scholarly journals An Analysis of the Challenges and Strategies to Improve and Strengthen the Employment Status of Persons with Disabilities in Asia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Ryuhei Sano
Keyword(s):  
Employment Status ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Work Atmosphere ◽  
The Subject

Over the past few decades, the employment of persons with disabilities in the Asia region has been the subject of the spotlight of several studies from various government and non-government organizations. A proper and thorough look at the employment status of persons with disabilities is a crucial aspect in the overall improvement of their rights in society, especially in terms of being free from discrimination by having equal access to decent work along with other members of society. Several transformations have occurred in the employment status of persons with disabilities. With growing potential being seen in the current world work atmosphere, persons with disabilities, with the help of technological advances, the popularity of the so-called Gig Economy, and expanding entrepreneurial spirit of the populace, the door seems to be opening wider for persons with disabilities. Given this current picture of what is happening in Asia, this paper will look at the growth of employment of persons with disabilities and its causes; the current realities and challenges, as well as possible directions that this trend is taking; and the effective strategies to further develop and promote employment of persons with disabilities.

Assessing social sustainability in the gig economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muralidharan Loganathan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

Sustainable Development Goal 8 to “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” necessitates country level measures across the world. We take forward a comparative analysis of India’s SDG 8 indicator list with both the UN and ILO measurements. We note inadequate measurements on social-protection and rights for non-standard forms of employment including gig work, that are intermediated by ICT platforms. From our analysis we identify some levers to broaden the current indicator measurements to include these non-standard workers as well, to improve social sustainability.

scholarly journals Challenges of health services related to the population displaced by violence in Mexico

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Beatriz Duarte-Gómez ◽  
Silvia Magali Cuadra-Hernández ◽  
Myriam Ruiz-Rodríguez ◽  
Armando Arredondo ◽  
Jesús David Cortés-GilI
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Subject

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the impacts of the care to the population displaced by violence on the health system and the challenges that this entails. METHODS: This is a narrative review of the national and international literature in PubMed, SciELO, WHO/PAHO, and Bireme. Inclusion criteria were date of publication ( from 2000), relation with the subject, and language (Spanish or English). We found 292 documents, of which 91 met the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: The main challenges are the intersectoral, participatory, and integral approach (with emphasis on mental health and sexual and reproductive health), ensured accessibility to health services, the need for a reliable registration and information system of the population displaced by violence and its characteristics, and the addressing of the biopsychosocial problems of the different groups, especially women, persons with disabilities or infectious diseases, adolescents, children, ethnic minorities, older adults and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and intersexual population. CONCLUSIONS: The lack of political will to accept and see the internal displacement by violence and its importance as a humanitarian and public health problem is an obstacle to the adequate and timely care of the population displaced by violence in Mexico.

scholarly journals The Value of “Social” Reputation: The Protection of MNE Workers from the Consumer’s Perspective

Global Jurist ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Giaconi ◽  
Lorenzo Giasanti ◽  
Simone Varva
Keyword(s):  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Social Ranking ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Social Reputation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Labour Standards ◽  
Additional Support

Abstract The virtually immediate information propagation has reduced the gap of knowledge once existing between MNEs and customers (i.e. Rana Plaza collapse, 2013). Consumers begin playing an important role in supporting workers. Their growing social awareness has clear economic consequences. MNEs have tried to react to the loss of social reputation, mainly adopting (and imposing to their suppliers) codes of conduct and ethics providing a minimum standard for decent work standards. This article aims to analyze the social reputation and social sustainability that have recently attracted stakeholders’ interest, from different points of view (MNEs, consumers, government and non-government organizations, unions). Those “new” forms of social initiatives (code of conduct, social ranking, consumers campaign, boycotting) are informative and could help to spread ILO labour standards. Clearly, they can represent only an additional support for workers who are struggling in the typical conflict between Work and Capital. The tendency to use a single parameter for assessing the social sensitivity of the MNEs, valid both for the countries “in development” and for those “already developed” risks to lead to a “race to the bottom” trend.

scholarly journals Language of disability as a factor of discrimination of persons with disabilities

Temida ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Filip Miric
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Language Disability ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The incorrect labeling of people with disabilities as people with special needs constitutes not only a violation of equality but also a special criminological and criminal justice phenomenon. There are no special needs, but just different ways of satisfying them. The subject of this paper is an analyses of the impact of labeling people with disabilities and language disability on a discriminatory process and considers whether the victimization of persons with disabilities engenders inequality. The labeling of people with disabilities throughout history will also be considered. A questionnaire was distributed via Facebook in order to explore the opinions of users of social networks on language disability and its impact on discrimination. The aim of the paper is to highlight the effect labeling has on the overall social situation of people with disabilities. It is argued that the accurate usage of appropriate linguistic terminology would help prevent the victimization of persons with disabilities and accentuate the realization of their full participation in contemporary society.

scholarly journals Russian and International Contours of Precarious Employment

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Ivan D. Matskulyak
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Domestic Economy ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Management Personnel ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Actual Content ◽  
The Subject

