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Decent Work and Decent Lives in Organizations for Healthy Lives
2023The chapter outlines the concepts of decent work and decent lives. Drawing from the psychology of working theory (PWT), the concept of decent work is delineated. Precarious work is discussed with attention to vulnerable workers and the value of preventive intervention through job crafting and diversity management as approaches for protecting vulnerable
Maureen E. Kenny, Annamaria Di Fabio
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Psychology of working theory: Decent work for decent lives
2023The chapter parses the PWT framework and reviews recent quantitative and qualitative studies derived from the work of Blustein and colleagues. We delineate opportunities for further research aligned with PWT, including possibilities for job crafting to increase access to decent work among vulnerable workers and in relation to developments in the ...
Annamaria Di Fabio +2 more
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Asian Journal of Social Science, 2014
Indonesia is on track to achieve the targeted 5–6% open unemployment rate by 2014. Since the country has been elevated to the status of a middle-income country by the World Bank and survived the recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008/2009, it could not afford to concentrate only on achieving the targeted unemployment rate by the end of President ...
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Indonesia is on track to achieve the targeted 5–6% open unemployment rate by 2014. Since the country has been elevated to the status of a middle-income country by the World Bank and survived the recent Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008/2009, it could not afford to concentrate only on achieving the targeted unemployment rate by the end of President ...
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Abstract This brief provides a concise summary of relevant knowledge from applied and vocational psychology on decent work and psychology of working theory (PWT). The concept of decent work emerged from policy initiatives by the International Labour Organization (ILO), which created an aspirational set of baseline conditions that ...
David L Blustein +3 more
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David L Blustein +3 more
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The Development of the Decent Work Scale as a Cross-cultural Measure of Decent Work
2021Abstract This chapter explores the development of an individual-level measure of decent work. It draws on a recent article written by the authors, which was part of a larger international project to validate a cross-cultural self-report measure of decent work within the context of the Psychology of Working Theory (Dodd et al., 2019 ...
Vanessa Dodd, Ciaran Burke
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Decent Work and Complacent Work
2017This chapter has introduced and explained the concept of complacent work. The measurement of complacent work has been undertaken using sub-indicators and the responses of the IT employees on the same have been used to formulate an index for complacent work.
Nausheen Nizami, Narayan Prasad
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Information Development, 2016
It is argued that the ICT sector offers greater ease of access to employment for women than traditional sectors. This is reflected in the high representation of women employees in the ICT sector in India. Considering the importance of the ICT sector in India, policy makers and industry leaders are continuously debating on women’s work and working ...
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It is argued that the ICT sector offers greater ease of access to employment for women than traditional sectors. This is reflected in the high representation of women employees in the ICT sector in India. Considering the importance of the ICT sector in India, policy makers and industry leaders are continuously debating on women’s work and working ...
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2017
How the meaning of safe work changes depending on the nature of work in a particular industry has been discussed in this chapter. Interestingly in sophisticated industries like IT, it is not the nature of work but the manner in which work is conducted affects the health of its employees. Detailed data collection on the changes in health of IT employees
Nausheen Nizami, Narayan Prasad
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How the meaning of safe work changes depending on the nature of work in a particular industry has been discussed in this chapter. Interestingly in sophisticated industries like IT, it is not the nature of work but the manner in which work is conducted affects the health of its employees. Detailed data collection on the changes in health of IT employees
Nausheen Nizami, Narayan Prasad
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2020
The psychology of working theory (PWT) postulates that certain contextual and structural factors determine if individuals are able to obtain decent work, and that decent work, in turn, leads to work fulfilment and general well-being. The theory assumes that this is the case, as decent work satisfies three fundamental human needs: survival and power ...
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The psychology of working theory (PWT) postulates that certain contextual and structural factors determine if individuals are able to obtain decent work, and that decent work, in turn, leads to work fulfilment and general well-being. The theory assumes that this is the case, as decent work satisfies three fundamental human needs: survival and power ...
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