Unemployment Survey E-Book Provides Insight into High-Tech Job Loss [IEEE—USA

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-210
Keyword(s):  
Job Loss ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Insight Into

Understanding control in communities of practice: Constructive disobedience in a high-tech firm

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Rennstam ◽  
Dan Kärreman
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Use ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
The One ◽  
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Communities of practice (CoPs) represent a broad range of work situations characterized by shared knowledge and situated knowledge use. Although CoPs have been studied rather extensively, discussions of control in CoPs are rarer. This is peculiar because CoPs are characterized by a common tension in contemporary work: on the one hand, CoPs are expected to autonomously “think together,” but on the other they are expected to be responsive to various managerial control attempts. We interrogate this tension in an ethnographic study of engineering work, where we found that in response to management control the engineering communities engaged in constructive disobedience – that is, subversion and displacement of rules and orders to construct a dynamic of control where work can be executed autonomously. By associating constructive disobedience with control in CoPs, our study contributes with insight into and theorization of how management control is dealt with and how control operates in work characterized by CoPs. The study also provides deepened insight into the limits of management control and how professionalism may be maintained despite increased management. These insights may support development of a more knowledgeable and nuanced approach to attempts at managing communities of practice.

Scalp IV or Graduation Tassel? Differing Perspectives of the NICU Experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Anne Lord
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
High Stress ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Parental Perspectives ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
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FAMILY-FRIENDLY/FAMILY-CENTERED care in the NICU contributes to positive patient outcomes, strong families, and excellence in care. Successfully integrating the patient’s family into the care team in the high-tech, high-stress NICU environment can pose many challenges to the nursing staff. A significant obstacle to successful family-professional partnerships is lack of understanding by NICU professionals of parental perspectives of the NICU experience. This column provides unique insight into the differing perspectives of one infant’s family and the NICU staff who cared for him.

scholarly journals Love, Betrayal and Violence: A Female Subjugation in Shakespeare’s Play Othello

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Dr. ABHA SINGH
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Criminal Violence ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Honour Killing ◽  
Indian Setting ◽  
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 Women across historical, social and religious boundaries have been pitted against the asphyxiating patriarchal norms and rigid cultural constructs which bestow power, dominance and freedom on man, and push her into the margins of both, society and domestic space. The current paper attempts to explore the mechanics of domestic violence, and its treatment in William Shakespeare’s Othello. The aim is to ascertain how the playwright addresses the issue of crime against women within the familial and social world of his times. Based on the theme of power politics within domestic hierarchy, the play not only lays bare a grim picture of domestic abuse and violence against women in matrimony, but also offers an insight into the psyche of abusers. The dialectics of power struggle in the play written in the 16thcentury is a reflection of the playwright’s sensitivity towards the existential reality of women of his times and his negation of male hegemony and criminal violence in conjugal relations. . Vishal Bhardwaj adopted Othello to make the film Omkara in 2006. Bringing the 17th century Elizabethan society in the 21st century Indian setting, Bhardwaj deftly pointed out the present scenario. There are numerous cases of a father’s restriction on daughter’s freedom of choice, brother’s threat to the sister for not to disgrace their family apart from ‘honour killing’. This continues even in the household of her ‘soul mate’ for whom she dares to defy every challenge. The predicament of modern Desdemona’s in the hand of Othello bears the testimony of Shakespeare’s immortal creation and its never ending relevance. The universality of Shakespeare is still rejoiced due to his experiment on the core region of the human psyche which fails to alter even with high-tech service or ‘progressive’ education.  

