scholarly journals Learning What you Really, Really Want: Towards a Conceptual Framework of New Learning in the Digital Work Environment

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Decius ◽  
Timo Kortsch ◽  
Hilko Paulsen ◽  
Anja Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
New Learning ◽  
Digital Work

The impact of workplace change of a private jet company on employee satisfaction

Facilities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (13/14) ◽  
pp. 943-960
Author(s):  
Chaiwat Riratanaphong ◽  
Bovornpak Chaiprasien
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Employee Satisfaction ◽  
Workplace Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Job Functions ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of a private jet company’s change of workplace on employees’ satisfaction using specific variables from a conceptual framework of workplace change appraisal. Another purpose of the study is to identify the relationships between staff characteristics and satisfied aspects of a work environment. Design/methodology/approach A case study was conducted at MJets – a company in the aviation and private jet sector. The research methods included field surveys, document analysis and a set of questionnaires on employee satisfaction, which were then analysed and discussed. Findings The findings show that organisational contexts, work processes and implementation processes have an impact on workplace change and employees’ needs and preferences, which affect their responses to the work environment. The most satisfied aspects of a work environment include the ceiling height of each floor, the square-metre area of buildings and the amount of light in the work area. Despite the new work environment, employees are scarcely satisfied with building accessibility, storage, archive facilities and privacy. The relationships between staff characteristics (i.e. working hours, job functions, mode of transport and duration of employment) and employee satisfaction with the work environment are statistically tested. The study shows statistically significant results including the following: mode of transport and satisfaction with parking spaces, job functions and satisfaction with building accessibility and job functions and satisfaction with storage and archive facilities. Research limitations/implications According to a business type, the provision and arrangement of the work environment of a private jet company that is different from other office organisations affect both the generalisation and the generalisability of the study. This study was conducted in Thailand. The impact of the national culture may have also influenced the outcomes. Practical implications The findings and the reflections upon them help understand the complex relationships of variables influencing workplace change appraisal. The focus is on employee involvement; communication with employees in the preparation and implementation processes may be an effective way to promote workplace change objectives and help facility managers reduce negative impacts of workplace change. Originality/value This paper contributes to prior research on workplace change appraisal and provides evidence for both positive and negative impacts of workplace change on employee satisfaction with the work environment. Identifying the impact of workplace change on employee satisfaction through the conceptual framework contributes to the body of research on facilities management. In addition, the conceptual framework of workplace change appraisal can be applied by practitioners in the field of workplace design and management.

Science, Technology, Enterprise and Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 239395752096780
Author(s):  
Christian Smit
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Work Organisation ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Further Development

One of the greatest challenges for civil societies, politicians and organisations around the globe in the twenty-first century is the digitisation and automatisation of work processes. Through means of machine learning, new mechanical product developments, and a further development of digital work organisation, fundamental aspects of the working reality are changing. The arguments of this essay show that some scholars predict a massive replacement of manufacturing jobs by machines. Others show that people fear to arrive at a feeling of overextension through constant availability or new developments in how firms are organised. All of these aspects can have drastic implications on a macroeconomic level and for the mental health and general well-being of workers. Henceforth, it is utterly important to analyse the implications of digitisation thoroughly and not prematurely arrive at an overly positive perception of such changes in the work environment.

Social Innovation Excubator

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Castro-Spila
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
New Learning ◽  
New Strategy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a new framework for developing social innovation competencies in social sciences within the agenda of the Relational University. It explores the educational strategy promoted by the Social Innovation Excubator (SIE), an experimental social sciences lab that provides students with a work-based learning scenario focusing on the solution of social problems. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper explores a new learning strategy to promote the Relational University. This exploration designs an experimental infrastructure named SIE. This infrastructure promotes the link between work-based learning and social innovation to develop four key competencies: heuristic, epistemic, relational and experimental skills. Findings There is little attention in the literature about work-based learning and social innovation. The conceptual framework provides a program on Social Innovation Capitalization (SIC) in the framework of the SIE. This framework provides a process of four phases to prototype social innovations: exploration, experimentation, exploitation and evaluation as a process to boost social innovation skills. Research limitations/implications The conceptual framework of Relational University is an innovative and integrative model (companies, social organizations, public sector and civil society) that develops a work-based learning strategy through SIE infrastructure. The SIE has a strong implication for social sciences developing an experimental space to explore, exploit and evaluate local social problems. Practical implications The SIE infrastructure and the SIC program promotes a new strategy in social sciences to boost employability (new competencies), entrepreneurship (pilot social organizations) and intra-entrepreneurship (social innovation in organizations). Originality/value This paper proposes a conceptual and empirical framework to develop the Relational University through a new learning strategy linking work-based learning and social innovation. This practical framework covers a lack in the work-based learning perspective opening a new line of research linked to social innovation.

scholarly journals ADAPTATION INTO ISLAMIC EDUCATION 4.0: AN APPROACH TO REDESIGNING A SUSTAINABLE ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN THE POST PANDEMIC ERA

