Protecting those who protect nature by supporting conservationists’ mental wellbeing

Biodiversity conservation work can be challenging but rewarding, with potential consequences for conservationists’ mental health. Yet, little is known about patterns of mental health among conservationists and its associated protective and risk factors. A better understanding can help improve working conditions, supporting conservationists’ job satisfaction, productivity, and engagement, while reducing costs from staff turnover, absenteeism, and presenteeism. We surveyed 2311 conservationists across 143 countries, asking about experiences of psychological distress, personal characteristics, and workplace conditions. Moderate or severe distress was reported by 27.8%. Respondents with low dispositional and conservation-specific optimism, poor physical health, limited social support, women, and early-career professionals were most at risk. Heavy workload, job demands, and organisational instability were linked to higher distress, but job stability and satisfaction with one’s contributions to conservation were associated with lower distress. We suggest ways employers and others could support conservationists’ mental health and ability to tackle the global ecological crisis.

What Does Codetermination Do?

The authors provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, that is, worker representation in firms’ governance and management. The available micro evidence points to zero or small positive effects of codetermination on worker and firm outcomes and leaves room for moderate positive effects on productivity, wages, and job stability. The authors also present new country-level, general-equilibrium event studies of codetermination reforms between the 1960s and 2010s, finding no effects on aggregate economic outcomes or the quality of industrial relations. They offer three explanations for the institution’s limited impact. First, existing codetermination laws convey little authority to workers. Second, countries with codetermination laws have high baseline levels of informal worker voice. Third, codetermination laws may interact with other labor market institutions, such as union representation and collective bargaining. The article closes with a discussion of the implications for recent codetermination proposals in the United States.

The relationship between happiness and quality of life: A model for Spanish society

A key goal for society as a whole is the pursuit of well-being, which leads to the happiness of its individual members; as such, it is of critical socioeconomic relevance. In this regard, it is important to study which factors primarily affect the happiness of the population. In principle, these factors are associated with income level and residential and job stability, or more specifically, citizens’ quality of life. This research, which is based on a multidimensional concept of quality of life, uses a regression model to explain the dependence of Spaniards’ happiness on the well-being or quality of life provided by their work, their family situation, their income level and aspects of their place of residence, among other factors. The data were collected through an anonymous survey administered to a representative sample of Spanish citizens. The methodology used approaches the intangible concept of happiness as resulting from different individual and social causes selected from dimensions addressed in the literature, and calculates their effects or importance through regression coefficients. One of the findings is that people with the highest level of well-being or quality of life in the most important dimensions mostly claim to be happy. With respect to gender, it has a significant influence on the dimensions included in the model of citizen happiness and on personal issues. It is also shown that the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic negatively influenced the quality of life of Spanish citizens and therefore their happiness.

COVID-19 Lockdown and work life balance

Work life balance has been a global issue for decades. Literature has revealed that the women have been constantly with it and which is a reality too, having so many reasons and consequences behind it but during this pandemic covid-19 lockdown which compelled everyone to work from home it became a challenge for women as well as for men to make a balance between work and life. As simple as if you are doing work sitting at home so there will be some expectations and duties which are the demand of this time only due to the pandemic specially when no one can go out. Some little eyes will be looking for your concern, some elderly hands will be raising for your help irrespective of you are a male or a female along with it to focus on work has become a big challenge during this time of uncertainty when the question of job security and job stability automatically stands in front of you in such an unimaginable situation which was never ever thought. Then what would be the response and strategy to make a balance between work and life? To know about it a study was conducted which was not merely for women as well as for men to. For the study, an online survey was conducted with the help of structured questionnaire. As it was impossible to go for door to door survey during this lock down. For this purpose 55 male and females were selected randomly as respondents.

Funcionarios interinos y empleo público: análisis general de su controvertido régimen jurídico

