There is an increasing interest from scholars and practitioners in understanding how non-profit organizations can design and implement human resources (HR) practices to enhance desirable volunteer ...attitudes and behaviors. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of existing studies on the relationship between HR practices and volunteering outcomes. We use the ability-motivation-opportunity model as a guiding framework to systematically integrate current knowledge on this topic. We identify gaps in existing research and offer detailed suggestions on how scholars can further enhance knowledge on how HR practices can lead to beneficial outcomes for both volunteers and non-profit organizations.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to reassert the persistent association of the decline in collective bargaining with the increase in income inequality, the fall in the share of ...wages in national income and deterioration in macroeconomic performance in the UK; and second, to present case studies affirming concrete outcomes of organisational collective bargaining for workers, in terms of pay, job quality, working hours and work-life balance.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based upon two methodological approaches. First, econometric analyses using industry-level and firm-level data for advanced and emerging economies testing the relationship between declining union density, collective bargaining coverage and the fall in the share of wages in national income. Second, it reports on ten in-depth case studies of collective bargaining each based upon analysis of collective bargaining agreements plus in-depth interviews with the actors party to them: in total, 16 trade union officers, 16 members and 11 employer representatives.
Findings
There is robust evidence of the effects of different measures of bargaining power on the labour share including union density, welfare state retrenchment, minimum wages and female employment. The case studies appear to address a legacy of deregulated industrial relations. A number demonstrate the reinvigoration of collective bargaining at the organisational and sectoral level, addressing the two-tier workforce and contractual differentiation, alongside the consequences of government pay policies for equality.
Research limitations/implications
The case studies represent a purposive sample and therefore findings are not generalisable; researchers are encouraged to test the suggested propositions further.
Practical implications
The paper proposes that tackling income inequality requires a restructuring of the institutional framework in which bargaining takes place and a level playing field where the bargaining power of labour is more in balance with that of capital. Collective bargaining addresses a number of the issues raised by the Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices as essential for “good work”, yet is at odds with the review’s assumptions and remedies. The case studies reiterate the importance of the development of strong workplace representation and bargaining at workplace level, which advocates for non-members and provides a basis for union recruitment, organisation and wider employee engagement.
Originality/value
The paper indicates that there may be limits to employer commitment to deregulated employment relations. The emergence of new or reinvigorated collective agreements may represent a concession by employers that a “free”, individualised, deinstitutionalised, precarious approach to industrial relations, based on wage suppression and work intensification, is not in their interests in the long run.
The Taylor Review asserts that ‘certain groups are also more likely to place a greater importance on flexibility such as carers, women, those with disabilities and older workers’. This article draws ...upon the experiences of workers on non‐standard contracts to explore the notion of worker preference and to expose how the discourse of work–life balance is usurped to provide justification for flexibility in the interest of employers rather than workers, reconstructing labour market segregation.
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Government reforms have led nonprofit organisations (NPOs) to become more involved in the provision of mainstream public services in the UK and consequently they have been subject to an increasingly ...demanding regime of performance measurement and inspection if they wish to provide services on behalf of the state. The creation of a contract culture has put nonprofit providers in a position where they have to bid against each other to deliver pre-determined services, resulting in a very competitive operating environment. NPOs have become more professionalised and performance-driven and this new climate encourages a business-like attitude to the management of their services. Pay-for-performance schemes have become a recognised phenomenon in NPOs, despite having generated controversial discussion in the literature. The literature on incentive theories has been applied almost exclusively to private sector organisations and limited attention has been devoted to the nonprofit sector. It is argued here that one cannot simply transfer across for-profit sector ideas; one must try to establish a framework that is more suited to the logic of the NPO. The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, it investigates the use of performance-related pay (PRP) in nonprofit housing associations in England and looks at whether PRP acts as a motivator encouraging nonprofit employees to improve their work performance. Second, it inquires whether the new competitive and performance-driven environment influences the reward decisions of NPOs. This thesis examines influences on the choice of reward practices in housing associations in order to provide an alternative to agency explanations for the use of PRP in the nonprofit sector. The results not only point to the ineffectiveness of PRP schemes in housing associations but also identify the strength of institutional pressures on NPOs to conform with best practice in pay decisions.
Government reforms have led nonprofit organisations (NPOs) to become more involved in the provision of mainstream public services in the UK and consequently they have been subject to an increasingly ...demanding regime of performance measurement and inspection if they wish to provide services on behalf of the state. The creation of a contract culture has put nonprofit providers in a position where they have to bid against each other to deliver pre-determined services, resulting in a very competitive operating environment. NPOs have become more professionalised and performance-driven and this new climate encourages a business-like attitude to the management of their services. Pay-for-performance schemes have become a recognised phenomenon in NPOs, despite having generated controversial discussion in the literature. The literature on incentive theories has been applied almost exclusively to private sector organisations and limited attention has been devoted to the nonprofit sector. It is argued here that one cannot simply transfer across for-profit sector ideas; one must try to establish a framework that is more suited to the logic of the NPO. The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, it investigates the use of performance-related pay (PRP) in nonprofit housing associations in England and looks at whether PRP acts as a motivator encouraging nonprofit employees to improve their work performance. Second, it inquires whether the new competitive and performance-driven environment influences the reward decisions of NPOs. This thesis examines influences on the choice of reward practices in housing associations in order to provide an alternative to agency explanations for the use of PRP in the nonprofit sector. The results not only point to the ineffectiveness of PRP schemes in housing associations but also identify the strength of institutional pressures on NPOs to conform with best practice in pay decisions.
