The Workers' Participation Committee plays an important role, by participating in the management of the organization, especially if it is effective and positive, therefore, by virtue of the law 90-11 ...relating to relations of work, the Algerian legislator ensures an important position for it in each organization, by organizing its formation and operation, and it has been approved by Law 90-289 which determines the organization of the elections of staff representatives, who together form the participation committee, which has broad powers related to work strategies and in terms of expressing its opinion on the organization of work as well. This study shows the role of the Committee in conducting the body used through the legal mechanisms granted to it.
One of the most important focuses in social theory within the last decade has been upon the commons. We contribute to the emerging scholarship on the commons. We point out that this literature tends ...to neglect the workplace. We then argue that the workplace should be included as a potentially important arena of commoning. Going to studies of the workplace, we find that scholarship has implicitly found key emergent elements of commoning within the social relations of work. We develop a concept of the workplace commons, and consider arguments that the workplace commons is merely a fix for capitalism.
Nonequilibrium pulling experiments provide detailed information about the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of molecules. We show that unperturbed free energy profiles as a function of molecular ...extension can be obtained rigorously from such experiments without using work-weighted position histograms. An inverse Weierstrass transform is used to relate the system free energy obtained from the Jarzynski equality directly to the underlying molecular free energy surface. An accurate approximation for the free energy surface is obtained by using the method of steepest descent to evaluate the inverse transform. The formalism is applied to simulated data obtained from a kinetic model of RNA folding, in which the dynamics consists of jumping between linker-dominated folded and unfolded free energy surfaces.
The Work of Community Gardens Cumbers, Andrew; Shaw, Deirdre; Crossan, John ...
Work, employment and society,
02/2018, Volume:
32, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
The growth of community gardens has become the source of much academic debate regarding their role in community empowerment in the contemporary city. In this article, we focus upon the work being ...done in community gardens, using gardening in Glasgow as a case study. We argue that while community gardening cannot be divorced from more regressive underlying economic and social processes accompanying neoliberal austerity policies, it does provide space for important forms of work that address social needs and advance community empowerment. In developing this argument we use recent geographical scholarship concerning the generative role of place in bringing together individuals and communities in new collective forms of working. Community gardens are places that facilitate the recovery of individual agency, construction of new forms of knowledge and participation, and renewal of reflexive and proactive communities that provide broader lessons for building more progressive forms of work in cities.
Ineffective workplace relationships and an inconducive workplace culture contribute to poor job satisfaction and high nurse educator turnover rates. The aim of the study was to implement a program to ...transform the workplace culture towards person-centeredness in a public nursing education institution in South Africa.
The study followed a Transformative Practice Development design using a participatory action research approach. The Transformative Practice Development method guided a program implemented from February 2019 to November 2019 to promote a person-centered workplace culture. From a population of nurse educators and nurse managers, we purposively sampled 46 participants. Baseline data were collected during consensus meetings in February and May 2019 facilitated by two independent nursing education experts. Twelve feedback sessions were conducted to obtain feedback during program implementation. Data were thematically analyzed.
During implementation, the program addressed positive work relations, communication and leadership. The participants indicated that the program facilitated person-centered work relations through group cohesion, change processes, and real and authentic attitudes.
Person-centered communication is achieved through reflective communication and cultural sensitivity. Nurse educators should enhance their leadership styles by evaluating and transforming their leadership traits and processes to person-centeredness.
The nature of work is certainly changing, but from a historical perspective this is not new. The rate of change is faster today, and change is the rule not just an exception over time. This paper ...shows that an Internet-based business model is becoming more common, and this does not mean the end of organizational employment relationships, but supports the need for greater flexibility of jobs and workers. The study of work and employment, as well as the variability of wider environmental and contextual changes in the nature of paid work and employment relations, are relevant to the functioning of a modern economy. Providing an overview of key trends can help to understand the nature of labor relations in the modern economy. The paper presents examples of both change and continuity in the field of work relations.
The sociometer theory of self‐esteem (STS) argues that one's self‐esteem is affected by one's perception of the quality of one's relationships with significant others. Although the STS has been ...widely used in individual differences research there have been few investigations of its validity and value in organizational settings. Here we provide a systematic review of articles published in organizational journals that took STS as their main theoretical framework (N = 8). We then drew on STS principles in an investigation of the validity of a model in which organizational socialization longitudinally mediates the link between workers' quality of relationships with colleagues and their levels of self‐esteem. A complete cohort of 320 workers (Mage = 23.02, SDage = 2.23) over a three‐year period completed a battery of questionnaires once a year for three consecutive years. Structural equation analyses corroborated our hypotheses. This contribution highlights the utility and validity of the STS in organizational contexts and should encourage researchers and practitioners to pay more attention to workers' perception of their interpersonal environment at work (in particular during the socialization and adjustment process to a new workplace) given that it may exert a significant impact on sense of personal self‐worth.
Analisamos as condições de vida dos trabalhadores paraibanos entre 1930 e 1945, demonstrando que o trabalho continuou sendo fator de exploração e adoecimento. Também evidenciamos que, apesar da ...política repressiva, os trabalhadores reivindicavam direitos, inclusive apropriando-se do discurso oficial. Para tanto, analisamos jornais da época: A União e Voz da Borborema, alinhados com os grupos dominantes; e A Batalha, um “Órgão dos Trabalhadores”.
The European social law represents the branch of the international labor law consisting of the regulations in this matter adopted by the Council of Europe, respectively the European Union. If the ...instruments elaborated within the Council of Europe are, in virtue of its objectives, limited as number, the law elaborated within the European Union, known as „community social law" knew full expansion in the latest years. In the current language, we are witnessing a confusion of terms, the collocation „European social law” being attributed either to the law created through the conventions and agreements of the Council of Europe, as „European” in title, or the law consisting of the regulations and directives of the European Union. In reality, in our opinion, both sets of regional norms, together, represent a new branch of international law, maybe insufficient grounded theoretically, the social European law. The work relations related to the European social law are not established only in the sector of production of material goods, but also in the section of nonproductive activities such as those units (economic agents, private and judicial entities, state or private, institutions, administrative authorities etc.) which hire personnel for management or execution positions, in productive or nonproductive sectors (hold and exert administrative, sanitary etc. positions). The social work relations stemming from the individual labor contract have a leading position from the other typical or atypical forms, judicial work relations in the European social law and the law of the EU member states.
There is conflicting evidence on whether collaborative group work leads to improved classroom relations, and if so how. A before and after design was used to measure the impact on work and play ...relations of a collaborative learning programme involving 575 students 9–12 years old in single- and mixed-age classes across urban and rural schools. Data were also collected on student interactions and teacher ratings of their group-work skills. Analysis of variance revealed significant gains for both types of relation. Multilevel modelling indicated that better work relations were the product of improving group skills, which offset tensions produced by transactive dialogue, and this effect fed through in turn to play relations. Although before intervention rural children were familiar with each other neither this nor age mix affected outcomes. The results suggest the social benefits of collaborative learning are a separate outcome of group work, rather than being either a pre-condition for, or a direct consequence of successful activity, but that initial training in group skills may serve to enhance these benefits.
PDF
