Shaping the future of work in Sweden: The crucial role of social partnership

2018 ◽  
pp. 519-554
Author(s):  
Dominique Anxo
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future

Ninety days convert recruits into hosts at Edwardian Group London

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Future ◽  
First 90 Days ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Describes the various approaches taken to training and development at Edwardian Group London, a group of hotels. Design/methodology/approach – Examines the reasons for the training, the form it takes and the results it has achieved. Findings – Emphasizes the importance the company attaches to training in the first 90 days of an employee's tenure, when recruits receive general induction training plus training specific to their area of operation. Practical implications – Outlines how the company spots and develops its managers of the future. Social implications – Highlights the crucial role of training in ensuring that hotel guests have the best possible stay. Originality/value – Provides a thorough examination of the various forms of training at Edwardian Group London.

scholarly journals The role of conviction and narrative in decision-making under radical uncertainty

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-523 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Tuckett ◽  
Milena Nikolic
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Causal Models ◽  
Approach And Avoidance ◽  
Rules Of Thumb ◽  
The Future ◽  
Radical Uncertainty

We propose conviction narrative theory (CNT) to broaden decision-making theory in order to better understand and analyse how subjectively means–end rational actors cope in contexts in which the traditional assumptions in decision-making models fail to hold. Conviction narratives enable actors to draw on their beliefs, causal models, and rules of thumb to identify opportunities worth acting on, to simulate the future outcome of their actions, and to feel sufficiently convinced to act. The framework focuses on how narrative and emotion combine to allow actors to deliberate and to select actions that they think will produce the outcomes they desire. It specifies connections between particular emotions and deliberative thought, hypothesising that approach and avoidance emotions evoked during narrative simulation play a crucial role. Two mental states, Divided and Integrated, in which narratives can be formed or updated, are introduced and used to explain some familiar problems that traditional models cannot.

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence and the future of work – lessons from the sociology of expectations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilla Vicsek
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Role Expectations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Alternative Pathways ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Sociology Of Expectations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeWhat is the future of work going to look like? The aim of this paper is to show how the sociology of expectations (SE) – which deals with the power of visions – can make important contributions in terms of thinking about this issue by critically evaluating the dominant expert positions related to the future-of-employment- and artificial intelligence (AI) debate.Design/methodology/approachAfter providing a literature review regarding SE, an approach based on the latter is applied to interpret the dominant ideal-type expert positions in the future of work debate to illustrate the value of this perspective.FindingsDominant future scripts can be characterized by a focus on the effects of AI technology that give agency to technology and to the future, involve the hype of expectations with polarized frames, and obscure uncertainty. It is argued that these expectations can have significant consequences. They contribute to the closing off of alternative pathways to the future by making some conversations possible, while hindering others. In order to advance understanding, more sophisticated theorizing is needed which goes beyond these positions and which takes uncertainty and the mutual shaping of technology and society into account – including the role expectations play.Research limitations/implicationsThe study asserts that the dominant positions contain problematic assumptions. It makes suggestions for helping move beyond these current framings of the debate theoretically. It also argues that scenario building and backcasting are two tools that could help move forward thinking about the future of work – especially if this is done in a way so as to build strongly on SE.Practical implicationsThe arguments presented herein enhance sense-making in relation to the future-of-work debate, and can contribute to policy development.Originality/valueThere is a lack of adequate exploration of the role of visions related to AI and their consequences. This paper attempts to address this gap by applying an SE approach and emphasizing the performative force of visions.

Restoring the Western Hero and Reclaiming the Classic Hollywood Experience: True Grit (2010)

2019 ◽  
pp. 36-53
Author(s):  
John White
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
The Core ◽  
American Values ◽  
The Future ◽  
Core Issue

This chapter views the core issue for True Grit (2010) as being the unavoidable need for ‘good’ ultimately to confront ‘evil’ in physical combat, and for good to win in such a way as to safeguard the future of a shared cultural community. The film becomes a restatement of the crucial role of the (flawed) American hero in guaranteeing the future of American values and national identity. In extremis the system of law and order is shown to be left wanting. At this point what is required is the strong individual, such as ‘Rooster’ Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) who is prepared to step beyond the normal bounds of civilised behaviour in the service of a higher concept of justice.

Social Media Disruptions in HR Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 4451-4453
Author(s):  
B. Pallavi ◽  
G. Vijaya Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Hr Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Talented workers are the key source of competitive advantage for today’s organizations. Talented employees and their skills define the future of a business by giving it a competitive edge over others. The Social media phenomenon has opened up new avenues to employers and employees alike in the employment market. In the wake of such a scenario the role of social media has come to play a crucial role and paved the way for new paths in organizations HR practices.

Challenging the future of siRNA therapeutics against cancer: the crucial role of nanotechnology

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 1417-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lígia Catarina Gomes-da-Silva ◽  
Sérgio Simões ◽  
João Nuno Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals WebQuests in Vocational Guidance of School Students with Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01145
Author(s):  
Olga Rodina ◽  
Liubov Gladkova ◽  
Inga Patrusheva
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Vocational Guidance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Systematic Application ◽  
The Future ◽  
Limited Health ◽  
The University

This article highlights the problem of the vocational guidance of school students with disabilities. Particular attention is paid to a crucial role of a web quest as an educational technology in increasing the motivation of school students with disabilities to enter the university, and facilitating the process of choosing the future profession. It is proved that the systematic application of the WebQuest based technology in the vocational guidance contributes to the development of reflection in school students with disabilities and limited health opportunities.

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