Дисертації: "Culture of labor"

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Gullì, Bruno. "Labor of fire : the ontology of labor between economy and culture /." Philadelphia : Temple university press, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41323514b.

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Ho, Joycelyn J. "The Effect of Culture on Female Labor Force Partcipation." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/101.

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This article looks at the effect of culture on female labor force participation. Proxies of culture used are Globe cultural social practice dimensions, and Hofstede cultural dimensions. This article finds that globe cultural dimensions have a stronger explantory value that Hofstede cultural dimensions. It confirms that gender eglaitarianism is a predictor of female labor force participation. It also suggests that assertiveness and uncertainty avoidance are also predictors of female labor force participation.

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Wright, Angela Mary. "Reward systems and organisation culture : an analysis drawing on three perspectives of culture." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2013. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/10799/.

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the complex relationship between reward systems and organisation culture. Concepts and theory from organisational culture literature as well as an initial grounded theory exercise were used to develop the theoretical framework that underpins this study. To avoid potential bias towards a managerial-only agenda and to deepen the cultural analysis, Martin’s (2002) three perspectives of culture were used together with methodological principles drawn from Gregory (1983), Eisenhardt (1989) and the various cultural studies of Ogbonna (Ogbonna and Harris, 2002a, Ogbonna and Wilkinson, 2003). The research design is interpretivist and inductive and, as such, is different in approach from many reward studies, which are primarily positivist. The aim was to collect in-depth rich data. They are derived from 4 UK case study organisations, with data collected from both employees at all levels and managers. The data are analysed manually using principles of grounded theory (Charmaz, 2006) to draw out categories and to aid theory development. Deploying broadly cultural and sociological concepts and forms of analysis to study reward systems in the four organisations, the study reveals more nuanced interpretations in comparison with reward research purely from the employer or managerial viewpoints. Analysing sub-cultural and fragmentary cultural attributes it offers a contextualised picture of the connections between concepts that are usually thought of as distinctly different– internal and external equity, fairness, transparency, procedural and distributive justice. The results of the study indicate that the relationship between reward and culture is subtle, intricate and overlapping. They suggest reward and culture are not separate variables whose association can be measured. Rather cultural values both fine tune (drawing on Swidler, 1986) employee reactions to reward practices and the experience of reward practices also reciprocally influences and reinforces cultural values - but only to a certain extent. The nature of the service or product of the organisation feeds into the shaping of values in relation to reward, but feeder or occupational cultures are more important than either the product/service or the reward system. This thesis contributes to the reward and culture literature by applying social science cultural concepts to the analysis of reward. It also develops a fine tuning model of culture and reward. It thereby extends the sociological and cultural strand of reward research that has been underdeveloped in recent decades.

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Andriano-Moore, Stephen Albert. "The professional culture of Hollywood film sound : understanding labor politics and culture through practitioner discourse." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574611.

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Within the Hollywood film industry, sound is marginalized as the lowest status craft whose use and functions are often not considered until the last phase of filmmaking. The professional culture of Hollywood film sound is wrought with social, political and occupational misgivings as a result of sound's lower status. This thesis utilizes empirical research in an examination of the professional discourse of film sound practitioners to illuminate the issues, conditions and politics of labor that affect and form the professional culture of Hollywood film sound. Hollywood film sound practitioners critically analyze and theorize over social, occupational and political aspects of their work in email discussion groups such as the Sound Article List and the Sound Design List as well as within the professional journals of the Cinema Audio Society and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. The examination of professional discourse between Hollywood film sound practitioners reveals tension within the professional culture concerning filmmaking practices, work roles, professional identity, creative contribution, recognition and status. An in- depth case study considers the ways in which one leading practitioner, Oscar winning sound designer and re-recording mixer Randy Thorn, actively engages in discourse and activity invested in improving the marginalization of film sound and film sound practitioners. This investigation of industrial reflexive professional discourse and film sound organizations illuminates a dynamic picture of the professional culture of Hollywood film sound and how practitioners conceive and negotiate their professional identities, status within the industry and their impact on film.

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Belyak, Tatiana, and Т. О. Беляк. "Corporate culture as instrument of regulation of social and labor relations." Thesis, CUNTU, 2016. http://dspace.kntu.kr.ua/jspui/handle/123456789/5586.

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Garcia-Lorenzo, Luica. "Cultural transitions : organisational change and its impact in culture." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2001. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/120/.

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This thesis explores, from a cultural perspective, the organisational change process resulting from a string of take-overs within Blazehard, a tyre manufacturing company in Spain. It looks at the effects of these changes in the way people reconstruct the organisation and their role as its employees through the stories they share. The first part of the thesis elaborates on the uses of culture as a conceptual tool for observing organisations and, especially, on the need to account for the complementary processes of continuity and change in social experience. The thesis proposes historical recollections, as cultural manifestations, as a vehicle that reproduces and challenges a cultural order through their reproduction and generation within that order. They articulate a space where the new and the uncertain can be made safe through their integration into the traditional and the known, thereby providing possibilities for permanence and security as well as for innovation. The research combines different methods of data gathering - interviews, documents and group discussions - and of analysis - narratives and discourses to facilitate the exploration of both the commonalties and the diverse interests and perspectives existing among Blazehard employees. The exploration of the stories shows how they compose a collectively reproduced narrative that guides -and therefore constrains- employees' historical recollections. This referential narrative is the vehicle through which people reproduce but also challenge their cultural order in the organisation. As such, storytelling is presented as the constant process of reformulation that opens possibilities for individual development within the cultural constraints that the organisation imposes on its members. The results suggest when people try to make sense of a change situation both turn to their own experiential resources and use the symbols that their cultural environment provides. It is in the tension between the two, that the conditions of fluidity and ambiguity required for a cultural transition can be created.

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Veder, Robin. "How gardening pays: Leisure, labor and luxury in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623995.

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"How Gardening Pays" is a case study of the formation and transmission of cultural practices and interpretations of flower-gardening as profitable leisure, idealized labor, and luxury consumption in nineteenth-century transatlantic culture. Mid-nineteenth-century cant about American flower-gardening as an anti-materialistic and morally improving occupation was premised upon the multiple functions of flower gardening in British working-class culture. Methodologically, this dissertation is unlike most intellectual histories of the ideological significance of nature in American culture, or formal studies of the physical attributes of horticultural history, because it demonstrates how ideologies and material practices were interrelated.;The first half of this dissertation focuses on early-nineteenth-century British working-class flower gardening for profitable leisure and labor reform. British urban Protestant weavers, particularly the militant silk-weavers of Spitalfields, London, practiced floristry as an integral and profitable part of workshop culture. When artisanal floristry declined with the onset of industrialization, agricultural and industrial capitalists reinterpreted and revived flower-gardening as a rational recreation that prevented labor riots and the formation of trade unions. their efforts were often thwarted by surviving traditions of working-class floristry and the elite interest in flowers as fashionable luxuries.;These conflicting circumstances materially and ideologically shaped the development of commercial horticulture in the northeastern United States, thanks to the overwhelming number and influence of imported horticultural texts and immigrant horticulturists who promoted parlor gardening. When material practices crossed the boundaries of class, geography and gender, parlor gardening emerged as a bourgeois translation of both the techniques of artisan florists and the rhetoric of flower gardening as rational recreation.

