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The productivity dilemma: Examining the truth behind automation’s impact on employment, and the mediating role of augmentation
Get PDFThis author accepted manuscript is deposited under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) licence. This means that anyone may distribute, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, subject to full attribution. If you wish to use this manuscript for commercial purposes, please contact [email protected] paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature examining the relationship between automation and employment, with a focus on understanding the debates of automation displacement and enablement, and the mediating role of employee augmentation in driving organisational productivity. Design/methodology/approach: A semi-systematic literature review was conducted across the areas of automation, work-design, and employee skills over the past 3 years. Findings: The academic literature was found to still be in its infancy, with empirical evidence in an organisational setting scarce. However, research suggests that automation does not cause job displacement or a negative impact on employment. In contrast, data suggests that automation leads to new job creation, task enlargement and skills enhancement. The findings suggest that organisations should employ augmentation alongside automation to drive productivity, in a way that promotes strong work-design, builds trust, and leverages human creativity. A further recommendation is made for organisations to focus on continuous upskilling to combat the shortening shelf-life of skills and adapt to the constant change brought around by advances in automation. Originality/value: Through a synthesis of diverse perspectives and academic evidence, this paper contributes to the nuanced understanding of the complexities surrounding automation and its impact on employment. This literature review underscores the need for organisational strategies that leverage augmentation to harness productivity savings, alongside a renewed focus on widespread employee skills enhancement. In addition to creating new recommendations for practitioners and organisational leaders, this paper also furthers the research agenda through a list of research gaps for scholarly attention.Unfunde
The 10:25: A Novella-in-Flash [Kindle Edition]
No full textThis book is not available through ChesterRep.Welcome aboard the 10:25 to Manchester, where Train Manager Malcolm is working his last shift. His world is falling apart, and what waits for him after his shift is unthinkable, but before he leaves, he has to spend one last day with the people who’ve moved through his world and through his train every day for years.
They’re all different and have their unique problems, but they’re also the same, because if there’s one thing life does, it’s kick everyone with equal ferocity. It’s how everyone deals with it that matters.
Follow Malcolm through his train and catch glimpses of jilted lovers, unrequited teens, grieving sons, and hopeful romancers, all interwoven with the story of Malcolm’s family, and the most difficult thing he’s ever had to do.
The 10:25 is about how appearances can mislead; how people’s lives are bubbling under the surface; and how love, kindness, and respect are everything.Unfunde
Fostering Consumer Acceptance of Smart Glasses: The Moderating Role of Price Sensitivity
Get PDFThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Technology Analysis and Strategic Management on 04/07/2024, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09537325.2024.2372780Smart glasses have not taken off globally as expected. Unfortunately, limited research exists on the factors critical to consumer acceptance of this novel technology. This study fills this gap by investigating how individuals perceive the usefulness and intention to use smart glasses. Using an augmented value-attitude-behaviour (VAB) model, we analyze Amazon Echo Frames to examine consumer utility perception. Wearable comfort, perceived fashionability, and lifestyle compatibility play a significant role in how valuable consumers find smart glasses. This, in turn, influences their attitude and intention to use. Interestingly, price sensitivity negatively moderates the link between perceived value and attitude toward the product but not attitude-intention to use. Overall, our findings explain 78.6% of why people may adopt smart glasses, offering valuable insights for both research and industry to improve their design and marketing strategies.UnfundedAAM added to record on 01/08/2024
The Edinburgh Companion to the Brontës and the Arts
No full textThis chapter considers the emotional and literary ties of the Brontës to their father’s homeland, Ireland, at a time when being Irish was a decided disadvantage. Patrick Brontë’s complicated relationship with Ireland can be seen in his poetry and his National Tale The Maid of Killarney, which advocates for the consolidation of the Union while highlighting Irish poverty and agrarian violence, including the famine of 1817 and Whiteboy agitation. Patrick’s works are also read in the light of contemporary improvement literature. Ireland in the juvenilia of the Brontë children is often the home of the supernatural and occult, but they also reflect real social and political changes, such as Catholic Emancipation. Irishness is particularly prominent in Charlotte’s early work, especially the Angrian tales. There are also Irish references or characters in each of her novels, and the chapter concludes that while Irishness is a recurring concern in Charlotte’s work and often associated with virtues, internalised negative stereotypes and a hostile market for Irish novels in the mid-to-late 1840s affects her representation of Irishness and her relationship with the literary legacy passed down to her by her father and other Irish writers.Unfunde
Priorities in Simulated Practice Learning Placements
Get PDFThis document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in [British Journal of Nursing], copyright © MA Education, after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://www.magonlinelibrary.com/toc/bjon/33/15Commentary piecen/
Series Editor's Preface - Character Studies Series
No full textCharacter Studies promotes sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. It demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts'; themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. The series thus fosters close critical reading and evidence-based discussion, as well as an engagement with historical context, and with literary criticism and theory.Unfunde
Climate drives body mass changes in a mountain ungulate: shorter winters lead to heavier Alpine ibex
Get PDFClimate affects seasonality and plant phenology, which can influence seasonal body mass dynamics of herbivores in temperate environments. We investigated long‐term trends of seasonal body mass changes in male Alpine ibex Capra ibex. We used SEM to test direct and indirect relationships between body mass, mass changes and environmental and climatic variables. Individually recognizable Alpine ibex were weighed repeatedly between 2000 and 2022 in Gran Paradiso National Park (Italy). Autumn mass increased substantially over these two decades, up to 15% in some age classes. Over the same time frame, both summer mass gain and winter mass loss decreased, suggesting that heavier autumn body mass was due to the cumulative effects of reduced mass loss over several winters. The environmental factor with the strongest effects on winter mass changes was the starting date of vegetation green‐up at low altitude, where ibex gather after winter to feed on new growth vegetation. Early springs led to lower winter mass loss, likely because ibex relied on stored fat for a shorter period and had greater access to forage. High population density also increased winter mass loss. Environmental conditions and resource availability, possibly also influenced by density in winter and early spring, seem therefore to directly affect the body mass dynamics of male Alpine ibex, while the effect of summer conditions appears less relevant. By affecting seasonal body mass dynamics, climate change may have consequences for life history and population dynamics of mountain herbivores, for example via earlier access of young males to reproduction.Unfunde
The Potential of Preregistration in Psychology: Assessing Preregistration Producibility and Preregistration-Study Consistency
Get PDF©American Psychological Association, [2024]. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000687Study preregistration has become increasingly popular in psychology, but its potential to restrict researcher degrees of freedom has not yet been empirically verified. We used an extensive protocol to assess the producibility (i.e., the degree to which a study can be properly conducted based on the available information) of preregistrations and the consistency between preregistrations and their corresponding papers for 300 psychology studies. We found that preregistrations often lack methodological details and that undisclosed deviations from preregistered plans are frequent. These results highlight that biases due to researcher degrees of freedom remain possible in many preregistered studies. More comprehensive registration templates typically yielded more producible preregistrations. We did not find that the producibility and consistency of preregistrations differed over time or between original and replication studies. Furthermore, we found that operationalizations of variables were generally preregistered more producible and consistently than other study parts. Inconsistencies between preregistrations and published studies were mainly encountered for data collection procedures, statistical models, and exclusion criteria. Our results indicate that, to unlock the full potential of preregistration, researchers in psychology should aim to write more producible preregistrations, adhere to these preregistrations more faithfully, and more transparently report any deviations from their preregistrations. This could be facilitated by training and education to improve preregistration skills, as well as the development of more comprehensive templates.unfunde
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