Witness Statements for Employment Tribunals in England and Wales: What are the ‘Issues’?

In England and Wales, Employment Tribunals (ETs) hear claims from persons who believe that an employer, or potential employer, has treated them unlawfully. Witness statements form part of the evidence considered by ETs, but research is lacking with regard to the methods used to produce ET witness statements. This study presents the findings from 40 semi-structured interviews with ET judges, panel members, employment lawyers (solicitors, barristers, advisers) and litigants. Our data revealed six themes: professional processes, enabling through case management, presentation preferences, challenges for litigants in person, availability and quality of resources, and lack of training. Participants felt that the quality of witness statements varied amongst those prepared by professional advisors and by litigants in person. Our interviews revealed almost no evidence of practitioner training on how best to prepare a witness statement. We make recommendations about guidance and training for those tasked with drafting witness statements.

On the motivation for using the project-based learning method

The article deals with the problems of implementing the project-based learning method in professional education. The aim of the study is to identify the key factors hindering the full use of the method in educational practice. The research methodology is based on a systematic approach and includes methods of description, comparison, comparative analysis, and generalization. The project-based learning method fully meets the objectives of the competence-based approach in professional education. For a number of areas of training, the project-based training method is also significant in that it allows you to demonstrate the formation of graduate competencies to a potential employer. This is mainly reflected in the results of project activities. The positions of subjects interested in the results of the educational process are formulated. The adoption of the project-based learning method by participants in the educational process – students, teachers, and University administration – is hindered by negative motivation, which clearly prevails in the short term. It is concluded that for the actual, real, and not formal transition to the use of the project-based learning method, measures are needed not to be imposed by the state, but to stimulate participants of the educational process.

The Achilles Heel of Recruiting Women: Perceived Gender Equality as a Key Determinant of the Military’s Employer Attractiveness Among Women

The German Bundeswehr, like other NATO forces, seeks to recruit more women in order to improve its gender balance and to meet its personnel needs. However, previous research on military recruitment has paid little attention to women. Given that the (German) military is still a male-dominated organization, we argue that women’s opinion regarding the realization of gender equality in the military may very well be the Achilles heel of recruiting women. Based on the assumption that women value gender equality in the work environment, we test the hypothesis that women are more attracted to the military as a (potential) employer, the more they think the military has achieved gender equality. A multivariate analysis of nationally representative survey data from Germany from 2019 provides empirical evidence to support this hypothesis. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

Formation of Professional Readyness of the Future Specialist

The article substantiates the content and develops a model of professional training of assistant dentist, as well as his educational and qualification characteristics and educational and professional program and, through experiment, introduced the training of such a specialist in seven higher medical schools in Ukraine. Theoretical concretization and experimental testing of organizational and pedagogical conditions of professional training of junior specialists of dental profile in the line of general requirements of the personal approach to the organization of process of professional training are carried out. Factor analysis of trends in the development of education and environmental systems and analysis of the experience of professional training of auxiliary specialists in the field of dentistry abroad revealed the conditionality and necessity of professional training in Ukraine for junior dentists. The organizational and pedagogical conditions that will ensure the effectiveness of professional training of a dental assistant in a higher medical educational institution, namely: the system of three-subject interaction of the educational institution, the student as a future specialist and potential employer and pedagogical opportunities for self-realization of the student as a subobject of his/her own professional training. Through the experiment, the effectiveness of the introduction of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the professional training of an assistant dentist was proved. During the study, the experimental group eventually rethought the “object” of its activities and crossed the previously opaque boundaries between medical care and student supervision for the benefit of all parties.

Cloud solutions of 1C company as a basis for implementation of a system approach in the preparation of a specialist

The article determines the relevance of a system approach in the training of a specialist in the field of managing economic objects. Despite the huge number of university graduates with diplomas in the field of economics and management, in recent years there has been a widespread deficit of qualified specialists. Even successful graduates, possessing a sufficiently large amount of theoretical knowledge in the field of economics and management, are not able to apply this knowledge to solve practical problems of modern business. The main reason for this is the creation of curricula in many educational institutions as a set of disciplines read in different semesters without taking into account their interrelationships and without reference to the main target function of vocational education that is the formation of a specialist. This problem is especially acute in regions where the main “consumers” of educational institutions’ services are mini- and microbusiness, which requires mastering a wide range of practice oriented competencies based on the widespread use of information technologies. The most important, according to the authors, the requirements of mini- and microbusiness, as a potential employer of most graduates of educational institutions of economic profile, to potential employees, are formulated in the article. The work is based on the experience of using the cloud service edu.1CFresh from the 1C company in order to implement a system approach in training specialists in the field of economics and management. The capabilities of the service showed themselves especially brightly during the period of pandemic restrictions, the use of the service made it possible to maintain and even to some extent increase the effectiveness of training due to the redistribution of lectures and practical classes. The service acts as a technological basis for the formation of models of real business processes and is the center around which the knowledge gained in the study of special disciplines is collected. The article discusses the methods for organizing various forms of educational activities using the edu.1CFresh service in the process of training bachelors in “Management” and “Economics” directions.

