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The architecture of employee attitudes to safety in the manufacturing sector
2002
This study examines the relationships between components of organisational safety climate, including: employee attitudes to organisational and individual safety issues; perceptions of the physical work environment and perceptions of workplace hazards; and relates these to self‐reported levels of safety activity. It also attempts to replicate the explicative model derived by Cheyne et al. in a similar study within the manufacturing sector. Data were collected from a large manufacturing organisation using a questionnaire. A total of 708 valid questionnaires were returned and formed the basis for the subsequent analyses. These data showed that a common structure of attitudes to safety issues a…
Is an anarchist business organization possible? Textile firms in the industrial district of Alcoi during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
2019
espanolDurante la Guerra Civil Espanola, en el lado republicano, estallo una revolucion social, liderada por los trabajadores y sus sindicatos que termino en muchos lugares en un proceso de colectivizacion empresarial. En la ciudad de Alcoi, el sindicato anarquista tomo el control de mas de 100 empresas textiles familiares, pasando por un proceso de racionalizacion que unifico la produccion de todas las empresas textiles para superar una crisis de produccion anterior y atender la demanda de guerra. ?El caso de Alcoi durante la Guerra Civil demuestra la posibilidad de una organizacion empresarial anarquista exitosa? Este articulo trata de comprender el desarrollo de los negocios sin una orga…
Organizational technology as a mediating variable in centralization‐formalization fit
2012
PurposeWith a view to contributing to a better understanding of the interactions between design dimensions, the authors aim to present a formal model that analyzes the internal fit relationship between centralization and formalization, taking into account organizational technology and the “systems approach”.Design/methodology/approachBased on the study by Zeffane, the authors develop an alternative, formal model that introduces organizational technology and assumes that greater structural control does not necessarily lead to better organizational integration. The model equally considers the possibilities of underfit and overfit.FindingsThe proposed formal model provides a sound rationale on…
Ecosystem Architecture Management in the Public Sector : From Problems to Solutions
2019
Based on our research concerning enterprise architecture (EA) in the Finnish public sector, we discuss how EA concept and tool need to be developed to support government business ecosystem and organization design. Our research context indicates, beyond a federal government or a state one, that even a single municipality, like a city concern, can be perceived as an ecosystem of its sectoral domains, subsidiaries and such. We outline a vision of an overall ontology-based, shared EA repository for the-whole-of-government current state descriptions and specify the central design principles and functional requirements for such a system, illustrating some potential use cases of it. Based on inter…
Alignment of strategy and structure in local government
2020
Strategic positioning and structural alignment in the public sector is a neglected area of research. This paper analyses the strategic positions of prospectors, defenders and reactors and structural alignment in Norwegian municipalities. Top managers responding to a survey perceived that the municipalities did align their organizational structures to the strategic positions for prospectors and defenders, but not for reactors, as hypothesized, but these relationships were modest. The top managers often found it difficult to provide consistent responses on their organizations’ choices of strategic positions. The authors show that many Norwegian municipalities have minimal alignment of their o…
Conceptual Characterization of Cybersecurity Ontologies
2020
Part 7:Risk and Security Modeling; International audience; Cybersecurity is known as the practice of protecting systems from digital attacks. Organizations are seeking efficient solutions for the management and protection of their assets. It is a complex issue, especially for great enterprises, because it requires an interdisciplinary approach. The kinds of problems enterprises must deal with and this domain complexity induces misinterpretations and misunderstandings about the concepts and relations in question. This article focus on dealing with Cybersecurity from an ontological perspective. The first contribution is a search of previously existing works that have defined Cybersecurity Ont…
Arquitectura renacentista "inacabada" de Jerónimo Quijano y su integración en determinados templos de origen gòtico
2014
Jerónimo Quijano fue un arquitecto español que destacó durante la etapa del Renacimiento Pleno en España en el tercio central del siglo XVI. Los edificios seleccionados principalmente son: iglesia de Santiago de Orihuela –Alicante– e iglesia de Santa María del Salvador de Chinchilla –Albacete–. En ambos se construyó una nueva cabecera renacentista e integrada en una nave gótica preexistente y en el caso de haber sido “acabadas” íntegramente con el criterio del maestro serían sin duda ejemplos claves del Renacimiento español. En Orihuela se percibe la necesidad de “descubrir” visualmente el magnífico arco de triunfo romano que hace de portada de la nueva cabecera renacentista, sugiriendo así…
Byzantine Liturgical Hymnography: a Stumbling Stone for the Jewish-Orthodox Christian Dialogue?
2019
Abstract This article discusses the role of Byzantine liturgical hymnography within the Jewish-Orthodox Christian dialogue. It seems that problematic anti-Jewish hymns of the Orthodox liturgy were often put forward by the Jewish side, but Orthodox theologians couldn’t offer a satisfactory answer, so that the dialogue itself profoundly suffered. The author of this study argues that liturgical hymnography cannot be a stumbling stone for the dialogue. Bringing new witnesses from several Orthodox theologians, the author underlines the need for a change of perspective. Then, beyond the intrinsic plea for the revision of the anti-Jewish texts, this article actually emphasizes the need to rediscov…
Ossimoro - Oxymoron
2016
Può l'essenza dell'architettura trovare espressione i due sole parole? L'ossimoro sembra poter soddisfare questa domanda. La figura retorica greca diviene chiave di lettura e, al contempo, obiettivo da raggiungere attraverso il progetto. Forse più che un traguardo assoluto, l'ossimoro dà corpo a quella inquietudine che muta il razionalismo "tout court" in razionalismo esaltato, dove i principi logici sono scardinati dalla componente autobiografica. Can the essence of architecture be expressed in two words? The answer appears to provided by oxymora. The rhetorical Greek figure is both the key to interpret the project and the goal to be reached thanks to the project. More than an absolute goa…
Out-of-plane behaviour of unreinforced masonry infill walls: Review of the experimental studies and analysis of the influencing parameters
2021
Abstract Over the last 50 years, research has mainly focused on characterizing the In-Plane behaviour of unreinforced masonry infill walls. Recently, the focus of research has been addressed to understanding Out-of-Plane behaviour, also from the experimental point of view. However, in the experimental campaigns, there is high variability in the geometrical and mechanical properties of URM infill walls and also in the application of Out-of-Plane loads. Therefore, it is important to outline and critically evaluate the major findings obtained by experimental studies and identify research gaps to better understand the differences and the affinity of apparently equivalent tests. In this paper, t…