This present paper has analyzed the transformations occurred in the structures of enterprises submitted to an acquiring process. The paper structure contemplates at a first moment, a conceptual ...discussion that recovers the view aspects of an organizational structure understanding, known as traditional, within an evolutionary perspective that pays off for the environment and recent changes, which have altered the organizational modus operandi. This framework gave opportunity of a data survey through documents analysis and semi-structured interviews, and, also a posterior discussion of aspects involving acquisitions and their analysis, from cases occurred in Minas Gerais, which have been chosen after a preliminary mapping and adjustments to the study
target. The results met hereby have demonstrated that the acquisitions have affected the studied enterprises structures, as for down sizing hierarchic levels as for functional sizing. This has generated less formalization and bigger decisive decentralization, thus,
improving the existent communication procedures. Another fact to be considered evinces that the structure integration process level and pace of the acquired, as well as the acquiring, strongly depends on both side goals, whatever concerns the efficiency aimed. Strategic goals that lead to acquisition are fundamental for the structure conduction, and the process dynamics is determinant for the acquiring strategy success.
O presente trabalho analisou as transformações na estrutura de empresas que foram submetidas a um processo de aquisição. A estrutura do trabalho contempla no primeiro momento, uma discussão conceitual que recupera aspectos da visão dita tradicional de
entendimento de estrutura organizacional, dentro de uma perspectiva evolutiva que resgata o ambiente e as recentes mudanças que alteraram o modus operandi organizacional. Este arcabouço permitiu o levantamento de dados, através de análise documental e entrevistas semi-estruturadas e a posterior discussão de aspectos envolvendo aquisições e sua análise a partir de casos ocorridos em Minas Gerais,
escolhidos após mapeamento preliminar e adequação ao escopo do estudo. Os resultados encontrados demonstraram que as aquisições afetaram a estrutura das empresas estudadas, seja na redução de níveis hierárquicos, seja no tamanho funcional. Isto gerou menor formalização e maior descentralização decisória, melhorando os
procedimentos de comunicação existentes. Outro fator a ser considerado evidencia que o grau e ritmo do processo de integração das estruturas da adquirida e adquirente dependem fortemente dos objetivos de ambas no que se refere à eficiência almejada. Os
objetivos estratégicos que levam à aquisição são fundamentais na condução da reestruturação e a dinâmica desse processo é determinante no sucesso da estratégia de aquisição.
Este é um relato de experiência realizado em 2019, numa cidade do interior mineiro, com objetivo de descrever as percepções do discente-monitor a respeito da disciplina de Pesquisa em Saúde. Houve a ...participação de 12 horas semanais, num total de mais de 100 horas, considerando então uma atividade além da sala de aula (disciplina de 45 horas). Houveram quatro atividades de treinamento e a construção de uma plataforma de trabalho junto aos discentes que o monitor apoiaria. A monitoria acadêmica proporcionou ao monitor o crescimento individual e profissional, possibilitando expandir seus conhecimentos na área de pesquisa científica, bem como o aperfeiçoamento do binômio ensino-aprendizado. Participar do programa de monitoria para um discente que almeja seguir a trajetória acadêmica propiciou o começo da construção profissional e, com a ajuda das docentes, foi possível trilhar um caminho e familiarizar-se com diversas metodologias de ensino.
Ependimoma anaplásico do quarto ventriculo Juliana Avila Duarte; Bethania Ehlers; Eduardo Hennemann Pitrez ...
Clinical and Biomedical Research,
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MWS, 15 anos, masculino, branco, procura a emergência do HCPA com quadro de tontura e vertigem há 07 dias que piorava ao mudar de posição. Ao exame físico: marcha com tendência de queda para ...esquerda, nistagmo horizontal, piora da vertigem à manobra de Dix-Hallpike à direita. Conduta: Alta hospitalar com prednisona. Orientação de retornar na emergência caso persistissem os sintomas. Após uma semana, o paciente retorna a emergência com melhora da vertigem, mas persistência de náusea e início de vômitos matinais. Ao exame físico: marcha com tendência de queda para esquerda (nas manobras de sensibilização), nistagmo vertical e rotatório com fase rápida para direita, anisocoria (direita>esquerda), fundo de olho: borramento de papilas bilateralmente. Ressonância Magnética (RM) de Encéfalo (07/03/2012): lesão expansiva no 4º ventriculo, hiperintensa em T2 e hipointensa em T1, medindo 5,4 X 4,3 X 4,2 cm.
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