scholarly journals EFFECT OF COVID-19 LOCKDOWN ON KERALA’S JOB MARKET

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adil Ellikkal ◽  
S Rajamohan
Keyword(s):  
Mortality Rate ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Nipah Virus ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Job Market ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
World Survey ◽  
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The COVID-19 outbreak is an exact reminder that pandemic like other rarely occurring disasters have happened in the past and will continue to happen in the future. Around the globe, countries are in lockdown, and citizens are asked to maintain social distancing and stay at home. This is not first instances that Kerala is fighting against a deadly virus like Coronavirus. Earlier in 2018, Nipah virus had been identified in Kerala and they had mortality rate of 40 to 80 per cent. From previous experience, among all the states in India, Kerala was well and the best prepared to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and has managed to flatten the curve. But COVID-19 hit Kerala very hard, because the major source of revenue comes from tourism and Non-Resident Keralites (NRK’s) remittance drastically fell down. This paper provides vital insight into the effect on COVID-19 on Kerala’s job market. The aim of this study is to find out how Kerala’s job markets are being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since Malayalees are working in different countries across the world, survey method is used to collect data. The study helps us to understand the demographic characteristics of workforce in Kerala. It clearly discusses effect of COVID-19 on different sectors where of Malayalees work across the world. The study also helps to analyze the effect of COVID-19 on employability of graduates and non-graduates. Finally, this study identifies the rate of job loss due to COVID-19 lockdown during the month of June 2020.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Kalantzakos
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Rare Earths ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Major Power ◽  
New Era ◽  
Willingness To Use ◽  
Insight Into

The case of rare earths provides an important window into a new set of international challenges. China, a major power on the rise, maintains its dominance over these crucial strategic materials showing its willingness to use its position to further its political and economic goals. Moreover, the case provides insight into the overall inability of China’s international competitors and rivals to effectively remedy this asymmetry, allowing China to maintain its critical advantage in high tech, renewables and defense applications.As elements, rare earths are enablers. As political instruments, they are increasingly turning into a catalyst in a new era of potentially fraught international relations.

A Model for the Analysis of Virtual Teams

2011 ◽  
pp. 269-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Erik Andriessen ◽  
Robert M. Verburg
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Teams ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Global Virtual Teams ◽  
Helpful Tool ◽  
Organizational Challenges ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
Collaborative Applications ◽  
And Performance ◽  
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Presented in this chapter is a model for the analysis of virtual teams. The model is a helpful tool for mapping the different aspects of effective virtual teams and will be explained through several examples from practice. Before the model is introduced, an overview of the main challenges of virtual teams in performing their tasks is presented. There are hardly any technical obstacles for communication and collaboration across geographic boundaries, as these processes are being supported by high-tech collaboration solutions, such as groupware and other collaborative applications. However, these new types of groups create major organizational challenges for both managers and employees. It is the aim of this chapter to give insight into the design and performance of effective (global) virtual teams.

ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver

Curatopia ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Paul Tapsell
Keyword(s):  
Central City ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
City Region ◽  
Aboriginal Community ◽  
Contact Zones ◽  
The City ◽  
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ćəsnaɁəm, the city before the city is a boundary-breaking exhibition that has successfully challenged the museum world to revisit who is the curator and who is the audience. This chapter provides an indigenous-framed insight into kin accountability as (re)presented to the museum world from the local tribal/aboriginal community perspective of Musqueam. The exhibition was simultaneously displayed in three venues of the Vancouver city region, each providing multiple perspectives of the original inhabitants of a village named c̓əsnaʔəm more than 5000 years old. While the central city venue at the Museum of Vancouver was high-tech and pitched to an international museum visitor, the Museum of Anthropology exhibit was uniquely ephemeral, transient and aimed at shifting preconceived perceptions of what it means to be a modern aboriginal raised in a city established on thousands of years of unbroken occupation. The most challenging of the three exhibits was to be found in the Musqueam village Culture Centre. In this instance the art and treasures were displayed in a manner that required elders to provide interpretation and the audience is their own. Three exhibits, three boundary breaking contact zones, one people, Musqueam.

The landscape of research on learning in low-tech environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 120 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 687-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Campana ◽  
Naresh Kumar Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
High Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Active Learning Strategies ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose This paper aims to review the landscape of research in pedagogy and learning that surmounts the challenges of low-tech, information-rich environments during the past decade. It also reviews the methods used, populations studied and places where such research was carried out and proposes a conceptual framework. Design/methodology/approach A scoping review methodology was used to provide initial, broad insight into the field of learning in low tech environments. Findings The study found that low tech was not a barrier when it came to effectiveness of pedagogy and learning. In addition, it became apparent that active learning strategies combined with no-tech, low-tech and high-tech resources and strategies can lead to learning environments that are learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered and community-centered. Originality/value The authors propose the framework for learning in low-tech, information-rich environments, which can be used by researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers in environments with low technology, or in those with high technology seeking to transfer expertise and technology to these areas.

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