The Integrated Application of Job Enrichment and Ergonomics

1976 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 183-186
Author(s):  
John Rendel de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Present Author ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
Systematic Method ◽  
Extrinsic Factors ◽  
Economic Council ◽  
Job Enrichment ◽  
The One

Job enlargement (including job enrichment) and ergonomics have developed almost independently until now and are mostly not applied jointly. Moreover, quite a number of cases are known in which aiming at job enlargement has not been successful. Reasons appear to have been fairly often: • a one-sided emphasis on intrinsic or extrinsic factors • the missing of a systematic method for work (re-)design • the absence of participation by the employees concerned and lower management in the process of job enlargement and its implementation. The present author feels that job enlargement should be integrated into work (re-)design and that the approach applied should be marked by: • the jointly taking into account of functional, economical, technological and human factors, including the systematic removing or prevention of discrepancies between the characteristics of the job and the work situation on the one hand and the needs, abilities etc. of the employees on the other; • participation in the various steps of such an approach by the concerned employees. One of the goals of a project concerning such a methodology (and that is supported by the Netherlands Social-Economic Council) is to develop training methods for those who play a part in work (re-)design in the indicated sense.

scholarly journals Revisiting Health in Colonial Bengal: A Literary Overview (1880 -1930)

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
pp. 374-377
Author(s):  
Tinni Goswami Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
British Raj ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
The One ◽  
Active Link

The essential theme of this paper is to highlight the condition of health and hygiene in the British Bengal from the perspective of official documents and vernacular writings, with special emphasis on the journals and periodicals. The fatal effects of the epidemics like malaria and cholera, the insanitary condition of the rural Bengal and the cultivated indifference of the British Raj made the lives of the poor natives miserable and ailing. The authorities had a tendency to blame the colonized for their illiteracy and callousness, which became instrumental for the outbreak of the epidemics. On the other, in the late 19 th and the beginning of the 20th, the vernacular literature played the role of a catalyst in awakening health awareness, highlighting the issues related with ill health, insanitation and malnourishment. More importantly, it became an active link between the society and culture on the one hand, and health and people on the other. The present researcher wants to highlight these opposite trajectories of mentalities with a different connotation. The ideologies of the Raj and the native political aspirations often reflected in the colonial writings, where the year 1880 was considered as a landmark in the field of public health policies. On the other, the dichotomy between the masters and the colonized took a prominent shape during 1930s. Within these fifty years; the health of the natives witnessed many upheavals grounded on the social, economic and cultural tensions.

scholarly journals Women and Ijtihad: Towards a New Islamic Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-33
Author(s):  
Heba Raouf Ezzat
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
The One

A phenomenon of extreme polarization between the Islamist and the secular camps characterizes the intellectual scene regarding social, economic, and political issues in the Arab-Islamic world. This is especially true with respect to women’s issues, which are a very hotly contested terrain. Understanding this reality clearly requires a historic overview to comprehend how this polarization occurred and map the debate between supporters of “modernity and contemporality” (al-hadatha wa-l-mu‘asara) on the one hand, and supporters of “tradition and authenticity” (al-turath wal-asala) on the other. Though this is not at the heart of our research, framing it in its historical context enables us to better understand the roots and origins of the problem, in order to map the debates and foresee future courses more clearly.

Discover, Instrumentalize, Monopolize: Fidesz’s Three-Step Blueprint for a Populist Take-over of Referendums

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pepijn van Eeden
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Apathy ◽  
Risky Option