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Civardi, Christian. "Le mouvement ouvrier écossais, 1900-1931 : travail, culture, politique /." Strasbourg : Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36982881x.

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Read, Jennifer Jen'nan. "Dressed for success : culture, class, and labor force achievement among Arab-American women /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008426.

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Browder, R. M. "Organizational Culture: How Changes Impact Attitudes Toward Job Satisfaction." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 1993. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2642.

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The purpose of the study was to examine how a shift in elements of organizational culture impacted attitudes toward job satisfaction in a medium-sized, consumer-owned electric utility over a period of 13 years. The unit of analysis was a municipal utility distributing electrical energy to approximately 27,000 customers. Data collection included the Science Research Associate Employee Inventory, a review of the organization's documents, and a subjective Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. A one-tailed z-test was performed to test whether or not the proportion of employees answering favorable in one survey was greater than the proportion answering favorable in the other survey. It was also used to analyze certain cultural changes. The elements of job satisfaction assessed were: job demands, working conditions, pay, employee benefits, friendliness and cooperation of fellow employees, supervisor/employee interpersonal relations, confidence in management, technical competence of supervision, effectiveness of administration, adequacy of communication, security of job and work relations, status and recognition, identification with the company, and opportunity for growth and advancement. Elements assessed depicting culture were attendance, safety, United Way participation and turnover. Conclusions of the study emphasized that long-term cultural aspects including attendance, safety and United Way participation may be changed positively while maintaining or improving attitudes toward certain aspects of job satisfaction. Areas of attitude improvement were pay, benefits, and effectiveness of administration. It was also concluded that employees with higher education levels and more behavioral training may have higher expectations of their supervisors.

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Beresford, Richard. "Coal, coal mining and the enterprise culture : a study of Doncaster." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/80000/.

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This study adopts an historical approach to explore the impact of coalmining on the town of Doncaster. It finds that although Doncaster was not a typical mining town nevertheless coal's impact was widespread, and extended beyond direct employment to impact on socio-political factors including the town's external image. Whilst the study explores the impact over the entire one hundred years of mining around Doncaster, the rationale and focus of the study is an assessment of the legacy of the local mining industry, and the extent to which it has inhibited the town's economic competitiveness in what is today called an enterprise economy. In this regard the study contributes to a wider understanding of the nature of change in old industrial regions as well as considering the efficacy of current regional enterprise policy. In particular the study has explored the extent to which path contingency captures the transition from growth to decline in former industrial regions, more adequately than does that of path dependency (Hudson, 2005). The key distinction drawn between the two concepts is human agency which is identified as operating at a range of decision-making levels. Analysis comes through two related case studies which show that the coal industry provided the basis for diversification in to new products and markets offering the possibility to extend the industry's lifecycle and that of towns such as Doncaster which had come to depend on it. It is shown the fact that these opportunities were not taken was due to institutional failure associated with cognitive lock-in. This rather than any specifically industry or place-based factor explains the nature of Doncaster's decline.

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Райко, Валентина Федорівна, Євгеній Олександрович Семенов та Олександр Григорович Янчик. "Культура безпеки праці та менеджмент". Thesis, НТУ "ХПІ", 2017. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/33464.

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Heyne, Stefanie [Verfasser], and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Gebel. "Culture and female labor force participation in international comparison / Stefanie Heyne ; Betreuer: Michael Gebel." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2017. http://d-nb.info/112807415X/34.

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Yang, Caroline Hyo Jung. "Reconstruction's labor : the Asian worker in narratives of U.S. culture and history, 1890-1930 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9521.

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Weber, Jeanette Fe. "CULTURE’S EFFECT ON FEMALE FERTILITY AND LABOR CHOICES IN THE UNITED STATES." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1806.

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This paper follows the methodologies of a previous study published in the American Economic Journal by Fogli and Fernandez that explores culture’s effect on second-generation American women and their work versus fertility trade-off. The difference between this paper and the previous study – used as a model – is the years of US census data used for the regressions. Fogli and Fernandez use 1970 United States census data while this study uses 2010 United States census data. As in their study, the culture proxy for work is labor force participation rates (LFP) and total fertility rates (TFR) for fertility assigned by the women's country of ancestry. Adjusting for some limitations posed by the data set, the results of this study show that the cultural proxies have significant results, though the sign of these proxies differs from the signs found in the model study. This paper also provides three extensions to the base study: insurance coverage, age at first marriage consideration, and a multiracial sample pool.

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Libby, Caitlin A. "Consuming modernity : media's role in normalizing women's labor in India and Thailand /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/15513.

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Waugh-Quasebarth, Jasper. "FINDING THE SINGING SPRUCE: CRAFT LABOR, GLOBAL FORESTS, AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS IN APPALACHIA." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/anthro_etds/38.

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Musical instrument makers in the state of West Virginia in the United States pursue “singing,” lively instruments that capture ideals of musical tone and “re-enchant” their work and lives through relationships with craft materials and the forest landscape. Suitable tonewoods that grow in the region, such as red spruce (Picea rubens), intersect with makers’ desires to craft instruments in the style of famed makers such as the C.F. Martin Company and the Gibson Company as well as provide instruments imbued with a sense of place. While the demand for and symbolic import of instruments made with local wood seems to grow, the availability of the requisite tree species is dominated by resource materialities and temporalities of large land-owners and timber producers that privilege timber harvest in short cycles that clash with the needs of musical instrument crafters. As a result, makers also look to other global forests, such as those of the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, as sources for tonewood capable of becoming a singing instrument. Employing a theoretical framework that emphasizes the relationality of human actors and nonhuman materials, I argue that the work of instrument makers is rendered meaningful in part by a co-constructive process of becoming both instrument and maker. I show how this relationship extends to the forest environment, spiritual and philosophical discourse, and transnational networks that continually re-enchant the work of musical instrument makers in a region questioning the future and sustainability of economic and environmental processes. I join efforts to explore and analyze the political ecology of musical instruments through the affective material relationships and global flows of craft materials placed in an environmental locus of local, regional, and national imaginaries and the futures and failures of capitalist modes of production. By presenting narratives collected through ethnographic apprenticeships, interviews, and archival research, I argue that these makers navigate unique approaches to the forest environment, the global exchange of sonic craft materials, and meaning of their work through the craft of musical instruments.

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Franke-Hopkins, Lori. "Transforming District Office Culture One Strategy at a Time| An Action Research Project." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626134.

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This study was an action research project using a mixed method approach. The researcher examined the current state of district office culture as well as how five interventions applied in an office setting played a part in improving the workplace climate and enhancing morale, trust, and self-efficacy among district office personnel. The interventions used for this study included changing the appearance of the office, introducing flexible scheduling, implementing training programs for personnel, updating staff at weekly meetings, and holding monthly celebratory gatherings. Methods included pre-and post-surveys, observations, and interviews. The study found that the workplace climate was positive, and that some of the interventions were welcome and perceived favorably while others were not.

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Kus, Maciej. "The Role of Religion in Determining Female Labor Force Participation Rates." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9306.