A Review of Employer-Caused Delay Factors in Traditional and Building Information Modeling (BIM)-Enabled Projects: Research Framework

Construction delays are considered a common worldwide problem. Previous studies have investigated construction delay factors from the perspectives of different project stakeholders. However, a thorough analysis of such delays on different types of construction projects in different geographies is still lacking, precisely the effect of employers’ delays in traditional and building information modeling (BIM)-enabled projects. This research proposes a research framework to address potential employer-caused delay factors in traditional and BIM-enabled projects. A cross-sectional literature search was carried out to review construction delay factors and employer-caused delay factors in traditional and BIM-enabled projects. The study found that: (a) a research gap exists in traditional construction delay studies in specific continents and project types as well as in BIM-enabled project studies, (b) delay aspects have not been addressed or have been partially addressed in previous studies, and (c) a relationship model between employer-caused delay factors and success factors can be developed by studying the effects of BIM barriers and implementation strategies. This paper is the first to present a comprehensive review on delay factors and tender a novel framework to address employer-caused delay factors in both traditional and BIM-enabled projects.

21. Individual Trade Union Rights

This chapter considers the rights of an individual in respect of his trade union membership and/or non-membership and remedies for breach of those rights. These rights exist vis-à-vis a trade union or against an actual or potential employer. They include the right not to be excluded from a union; the right not to be unjustifiably disciplined; the right to resign; the right not to be expelled; the right to have a ballot before industrial action; and the right to take time off work for trade union duties. The relevant statutory provisions are contained in the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (TULR(C)A), which has been amended by subsequent legislation, and reference will also be made to a number of legal decisions.

Transmedia Storytelling as a Potential Employer Branding Strategy

This article analyses talent attraction and recruitment processes considering the theory of convergence culture and its concepts of participatory culture, collective intelligence and transmedia storytelling. The aim is to understand the potential of transmedia storytelling in the recruitment process, in line with the technological and social changes of the world. A more detailed example of a Heineken campaign using transmedia storytelling is described, exploring how it could be seen as a way of attracting candidates and promoting the image of the company as an employer. We conclude that transmedia storytelling allows organizations to get closer to their target audiences by employing a synergetic process susceptible to influence the image of organizations and the way candidates interact and share information about organizations, choosing their level of involvement.

PRINCIPLES FOR FORMING RESEARCH CULTURE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS

This article considers the problem of the formation of the research culture of future specialists. Particular attention is paid to the principles of organization of research work at a university. In modern conditions of the development of science and technology, changes in the style of thinking, priority sources of perception of information of future specialists, it is necessary to develop new, effective methods of training, the result of which will be the formation of an effective specialist that is in demand by a potential employer. Thus, the process of forming the research culture of future specialists in accordance with the culturological approach is the main system-forming factor in the formation of personality, and the joint scientific work of the student and teacher should become an effective tool. The research culture of future specialists is a system-forming basic component of a personality culture, an intermediate link between a person and his purposeful activity. It is an integrative, dynamic quality of personality, characterized by a value attitude to research, an unsaturated need for search activity, a combination of methodological, philosophical, general subjective, reflective knowledge and research skills, and a high potential for research abilities.

The cover letter as a genre of speech in teaching Polish as a foreign language

Genres are products of cultures, reflecting the needs and practices of communities that have created them. Teaching the Polish language to foreigners, we should make them familiar with numerous Polish genres of speech, recommended in programmes of teaching Polish as a foreign language. The cover letter is a relatively new genre in the Polish continuum of speech, adopted from the Anglo-Saxon culture after the transition in 1989. It is a complex genre, deriving from others, such as the official letter, application, advertisement letter, and CV. The article presents a description of the genre, according to the genre pattern by Maria Wojtak, including four aspects: structural, pragmatic, ontological and linguistic. The dynamics of the genre resulted in the creation of a canon model, alternative variants and adaptive variants of this type of letter. The definition of the cover letter in terms of genre studies states that it is a short text (maximum one page) with a strictly defined structure, aiming at making the recipient (potential employer) hire the sender, it shows the sphere of life related to the world of labour and education, and is usually expressed in a schematic and clichéd manner (usage patterns are often copies of normative patterns). Foreigners should learn all four aspects of description of this genre of speech for effective communication in the environment of the Polish language and culture.