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Patient, David, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Sally Maitlis. "Understanding Workplace Envy Through Narrative Fiction." Organization Studies 24, no. 7 (September 2003): 1015–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01708406030247002.
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Eastman, Christine Angela. "Coaching in organisations: how the use of fictional characters can develop coaching practice." International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 5, no. 4 (December 5, 2016): 318–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmce-06-2016-0048.
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Purpose This paper consists of a case study that reports on a pedagogical intervention undertaken among a group of postgraduate students in the area of coaching. The purpose of this paper is to design an intervention to bridge the gulf between coaching theory and practice, a gap identified by coaching research and corroborated by professional practice students on the university course examined here. Design/methodology/approach The study gives an account of how literary fiction was used with a cohort of students as a source of hypothetical scenarios used to simulate workplace problems and as a simulative context in which coaching students could apply theoretical models to make-believe scenarios. In this case study, the author evaluates the success of this innovative pedagogical methodology based on a qualitative analysis of excerpts from students’ written work. Findings The author advocates the use of literary fictional texts as a means of enhancing coach training and makes a case for the benefits of exposing students to literary fiction as part of a rich humanities curriculum. Reading about how fictional characters negotiate the terrain of life and work can help coaching students to create stronger, more creative narratives in their work-based projects. Originality/value Exploring how fictional characters respond to challenges in the workplace (and in life generally) will support students to formulate their own coaching interventions in a more coherent fashion. The paper contends that stories are the cornerstone of learning, and that educators can support students to explore issues of core identity, (in)coherent life themes and narrative representation in students’ professional practice by getting them to read fiction.
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McDowell, Linda, and Gill Court. "Performing Work: Bodily Representations in Merchant Banks." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 12, no. 6 (December 1994): 727–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d120727.
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Not only is the workplace a significant site of the social construction of feminine and masculine identities but in an increasing range of service sector occupations, a gendered bodily performance is a significant part of selling a product. In this paper, we draw on Butler's notion of gender identity as a regulatory fiction to investigate the consequences of the specificity of embodiment and gendered performances. Drawing on three case studies in the City of London, we explore the differential fictions constructed by men and women engaged in interactive service work in a professional capacity in merchant banks. We examine the ways in which women are embodied and/or represented as ‘woman’ in the workplace, comparing women's sense of themselves and their everyday workplace experiences with those of men doing the same job. Our aim is to establish whether the necessity of selling oneself as part of the product in such service sector employment challenges the idealisation of male workers as disembodied rational subjects, while not necessarily disrupting the inferior position of embodied women.
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García-Muñoz, Núria, Celina Navarro-Bosch, and Matilde Delgado-Reina. "Representation of women and work in the most popular series in the UK and Spain." Investigaciones Feministas 13, no. 2 (May 9, 2024): 695–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/infe.79233.
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This study provides a portrait of the occupational roles in the series most watched on the generalist DTT channels in the United Kingdom and Spain. The media representations of gender role attitudes in the workplace, especially in fiction, influence the popular culture and social imaginary of the audiences. In this context, the study of the series with the largest audience is important to discover the patterns that these fictions show about work environments. This article analyzes 40 popular series broadcasts on generalist television channels in the United Kingdom and Spain. A sample of more than 400 characters reveals the representation of women and men in the workplace, highlighting the similarities and differences regarding job profiles, leadership, and prestige. The comparison between both markets allows us to find relevant concepts on the current representation of women and work. While in the UK the differences are minor, the results in Spain confirm the differences between male and female characters associated with various aspects of the workplace such as the prestige and positioning of the most qualified jobs.
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Bal, P. Matthijs, Inge Brokerhof, and Edina Dóci. "How Does Fiction Inform Working Lives?" International Journal of Public Sociology and Sociotherapy 1, no. 1 (January 2021): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijpss.2021010101.
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This paper discusses the relationships between fiction and working lives by exploring the roles of empathy and sustainability in how people read and perceive fiction in relation to their own private and working lives. The paper problematizes some notions manifesting within these relationships by discussing how ideology infiltrates both the understanding of concepts themselves as well as how they relate to each other. Hence, it thereby discusses how the individual experience of fiction has an effect on behavior but is influenced by ideological beliefs about society which are largely implicit to the reader herself. It thereby explains why fiction does not always enhance empathy. Using the distinction between aesthetic and ethical good, the paper elucidates how fiction may sustain an ideological version of empathy, and thus sustaining contemporary practices in the workplace and the economic system. The paper finishes with an exploration of how fiction may enable a reader to become aware of ideology, thereby opening possibilities to achieve more viable forms of social sustainability.
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Armstrong, Michael B., and Richard N. Landers. "An Evaluation of Gamified Training: Using Narrative to Improve Reactions and Learning." Simulation & Gaming 48, no. 4 (May 15, 2017): 513–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046878117703749.
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Background and Aim.Gamification is growing in popularity in education and workplace training, but it is unclear which game elements are conducive to learning. The theory of gamified learning suggests that one type of gamification, the addition of game fiction/narrative, can be used to improve learning outcomes, and the Technology-Enhanced Training Effectiveness Model (TETEM) suggests individual differences impact the strength of this effect. From this theoretical basis, this study gamified a training module with game fiction in order to improve outcomes over the original training. Results and Conclusion. In a study of 273 learners, trainees were significantly more satisfied with training enhanced with game fiction over the control text ( d = 0.65) but did not differ in declarative knowledge scores by condition. Further, trainees in the control condition scored higher on procedural knowledge than trainees in the game fiction condition, although the effect was smaller ( d = −0.40). Thus, the use of narrative improved reactions to training but at some cost to training effectiveness. Attitudes toward game-based learning were also tested as a moderator of the condition-outcome relationship.
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Sipe, Stephanie, C. Douglas Johnson, and Donna K. Fisher. "University Students' Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Reality Versus Fiction." Journal of Education for Business 84, no. 6 (July 2009): 339–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/joeb.84.6.339-349.
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Strawhacker, MaryAnn Tapper. "Medical Cannabis and School: Separating Fact From Fiction." NASN School Nurse 35, no. 1 (October 29, 2019): 43–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1942602x19877561.
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The majority of states have legalized medical marijuana (MM) despite its Federal Schedule 1 designation as an illegal substance. Public schools must comply with Drug Free Workplace laws or risk the loss of federal funding. To address the conflict between state and federal laws regulating MM, the National Association of School Nurses issued a position brief in January 2019. The accompanying article introduces the Cannabis/Marijuana Position Brief and provides guidance for school nurses who encounter a student treated with MM. Topics addressed include background implications of federal marijuana and hemp law, mechanism of action for MM, Epidiolex overview, current research regarding efficacy of MM for common qualifying conditions, and implications for school nursing practice.
