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A retrospective on care and denial of children with disabilities in Russia

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2014
In tsarist Russia, disability care was little developed, yet showed certain similarities with other European countries. Disabled children received support through charities and private philanthropy.
Liya Kalinnikova, Sven Trygged
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Driving the career readiness agenda in Hong Kong higher education

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
The concept of “career readiness” can trace its origin to earlier studies about learning and employability in higher education as well as management of student life cycle.
Benjamin Tak Yuen Chan
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A proactive player of the future? Working life discourses in the Finnish upper secondary school curriculum

open access: yesCogent Education, 2023
The present study examines the educational speech that appears in the upper secondary school curriculum. Teaching and the organisation of teaching is guided by the written reality of the curriculum.The Foucaultian approach is applied to study the ...
Asta Järvinen, Ari Sivenius
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Working lives of maternity healthcare workers in Malawi: an ethnography to identify ways to improve careAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

open access: yesAJOG Global Reports, 2022
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality in East Africa is high with a maternal mortality rate of 428 per 100,000 live births. Malawi, whilst comparing favourably to East Africa as a whole, continues to have a high maternal mortality rate (349 per 100,000 live ...
Abi Merriel, PhD   +5 more
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Workplace Social Capital in the Development and Implementation of a Senior Policy

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies
Senior policies have been introduced by many Danish companies with the intention of retaining senior employees, but implementation can be challenging and may create tension at the workplace.This study aims to explore how social capital at the workplace ...
Karen Albertsen   +3 more
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SUSTAINABLE WELL-BEING AT WORK: A REVIEW AND REFORMULATION [PDF]

open access: yesPapeles del Psicólogo, 2014
One of the main goals of work and organizational psychology is to promote the well-being and performance of employees. Nevertheless, the yoke of the current economic crisis tyrannizes this aim, mercilessly threating the sustainability of the well-being ...
José Mª Peiró   +4 more
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General Theory and Local Action: Experiences from the Quality of Working Life Movement

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017
Quality of Working Life was a researcher-driven social movement culminating in the early 1980s. Its 1981 conference had some 2000 participants from research, management, unions, and government from about 30 countries.
Bjørn Gustavsen
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Orchestration in Work Environment Policy Programs

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017
In spite of many years’ efforts, it is difficult to prove substantial improvements of the work environment and policymakers are continuously searching for new efficient strategies.
Peter Hasle   +3 more
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The Ideal Worker Revisited

open access: yesWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
This paper explores technostress in office work with a focus on gender dynamics. Employing an exploratory study design and focus group discussions, the research reveals that digitalization within organizations can lead to technostress through the ...
Myriam Gaitsch, Philip Schörpf
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Disabled Employees as A Vulnerable Group in the Labor Market and Mobbing: A Qualitative Research in Tokat Province

open access: yesSosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2022
Out of the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in the labor market, disabled employees make up one of the segments that is most exposed to mobbing in the workplace.
Elif Özlem Özçatal, Umur Aşkın
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