Founding a Field Theory of Work

2014 ◽  
pp. 34-64
Author(s):  
Raymon R. Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Organization Development ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
Issue Analysis

This chapter traces the origin of the concept of work in five staged sections. The first section examines the question, what is work? Work originally referred to “doing,” that is, work organization, synergy, and energy. The second section develops the Greek word family for work into a dynamic model of doing. The third section shows how nature guides working change through energy exchange. It examines how a work as re-organization model would function in nature's jurisdictional domain of guiding energy exchanges. Nature's laws provide guidance for self-governing latitude to energy jurisdictional domains' evolutionary change. The fourth section examines policymaking as human guidance imitating nature. Policymaking limits individual self-governance to guide a specified social community of people (polis) doing work. Policymaking is explored to see how humans use policymaking to govern themselves and their cultural social groups including governments by using nature's use of laws as guidance. Policymaking is also a form of laying down basic parameters of work as re-organization through energy exchanges in the ambient environment. Policies are human artifacts designed help a social group work well together. Part five presents an issue analysis as an invited Organization Development consultant to help find ways for the Sri Lankan government, the University of Moratuwa, and the apparel and textile industry to work together in their extreme makeover of human resource development of their apparel and textile industry. Action training and research, stakeholder management, and wicked problem issue analysis are the organization development methods used to demonstrate this field theory of work re-organization through energy exchange.

A Study on Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Sewing Machine Operators

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekta . ◽  
Manju Mehta ◽  
Praveen Kumar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
The Body ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Workplace Design ◽  
Sewing Machine ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Machine Operators

A musculoskeletal disorder is highly dependent on the workplace design. The workers whose job requires repetitive tasks, are more prone to this disorder. Textile industry is one of the labor intensive industries and most of its jobs require continuous engagement with the work. Sewing machine operators in this sector due to workplace design are facing high risk of health issues due to focused attention and static posture of the body. Understanding the health issues linked with continuous working hours and static posture need to be addressed. Both Government and non- government organizations need to be better involved in designing interventions targeting these people and protecting them from such health risks.The present study was conducted in Hisar district from Haryana state in which respondents were selected randomly. Total number of respondents were 60 in which 28 were males and 32 were females with objectives to assess work organization and work space design and to find out the occupational health problems and musculoskeletal symptoms among sewing machine operators. The results showed that maximum numbers of the respondents (68.4%) were took break of fixed duration and (53.4%) respondents were work along with others. Majority (43.3%) respondents were the first experience of MSK symptoms from 7 days to 12 months followed by (33.3%) respondents in 2-3 years.

scholarly journals From the world of wearable grasses: Vetiver (The use of local place-based knowledge to develop a scalable circular economy that enables positive social impact within the textile industry)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ananya Khare
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Production Method ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Fast Fashion

<p>Progress is the first instinct for humans, with innovation and problem-solving driving forces within every generation. Sadly, as a part of this process, there has been a lack of recognition or interest in age-old, indigenous, local or place-based knowledge. In contrast to this belief of globalisation, this thesis advocates Indigenous Wisdom as a bridge to solving ‘wicked problems’ of our modern society. Horst Rittel describes wicked problems as interconnected and networked by nature, existing on multiple scales. This research identifies one such a wicked problem of textile pollution. One of the factors contributing to textile pollution is the resulting landfill. Connected to, contributing to or more abruptly put, causing this problem is fast fashion. In 2011 the United Nation Environment Program estimated that without intervention, the rate of consumption for fast fashion would continue to grow up to three-fold by the year 2050. The research explores the need for a durable, economical and more sustainable textile option that can both minimise production waste and is affordable for consumers. Paralleling Transition Design with local placed -based knowledge this research identifies a raw material that is the vetiver grass, a sustainable and straightforward production method, a community that is the inmates of Bhopal Central Jail, and a scalable circular economic model and connect them to make fabric based items for their use or sale and trade beyond their community.</p>

Inelastic Scattering and Interference

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1033-1034
Author(s):  
D. Van Dyck
Keyword(s):  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Energy Loss ◽  
Inelastic Scattering ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Position Vector ◽  
Inelastic Electron ◽  
Global System ◽  
Interference Fringes ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
Generating System

Recently it has been a matter of controversy whether inelastically scattered electrons can yield interference fringes so as to obtain holograms, and in particular whether compensation of energy loss in the object by energy gain in the source will maintain coherence [1]. In discussions about coherence (and wave mechanisms in general) it is always dangerous to rely on intuitive arguments (exchange of energy, time of interaction, etc.). In this work we will start from the most general approach, which is inspired by the treatment of inelastic electron diffraction crystals by Yoshioka in 1957 [2]. Energy exchanges are always described quantummechanically by an Hamiltonian. Therefore we can only investigate the balance between energy exchange properly if electron, object, and source are described by one global Hamiltonian. With source we mean the whole electron generating system (emitter, accelerator, condensor).Consider a global system consisting of an electron, with position vector r, an object with particle vectors ri, and a source with particles at rα.

