Author: William Bromwich Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V. ISBN: 9041186441 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 315
Book Description
A consensus has developed in workplace studies around the concept of ‘well-being at work’ in an awareness that such apparently distinct aspects as health and safety, discrimination, labour market integration, and work-life balance converge in the workplace and are best treated as one complex phenomenon. This important book offers twelve contributions by distinguished international scholars from a range of disciplinary domains, providing an in-depth analysis of ongoing changes in the world of work and their impact on personal well-being. The contributors place specific workplace experiences in a comparative perspective, examining policy and regulatory initiatives and judicial rulings at national, regional, and international levels. The case studies are drawn from Italy, France, the United States, Russia, and developing countries. The essays examine recent legal developments in such topical issues as: – atypical and non-standard work; – child-care leave; – company-level welfare provisions; – disability; – harassment; – low-wage workers and employment benefits; – misperception discrimination; – public policy in care services; – unemployment and mental health; and – work/family conciliation policies. Providing a detailed overview of recent developments in policy and jurisprudence in a comparative perspective regarding discrimination, work-life balance, and workers’ integration into the labour market – as well as a guide to best practices in promoting well-being at work – this book will prove indispensable to labour and employment law practitioners, as well as to work organization, occupational medicine, mental health, and human resources professionals.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade Publisher: ISBN: Category : Competition, International Languages : en Pages : 192
Author: Suhana Mohezar Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811642656 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
This book provides an understanding and imaging of how a stress-free workplace might be designed and implemented in the context of the ‘new normal.’ Statistics show that more and more people are experiencing an increase in work-related stress, and its impact on individual psychology and well-being as well as organizational performance can be devastating. Globally, the most recent data on work-related illnesses account for 2.4 million deaths. Against this backdrop, and taking stock of how the pandemic is affecting the workplace and employee well-being, this book proposes transformations in work spaces, from implementing effective “greening” features, to more efficient technology-supported spaces. It establishes links between workplace design and creativity, happiness and productivity, confronting related issues such as generation gaps, digital interruptions, collaborative work environments and sustainability, and their respective connections with workspace environment and well-being. The book situates this discussion within a broader discussion on work and quality of life. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how several sustainable development goals might be achieved through transformed work spaces. Through an intersection between organizational psychology, well-being and quality of life studies, sociology, human resources, and ergonomics, this book is a timely examination of work-related stress in relation to work spaces that require rethinking and transformation in the throes, and wake, of the pandemic.
Author: Realyvásquez-Vargas, Arturo Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1799810534 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 334
Book Description
Employees of different labor sectors are involved in different projects and pressed to deliver results in a specific period of time, which increases their mental workload. This increase can lead to a high mental workload, which in turn leads to a decline in job performance. Therefore, strategies for managing mental workload and promoting mental health have become necessary for corporate success. Evaluating Mental Workload for Improved Workplace Performance is a critical scholarly book that provides comprehensive research on mental workload and the effects, both adverse and positive, that it can have on employee populations as well as strategies for decreasing or deleting it from the labor sector. Highlighting an array of topics such as psychosocial factors, critical success factors (CSF), and technostress, this book is ideal for academicians, researchers, managers, ergonomists, engineers, industrial designers, industry practitioners, and students.
Author: Rajalakshmi Subramaniam Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1801172641 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Team Work Quality uses statistical analysis in order to infer how team work quality contributes towards the enhancement of creativity with respect to software organizations.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical care Languages : en Pages : 160
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This document has the background papers from the 1992 AHCPR conference held to formulate a research agenda for quality assurance and improvement. Contents: Executive summary A perspective on quality assurance research Quality improvement / quality assurance taxonomy: a framework Organisational issues and perspectives on quality assurance Quality assurance and quality improvement in the information age Using information in quality improvement and quality assurance What is quality improvement? a report from the field Quality improvement: a patient's perspective Closing quality improvement/assurance information gaps: AHCPR's role Closing quality improvement/assurance information gaps: public and private sector roles Workshop recommendations Appendices.
Author: Ana M. Guillén Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9789052015774 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 256
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This collective volume on quality of work in the European Union offers a comprehensive analysis on the current situation of the tensions between work and welfare in Europe, with a special emphasis on employment-related issues. The volume tackles a crucial aspect of employment policies, namely the strengthening of the quality dimension in the decisions taken by policy-makers to foster the performance of the labour market and to combine this orientation with the demands of workers for welfare, protection and a better reconciliation of work and family life. Quality of work has been on the agenda of policy-makers, practitioners and academics for the last few years, promoting a wide debate. The book provides a contribution to this debate and takes into consideration a range of issues associated with the analysis of work quality from an innovative perspective. Relevant subtopics including a conceptual and political analysis of work quality, wage differentials and in-work poverty, gender issues or workers' direct and indirect representation in the firm and its relation with work quality are addressed.
Author: Munish Gupta Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences ISBN: 0323545653 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages :
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The Guest Editors have collaborated on a state-of-the-art presentation of current clinical reviews on Quality in Neonatal Care. Top experts have prepared articles in the following areas: Standardizing Practices: How and why to standardize, using checklists, measuring variation; Health Informatics and Patient Safety; Using Statistical Process Control to Drive Improvement in Neonatal Care; Improving Value in Neonatal Intensive Care; Culture and Context in Quality of Care: Improving Teamwork and Resilience; Has Quality Improvement Improved Neonatal Outcomes; National Quality Measures in Perinatal Care; Perinatal and Obstetric Quality Initiatives; Family Involvement in Quality Improvement; Perinatal Quality Improvement: A Global Perspective; Delivery Room Care / Golden Hour; Respiratory Care and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Reducing Incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis; Alarm Safety and Alarm Fatigue; and Patient Safety: Reducing Unplanned Extubations. Readers will come away with the clinical information they need improve quality in the NICU.
Author: Duncan Gallie Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191641804 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 367
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The quality of working life has been central to the sociological agenda for several decades, and has also been increasingly salient as a policy issue, and for companies. This book breaks new ground in the study of the quality of work by providing the first rigorous comparative assessment of the way it has been affected by the economic crisis. It examines the implications of the crisis on developments in skills and training, employees' control over their jobs, and the pressure of work and job security. It also assesses how changing experiences at work affect people's lives outside of work: the risks of work-life conflict, the motivation to work, personal well-being, and attitudes towards society. The book draws on a rich new source of evidence—the European Social Survey-to provide a comparative view over the period 2004 to 2010. The survey provides evidence for countries across the different regions of Europe and allows for a detailed assessment of the view that institutional differences between European societies—in terms of styles of management, social partnership practices, and government policies—lead to very different levels of work quality and different experiences of the crisis. This comparative aspect will thus forward our understanding of how institutional differences between European societies affect work experiences and their implications for non-work life.
Author: William Bromwich
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
Author: Suhana Mohezar
Author: National Commission on Productivity and Work Quality
Author: Realyvásquez-Vargas, Arturo
Author: Rajalakshmi Subramaniam
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Author: Ana M. Guillén
Author: Munish Gupta
Author: Duncan Gallie