Digital Tools for Adapting Corporate Wellness Programmes to the New Situation Caused by COVID-19: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
José M. Núñez-Sánchez ◽  
Ramón Gómez-Chacón ◽  
Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Digital Tools ◽  
Corporate Wellness ◽  
New Situation

scholarly journals Digital Tools as an Enabler for Educational and Training Processes: The Case Study of REFUGEEClassAssistance4 Teachers Project

Proceedings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Ourania Areta ◽  
Karel Van Isacker
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
And Training

Digitalization has transformed all aspects of life, from social interactions to the working environment and education, something that accelerated with the emergence of COVID-19. The same stands for education and training activities, where the use of digital tools has been gradually advancing and become merely online because of the virus. This brought forth the need to discuss further the applications, benefits, and challenges of digital tools within the framework of the education and training process, and the need to study examples of successful applications. This study aims to support both these requirements by presenting the case study of REFUGEEClassAssistance4Teachers project and its outcomes.

Dynamics of Intra-Party Organisation in the Digital Age: A Grassroots Analysis of Digital Adoption

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine Dommett ◽  
Luke Temple ◽  
Patrick Seyd
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Party Organisation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Over recent decades, scholars have explored political parties’ adoption of digital technology. Tracing successive eras of change, scholarship has examined the degree to which digital disrupts or embeds traditional power structures—with many studies finding evidence of ‘controlled-interactivity’. In this article, we revisit debates around the adoption of digital tools from a bottom-up perspective. Moving beyond attempts to categorise elite strategies for digital adoption, we consider practices on the ground to document how, in practice, digital technology is being taken up and used. Using a case study of the UK Labour Party, we categorise a range of different practices, highlighting and theorising the presence of digital adherents, laggards, entrepreneurs, renegades and refuseniks. Discussing the drivers of these practices, we offer new insight into variations in digital adoption and consider the significance of these trends for our understanding of party organisation.

scholarly journals Managing Uncertainties in Digital Democracy Experiments: A Case Study of the Management of the Stem Van West Experiment in Amsterdam-West, the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Vidar Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Digital Democracy ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Western Democracies

Can we use digital tools to increase and deepen citizen participation in open and democratic policy-making processes? That is the main question this article aims to address. Today, there is a global effort to foster democracies through online digital tools. However, for many governmental officials and scholars it is still a challenge to decipher how online digital tools technically function and operate, what effects such tools have on the users of the platforms, and how it impacts the practices of governmental organizations and politics. In our view, practices of digital democracy deserve more governmental attention. Anno 2018, we already do our banking, tax-payment, and data sharing online. Nonetheless, our democracy remains decidedly analogue; the activity of casting a vote requires citizens to go the local polling booth, queue up, and tick a box on a paper voting slip. As such, the aim of this article is to shed more light on this new way of thinking about democracy in the digital era. Furthermore, we want to show the readership how in a time where there is growing disillusionment with the political institutions of advanced Western democracies, online tools provide new ways of involving citizens in political decision-making. Therefore, in this article we explore the possibilities of digital tools regarding citizen participation and democracy, and particularly, focus on how to manage these political experiments.

scholarly journals Exploring Public Sector Managers’ Motivations in Deploying Decision Support Tools to the Street Level

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris McIntyre
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Decision Support Tools ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Support Tools ◽  
Public Sector Managers

This article explores the motivations of public sector managers in developing and deploying digital tools to support decision making at the front lines of public service delivery. Two digital decision support tools created by New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development are presented as a case study, drawing primarily on semi-structured interviews with senior managers. Results provide empirical evidence that public sector managers deploy digital tools not to curtail, but to support street-level bureaucrats’ discretion. Managers appear to be motivated not by increased control over front-line staff, but, rather, by improving clients’ experience of the system and decreasing longterm service costs.

scholarly journals Indonesian Women’s Struggle Towards Transformation: A Case from ‘Rusunawa’ Community

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Lasmery RM Girsang ◽  
Ahmad Sihabudin ◽  
Mirza Ronda
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Standpoint Theory ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
New Situation ◽  
Previous Location ◽  
New System