Energy-budget strategies for growth in mammals and birds

1984 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Kirkwood ◽  
A. J. F. Webster
Keyword(s):  
Energy Budget ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Maturation Time ◽  
Maturation Rate ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
Altricial Birds ◽  
Precocial Birds ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Mature Size

ABSTRACTThe concepts of metabolic time and size are used, respectively, to compare maturing time and energy exchanges during growth in homeotherms. Maturation rate, expressed per unit of mature size (A1/4) is relatively constant for mammals, irrespective of attempts by man to select for rapid growth. Precocial birds mature more rapidly, however, and altricial birds more rapidly still. These differences are explained in terms of different patterns of energy exchange. It is proposed that maturation time is ultimately determined by size-related constraints on rate of metabolism during growth.

scholarly journals Energy Exchange and Localization in Essentially Nonlinear Oscillatory Systems: Canonical Formalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. V. Gendelman ◽  
T. P. Sapsis
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Laws ◽  
Harmonic Balance ◽  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Canonical Formalism ◽  
Dynamical Models ◽  
Oscillatory Systems ◽  
Impact Oscillators ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

Over recent years, a lot of progress has been achieved in understanding of the relationship between localization and transport of energy in essentially nonlinear oscillatory systems. In this paper, we are going to demonstrate that the structure of the resonance manifold can be conveniently described in terms of canonical action–angle (AA) variables. Such formalism has important theoretical advantages: all resonance manifolds may be described at the same level of complexity, appearance of additional conservation laws on these manifolds is easily proven both in autonomous and nonautonomous settings. The harmonic balance-based complexification approach, used in many previous studies on the subject, is shown to be a particular case of the canonical formalism. Moreover, application of the canonic averaging allows treatment of much broader variety of dynamical models. As an example, energy exchanges in systems of coupled trigonometrical and vibro-impact oscillators are considered.

scholarly journals Work Organization Model Applied on Smallholder Dairy Farms in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudilaine Caldas de Oliveira ◽  
Antônio Renato Pereira Moro ◽  
Leandra Ulbricht
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Dairy Farms ◽  
Organization Model ◽  
Smallholder Dairy ◽  
Smallholder Dairy Farms

scholarly journals SEWING PRODUCTION FEATURES ON THE CONDITIONS OF PROCESSING RAW MATERIALS

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Tetiana Yevlash ◽  
Olena Hovorukha
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Garment Industry ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
Light Industry ◽  
Monthly Basis ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages

Introduction. The garment industry has always played a significant role in the state economy development and in everyone's life, as a factor in meeting consumer needs and a source of budget revenue, but in recent years there has been an extremely difficult situation - the garment industry has almost completely lost competitiveness in the consumer market. First, this situation arose due to fierce competition from imported goods, which saturate the market with their products of well-known brands, with a lower price, thereby displacing domestic goods. This encourages the need to study this industry, taking into account the specifics of working with toll raw materials, in order to identify problems and ways to overcome them in global competition. Purpose. Describe the current state of garment production; identify the features of the organization of sewing companies that use toll raw materials, analyze the main advantages and disadvantages of their operation; explore the accounting features; to consider the taxation of services for the processing of toll raw materials value added tax, the peculiarities of import duties calculation, other taxes and fees. Results. The peculiarities of the work organization of the sewing enterprises on the conditions of toll raw materials are covered. An indices analysis of light industry industrial products by activity type for 2015-2020 and revealed a decline in the industry production in 2018-2020. Ukrainian enterprises of the garment industry in 2010-2020 mainly used production on the terms of toll raw materials; full export; production for the domestic market. The main advantages and disadvantages of functioning of domestic garment productions with the use of toll raw materials are considered. A study of textile production indices, production of clothing, leather, leather products and other materials on a monthly basis in 2020 showed that starting from August 2020, the gradual decline in production stopped and there were trends of slight growth in production in the textile industry. The necessity of proper documentation of operations with toll raw materials for processing enterprises and creation of own package of primary forms by executing enterprises is substantiated, in order to simplify the complexity of the process of keeping accounting documentation. The interpretation of the category "toll raw materials" according to the Customs and Tax Codes of Ukraine is considered. A list of criteria in accordance with the current legislation on the recognition of transactions with toll raw materials, confirming the inability of the garment company to sell finished products made from toll raw materials, and therefore loses profits, most of which are sold by the owner of raw materials. The taxation of services on processing of toll raw materials by the value added tax, features of charge of import duty, other taxes and charges are considered. Prospects for further research are the development of virtual sales channels for garments.

scholarly journals Energy Exchanges at Contact Events Guide Sensorimotor Integration Across Intermodal Delays

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Farshchiansadegh ◽  
Alessandra Sciutti ◽  
Assaf Pressman ◽  
Ilana Nisky ◽  
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
Keyword(s):  
Energy Exchange ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Sensory Information ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Energy Exchanges ◽  
Transient Events ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Temporal Perturbation ◽  
The Brain

ABSTRACTOne must know the mass of an object to accurately predict how it moves under the effect of an applied force. Similarly, the brain must represent the arm’s inertia to predict the arm’s movements elicited by commands impressed upon the muscles. Here, we present evidence suggesting that the integration of sensory information leading to the representation of the arm’s inertia does not take place continuously in time but only at discrete transient events, in which kinetic energy is exchanged between the arm and the environment. We used a visuomotor delay to induce crossmodal variations in state feedback and uncovered that the difference between visual and proprioceptive velocity estimations at isolated collision events was compensated by a change in the representation of arm inertia. The compensation maintained an invariant estimate across modalities of the expected energy exchange with the environment. This invariance captures different types of dysmetria observed across individuals following prolonged exposure to a fixed intermodal temporal perturbation and provides a new interpretation for cerebellar ataxia.

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