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This paper looks at macro level data to measure the influence religion has played on female labor force participation (FLFP) rates between 1980 and 2005. It also attempts to find if this influence has changed over time. It then focuses specifically on African and post-communist nations as that is where some of the major religious changes have taken place in the last few decades. There is no clear pattern of an increasing or decreasing influence of religion on FLFP rates. Rather, different religions in different parts of the world affect FLFP in different ways. Finally, this paper looks specifically at Islamic and Catholic nations to see what variables have an effect on rising FLFP rates in those countries.

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Craig, David. "A model for customer-focused culture change in the speculative house-building industry : executive summary." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3972/.

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The UK house-building industry is increasingly criticised for the quality of its products. Its business drivers are less focused on the needs of customers compared with much of the manufacturing sector. Recent surveys have revealed considerable dissatisfaction among buyers of newly built homes, particularly with the finished product and after-sales service quality. However, this cannot be viewed in isolation from the general business culture that prevails. In light of increasing calls for industry-wide changes, this research uses Westbury Homes as a typical example to examine existing practices in the industry that act as barriers to a change in culture. In determining a way forward, a review of extant change management models including Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, Balanced Scorecard and Hoshin Kanri provides new insight into the relative strengths of each and the role they can play in the formation of a holistic approach to successful customer-focused culture change. A four stage Strategy Deployment Maturity Journey for culture change is proffered that guides the deployment of policy through the introduction of i) a balanced set of headline performance measures, ii) operational performance indicators as drivers for change, iii) a participative programme for change, and iv) mechanisms for development, feedback and review of strategy. Early results indicate that implementation will lead to successful deployment of long-term objectives; specifically, a customer-focused culture that views service and product quality as contributing to future sales and profitability, instead of simply in terms of costs.

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Le, Bon Thomas. ""La civilisation du travail" : réflexions sur les rapports entre travail et culture." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040004/document.

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Cette étude se concentre sur l'analyse de l'expression « civilisation du travail » pour proposer un examen critique et normatif de la « valeur-travail ». Repartant des deux sens, scientifique et pragmatique de l'expression « civilisation du travail », le propos se divise en deux temps : il se focalise d'abord sur l'aspect scientifique, descriptif de l'expression avant d'envisager la possibilité de son emploi normatif. Dans le volet descriptif, il s'agit, d'une part, de mesurer la pertinence d'un emploi ethnographique de l'expression pour caractériser nos sociétés occidentales et, d'autre part, de présenter un portrait intellectuel et moral du travailleur moderne. Les traits de caractère spécifiques de cette figure sont ensuite l'objet d'une analyse critique qui ouvre sur le volet normatif de ce travail. Repartant des liens que la figure du travailleur tayloro-fordien entretient avec le constat d'une crise de la civilisation dans le discours philosophico-sociologique de l'entre-deux-guerres et des Trente Glorieuses, l'étude renoue avec le dilemme marxien de la libération ou de la désaliénation du travail en l'indexant à ses enjeux culturels : faut-il privilégier une réduction du temps de travail ou une transformation radicale de ses conditions d'exercice pour espérer sortir de l'impasse nihiliste ? En recomposant le débat opposant les défenseurs d'une « civilisation des loisirs » à ceux d'une « civilisation du travail », la réflexion retrouve les lignes de fracture structurant les débats sur la valeur du travail. Elle s'achève sur la défense d'un emploi normatif de l'expression « civilisation du travail »
This investigation is focussed on the analysis of the expression civilisation of labour, puttingforward a critical and normative examination of the labour theory of value. Proceeding fromthe scientific and pragmatic perspectives of the civilisation of labour, the thesis is divided intotwo parts: concentrating first of all on the scientific aspect, describing the expression, before considering the possibility of its normative use. The descriptive section is devoted toevaluating the pertinence of an ethnographic use of the expression to characterise western societies and presenting an intellectual and moral portrait of the modern worker. The specific characteristics of this figure then become the object of a critical analysis which leads into the normative section of this work. Commencing with the ties the figure of the Tayloro-Fordian worker maintains with the crisis of civilisation observed in philosophical and sociological discourse during the inter-war period and the post-war boom, the investigation revives the Marxist dilemma of the freedom or disalienation of labour by indexing it to related cultural issues: should a reduction in working hours or a radical transformation of labour conditions be favoured in the hope of escaping a nihilistic impasse? By reconstructing the debate opposing the defenders of a civilisation of leisure to those of a civilisation of labour, the examination uncovers the dividing lines structuring debates on the value of labour. The thesis is completed with the defence of a normative use of the expression civilisation of labour

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Behery, Mohamed H. "Change and culture : the balanced scorecard and the Egyptian fertilizer manufacturing sector." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2005. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2467/.

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This study aims to explore the influence of culture within the context of the Egyptian fertilizer industry, as being part of a non-Western culture, on the adoption of the BSC, as a typical Western change vehicle. Adopting a holistic and integrative approach, this relationship is examined, in terms of both process and content, and from different dimensions (the BSC, national culture, organisational culture). Within each dimension, related literature is critically reviewed to guide the discussion and frame the investigation of the link between culture and the BSC. More specifically, detailed comparisons between the BSC and other change and innovation management frameworks, such as TQM, JIT, and BPR have been made. Such comparisons serve to increase the understanding of both their common and their unique features. Several methods have been devised to conceptualize and assess culture including those, for example, by (Schwartz, 1999; Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner, 1997). Here in this study, the frame of reference developed by Geert Hofstede (1980 – 2001) is used to analyse cultural phenomena. By using multiple-case study, semi-structured interviews, and content analysis, in the spirit of action research, data was collected and analysed. This action research was proven to be of great value as a research technique and a vehicle for development and change. The main findings reveal that there are, from a general perspective, salient differences in cultural values between American culture, i.e. the contextual origin of the BSC, and Egyptian culture, i.e. the research context. These cultural defences no doubt influence the adoption of Western management practices, such as the BSC. In other words, the findings reveal that there cultural differences, diversities and contradictions within Egyptian society and organisations, despite commonalities and similarities at the macro level.

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Watters, Aurora. "Good soldiers and good actors : the influence of motivation and culture on the outcomes of organisational citizenship behaviours." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27964/.