LABURPENA: Lan honek Espainiako bitarteko funtzionarioen araubide juridiko zaila, aldakorra eta kontraesanezkoa sistematizatzen du. Figura horren gehiegizko erabilerak eta funtzionario bilakatzeko prozesuek lausotu egin dituzte batzuen eta besteen arteko mugak, eta horri gehitu behar zaio lanbide-sektore batzuetan, hala nola osasunaren eta hezkuntzaren arloetan, enpleguaren aldi baterakotasun tasa handiak profesionalen eskubideak ez ezik, zerbitzu publikoaren egonkortasuna eta kalitatea ere jartzen dituela arriskuan. Milaka interesdunei eragiten dien egoera juridiko kezkagarri horren xehetasunak argi eta garbi adierazi nahian, kritikoki azalduko dugu bitarteko funtzionarioei aplikatu beharreko araubidea, Europako zuzenbideak eta konstituzioko eta administrazioarekiko auzien jurisprudentziak moldatua; hau da, haiek izendatzea zein kargutik kentzeko baldintzak eta balizko kalte-ordainak, bai eta haiei esleitutako eskumenak eta lanbide-karreraren gorabeherak. ABSTRACT: This essay analyzes the confusing, changing and contradictory legal regime of interim or temporary civil servants in Spain. The abuse played upon this figure and the schemes related to turning public employees into civil servants have indeed blurred the limits raised between them, in addition to the risks posed by the highly temporality levels, specially suffered by public health and educational services, to both labour rights and job stability and quality. Thousands of public jobs are affected by this situation, and aiming at making clear the details of that situation a review of its legal regime is shown in this paper, framed by the EU law and constitucional and administrative case-law, beginning with job appointments and ending up with their dismissal and severance pay, along with their authority, jurisdiction, and career development. RESUMEN: Este trabajo sistematiza el complicado, cambiante y contradictorio régimen jurídico de los funcionarios interinos en España. El abuso de esta figura y los procesos de funcionarización han desdibujado los límites entre unos y otros, a lo que se le suma el que en ciertos sectores profesionales como el sanitario y el educativo la alta tasa de temporalidad en el empleo pone en riesgo no solo los derechos profesionales, sino la estabilidad y la calidad del servicio público. Con el fin de exponer con claridad los detalles de esta preocupante situación jurídica que afecta a decenas de miles de interesados, mostramos críticamente el régimen aplicable a los funcionarios interinos, moldeado por el Derecho europeo y la jurisprudencia constitucional y contencioso-administrativa, desde su nombramiento hasta las condiciones de cese y la eventualidad de una indemnización, pasando por las competencias atribuidas y las vicisitudes de su carrera profesional.

INTERCONNECTION OF VALUES AND VALUABLE CAREER ORIENTATIONS OF STUDENTS OF HUMANITARIAN SPECIALTIES

The article presents the results of a study of various values that are associated with the value career orientations of humanities students. It is shown that the most preferable career value orientation is the focus on job stability, and the least one is on entrepreneurship. Among the values-goals, the value of pleasure has the greatest number of correlations with value-based career orientations, and among the instrumental ones - the value of sensitivity. As a result of the analysis of the data obtained, the features of the correlations of the significance of the declared value ideas and personal values themselves with the value career orientations of students have been described. Among the declared values, the values of high social status, physical attractiveness and love for nature possess the greatest number of interconnections with these orientations, and among the personal ones - the values of respect, helping people and a luxurious life. Conclusions are made about the possibilities of using the obtained data by specialists in the field of professional self-determination of an individual, as well as by practical psychologists and teachers in the process of teaching students of humanitarian specialties.

BOOKING TRAVEL THROUGH THE AIRBNB PLATFORM DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

The collaborative economy, even if it has moulded well in the tourism market and has developed surprisingly, has been a controversial field from the very beginning, especially as it does not take place within a very well regulated legislative framework. The outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic severely destabilized all industries, but among the most vulnerable to it was tourism. Not much is known yet about the impact of COVID 19 on traditional sectors, let alone studies or analyses of how the pandemic has affected non-traditional peer-to-peer accommodation. This article attempts a brief analysis of how people have booked or canceled their trips through the Airbnb platform since the beginning of the pandemic. The results show that the sharpest decline was recorded in April 2020 when the number of bookings fell by 72%, compared to the same period in 2019. In the summer months, when most people plan their vacation, the bookings were not numerous, but they kept a certain stability. Compared to June-September 2019, bookings in 2020, during the same period, decreased by 20%. The pandemic has hit this sector hard, especially as all pre-pandemic forecasts showed significant increases in peer-to-peer accommodation between 2020 and 2025 and therefore increases in overall revenue as a result of bookings. This study shows that peer-to-peer accommodation is just as vulnerable to such a pandemic as traditional accommodation. Providers need to rethink their offer in order to reduce financial losses and at the same time protect their employees and provide them with job stability. It can be seen that the cancellations and alterations of the services booked through Airbnb increased exponentially after the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic because people could no longer travel from one place to another and even if certain journeys were allowed, people were afraid or felt uncomfortable taking trips.

Factors in Building Employee Commitment: Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction at Bank Central Asia

This study aims to establish an understanding of specific factors in HR practices in BCA upon employee commitment and the role of job satisfaction as a mediating role. The study analyzed four factors with a sample of 409 employees in Bank Central Asia, Tbk. The researchers used regression analysis to investigate the hypothesis. The findings revealed that job enrichment and job training in Bank Central Asia were positively related to job satisfaction and employee commitment. Salary and job stability were found to be insignificant factors in job satisfaction. Job satisfaction mediates the effect of salary, job enrichment, and job training but not job stability. We hope to provide insight into the role of HR best practices in Bank Central Asia, Tbk, as one of the top-performing banks in Indonesia.