scholarly journals A Feeling for Systems Development Work: - Design of the ROSA Project

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (246) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Bødker ◽  
Joan Greenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Systems Development ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Science Methods ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Working Practices

<p>This article is based on the design of a research project that will look at intuition, learning processes, language and roles in the development of computer systems. The research project, called ROSA (a Danish acronym for Roles and Cooperation in Systems Development) grew out of our interest in the informal working practices among systems developers, because it is these informal working relationships that are most often overlooked in research about computer science methods and tools.</p><p>The project applies a gender perspective to look at the informal work relations of systems developers. The concept of a gender perspective means that we do not intend to look for, or prove, the existence of differences between men and women, but rather to use gender awareness to ''listen to'' and get a ''feeling for'' how systems developers work together. Our research methods are interdisciplinary and based on action-oriented, participatory methods that help system developers reflect on their own working practices.</p>

Lexikalisch-semantische Kompetenz von ein- und mehrsprachigen Grundschulkindern – Ergebnisse einer empirischen Studie

2021 ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Eleni Peleki
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
School Children ◽  
Elementary School Children ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Semantic Competence

THE LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC COMPETENCE OF MONO- AND MULTILINGUAL ELEMENTARY-AGED PUPILS – RESULTS OF AN EMPIRICAL STUDY This paper presents results of a research project on the lexical and semantic competence of 87 mono- and multilingual elementary school children in Bavaria. The gender perspective is also taken into account. The findings have important implications for the training and the practical work of teachers of German as a first and second language.

scholarly journals DESAIN DAN ANALISIS  PEKERJAAN DALAM  MANAJEMEN PERSONALIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Masturah Minabari
Keyword(s):  
Job Design ◽  
Work Design ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Job Functions ◽  
Work Coordination

  Each work design also influences the employee's attitude towards the task at hand. In addition, job design determines work relations between employees, between employees and superiors, types of work, and socio-economic relations. Through design work is carried out changing the content, functions and relations of work that are able to complete in accordance with the target and boss satisfaction. Job design and analysis includes; authority of the office holder, routine implementation of duties, identity of the holder, and involvement of the incumbent. Job functions include; work methods used, work coordination, responsibility, information flow, and work authority. While employment relations include joint work activities between officials and all employees in one agency. Keywords: official management, design work, design

Labour Relations in the Conventional Cargo Era

2003 ◽  
pp. 55-84
Author(s):  
James Reveley
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Managerial Control ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Labour Relations

This chapter considers the labour relations during the conventional cargo era, twenty years before the introduction of the container industry. Reveley argues in depth that companies that hired watersiders were disempowered by the structure of the labour market. The chapter is divided into subsections as follows: Bargaining Structures; Union Bargaining Strategies; The Employers, Bargaining, and the WIT; The Unions Amalgamate Nationally; Work Relations and Managerial Control Strategies; Management Through the Wages System; Workplace Bargaining Over “Rates”; Informal Work Practices; and Labour Productivity and Costs. The chapter concludes by stating that though employers could individually profit from these circumstances, collectively they were in a worse position than the strengthened unions, and that this status quo, despite bargaining efforts, remained so at the start of containerisation.

How Can Regulation Help?

Living Wage ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Shelley Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Informal Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Informal Regulation ◽  
Labour Regulation

Chapter 2 explores how regulation might help to alleviate the burden on poor workers and reduce the incidence of informal work. Informal work is understood in this study as a regulatory problem or conundrum. The chapter explores insights and concepts from the regulatory literature in order reflect upon the reason why labour regulation is failing so many workers around the world, leaving them stranded in a state of informality. The chapter proposes, first, that traditional state-based labour law is not responding to the various forms of work that have proliferated in recent years. Second, it is not responding to advances in the structures of production and relations of distribution that work occurs within. Third, it is not employing tools that are appropriate to or effective in regulating new working relationships. And fourth, it is not creating incentives for compliance which overcome the countervailing disincentives which arise from private and informal regulation, culture, and informal institutions. Having established the problem, it then draws on various literatures to set up the conceptual framework for examining how institutional change could occur so that a more responsive labour regulation could be generated.

scholarly journals Gender Equality Indicators for Research and Innovation from a Responsible Perspective: The Case of Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 2980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Otero-Hermida ◽  
Mónica García-Melón
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Vertical Segregation ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
Responsible Research