This article assesses the referendums in Hungary in 2004, 2008, and 2016 diachronically. The review is framed by two competing liberal parliamentary approaches to direct democracy: A useful democratic corrective to the distortions of particracy, or a risky option leading to tyranny of the majority? Rather than choosing sides, this article shows how the conundrum conceals another, more interesting question: Which are the constraints under which the liberal parliamentary viewpoint shifts from the one to the other? Theorizing on post-democracy and populism provides a provisional answer: A consensualized, “post-political” parliament is key, as this, in combination with widening social-economic disparities, incentivizes illiberal populist parties to harness referendums, which prompts liberal parliamentarianists to change their minds. The referendums in 2004, 2008, and 2016 in Hungary substantiate this suspicion. Taken together, they offer a step-by-step blueprint for how, in a thoroughly postpolitical situation, a referendum evolves into a perfect catalyst for populists on their road to power, enabling them with (a) agenda-setting; (b) an explosive emphasis on popular legitimacy; (c) arousing voluntarism, while luring opponents into campaigning for boycott and political apathy; (d) combining social equalitarianism with identarian protectionism, and most importantly; (e) bypassing parliament itself. This article is part of the special cluster titled Political Parties and Direct Democracy in Eastern Europe, guest-edited by Sergiu Gherghina.

scholarly journals Vidljive i prikrivene sociokulturne posljedice uniformiranosti suvremenog turizma

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlatko Jadrešić
Keyword(s):  
Stable Distribution ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Phenomenon ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Phenomena

The duality of contemporary tourism is reflected in the stable distribution o f, on the one hand, positive and, on the other, negative and unfavourable social and economic functions. The paper investigates the causes and the manifestations of a specific and more and more significant (regarding its immanent dangers) field of tourism which speaks of the so-called “other”, dark, negative, unfavourable, conflictual, even pathological in certain elements side of this contemporary and prestigious-important social-economic phenomenon. The investigation is a segment of the author’s scientific project which has been accepted by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Technology entitled “Social and Economic Contradictions of Croatian Tourism” and whichwill investigate the social and sociocultural negative phenomena in tourism both in Croatia and elsewhere. The aim and purpose of die project is to diagnose the problems, to systematise them, to establish the ways and measures to relativise, alleviate or uproot a part or the totality of these phenomena all with the purpose to affirm and advance its positive social and economic functions and activities in order to achieve more permanent and lucrative social and economic effects. Various examples of visible and hidden consequences from world tourism culled from the relevant sources warn and make suggestions to Croatian toursim how to “actualize” this question for the benefit of tourism in Croatia.

Gardzienice: a Village, a Theatre, and a Cultural Crossroads

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (29) ◽  
pp. 48-58
Author(s):  
Paul Allain
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

Appropriately, this feature on the Polish theatre group Gardzienice is something of a cultural mix, in which the impressions of an English visitor may be contrasted with the voice of a Polish admirer – and the beliefs of the group itself, expressed in the words of its director, Wlodzimierz Staniewski. In the winter of 1989–90, Paul Allain, a graduate student at Goldsmiths' College, University of London, visited the company at its ‘headquarters’ – which is also, in effect, the small and remote Polish village from which Gardzienice takes its name. This was at a time when the new. Solidarity-led government had yet to be fully felt. Here, Allain describes the training methods and disciplines of the company which, within the context of its physical environment, have come to constitute a lifestyle as much as an approach to theatre. Janusz Majcherek writes rather of the significance of Gardzienice in relation to the ancient and fundamental need for a homeland – a need which, in Staniewski's writings, is related to the company's own hopes and plans. All this material was in our hands well before the upsurge in nationalist feeling which has succeeded the political changes in eastern Europe: and it may be felt to reflect ironically upon alternative ways of ‘returning home’ – on the one hand through the actuality or threat of civil war and the struggle for an elusive slice of the ‘free market’, on the other in that quest for a lost history and inheritance, for healing connections with one's environment, which is reflected theatrically in the work of Gardzienice.

scholarly journals The phenomenon of "narcosis progression" in mammals

1913 ◽  
Vol 86 (586) ◽  
pp. 140-164 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Present Author ◽  
The Other ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Hind Limbs ◽  
Peculiar Form ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Additional Point

At present the subject of “reflex walking” is one almost entirely neglected by physiologists, yet it is of fundamental importance in the physiology of the nervous system. For this reason it is desired to lay stress upon it by means of the present paper, which is to be regarded as a preliminary account of a phenomenon which will later be described in greater detail. The present author has already described certain movements of progression which occur in rabbits while subjected to the state of ether or chloroform narcosis. These movements are of interest in that they exactly resemble the peculiar form of locomotion in that animal—simultaneous movements of the hind limbs (“hopping”) and alternate movements of the fore limbs. An additional point of interest is that scratching movements may occur also in narcosis, and the phenomena of narcosis movements may slide, as it were, from the one type into the other.