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Past research on organisational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) has often prescribed to a number of preconceived assumptions predominately focused on the positive aspects of OCB performance. Using a sequential mixed-method approach, this thesis tests some of these assumptions considering whether researchers, organisations and other stakeholder should subscribe to the notion that OCBs are always positive. Specifically the thesis examines how OCBs are conceptualised by the employees who experience them in their organisational lives and the extent that culture plays in performance and outcomes of OCB. Study one interviewed five British and five Asian participants on their experiences and conceptualisation of OCBs. The interviews were analysed using the Grounded Theory approach which allowed two main theories to emerge from the data. Firstly, congruence or incongruence of employee and supervisor perceptions of OCB as in or extra role effects the motivation, performance and outcomes. Secondly, employees perform impression management motivated OCBs to facilitate the obtainment of their goals. In addition, cultural differences between the responses of the British and Asian participants were found, suggesting a more complex cultural relationship. Based on these findings, the second study presented OCB and impression management scenarios to 64 British participants and 70 Indonesian participants. The results of this study found that participants were able to distinguish between OCB and impression management behaviours. In addition, the perception of these behaviours as OCB or impression management affected the outcome of the behaviours. British participants' ratings of the effect of OCB and impression management behaviours were found to be more distinct than their Indonesian counterparts, suggesting that Indonesian employees may be more accepting of their co-workers performance of impression management behaviours. The final study examined the relationship between OCB motives, performance and outcomes of OCB performance by 141 Indonesian employees. Results showed that prosocial motives predicted the performance of affiliative and challenging behaviours; however other OCB motives did not predict OCB performance. In addition, affiliative and challenging behaviours predicted positive outcomes for employees, while compulsory citizenship behaviours were associated with negative outcomes. Collectivists and individualists were found to react in converse manners to the performance of affiliative and challenging behaviours. The findings of this thesis found some support for the basic assumptions of OCBs; however, the findings also found contradictions to the assumptions, as well as identifying cultural differences in the conceptualisation, performance and outcomes to OCB performance.

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Freemole, Dylan Hogan. "Leisure and Labor in New Orleans' "Number One Factory": Work, Culture, and the Political Economy of Tourism." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/136.

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As the symbolic and functional heart of the New Orleans tourism industry, the French Quarter has been described as the city's "number one factory". Using this evocative image as a starting point, this paper explores workaday life within this factory. I argue that the political economy of tourism brings together the world of work and the world of leisure in such a way that neither can be meaningfully understood apart from each other. To get at this point, I examine the commodity which at the heart of the tourist economy, which, I contend, is the touristic experience. Drawing on data gleaned from interviews, participant observation, and analysis of tourist discourse, I show that the production of this commodity – immaterial as it may appear – is in fact quite labor intensive. Furthermore, as tourism has become the driving sector of the New Orleans economy, the social and economic arrangements that the industry entails have extended out from the factory, integrating a broader swath of the city's geography into its structure than is generally supposed.

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Chika-James, Theresa. "Implications of organisation-host community relationship on organisational culture management : the case of a Nigerian oil and gas company." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/98449/.

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Business practitioners, policy makers and the media have been engaged in ongoing discussions and practical initiatives towards organisational culture management. This is in spite of the range of complexities that academics have identified relating to the viability of managing organisational culture. Previous academic studies on organisational culture management, in view of these complexities, have focused mainly on analysing internal factors and intricacies in the process of culture management. This has resulted in culture change or stability outcomes. In addition, most of these studies based their analyses within Western organisational context with very few studies on organisational culture management in developing economies, especially in Africa. This thesis extends the literature on organisational culture management with a focus on analysing the influence of an external factor on attempts towards managing organisational culture. Using a single case study approach, the study analyses an overlooked research context of an African organisation, exploring the relationship context between a Nigerian oil and gas company (undergoing a culture management at the time of the study) and its host communities (external factor) in the Niger Delta region. The study draws on Perrault et al. (2011) stakeholder tetrad as a stakeholder theoretical lens to analyse host community stakeholders and their relationship with the case organisation. It then examines the implications of this relationship context towards attempts to manage an ethical culture in the organisation. The findings, drawn from a qualitative research (2014-2016), indicate that organisational-external environment context, with strong ties on power and exchange relationships, would influence attempts of executives to manage organisational culture that is alien to ambient society. The study offers contributions to knowledge on organisational culture management by introducing a stakeholder theoretical lens to explore external and internal stakeholders of organisations in order to evaluate the implications of internal-external relationship on culture management. The study also contributes to stakeholder management studies by developing Perrault et al. (2011) stakeholder tetrad, particularly the stakeholder tactic construct; and contributes to African management and organisation studies by highlighting the aspect of adaptation relationship practices, a combination of international and local expectations and cultures. Further theoretical and practical contributions and implications of this study are discussed in the concluding chapter.

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Malackany, Paul R. "On the Culinary High Seas: Coworkers, Aesthetics and Culture in Service Work." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1292534760.

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McKenzie-Mills, Marie. "Developing a community of practice for trainers : towards a culture of conscience in clinical research." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3171/.

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This developmental research study concerned how trainers, drawn mainly from the commercial (pharmaceutical) sector of the field of clinical research, shared understandings of practice in a professionally localised community, as part of their continuing professional development. Trainers in this community had a heterogeneous range of identities including full-time and part-time trainers: clinical research trainers, training managers; clinical research managers, clinical research associates, compliance managers, auditors and others. The main aim was to explain conditions shaping this community and its concept of practice. The study involved observing practice from an interlocutory position, using Cultural- Historical Activity Theory (CHAT), to reveal the cultural complexity of the concept of practice within this community. Two competing rationalities, expressed within contrasting pedagogies with associated cultural standards of compliance or conscience, were established for training:- • as a restricted technical function focussed on the transmissive delivery of content, or • as an expansive approach to organisational learning focussed on deliberative enquiry. These competing rationalities reflected the struggle of an emergent profession to establish autonomy of standards, with implications for the field of practice and wider society: establishing the moral order through a culture of conscience, based on standards of excellence or because a system of regulatory governance dominates the drive to uphold standards through a culture of compliance. A conceptual-analytical framework, substantiated by empirical evidence, was proposed to describe and analyse the concept of practice embodied in the community’s object of activity. Through demonstrating CHAT at the level of declarative conceptions, procedural models, and social discourses/interactions, a link was established between the dominant concept of practice (expressed within a transmissive pedagogy) in the community and the larger sociocultural context (compliance culture rooted in the system of regulatory governance). The contribution of this study is to show how CHAT can be applied with theoretically formulated and empirically tested evaluative tools, to reveal the richness of human experience and the complexity of human activity in terms of its cognitive and cooperative social elements, identified as objective regularities unique to the activity system under investigation.

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Hatmi, Habiba Al. "Business relationships : a cross-culture management investigation in the UAE construction industry." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2012. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6179/.

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Recently, the UAB has witnessed an increase of foreign direct investments in the construction industry sector and where people from distinct national cultures are confronted with unfamiliar interaction patterns and communication styles, different business goals and logic, all of which may be difficult to deal with or interpret. In the present scenario, effective cross-cultural management has become essential for the success of business relationships. The existing literature is mainly concerned with relationships involving parties within single cultural domains and lacks conceptualization beyond borders. Although a lot of scholars have produced numerous valuable works on cross-cultural management, communication, and marketing, they seem to agree that most of the studies have been western-oriented or mostly produced and generally validated according to the western or rather the American standards. Others (Hofstede 1980; Laurent 1986; Jackson 1995; Alpander and Carter 1995 and Evans et a1.l995) seem to agree that the implementation of management development activities or the evaluation of existing activities, in different cultures must be undertaken with an understanding of the underlying traditions and values of that culture. The failure to take national differences between countries into account has been the cause of many business failures (Ricks, 1993). As a result, there is a dearth of research in cross-cultural communication, management and marketing in the Arab world in general, and the U.A.E in particular and there are areas that have not been covered by the scholars at all. Therefore, this study assesses client-contractor relationships. It also intends to investigate the issues of cross-cultural management in the construction industry. A mixed approach (qualitative inquiry and quantitative survey) was carried out in the construction industry. Due to the nature of this research topic and as previous qualitative research carried out in Arab countries (Hill et al, 1998), this one has its challenges. Moreover, as the researcher is a woman from the UAE, she is expected to overcome barriers of research access to construction companies and senior managers, dominated by male gender. The study has made some important contributions. No doubt, it has added to the exiting knowledge culture in business relationships and filling the gap of cross- cultural and communication relationship within one industry. Therefore, a conceptual framework to understand these relationships was developed and tested. Moreover, the study provides very useful information on the national UAE working women.

