scholarly journals Work as management in an environment governed by standards: a study of situations in the steel industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Carneiro ◽  
Mônica de Fatima Bianco ◽  
Adelson Pereira do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Steel Company ◽  
Testing Laboratory ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Work Accidents

Abstract: This article aims to analyze the renormalization processes in work situations of technicians working in a testing laboratory of a steel company in Southeastern Brazil, explaining the contributions of the analytical perspective of Ergology when investigating how workers are organized to manage their activities in order to meet their production and quality goals, their personal as well as customer satisfaction, and protect themselves from work accidents. The qualitative research was carried out based on the analytical approach of Ergology, and the instruments used for data production were documentary investigation within the organization, direct observation of the activities, and semi-structured interviews with the participating workers. The data were treated using content analysis. It was found that these workers value standard operating procedures as tools to aid in the execution of their duties, but criticize them for being extensive, making consultation tiresome, and request more condensed, practical, and attractive procedures for handling. Research showed that certain unforeseen events in the process are only remedied by oneself and the other, demonstrating that the more complete a prescription is, collective experience fills any gaps, since the activity is more complex than anticipated by the standards. This study may contribute to a better understanding of situations common to the steel industry, as well as to academic progress, demarcating the importance of renormalizations not yet explored in this field of study – Ergology in the –Brazilian steel industry.

scholarly journals Enculturating a Community of Action (CoA): A qualitative study of health professions educators' perspectives on teaching with Wikipedia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo C Martin ◽  
Lauren Maggio ◽  
Heather Murray ◽  
John M Willinsky
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Based Medicine

Purpose: There is a growing desire for health professions educators to engage learners in more meaningful instruction. Many have tapped Wikipedia to offer an applied approach to engage learners, particularly as it relates to evidence-based medicine (EBM). However, little is known about the benefits and challenges of using Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool from the collective experience of educators who have sought to improve their instructional practice with it. This study aims to uncover and synthesize the perspectives of health professions education (HPE) instructors who have incorporated Wikipedia in their HPE courses. Methods: Applying a constructivist approach, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 participating HPE instructors who had substantively integrated Wikipedia into their curriculum. Participants were interviewed about their experiences of integrating Wikipedia editing into their courses. Thematic analysis was conducted on resulting transcripts. Results: Authors observed two broad themes among participants' expressed benefits of teaching with Wikipedia: 1) provides a meaningful instructional alternative that also benefits society and develops learners' information literacy and EBM skills, and 2) supports learners' careers and professional identity formation. Identified challenges included: 1) high effort and time, 2) issues with sourcing references, and 3) challenging interactions with skeptics, editors, and students. Discussion: Findings build on known benefits, such as providing a real-world collaborative project that contextualizes students' learning experiences. They also echo known challenges, such as the resource-intensive nature of teaching with Wikipedia. At the same time, findings extend the current literature by revealing a potential opportunity to approach crowd-sourced information tools, like Wikipedia, as a vehicle to engage and enculturate HPE students within a situated learning context. These findings present implications for HPE programs considering implementing Wikipedia and faculty development needed to help instructors harness crowd-sourced information tools' pedagogical opportunities as well as anticipate their challenges.

scholarly journals Exploring the Viewpoint of Oil Industry Employees about Factors Affecting the Success of Standard Operating Procedures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iman Shaban ◽  
Ali asghar Farshad ◽  
Rasoul Yarahmadi ◽  
Morteza Mansourian ◽  
Seyedeh Melika Kharghani Moghadam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Standard Operating Procedures ◽  
Oil Refining ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Standard Operating

Background: Different factors affect the success of standard operational procedures (SOPs). This study was conducted to explore the viewpoints of employees of Tehran Oil Refining Company about factors affecting the usability of SOPs. Methods: This qualitative study was a conventional content analysis research conducted on the oil refining company employers 2020, using  the semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed by content analysis method using MAXQDA software. Results: The results showed that the employees had a positive perception toward the standard operating procedures and most of them used these procedures to improve work performance and reduce accidents. Also, from the viewpoint of the employees, organizational factors (desirable organizational culture, continuous supervision and evaluation and assurance of accurate implementation of instructions, and continuous personnel training), individual factors (positive perception of the personnel about the organization goals, rules obedience of the personnel, positive experiences of personnel from the implementation of instructions in the past), and environmental factors (environmental dynamics and their related SOP dynamics, desirable but formal relationships of managers and supervisors with personnel as well as optimal and standard work schedule) had a positive effect on the applicability of these procedures. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that the employees, consider standard operating procedures of organizational, individual, and environmental factors effective in using standard operating instructions. Therefore, to increase the applicability of these procedures, the employees should consider their opinions.