The Object of the Study. Socioeconomic processes and phenomena characterized as an unsustainable employment and reflected in the collective monograph published in Rossiya among the first as well as its main provisions, conclusions and recommendations. The Subject of the Study is expressed by the combination of socioeconomic relations between market-based economic entities regarding the widespread development in recent years in the world, including the Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, the precarious employment of the population and the consequences of this process. The Purpose of the Study is to attract the notice of a wide range of management personnel of both state authorities and economic bodies, as well as employers, legislators, scientists, etc., to the problem of unsustainable employment, the need of its effectively solve, especially in conditions of intensification of transformation of the domestic economy. The Main Provisions of the Article cover all six sections, including 30 paragraphs of the monograph studied, authored by 41 specialist-scientists, professionally engaged in the designated research area. The author, on the basis of the actual content of the book, has tried to present all the aspects, to convey the variety of shades of the process of unsustainable employment reflected in the monographic research. It applies both the domestic experience and international practice. The problems of the unsustainable employment are revealed compared to decent work. Their dependence on the scientific and technological progress is considered. The domestic and foreign experience of the personnel reduction is summarized on the example of a flexible employment. Risks of unsustainable employment are identified and directions of their prevention are formulated. The characteristics of precarious employment of different groups of workers - women, pensioners and others working in similar conditions of specific industries - are characterized as well as the legal coverage of unsustainable workers is analyzed, and special attention is paid to external migrants and functioning numerous institutions in the investigated economy sectors.

scholarly journals O Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência de Florianópolis: a invisibilidade do tema educação

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Maria Helena Michels ◽  
Priscilla Ghizoni Lima
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
City Council ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Municipal Council ◽  
Effective Schooling ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Educacion Especial

Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir as ações dos Conselhos Municiais dos Direitos da Pessoa com Deficiência em relação a Educação. Consideramos que a consolidação deste Conselho se deu com reivindicações, lutas e disputas de diferentes segmentos da sociedade, e que, portanto, pode ser um espaço importante para as lutas das pessoas com deficiência, mesmo que como espaço de direitos formais. Para esta pesquisa, buscamos elucidar as demandas, disputas e reivindicações relacionadas direta ou indiretamente, com a educação dos sujeitos deficientes, objetivando refletir sobre os limites e possibilidades da ação do CMDPD referentes aos assuntos relacionados a educação. Para tanto, utilizamos como procedimento metodológico a análise de documentos, dos quais se destacam decretos e normativas e 17 atas de reuniões com CMDPD de Florianópolis. Obtivemos com essa análise a compreensão de como surgiu este conselho no Brasil e no município em tela; os sujeitos que os compõem; as temáticas mais debatidas e, foco de nossa análise, como, com quem e qual a discussão efetivada sobre o tema educação. Compreendemos que alguns litígios relacionados a educação especial permanecem nesse Conselho como a relação Público x Privado. A temática da educação é efetivamente invisível nesse conselho e que nos faz a identificar outra seara: a pouca importância dada a efetiva escolarização dos sujeitos com deficiência nessa sociedade.Palavras-chave: Conselho Municipal. Deficiência. Educação. The Municipal Council for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of Florianópolis: the invisibility of the education themeABSTRACTThis article aims to discuss the actions of the Municipal Councils of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in relation to Education. We believe that the consolidation of this Council has resulted in, struggles and disputes of different segments of society, and that, therefore, can be an important space for the struggles of people with disabilities, even as an area of formal rights. For this research, we seek to elucidate the demands, disputes and claims related directly or indirectly, with the education of disabled subjects, aiming at reflecting on the limits and possibilities of the CMDPD relating to matters related to education. For this, we used as a methodological procedure the analysis of documents of which stand out decrees and regulations and 17 minutes of meetings with CMDPD of Florianópolis. We obtained with this analysis the understanding of how this council appeared in Brazil and in the municipality in screen; the subjects that compose them; the most debated topics and, the focus of our analysis, how, with whom and what the actual discussion about the subject of education. We understand that some litigation related to special education remains in this Council such as the Public x Private relationship. The issue of education is effectively invisible in this council and which makes us identify another crop: the little importance given to the effective schooling of the subjects with disability in this society.Keywords: City Council. Deficiency. Education. El Consejo Municipal de los Derechos de las personas con discapacidad de Florianópolis: la invisibilidad del tema de la educaciónRESUMENEste artículo tiene como objetivo discutir las acciones de los Consejos Municipales de los Derechos de la Persona con Deficiencia en relación con la Educación. Consideramos que la consolidación de este Consejo se dio con reivindicaciones, luchas y disputas de diferentes segmentos de la sociedad, y que, por lo tanto, puede ser un espacio importante para las luchas de las personas con discapacidad, pero como espacio de derechos formales. Para esta investigación, buscamos elucidar las demandas, disputas y reivindicaciones relacionadas directa o indirectamente, con la educación de los sujetos discapacitados, con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre los límites y posibilidades de la acción do CMDPD sobre los asuntos relacionados con la educación. Para ello, utilizamos como procedimiento metodológico el análisis de documentos, de los cuales se destacan decretos y normativas y 17 actas de reuniones con CMDPD de Florianópolis. Obtuvimos con ese análisis la comprensión de cómo surgió este consejo en Brasil y en el municipio en pantalla; los sujetos que los componen; las temáticas más debatidas y, foco de nuestro análisis, cómo, con quién y cuál la discusión efectuada sobre el tema educación. Comprendemos que algunos litigios relacionados con la educación especial permanecen en este Consejo como la relación público x privada. La temática de la educación es efectivamente invisible en ese consejo y que nos hace identificar otra mierda: la poca importancia dada a la efectiva escolarización de los sujetos con discapacidad en esa sociedad.Palabras clave: Consejo Municipal. Discapacidad. Educación.

