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COVID-19: What impact has the Pandemic had on the psychological contract of Head Office employees at the John Lewis Partnership?
No full textThis study aims to understand the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the psychological contract of head office employees at the John Lewis Partnership. More specifically, it is the enforced move to home working that has the potential to disrupt employee and employer expectations that have been ingrained over many years. The pandemic has been considered a business experiment in terms of ways of working (Bartik et al., 2020). Therefore, it is relevant to understand what other costs there may be over and above improved financials (from an ability to reduce office space etc.), such as a deterioration in the commitments and obligations that form the psychological contract. Literature is reviewed to understand and critically analyse the concept of the psychological contract and a number of specific facets of its nature that give a picture of the value it can have. Additionally, literature is reviewed relating to working from home and covid-19, albeit the latter is limited due to the emerging nature of the pandemic. Research is then designed to understand what impact the pandemic may have had. A survey is conducted asking head office employees at the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to access their employment relationship with JLP at two different time points: before the pandemic and during. Results are then analysed, and a conclusion is drawn that the research demonstrates that there has been an overall negative impact of the pandemic and home working on the psychological contract. With aspects such as loyalty, job stability and erosion of benefits most acutely impacted. There then follows four costed recommendations to improve psychological contract fulfilment, such as mental health awareness training and continued enhanced levels of communication. Finally, the limitations of this study are discussed, along with recommendations for future research
"Squaring the circle":Cusan metaphysics, mathesis and the pansophic vision of Jan Amos Comenius
Get PDFAccording to Charles Lohr, Nicholas of Cusa was instrumental in inaugurating a new and profoundly Trinitarian vision of reality. One of the most important inheritors of this legacy was the Czech theologian and pedagogue Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670), who was deeply influenced by Cusanus, and especially his notion of the coincidence of opposites. In particular, as Jan Patočka has shown, Comenius’ famous pansophic method was clearly shaped by his reading of Cusanus’ De docta ignorantia and other works. Building on this scholarship, this chapter seeks to examine the specifically Trinitarian character of this pansophic vision, in the context of both Comenius’ philosophical works and his anti-Socinian tracts. For Comenius the upholding of the natural knowledge of the Trinity was a crucial weapon against the Socinian heresy. Yet in affirming this he was well aware of the need to balance the competing claims of sense, reason and faith. Tracing Comenius’ developing discussion of the Cusan motif of “squaring the circle” it demonstrates the role of the coincidence of opposites in unifying his philosophical and theological thought. It then shows the way in which this emerged in Comenius’ mature attempt to develop an alternative mathesis universalis – one which affirmed with Descartes and the new philosophy the mathematical structure of all reality, but always remained open to its Trinitarian and transcendent ground
Nicholas of Cusa and early modern reform:Towards a reassessment
Get PDFNicholas of Cusa is today widely acknowledged as a seminal thinker of modernity. Yet, in the words of Stefan Meier-Oeser, he still remains a “forgotten presence” of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Here the theme of the entire volume, and especially the multivalent concept of reform employed, will be introduced and placed in relation to the existing scholarship on Cusanus and early modernity. The rationale for the section division into theological, ecclesiological, perspectival and methodological reform will then be explored. The introduction will conclude with a detailed contextual summary of each of the four sections and the papers within them
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
Dispelling 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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