Semi-claustral founding and worker behaviour in gynes of Messor andrei

1999 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. F. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Messor Andrei ◽  
Claustral Founding ◽  
Worker Behaviour

scholarly journals Ants under crowded conditions consume more energy

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 613-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuan T Cao ◽  
Anna Dornhaus
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Rate ◽  
Social Insects ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cent Increase ◽  
Worker Behaviour

Social insects live in colonies consisting of many workers, where worker interactions play an important role in regulating colony activities. Workers interact within the social space of the nest; therefore, constraints on nest space may alter worker behaviour and affect colony activities and energetics. Here we show in the ant Temnothorax rugatulus that changes in nest space have a significant effect on colony energetics. Colonies with restricted nest space showed a 14.2 per cent increase in metabolic rate when compared with the same colonies in large uncrowded nests. Our study highlights the importance of social space and shows that constraints on social space can significantly affect colony behaviour and energy use in ants. We discuss the implications of our findings regarding social insects in general.

scholarly journals Back to the Shop Floor: Behavioural Insights from Workplace Sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 1039-1057 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pendleton ◽  
Ben Lupton ◽  
Andrew Rowe ◽  
Richard Whittle
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Loss Aversion ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Behavioural Insights ◽  
Pay Incentives ◽  
Sociological Studies ◽  
Worker Behaviour

This article compares insights into decision-making and behaviour developed by Kahneman and Tversky in behavioural economics with the main findings from studies of pay incentives in workplace sociology in the middle decades of the 20th century. The article shows how many of the insights offered by behavioural economists, such as loss aversion, were anticipated and considered by the workplace sociologists. It is argued that the sociological studies offer deeper and more convincing accounts of worker behaviour through a better understanding of the role of social structure, context, and social processes in framing and influencing action.

The Employment Disadvantage of Mothers: Evidence for Systemic Discrimination

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Carney
Keyword(s):  
Household Income ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
High Status ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Systemic Discrimination ◽  
Ideal Worker ◽  
Worker Behaviour

When their need to provide care and their need for paid employment are equally important, mothers try to combine both roles, often through part time employment, or to stagger these competing needs by taking employment breaks. Using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics of Australia (HILDA) Survey1 this article analyses the resulting detriments to the ability of mothers to continue career paths across the occupational spectrum. Analysis of this data is used to argue that employment disadvantage is generated by mothers' inability to conform to `ideal worker' behaviour and therefore can be construed as `systemic discrimination'. Norms of `ideal' behaviour are shown to be stronger in occupations of high status and as a result mothers are at a greater risk of becoming excluded from employment within these occupations. Further, 26 percent of Australian working mothers will experience occupational exclusion, an event where further employment is secured only by moving down the occupational hierarchy to jobs of lower socio-economic status.

Influence of the Queen on Worker Behaviour and Queen Recognition Behaviour in Ants

Ethology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 431-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Vienne ◽  
Christine Errard ◽  
Alain Lenoir
Keyword(s):  
Queen Recognition ◽  
Worker Behaviour

scholarly journals Non-participation bias in unlinked anonymous HIV-prevalence surveys in England and Wales

1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. DUONG ◽  
A. E. ADES ◽  
P. ROGERS ◽  
A. NICOLL
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Worker ◽  
Hiv Prevalence ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
Hiv Seroprevalence ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Participation Bias ◽  
Large Clusters ◽  
Care Worker ◽  
Worker Behaviour

The objective was to assess the potential bias in unlinked anonymous HIV-seroprevalence surveys from objections to specimens being included. Objection rates in seroprevalence surveys were examined. Statistically large clusters of objections were considered to be the result of health care worker behaviour, and were disregarded. Underlying objection rates were estimated from remaining data and compared to seroprevalence. Overall objection rates approached or exceeded seroprevalence in many participating centres. However, underlying objection rates declined with time while prevalences were generally unchanging. Also, underlying rates correlated poorly with observed seroprevalences. Findings were therefore consistent with processes producing the clusters of objections and underlying objection rates independently of serostatus of individuals. Although national seroprevalence estimates produced by the surveys are reasonably free from objection bias, regional seroprevalence estimates outside London remain vulnerable to bias as a result of some centres returning data whose quality cannot be guaranteed.

Imitation, Contagion, or Exertion? Using a Tax Reform to Reveal How Colleagues' Sick Leaves Influence Worker Behaviour

2014 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Dale-Olsen ◽  
Kjersti Misje Østbakken ◽  
Pål Schøne
Keyword(s):  
Tax Reform ◽  
Worker Behaviour

Modelling knowledge worker behaviour in business process studies

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Elliman ◽  
Julie Eatock ◽  
Nicky Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Process Studies ◽  
Worker Behaviour
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