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Noruega como espacio periférico en la depuración del Modernismo hispánico. El caso de Efrén Rebolledo y su libro Saga de Sigrida la Blonda (1922)
No full textEn este ensayo queremos iluminar en lo posible la etapa noruega de la vida y obra del escritor y poeta mexicano Efrén Rebolledo (1877-1929). Nos centramos en especial en su “novella” autobiográfica Saga de Sigrida la Blonda (Kristiania, Det Mallingske Bogtrykkeri, 1922). Noruega se revela para el escritor mexicano como un espacio periférico en relación con un centro parisino (París como Babel del modernismo sensualista), en el que es posible la redención regeneradora mediante el descubrimiento del revés inmaculado de la estética decadente, estética que Rebolledo no deja nunca de cultivar. Conectamos este cruce estético con el del poeta español Antonio de Zayas (1871-1945), modernista “casticista”, según denominación asentada, Embajador de España en Estocolmo durante dos períodos entre 1902 y 1918. La significación de lo nórdico en la obra de ambos poetas diplomáticos (que incluye el ensayo “Piscología y costumbres del pueblo escandinavo”, que Zayas publica en 1907), nos sirve para llamar la atención sobre aspectos fundamentales de la relación entre el modernismo hispano y la necesidad de una regeneración nacional tras la debacle de 1898
The Influence of Professional Competencies on Social Sustainability
No full textThe universal sustainability approach becomes the main direction when outlining the UN World in 2050 policy tasks. Within this approach, the competencies and skills for front-end innovation are becoming decisive sustainability factors in the future developing society. The simplified multiple criteria assessment methodology based on cobweb diagrams was applied to the regional expert evaluations of innovative HR potential a/o factors determining sustainable modern knowledge development, also comparative interdependencies of education–knowledge- innovation components within the Baltic and Scandinavian States. The task was to evaluate innovative potential of the Nordic countries and reveal how global innovation indicators could be applied as drivers determining their universal sustainability. The practice of Scandinavian countries as innovation leaders could be useful more wide in developing sustainable HR potential for competitive efficiency
Emerging Platform Work in Europe (Hungary in Cross-country Comparison)
No full textIn this paper, we aimed to assess the main characteristics of a growing form of precarious employment, namely the platform work. These digitally enabled services cover a wide range of activities from personal low or semi-skilled services (e.g. personal transportation) to highly skilled online services such as software development. In our paper, we aimed to characterize the digital platform labor force by their content of the job, working conditions, employment status, and the collective voice. The primary aim of the analysis was to give an overview of theoretical foundations and empirical evidence for an EU supported project on platform workers. Here we presented an overview of the variety of terminology, definitions of platform work, and platform workers and examine the grey zone of labor law regulation in which many of them operate. We assessed the size of platform employment in Europe, indicating the knowledge inequalities within the EU countries and some methodological inconsistencies. As a case study to scrutinize the regulatory challenges accompanying diffusion of platform work, we looked at the failed story of Uber in Hungary and by subsequent success of Bolt which took over the market share of the former. Our findings showed that while the size of the platform economy is growing in Europe, there is no consensus in the social scientific community either on the appropriate terminology or the most convenient methodology on how to measure its extent. This emerging form of employment represents a significant challenge not only for labor law jurisdictions but to the softer forms of social regulation as well. To better understand the proper governance of digital labor markets and the issue of ”collective voice” through the transformation of the content of work, working conditions, and employment status of the Platform Work sector, will be necessary to focus on both the transformation of work/labor as well as its interplay with value creation, governance, management and labor in the platform-based economy
Innovation adoption of employees in the logistics sector in the Netherlands: The role of workplace innovation
No full textIn this study we examine individual behavioural and organisational predictors of innovation adoption amongemployees in the transport and logistics sector in the Netherlands. The framework of the study is based on theories of planned behaviour and workplace innovation. Based on a survey of 224 respondents, we see that employees who are expressing innovative behaviour, are feeling engaged in the process of innovation development and implementation, and are stimulated to contribute in the team or department’s meetings, also have a positive perception of innovation. Ease of use and subjective norm are key elements related to the actual use of innovation, i.e., innovation adoption. The role of workplace innovation, that is engagement of employees in decision making and giving them voice in the process of innovation development and innovation, is highly relevant for successful implementation of innovation
Revising workers participation in regional innovation systems: a study of workplace innovation programmes in the Basque Country
No full textThe article analyses two workplace innovation programmes from the perspective of regional innovation systems and the design of public policies. In this sense, the programmes are described as political tools that are part of the Science, Innovation and Technology Plan 2020 of the Basque Autonomous Community. The regional perspective and the participation of workers are key matters that acquire relevance within the framework of European smart specialisation policies, as well as for regional development and cohesion
Socio-technics and beyond: an approach to organisation studies and design in the second machine age
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Minimal critical specification and collective organisational redesign
No full textThe purpose of this article is to apply concepts of socio-technical systems thinking (STS), enriched with concepts from more recent organisation theory, to analyse a case of participatory design of core manufacturing processes in a company. The redesign process considered transformation of operational logistics of the installation phase, which is a complex and costly phase. The focus is a test of the concept of minimal critical specification, applied as a principle for work process redesign. In the process under study, managers, supervisors and worker representatives at all levels and functions directly affected took part in the process of redesigning the material flow system and the corresponding control system at the operational level, and the design was put into operation by the company. After a year of operation, the new design was modestly favourably assessed by the organisation. The case shows the possibility and importance of the affected work system’s influence in the development, operationalisation and implementation of a new organisation, and the findings demonstrate how manifold relevant participant knowledge may be incorporated into a workable redesign process. The findings cannot be generalised on the basis of this one case, but we will argue that the case serves as a demonstrator project for the model tested
Geschichte ‚von unten‘ mit dem Bilderbuch Die Lisa. Didaktisches Konzept, Möglichkeiten, Beispiele
No full textZusammenfassung Der Artikel präsentiert einen theoretischen Rahmen, ein didaktisches Konzept und Aufgabenbeispiele für die Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Geschichte anhand des Bilderbuchs Die Lisa von Klaus Kordon und Peter Schimmel (1999). Der theoretische Rahmen erläutert u. a., dass die Bildbetrachtung mit einer gewissen Verlangsamung des Betrachtungsvorgangs einhergehen muss, um Details auf den Bildern entdecken zu können, die man durch eine kreativ-produktive Arbeitsweise weiter entfalten und vertiefen kann. Diese Arbeitsweise ist im fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterricht, wo Sprachbarrieren bedeutsam sind, für die Lerner besonders reizvoll.Die Ergebnisse einer Fallstudie, die im Hochschul- und Sekundarbereich in Norwegen durchgeführt wurde, zeigen, dass die Lernenden ein tieferes Verständnis für die geschichtlichen Ereignisse in Deutschland entwickelt haben und dass die Kompetenzziele Verständnis und Toleranz, die im norwegischen Lehrplan LK-06 für den fremdsprachlichen Deutschunterricht hervorgehoben werden, erreicht werden können. Während des Arbeitsprozesses bekommen die Lernenden die Möglichkeit, sich auf die Figuren im Text näher einzulassen und sich mit deren Handlungsmotiven auseinanderzusetzen. Dadurch können sie zu Einsichten in Bezug auf kulturelles Verständnis und Toleranz gelangen, die auch einen gewissen Übertragungswert über das Buch hinaus besitzen