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Al-Onizat, Hamdan Hasan. "Analysis of Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Human Resource Management." International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication 11, no. 10 (November 7, 2023): 2264–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i10.8943.
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Perhaps people once thought AI was something out of a science fiction novel. The majority of today's working population, however, is well aware that smart technology is actively reshaping the business world. It's true despite the fact that AI has traditionally been associated with science fiction. Human resources are one of the most notable uses of AI today, but it is not an exception to the rule that AI can be used to practically any sector or profession. According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Oracle and Future Workplace, human resource professionals are optimistic that AI will open up opportunities for learning new skills and gaining more personal time. Human resource experts will be able to take on greater responsibility and play a more strategic role inside their companies as a result.
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Marks, John. "Le roman d’entreprise: Breaking the silence." French Cultural Studies 28, no. 4 (October 6, 2017): 371–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155817724957.
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This article looks at three recent French novels in order to explore key themes in what has become known as the roman d’entreprise: Pierre Mari’s Résolution (2005), Nathalie Kuperman’s Nous étions des êtres vivants (2010) and Thierry Beinstingel’s Retour aux mots sauvages (2010). The figure of the entreprise functions both as a fictional representation of the post-Fordist workplace environment in companies such as France Télécom, and also as a means of tackling wider issues of work and social organisation in an era of neoliberal managerialism. The concepts of capitalist realism, organisational miasma and virtuality are used to analyse the ways in which the three novels convey the distinctive affective landscape of the contemporary entreprise. Fiction is used to consider the prolix and self-referential nature of the managerialist entreprise, which enables it to exert a significant influence on the individual and collective subjectivities of employees. The three novels focus on the capacity of the entreprise to capture language and impose an affect of silence on employees.
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Vickers, Margaret H. "Telling Tales to Share Multiple Truths: Disability and Workplace Bullying -- A Semi-Fiction Case Study." Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 27, no. 1 (July 31, 2014): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10672-014-9246-1.
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Miller, Gavin. "“Science fiction without gadgets” and the normalization of cognitive impairment." Science Fiction Film & Television 15, no. 2 (June 1, 2022): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2022.13.
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The motion picture Charly (1968) stars Cliff Robertson as a cognitively impaired bakery worker who undergoes an experimental intelligence-enhancing neurosurgical procedure that temporarily grants him superhuman intelligence. Although Charly may seem merely to endorse the dominant sf trope of cure for disability, it offers a complex and equivocal engagement with the growing “normalization” agenda in the 1960s US, by which cognitively impaired persons were moved out of institutions in order to lead lives as close to culturally normative as possible. The movie partly affirms normalization and its social critique through the narrative continuity between Charly before and after his neurosurgery, and by the inclusion of cognitively impaired children within the cast. Robertson’s performance also conveys Charly’s deliberate performance as an object of ridicule within his workplace. However, Charly also gestures to ongoing anxieties about the sexuality of cognitively impaired persons, and it questions the normative valorization of intelligence in modern society. Although the movie’s plural visual style was criticized by contemporary reviews, its aesthetic offers a dialogic model of the self, and resists the centripetal tendency to filmmaking within a single authoritative or neutral style.
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Mulhall, Anne M. "The Necrotemporality of the Contemporary French Workplace: Death and Time in Alexandre Lacroix’s L ’ Homme qui aimait trop travailler." Modern Language Review 119, no. 2 (April 2024): 189–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2024.a923553.
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ABSTRACT: The French office novel is unique in emphasizing the irregular and destructive experience of time in corporate life. One of the more distinctive aspects of this genre is its obsession with death and dying. Treating these two obsessions together, this article introduces a new concept, necrotemporality . Necrotemporality is a mode for conveying the urgent ways in which time may be felt as a propulsive, corrosive slide towards annihilation. With this in mind, the article reads Alexandre Lacroix’s L ’ Homme qui aimait trop travailler as a novel that illustrates the entanglements between time and death in contemporary French fiction d’affaires .
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Perisic, Alexandra. "Life after Oil: The Politics of Labor in Bessora’s Petroleum." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 3 (August 30, 2018): 406–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2018.6.
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Petroleum, a 2004 novel by Swiss-Gabonese writer Bessora, takes place almost entirely on the Ocean Liberator, a ship extracting oil off the coast of Gabon. I argue that the Ocean Liberator operates as what Marc Augé calls a non-place, a place that cannot be defined in terms of history, identity, or relations. Non-places, frequently under neither national nor international supervision, facilitate the creation of a precarious international labor force. I furthermore underline the relation among the non-place workplace, environmental degradation, and the choice of detective fiction. Petroleum is what I call a supermodern detective novel, which moves beyond local violence to deal with transnational networks of capitalist power and oppression.
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Scott, Deborah. "Creatively expanding research from work-based learning." Journal of Work-Applied Management 12, no. 2 (July 16, 2020): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jwam-03-2020-0015.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of creativity in work-based research and practice to yield deeper understanding of practice situations. Unexpected insights can lead one (or a team) to identify new approaches, tackling workplace issues differently, leading to unexpected outcomes of long-term impact.Design/methodology/approachThis paper draws on work conducted for a doctoral thesis, investigating the impact of work-based learning for recent masters graduates of a work-based learning programme. Fiction was incorporated into analysis of the data, creating play scripts to represent key aspects of the researcher's perceptions and interpretations for each participant.FindingsResearch participants experienced personal, professional and organisational impact, although there was considerable variability between individuals. Additionally, societal impact was wished for and/or effected. The approach to representation of analysis, which involved fictionalising participants' experiences, created a strong Thirdspace liminality. This appeared to deepen awareness and understanding.Research limitations/implicationsSuch approaches can transform the researcher's perspective, prompting insights which lead to further adventure and development in work-based research and practice.Practical implicationsManagers and employees taking creative approaches in the workplace can prompt wide-ranging development and, with professional judgement, be constructive.Social implicationsManagers and employees taking creative approaches in the workplace can prompt wide-ranging development and, with professional judgement, be constructive.Originality/valueThe creation of play scripts, representing an interpretation of participants' stories about their work-based learning experience, is an innovative feature of this work.