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Mahrus As'ad
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
New Learning ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Education Needs ◽  
In The Beginning

The unpresendented presence of Pandemic Covid 19 in the beginning of 2020 has almost paralyzed the world of global education, including Indonesia’s Islamic education as one of the biggest Islamic education systems in the world. Anticipating the possibility of similar incidents in the future, the Indonesia’s Islamic education needs to redesign its learning approach in order to create a new learning model that is more resilient, and meet the needs and the demands of Industri 4.0: Education 4.0. Unlike the conventional approache having been used so far, this new desired approach departs from a paradigm that places the students at the center of learning with the involvement of the use of on-line classes to explore them to the fullest. Philosophically, there is a resemblance of Education 4.0 orientation to the Islamic education’s concept of ‘cradle-to-grave learning’, which emphasizes the creation of life-long learners and teachers to enable them to play positive and constructive roles in today work environment and in the innovative society in general. Using the descriptive-analytical method, this paper seeks to examine the the urgency and the readiness of the Indonesia’s Islamic Education to tansform into education 4.0 and its crusial challenges in facing this demand.

scholarly journals Communication in the Digital Work Environment: Implications for Wellbeing at Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bordi ◽  
Jussi Okkonen ◽  
Jaana-Piia Mäkiniemi ◽  
Kirsi Heikkilä-Tammi
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Log Data ◽  
Work Habits ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
And Control ◽  
Communication Expectations

This article examines digital communication in the workplace and its association with wellbeing at work. The analysis is based mainly on workshop discussions and is complemented with log data (N = 36). Content analysis was applied to the workshop discussions, while the log data were analyzed by quantifying frequencies. Six themes were found to affect wellbeing at work: the volume of digital communication, expectations of constant connectivity, the quality of the messages, adaptation of new tools, technical problems, and flexibility in communication. In relation to wellbeing at work, digital communication was mostly perceived as demanding. However, some of the factors perceived as demanding could also provide flexibility, which was seen as enhancing wellbeing by increasing autonomy and control. Social factors, such as work habits, practices, and conventions in the workplace, seem to play an important role in the manifestation and management of the digital communication-induced load at work.

ICT Adoption Cordons in SMEs for Competitive Advantage

2020 ◽  
pp. 345-360
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Business Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Ict Adoption

Every SME needs to use ICT artifacts to cope with business development. The adoption and use of ICT involve different actors who make sense of ICT in relation to their work environment. This chapter focuses on the cordons or barriers in ICT adoption that deter them from having a competitive advantage. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the interactions between different actors in the SME network and analyze how they influence the SME ICT adoption process. The study contributes to the body of knowledge through a new construct that enriches the conceptual framework with the findings of the research.

Hidden Markup — The Digital Work Environment of the "Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany"

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Horn ◽  
Jörg Hambuch ◽  
Sandra Reker
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Content Management System ◽  
Modular Construction ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Basic Features ◽  
Detailed Presentation

This paper will report on Onodi, the digital work environment developed for the project “Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany” (Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands, DFD). Onodi combines three major components: oXygen XML Editor, eXist-db database, and the content management system TYPO3. It provides a solution that frees editors from direct interaction with the XML code: the markup is hidden behind an interface. Onodi also has an automatic publication feature that can be initiated with just two mouse clicks. In this paper we would like to show the benefits of this modular approach, since it utilizes the strengths of every single well-developed system and integrates them as necessary. In this way it makes use of basic features and functions already implemented and expands them for special requirements of the onomastic dictionary project. In the first part of the paper, we present the DFD-project in terms of its aims, contents, methods and organization. We then present the digital work environment Onodi in terms of its basic principles and modular construction. We illustrate some fundamental features for hidden markup supplied by oXygen on the basis of the implementation in the DFD. Thereafter, we offer a detailed presentation of features specially developed by the DFD technical team. These comprise a simple way of inserting identifiers and the linkage of data in the literature database with the surname database. The paper ends with a presentation of the publication process and its interaction with the components of Onodi.

scholarly journals Information ergonomics in eHealth

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jussi Okkonen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Digital Channels

Maintaining performance in digital ubiquitous work environment is increasingly dependent on the quality of physical, cognitive and organizational ergonomics of work. Since digital work environment is the reign of most knowledge workers, there is a need to elaborate the study of work ergonomics by devoting attention to the issue of information ergonomics. In health care digitalisation has affected operation model thoroughly. It has affected how information is recorded, managed and distributed. Novel service models powered by digital channels offer now ways to practice professions as well as there are several outcomes regarding the whole service area. This paper is a summary of four research projects on how digitalisation affects knowledge work and how working is (re)shaped by sociotechnical work environments with reflection to eHealth. The conclusion in the paper underlines the digital transformation shaping the lives of knowledge workers. Discussion on how sociotechnical reshapes both individual and organisations, not to mention extended organisations. As the working practices as well as conventions and norms dictate the daily flow people have developed digital coping strategies. Paper also discusses the future of information ergonomics research in health care as way to find normative result for enhancing work in sociotechnical environment. technical environment.

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