Search results for "empowerment"

Sustainable Manufacturing as Mutual Competence Building

2015

In this chapter, Sustainable Manufacturing as MCB, Halvor Holtskog, Richard Ennals, and Hans Chr Garmann Johnsen argue how sustainable manufacturing can be seen as combining the traditional manufacturing management perspective with organisational development and participatory perspectives. The definition of Sustainable Business Systems is different from other uses of sustainability. The chapter tries to link arguments for business and for education. Arguably Working Life Research has an integrative role. One might ask: how can universities be seen as sustainable work systems, and how can they develop an account of empowerment?

“When You Thought That There Is No One and Nothing”: The Value of Psychodrama in Working With Abused Women

2018

This paper discusses how psychodrama methods and techniques can empower abused women and stimulate changes in their victim role. Through an in-depth exploration, we sought to gain an insider’s perspective of the experiences of change and perceived outcomes for abused women, which could contribute to optimizing gender violence intervention. Theoretically, the study is grounded in the female co-responsibility and trans-generational transmission of women’s victim role from mother to daughter. A mixed methods experimental design employing an explanatory sequential approach to data collection was implemented. A total sample of 33 abused women (15 in the experimental group, and 18 in the control …

Postmodernity, insecurity and job loss Focus on the unemployed's suffering

2017

International audience; Objectives Recent research shows clear correlations between the subjective perception of job's insecurity and physical, mental and relational health. This article highlights the difficulties of workers , and particularly the impact of uncertainty and job loss on their self-esteem and psycho-physical well-being. The work presents and contextualizes the perception of job insecurity as an effect of postmodern society.Methods The research involved 60 subjects that have lost the jobs and received a 3 month intervention of active policies organized in groups focusing on empowerment and employability. At two times before and after group participants filled in Rosenberg Self…

Digital verktøykasse for "den andre samhandlingsreformen"

2017

Masteroppgave i helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI500 - Universitetet i Agder 2017 Background. Domestic-aid services (IADL) counts for a substantial portion of public home care. There is a growing demand for these types of services, especially among younger recipients (under the age of 67). The demand is expected to grow because of an anticipated increase in the older population. Informal caregivers are viewed to be essential resources in meeting those demands, as found both in research and governmental policies. Interaction and coordination of services across organizations will be necessary. Aim. The aim of this study is to find how home-dwelling care-dependent individuals can be empowered th…

Gendered battlefields : women in conflict, household livelihoods and post-conflict resilience building in Bawku, Ghana

2016

Master thesis development management UT503 - University of Agder 2016 This thesis mainly explores the gendered role of women in conflict and the livelihood implications of ethnic conflict on selected households. The USAID sustainable livelihood framework supplemented by the concepts of agency and empowerment served as the main theoretical points of discussion for this study. Further theoretical insights were drawn from Bujones et al (2013) factor analysis of resilience, in exploring opportunities for resilience building post-conflict in the study area. Using a case study of ethnic conflict between Kusasis and Mamprusis in Bawku (Ghana), responses were analysed to shed light on the perceived…

Determining success factors in the implementation of social accounting

2020

The aim of this paper is to determine the success factors based on principal change driving forces when implementing social accounting into social companies, and by extension, gain an insight into the overall impact of social accounting, in other words the monetization of social value. It includes a quantitative analysis of the various effects involved in implementing social accounting in Social Economy companies: 1) improving relations with stakeholders; 2) the commitment of company employees; 3) an interest in comparing results with other companies that have also introduced social accounting; 4) networking with other organizations through social accounting. Twenty-seven percent of the soc…

La relation à la marque du Z consommateur : une étude exploratoire des causes de détachement

2021

Normes et formes de l'intérêt et du désintéressement à l'heure de la marchandisation du lien communautaire

2016

Market exchanges would be evolving into a more horizontal and collaborative model. We can notice the strength of this movement within 2.0 merchant platforms. Then, we propose to explore the tension between giving and commodification through the concepts of interest and empowerment. Our main hypothesis is about a reconfiguration of online giving in a form of "disinterested interest". We will bring this issue through an exploratory study on Airbnb.

“What you do to Children Matters”: Motherhood in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

2015

Toni Morrison’s latest novel, God Help the Child, explores the damaging effects of racism on motherhood and the dramatic impact of toxic mothering upon children. The institution of patriarchal motherhood fails to enact the critical tasks of motherwork —preservation, nurturance and cultural bearing, while mothering is a potential site of empowerment of black children and African American culture. African American authoritarian parenting style, associated with patriarchal motherhood, has a correlation with diverse factors, such as the legacy of slavery and its survival strategies, low-income and/or single-parent households and the disruption of the motherline. Motherhood distorted by racism c…

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…