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Scott, Deborah. "The ignorant manager: conceptualising impact with Rancière." Journal of Work-Applied Management 9, no. 2 (December 4, 2017): 110–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jwam-07-2017-0016.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a response to expressions in the literature concerning the limitations of critical reflection, using Rancière’s exposition of the role of values and reasonableness to examine how forms of negotiated work-based learning can support learners’ pathways to impact in their organisation. The implications for work applied management in terms of enabling these employees to make an impact are considered. Design/methodology/approach Vignettes illuminate and articulate Rancière’s (1991, 2010) ideas, the vignettes constructed through events experienced and narrated, perhaps imagined, tutorial conversations, assignments and work practices. Such construction of “multiple layers of fiction and narrative imaginings” draws on Sparkes (2007, p. 522). They consider individuals’ negotiation of working practices using ideas developed during their studies, and personal and professional development prompted by unexpected insights into their capabilities, interests, and possible roles. Findings Negotiated work-based learning appears to offer the individual opportunity to take responsibility for action in his/her learning and in his/her workplace, but effect depends on several factors, and can be perceived in different ways. Students’ encounter with autonomy in their studies resonates with Rancière’s belief in equality. In the workplace (becoming “citizens” alongside “reasonable” individuals) their agency might, at best, lead to “reasonable moments”, as they encounter both negative and positive challenges of work applied management. Practical implications Successful utilisation of agency in learning prompts expectations of responsibility and equality in the workplace. Such equality can lead to diverse, unpredicted insights and consequent opportunities for changes in practice. Originality/value This is the first paper to utilise Ranciére’s ideas to offer a critical consideration of both learning provision and workplace practice. Consideration of his profound stance on individuals’ freedom and agency provides rich (but challenging) prompts for analysis of one’s own practice, and the potential for impact when the manager is “ignorant”.
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Österlind, Eva. "Drama in higher education for sustainability: work-based learning through fiction?" Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning 8, no. 3 (August 13, 2018): 337–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-03-2018-0034.
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of drama in the context of professional learning for sustainability, and specifically, a drama workshop on sustainability for in-service teachers. The workshop was designed to explore environmental problems from several perspectives, by using drama techniques like bodily expressions, visualisations and role-play.Design/methodology/approachData are drawn from questionnaires evaluating the effects of a drama workshop delivered in Helsinki in 2017. In total, 15 in-service teachers answered open-ended questions. Responses from experienced teachers were chosen as particularly interesting in relation to work-based learning.FindingsThe findings demonstrate that drama work contributes to education for sustainability in terms of increased self-awareness, critical reflections and signs of transformation; experienced professional learners bring their workplace context into the university, which enriches teaching and learning; and sustainability is a non-traditional subject in need of non-traditional teaching approaches.Research limitations/implicationsThe results of this small-scale study are only valid for this particular group.Practical implicationsThe study gives an example of how applied drama can contribute to learning for sustainability in higher education.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to a growing literature concerning how drama allows participants to work on real problems, from a safe position in a fictive situation, providing both closeness and distance. When students become involved in anas-ifsituation, it leads to increased motivation and practice-oriented learning. As the content of sustainability can be challenging, drama work offers a meaningful context in which concepts and issues can be explored. Fictive situations may contribute to more realistic learning experiences.
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R, Nagarani. "The Theme of Social Consciousness in Rajam Krishnan's Award-Winning Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, S-7 (July 30, 2022): 344–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22s754.
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Fiction is not created just to entertain. It serves as a historical treasure trove of social change, the context, and condition of a changing society by uncovering social problems and suggesting solutions. Fiction creators act as the lifeblood of this forum. Such a creator is Rajam Krishnan. With the aim of social development, he has created many new personalities in his fiction from various angles. He has given life and meaning to the nucleus of innovation with the aim of improving the individual's character and interests and has sown the seeds of social excellence in the form of the contribution of storytellers. If the standard of living of the people is to be raised, the level of education should be raised. Education should be communal. We need to get rid of the condition of being dependent on others economically. Educated young people need to listen to experienced elders. Capitalist norms should be broken and rights should be voiced. Students of higher education should be aware of these principles and be aware of social progress. Eliminating the distinctions between upper and lower caste people, Rajam Krishnan's Katha Manders has been created so that the idea of living with the idea of humanity should be removed and vandalism should be eliminated. Educated women and illiterate women should have clarity of thought. They should become powerful in the liberation struggles and in opposing the groups that work against women. When sexual harassment and violence occur in the workplace, workers should be courageous and have a strong mindset to get rid of them. In order to raise the economic status, the standard of education should be raised. Rajam Krishnan's award-winning novelizations capture the idea that women's thinking should be beneficial to the nation and the home.
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Reyns-Chikuma, C(h)ris. "Le Bureau : Le nouveau mockumentaire d’entreprise francais(e) en question?" TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies 1, no. 2 (July 22, 2009): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.21992/t9d62t.
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In this essay, I show how Le Bureau (2006), a business fiction adapted from the British TV series The Office (2001-2003), maintained its originality by being in line with diverse traditions both French and trans-national. However, while addressing with a satirical tone some problems that are either global (like some issues related to the “new spirit of capitalism”) or typically French (such as the resistance to a concrete application of anti-discriminatory measures on the workplace), the critical impact of this mockumentary seems limited by the fact that it is framed within TV programs and especially Canal+’s entertainment “philosophy.”
Dans cet essai, je montre comment la fiction d’affaires Le Bureau (2006), adaptation française de la série télévisée britannique The Office (2001-2003), a réussi à maintenir une certaine originalité en s’inscrivant dans diverses traditions artistiques à la fois françaises (documentaire), trans-nationales (mockumentaire) et trans-culturelles (la sitcom), tout en adressant de manière humoristique et critique certains problèmes globaux, comme «le nouvel esprit du capitalisme» et d’autres plus typiquement français (comme la résistance à appliquer des mesures anti-discriminatoires concrètes sur les lieux de travail). Cependant, le fait que ce mockumentaire fut fait pour la télévision et plus spécifiquement pour Canal+ (qui est une chaîne d’abord divertissante) limite sa fonction et son impact critique.
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Samra, Deeksha. "Resilient Women of Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 12, no. 7 (July 31, 2024): 543–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2024.63615.
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Abstract: For decades, literature has played a vital role in the feminist movement. Fiction helps to look at the challenges of women on various levels, whether in the workplace, family, emotional, or physical. Over the years, writers have written fiction to depict women's challenges and their brilliance and determination in overcoming them. Amitav Ghosh is one such writer who has often depicted women who put their heart and soul into it when it comes to achieving their goals. Both in personal and professional life. Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide depicts working women who put their best foot forward despite sexual assault, caste discrimination, and financial difficulties. A cetologist named Piyali Roy comes to Lusibari for her work. Despite the sexual harassment, she finds a way to achieve her dream of studying dolphins. Financial and caste barriers confront Moyna, but she still finds a way to survive by studying and working as a nurse. Nilima is being called to serve the Sundarbans' people. She tries to fit herself into the system to ensure that the Lusibari people have as many facilities as possible. Kusum finds herself in the most difficult of all female characters. She loses her mother as a child, and her husband when she was young, and almost becomes a victim of sex traffickers. The novel depicts the challenges as well as the unbreakable spirit of women vividly.
