This explorative study investigates the perceptions of HRM practitioners regarding workplace wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper considers psychological, physical and social factors and ...corresponding workplace wellbeing initiatives from practitioners' eyes, and how this perception has changed due to the pandemic. The intended impact of this paper is to show what the main issues that shape how practitioners' reason in regard to workplace wellbeing and how this has seen a paradigm shift during Covid-19. The study highlights workplace wellbeing concerns and how employers perceive their own workplace wellbeing initiatives during a period of adversity. Key impacts and what these mean for HRM practitioners in the future is considered. The findings have implications for workplace wellbeing practitioners globally.
Green Victorians Vicky Albritton, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
2016, 2016-03-11, Letnik:
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From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and ...satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in the history of sufficiency has been largely forgotten. Green Victorians tells the story of a circle of men and women in the English Lake District who attempted to create a new kind of economy, turning their backs on Victorian consumer society in order to live a life dependent not on material abundance and social prestige but on artful simplicity and the bonds of community.At the center of their social experiment was the charismatic art critic and political economist John Ruskin. Albritton and Albritton Jonsson show how Ruskin's followers turned his theory into practice in a series of ambitious local projects ranging from hand spinning and woodworking to gardening, archaeology, and pedagogy. This is a lively yet unsettling story, for there was a dark side to Ruskin's community as well—racist thinking, paternalism, and technophobia. Richly illustrated, Green Victorians breaks new ground, connecting the ideas and practices of Ruskin's utopian community with the problems of ethical consumption then and now.
Spinning Wheel Smith, Lee
Technical Innovation in American History : An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: Colonial America to 1865,
2019
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This paper examines the effect of globalization accelerated by an expansion in trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on the national labor demand under an open economy with underemployment. We ...find that the higher the elasticity of substitution, the flatter the tangent slope of the labor demand curve under a trade economy (without FDI). If the wage level at home is much higher than that in a foreign country, an increase in the elasticity of substitution decreases domestic employment. The beginning of FDI with international production relocation makes the tangent slope of the home labor demand curve flatter than that under a trade economy. If the home wage falls within the high (low) range, FDI decreases (increases) home employment. This result implies that, in agreement with the conventional wisdom, FDI does not necessarily lead to the hollowing out of employment in a high-wage country.
In March 2020, New Zealand went into a level 4 lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19. Overnight, workplace operations shifted into the home, requiring employees to rapidly upskill and use online ...collaboration platforms to maintain 'business-as-usual'. However, the home was not an empty space, rather it reflected specific cultural and gender activities and norms.
A phenomenological research study conducted in 2020 examined the working from home experiences of 21 women from different cultural backgrounds employed by a South Auckland organisation. The research focused on two groupings of HRM themes; one the HR practices of productivity, performance, leadership, health and safety, and technology and equipment; the other, the impact of these practices on the domestic cultural norms and gender roles of the women employees.
The paper identifies an unresolved tension between the organisation and the women and asserts the need for revised performance expectations in a working from home context. The paper argues that a potential resolution is available if the organisation adapts Trompenaars's model of intercultural reconciliation.
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