Factor Modeling Of Russian Women’s Perceptions Of Combining Family And Career

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Blednova ◽  
Anna Bagirova
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Working Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Women’S Perceptions ◽  
Factor Modeling ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Late Childbearing ◽  
The Relationship

Sociologists and demographers explain late childbearing by the transformation of the life values of modern women. This is considered as one of the reasons for the decline in the birth rate. Our study aims to reveal perceptions of the relationship between career and family in the life strategies of working Russian women by using factor analysis. We collected data in a sociological survey of working women living in the Ural region. We asked respondents to rate 10 statements about work, family and children. We constructed 3-factors model of Russian women’s perceptions of combining family and career. Then we used correlationanalysis to assess the relationship between these factors and the social and demographic parameters of the respondents. We concluded that the use of factor analysis made it possible to model a wide range of Russian women’s perceptions of combining family and career. Considering the results obtained may contribute to improving the regulation of interaction of two important societal spheres of professional and parental activities and create conditions for increasing the birth rate in Russia.

When the Rainbows Bring the Crawfish

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
V. Constanza Ocampo-Raeder
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Relationship

In this article I present the social life of camarones, a Peruvian river crustacean used in some of the region’s favorite dishes, and the liminal space they occupy in the geography, minds, and ecosystem of Peru and its people. I situate the relationship between these crawfish and the folks who capture them, known as camaroneros, within insights of environmental anthropologists and food scholars who also explore the connections between cultural and biological diversity and the entangled socio-ecological histories that inform the manner in which nature is mediated and understood by local societies. In this article, however, I expand this understanding to reveal unexpected spaces of engagement, especially those that emerge while eating, which tend to be overlooked by bounded notions of culture and nature and limit the ways we can imagine human-nature relationships. Via the story of camarones and camaroneros of one river valley of Peru, I argue that eating is a socio-ecological act that is imbued with profound cultural meanings involving a wide range of participants—not just farmers or producers—each with their own ecological identities yet still implicitly linked to one another through the process of producing, preparing, and consuming food.

The social structure of free and open source software development

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Crowston ◽  
James Howison
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Bug Tracking ◽  
The Relationship

Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner–advocates from within the FLOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FLOSS production. To address this question, we examined 120 project teams from SourceForge, representing a wide range of FLOSS project types, for their communications centralization as revealed in the interactions in the bug tracking system. We found that FLOSS development teams vary widely in their communications centralization, from projects completely centered on one developer to projects that are highly decentralized and exhibit a distributed pattern of conversation between developers and active users. We suggest, therefore, that it is wrong to assume that FLOSS projects are distinguished by a particular social structure merely because they are FLOSS. Our findings suggest that FLOSS projects might have to work hard to achieve the expected development advantages which have been assumed to flow from "going open." In addition, the variation in communications structure across projects means that communications centralization is useful for comparisons between FLOSS teams. We found that larger FLOSS teams tend to have more decentralized communication patterns, a finding that suggests interesting avenues for further research examining, for example, the relationship between communications structure and code modularity.

scholarly journals The effect of materialistic and nonmaterialistic motivational factors to employees' commitment to work

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Suvad Isaković ◽  
Ajdin Isaković ◽  
Kanita Isaković
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Motivational Factors ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

The success of each business relies on the employees' commitment to work, i.e., how and in which way employees perform their work. When consumers are offered the same or similar products produced by different companies and at different prices, and when the company's business result greatly depends on the quality of the work done, company management is more interested in securing its employees' full dedication to work. The generally accepted phrase "you get what you pay for" encouraged this research, whose purpose is to determine the strength of the relationship between materialistic and nonmaterialistic motivational factors to employees' commitment to work. This research starts with the assumption that materialistic factors of motivation are more important motivational factors for employees when compared to nonmaterialistic ones. Listed indicators of motivational factors represent independent variables, while the dependent variable represents the indicator 'work satisfaction', which determines the level of employees' commitment to work. The research had 147 participants who work in companies from different industries and different sizes. According to the Likert scale, a structured questionnaire was used to measure the employees' attitudes. Various methods for data processing in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Smart PLS3 program were used: Descriptive statistics of the sample (SPSS); Exploratory factor analysis - PCA analysis of principal components (SPSS): Factor analysis - a test of validity and confidence of the instruments (SmartPLS3); Bootstrapping analysis - testing of the hypothesis (SmartPLS3). The conducted research shows that nonmaterialistic motivational factors, including Interpersonal relations and advancement, statistically significantly influence satisfaction at work, i.e., employees' commitment to the work.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Boundary Work Tactics and Work-Family Conflict among Working Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nur Fatihah Abdullah Bandar ◽  
Mila Tay ◽  
Dayang Kartini Abg Ibrahim ◽  
Zaiton Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Boundary Work ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Private Organisation

This study aims to identify the relationship between boundary work tactics (behavioral, temporal, physical and communicative) and work-family conflict among working women. A survey methodology was used in this study. This research involves the utilisation of questionnaire which was administered among one-hundred and three (103) working women currently working in a selected organisation. This study was conducted in a selected private organisation in Kuching, Sarawak. The relationship between boundary work tactics and work-family conflicts was analyzed using the Pearson’s correlation analysis test. The results of this study revealed that there is a significant relationship between behavioral tactics, temporal tactics, and communicative tactics with work-family conflict. Hence, from this study, the organisation can implement more strategic tactics to reduce work-family conflicts when the working women are challenged to balance responsibilities between their work and family.