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Lacalle, Charo, and Beatriz Gómez. "The representation of workingwomen in Spanish television fiction." Comunicar 24, no. 47 (April 1, 2016): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c47-2016-06.
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During the sixties and seventies the limited presence of women in the public sphere was reflected in the restricted repertoire of roles played by female characters in television fiction (mainly those of mothers and wives). The strengthening of the feminist movement in the following decades increased and diversified the portrayals of women in the workplace, and further encouraged academic research on the social construction of working women. Despite the relevance of female professionals in current TV shows, the importance of romantic relationships and sexuality has led to a decreasing number of studies on the subject. This article summarizes the results of a study on working women in Spanish TV fiction, part of a larger project on the construction of female identities. The research uses an original methodology that combines quantitative techniques and qualitative methods (socio-semiotics) to analyse the sample of 709 female characters. The results show a coexistence of the traditional stereotypes of working women in customer service and care-giving positions with those of highly skilled female professionals. However, the empowerment of women in positions of responsibility is often associated with a negative portrayal of the character, while the problems of reconciling family and work are systematically avoided. La reducida presencia de la mujer en la esfera pública durante los años sesenta y setenta se reflejaba en el limitado repertorio de roles (madre y esposa principalmente) que le atribuía la ficción televisiva. El impulso feminista de las décadas sucesivas estimuló las representaciones de los personajes femeninos en el ámbito laboral y la reflexión académica sobre la construcción social de la mujer trabajadora. Pero, a pesar de la relevancia del rol profesional en las protagonistas de la ficción actual, la relevancia de las relaciones sentimentales y de la sexualidad ha revertido en el reducido número de estudios sobre el tema. Este artículo sintetiza los resultados de un análisis de la mujer trabajadora en la ficción televisiva española, integrado en un proyecto sobre construcción de identidades femeninas. La investigación propone una metodología original, que combina métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos (socio-semiótica) para afrontar el estudio de 709 personajes femeninos. La investigación revela la convivencia de estereotipos ligados a las representaciones tradicionales de los empleos de las mujeres (trabajos relacionados con la atención al público y el cuidado de las personas) con otras profesiones altamente cualificadas. Sin embargo, el empoderamiento de las mujeres con cargos de responsabilidad se asocia frecuentemente con una caracterización negativa del personaje, al tiempo que los problemas de conciliación de los roles familiares y profesionales se eluden sistemáticamente.
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Bashir, Afrasiab, Umar Rahman, and Muhammad Abid. "HYBRID IDENTITY AND THE SELECTED DIASPORIC WORK: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 03 (November 25, 2022): 1173–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i03.1297.
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The present study discusses the selected South Asian diasporic work in the relation to the notion of hybrid identity. Migrants leave homeland and join host land for better life and economic improvement. This shift from home to foreign land brings several obstacles among which crisis of identity is major one. Moreover, in host land diasporic community also faces segregation in terms of workplace environment and other social aspects of life and it further make them shattered and consequently this phenomenon leads them towards hybrid identity. This qualitative study employs theoretical concept of hybridity, a postcolonial concept, in the analysis of the selected text. The study concludes that diasporic community carry with it the burden of their native culture and the nostalgic memory and go through the crisis of identity in foreign land which make them hybrid. Keywords: Identity, hybridity, South Asian diaspora fiction, culture, homeland, host-land.
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Knox, Marisa Palacios. "“The Valley of the Shadow of Books”." Nineteenth-Century Literature 69, no. 1 (June 1, 2014): 92–122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ncl.2014.69.1.92.
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Marisa Palacios Knox, “‘The Valley of the Shadow of Books’: George Gissing, New Women, and Morbid Literary Detachment” (pp. 92-122) Victorian consternation about the physiological—especially reproductive—repercussions of women readers’ affective involvement with fiction is well documented. This essay contends, however, that at the fin de siècle a new cultural anxiety developed around the possibility of the woman who under-identifies, that is, refuses or is simply incapable of a stereotypically feminine standard of personal identification with literature. As the number of women entering vocational training as well as higher education increased exponentially in the late nineteenth century, the threat of women’s influx into the workplace expressed itself in a discourse of concern for the vitiation of women’s “natural” responsiveness to reading as a symptom of emotional as well as physical barrenness. George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) and The Odd Women (1893), in addition to the New Women novels of Charlotte Riddell and George Paston, engage with and complicate the idea of professional women’s literary detachment as a kind of morbid pathology, a trope that nevertheless continues to influence the reception of these works.
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Gallego Ayala, Juana. "Las mujeres ya no son lo que eran. Nuevos modelos femeninos en la narrativa audiovisual=Women are no longer what they used to be. New feminine models in the audiovisual narrative." Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, no. 16 (June 29, 2021): 333. http://dx.doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i16.6915.
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<p align="left"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>Este texto analiza los modelos femeninos que se están imponiendo en la nueva narrativa audiovisual. Las mujeres han ocupado casi siempre un lugar secundario en los relatos de ficción, y aun siendo protagonistas han sido representadas mayoritariamente como personas que anteponían los intereses de los demás a los suyos propios en todos los órdenes de la vida. Los nuevos modelos que proponen las series de ficción presentan mujeres que actúan y viven para sí, que intentan encontrar acomodo en una sociedad en la que todavía perviven los estereotipos de género que estas nuevas heroínas tratan de combatir. La renovación de los clásicos modelos femeninos es de vital importancia para proporcionar nuevos referentes a las jóvenes generaciones. </p><p align="left"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>This text focuses on the female models that are being imposed in the new audiovisual narrative. Women has occupied mostly a secondary place in the fiction stories, and even as protagonists, they were depicted as persons who put their personals interests in a second place, either in the workplace, in sentimental or in family life. Women in the new fictional series are persons who act and want to live one’s own life. They give priority to their jobs in their lives and they usually maintain anticonventional sentimental relationships. These women try to maintain equality relationships either in their professional and in the family life. The renewal of the classic feminine models is of utmost importance to promote new referents to new generations.</p>
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Czarniawska, Barbara. "More complex images of women at work are needed: a fictive example of Petra Delicado." Journal of Organizational Change Management 33, no. 4 (November 27, 2019): 655–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-02-2019-0045.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to convince the readers that more complex images of working women are needed, and that fiction may provide them. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, text analysis is done using a version of close reading. Findings Both media and research tend to simplify the images of working women, either in positive or negative way. Reality and some of its fictive representations offer more nuanced examples. Research limitations/implications Fiction can be treated as field material. Practical implications Women should dare more at workplaces. Social implications Researchers should join fiction writers in convincing society of the crucial role women play in contemporary organizations. Originality/value This paper belongs to the growing tradition of transdisciplinary organization studies.
