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Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

sociology in medicine; introducing a model in medical education

open access: yesJournal of Medical Education and Development, 2019
Letter to ...
Ahmad Kalateh Sadati   +1 more
doaj  

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries inhealth outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007.
Badi H. Baltagi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable community groups, and the persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining staff.
Ian Kessler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolving landscape of American sociology professional concerns ethical practices and societal contributions

open access: yesDiscover Global Society
This review explores the pivotal role that American sociology plays in addressing professional concerns, ethical practices, and its broader societal impact.
Mahendra Prasad Pandey
doaj   +1 more source

Embracing Complexity in HRM Research: A Call for System and Process Perspectives

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human resource management (HRM) is inherently complex. It involves systems of principles, practices, and activities operating at individual, group, organizational, and macro levels, which are interlinked through complex processes. Yet, empirical research has not kept pace with this conceptual richness.
Rebecca Hewett, Madleen Meier‐Barthold
wiley   +1 more source

Pubertal timing and incident uterine cancer in the Sister Study cohort

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.
What's New? Younger age at menarche is an established risk factor for uterine cancer. Age at onset of breast development (thelarche), the earliest marker of pubertal estrogen exposure unopposed by progesterone, may also be relevant to uterine cancer risk, but this association has not been explored. Using data from the US prospective Sister Study cohort,
Ariayana N. Harrell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The social origin of the illness experience – an outline of problems

open access: yesAnnals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 2014
[b]Introduction and objective[/b]. The main research objective is a study of social influences on the processes of experiencing illness in the sociological meaning of the term ‘illness experience’ focusing attention on the subjective activity inspired by
Michał Skrzypek
doaj  

Type 2 diabetes in the employed population: do rates and trends differ among nine occupational sectors? An analysis using German health insurance claims data

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Socioeconomic inequalities in type 2 diabetes (T2D) are well established in the literature. However, within the background of changing work contexts associated with digitalization and its effect on lifestyle and sedentary behavior, little is ...
Batoul Safieddine   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The MRC Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen: its development & legacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Chapter in a book to celebrate the Quincentenary of the University of Aberdeen. The chapter outlines the origins and the work of the Medical Sociology Unit at the University of Aberdeen. It grew out of the MRC's Obstetric Medicine Research Unit, set up
Barbour, Rosaline S.   +1 more
core  

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