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Hekman, David R. "Contingencies between organizational identification and professional employee performance /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8802.

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Otomo, Junko. "Culture versus organization, toward the formation of a multi-skilled and self-managed labor force at Honda de Mexico." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ37606.pdf.

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Sovannary, Tuot Pimpawan Boonmongkon. "Passion, pleasure and danger : the study of sexual culture of male seasonal migrant workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd388/4737912.pdf.

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Metle, Mesha'l Khamees M. M. "The influence of traditional culture and demographic characteristics on job satisfaction among Kuwaiti women employees in the Kuwaiti banking sector." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2473/.

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This study explores the relationship between some demographic characteristics and job satisfaction among Kuwaiti women employees in the Kuwaiti private banking sector. The analysis is focused on the responses of the female employees to their own jobs as indicated by their level of job satisfaction. Specifically, the research involved a stratified sample of the Kuwaiti women employees in the whole private banking sector in Kuwait. This study differs from previous investigations of job satisfaction in three principal ways: in dealing with the private sector (rather than the more common public sector in studies of the Middle East), in incorporating the environment as well as traditional culture, in taking into account demographic variables such as age, education, family status (i.e., marital status, number of children, children's ages, and presence of servants at the household) in the private sector work setting. The thesis builds on a large body of earlier work on job satisfaction, using well developed concepts in a new context. In relation to previous work in this area, this study clearly builds upon the evolving demographic, environmental approach to work. Recent research in job satisfaction has focused on job redesign or on job characteristics such as task variety, job autonomy and so forth as the primary means of increasing job satisfaction. The major findings of this research indicate that a much broader approach towards increasing satisfaction than focusing on the job itself is required. The thesis shows that traditional culture, as well as the respondents' demographic characteristics is of substantial importance in predicting and affecting job satisfaction. Indeed traditional culture explains much of the variance in job satisfaction through affecting the perceptions of the employees toward their work.

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Kennedy, Jason R. "Terminal Ubaid ceramics at Yenice Yani implications for terminal Ubaid organization of labor and commensality /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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McClanahan, Bill. "Capturing Appalachia : visualizing coal, culture, and ecology." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20823/.

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Capturing Appalachia: Visualizing Coal, Culture and Ecology, draws on extensive ethnographic, archival, and ecographic research conducted across Appalachia between 2014-2016 to develop an empirically informed sociological image of the interactions between culture, geography, and industry. Of particular interest are the ways that extractive cultures in Appalachia are constructed and communicated, and so the project includes archival work researching historical images as well as fieldwork focused on the production of images. Drawing on the traditions of cultural and ‘green’ criminologies, geography, and critical ecotheory, concluding that the cultural, political, and ecological worlds of Appalachia exist in a dialectical relationship with one another, and that at the center of each is an intense cultural relationship with the region’s historic and contemporary capture (cultural, economic, and ecological) by resource extraction. These dialectical relationships are made clear in the visuality of Appalachia, with paradigms frequently challenged by the production of countervisual narratives in productions spanning photography, literature, cinema, and media. The project constitutes the first extensive empirical application of the suggestions of an emergent green-cultural criminology. This research contributes significantly to the existing theoretical literature on extractive cultures through the development and application of the concept of ‘capture’, which is employed in throughout and which constitutes a central concept the project. The concept of ‘regulatory capture’ informs much of the existing sociological literature on harmful industry. Expanding on the concept of ‘capture’, I consider the capture of Appalachian economies by a single industry (economic capture), the capture of cultural production by the dominant industry (cultural capture), the legal capture of material landscapes by industry (ecological capture), the visual-mechanical capture of images of ecology and culture (photographic capture), and finally, the capture of ecology and people by an emerging industry of incarceration (carceral capture).

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Bar-Yoseph, Benjamin A. "Ideology, culture change, and management patterns in the Israeli Kibbutz." Thesis, City, University of London, 1997. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/19947/.

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This thesis addresses the problem of the cultural change in the Israeli Kibbutz, its relevance to the Kibbutz ideology and its implication on Management patterns in the Kibbutz. The thesis is based on four hypotheses. Two of the hypotheses address the cultural changes and two address the changes in management patterns. The cultural change is hypothesised by assuming a change in life style and a change in the attitude to work as a value. The change in management patterns is hypothesised by assuming a change, at a policy level, of resource allocation and a change in the decision making process. The research includes several stages: • A literature research which established the historic cultural and ideological roots of the Kibbutz movement. • A collection of general statistics of the Kibbutz movement. • Five case studies - An in depth analysis of five individual Kibbutzim. A model of the Kibbutz values and principles is developed and used in analysing the changes in values and principles in the Kibbutz. The outcome of the research reveals that the Kibbutz is changing from an ideology based commune, which prefers values over matter and is ready to sacrifice individual freedom for the ideals, to a more bureaucratic organisation alming for profits that prefers individual freedom on equality and communality. The Kibbutz movement is turning from an agrarian closed system to a technically advanced community with open economy and culture. The research outcomes enhance Bertalaruy's claim that a culture within a culture has to change in order to survive. It also demonstrates that a cultural change is an incremental change. What seems to be a radical change is an aggregate result of several incremental changes. It is suggested that a radical change can not be implemented successfully in an organisation unless broken to incremental changes.

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Jarrett, Mindy M. "“Drinking” about the Past: Bar Culture in Antebellum New Orleans." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2563.

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Women in antebellum New Orleans have often been memorialized as Voudou queens, slave-torturers who continue to haunt houses, prostitutes, and light-skinned concubines to wealthy, white men. This study focuses on women’s contribution to New Orleans’s economy through the hospitality industry as female bar owners from 1830-1861. In addition, it provides an overview of the role that alcohol and beverage consumption patterns played among men and women of all races, classes, and cultural backgrounds in antebellum New Orleans. Antebellum tourists, in addition to cotton and sugar, were an important source of income for many New Orleanians before the Civil War. As bar owners, these women profited from male-dominated spaces while providing for themselves, and in some cases, their families. A study of the hospitality industry in antebellum New Orleans is essential to those studying both economic and social histories of the city during the antebellum era.

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Revill, George Edwin. "Paternalism, community and corporate culture : a study of the Derby headquarters of the Midland Railway Company and its workforce, 1840-1900." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1989. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6748.