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Calista, Margaretha Finna, and Wening Udasmoro. "Women as Breadwinners in Maureen Sherry’s Opening Belle." Journal of Language and Literature 21, no. 2 (September 20, 2021): 318–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/joll.v21i2.3146.
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There have been many popular fiction novels in the literature world that raise how women enter the economic aspect. One of them is the novel Opening Belle written by Maureen Sherry and published in 2016. Opening Belle represents women’s participation in the financial sector because they want a good life. This research is studied with the feminist political economy theory proposed by Jacqui True. In her book, The Political Economy of Violence against Women, True explains that economic globalization has changed women’s lives becoming financially independent. However, on the other hand, women involved in the public sphere are underappreciated and receive sexual harassment or violence, making it difficult for women to participate in the economic aspect. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. With this method, the writer takes parts of the novel in the form of words, sentences, paragraphs which explain the economic aspect and women’s participation in it. This research is analyzed through the explanations and utterances of the characters. The results of this study are: first, the participation of women as breadwinners in this novel is started as part of her life experiences and is driven by the hardships of her family; second, women are highly motivated figures so that they implement several strategies to survive in their office, namely by proving their competence, joining the GCC women’s community and voicing equal rights in the workplace. In conclusions, economic globalization opens up women’s opportunity to become the sole breadwinner in the family.
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Aleksander, Igor. "Partners of Humans: A Realistic Assessment of the Role of Robots in the Foreseeable Future." Journal of Information Technology 32, no. 1 (March 2017): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41265-016-0032-4.
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As robots are generally thought to perform human-like tasks, they depend on the successes of information technology in the area of artificial intelligence to succeed in such pursuits. But robots, through their anthropomorphic character and their weighty presence in science fiction, attract the attention of the press and the media in a way that, at times, blurs the distinction between the actual state of the art and exaggerated claims. This makes it hard to assess the true functional positioning of robots, how this is likely to move forward and whether the outcome of progress could be detrimental to human society. The aim of this paper is to review the actual level of competence that is being achieved in robotics research laboratories and a plausible impact that this is likely to have on human control over life and jobs. The key thesis here is that cognition in machines and even an artificial form of consciousness lead to operations in a set of tasks (the ‘algorithmic’ category) which is different from that available to truly cognitive and conscious human beings (the ‘life-need’ category): that is, in the paper it is argued that a major category error (Ryle in The concept of mind, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1949) looms in predictions of serious threats to humanity. As far as a threat to jobs goes, it is argued that early attention to education and re-skilling of humans in the workplace can lead to an effective symbiosis between people and robots.
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Olsen, T., A. Svendal, and I. Amundsen. "More inclusive workplaces: Fact or fiction? The case of Norway." International Review of Psychiatry 17, no. 5 (October 2005): 375–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540260500238579.
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Haliburton, Luke, Pawel W. Wozniak, Albrecht Schmidt, and Jasmin Niess. "Charting the Path: Requirements and Constraints for Technology-Supported Walking Meetings." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 5, CSCW2 (October 13, 2021): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3476088.
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Traditional meetings involve extensive sitting, which negatively impacts the health of attendees. Understanding how technology can facilitate integrating physical activity into the workplace, such as in walking meetings, is vital to improving workplace wellbeing. To that end, we applied a mixed-method approach to explore requirements and opportunities for walking meetings. We conducted an online questionnaire and a series of interviews with early adopters of walking meetings and created design fictions based on their feedback. We evaluated the design fictions with a second questionnaire and garnered additional feedback from the original early adopters. Based on our findings, we derived four dimensions associated with walking meetings: practical, environmental, social, and cognitive facets. We define attributes, challenges, and opportunities within these dimensions which are important for designing systems that support walking meetings. Our work identifies key considerations for developing systems that integrate physical activity into communication activities.
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Enqvist, Lena, and Yana Litins'ka. "Employee Health Data in European Law." Nordic Journal of European Law 5, no. 1 (August 31, 2022): 40–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.36969/njel.v5i1.24498.
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While there are many feasible reasons for employers to process employee health data, the protection of such data is a fundamental issue for ensuring employee rights to privacy in the workplace. The sharing of health data within workplaces can lead to various consequences, such as losing a sense of privacy, stigmatisation, job insecurity and social dumping. At the European level, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) and EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)–two interconnected instruments–offer the most enforceable protection of employee health data. The article analyses the limits of employees’ right to privacy regarding health data, as delineated by the ECHR and GDPR. Using three fictive examples, we illustrate how the level of protection differs in these two instruments. In particular, we show that the protection of health data offered by the GDPR is seen as an objective act of processing at the time it is carried out, where the actual impact caused by the processing on private life is not considered. On the contrary, the ECHR’s applicability and offered level of protection in the employment context depend on subjective factors, such as the consequences of sharing the data.
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Parks, Lisa, and France Winddance Twine. "Millennial Messiahs, Female Fixers, and Corporate Boards." Film Quarterly 76, no. 3 (2023): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2023.76.3.25.
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This article explores how television dramas function as a cultural forum on the workplace power dynamics of US tech startups. Focusing on the limited series, Super Pumped and WeCrashed, which are about Uber and WeWork, the authors analyze how relations of race, class, and gender/sexuality emerge in these narrativized techworlds via several “figures,” including white male founders/CEOs or “millennial messiahs,” “female fixers” that range from executives to silent service providers, and the “corporate board.” These figures are important because they circulate across fictional and non-fictional contexts and become a means by which publics make sense of the power relations of tech startups. Even as these shows center on the trials and tribulations of egomaniacal, power-hungry CEOs, they raise crucial questions about corporate corruption, gender/racial discrimination, and labor exploitation in the tech workplace and challenge viewers to reckon with the unchecked power of the big US technology companies.
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Gallenga, Ghislaine. "Elements of Reflexive Anthropology in Three Fieldwork Studies of the Workplace." Journal of Business Anthropology 2, no. 2 (October 31, 2013): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/jba.v2i2.4158.
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Focusing on the ‘fictions’ between the ethnographer and her informants, this article deals with the delicate chemistry of fieldwork through an account of three field studies. The first explores power struggles in a bank in Marseilles; the second looks at issues related to political and economic transition in Romania through as seen through the lens of a metalwork factory; the last analyses ‘modernisation’ in the public sector in Marseilles. These studies highlight some major questions raised in the field of reflexive anthropology, including the nature of the ethnographer/informant relationship, validation, gender issues, and the exploitation of the researcher. They reveal some of the difficulties surrounding the social construction of the ethnographer in the workplace and the negotiation of roles undergone whilst in the workplace. In these three cases the ethnologist was excluded from the field, forgotten about, and caught up in a conflict.