The Circumscribed Infinites Scheme (CIS)

Target ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolfo Martín García
Keyword(s):  
Present Author ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
The Other ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
The One

The purpose of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, it seeks to introduce and explain the CIS (Circumscribed Infinites Scheme), a deconstructive scheme for translating poetry; and, on the other, it aims at analyzing the scheme’s impact on the translation into English of a variety of poems by Jorge Luis Borges. Devised by the present author, who is also responsible for the translations analyzed, the CIS is a translational scheme whereby meaning is understood as an inexhaustible textual effect, and which, in its theoretical elucidation, seeks to raise the practicing translator’s awareness of the control he or she might have over the degree of infinite exegetic circumscription—and subsequent infinite exegetic recreation—during the translation process.

scholarly journals Management and Valorization of Urban Solid Waste: Landfills of the Batna City Case

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-665
Author(s):  
Haddad Louiza ◽  
Aouachria Zeroual
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Solid Waste ◽  
The One ◽  
Solid Waste Landfills ◽  
A Current

The treatment of urban solid waste represents, on the one hand, a current problematic drawing the intention of the authorities on their management and recovery through their recovery and recycling, and on the other hand, their gravity that they present on health and the environment. The purpose of this study is to provide solutions to the main questions regarding quantity, management principles, on which depend reliable management, landfilling techniques and their social, economic and environmental impacts. The methodology followed in this study is summarized by the following steps: review of the state of the art, field study and triage. The Batna landfill can, in its most unfavorable state, recycle 760,000 tons per year (between ores, paper, glass and plastic). Actually, recovery of recycled products accounted for only 23.89% for 2015.

scholarly journals Cooperation of the legislative and executive state of the state authorities in the aspects of the modern political system of Ukraine

2019 ◽  
pp. 192-197
Author(s):  
Anastasia Repetska
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Legislative Branch ◽  
The One

One of the main characteristics of any political regime is the power correlation between the legislative and executive branches of state power. In a democratic environment, it should reflect a certain balance of branches of power.The Constitution of Ukraine has defined the principle of separation of power into legislative, executive and judicial (art. 6), each of them is independent from the other one and acts within its competence. Theoretically fixed in the Constitution principles of power separation aim between legislative and executive branches. However in the conditions of social-economic crisis, in which the country has been acting since 1990s, between multi-vectored political forces and striving of executive power for widening of its authorities, that is fixed in the Constitution, the presidential-parliamentary form of administration very often has led not only to constitutional cooperation of powers but to the competition between the President and executive power on the one hand, and Verhovna Rada, on the other hand. So, today the need for reconsideration of both the correlation of authorities and cooperation between branches of power in Ukraine has become obvious. Keywords: legislative branch of government, executive branch of government, cooperation, political system.

scholarly journals Environment And Sustainable Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Shalini Singh ◽  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The One ◽  
Rate Of Consumption

With the dawn of the 21st century, we are confronted with two conflicting scenarios for the future of man kind. On the one hand, there are possibilities of a bright future with press button living, space shuttles, information technology, genetic engineering and such other advances in science and technology. On the other hand, a grim scenario is looming large with burgeoning population starved of resources and choked by pollution. Faced with such crucial situation wherein we stand at the crossroads in choosing between environment and development we feel the need of ‘Sustainable Development’. The concept of sustainable development means that the rate of consumption or use of natural resources should approximate the rate at which these resources can be substituted or replaced. It further requires that a nation or society is able to satisfy its requirements- social, economic or others without jeopardising the interest of future generations. The paper broadly tries to outline the basic concept of sustainable development, the world-wide activities initiated to deal with environmental problems and the major strategies that can be adopted by nations for sustainable development.

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