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An Investigation of the Interaction of Chronically Ill Women and Their Working Environments
No full textThis thesis explores the working experiences of women with chronic illness. This is an area which is under-researched and is of increasing importance due to the increasing number of workers who have chronic illness. Social attitudes have not kept pace with the rapid increase in the number of people of working age who have chronic illness. The problems of managing the attitudes of others regarding chronic illness, the work itself, and the difficulties associated with a particular diagnosis, are unique in the impact that they have on the working lives of these women. In order to explore the different aspects of the working lives of women with chronic illness, several key areas are researched in this thesis. These include the behaviours exhibited, the influences of the external requirements and social dimensions of work, and the outcomes of the participants. This study utilises both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the workforce experience of women with chronic illness. The quantitative analysis is used to investigate the individual labour force outcomes, based on data from the Household and Income Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. The quantitative data examines variables such as satisfaction with employment opportunities, permanent or casual employment status, preference for increased hours of work, level of occupation, earnings, satisfaction with the work itself, overall job satisfaction, pay satisfaction, hours of work, and satisfaction with job security.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Academics at the intersection of age and gender : A Ghanaian experience
No full textThis chapter takes an intersectional approach examining the effect of age on the career and workplace experiences of young women and men academics in a Ghanaian university. It considers how the focus on gender alone in research on the African university tells a partial story of the workplace discrimination faced by women. For women, employed within institutions heavily influenced by a patriarchal culture, at the intersection of femininity and youth they are faced with a double disadvantage, this often being exacerbated by their more junior position in the academic hierarchy. The findings indicate that although gender is a significant factor in the disadvantage faced by women academics at the University, at the intersection of age and gender, based on cultural attitudes, participation and informal expectations and obligations, older women seem to be advantaged in their employment experiences compared to younger women and, to some extent, younger men
Women in Senior Management Positions in Australia and the Concept of the "Ideal Manager"
No full textThe notion of women’s representation in leadership and decision-making
positions has been the focus of persistent interest in Australia since the first equity
review was conducted as part of the Royal Commission into Australian Government
Administration in 1975. Today, despite three decades of extensive legislation to address
gender equity and the disadvantaged position of women in the labour market, women
are still underrepresented in senior positions in Australian organisations. Only 16.5
percent of CEOs, 29.7 per cent of key management personnel (KMP), and 30.4 per cent
of general manager positions are held by women. The representation of women
gradually decreases when moving up management levels, and the gap between male and
female ratios increases with the levels of management.
This PhD study focuses on the underrepresentation of women in senior positions
in Australia. It explores the experiences of both women and men in senior management
positions in two Australian organisations and their views of what is required to achieve
a senior position. The study draws on case studies of two Australian organisations and
uses a qualitative approach with a social constructivist worldview grounded in a critical
social philosophy. A feminist lens is used to analyse gender relations in the two
organisations and relies on document analysis and semi-structured interviews with 50
executives and middle and senior managers, both male and female, from those
organisations.
Although much research has been dedicated to this problem, there has been
minimal published research about the experience of men in senior positions. This paper
looks at the perspectives of male senior managers in addition to those of female managers for two reasons: it is necessary to analyse social actions from the actors’
standpoints; and there is a need to examine men’s experiences to understand women’s
exclusion from leadership.
The study is theoretically informed by Acker’s (1990, 2006a, 2006b, 2012)
concept of the “ideal worker”, which was defined as an unencumbered worker, totally
dedicated to work and with no responsibilities for family care. However, the focus of
this study is on managers and through interviews, the related concept of the “ideal
manager” emerged. The ideal manager is distinct from the concept of the ideal worker
in emphasising the masculine aspects of senior positions, and is also characterised by
non-negotiable long working hours, the ability to be mobile, a focus on career ahead of
family with no career break, and a planned career path while proactively seeking
advancement. Focusing on this ideal has enabled organisations, in the minds of senior
executives, to recruit senior people willing who make the sacrifices necessary for the
economic success of the organisation. Women were therefore not seen as qualified for
the demands of senior positions, and the ideal manager was usually constituted by men
and by masculine values and norms. This ideal enabled dominant economic and
political interests to maintain control and the gendering of hierarchies, reinforcing the
practice whereby those people who committed more to the job and who desired more
responsibility and authority achieved senior positions. The ideal manager was not only a
male with a full-time and life-long job, he also had a woman in his life that took care of
his personal needs and his children. However, the reality of life as an ideal manager can
be difficult, as seen in some of the dilemmas the interviewees faced. The situation
examined did not bode well for increasing, attracting, or retaining women in senior positions.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Dept Empl Rel & Human ResourceGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Does Gender Equity at Work Have an Age Dimension? A Study of the Queensland Public Service
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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