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This thesis focuses on Litchurch, the railway suburb of Derby, the headquarters of the Midland Railway Company and its workforce, during the period 1840-1900, It examines the consequences of factory paternalism and company loyalty for the construction of 'community', exploring the connections between work, family, and wider social and political life. It begins by looking at Derby as a county town where an early alliance between Whigs and Liberals resulted in the political dominance of the town by a group of Liberal-radical textile manufacturers as a form of extended factory village. There is then a discussion of railway paternalism which investigates the many differences between the family firm and the corporate railway company. The relationship between the railways and the state is examined, through the twin theorization of the railway within the state-intrinsic to national integrity and as a state in microcosm- a form of space management derived from military and civil government. The role of Derby as headquarters of the M.R.is then considered: its decision making and service function; the technological mix of productive techniques; and the distinctive relationship between public and private space. A model of company loyalty based on the experience of the physical and organizational space of the railway company is developed through the notions of the career and the appropriation to the self of organisational space, the 'bailiwick'. The spatial and social structure of Litchurch is examined and its marriage and residence patterns. In the discussion of social institutions, churches, recreation and self-help, the tensions are explored between vertical integration and horizontal stratification which are intrinsic to corporate culture. The extent and limits of collective action in terms of local and national consciousness are then considered. A model of community is then proposed, founded on the routine practices of everyday life, which recognises the multiplicity of motivations and experiences subsumed within the symbolic affirmations of collective solidarity. It concludes with an examination of the antagonism between the county town of Derby, with its history and expectations of paternal intervention, and the corporate Midland Railway 1 which was economically, socially and politically independent of local systems.

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Weaver, Brendan J. M. "Para beneficiar la plata: labor, role, and status in a silver refinery during the First century of spanish imperialism in the town of Porco." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113639.

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Before the Spanish conquest, the town of Porco, in the Department of Potosí in modern-day Bolivia, was the site of one of the most important Inca mining projects. During the viceregal period it became the focus of the first Spanish silver mining operations of the in the Andes. This region offers an excellent opportunity for historical archeology to ask questions about the relationship between the states that organized such mining projects and the workers who exploited the ore. Such an undertaking grants us a better understanding of the dynamics that had a profound impact on the origins of the modern Andean economy. This article presents ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence in order to discuss the organization of colonial labor categories, and the development of the changing social roles and status of skilled workers associated with the south-central Andean mining industry. In doing so, I trace the regional transitions in labor from the Inca to Spanish empires. Excavations at the colonial site of Ferro Ingenio, a silver refinery in the San Juan Valley, southwest of the village of Porco, shed new light on labor in the first century of Spanish colonialism and how skilled indigenous workers negotiated their positions within colonial society.
Antes de la conquista española, el pueblo de Porco, en el departamento de Potosí, Bolivia, fue uno de los asientos mineros más importante de los incas. Durante el virreinato, fue el foco de las primeras operaciones de minería de plata española en los Andes. Esta región ofrece una excelente oportunidad para que la arqueología histórica plantee preguntas acerca de la relación entre los estados que organizaban dichos proyectos mineros y los trabajadores que explotaban el mineral, que nos ayuden a entender esa dinámica que tuvo un profundo impacto en los orígenes de la economía andina moderna. Este artículo presenta evidencia arqueológica y etnohistórica para examinar la organización de ciertas categorías laborales coloniales, y el desarrollo de los papeles y posiciones sociales de trabajadores asociados a la industria minera andina sur-central para trazar la transición de la mano de obra en la región del imperio de los incas al de los españoles. Las excavaciones en el sitio colonial de Ferro Ingenio, una refinería de plata en el valle de San Juan, al sudoeste del pueblo de Porco, arrojan nuevas luces sobre el tema de la mano de obra en el primer siglo de colonialismo español y de cómo los trabajadores calificados negociaban sus propias posiciones en la sociedad colonial.

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Chen, Victor Tan. "Meritless: Unemployed Autoworkers, the Social Safety Net, and the Culture of Meritocracy in America and Canada." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10400.

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This study examines the worsening position of jobless blue-collar workers in an increasingly meritocratic economy, and uses an innovative crossnational comparative approach to gauge how much the social safety net improves their well-being. I take pairs of unemployed autoworkers who did the same job in the same or similar firms—with the only difference being the country they live in—and compare their outcomes to measure policy effects. My analysis is based on in-depth interviews with seventy-one former autoworkers (divided among American and Canadian workers, and Detroit Three and parts factories) and thirty-six industry and community experts in Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two metropolitan areas right across the river from one another. It also draws from ethnographic observation within households and the larger Detroit and Windsor areas, which allowed me to put my interviews in context and assemble a rich narrative portrait of unemployment and economic distress. Whereas one school of thought stresses the powerlessness of government in the face of globalization and related economic shifts, and another tends to see an expanded welfare state as a panacea for social ills, I stake out a view somewhere in the middle, arguing that the stronger supports in Canada help unemployed workers cope better with job retraining challenges, health problems, financial difficulties, and fragile family structures, but are limited in their ability to overcome relative inequalities: large gaps in education, family stability, and resources that exist between blue-collar workers and other segments of the labor force. I offer a theoretical and historical framework for understanding the evolution of the labor market and its consequences for less-educated workers, conceiving of the current iteration of capitalism as meritocratic in its focus on human capital as the just arbiter of status, and differentiating this meritocratic orientation from other egalitarian and fraternal approaches to policy and morality in past historical periods. Finally, I examine the meritocratic ideology that blunts political responses to rising inequality, finding that such views, long associated with white-collar professionals, have come to affect the thinking of even unionized blue-collar workers.
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Copley, Alexandra. "Transmigrants weaving a new American landscape /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1218551523.

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Jardim, Fabiana Augusta Alves. "Entre o desalento e a invenção: experiências de desemprego em Sào Paulo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2004. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-01092006-162820/.

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Esta dissertação tem como tema o desemprego oculto pelo desalento, procurando, a partir da análise das histórias de trabalho de pessoas que experimentaram a situação de desemprego por desalento, refletir sobre questões ligadas à cultura do trabalho, à cultura do emprego e ao enraizamento. O trabalho tem como ponto de partida uma breve reflexão sobre as diferentes maneiras de medir o desemprego e segue apresentando e analisando sete trajetórias de trabalho um homem adulto, duas mulheres adultas e quatro jovens. A análise das trajetórias permite recolher vários elementos que iluminam os valores e as práticas associadas às culturas do trabalho e do emprego, bem como ensinam sobre os limites e as possibilidades de reinvenção das relações com o trabalho quando se tem como referência a vida cotidiana dos indivíduos. Finalmente, conclui-se que o desemprego por desalento pode estar significando sociologicamente a dificuldade experimentada pelos indivíduos para interpretar, na esfera privada, o significado e o sentido das rápidas mudanças que têm lugar no mundo do trabalho.
This dissertation deals with the universe of the discouraged unemployed, reflecting on the issue of a culture of work, a culture of employment and the question of embededness. The exposition begins with a brief consideration about the different ways of measuring the phenomenon of unemployment and follows on introducing seven histories of work an adult male, two adult female and four young people. The examination of these histories allows us to collect several elements which serve to illuminate the values and practices that are related to work and employment cultures. Also, they can instruct us about the limits and the possibilities that are given at the present time for us to reinvent the terms with regard to work, having as reference individuals everyday life. At last, we come to the conclusion that discouraged unemployed can mean, in sociological terms, the uneasy experience of understanding within the private sphere the sense of all those fast changes that are happening on labors world.

