scholarly journals D7-2　Ergonomic Assessment of the Working Conditions of Checkout Counter Cashiers in a Grocery Store in the Philippines

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (Supplement2) ◽  
pp. S612-S615
Author(s):  
Vann Harold V. Maligaya ◽  
Matthew Martin P. Sanchez ◽  
Corrine Andreana C. Uy ◽  
Alyssa Jean A. Portus
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Grocery Store

scholarly journals The use of the job enrichment technique for decision-making in higher education: The case of the Philippines

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo ◽  
Chika Sehoole ◽  
Constancia G. Cueno
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Enrichment Technique ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Job Enrichment ◽  
The Impact

Orientation: This article provides an explorative analysis of the use of the job enrichment technique for decision-making in higher education in the Philippines.Research purpose: The profile of administrators in charge of decision-making was investigated in terms of their level of familiarity with, and use of, this technique in achieving the goals of enriching jobs, retaining staff and ensuring job-motivation in higher education.Motivation for the study: Given the increasingly competitive higher education environment in which higher education employees, including academics, work, the pressure on their performance, and their search for ideal working conditions, it is important to measure the impact of the job enrichment technique on employee and higher education organisations.Research design, approach and method: The study used a quantitative method. The respondents of this study consisted of 206 administrators. Spearman Rank, Correlation Coefficient, Point Bi serial and Chi-square were used to analyse the relationships between the demographic characteristics and job enrichment technique. Multiple Regression Coefficient was used to predict job enrichment.Main findings: The findings suggest that educational attainment and experience are the most important factors for predicting success as an administrator in higher education.Practical and managerial implications: Job enrichment should not only focus on the knowledge, experience and skills of administrators, but should be extended to encompass the context and working conditions of employees.Contribution: In the context of fiscal austerity measures that result in fewer resources becoming available for higher education, it is important to have competent decision-makers who are able to motivate staff.

scholarly journals The Use of Ergonomic Analysis Methods as Supprt in the Assessment of Occupational Risk in the Position of a Seller in a Small Grocery Store (Poland)

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Agata Kielesińska
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Occupational Risk ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
Questionnaire Surveys ◽  
Ergonomic Analysis

Abstract The profession of a seller (especially in small grocery stores) does not enjoy a social respect. The reasons for this are, above all, low requirements, low salary and difficult working conditions. In addition, too little attention is paid in the literature to this profession from the point of view of safety and hazards at work. However, the problem of working conditions in the position of a salesman is an important issue concerning a very large number of people. The paper deals with this difficult topic by describing selected methods of ergonomic analysis and using them to assess occupational risk at the seller’s workplace. In the paper, the results of the Ergonomic Checkpoint List, as well as the results of questionnaire surveys are presented. All the results are related to the possibility of proper identification and the probability of hazards occurrence in the position of a seller.

Digital Threats and Attacks on the Philippine Alternative Press

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Ramon R. Tuazon ◽  
Therese Patricia San Diego Torres
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
News Media ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
International Federation ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Alternative Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Frameworks

In the Philippines, the assault on the press has gone digital. While Filipino journalists continue to face physical, verbal, and legal threats and attacks, cyber-attacks and online harassment/trolling were identified in 2018 as the second worst threat against them, after low wages and poor working conditions, according to the International Federation of Journalists and the Southeast Asia Journalist Unions. Websites of news outlets have also been hacked and taken down. These challenges make the press vulnerable to self-censorship and may even lead to fatal outcomes. This chapter seeks to fill the gap in the literature on the digital types of assault on the Philippine alternative press, focusing on the experience of alternative news media outlets—independent media particularly critical of the government. It explores the range of such threats and attacks and the responses, legal frameworks, and remedies in place that are used to combat dangers of this nature.

scholarly journals The migration ban policy cycle: a comparative analysis of restrictions on the emigration of women domestic workers

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Shivakoti ◽  
Sophie Henderson ◽  
Matt Withers
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Regional Convergence ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Migration

AbstractPolicies banning women domestic workers from migrating overseas have long been imposed by labour-sending states in the Indo-Pacific region. This article presents the complexities surrounding such bans by developing an overarching model of a migration ban policy cycle, which provides a theoretical framework for understanding the circumstances under which migration bans arise and play out. It examines the history of migration bans for four prominent labour-sending states – Indonesia, Nepal, the Philippines and Sri Lanka - to assess the causes, outcomes and extent of regional convergence of these policies. In doing so, we uncover two prominent policy narratives. The first involves labour diplomacy, where countries employ bans to negotiate superior working conditions and rights for migrant workers. The second concerns paternalist states as ‘protector’, where states are primarily motivated to reaffirm traditional gender norms. We conclude that migration bans have been most effective, both in curbing departures and achieving desired outcomes, when they are primarily motivated by labour issues and not gender politics. Nevertheless, even when used as a form of diplomatic negotiation, migration bans heighten the vulnerability of domestic workers to exploitation by pushing them into irregular pathways fraught with risk.

scholarly journals Chemical 24/7

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-213
Author(s):  
Anita Hardon
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Global North ◽  
Leisure Industry ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Abstract This chapter shines a light on what happens in the dark: specifically, we present ethnographic insights from the nightlife economy and how chemicals enable youth to work “24/7.” Producers, promoters, DJs, hosts, artists, performers, drag queens, musicians, stage managers, bartenders, hospitality girls, and dancers from Amsterdam, Brooklyn, Bira (Indonesia), and Puerto Princesa (the Philippines) share with the ChemicalYouth team the various stimulants they use to stay awake and perform their jobs during non-typical working hours, and the other chemicals that they take in order to be able to sleep and recover afterwards. In Chemical 24/7 we compare and contrast the chemical practices of youth working at leisure industry sites in the global North to those of the low-income service sector and manual workers in the global South, and discuss how these different working conditions perpetuate chemical use. Our interlocutors rely on a range of chemicals for their work and social lives, and they develop practices to moderate their use in order to avoid adverse effects. Yet their practices differ depending on the availability, marketing, and policing of the substances.

Workplace cosmopolitanization and "the power and pain of class relations" at sea

Focaal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (62) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny McCall Howard
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Offshore Oil ◽  
Trade Union Organization

This article examines the "power and the pain of class relations" (Ortner 2006) through the experience of Scottish men working in the global shipping, offshore oil, and fishing industries: industries in which the nationality of workers has changed significantly since the 1980s. It combines recent anthropological literature on subjectivity and cosmopolitanism with a Marxist understanding of class as generated through differing relationships to production. The article describes how British seafarers have experienced the cosmopolitanization of their workplaces, as workers from Portugal, Eastern Europe, and the Philippines have been recruited by employers in order to reduce wages, working conditions, and trade union organization. Drawing on Therborn (1980), it concludes that the experiences gained through this process have led to the development of multiple and often contradictory subjectivities, which people draw on as they choose how to act in moments of crisis, and as they imagine possible futures.

Disaster Medicine Training in the Philippines

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
pp. S27
Author(s):  
Teodoro Javier Herbosa
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Disaster Medicine
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