scholarly journals Enhancing Labour Productivity by Introducing Usage of Limited Electrical Gadgets During Working Hours

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S4) ◽  
pp. 289-292
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Labor Welfare ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Positive Concept

Well-being is considered a subjective concept because it applies to time and space. Improvements have an effect on the process. As a consequence, possible changes in welfare material continue to change with time and space. It has also been noted that the definition of welfare varies from country to country and from site to site. Second, welfare is a positive concept that, if a minimum standard of living is to be established, it would require certain lowest acceptable circumstances of existence, both biologically and socially. Thus, when this is defined, it is necessary to take care of the components of healthcare in terms of health, food, clothing, housing, medical assistance, insurance and so on. However, as a definition, labor welfare has both positive and negative aspects, it deals with the providing of opportunity that allow the worker and his family to lead a good life, both socially and personally, and on the negative, it provides opportunities for unpleasant consequences and labor problems.

scholarly journals TO EVALUATE VERSUS TO KNOW THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
Bjørn Hofmann ◽  
Samuli I. Saarni ◽  
Annette Braunack-Mayer ◽  
Gert Jan van der Wilt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Concept Of Disease ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Over The Top

Kathrin Dengler and Uta Bittner demand a full-fledged philosophy of values in our empirical study of various methods for ethical analysis in health technology assessment (HTA). This may be like putting the classification of disease on hold until the concept of disease is clarified, or postponing the development of health care until the term “health” is clarified. As Dengler and Bittner rightly point out, the term value has many meanings, and as they properly recognize: “[P]hilosophically, the definition of what is meant by ‘a good life’ or ‘well-being’ is a very challenging project.” Hence, it may be a bit over the top to crave that we solve eternal issues in an empirical article on methodology.

scholarly journals Comparing Sustainability to a Good Life and Well-Being: Overlap, Differentiations and Indefinite Overlap

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Jerke W. De Vries
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Original Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Do So

In our society, sustainability has emerged as a major concept in our daily lives and activities, e.g. from reducing the environmental impact of our foods to corporate social responsibility in doing business, and social impact of our activities. The original idea of sustainability was to address human development within social, ecological, and economic boundaries. Nowadays, however, sustainability is more and more extended to other areas of our lives, including aspects of a good life and well-being. The aim here was to compare sustainability, a good life, and well-being and determine their overlap, differentiations, and indefinite or undecided overlap when considering the original definitions. Following from the definition of sustainability, a good life, and well-being, I analyze the overlap, differentiations, and indefinite overlap of these concepts. With this comparison, I show that sustainability is clearly adapting to include more aspects of a good life and well-being (approximately 26% overlap), but is limited to do so from its original definition. I conclude that overlap between concepts exists and by being relatively different they are fundamentally supportive to one another and need to be applied accordingly to further support sustainable development.

Social well-being and standard of living as subjective and objective indicators of population's life quality. The relation between the level of happiness and the quality of life of the population

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Olga Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Indicators

The article is devoted to the issue of sociological measurement of the quality of life of the population. It is argued that the key criteria for the quality of life of the population in the modern world are precisely non-economic indicators - such as subjective well-being, level of happiness, and social mood. The article provides evidence of the need for a subjective way of measuring the quality of life, which allows us to assess the living conditions of people through the prism of their real needs. The article clarifies the definition of quality of life: quality of life is an integrative or complex characteristic of the existence of the population, which can be measured by objective indicators of its standard of living or subjective assessments by members of society of the degree of satisfaction of their own needs. The analysis of the different ways of assessing the quality of life the author comes to the conclusion that the result of an objective method of measuring quality of life is the standard of living of the population, and the result of the subjective method of measuring quality of life - social well-being (subjective well-being, life satisfaction). The author insists that mixing subjective and objective indicators when constructing averaging quality of life indices is inappropriate, since in this case there is a risk of getting an irrelevant average. The conclusion is argued that it is advisable to make objective and subjective types of measurement of quality of life separately from each other, while comparing them with each other. The key input is formulated: the quality of life of a social actor through the prism of the sociological dimension is a measurement of social well - being (subjective well-being, or life satisfaction), and the position of a social actor in society through the prism of the sociological dimension is a social mood. At the same time, the phenomenon of social mood is represented by a synthesis of its static and dynamic components, the first of which represents social well - being, the second-orientation to value experiences and the corresponding readiness to act in a certain way. It is argued that the phenomenon that most generally characterizes the happiness system of an individual or group social subject (actor) is social mood. The definition of the concept of social mood is formulated as a General indicator of the position of a social actor in social reality, according to which social mood is a complex emotional and rational characteristic of an individual or group social actor characteristic of a certain period of time, determined by various aspects of the activity of this actor and determining its practical activity.

