houses of Justice can be defined as incremental change. While Belgian probation has been managerialised in its processes and to a lesser extent its practices, it has not been subjected to the same shift in its purposes. However, one question currently remains: can the increasing emphasis on managerialism leave the social work values and aims of the Houses of Justice in place, or not?
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Degnen, Cathrine. "Relationality, Place, and Absence: A Three-Dimensional Perspective on Social Memory." Sociological Review 53, no. 4 (November 2005): 729–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2005.00593.x.
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This article builds on recent work on memory and place in the social sciences. One emphasis in the literature on ‘Western’ forms of social memory has been on official, intentional sites of commemoration, such as war memorials and monuments. Based on fieldwork in the north of England with older residents of a former coal mining village, I approach social memory from a different perspective, emphasising the work of memory and its complex interactions with place, absence, social relations and social rupture. Like Village on the Border, this research has taken place in a setting that has undergone significant socio-economic change: the closure of the South Yorkshire coalfields. The embeddedness of local knowledge in social relations emerge in both Ronnie Frankenberg's work and my own and I explore these topics here in connection with what I term a ‘three-dimensionality of memory’.
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Inglis, Sue, Karen E. Danylchuk, and Donna L. Pastore. "Multiple Realities of Women’s Work Experiences in Coaching and Athletic Management." Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal 9, no. 2 (October 2000): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.9.2.1.
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This paper is an exploration of the multiple realities of women’s work experiences in coaching and athletic management positions. Eleven women who had previously coached or directed women’s athletics programs were interviewed using a semi-structured approach. Three general categories emerged from the data — Support, Gender Differences, and Change. The work experiences reflect problems the women encountered at work, how organizations can be empowering, and the impact empowered women can have on the social construction of work. Based upon the data, we suggest that the individual search for empowerment takes different forms, yet also acknowledges that systemic changes must take place in order to improve the work environment for women. These findings are significant because they validate women’s experiences and contribute to the understanding of work experiences of those who are underrepresented and often left out of key circles of power and control.
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Wu, Ting, QiTaiSong Shen, Hanqing Liu, and Cong Zheng. "Work Stress, Perceived Career Opportunity, and Organizational Loyalty In Organizational Change: a Moderated Mediation Model." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 47, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.7824.
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We applied job demands–resources theory to construct a negative work characteristic (i.e., work stress) and a positive work characteristic (i.e., perceived career opportunity) in the context of organizational change to investigate how these characteristics affect employees' organizational loyalty. Participants were 2048 Chinese employees from a state-owned power company where a government-led power price reform had taken place. Results show that work stress is negatively related to organizational loyalty via job satisfaction, and that perceived career opportunity (PCO) is positively related to organizational loyalty. In regard to the moderating role of PCO, the negative effects of work stress on organizational loyalty and on job satisfaction, and the negative mediation effect of work stress on organizational loyalty via job satisfaction, were weaker for employees with high rather than low PCO.
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Jašková, Dana. "CHANGES IN THE LABOUR MARKET IN THE REGIONS OF SLOVAKIA." Sociálno-ekonomická revue 19, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.52665/ser20210102.
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Workforce requirements change under the influence of changes in the achieved level of human knowledge in the organization of work and work procedures. These changes are constantly taking place, differing in nature and pace. At present, the rapid pace of these changes is characteristic. This is caused by automation, digitization, and robotics, which penetrate all spheres of society. Knowing the changes in the labour market in regions, is important for the development of society. The aim of the paper is to comprehensively evaluate changes in the labor market in the regions of Slovakia, using multidimensional statistical methods.
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Vergílio, Maria Silvia Teixeira Giacomasso, Vanessa Pellegrino Toledo, and Eliete Maria Silva. "Workshops as a democratic proposal in order to change the supervision work in nursing." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 71, no. 4 (August 2018): 2050–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0286.
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ABSTRACT Objective: to report the experience of developing workshops as an intervention strategy in an action research, aiming to review the work of supervision in hospital nursing. Method: to report of the experience of planning, developing and evaluating workshops with a psychosocial approach. Three workshops were held, in a reserved place, with the participation of 21 supervisors of a public university hospital. Each workshop was organized with heating, day work, closure with syntheses and consensus. Results: the work provided the exchange of experiences, reflections and proposals for difficulties identified in the work process that distract supervisors from the management of assistance such as communication failure, reworking and lack of definition of assignments in the team. Conclusion: the dynamics of the workshops favored supervisors to propose solutions to the difficulties of their practice in a more democratic and participative way, through dialogical interactions, sharing of the feelings pertinent to the work context and establishing consensus for the completion of the task.