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Russell, Sally V., and Neal M. Ashkanasy. "Pulling on Heartstrings: Three Studies of the Effectiveness of Emotionally Framed Communication to Encourage Workplace Pro-Environmental Behavior." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 10, 2021): 10161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810161.
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We investigated whether the emotional framing of climate change communication can influence workplace pro-environmental behavior. In three quasi-experimental studies, we examined whether emotional displays in climate change communication affected participants’ subsequent workplace pro-environmental behavior. In Studies 1 and 2, undergraduate and master’s students viewed a fictional news video about climate change, where the newsreader displayed one of five emotions: sadness, fear, anger, contentment, and hope. The dependent variable was recycling behavior following the viewing. In Study 3, office employees viewed the same news videos online; the dependent variable was requesting further information to increase pro-environmental behavior in the workplace. The results from all three studies show that displayed emotion significantly affected pro-environmental behavior and that sadness, in particular, resulted in significantly less workplace pro-environmental behavior. These results indicate the need to study the effect of discrete emotions, rather than assuming that emotions of the same valence have similar effects. The results also underscore the importance of using experimental designs in advancing the field. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of our findings for research, theory, and practice of emotionally framed communication of sustainability messages.
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Margaret, Thornton. "Deconstructing Affirmative Action." International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 2, no. 4 (September 1997): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135822919700200404.
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The phrase affirmative action (AA) has been in use in Australia for two decades, mainly in the context of improving the profile of women in the workplace. Federal legislation was enacted in 1986 but the formalistic focus on the preparation of plans, numerosity and the lodgment of reports has deflected attention away from the elusive substance of AA. The procedural veil will be lifted to focus more closely on the nature of the substance, with particular regard to managerial positions. It will be argued that the construction of femininity and masculinity, through what are termed ‘the fictive feminine’ and ‘the imagined masculine’, is resistant to structural change. However, the adoption of co-operative workplace practices, as advocated by a recent influential Australian Government report, does have the potential to challenge the gender polarity.
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Wodak, Ruth. "The glocalization of politics in television: Fiction or reality?" European Journal of Cultural Studies 13, no. 1 (January 29, 2010): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549409352553.
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This article investigates the ‘glocalization’ of the US TV popular drama series The West Wing, while focusing on one (in some ways) exceptional episode . Because politics is inherently linked to language, discourse and communication, I will take an approach from the perspective of critical discourse analysis (the discourse-historical approach), with a particular focus on elements of argumentation theory and rhetoric, and combine this with media studies. More specifically, I attempt to illustrate how a thorough understanding of the topoi operating within the complex dialogues and interactions helps to reveal the series’ (manifest and latent) political and didactic objectives, embedded in a longstanding tradition of conveying US American liberal values via films and TV.The episode analyzed in this article, Isaac and Ishmael (which was broadcast immediately after 9/11) is exceptional because it explicitly relates to salient real life events; its topical focus on the ‘war on terror’ shifts attention from US domestic politics to an issue that, according to US policy rhetoric, concerns the whole world. Thus, this episode links the debates taking place in one of the world’s most famous institutions, The White House, with those occurring in workplaces across the world: a truly ‘g/local’ moment. The interdisciplinary analysis allows insight into the intricate and complex discursive construction of new glocal narratives, particularly in times of political crisis, revealing which norms are projected and recontextualized both locally and globally, given the many translations of the series worldwide.
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Hitt, Rose Clark, and John H. Humphreys. "A Graceful and Beautiful Swan: Gender Transition and the Workplace Fictional Case Study." International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations: Annual Review 4, no. 1 (2006): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1447-9532/cgp/v04/38846.
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Mirza, Jasmin. "Accommodating Purdah to the Workplace: Gender Relations in the Office Sector in Pakistan." Pakistan Development Review 38, no. 2 (June 1, 1999): 187–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.30541/v38i2pp.187-206.
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Based on a qualitative survey of female office workers conducted in Lahore in 1996-97, this article examines the increasing market integration of women, particularly from the lower middle classes, into secretarial and technical occupations in the office sector in urban Pakistan. The study shows that gender images and gender relations inherent in the social order of Pakistani society—particularly the absence of socially sanctioned modes of communication between the sexes, a strong sexualisation of gender relations outside the kinship system, and the incessant harassment of women in the public sphere—surface inside the offices. Female office workers use many strategies, derived from their own life world, to maneuver in the office sector, to appropriate public (male) space, and to accommodate the purdah system to the office environment. By “creating social distance”, “developing socially obligatory relationships”, “integrating male colleagues into a fictive kinship system”, and “creating women’s spaces” they are able to establish themselves in a traditional male field of employment, namely, the office sector.
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Terry, Paul E. "“A Bowl of Vegetables With Someone You Love”: Faith, Health and Workplace Well-Being." American Journal of Health Promotion 35, no. 7 (July 12, 2021): 893–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08901171211030141.
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Worksite health and well-being initiatives will ideally be integrated with employers’ efforts to address diversity, equity and inclusion issues. Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) include race, class, community health, income and other variables that companies can play a role in ameliorating. As much as spirituality is commonly espoused as a component of a holistic approach to health promotion, making space to discuss faith and health remains an uncommon strategy in the workplace wellness movement. Recognizing the value on investment (VOI) in wellness has eclipsed a return on investment as a driver of an employer’s well-being strategy. This editorial argues that making space for learning about faith and health will intersect in vital ways with anti-racism work, diversity programs and similar efforts to eliminate health inequities, address SDOH and bolster the VOI of worksite well-being initiatives. A fictional dialogue between executives is used to review these issues and related literature.
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Wekenborg, Magdalena Katharina, Katharina Förster, Florian Schweden, Robin Weidemann, Felix von Bechtolsheim, Clemens Kirschbaum, Jürgen Weitz, and Beate Ditzen. "Differences in Physicians’ Ratings of Work Stressors and Resources Associated With Digital Transformation: Cross-Sectional Study." Journal of Medical Internet Research 26 (June 17, 2024): e49581. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/49581.