scholarly journals Providing of Social Safety of Population in the Conditions of Intensifying of Socio-Economic Risks

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mykhalchenko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Economic State ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economic Risks

The article proves the need to ensure social security for the population, which is an important factor in the country's social stability and its national security, given the strengthening of socio-economic risks, the growth of social tension in society and the unsatisfactory social and economic development of the country. The author describes the main socio-economic risks faced by the country's population in modern conditions which lead to a high dependence of the welfare of a significant part of the population on social security and social protection. The aim of the article is to study current trends in the socio-economic state of the country and determine its features in the context of socio-economic and political instability. The author analyzes the current legislation of the country and the existing approaches to the definition of the concept of “social security” and concludes that the economic component is one of the important components of social security. It has been proven that social security is largely driven by economic and social factors. According to this, the main demographic, economic and social indicators of the socio-economic development of the country are characterized. It was concluded that the conditions of social security for the country's population do not match, which is manifested in a worsening demographic situation in the country, significant stratification of society, increased poverty, inadequate social guarantees to ensure a decent standard of living, etc. It is noted that the level of well-being of the population remains extremely low, based on an analysis of its main indicators. Based on the identified problems and the results of the study, the author outlines the directions for ensuring the social security of the country's population to increase the standard of living of the population, stimulate its economic activity and employment, which will improve the country's socio-economic situation and reduce the negative consequences of existing socio-economic risks.

scholarly journals O Desporto visto por uma Ética de Ausência para o Bem-estar: por uma nova missão

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Rui Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Good And Evil

There is an ancient view according to which the great meaning of life is to live it in Well-Being, also considered here as an educated life. The task proposed here is to contribute to clarifying the role of sport for this purpose, which is to live a good life. Fundamentally, it seeks to argue that well-being is linked to an ethics that transcends the mere discussion of good and evil and that such is the profound expression of the natural longings of the human soul that in essence is mirrored in the act of love as a disinterested giving. First, there is a parallel between art and sport as large areas of human action that can better reveal such fundamental disinterest, leading us to the friendship associated with the concept of “Fair Play”. From here follows the proposal for a definition of sport that best serves such friendship for well-being. Thus, a vision of well-being is introduced as the absence of seven forms of disorder. Then, as an example of a form of disorder that can easily arise in sport, we analyse the phenomenon of “racism”, here called phenocism after the concept of phenotype. This is carried under the light of an ethics for absence of disorder. Such analysis leads us, finally, to the trilogy freedom-equality-fraternity and there is an insistence on the urgency of sport to fulfil its mission by assuming itself as the massifier of techniques for promoting the performances of the mind, alongside those of the body, for the well-being of the individual. Thus, fulfilling the revolution of the "healthy mind in a healthy body".

Compensatory Coping Through the Extension of Working Hours

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maie Stein ◽  
Sylvie Vincent-Höper ◽  
Nicole Deci ◽  
Sabine Gregersen ◽  
Albert Nienhaus
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Leader Member Exchange ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advance Knowledge

Abstract. To advance knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between leadership and employees’ well-being, this study examines leaders’ effects on their employees’ compensatory coping efforts. Using an extension of the job demands–resources model, we propose that high-quality leader–member exchange (LMX) allows employees to cope with high job demands without increasing their effort expenditure through the extension of working hours. Data analyses ( N = 356) revealed that LMX buffers the effect of quantitative demands on the extension of working hours such that the indirect effect of quantitative demands on emotional exhaustion is only significant at low and average levels of LMX. This study indicates that integrating leadership with employees’ coping efforts into a unifying model contributes to understanding how leadership is related to employees’ well-being. The notion that leaders can affect their employees’ use of compensatory coping efforts that detract from well-being offers promising approaches to the promotion of workplace health.