scholarly journals Doing It for Themselves: The Steel Company of Wales and the Study of American Industrial Productivity, 1945–1955

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUISE MISKELL
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
Iron And Steel Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Steel Company ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Industrial Productivity ◽  
Steel Sector ◽  
Anglo American

This article examines the efforts of one British steel company to acquire knowledge about American industrial productivity in the first post-World War II decade. It argues that company information-gathering initiatives in this period were overshadowed by the work of the formal productivity missions of the Marshall Plan era. In particular, it compares the activities of the Steel Company of Wales with the Anglo-American Council on Productivity (AACP), whose iron and steel industry productivity team report was published in 1952. Based on evidence from its business records, this study shows that the Steel Company of Wales was undertaking its own international productivity investigations, which started earlier and were more extensive and differently focused from those of the AACP. It makes the case for viewing companies as active participants in the gathering and dissemination of productivity knowledge in Britain’s steel sector after 1945.

scholarly journals Ethnoecology and socioeconomic around an artificial reef: the case of artisanal fisheries from southeastern Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliano Silva Lima ◽  
Camilah Antunes Zappes ◽  
Ana Paula Madeira Di Beneditto ◽  
Ilana Rosental Zalmon
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Artificial Reef ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Target Species ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Production Chain ◽  
Commercial Fish ◽  
Fishery Resources

Abstract: The objective of this study is to describe the ethnoecological aspects, valorization, and commercialization of target species caught by artisanal fishers on the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil. The data were obtained through semi-structured interviews conducted with 60 fishers from the fishing community of Guaxindiba (21°29'S, 41°00'W), which is associated with the Z-1 fishers' colony. Eighty-nine species were cited by the fishers and 44.1% are important commercial fish in the region. The fishers cited five distinct zones used to fish: border zone (68 species), estuary (41 spp.), artificial reef (27 spp.), "malacacheta" (24 spp.), and open ocean (10 spp.). The fishery resources were classified according to their gastronomic and economic characteristics: primary fish (35 spp.), secondary fish (32 spp.), mixed fish (10 spp.), discarded fish (7 spp.), and fish used as bait (5 spp.). The price of the target species increases along the production chain due to the greater number of people involved, processing costs, and improvement of the product. The data from this study can contribute to local fisheries management and point out to the use of artificial reefs in the maintenance of fishery resources in northern Rio de Janeiro.

Using R2L pedagogy in teaching practical writing to non-Chinese speaking students in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Shiu-kee Shum ◽  
Dan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Second Language Education ◽  
Analytical Perspective ◽  
The Status

Abstract Since Hong Kong handover, the language policy in Hong Kong shifts from diglossic bilingualism to bi-literacy and trilingualism policy, balancing the status of English and Chinese with the mother tongue education policy. This policy shift has inadvertently impacted non-Chinese speaking (NCS) students’ enrollment, whose limited mastery of Chinese language prevents them from the mainstream schooling. Faced with this ethnically diverse and multilingual population, Applied Learning Chinese (ApL(C)) motivating practical reading and writing in an applied learning context was proposed by Hong Kong Education Bureau as an alternative for second language education. This study examines the effectiveness of “Reading to Learn, Learning to Write, R2L” pedagogy (Rose, 2012) in teaching Chinese practical writing to NCS students in Hong Kong with pedagogic interventions and Systemic Functional analytical perspective. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to perceive students’ learning experiences with R2L pedagogy. The finding suggests an increased meta-linguistic awareness of genre-specific writings after interventions to be empowered with a voice against social inequity and be empathized with humanistic reflections.

scholarly journals Analysis of professional implication as a tool of permanent education in health

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávio Adriano Borges ◽  
Cinira Magali Fortuna ◽  
Adriana Barbieri Feliciano ◽  
Márcia Niituma Ogata ◽  
Maristel Kasper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Professional Profile

Objective: analyze professional implication with the support of humanization and articulators of permanent education in health as a tool of Permanent Education in Health. Method: this is an interventional study of qualitative approach, based on the theoretical reference of Institutional Analysis. Thirty-five humanization supporters and/or permanent education articulators participated in this study. Semi-structured interviews, monthly meetings, restitution meetings and a daily logbook were used as tools for data production. The material was analyzed according to the principles of the study reference and the results were presented according to the ideological, organizational and libidinal dimensions of professional implication. Results: this study identified a contradiction when finding a professional profile for the development of support and articulation; feelings of discouragement, pessimism and optimism in the development of these roles; influences of the nursing profession on the development of support and articulation; length of professional service; and the absence/presence of desire in such development. Conclusion: the analysis of professional implication consisted of a powerful tool generating training processes. It allowed learning and reflection of the practice through analysis of the actions performed by the professionals, generating changes in the conception of work in health.