scholarly journals ENDOMARKETING E DIVERSIDADE: OS IMPACTOS DA AUTOESTIMA DO COLABORADOR PARA A EMPRESA.

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (209) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Victor Lima De Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Work Atmosphere ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Interpersonal Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of Endomarketing in the construction of the work atmosphere. It will be investigated the impact that investments or lack of investments in Endomarketing actions create regarding to employee's perception of their work environment and the interpersonal relationships within the organization . The author intends to focus specifically on how issues of diversity and inclusion can affect positively and / or negatively the professional and interpersonal development of employees and, consequently, be reflected on the team and company results. It will discussed the issues involving the subject and the impact of his/her social spheres in the relationship between the co-workers and in professional performance, the role of managers in mediating these aspects will be taken in consideration as well.

2. Employment status

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roseanne Russell
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Contract Of Employment ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Common ◽  
Additional Reading

The Q&A series offer the best preparation for tackling exam questions. Each book includes typical questions, bullet-pointed answer plans and suggested answers, author commentary and illustrative diagrams and flowcharts. This chapter presents sample exam questions about employment status. Through a mixture of problem questions and essays, students are guided through some of the key issues on the topic of employment status including definitions of employee and worker, the common law tests for determining whether a contract of employment exists, and discussion on the changing nature of the labour market including the gig economy. Students are also introduced to the current key debates in the area and provided with suggestions for additional reading for those who want to take things further.

scholarly journals The formation of ecosystems of employment for persons with disabilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 159 ◽  
pp. 06002
Author(s):  
Tatyana Sokira ◽  
Almazhan Dzhulaeva ◽  
Zemfira Myshbayeva ◽  
Saltanat Bolatkyzy ◽  
Kenzhakhan Otepbergen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Global Increase ◽  
Policies And Programs

The problem of employment of persons with disabilities is in the attention of all international organizations, is one of the seventeen sustainable development goals set by the UN, which defined decent work as an opportunity and prospects for personal development of any person, including those with disabilities. The urgency of this problem is becoming more acute in the modern world due to the fact that the number of disabled people is growing. This is due to the aging of the population – older people are at increased risk of disability, – and also because of the global increase in chronic diseases among the population. The article presents a comparative analysis of foreign and domestic experience in forming a social partnership ecosystem in solving the problems of persons with disabilities, analyzes the level of employment of persons with disabilities, and suggests practical steps for all stakeholders, including governments, civil society structures, and organizations of persons with disabilities, to create a favorable environmental ecosystem, develop rehabilitation and support services, and provide appropriate social support, developing inclusive policies and programs, and ensuring the application of new and existing standards and legislation for the benefit of persons with disabilities and the General public, based on a comparative analysis of the ecosystems of leading European States.

scholarly journals An explanatory model of the organizational factors that explain the adoption of E-business

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Beatriz García-Moreno ◽  
Susana García-Moreno ◽  
Juan Jose Nájera-Sánchez ◽  
Carmen De Pablos-Heredero
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
The Third ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Resources And Capabilities

Purpose: to describe the factors that facilitate the adoption of e-business in firms. To go in deep on the factors, resources and capabilities that need to be present in those firms seeking to improve their levels of e-business adoption.Design/methodology/approach: analysis of the literature involving the main theories on business administration, and more specifically, on those related to technology innovation (TI) and information systems (IS), as applicable to the organizational factors that explain the adoption of e-business.Findings: it identifies three main sources of influence: a first group covers the characteristics of the actual firm, which refer to the organisation’s specific features: firm size, the backing of top management, expected benefit, age, the level of human capital, and international projection. A second group of factors includes technology-related characteristics. The third group contains all those aspects in the environment that may affect the firm’s attitude to e-business.Research limitations/implications: the chosen variables play significant role following a review of the studies on the subject, but not all potential ones have been included. The variables have been chosen in view of the large number of studies that have reported conclusive results.Practical implications: the model presented is designed to enable both scholars in this field and decision-makers in strategic matters to reflect upon those aspects that may drive the adoption of e-business, and thereby help them to make more informed decisions on the matter.Social implications: In highly competitive industries, firms need to keep themselves permanently up to speed with technological advances and strategic innovationsOriginality/value: it is the first study that considers three different perspectives: the organizational, the technological and the environmental one.

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