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Ray, Mary Elizabeth. "THE DIGITALIZATION OF MUSIC CULTURE: A CASE STUDY EXAMINING THE MUSICIAN/LISTENER RELATIONSHIP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/174630.

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This dissertation explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing nature of the relationship between artists and audiences new technology has engendered. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis, this case study explores the contemporary artist-audience relationship. This study demonstrates that digital technology impacts the relationship by making it closer and more multidimensional. This is intensified by the fact that everyone is participating; the audience and artist actively engage each other. The omnipresence of music culture combined with the omnipresence of technology is particularly salient. Media consumers are simultaneously engaged with music through technology, and technology through music and this happens on many different levels. Taken as a whole, artist and audience's musical lives are fragmented as they occur in multiple online and offline places, at multiple times, and are continuous. They create, download, stream, listen, share, burn, and build upon content while engaging in multiple personal and social practices. And, in the process, they experience rich meaning making attached to particular life events, people, places, and times. Engagement in a music community is not just listening to music, or consuming music, but participating in a culture. The nature of contemporary music culture is best characterized by community and as such, this dissertation argues we might better think of the audience as accomplices to the artist.
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Wu, Tongyu. "Brogrammers, Tech Hobbyists, and Coding Peasants: Surveillance, Fun, and Productivity in High Tech." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23717.

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This project is based on an ethnography of Trifecta Tech (pseudonym) a major high-tech firm on the West coast of the U.S. Although a growing group of organizational theorists started investigating high-tech firms’ organizational model and management mechanisms, they are still limited by their neglect of two latest trends in the high-tech industry: the rejuvenation of the workforce through disproportionally recruiting young college-educated men and the masculinization of the organizational culture. Drawing on 46 in-depth interviews and 11 months of participant observation, this study argues that these two latest dynamics result in some significant organizational processes that have not been examined before, including the gamification of the workplace; the promotion of “playful” organizational culture that attempts to blur boundaries between work and off-work activities; and the reinforcement of masculinized racial hierarchy to facilitate managers’ division of labor.

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Sandell-Gandara, Alejandro. "Entrepreneurial Spirit and Immigrant Self-employment." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2055.

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This paper investigates the effect of entrepreneurial spirit on immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States. Entrepreneurial spirit refers to attitudes and perceptions towards entrepreneurship, or general self-employment. I address the home country self-employment hypothesis and examine the effect of home country self-employment rates on immigrant self-employment outcomes. I find a negative effect of home country self-employment rates on immigrant self-employment rates and thus, reject the home country self-employment hypothesis. I argue that home country self-employment rates over-estimate entrepreneurial spirit because they are largely driven by the world’s poorest people who are less likely emigrate to the U.S. I address this issue by using immigrants’ home country’s Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) as a measure of immigrant entrepreneurial spirit. I find that the GEI has a positive effect on immigrant self-employment rates, and provide evidence that entrepreneurial spirit has a positive effect on immigrant entrepreneurship in the U.S.

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Castro, Beatriz Leite Gustmann de. "Trabalho e fluxos migratórios: elementos da interculturalidade no contexto organizacional a partir da inserção de haitianos." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2018. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/3254.

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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
A presente dissertação tem como objetivo principal, analisar elementos da interculturalidade no contexto organizacional a partir da inserção de trabalhadores haitianos, em diferentes organizações de Pato Branco – PR. Para tanto, realizou-se uma pesquisa de caráter exploratório, descritiva, com abordagem qualitativa. A amostra do estudo foi composta por 11 entrevistados com vínculo em organizações de segmentos diversos que contrataram trabalhadores haitianos. A primeira etapa da coleta de dados ocorreu por meio de documentos e relatórios oficiais disponibilizados por órgãos como o Ministério do Trabalho, Polícia Federal, Observatório das Migrações. Posteriormente, foram realizadas entrevistas e grupo focal, utilizando-se um roteiro semiestruturado com perguntas abertas. Para a análise qualitativa dos dados, empregou-se o método de análise de conteúdo (BARDIN, 2016). As categorias de análise a priori definidas foram: Trocas entre diferentes culturas; interação entre culturas, alteridade, diferença e identidade. Os resultados a partir das categorias analíticas evidenciam que relativo as trocas entre culturas, o ambiente organizacional é impermeável, ou seja, a cultura nacional é predominante. Quanto a interação entre culturas, os resultados evidenciaram para a existência de barreira linguística refletindo no desempenho do trabalho, segregação, bem como na dificuldade de interação. Ainda, há ausência de mobilização para estimular o convívio que fomente a proximidade entre nativos e migrantes. Em relação a alteridade verificou-se a ausência, ou seja, não há práticas que contemple a valorização das diferenças existentes. A disparidade salarial e de competências técnicas também revelou-se como uma barreira ao crescimento e reconhecimento profissional. Na categoria diferença, identificou-se que a comunicação é um desafio na gestão intercultural, pois há dificuldade de estabelecer diálogos, em virtude, da falta de conhecimento da língua portuguesa. A constatação relativo a identidade revelam que os discursos institucionais priorizam relações democráticas, ao qual todos possuem oportunidades e direitos igualitários, todavia, as ações não ocorrem na prática. Conclui-se que as organizações precisam investir na preparação de equipes que acolham trabalhadores migrantes, principalmente, no que tange as políticas e práticas de comunicação, uma vez que se percebeu o distanciamento provocado as limitações da linguagem. Faz-se necessária a melhoria da leitura do cenário organizacional, bem como a superação de preconceitos existentes nas culturas organizacionais e as formas etnocêntrica de perceber as relações entre trabalho e pessoas. Assim, é importante o desenvolvimento de políticas e estratégias que possibilitem ações para a integração efetiva do trabalhador migrante, e a promoção da interação cultural.
The present dissertation has as its main objective, to analyze elements of interculturality in the organizational context from the insertion of Haitian workers, in different organizations of Pato Branco - PR. For that, it was made a research which was exploratory, descriptive and with a qualitative approach. The sample of the study was composed by 11 interviewees who were bonded to organizations of diverse segments that hired Haitian workers. The first stage of data collection was carried out through official documents and reports available by agencies such as Ministry of Labor, Federal Police, Migration Observatory. Subsequently, interviews and focus group were conducted, using a semi-structured script with open questions. For the qualitative analysis of the data, the content analysis method was used (BARDIN, 2016). The categories of analysis defined in the first place were: Exchanges between different cultures; interaction between cultures, alterity, difference and identity. The results from the analytical categories show that in relation to the exchanges between cultures, the organizational environment is impermeable, that is, the national culture is predominant. Regarding the interaction between cultures, the results evidenced for the existence of a linguistic barrier reflecting in the work performance, segregation, as well as in the difficulty of interaction. Still, there is no mobilization to stimulate interaction that encourage the proximity between natives and migrants. In relation to alterity, the absence was verified, that is, there are no practices that contemplate the appreciation of the existing differences. The pay and technical skills gap also proved to be a barrier to growth and professional recognition. In the difference category, it was identified that communication is a challenge in intercultural management, because it is difficult to establish dialogues, due to lack of knowledge of the Portuguese language. The findings about identity reveal that institutional discourses prioritize democratic relations, to which all have equal opportunities and rights, however, these actions do not occur in practice. It is concluded that organizations need to invest in the preparation of teams that accommodate migrant workers, especially in terms of policies and communication practices, once it was noticed the distance caused by language limitations. It is necessary to improve the reading of the organizational scenario, as well as overcoming existing prejudices in organizational cultures and ethnocentric ways of perceiving the relationships between work and people. Thus, it is important to develop policies and strategies that enable actions for the effective integration of the migrant worker, and the promotion of cultural interaction.