KLS2.0 Como Ferramenta Disruptiva do Ensino Híbrido

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Adriano Afonso de Almeida Carvalho ◽  
Edenar Souza Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Production Mechanism ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Data Production ◽  
Digital Recorder ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Predetermined Time

Este texto tem como proposta abrir espaço de discussão sobre o fazer docente ancorado nas contribuições do KLS 2.0 como metodologia ativa, potencializadora de inovação disruptiva na área do Ensino Superior. O método utilizado para este estudo foi o Estudo de Caso, tendo como mecanismo de produção de dados a análise das falas dos sujeitos colhidas através de entrevistas semiestruturadas, ancoradas em um roteiro com questões abertas. A pesquisa contou com a participação de nove (9) docentes do campus Unic Beira Rio I em Cuiabá-MT e as entrevistas aconteceram in loco no período de Setembro a Novembro de 2017. Os docentes pesquisados foram de ambos os sexos, oriundos de cursos variados, sendo que para participar da pesquisa, deveriam estar lecionando ou já terem lecionado em disciplinas AMI (Aula Modelo Institucional). As entrevistas aconteceram em hora e local predeterminado de acordo com a disponibilidade dos sujeitos, sendo gravadas em gravador digital e transcritas, posteriormente, para análise. As identidades dos professores foram mantidas em sigilo e cada um recebeu um codinome: o Professor 1 foi P1, o Professor 2 foi P2 até o Professor 9, P9. Como resultados, a pesquisa apontou que o KLS 2.0 surge para desconstruir a lógica tradicional da sala de aula, buscando uma quebra de paradigmas através de uma reestruturação do processo de ensino-aprendizagem.Palavras-chave: Fazer Docente. Metodologia Ativa. Contribuições do KLS 2.0.AbstractThe purpose of this text is to open a space for discussion about the making of teaching anchored in the contributions of KLS 2.0 as an active methodology, potentiating disruptive innovation in the higher education area. The method used for this study was the Case Study, having as a data production mechanism the subjects’ speeches analysis collected through semi-structured interviews, anchored in a script with open questions. The research was attended by nine (9) Professors from the Unic Beira Rio campus in Cuiabá-MT and took place on the spot from September to November 2017. The Professors  were of both sexes, coming from varied courses, to participate in the research, should be teaching or have already taught in AMI (Institutional Model Class) disciplines. The interviews took place at a predetermined time and place according to the subjects' availability, being recorded in digital recorder and transcribed later for analysis. The Professors’ identities were kept confidential and each was codenamed: Teacher 1 was P1, Teacher 2 was P2 to Professor 9 which was P9. As results the research pointed out that KLS 2.0 arises to deconstruct the traditional logic of the classroom, seeking a paradigm break through a restructuring of the teaching-learning process.Keywords: Teaching. Active Methodology. KLS 2.0 Contributions.

Case Study Economic Valuation of Family Farming In the Peruvian Amazon in the Present Contexts of Ecological and Social Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Rider PANDURO-MELENDEZ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
Data Production ◽  
San Martín

The present work corresponds to five different case studies of peasant agriculture and of 2 social types: one Amazonian and the other Andean immigrant, located in four different ecological floors. It was carried out in the Pilluana and Three United districts, Picota province, San Martín department, Upper Amazon of Peru. Open and semi-structured interviews were conducted and, direct observations of the various activities that exist in each family property with tours of each of the plots that it has on its properties in order to record in-situ information regarding the diversity they conserve, the uses and destinations of this diversity, concentrating on the value of diversity that is market oriented; it was analyzed on the basis of diversified production data, production volumes, values for each of them, environmental values, and food security and sovereignty; noting their resilience, adaptation and mitigation to the disorders of the contexts that present themselves. Keywords. Economic Valuation, Family Farming, In situ, Diversity, Marke

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