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Background The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the need and implementation of digital innovations, especially in medicine. Objective To gain a better understanding of the stress associated with digital transformation in physicians, this study aims to identify working conditions that are stress relevant for physicians and differ in dependence on digital transformation. In addition, we examined the potential role of individual characteristics (ie, age, gender, and actual implementation of a digital innovation within the last 3 years) in digitalization-associated differences in these working conditions. Methods Cross-sectional web-based questionnaire data of 268 physicians (mean age 40.9, SD 12.3 y; n=150, 56% women) in Germany were analyzed. Physicians rated their chronic stress level and 11 relevant working conditions (ie, work stressors such as time pressure and work resources such as influence on sequence) both before and after either a fictional or real implementation of a relevant digital transformation at their workplace. In addition, a subsample of individuals (60; n=33, 55% women) submitted self-collected hair samples for cortisol analysis. Results The stress relevance of the selected working conditions was confirmed by significant correlations with self-rated chronic stress and hair cortisol levels (hair F) within the sample, all of them in the expected direction (P values between .01 and <.001). Multilevel modeling revealed significant differences associated with digital transformation in the rating of 8 (73%) out of 11 working conditions. More precisely, digital transformation was associated with potentially stress-enhancing effects in 6 working conditions (ie, influence on procedures and complexity of tasks) and stress-reducing effects in 2 other working conditions (ie, perceived workload and time pressure). Younger individuals, women, and individuals whose workplaces have implemented digital innovations tended to perceive digitalization-related differences in working conditions as rather stress-reducing. Conclusions Our study lays the foundation for future hypothesis-based longitudinal research by identifying those working conditions that are stress relevant for physicians and prone to differ as a function of digital transformation and individual characteristics.
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Li, Hanxi, Honggang Liu, and Dilin Liu. "Gender/power relationships in fictional conflict talk at the workplace: Analyzing television dramatic dialogue in The Newsroom." Journal of Pragmatics 187 (January 2022): 58–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.030.
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Saltmarsh, Sue, and Holly Randell-Moon. "Work, Life, and Im/balance: Policies, Practices and Performativities of Academic Well-being." Somatechnics 4, no. 2 (September 2014): 236–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/soma.2014.0130.
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Work-life balance policies have become a ubiquitous feature of university strategies for formally recognising that employees have personal interests, ties and obligations beyond those of the workplace. However, rationales for work-life balance policies and programs in Australian universities predominantly link personal health, well-being and family responsibilities to imperatives for a more productive and competitive tertiary sector. In this paper, we call for an encounter between work-life balance policies, everyday organisational practices and the performativities of academic subjects. Informed by poststructuralist theories of institutionality, governmentality and subjectivity, we draw on personal and policy narratives to argue that ‘well-being’ is a construct through which the risky humanity of academic subjects is not only managed, but also appropriated into normative discourses of obligatory productivity and self-governance. Informed by Sara Ahmed's recent work on the cultural politics of emotion and in particular, what she terms the obligation or ‘duty to happiness’, we consider how academic performativities are implicated in discursive fictions that equate work-life balance with personal and organisational well-being.
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Burgess, John, and Julia Connell. "New technology and work: Exploring the challenges." Economic and Labour Relations Review 31, no. 3 (August 8, 2020): 310–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1035304620944296.
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Investigations into new technologies, employment and working conditions are timeless and consequently have occupied research, public policy, and popular fiction for centuries. However, in addition to the uncertainty created by the introduction of new technologies, the current coronavirus pandemic, with its associated impact on health and the economy, has led to increased volatility across the globe. The global medical crisis arising from the worldwide spread of COVID-19 is predicted to lead to a global economic crisis and subsequent deep depression. The resultant economic, social and political repercussions are likely to be felt for years or even decades to come, equalling the great depression of the last century. Consequently, it is difficult to make long-term accurate predictions about the impact of new technologies on industry, society, and labour. In this context, the aim of this introductory article to the themed volume is to consider the potential challenges and opportunities associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and potential impacts on work and workplaces. This introductory article comprises an international collection of research that examines the impact of technological change on employment and working conditions with consideration given to the additional impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. JEL Codes: O14, O33
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Liao, Tony. "Future directions for mobile augmented reality research: Understanding relationships between augmented reality users, nonusers, content, devices, and industry." Mobile Media & Communication 7, no. 1 (September 17, 2018): 131–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050157918792438.
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As the field of mobile media studies continues to grow, researchers are focusing on new developments and trends in mobile technologies. One of these areas that has been garnering interest is mobile augmented reality (AR) technologies. While much of the earliest research in AR was primarily focused on answering computer science and engineering related questions, social science and humanities scholars have started taking note of AR as perhaps the next major development in mobile media. Given that much of this research has been distributed across interdisciplinary lines and from many different theoretical perspectives, this piece identifies some early lines of media, communication, and social science research into AR and identifies key themes and areas of focus: AR users/nonusers, AR devices, AR content, and AR industry. By organizing these lines of research, this manuscript serves as a call for specific future areas of research, suggests new approaches that researchers could take to explore interrelationships between these areas, and advocates for the necessity of research that examines different levels (micro/meso/macro) of analysis within AR. The goal of this piece is to advance a framework that informs and motivates mobile scholars to consider and integrate AR into their research areas, at a moment where it is in the process of moving from science fiction to material reality, from blueprint to prototype, and from laboratory to homes, cars, workplaces, and pockets.
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McBeth, Mark K., Adam M. Brewer, and Mackenzie N. Smith. "Teaching social media and public administration: Applying four approaches to an emerging issue." Teaching Public Administration 38, no. 2 (November 20, 2019): 168–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0144739419886630.
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This article presents an approach to teaching how social media impacts the public-sector workplace. Social media creates new challenges for both public administration practitioners and teachers. Yet, the topic does not yet have wide-scale discussion in the public administration education literature. After a review of four approaches to public administration (managerial, legal, political, and ethical), we developed a fictional social media case that was administered in an email survey to a sample of 50 graduates of a Master of Public Administration (MPA) program (37 responded and completed the survey). The case involves a local government employee whose employer wants to terminate because of the employee’s use of social media following a city council meeting. The results of our survey provide insight into how administrators would deal with the situation presented in the case and leads to the development of a series of questions for faculty using the case in their classroom. Our teaching case should provoke serious classroom discussions. Our study reveals the importance of the teaching and discussion of social media in public administration courses along with identifying continuing areas of future research.
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DE NEVE, GEERT. "‘We are all sondukarar (relatives)!’: kinship and its morality in an urban industry of Tamilnadu, South India." Modern Asian Studies 42, no. 1 (January 2008): 211–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0700282x.
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AbstractThis article is concerned with the role of kinship and kin morality in contexts of work in South Asia. It focuses on the highly ambivalent nature of kin morality when mobilised outside the household and the family. Ethnographic evidence from a small-scale industry in Tamilnadu, South India, shows how employers frequently invoke the morality of kinship and caste in an attempt to secure a reliable and compliant labour force and to avoid overt class confrontation. However, employers’ efforts to promote kinship—real or fictive—and its morality in the workplace appear inadequate in the face of high labour turnover and frequently collapsing employer-worker relationships in small-scale industries. While employers’ repeated use of kin ideology succeeds in silencing the workers on the shop floor, it is much less effective in securing a stable labour force in the long run. The argument put forward here points to the limits of kin morality and questions its effectiveness in informal contexts of labour employment. The discussion sheds new light on the role of caste and kinship in recruiting, retaining and disciplining labour in India's informal economy.
