Search results for "practices."

Management Consulting Interventions in Architects' Practices

2015

International audience; This paper is based on intervention-research projects carried out in an 22 architects’practices with SEAM consulting methodology. The architectural Industry is a regulated profession whose field of intervention covers the work submitted to a building permit to set up the architectural project, but also involves more extended missions. Architecture is also an artistic profession. This request was based on the need for practices to reinforce their internal organization, improve customer service, increase economic performance and competitiveness, through developing the involvement and motivation of employees and architects.. Considering the economic importance and impac…

Relationship between employee involvement and lean manufacturing and its effect on performance in a rigid continuous process industry

2015

Relationship between employee involvement and lean manufacturing and its effect on performance in a rigid continuous process industry DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.975852 Juan A. Marin-Garciaa* & Tomas Bonaviab Received: 1 Aug 2013 Accepted: 30 Sep 2014 Published online: 04 Nov 2014 This research aims to empirically test the effect of employee involvement on lean manufacturing (LM), and the effect of LM on production outcomes. Employee involvement is operationalised through four related variables: empowerment, training, contingent remuneration and communication. The effects are tested by recording management perceptions in a different industrial sector from those usually studied in previous re…

The Directive 2014/95/EU – Is there a “New” Beginning for CSR in Romania?

2017

Abstract The global commandments of sustainable development, assumed and translated by the EU into a series of communications and resolutions, have found themselves a new (and more powerful) expression into the “Directive 2014/95/EU (…) as regards disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups”; in order to increase the transparency of their sustainability-related actions and results, these companies need to report (starting from 2018, by referring to the financial year 2017) information “relating to, as a minimum, environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, anti-corruption and bribery matters”. As regards the Romania…

Recommendations for ecotoxicity testing with stygobiotic species in the framework of groundwater environmental risk assessment.

2019

As a consequence of the growing global dependence on groundwater resources, environmental risk assessments (ERA) for groundwater are increasingly required and, with that, ecotoxicological studies with groundwater fauna (stygofauna). However, the literature on the ecotoxicological studies with stygobiotic species (i.e. species that complete their life cycle exclusively in groundwater) has not expanded significantly since the first paper published in this field. The limitations regarding the use of stygobiotic species for ecotoxicological testing are clear and consistent across the globe; stygobiotic species are often 1) naturally present in low numbers, 2) difficult to collect, and 3) diffic…

Current European approaches in highway runoff management: A review

2022

Highway runoff is one of the most significant non-point sources of pollution for the terrestrial and aquatic environment with biological, physical, and chemical effects. Considering local characteristics, treatment practices, and determining factors are essential for highway runoff management. The aim of this paper is to survey the review of highway runoff management in Europe with emphasis on runoff characterization, treatment, and modeling approaches and identifying possible knowledge gaps exists based on our review. The results showed that highway runoff has spatiotemporal variation, which is the main factor in the regional selection of the best management practice (BMP). Also, recent st…

Parental socialization: Brazilian adaptation of the ESPA29 Scale

2011

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as propriedades psicométricas da versão em português brasileiro da escala de socialização parental ESPA29 (Musitu & García, 2001). Esta escala permite medir os estilos de socialização parental - autoritativo, autoritário, indulgente e negligente - através de duas dimensões independentes da conduta parental, extraídas do uso que os pais fazem das distintas práticas de socialização. Utilizando uma amostra de 2105 adolescentes brasileiros, com idades entre os 10 e os 18 anos, replicou-se a estrutura de dois fatores - Aceitação/Implicação e Severidade/Imposição - que compõem a escala, mediante a análise fatorial exploratória. Para completar o estudo de repli…

Estonian Community Houses as Local Tools for the Development of Estonian Cultural Policy

2013

Design of the EBE-ST Questionnaire among Nursing Students: Multicenter Study from Eight Universities in Spain

2021

Background: Twenty years after the degree in nursing was introduced in Spain, the subject of evidence-based nursing is still unstructured and unestablished in most faculties. Moreover, there are hardly any rigorous studies at a national level that evaluate the current state of this competence in our faculties. Understanding the starting point is essential for the curricular design to ensure that evidence-based practice is implemented among future professionals. Aim: To design and validate an evidence-based nursing competency questionnaire for fourth-year nursing students. Methods: A specific questionnaire was developed and validated (EBE-ST). A cross-sectional survey design with psychometri…

“ἔργον τόδ᾽ ἐϋγραφὲς Ζανὶ ἀνέθεντο” (Anth. Pal. VI 221). Continuità morfologiche e funzionali negli ex voto figurativi

2022

Gli ex voto dipinti sono un oggetto di culto dalla lunga storia. Esempi di questo tipo di ex-voto, largamente utilizzati fino alla fine dell'Ottocento nell'Italia meridionale e in altre regioni dell'Europa meridionale, sono infatti già attestati nel mondo classico (pinakes, tabellea pictae). Nel passaggio tra il mondo "pagano" e il mondo "cristiano", nel mutare dei referenti divini e delle teologie, si osserva una continuità dei simboli rituali e delle pratiche votive e, più in generale, una significativa persistenza di forme, funzioni e significati in campo religioso. The painted ex-votos are a cult object with a long history. Examples of this type of ex-voto, widely used up to the end of …

«Portavano pitture della disgrazia sofferta». Divagazione sulle continuità e sulle trasformazioni degli exvoto figurativi

2021

Gli ex voto dipinti costituiscono un oggetto cultuale dalla lunga storia. Esempi di questa tipologia di ex voto, ampiamente in uso fino a tutto il xix secolo, e oggi in minor misura, nel Meridione d’Italia e in altre regioni del Sud Europa, sono infatti già attestati nel mondo classico (pinakes, tabellea pictae). Nel passaggio tra mondo «pagano» e mondo «cristiano», nel mutare dei referenti divini e delle teologie, si osserva una continuità dei simboli rituali e delle pratiche votive e, più in generale, una significativa persistenza delle forme, delle funzioni e dei significati cultuali delle immagini in ambito religioso. The painted ex-votos are a cult object with a long history. Examples …