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Johnson, David. "Business Process Outsourcing: An Exploratory Study." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/283.

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This study examines the emergence of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in white collar occupations. Recent BPO practices are compared to the offshore outsourcing of production in the context of the shift from Fordist to flexible production. The study considers BPO in light of Harry Braverman's theory of work degradation and whether or not BPO extends the traditional division of labor between conception and execution to higher skilled white collar occupations. An exploratory qualitative approach comprised of informant interviews, a focus group, and literature review was used to analyze how BPO occurs, why it happens, and where it takes place. I discuss the role of politics and corporate culture in outsourcing white collar jobs and examine the practice of transitioning workers from client to BPO service providers. The study concludes with a skill-based typology of BPO services and suggestions for policy and future research.

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Albornoz, Rodrigo Nicolas. "Purification : Research & Exhibition." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6738.

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In recent years I have been working on topics related to Post-colonialism in South America, as well as the conditions of immigrants in Europe. The main interest of my work involves questions about my roots and personal stories of migration. This situation has been the engine of my art for the last ten years. Through my installations, I have tried to express or represent some certain facts, that have marked the post-colonial situation in Latin America and Europe over the last years. The slavery and exploitation of illegal labor are common working conditions for many people in South America, especially for those located in the jungles and slums. The Indigenous culture -its languages, values and traditions- have begun to disappear and been displaced by Western culture. Here in Europe, on the other hand, I feel 'alien' to the territory of my ancestors, due to the fact that my family comes from European immigrants in Argentina. Illegal labor has been also a part of my life, having experienced the condition of 'otherness' in Europe. Therefore, this project reflects upon my personal experience in relation to the unfair conditions of labor in autochthonous communities, researching the concept of 'otherness' taken from Post-colonial theories. It is for this purpose, that my methodologies include self-reflection, parallelism and metaphor. One of my purposes is toreveal those 'fake stories' used by the European acculturation in South America. I called these fake stories 'strategies', as they were used by the Colony for the reconstruction of a new National Identity in those countries. Therefore, convincing the Indigenous culture to adopt Western culture. The parts of my essay are a metaphor of different stages of narcotic's production, best called 'mobile labs' of the Amazon jungle.I have taken this concept to tell my story and to build up the laboratory as final representation. The first stage of this process is to weigh and measure the ingredients, followed by a mixture of substances and chemicals. Once mixed, it proceeds to three stages of filtering and purification. Then it is subjected to a press for semi-solid consistency and introduced into the oven to reach the compact state. The blocks will finally be packed with plastic film and adhesive tape, protecting them from adverse environmental conditions during transport and storage. Each chapter of this essay is also connected to the 'machines' constructed for my solo exhibition, following the same steps of Purification. Through this essay, I wanted to broaden my concept relating three main aspects: the colonial strategies of domination in South America, my personal work experience in Europe, and finally the unfair working conditions in marginal societies. Each of the 'machines' constructed for my installation is functional, ready to be activated according to the different parts of the cooking process and as a representation of a 'production line' in the system of labor. I also have chosen to wrap my body, as well as carefully chosen representative objects of the popular culture of South America, to finally pack them in cling film. As a result of this process of Purification, I have produced the 'final products' ready to be consumed here in the Western European countries.

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Young, Susan L. "Cross-National Differences in Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Apparel Industry." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1345481244.

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Cerón, Vásquez Jesús Félix, and Mendoza Angello Paolo Merino. "Impacto del Decreto Legislativo N°1258, que modifica la Ley del Impuesto a la Renta respecto a rentas de trabajo, en la cultura tributaria de docentes de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, Año 2017." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/626352.

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El presente trabajo de investigación se tratará del impacto del Decreto Legislativo N°1258, que modifica la Ley del Impuesto a la Renta respecto a rentas de trabajo, en la cultura tributaria de los docentes de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). Para la obtención de la información se utilizaron diversas fuentes académicas como artículos científicos, revistas especializadas, tesis, libros contables y tributarios, decretos legislativos y leyes, los cuales sirvieron como soporte para la investigación. A su vez, se realizaron encuestas a docentes y entrevistas a profundidad a expertos en temas de: Tributación, Contabilidad, Derecho Tributario, Economía y Finanzas para un posterior análisis cualitativo y cuantitativo. Este Decreto entró en vigencia a partir del año 2017 y permite deducir a las personas naturales un adicional de 3 UIT. Sin embargo, para poder acceder a los beneficios de este Decreto se necesitan cumplir con ciertas especificaciones relacionadas a la cultura tributaria de los contribuyentes en el Perú.
This thesis will deal with the impact of Legislative Decree N°1258, which modifies the Income Tax Law with respect to labor income, in the tax culture of teachers of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). In order to obtain the information, various academic sources were used, such as scientific articles, specialized magazines, theses, accounting and tax books, legislative decrees and laws, which served as support for the investigation. At the same time, surveys were conducted to teachers and in-depth interviews with experts in taxation, accounting, tax law, economics and finance for a later qualitative and quantitative analysis. This Decree came into effect in 2017 and allows the deduction of an additional 3 UIT from natural persons. However, in order to access the benefits of this Decree, it is necessary to comply with certain specifications related to the tax culture of taxpayers in Peru.
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Kennelly, Estelle M. "Culture of indifference : dilemmas of the Filipina domestic helpers in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/509.

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In this study, an examination of the everyday experiences of the contract migrant Filipina domestic helpers exposes a culture of indifference which pervades the Hong Kong society on all levels--individual, community, and judiciary. At the centre of the abuses inflicted upon the Helpers is the employment contract with extraordinarily restrictive terms which promotes abuse by many employers. This study also looks at the transnational informal social infrastructure which has been organized by the Filipino community to mediate the hostile working environment engendered by the indifference of the global economic and political climate upon their lives. Faced with the task of implementing new policies for controlling labour migration into Hong Kong, the legislators have focused on the end result and finding the means with which to accomplish their goal. Embedded within this process are unexamined cultural mores and practices. Although the starting point is to benefit the community, by providing domestic helpers to serve the middle and upper class households, too often the abusive consequences to individual migrants are ignored as the women become the means to an end. Migration has often been viewed as an aberration to the notion of the sedentary community. Treated as an anomaly, it is the migrant who problematizes simple theoretical positions of social organization and structure. The migrant is always treated as the one who does not conform to the ideal community and is conveniently merged into existing social categories, such as the lower status of women in Hong Kong, and the lower status of domestic workers -- relegated thereby to the periphery of the society's consciousness.

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