scholarly journals Labour World and professional systems transformations: Challenges for universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Mauro Palumbo ◽  
Emanuela Proietti
Keyword(s):  
Professional Systems

scholarly journals Protection of Children in Difficulty in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao ◽  
Ning Zhu ◽  
Juha Hämäläinen
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
Child Protection Services ◽  
The Media ◽  
Professional Systems ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study investigated the resilience of the Chinese child protection system in responding to the special needs of children in difficulty under the specific circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study applied qualitative document analysis of child protection administrative documents, in-depth interviews with 13 child protection professionals, and an in-depth case study of 14 children living in difficulty, complemented by relevant information available in the media. The results indicate that there are good policies in China’s child protection services but the organizational and functional fragmentation complicates implementation, suggesting a need for the development of bottom-up practices. The essential conclusion supported by these results is that the child protection system should be regarded and developed as a systematic project combining the legal, policymaking, and professional systems of child welfare services as well as governmental and non-governmental forces. As the COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the need to develop the field of child protection holistically as an integrated system in terms of social sustainability in China, an international literature-based comparison indicates that the pandemic has also raised similar political awareness in other countries.

Fractured families, fractured systems: overcoming the silo mentality in family justice work

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Amita Sehgal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Child Outcomes ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Adult Mental Health ◽  
The Family ◽  
Hostile Parenting ◽  
Professional Systems

This article comments on the detrimental effects of inter-parental conflict, hostile parenting, and acrimonious divorce proceedings in terms of child outcomes, adult mental health, and quantifiable costs to the taxpayer. It refers to the growing concern that fragmentation within the family justice system works against supporting families through change. It draws upon the research conducted over many years by Tavistock Relationships in understanding the connection between family structures and professional systems, and suggests inter-agency collaboration as one way of mitigating obstacles. It puts forward the idea of developing cross-discipline consultative groups as a way of integrating services within the family justice system, and presents an example where this model has been informally trialled with some success.

Information Systems Curriculum Design Processes

2009 ◽  
pp. 628-641
Author(s):  
Paulette Alexander ◽  
Carol Gossett
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Systems Analysts ◽  
The Many ◽  
Professional Systems ◽  
Information Systems Curriculum

The process of designing a university curriculum in the information systems discipline needs to follow many of the same processes that professional systems analysts use. Of concern are the product, the stakeholders, the drivers, and the methods; indeed, an information systems curriculum is an information system. This chapter presents a case study of one small regional university’s efforts to create an updated information systems curriculum addressing the challenges of curriculum development using the framework of the very systems analysis and design course content that the students are expected to learn. The chapter identifies each component of the information system curriculum and details the processes supporting each development step along the way, from problem identification to system operation and support. This case study presents a cohesive approach to dealing with the many pressures associated with information systems curriculum development and might be instructive for curriculum development in other disciplines as well.

Dazzled by the Sun: Corporatising Queensland Film Culture

1998 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Process ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Arts Funding ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Craft Skills ◽  
Professional Systems

In the wake of economic rationalism and the failed cyber-fantasies of Creative Nation, there has been an increasing tendency towards the corporatisation of film funding bodies at a time when a loosening of self-defensive bureaucratic systems might have been expected. For example, the Film Finance Corporation has created increasingly complex ‘professional’ systems of management and has foreshadowed a ‘last stage’ script assessment process that has created dismay in industry guilds. After exhaustive prior script development (and many funding and script editing stops), a project will face yet another barrier immediately prior to shooting. In addition, the increasing invocation of ‘craft skills' themselves as somehow learnable and precisely quantifiable processes, has dug an even deeper moat around funding bodies. The winding down of Film Queensland and the enhanced corporatisation of the Pacific Film and Television Commission (even to office dress codes!) and incorporation of events such as the Brisbane International Film Festival into an Events Corporation are signs that many largely discredited constructs of The Market are still being applied — to strengthen the power base of the apparatchicks at the expense of their local clients. The events sketched in this paper are paradigmatic of over-regulated and inner-focused arts funding systems that have lost sight of who their real clients should be.

Identifying factors influencing reliability of professional systems

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aravindan Balasubramanian ◽  
Kostas Kevrekidis ◽  
Peter Sonnemans ◽  
Martin Newby
Keyword(s):  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Professional Systems

scholarly journals Similarities in Contexts and Theorizing: Professionalism and Inequality

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Evetts
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Professional Groups ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Professional Systems ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Changing Role

For a long time sociologists of professions have differentiated Anglo-American and European contexts for professional work. The presentation will address this distinction and argue that processes of convergence now render such differences somewhat obsolete except in historical accounts. In addition the convergence of professional systems and of regulatory states is also generating new inequalities both between professional groups themselves as well as within the organizations in which practitioners work. The presentation will examine convergences and inequalities at the macro level. Aspects to be considered include the changing role of the nation-state, the internationization of markets, the increased significance of the work organization and the different logics of professionalism. The extent of convergence and continuing divergences will be explored and social inequalities indicated. Macro-level processes and procedures including the growth of ‘hybrid’ organizations and new forms of managerialism can constitute new types of inequality and forms of stratification both within and between professions. The historical starting points within Europe and nation-state differences in professional systems make convergences and inequalities both highly complex and extremely variable.

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