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Multiplayer 3D Game in Supporting Team-Building Activities in a Work Organization
2012
The aim of this study was to enhance and analyze communication and team-building activities in work teams that played a 3D multiplayer game. This paper reports the preliminary findings of the multi-methodological empirical study on players' perceived effects of the game play on team-building.
Māsu darba organizācija hemodinamiski nestabilu pacientu aprūpē intensīvās terapijas nodaļā
2017
Bakalaura darba tēma ir „Māsu darba organizācija hemodinamiski nestabilu pacientu aprūpē intensīvās terapijas nodaļā”. Tēmas aktualitāti nosaka tas, ka intensīvās terapijas nodaļā hemodinamiski nestabilu pacientu aprūpē, laikam mainoties, māsām ir nepieciešamas aizvien lielākas profesionālas zināšanas veicot darba organizāciju. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot māsu darba organizāciju hemodinamiski nestabilu pacientu aprūpē intensīvās terapijas nodaļā. Uzsākot darbu tiek izvirzīts pētījuma jautājums: „Kāda ir māsu darba organizācija hemodinamiski nestabilu pacientu aprūpē intensīvās terapijas nodaļā?” Bakalaura darbā tiek pielietota kvalitatīvā pētniecības metode. Kā pētniecības instruments tiek i…
Professional Agency, Identity, and Emotions While Leaving One’s Work Organization
2015
This study investigated the enactment of professional agency in an emotionally troubled work context emerging from a conflicted relationship between the professional and the work organization. Narrative interviews with Finnish educators were utilized. The findings indicate that the enactment of agency was in part framed by the educators’ rational interpretations of the relationship between themselves and their employer, plus their work history and future prospects. However, it was simultaneously embedded with contradictory emotions, such as a sense of being undervalued, fear, and a sense of empowerment. Within this framework, multifaceted professional agency was enacted particularly via lea…
El rol del modelo de las competencias en la reconfiguración meritocrática de las pautas de negociación salarial en empresas argentinas: continuidades…
2020
The development of new models of work organization and the complementary advance of flexible guidelines for the use of the labor force had as a correlate a profound change in techniques for the evaluation of workers. Thus, the typical model of Fordism, based on qualifications, was replaced by a different one based on competencies, whereby the strong relationship of the former was abandoned with the determination of the technical knowledge required for each job to move to a system which the priority is placed in the individual attitude. The consequent individualization of performance evaluations can lead to a possible loss of objectivity. In this article we develop a theoretical comparison b…
Suppliers and Strategies for Upgrading in Global Production Networks: The Case of a Supplier to the Global Automotive Industry in a High-cost Location
2009
The paper analyses the possibilities for a Norwegian supplier incorporated into global production networks in the automotive industry to perform knowledge upgrading and innovation activity. A consistent finding is that different departments of the supplier are parts of different types of global network. The serial production of the supplier is distinguished by quasi-hierarchical governance by customers and by lean forms of work organization in the production that stimulate continuous, incremental upgrading of the production process. The development department has network relations with customers and learning forms of work organization, which triggers production and functional upgrading. The…
Risk assessment and profit sharing in business networks
2011
Abstract Nowadays network is the preferred governance form to conduct economic transactions. Network solution allows to reach flexibility maintaining cost and quality level. Since network concept refers to a great variety of organizational hybrids it is possible to choose the one that fits better market requirements. The new trends in inter-organization relationships push towards network solutions: companies are interested in relationships with partners and customers to overcome resource dependence, to enter too risky market or simply differentiate their business portfolio. The proposed research focuses on the network concept aiming at highlighting threats and opportunities to investigate t…