scholarly journals Neo-villeiny and the service sector: the case of hyper flexible and precarious work in fitness centres

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraint Harvey ◽  
Carl Rhodes ◽  
Sheena J Vachhani ◽  
Karen Williams
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
Personal Trainers ◽  
Personal Trainer ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This article presents data from a comprehensive study of hyper flexible and precarious work in the service sector. A series of interviews were conducted with self-employed personal trainers along with more than 200 hours of participant observation within fitness centres in the UK. Analysis of the data reveals a new form of hyper flexible and precarious work that is labelled neo-villeiny in this article. Neo-villeiny is characterized by four features: bondage to the organization; payment of rent to the organization; no guarantee of any income; and extensive unpaid and speculative work that is highly beneficial to the organization. The neo-villeiny of the self-employed personal trainer offers the fitness centre all of the benefits associated with hyper flexible work, but also mitigates the detrimental outcomes associated with precarious work. The article considers the potential for adoption of this new form of hyper flexible and precarious work across the broader service sector.

PERFIL DA GESTÃO DO NEGÓCIO DOS PERSONAL TRAINERS DE CURITIBA/PR

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Renato Aurélio Vidal Garcia Filho ◽  
Wesllen Gian Carvalho ◽  
Ana Paula Cabral Bonin Maoski ◽  
Carla Cristina Tagliari
Keyword(s):  
Personal Trainers ◽  
Personal Trainer

O sucesso do mercado fitness e seu consequente crescimento necessita de profissionais capacitados na área da gestão com conhecimento em marketing, finanças, administração e gerenciamento. Dentre as inúmeras áreas que o profissional formado em Bacharelado em Educação Física pode atuar, o enfoque deste trabalho está no segmento de Personal Trainer (PT). Esta demanda abre uma grande oportunidade e procura pelo serviço dos PTs, onde as pessoas buscam estes com vários objetivos, como: qualidade de vida, status, preparação física, dentre outros. O crescimento no número de oportunidades de trabalho ao PT é compatível com o ascendente número de profissionais atuantes no mercado, logo “preparação” e “qualificação” são diferenciais para obter melhores retornos financeiros. Sendo assim o objetivo deste trabalho foi de apresentar o atual perfil da gestão do negócio do PT atuante em Curitiba/PR. Foi realizada uma pesquisa descritiva quantitativa, através da aplicação de um questionário com 282 participantes, dos quais apenas 262 foram credenciados para a pesquisa. As constatações principais foram que no setor de gestão de pessoas os profissionais estão preocupados em fazer atualizações e/ou cursos na área, além de buscarem fazer de alguma maneira uma avaliação de seu trabalho com seus clientes. Em relação ao marketing observou-se que os profissionais pretendem fidelizar seus clientes, porém não realizam pacotes de aderência, o que seria recomendável; além disso, se preocupam em saber o motivo da desistência de seus serviços por parte de seus clientes contudo não possuem um padrão para estipular o preço de seus serviços ficando portanto, vulnerável ao mercado. Por fim, a gestão financeira também carece de maior preocupação haja vista que poucos profissionais confeccionam planilhas de gastos, formalizam contratos com os clientes ou preocupam-se com seus planos de previdência.

The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262098676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yue ◽  
Marc Cowling
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Rare Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hours Of Work ◽  
Period Data ◽  
The Uk

It is well documented that the self-employed experience higher levels of happiness than waged employees even when their incomes are lower. Given the UK government’s asymmetric treatment of waged workers and the self-employed, we use a unique Covid-19 period data set which covers the months leading up to the March lockdown and the months just after to assess three aspects of the Covid-19 crisis on the self-employed: hours of work reductions, the associated income reductions and the effects of both on subjective well-being. Our findings show the large and disproportionate reductions in hours and income for the self-employed directly contributed to a deterioration in their levels of subjective well-being compared to waged workers. It appears that their resilience was broken when faced with the reality of dealing with rare events, particularly when the UK welfare support response was asymmetric and favouring waged employees.

Studies of Compositional Variations in Germanium Quantum Dots Grown on Silicon

2000 ◽  
Vol 638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D.F. Dunbar ◽  
Matthew P. Halsall ◽  
Uschi Bangert ◽  
Alan Harvey ◽  
Philip Dawson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Asymmetric Distribution ◽  
Scanning Transmission Electron ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Scanning Transmission ◽  
The Uk

AbstractWe report optical and scanning transmission electron microscopy studies of germanium dots grown on silicon. In an attempt to control the self-organized growth process and promote dot size uniformity the dot layers were grown on a 4.5nm Si0.6Ge0.4 alloy template layer. Photoluminescence results indicate the formation of carrier confining Ge rich islands, whilst Raman scattering results indicate the presence of an alloy throughout the structures formed. The samples were studied in the UK high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy facility at Liverpool, UK. Energy dispersive analysis of individual line scans through the sample show that the structures are composed of an alloy throughout with an asymmetric distribution of Germanium in the dots and in the wetting layer close to the dots. We discuss the results in the light of the proposed growth mode for these dots and conclude that attempts to manipulate the composition of these dots during growth may be problematic due to the self-organized nature of their formation.

The Appointed Actuary.

