19,238 research outputs found
Employees’ experience of human resource practices under plural form franchising: The impact of front-line managerial capability
No full textThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The franchising business model has received scant attention within the field of human resource management (HRM). Data tracking workers’ experience of this format are more elusive still. This study draws on comparative, qualitative data derived from discussions with eighty-two respondents working within the corporate and franchised divisions of a market leading, fast food multinational company (MNC). Extant analyses of franchised operations point to shortcomings in franchisees’ treatment of staff. This outcome is typically asserted to be the result of the opportunism that flows from the desire to maximise revenues and minimise costs. This emphasis on structural pressures ignores the micro-level influences and the complexity of the day-to-day dynamics of the employment relationship. Specifically, the impact of the leadership skills and competence of front-line managers (FLMs) is overlooked. The study highlights that differences in FLM capability significantly affect the work climate, further aggravating poor HR activities in the franchised units, while offsetting some of the repressive task features associated with routinised work in the corporate division
Decent informal work development in the shadow of the covid-19 pandemic: Capability approach’s perspectives
No full textOur research aims to explore decent informal work development capabilities, constraints, opportunities and enablers through the theoretical lenses of the capability approach. It is in collaboration with the Traders Advocacy Group Ghana (TAGG), a leading registered national umbrella union of workers in Ghana’s informal economy. We employ interview data from members and leaders of TAGG across the 16 regions of Ghana. Our results are expected to extend the capability approach and the decent informal work literature. Besides, they can generate critical policy insights to promote post-pandemic decent work policy implementation in developing economies like Ghana
Assessing Sustainable Decent Work Development in the Post-Pandemic Informal Economy of Ghana
No full textDrawing from the lenses of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach, this study aims to explore post-pandemic decent work development in the informal economy and sustainable policy implementation options using large survey data from Ghana. It is being undertaken in collaboration with the Traders Advocacy Group Ghana (TAGG), a leading registered national umbrella union of workers in Ghana’s informal economy. The findings are expected to provide novel contributions to knowledge and understanding of decent informal work development generally and in post-pandemic/crises settings as well as decent work development policy implementation in the informal economy
Never waste a good crisis
No full textPurpose: COVID-19 is no different. It presents us with opportunities to accelerate some changes we may already have in play, to either challenge some long-held assumptions or to think more creatively about new ways of working. Design/methodology/approach: Crises almost always bring to light not only threats but also opportunities, including a chance to reflect and learn. The author of this study is never the one to waste the opportunity that externally driven change creates to learn from what she has been witnessing and to accelerate change that she was already planning, to stop some things and start others which more effectively align with the vision of the organisation. Findings: This paper charts a course through some of the author’s thinking and actions in the digital information world over the last 30 years. Partly it is a story of “the more things change the more they stay the same” and partly a story of “overnight change which has been decades in the making”. It ends with the author’s thoughts on two opportunities that she believes we cannot afford to ignore. Originality/value: This paper charts a course through some of the author’s thinking and actions in the digital information world over the last 30 years. Its premise is that COVID-19 creates a fertile ground for library and information professionals to grasp the opportunities before them to realise aspirations which have been long held.Full Tex
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Never lonely again
No full textIn Chapter 6, the author deals with the roles
of participation and active reception in L2
development, with a focus on the classroom
and pedagogical context. He highlights how
and why communicative events need to be
understood in terms of how participants use
the resources (language, gestures and
objects) at their disposal. The inadequacies of
the traditional notions of speakers and
hearers for understanding interactions are
also highlighted.
In Chapter 7, the relation between
interactionism and L2 development in the
context of dynamic assessment is explored.
The mediational nature of interaction
competence that is co-produced through a
variety of tools forms the theme of Chapter 8.
The theme addresses the issue of supporting
interactions through new mediational means.
In the ninth chapter, the author concludes by
synthesizing and providing directions for
further research and pedagogy.
In this book, the theoretical, methodological
and analytical discussions are directly linked
to pedagogical implications in each chapter.
It also provides relevant excerpts at various
points that help readers to engage with the
concept under discussion. The data sessions
given at the end of the chapter are useful for
practical engagement with the themes.
Video clips of a few data sessions (Session
Nos.: 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7) are available at https://
benjamins.com/#catalog/books/lllt.44/
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Never be silent : publishing & imperialism in Kenya, 1884-1963
No full textSocial communications are central to any social struggle. There is a sizable body of literature from other countries on the use of oral medium, newspapers, books and other forms of communications being used as tools for organising against a powerful enemy, as a training ground for cadres and for clarifying and developing revolutionary theory, ideology, organisation and practice. All this ensures a greater unity among those resisting oppression and exploitation. Thus revolutionary and liberation forces of Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China, and in Vietnam had developed theories and practices of revolutionary publishing as part of their revolutionary work. This has also been the case during anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles in Africa, but very little of this has been systematically documented as an aspect of revolutionary communications policy and practice. While the
colonial communications systems have been reasonably well documented, the resistance communication systems remain largely undocumented and ignored. This book is an initial attempt to document this dynamic communications process in Kenya with its external struggles against colonialism and its complex internal struggles with overlaying divisions of race and class, Kenyan and foreign peoples. The main theme emerging from this experience is that people struggling to change their society always find ways of establishing their own system of communicating with the people they lead
and by whom they are led. Their mission of revolution, of change, of peace, of social and economic justice requires that they should never be silent. This was well understood and practised by the liberation forces in Kenya. They
were never silent
Early option exercise: Never say never
No full textAbstractA classic result by Merton (1973) is that, except just before expiration or dividend payments, one should never exercise a call option and never convert a convertible bond. We show theoretically that this result is overturned when investors face frictions. Early option exercise can be optimal when it reduces short-sale costs, transaction costs, or funding costs. We provide consistent empirical evidence, documenting billions of dollars of early exercise for options and convertible bonds using unique data on actual exercise decisions and frictions. Our model can explain as much as 98% of early exercises by market makers and 67% by customers
Reviews on Rzewski’s Leftist Political Piano Variations: ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated’
No full text‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated (1975) is an one-hour epic modern piano variations, is one with an exquisite structure as well as a humanistic content. As a political context, this could be a legendary piece as well, in its creation in Chile just before Pinochet's military regime and the music's subsequent meaning for so many leftist political enthusiasts. In his approach the author highlighted the role of music, i.e. the role of cultural power in crating consciousness and attracting masses of people to political causes inspiring them to fight for better future. In addition, the author opened a number of questions on performance of contemporary music on the basis of Rzewski’s own DVD recording, the analyzing of which revealed an interesting phenomenon because when Rzewski played his own music, his playing differentiated from his own score
Valentine. A Kiss Is Never a Miss
No full textA boy gives a girl a kiss. Text: To my valentine, A kiss is never a miss, but it takes a real miss to make the kiss. Date is approximate.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/romance_revelry/1000/thumbnail.jp
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