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Doolani, Sanika, Luke Owens, Callen Wessels, and Fillia Makedon. "vIS: An Immersive Virtual Storytelling System for Vocational Training." Applied Sciences 10, no. 22 (November 17, 2020): 8143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10228143.
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Storytelling has been established as a proven method to effectively communicate and assist in knowledge transfer. In recent years, there has been growing interest in improving the training and learning domain by using advanced technology such as Virtual Reality (VR). However, a gap exists between storytelling and VR, and it is as yet unclear how they can be combined to form an effective system that not only maintains the level of engagement and immersion provided by VR technology but also provides the core strengths of storytelling. In this paper, we present vIS, a Vocational Immersive Storytelling system, which bridges the gap between storytelling and VR. vIS focuses on vocational training, in which users are trained on how to use a mechanical micrometer by employing a creative fictional story embedded inside a virtual manufacturing plant’s workplace. For the evaluation, a two-phase user study with 30 participants was conducted to measure the system’s effectiveness and improvements in long-term training, as well as to examine user experience against traditional methods of training—2D videos and textual manuals. The results indicate that the user’s ability to retain their training after seven days was nearly equal for vIS and the 2D video-based technique and was considerably higher than the text-based technique.
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Vivas- Peraza, Ana Cristina. "The role of women in STEM disciplines. A multimodal analysis of crowdfunding project videos for the iGEM science competition." Sociología y tecnociencia 12, no. 2 (September 11, 2022): 228–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/st.2.2022.228-251.
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The gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a matter of growing social concern: although the female presence in these disciplines has grown during the last decades, men still outnumber women (Corbett & Hill, 2015). It has been shown that this is partly because of the lack of visibility that the work of women scientists has had along history, which has led to unconscious beliefs and stereotypes about gender and professional careers, and therefore, the disinterest in science on the female side (Nimmesgern, 2016). Previous research has shown that these stereotypes are reinforced through television programs depicting fictional women characters in STEM scenarios (Steinke, 2017; Davis & Coleman, 2018), and the present study aims to explore the representation of real female and male scientists on the Internet. By applying a multimodal analysis from a social semiotic perspective, I examine how gender identities are represented in eight crowdfunding project videos of science created by undergraduate students for an international science competition, the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM). Relying on the Swalesian move-step analysis genre approach for the verbal content (Swales, 1990, 2004), and Kress and van Leeuwen’s Visual Grammar (VG) model for the visual content (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006), the analysis intends to uncover ideological purposes and meanings about gender roles within a context of scientific research. The results are compatible with previous studies that confirm that women are underrepresented in STEM, highlighting the ideologies that lead to the reinforcement of gender bias at the scientific workplace.
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Dwyer, Christopher P., Pádraig MacNeela, Hannah Durand, Laura L. O’Connor, Chris J. Main, Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Robert M. Hamm, et al. "Effects of Biopsychosocial Education on the Clinical Judgments of Medical Students and GP Trainees Regarding Future Risk of Disability in Chronic Lower Back Pain: A Randomized Control Trial." Pain Medicine 21, no. 5 (December 17, 2019): 939–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnz284.
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Abstract Background Chronic lower back pain (CLBP) is a major health care burden and often results in workplace absenteeism. It is a priority for appropriate management of CLBP to get individuals back to work as early as possible. Interventions informed by the flags approach, which integrates cognitive and behavioral approaches via identification of biopsychosocial barriers to recovery, have resulted in reduced pain-related work absences and increased return to work for individuals with CLBP. However, research indicates that physicians’ adherence to biopsychosocial guidelines is low. Objective The current study examined the effects of a flags approach–based educational intervention on clinical judgments of medical students and general practitioner (GP) trainees regarding the risk of future disability of CLBP patients. Design Randomized controlled trial (trial registration number: ISRCTN53670726). Setting University classroom. Subjects Medical students and GP trainees. Methods Using 40 fictional CLBP cases, differences in clinical judgment accuracy, weighting, and speed (experimental N = 32) were examined pre- and postintervention, as were flags approach knowledge, pain attitudes and beliefs, and empathy, in comparison with a no-intervention control group (control N = 31). Results Results revealed positive effects of the educational intervention on flags approach knowledge, pain-related attitudes and beliefs, and judgment weighting of psychologically based cues; results are discussed in light of existing theory and research. Conclusions Short flags approach–based educational video interventions on clinical judgment-making regarding the risk of future disability of CLBP patients may provide opportunities to gain biopsychosocial knowledge, overcome associated attitude barriers, and facilitate development of clinical judgment-making more aligned with psychological cues.
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Wang, Dong. "Application of VR Virtual Reality in the Course of Later Stage and Special Effect Production." International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems 2022 (August 27, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/4890768.
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Special Effect Production (SFP) is a picture or sound that is generated in television, radio, or movies to depict something genuine (such as an explosion) or fictional (such as a monster), a movie featuring stunning special effects. It is a moment when the organization or product is nearing its completion of development, referred to as late-stage. Virtual reality (VR) uses computer technology to produce interactive virtual experiences that may be watched via a head-mounted display. The ability to immerse users within a virtual environment has the potential to provide a more immersive experience than what can be achieved with a “conventional” flat screen. Some problems are pyrotechnics, prosthetic makeup, animatronics, and live-action weather elements. All the drawbacks are rectified by the method of SFP-VR computer-generated world in which the user’s activities have a small significant impact on what occurs around them; the virtual reality used to construct or get access to virtual reality. When it comes to showcasing your products, high-quality VR/AR material elevates the experience to new heights. Showing off your goods and services in this manner is a fun approach to engage customers and make purchasing a more enjoyable experience for everyone involved. Customers are able to experience the information in a more immersive and emotional way because of this. Various steps of the manufacturing process, such as original design, fabrication, and testing, were incorporated into a desktop VR demonstration application intended to show how a consumer product is made. Demonstrations of the programmer are given in detail, and user feedback is included. It is incredible how quickly virtual worlds have gained traction as a viable tool for manufacturing and other sectors of the economy. As a result, curriculum implementation refers to the teacher’s translation of the planned or formally designed course of study into syllabuses, schemes of work, and lessons for consumers. The planned adjustments are brought into life as a necessary aspect of curriculum development throughout implementation. Must evaluate and enhance VR’s potential as a specialism-free integrating medium within a concurrent engineering methodology to maximize its industrial applicability. It is possible to train in a safe, yet realistic, setting using virtual reality. In addition to providing real advantages to learners and improving the efficiency of work processes, it contributes to a safer and more productive workplace by facilitating team training.
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"Consumer & Family Information: Workplace Violence: Fact, Fiction, and Prevention." Psychiatric Services 53, no. 3 (March 2002): 261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.53.3.261.
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