This article offers a Spanish national perspective that contributes to European Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) monitoring initiatives. National experts involved in gender and science and technology issues, such as policymakers, gender experts, research institutions, and equality associations, among others, have proposed indicators based on participatory decision-making techniques. The results include a complete set of 52 indicators and a reduced panel of 23 indicators—the highest-ranked ones—to monitor relevant aspects that should be measured in gender dimension from an RRI perspective: differential and asymmetric socialization and education, organizational culture, substantive representation, vertical segregation, work relations, visibility of women researchers, gender perspective in research contents, gender expertise enhancement, and resources. The results offer new indicators that differ from previous indicator panels at the European and Spanish levels in relation to those aspects that should be measured and the typology of indicators preferred. Differences suggest the need for a more nuanced debate on the purpose of indicators, and the need for national contributions to RRI and to the debate on gender perspective in EU policy. Finally, the article suggests some specific traits observed in Spain that might add to the debate on the content of an RRI gender perspective in an already developed gender policy.

scholarly journals Lost in Translation: Discussing the Positive Contribution of Hobbyist Metal Detecting

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Good Working ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Better Than

AbstractThis paper will consider the positive contribution from hobbyist metal detecting from both the perspective of the archaeological and metal detecting community. Are we currently opting for a path of least resistance with a ‘better than nothing’ approach to encourage reporting and to maintain good working relationships, even if it risks the loss of valuable archaeological information? Using selected case studies, as well as the results of a recent research project, this paper will draw on the perspective of both archaeologists and hobbyist metal detectorists to further understand what it is to have a responsible and constructive nonprofessional interaction with the archaeological record.

scholarly journals Systems Development: Possibilities for and Obstacles to Changing Practice

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (195) ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Kensing
Keyword(s):  
System Development ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Working Practices

Too little time, too few people, and too poor techniques and tools are frequent explanations of why a system development project does not come up to expectations. This article will discuss some other explanations centering around two concepts: <em>approaching the product</em> and <em>handling project situations.</em> The article is partly inspired by Schön's studies of how various professionals think when they work, and partly by my own studies of the working practices of computer specialists.

A Particular Kind of Practice

Architects ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Thomas Yarrow
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
National Average ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Public Buildings ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Regular Site ◽  
Design And Construction

Unlike the practices on which architectural critics and indeed ethnographers have tended to focus, MHW is not famous. Employing ten architects during the period I did my work, the practice is slightly smaller than the U.K. national average of just under fourteen.19 In their mid-thirties, the two directors are relatively young, as is the staff profile of the practice more generally. All are in their twenties and thirties, with the exception of David, the father of Tomas. This youth is something they often present as a virtue, making representational capital through coupling that word with others with which it is popularly associated; “dynamic,” “creative,” “innovative,” “fresh,” “original” are words that feature on their website. As a small-to-medium-size practice, MHW rarely takes on projects with budgets of less than £100,000 and is mostly focused on large domestic extensions and renovations, one-off new builds, and small public buildings. The firm’s projects involve close working relationships with individual clients, planners, builders, engineers, and other building specialists contracted as consultants when needed. Design and then construction work involves regular site visits. Involvement in these various aspects of the process of design and construction is at one level a necessity for a practice of this size. At another level they see these working practices as a virtue tying into a broader philosophy. Unlike larger practices where specialism and fragmentation are more common, the company takes pride in aiming to connect processes of design and construction, celebrates the “ownership” of projects by individual architects, and aims to keep organizational structures flat....

In and out of the sound studio

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra McCartney
Keyword(s):  
Gender Issues ◽  
Experimental Music ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Working Practices ◽  
Radio Art ◽  
Music Audio ◽  
Canadian Research

This article reports on the first phase of a four-year, multi-university Canadian research project called ‘In and Out of the Studio’. The intention of this project is to study the experiences and working practices of women sound producers in Canada, and to produce a multimedia computer installation and set of articles about their ideas, approaches and philosophies. We are studying gender issues that affect the work of these women in areas as diverse as film sound recording and post-production, sound engineering, radio art, performance art, experimental music, audio documentary production, and web sound. This is a wide range of disciplines, with their associated professional formations. What links the experiences of these diverse cultural workers is their focus on organising sound, and their gender. The first phase of the research focuses on formations: the following phase will concentrate on working practices through a discussion and analysis of specific recent works produced by the participants. The second part of this article explores the working processes of Hildegard Westerkamp in her composition of Gently Penetrating Beneath the Sounding Surfaces of Another Place (1997), through an interview with Westerkamp conducted in 1997. This interview will be used as a model for the in-depth studio interviews in the present study.

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