scholarly journals Case study on work improvement in care work settings by focusing on workload in manual patient lifting operations

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. n/a
Author(s):  
Naomichi Tani
Keyword(s):  
Care Work ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Patient Lifting

COLLABORATECOM SPECIAL ISSUE ANALYZING DISTRIBUTED WHITEBOARD INTERACTIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (03) ◽  
pp. 199-220
Author(s):  
LUTZ GERICKE ◽  
RAJA GUMIENNY ◽  
CHRISTOPH MEINEL
Keyword(s):  
Internal Structure ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distributed Work ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Simplified Analysis ◽  
Digital Whiteboard

We present the digital whiteboard system Tele-Board, which automatically captures all interactions made on the all-digital whiteboard and thus offers possibilities for a fast interpretation of usage characteristics. Analyzing team work at whiteboards is a time-consuming and error-prone process if manual interpretation techniques are applied. In a case study, we demonstrate how to conduct and analyze whiteboard experiments with the help of our system. The study investigates the role of video compared to an audio-only connection for distributed work settings. With the simplified analysis of communication data, we can prove that the video teams were more active than the audio teams and the distribution of whiteboard interaction between team members was more balanced. This way, an automatic analysis can not only support manual observations and codings, but also give insights that cannot be achieved with other systems. Beyond the overall view on one sessions focusing on key figures, it is also possible to find out more about the internal structure of a session.

Carceral Spaces and Social Reproduction: Exploring Export Processing Zones in Sri Lanka and Prisons in Argentina

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Pereyra-Iraola ◽  
Samanthi J Gunawardana
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Active Form ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Export Processing Zones ◽  
Study Materials ◽  
Export Processing

Abstract The article reflects on the ways in which social reproduction intersects with (im)mobility in export-processing zones in Sri Lanka and the outskirts of prisons in Argentina. Framing factories and prisons as “carceral spaces” and drawing upon diverse case study materials, it focuses on (i) the daily circulations and waiting that take place around these closely regulated sites and (ii) the relations of care that emerge in these sites. The article analyzes how gendered care work can be an active form of agency and resistance to structural confinement and violence, which is nevertheless embedded in broader forms of depletion.

Evidence-Based Practice in Schools

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Meline ◽  
Teri Paradiso
Keyword(s):  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Step Model

This article examines the clinician/researcher relationship, suggests directions for improving the relationship, and discusses avenues for transferring information from research to clinical practice. An eight-step model for transferring research studies to practice is adopted, and three of the eight steps are targeted for discussion and illustration. To illustrate the use and interpretation of effect size measures for practical significance, as well as the transfer of research results to practice (evidence-based practice [EBP]), a case study from the contemporary literature is presented. Speech-language pathologists in schools and other work settings were surveyed to evaluate barriers to EBP. The survey suggested several possible barriers to EBP. For example, the speech-language pathologists surveyed agreed that there is not enough time on the job for research and other EBP activities. Collaborations between clinicians and researchers are recommended as a good avenue for applied research. The methods illustrated for critically evaluating research are useful for engaging EBPs. Further, clinicians in schools are encouraged to adopt EBPs with active involvement in research collaboration whenever possible.

Guiding and enabling liminal experiences between business and arts organizations operating in a sponsorship relationship

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annmarie Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Case Study Research ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Liminal Experiences ◽  
Shed Light

Through the lens of liminality, this article considers the identity work engaged in by managers working at the boundary of the organization. Liminality has been used to shed light on the ambiguous positions of temporary employees, consultants and project teams. As such, the concept has become synonymous with temporary, transient or precarious work settings. However, in this article I consider the efforts that managers make to set up and co-create the support structure they require to enter into and leave liminal experiences. I draw on a social anthropology to reconsider the movements between these ‘in’ and ‘out’ phases, and introduce two kinds of enabling roles: guide and ally. Through the use of a longitudinal case study research design the article contributes to the delineation between transitory and perpetual liminality, to include the notion of temporary incorporation. In distinguishing temporary incorporation from perpetual liminality, we can shift attention towards the possibilities of incremental learning in limen, where the subject and the context remain subject to change.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Casework Tinkering

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maj Nygaard-Christensen ◽  
Bagga Bjerge ◽  
Jeppe Oute
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Unique Case ◽  
Complex Problems ◽  
Single User ◽  
To Receive

Citizens with complex problems are often in touch with different welfare services and administrative systems in order to receive the help, they need. Sometimes these services overlap and sometimes they conflict. The lack of ready-made services to match the complex, multiple, and often shifting needs of citizens with complex problems presents a challenge to caseworkers in the welfare system. In this article, we zoom in on the management of a single user´s case, in order to examine in detail how caseworkers nevertheless make casework ‘work’. We employ the concept of ‘tinkering’ to highlight the ad hoc and experimental way in which caseworkers work towards adjusting services to the unique case of such citizens. Tinkering has previously been used in studies of human-technology relations, among others in studies of care-work in the welfare system. In this paper, we employ the concept to capture and describe a style of working that, although not a formally recognized method, might be recognizable to many caseworkers in the welfare system. We show how tinkering involves the negotiation of three topics of concern, namely the availability of services, the potentials of services to be adjusted to the particular problems of the citizen, and finally, the potential for interpreting these problems and the citizen’s needs in a way that they match the service. We further demonstrate that casework tinkering involves both short-term and long-term negotiation of services. Firstly, tinkering is involved in the continual adjustment and tailoring of services to the immediate needs of the citizen, but secondly, it also speaks to a more proactive process of working towards a more long-term goal.

scholarly journals Situated cognition and the ethnographic study of translation processes: Translation scholars as outsiders, consultants and passionate participants

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Milošević ◽  
Hanna Risku
Keyword(s):  
Project Managers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Scientific Experiments ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
The Relationship