This article discusses roles of women in struggling transformation within their community. As one of governmental policies in 2015 about eradication of slum areas under BasukiTjahajaPurnama (‘Ahok’) as previous governor of Jakarta, many flats were built and provided to those who became the target of that program. It’s called ‘Rusunawa’—low cost simple flat. Researchers choose ‘Rusunawa’ Pulogebang (the first flat located on East Jakarta) as the locus of research. Unfortunately, there are new social problems emerge. One of them is adaptation matter: changing habits from previous location to new situation. Crashed by new system—such as paying room regularly every month meanwhile having no permanent job/work yet—occurs seriously impact until now. Besides that, losing home also keep them traumatic. In such situation, not all people can change their way of life rapidly till some women—driven by awareness—striving for changing the community decisively by various sustainable efforts. Therefore, this qualitative research will analyze the three main ideas in Feminist Standpoint Theory: knowledge, experience and power relation. Intrinsic case study is used to get in-depth inquiry. Also, researchers conduct as participant observers and in-depth interviewers towards key informants and community itself. Finally, based on critical paradigm, the results show that those women succeed to lead the community towards social transformation in health, education, economic, and leadership fields.

scholarly journals COVID-19 triggering homecare professionals’ change of attitudes towards e-Welfare

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-249
Author(s):  
Päivikki Kuoppakangas ◽  
Juha Lindfors ◽  
Jari Stenwall ◽  
Tony Kinder ◽  
Antti Talonen
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Continuous Work ◽  
The City

During 2020, the COVID-19 crisis expanded the use of digital tools in public health and social care. The aim of this qualitative, single-case study was to scrutinize how homecare professionals experienced meaningfulness in their work in the midst of a crisis and with the utilization of the videophone in long-term homecare service provision. The empirical data consisted of 20 thematic interviews carried out among homecare professionals and their managers in the city of Tampere, Finland. The results indicated that the videophone can generate significance, self-realization and broader purposes among homecare professionals, thus providing meaningfulness for work in the midst of a crisis and continuous work-related changes. In addition, a crisis may support change in the meaningfulness of e-welfare in work-related tasks and aid in overcoming reluctance amongst public-sector social care (homecare) professionals towards an e-welfare initiative: the videophone (VideoVisit).

scholarly journals MALE-FEMALE EFL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF AUDIO VISUAL AIDS TO IMPROVE THEIR VOCABULARY MASTERY

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Firda Fauziah ◽  
Etika Rachmawati ◽  
Misbahudin Misbahudin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
The Third ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
New Situation

This study attempted to investigate male-female EFL students’ perception on the use of audio visual aids in learning vocabulary mastery. The aims of this study were to finding out the male EFL students’ perception on the use of audio visual aids in learning vocabulary, the female EFL students’ perception on the use of audio visual aids in learning vocabulary, and how audio visual aids help students in improving their vocabulary mastery. The participants were 19 students at the tenth grade students in one of senior high schools in Ciamis. This study employed one type of qualitative strategies that was using case study. The writer used three instruments to gain the data, they were questionnaire, interview and observation. The result for the first question asserted that male students perceive the use of audio visual aids was good to be used in learning process, especially in learning vocabulary. Moreover, the result for the second question revealed that female students perceive audio visual aids have some benefits in learning process, especially in learning vocabulary. Then, the result for the third question asserted that audio visual aids help the students in improving their vocabulary mastery. It can be concluded that male-female EFL gave positive perceptions toward the use of audio visual in learning vocabulary and audio visual aids help the students to improve their vocabulary mastery. Besides, it is suggested for the English teacher, it is hoped that this study could be a new way in giving the new situation in the classroom. Moreover, it is suggested for the students because the most students feel helped in learning process, especially in learning vocabulary by using audio visual aids. For further researchers, the result of this study can be used as reference in the same field with the different interest.Keywords: perception, gender, audio visual aids, vocabulary, vocabulary mastery

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