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Poulain, Jean-Pierre. "Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition." Sociological Review 69, no. 3 (May 2021): 702–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261211009092.
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Among the different theories used to explain social change, the transition theory holds a special place. It has been applied to subjects such as demography, epidemiology, nutrition, etc. and most often from a multidisciplinary perspective. However, beyond the apparent uniqueness of the transition label there are quite different theoretical frameworks and presuppositions, which can be a source of misunderstanding. A first perspective considers change as the transition from one stable state to another and concentrates on the processes at work in the transition phase. It focuses attention on the interactions between cultural and biological variables and tries to take into account the consequences of the fact that they move at different rates. A second perspective conceives change as a series of stages (more or less stable situations) and proceeds to analyse the structural transformation of the organisation at each stage. The emphasis is placed on the transformations that take place during these stages. This brings us closer to the theory of stages. Finally, a third perspective combines stages and transitions. Change is seen as part of an evolutionary and progressive movement and as being reversible or not. This article studies the cognitive organisation of the different theoretical variants of the transition model in which food plays a more or less important role.
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Magalhães, Izabel. "Escrita e identidades." Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade 7 (November 17, 2010): 106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.26512/les.v7i0.9748.
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The focus of this paper is on gender identities at work place adult literacy. Based on the concept of discourse as a crucial dimension of social practices in relation to other dimensions, mainly power, the paper addresses the issue of identity change in past narratives and their recontextualisation associated with work place current demands. The research findings suggest that women and men use different strategies in relation to literacy.
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Bureau, Marie-Christine, and Patrick Dieuaide. "Institutional change and transformations in labour and employment standards." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 24, no. 3 (August 2018): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1024258918775573.
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Initially employed by lawyers and geopolitical experts, the concept of ‘grey zones’ can be usefully applied to analyse the recent changes on the labour market. It provides a means of bypassing the dualist approaches that contrast waged work and self-employment, insiders and outsiders, or, then again, formal and informal work in a binary way. It provides visibility of the decoherence between the institutions associated with waged status and actual employment practices, and the layering of several different kinds of regulation. The ‘grey zones’ approach thus provides an analytical framework for understanding a wide variety of situations and studying various processes of institutional change, giving the actors of this change their rightful place. Although grey zones are often areas where laws are absent or weak, through these actors they can also give rise to new institutions.
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Allenov, Andrey M., Tatyana P. Vasilyeva, Ivan V. Starostin, Ekaterina V. Makarova, and Anna V. Vorobeva. "Factors that determine the professional longevity of researchers." Russian Journal of Occupational Health and Industrial Ecology 61, no. 6 (August 7, 2021): 385–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.31089/1026-9428-2021-61-6-385-401.
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The study aims to assess the characteristics of health, psychological status, lifestyle, social and living conditions as factors affecting the professional success of researchers. We used content analysis of literary data and the method of expert assessments. The factors that have a high impact on the professional success of researchers include age, quality of life, premature aging, cognitive load and activity, emotional status, physical inactivity. Among the average significant factors are job satisfaction, childbearing, educational growth, stress resistance, career growth, work on the household farm, medical responsibility, material security, corporate and family health-saving environment, lifestyle, personal qualities, psycho-psychological, information and energy loads, emotional stress, academic title, intellectual activity cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, alternation of physical and mental work (change of mono-load to complex). It is necessary to study further the factors that determine the success of the professional activity of researchers. There is a significant number of problems and many negative aspects associated with scientific training. According to the agreed opinion of experts, there are priority ranking places by such problems as in the first place - a decrease in cognitive functions; in the second place - a reduction in the effectiveness of scientific activity and premature aging; in the third place - the presence of low medical responsibility; in the fourth place - a frequent decrease in physical activity; in the fifth-place - emotional burnout, the fact of low material security, the formation of violations of psychological characteristics, premature termination of scientific activity. The factors that have a high impact on the professional success of researchers include age, quality of life, premature aging, cognitive load and activity, emotional status, physical inactivity. Among the average significant factors are job satisfaction, childbearing, educational growth, stress resistance, career growth, work on the household farm, medical responsibility, material security, corporate and family health-saving environment, lifestyle, personal qualities, psycho-psychological, information and energy loads, emotional stress, academic title, intellectual activity cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, alternation of physical and mental work (change of mono-load to complex).