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"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See": An Analysis of Workplace Surveillance, Resistance and Consent [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Since the 1990s, workplace surveillance has become a popular topic of sociological investigation. Researchers debate whether monitoring schemes elicit consent and self-control among workers or provoke pervasive worker resistance.
Payne, Julianne
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Neutralizing workplace bullying: the buffering effects of contextual factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct and buffering effects of three workplace contextual factors – constructive leadership, perceived organizational support, and organizational anti-bullying initiatives – on bullying and its ...
Bentley, T.A.   +20 more
core   +1 more source

Health promotion in medium-sized and large companies in Poland in 2017 – activities, implementation, effects and difficulties

open access: yesMedycyna Pracy, 2019
Background The paper presents the state of workplace health promotion in Poland as of December 2017. Material and Methods Standardized computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) were conducted on a representative sample of 1000 companies employing ...
Krzysztof Puchalski   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accumulation of flavonoid compounds in flowering shoots of Achillea collina Becker ex. Rchb. Alba during flower development

open access: yesHorticultural Science, 2006
The objective of this paper was a screening of flavonoid content in Achillea collina Becker ex. Rchb. Alba flowering tops (Herba millefolii) and flowers (Flos millefolii).
K. Karlová
doaj   +1 more source

Local Construction Employment and Binge Drinking Among US Adults in Their Early 30s: Insights From a Path Analysis

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Construction workers face elevated risks of alcohol misuse—especially binge drinking—due to physically demanding labor, long hours, and limited paid vacation. At the same time, emerging evidence suggests that a larger local construction sector may have protective community‐level effects on alcohol and other drug outcomes.
Sehun Oh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Other Parent’: A Critical Policy Analysis of Fatherhood Discourses in the Australian Government's Paid Parental Leave Scheme

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Australian paid parental leave (PPL) government scheme aims to support working parents through financial assistance and the promotion of gender equality in caregiving responsibilities. However, the scheme's implementation has been critiqued for its gendered design, which marginalises fathers and reinforces traditional gender roles.
Lily Lewington   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Economic Payoffs to Workplace Literacy [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper focuses on one of the potential benefits to improving the Nation's literacy the economic payoffs. A more literate workforce provides economic benefits to the members of the workforce themselves, to employers, and to society.
Kevin Hollenbeck
core   +1 more source

Workplace reform in New Zealand : the state of play : report prepared for Workplace New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Despite the relatively high profile of workplace reform in New Zealand since 1992, changes in workplace practices in New Zealand are still largely being put in place in the manufacturing sector and the public sector.
Ryan, Rose
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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