Whereas traditional methods of translation process research aim predominantly at fulfilling the requirements for controlled scientific experiments, shifts towards embodiment and situatedness at a conceptual level require methodological innovations for the analysis of cognitive processes as embedded in their relevant environments. In this article, we concentrate on one of the main challenges in the ethnographic study of translation processes in the translation workplace: the relationship between the researchers and the participants. Drawing on data from a multiple case study, we investigate the perceived role of the researchers and the mutual expectations of both the observers and the observed. In doing so, we examine the attitudes of translators and translation project managers towards researchers in a series of different work settings. Our results indicate that the enquirer posture imposed on the researchers by some participants corresponds with the formers’ planned methodological and epistemological approaches, as do their expected trade-offs. Others, in turn, differ substantially from the researchers in their expectations. Based on our own experience and subsequent reflections, we argue that fostering connections between translation scholars and practitioners may contribute to overcoming some of the methodological challenges of ethnographic research in Translation Studies.

scholarly journals Technology Implementation in Elderly Care: Subject Positioning in Times of Transformation

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 628-649
Author(s):  
Beata Segercrantz ◽  
Maria Forss
Keyword(s):  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Specific Effects ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Subject Positioning

Innovation is often celebrated as a solution to various challenges in care work. Thus, a growing number of care workers are likely to experience innovations in their daily work. This article examines how care workers and project workers in elderly care are affected by contemporary transformations by exploring: (1) how they construct meanings around innovation implementation and (2) are subject positioned in relation to these meanings. Drawing on discourse analysis, we conduct a case study and analyze semistructured interviews, observations, and organizational documents. We illustrate how innovation is constructed in terms of optimism, and also as a source for struggle, with specific effects on care workers’ subject positioning. The findings thus contribute to new insights into the contemporary dominating discourse of innovation and its implications at the level of practice and subjectivity.

Turning Our Gaze toward Transgender Educators: Fostering Social Justice Leadership in Educational Institutions

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele J. Dow ◽  
Amanda Claudia Wager
Keyword(s):  
School Administrators ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Mixed Methods Case Study ◽  
Educators Of Color ◽  
Workplace Setting ◽  
Do So

The purpose of this study is to find key supports for educational leaders to provide for transgender educators to succeed in an educational workplace setting. By being and becoming aware of the issues involved and conceptualizing interventions to help transgender educators function at their full potential in the workplace, a school’s leadership fosters social equity while also increasing the effectiveness of its organization. This paper draws from a mixed-methods case study that included a quantitative survey conducted with 27 transgender teachers and school principals and focuses on three qualitative in-depth cases. The results show that while some educational administrations support transgender educators in theory, they lack the proper tools to do so; alternatively, many other administrators remain openly hostile toward transgender educators, forcing some to find other work settings. For transgender educators of color, this task is more daunting because they face exponentially higher rates of violence and discrimination. To properly support and supervise transgender educators and principals, educational administrators must learn the necessary skills to provide a more welcoming environment for transgender educators, many of whom experience a myriad of personal struggles. These findings and the insights acquired have implications for transgender educators as well as state, district, and school administrators who wish to better support this growing segment of the LGBTQIA+ community.

“We’re keeping everything together with Band-Aids”: a case study of care work and family violence during a US oil boom

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-411
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Legerski ◽  
Laura C. Hand
Keyword(s):  
Family Violence ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Oil Boom ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Us ◽  
Domestic Violence Survivors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Bakken region of the US recently experienced an oil boom, resulting in population growth and social change, including increased family violence. Drawing on care work literature, we ask: how might rural resource development impact the care work associated with services for domestic violence survivors? Utilising thematic analysis techniques, we examine data from in-depth interviews conducted with 50 care workers. We find that oil booms: (1) create more demand for care work; (2) lead to a scarcity of care workers; and (3) impact care delivery and burnout among care workers. Findings illustrate the importance of considering care as human infrastructure.

Activity-based flexible office

2019 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Zamani ◽  
Dawn Gum
Keyword(s):  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Workplace Satisfaction ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Perceived Satisfaction ◽  
Work Outcome ◽  
Support Autonomy ◽  
Case Organization ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Corporations balancing real estate holding (CRE) costs with recruitment-retention increasingly use activity-based flexible offices (AFO) to right-size environments for a mobile workforce. In this layout, workers have the option to select between a mix of unassigned workstations and alternative work settings (AWS) that support autonomy and mobility. The open layout encourages visibility and access to colleagues to enhance communication and collaboration. Nevertheless, studies into the effects of AFO environment attribute effects on worker needs and work outcome are sparse. Therefore, this study aims to focus on understanding how environmental features and psychological or job needs impact observed and perceived satisfaction, communication, collaboration and perceived productivity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected in a case organization piloting an AFO before implementation across their CRE portfolio. A mixed-methods approach was used, including systematic observations, space syntax and surveys collecting information on the observed and perceived satisfaction, communication, collaboration and productivity. Findings Collaboration instances were higher in AWS, especially more visible and accessible open areas, supporting higher impromptu interactions and enhanced perceptions of productivity of team members and cross-team members. Privacy requirements linked to a greater demand for enclosed AWS. Team communication satisfaction depended on how easily teams were located. Almost half of the user teams clustered within workstation zones corresponding to territoriality needs. Job autonomy satisfaction depended on the availability of preferred workstation or AWS, enabling private, uninterrupted work that enhanced perceived productivity. Practical implications The case study findings indicated a correlation between the AFO environment and worker needs impacting workplace satisfaction, communication, collaboration and perceived productivity. Originality/value The findings form this case study indicated that a fit between the AFO environment and needs impacted workplace satisfaction, communication, collaboration and perceived productivity.

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