Working at Home

2008 ◽  
pp. 3229-3245
Author(s):  
Tracy L.M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Business Organizations ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Home

This chapter explores the work-family interface by investigating home as a potential work space that must still accommodate the social and leisure needs of household members. By examining spatial patterns of household Internet location, this chapter investigates the prevalence of paid work in Canadian homes, illustrates how household spaces are reorganized to accommodate the computer/Internet, and examines how the location of Internet access is situated within sociocultural contexts of the household and how this might affect potential work-from-home scenarios. Data collected from a triangulation of methods—surveys, interviews and in-home observation—also illustrate the relevance of household Internet location from an organizational perspective. The relationship between individuals and business organizations is interactive and integrative, and the home workplace is complex and blurred with other daily social realities, which influence effective work-at-home strategies and potentially shapes productivity and efficiency.

Working at Home

2007 ◽  
pp. 257-279
Author(s):  
Tracy L.M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Business Organizations ◽  
Working At Home ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Household Members ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Home

This chapter explores the work-family interface by investigating home as a potential work space that must still accommodate the social and leisure needs of household members. By examining spatial patterns of household Internet location, this chapter investigates the prevalence of paid work in Canadian homes, illustrates how household spaces are reorganized to accommodate the computer/Internet, and examines how the location of Internet access is situated within sociocultural contexts of the household and how this might affect potential work-from-home scenarios. Data collected from a triangulation of methods—surveys, interviews and in-home observation—also illustrate the relevance of household Internet location from an organizational perspective. The relationship between individuals and business organizations is interactive and integrative, and the home workplace is complex and blurred with other daily social realities, which influence effective work-at-home strategies and potentially shapes productivity and efficiency.

FLEXIBLE SYSTEMS DESIGN

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiana Cellucci ◽  
Michele Di Sivo
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Functional Organization ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Systems Design ◽  
Architectural Engineering ◽  
Life Cycle Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Building Systems ◽  
The Relationship

The research explores the relationship between uncertainty, flexibility and Life Cycle Design in the design of complex systems, in general, and in the particular case of the design of building systems. In the architectural-engineering works, conceived as activities aimed at generating new systems, the comparison with the uncertainty is inevitable. There is a wide range of types of uncertainty; a possible simplification is to consider two types of causes of uncertainty, the presence of the internal or external uncertainties to the system. That is the variability of demand (unknowns about the social and economic context) or the variability of technological market (unknowns about the performance of the system), in other words the functional obsolescence and the technological obsolescence. If flexibility is the ability of a system to be easily modified and to respond to changes in the environment in a timely and convenient, then the flexibility can be considered the antidote to obsolescence, or the characteristic of the system that guarantees slippage over time. It’s that property that makes the system resilient able to absorb the shock and/or disturbance without undergoing major alterations in its functional organization, in its structure and in its identity characteristics. In the paper, the flexibility is therefore seen as a fundamental property for designing a generally complex system, and particularly in architectural design, through the identification of design criteria for the implementation of this requirement, that influence on architecture (form more technology) of the system.

The social structure of free and open source software development (originally published in Volume 10, Number 2, February 2005)

First Monday ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Crowston ◽  
James Howison
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Project Teams ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Bug Tracking ◽  
The Relationship

Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know about the communication patterns of FLOSS projects? How generalizable are the projects that have been studied? Is there consistency across FLOSS projects? Questioning the assumption of distinctiveness is important because practitioner–advocates from within the FLOSS community rely on features of social structure to describe and account for some of the advantages of FLOSS production. To address this question, we examined 120 project teams from SourceForge, representing a wide range of FLOSS project types, for their communications centralization as revealed in the interactions in the bug tracking system. We found that FLOSS development teams vary widely in their communications centralization, from projects completely centered on one developer to projects that are highly decentralized and exhibit a distributed pattern of conversation between developers and active users. We suggest, therefore, that it is wrong to assume that FLOSS projects are distinguished by a particular social structure merely because they are FLOSS. Our findings suggest that FLOSS projects might have to work hard to achieve the expected development advantages which have been assumed to flow from "going open." In addition, the variation in communications structure across projects means that communications centralization is useful for comparisons between FLOSS teams. We found that larger FLOSS teams tend to have more decentralized communication patterns, a finding that suggests interesting avenues for further research examining, for example, the relationship between communications structure and code modularity.

Thanks, but No Thanks: Unpacking the Relationship Between Relative Power and Gratitude

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722110259
Author(s):  
Eric M. Anicich ◽  
Alice J. Lee ◽  
Shi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Psychological Entitlement ◽  
Interpersonal Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Relational History

Power and gratitude are universal features of social life and impact a wide range of intra- and interpersonal outcomes. Drawing on the social distance theory of power, we report four studies that examine how relative power influences feelings and expressions of gratitude. An archival analysis of author acknowledgements in published academic articles ( N = 1,272) revealed that low-power authors expressed more gratitude than high-power authors. A pre-registered experiment ( N = 283) involving live conversations online found that having relatively low power caused increased feelings and expressions of gratitude after benefiting from a favor. Another pre-registered experiment ( N = 356) demonstrated that increased interpersonal orientation among lower power individuals and increased psychological entitlement among higher power individuals drove these effects. Finally, an archival analysis of conversational exchanges ( N = 136,215) among Wikipedia editors revealed that relational history moderated the effect of relative power on gratitude expression. Overall, our findings highlight when and why relative power influences feelings and expressions of gratitude.

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