Delving into Horror

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Perception Of Time ◽  
Definition Of

The springboard for this essay is the author’s encounter with the feeling of horror and her attempts to understand what place horror has in philosophy. The inquiry relies upon Leonid Lipavsky’s “Investigation of Horror” and on various textual plunges into the fanged and clawed (and possibly noumenal) abyss of Nick Land’s work. Various experiences of horror are examined in order to build something of a typology, while also distilling the elements characteristic of the experience of horror in general. The essay’s overall hypothesis is that horror arises from a disruption of the usual ways of determining the boundaries between external things and the self, and this leads to a distinction between three subtypes of horror. In the first subtype, horror begins with the indeterminacy at the boundaries of things, a confrontation with something that defeats attempts to define it and thereby calls into question the definition of the self. In the second subtype, horror springs from the inability to determine one’s own boundaries, a process opposed by the crushing determinacy of the world. In the third subtype, horror unfolds by means of a substitution of one determinacy by another which is unexpected and ungrounded. In all three subtypes of horror, the disturbance of determinacy deprives the subject, the thinking entity, of its customary foundation for thought, and even of an explanation of how that foundation was lost; at times this can lead to impairment of the perception of time and space. Understood this way, horror comes within a hair’s breadth of madness - and may well cross over into it.

Approaches to the definition of territorial backwardness in the regional development management

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-73
Author(s):  
E. B. Veprikova ◽  
◽  
A. A. Kislenok ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Development Management ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Definition Of

Reducing the level of interregional differentiation is one of the problems in spatial development management according to the Spatial Development Strategy of the Russian Federation. Presence of significant regional imbalances hampers formation of a common economic, social, cultural, and institutional space and lead to a creation of backward territories which lag behind in the development. The focus of public policy measures on the centers of economic growth, with the concentration of financial and labor resources, without solving the problems of backward territories does not bring the expected effect – overall development and well-being. Local effects in the absence of positive changes in other territories result in the increase in imbalances, which limit the overall effectiveness of the public policy. At the same time, a steadily increasing lag may cause a loss of potential of economic growth and thus forms backward territories. The creation of territorial backwardness is a gradual process. Therefore, diagnosing the state of the territory and identifying the signs of increasing depression is an essential issue of public administration. The article presents the main approaches to the definition of territorial backwardness used in the Russia and overseas, it also reviews the determinants of backward territories. Different methods for identification of backwardness in the territorial development have been tested on the basis of the regions of the Russian Far East.

Financial capabilities development: essential discourse in social work

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1234-1246
Author(s):  
Lambert K. Engelbrecht ◽  
Abigail Ornellas
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vulnerable Households ◽  
Definition Of

Purpose Within a neoliberal environment, financial vulnerability of households has become an increasing challenge and there is a requirement of financial literacy education, a necessary activity to facilitate sustainable development and well-being. However, this is seldom a mainstream discourse in social work deliberations. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach First, introducing the neoliberal impact on financial well-being and capability for vulnerable households, the authors’ postulation is substantiated on a seven-point argument. The contexts of financially vulnerable households are sketched. Second, a conceptualisation of financial literacy is offered, and third, perspectives on and approaches to financial literacy as a fundamental capability are presented. This is followed by a theoretical foundation of community education as a practice model in social work to develop financial capabilities. In the fifth place, prevailing practices of Financial Capabilities Development (FCD) programmes are offered. Subsequently, the implications of a neoliberal environment for social work practice are examined. Findings The revised global definition of social work encourages the profession to understand and address the structural causes of social problems through collective interventions. As a response, it is argued that community education towards FCD of vulnerable households within a neoliberal environment should be an essential discourse in social development. Originality/value The authors reflect on the significance of FCD, highlighting its contribution towards human security and sustainable development. Although this paper draws on Southern African contexts, the discourse finds resonance in other contexts across the world.

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