Gamification Strategies for Higher Education Student Worker Training

This chapter discusses gamification strategies in the context of higher education student worker training. Specifically, it builds on the concepts of gamification in corporate training contexts and gamification in the academic classroom environment. It also considers various options to support gamified training content and methods to support student worker engagement and knowledge retention. It explains how these strategies relate to the concept of information literacy for an adult, higher education population. This chapter is ideal for higher education staff, faculty, or administrators who design training curricula for student workers.

A Study on Effects of Employee Training Practices and its Outcome in Software Industries being Specific at Chennai

Training is an art of enhancing skills and knowledge of an employee in performing a task productively. It’s about to impart a defined work related skill to the worker. Training is the connective passage between the employee and the specific job requirement. Development means overall growth of an individual along with the organization. The ultimate purpose of training and development is to increase the efficiency and being skillful by adopting various new mechanisms for a better standard of work life. The purpose of the study is to analyze the effectiveness of training modules in IT sector based Chennai. The study concentrates on the perception of the employees about the training sessions. Developing the talent of workforce enables job enrichment and enlargement. A module of ten Questionnaire is framed out to identify the strong feelings of 100 sample employees on training programs conducted by the organization. The collected data will be analyzed using simple percentage analysis, factor analysis, ANOVA and Chi-Square.

The Influence of Trust on Crowd Logistics Enterprise’s Operational Performance: A SEM-PLS Model

With the development of information communication and satellite positioning, crowd logistics has gradually emerged as a popular urban distribution mode for logistics enterprises. Trust and synergy between the crowd workers and the crowd logistics enterprises have become key issues in urban logistics development. Based on commitment-trust theory and logistics synergy, this paper developed a theoretical model exploring ability trust, goodwill trust, logistics synergy, and crowd logistics operational performance. We used SmartPLS software to analyze the questionnaire survey from 50 senior managers in crowd logistics enterprises. The results show that ability trust has a significant positive impact on logistics synergy and operational performance. Logistics synergy was also found to increase the operational performance of crowd logistics enterprises and plays a mediating role in the impact of ability trust and goodwill trust on operational performance. We recommend that logistics enterprises evaluate their crowd workers’ service abilities, promote trust relationships with them, strengthen the construction of crowd logistics mechanisms, and invest in crowd worker training and development.

Cost and Cost-effectiveness of eLearning Interventions for Healthcare Workers in Low- and Middle-income Countries: a Protocol for a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

BackgroundIn recent years, the shift from traditional face-to-face teaching methods to eLearning methods has shown to improve professional training, particularly for the health workers in achieving necessary specialised worker training. However, there is a insufficient evidence on the costs and cost-effectiveness of designing and deploying eLearning interventions for healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries.MethodsThe study protocol was developed and reported following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). The Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions will be used to guide the conduct of the proposed systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic literature searches will be conducted using the EBSCOhost platform ( Academic Search Complete, ERIC, health source: nursing/academic edition, MEDLINE with Full Text, OpenDissertations), Google Scholar, and the following databases: Web of Science, PubMed and ProQuest databases, evaluating the cost and cost-effectiveness of e-learning interventions for healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries. The searches will be open to peer-reviewed articles published in all languages and no restriction in publication year. We will further evaluate the cost-effectiveness by determining heterogeneity in the content, if feasible we will do a meta-analysis using Meta- Easy Excel software tools. We will use OR and 95% CIs as measures of effect for dichotomous outcomes. As for continuous outcomes, we will use standardised mean differences and 95% CIs. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) approach will be used to assess the certainty of the evidence across outcomes. PRISMA-P will be used to report the findings of this systematic review and meta-analysis.DiscussionThis systematic review target to deliver complete evidence of cost and the cost-effectiveness of eLearning interventions for healthcare worker training. The study will be disseminated through the publication of the manuscript and policy brief in an appropriate journal and shared with the relevant stakeholders through conference presentations, discussions and seminars.Protocol registrationPROSPERO ID: 271180

Labor Noncompete Agreements: Tool for Economic Efficiency or Means to Extract Value from Workers?

A number of theoretical arguments have been offered in favor of noncompete provisions in labor agreements. While there has been considerable empirical research on the effects of those provisions, there has been little direct evaluation of the arguments themselves. In this article, I lay out and evaluate three commonly heard arguments, namely, (1) the voluntary nature of labor agreements justifies a strong inference that the terms of those agreements, including noncompete provisions, are beneficial for both workers and firms and that they are economically efficient, 2( A) noncompetes facilitate efficient knowledge transfer from firms to workers, and 2( B) noncompetes encourage efficient firm-sponsored investment in worker training. These arguments, though not entirely without merit, mostly do not survive close scrutiny, and in fact such scrutiny reveals strong arguments that point in the opposite direction. In addition, noncompetes may cause important additional harms that are not measured in conventional economic research.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Opioids and the Workplace—Urgent Action Needed

The workplace has been a neglected element in the national response to the opioid crisis. This ignores that workplace safety and health and drug policies have become important factors in opioid use disorder among workers. This results from physical or emotional pain related to workplace injuries, illnesses, and stress, and through punitive workplace drug policies, failure to address stigma, and inadequate access to treatment and recovery resources. This comprehensive New Solutions special issue encompasses timely cutting-edge research, commentaries, activism, and calls for action on primary prevention in the workplace and intervention research. It also addresses the convergence of the COVID-19 and the opioid crises, high-risk occupations and industries, health inequalities, employer and union programs, peer advocacy and member assistance programs, worker training, health parity for addiction treatment and recovery services, protection of first responders and site clean-up workers, working conditions of substance use treatment workers, and calls for necessary funding.

A patient satisfaction survey and educational package to improve the care of people hospitalised with COVID-19: a quality improvement project, Liverpool, UK

Background: The perspectives and experiences of people hospitalised with COVID-19 have been under-reported during the coronavirus pandemic. We developed and conducted a COVID-19 patient satisfaction survey in a large university-affiliated secondary healthcare centre in Liverpool, UK, during Europe’s first coronavirus wave (April-June 2020). The survey found that care was rated highly, including among people of Black Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) background. However, sleep-quality and communication about medications and discharge-planning were identified as areas for improvement. Methods: To improve care for people with COVID-19 admitted to our centre, we designed an educational package for healthcare professionals working on COVID-19 wards. The package, implemented in August 2020, included healthcare worker training sessions on providing holistic care and placement of “Practice Pointers” posters. Patient satisfaction was re-evaluated during the second/third COVID-19 waves in Liverpool (September 2020 - February 2021). Results: Across waves, most (95%) respondents reported that they would recommend our hospital to friends and/or family and rated overall care highly. Comparison of the responses of second/third-wave respondents (n=101) with first-wave respondents (n=94) suggested improved patient satisfaction across most care domains but especially those related to having worries and fears addressed and being consulted about medications and their side-effects. Conclusions: People admitted with COVID-19 to our centre in Liverpool, including those from BAME background, rated the care they received highly. A simple education package improved the feedback on care received by respondents between the first and second/third waves. These UK-first findings are informing regional strategies to improve person-centred care of hospitalised people with COVID-19.