1987 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 559-629
Author(s):  
Edward A. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Life Insurance ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Professional Role ◽  
The Self ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Prudential Supervision ◽  
Government Supervision ◽  
The Uk

1.1 A paper about the Appointed Actuary is essentially a paper about prudential supervision of life insurance companies. The system which has operated in the UK since the mid-1970's is only partly one of Government supervision. Through the professional role of the Appointed Actuary, it also contains elements of a system of self-regulation with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries standing in place of SRO's. Unlike the self-regulatory arrangements of the Financial Services Act. though, this second part of the system has grown up by custom and practice and in certain respects it is not codified. However it enables the Insurance Companies Act to be operated successfully.

scholarly journals From passionate labour to compassionate work: Cultural co-ops, do what you love and social change

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Interview Research ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Cultural Sector

This article focuses on the relation between work and pleasure in the cultural sector. I first unpack the concept of passionate work, situating it within four possible ways of relating work and pleasure. I argue that the work ethic of do what you love, contrary to what it promises, limits the prospects of loveable work. As part of a neoliberal work culture, do what you love transfers the battleground from society onto the self. It favours self-management over politics. Drawing on findings from interview research with members of worker co-operatives in the UK cultural industries, I then go on to explore the relation between work and pleasure within cultural co-ops. I discuss how cultural co-ops might inspire and contribute to a movement for transforming the future of work by turning the desire for loveable work from a matter of individual transformation and competition into a practice of co-operation and social change.

Hormone replacement therapy with estradiol and drospirenone: An overview of the clinical data

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 4-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Hormone Replacement Therapy ◽  
Bone Density ◽  
Replacement Therapy ◽  
Endometrial Hyperplasia ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Estrogen Therapy ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mineralocorticoid Activity ◽  
Synthetic Progestogen

A new form of continuous combined hormone replacement therapy has become available that contains estradiol and drospirenone as the progestogen component. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestogen, the only one in hormone replacement therapy in the UK that possesses clinically relevant anti-mineralocorticoid activity. The combination of estradiol and drospirenone has been shown to provide relief from estrogen-deficiency symptoms of the menopause. It also helps to prevent osteoporosis in postmenopausal women by increasing bone density. Further, it has been shown to provide protection against endometrial hyperplasia associated with unopposed estrogen therapy.

scholarly journals Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Nabil Khattab
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
The Uk

<p class="pagecontents"><span lang="EN-GB">This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.</span></p>

scholarly journals Revisiting Dearing: Higher Education and the Construction of the ’Belabored’ Self

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 731-753
Author(s):  
Alan Apperley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
The Self ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Learning Society ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Several authors have identified a ’therapeutic turn’ in education in the UK, at all levels of the system. In this paper I focus on and develop this claim, specifically in relation to the Higher Education sector. I seek to do two things: First, I argue that the ‘self’ which is identified by commentators on the therapeutic turn needs to be reworked in the direction of McGee’s idea of the ’belabored’ self. This is because the therapeutic turn serves, I argue, a set of wider economic goals arising from the restructuring of capitalism which followed in the wake of the oil crisis of 1973 and the subsequent breakdown of the post-war (1939-1945) consensus around the purpose of public policy, of which education is an important part. Second, I revisit an important document in the history of the UK Higher Education sector: the National Committee of Inquiry Into Higher Education’s 1997 report Higher Education In The Learning Society (known popularly as the Dearing Report, after its chair, Sir Ron Dearing). I argue that that the committee’s ambition to bring about a learning society characterised by lifelong learning played an important and neglected part in bringing about the therapeutic turn in higher education in the UK. The project of creating a learning society characterised by lifelong learning, advocated by the Dearing Report, should properly be recognised as an exhortation to embark upon a lifetime of labouring upon the self.

scholarly journals Processos de autoavaliação de escolas ou avaliação interna do sistema?

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Anabela Barros Pinto Sousa ◽  
Manuela Terrasêca
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Process Models ◽  
External Evaluation ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Form

Evaluation, in the current context of education policy, is an instrument of regulation of action. In Portugal, public schools evaluation focuses on the dimensions of self-evaluation and external evaluation, the articulation of both being normatively imposed and also encouraged in various evaluation, benchmarking, and monitoring initiatives. Based on document analysis of background documents and reports of evaluation of schools initiatives, this article presents the various concepts of school self-evaluation in those documents and reflects on the "self" dimension of this self-evaluation in Portuguese public schools as an exercise of autonomy and accountability. Since 2002, the guidelines for self-evaluating schools are known. Although the administrations continue to say that it is not intended to induce the process, models and tools for evaluating schools, particularly the External Evaluation of Schools (EES), have been carrying a soft orientation / regulation, since they call for the school to produce a discourse built around the analysis of dimensions that they impose. This "new form of governance", assuming itself as a form of regulation of this action, can become a form of self-evaluation as a discourse, more or less standardized, which is a part of (self)-evaluationt of the system, rather than a process of construction of negotiated and shared references in school. We aim to characterize this self-evaluation, from the EES's conceptual framework analysis, and study the dimensions in which it is applied, as well as to clarify its place in the evolution of the EES model.

scholarly journals A comparative analysis of the board evaluation in European entities: Italy vs UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 578-587
Author(s):  
Donatella Busso ◽  
Alain Devalle ◽  
Fabio Rizzato
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Size Composition ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Corporate Governance Codes ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
The Uk

Board evaluation is an evaluation of the performance of the board of directors and its committees, as well as their size, composition and operation. The aim of this paper is to investigate how entities do the evaluation of the performance of the board and how they disclose the self-assessment. We analysed the largest forty constituents of both Italy’s FTSE MIB index and the UK’s FTSE 100 index. The results show that although Corporate Governance Codes’ requirements are similar, implementation of these requirements and the related disclosure continue to show significant differences. The UK companies seem to have a stronger “forward-looking” approach compared to Italian companies. Disclosure provided by Italian companies is too often not enough to enable stakeholder understanding of the process and its outcome. This research contributes to the literature by providing results on the evaluation of boards of directors: regulators, practitioners and researchers must deal with this topic in order to strengthen the rules of corporate governance.

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