scholarly journals Alienation and Work: ICT Professionals

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Mike Healy
Keyword(s):  
Process Engineering ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Ict Industry ◽  
Body Shopping

This chapter surveys the effectiveness of Marx’s theory of alienation by examining the experiences of ICT professionals within the workplace. This chapter studies whether Marx’s theory helps in creating the conditions to enable ICT professionals to articulate their working lives as they see them, within the general trends of the sector, and to theorise their experiences. The author first describes the participants of his setting, before going on to consider the meaning of professionalism for them. Next, the chapter examines previous and existing research into ICT professionals, defining the key characteristics that shape the ICT industry. It then takes this overarching environment and applies it to the ICT professionals who took part in his own research presenting a distillation of their verbatim views about their own work and experiences touching on practices such as work process engineering, ‘benching’, ‘body shopping’ and how management of their labour functions. The author concludes that the power structures within which ICT professionals work shapes the products they produce, further emphasising that technology and its development are primarily advancing the interests of capital contributing to professionals’ expressions and experiences of alienation.

The Future of Women and Work: Ending the Twentieth Century

1992 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Acker
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
American Women ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Future

Global capitalist economic restructuring is affecting the working lives of American women. This article examines the growth of women's employment opportunities and the quality of their jobs as a consequence of the restructuring of employment, increasing flexibility of work, changing skill demands, and attempts to reduce hierarchy and increase workers' participation in the work process. The outlook for the 1990s is negative for many women, yet positive for a few if trends continue in their present direction.

The entrepreneur: a new breed of health service leader?

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Exton
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Service Leader ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Uk National Health Service ◽  
The Uk

PurposeThis paper aims to critically examine the notion of entrepreneurship in the UK National Health Service (NHS), promoted by government ministers and senior civil servants as part of the rhetoric of the modernisation agenda.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores literature on entrepreneurship in the private and public sector and qualitative case study evidence on the emergence (and non‐emergence) of “entrepreneurs” who led the improving working lives (IWL) initiative in the UK National Health Service and discusses the issues involved.FindingsThe rhetoric serves an essentially ideological function, obscuring the real difficulty of securing effective and sustainable change, in organisations with deeply engrained power structures and as complex and intransient as the NHS in particular and health services more generally.Practical implicationsA “new breed of entrepreneurial leaders” may eventually appear but they face the challenge of surviving in the hierarchical NHS culture and in a climate of turbulent change created by the volatility of government policy.Originality/valueThe paper shows that efforts to pursue entrepreneurship in the UK NHS have to overcome obstacles involving the interplay of power, gender and language.

Big data analytics opportunities for applications in process engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitra Sadat Lavasani ◽  
Nahid Raeisi Ardali ◽  
Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh ◽  
Reza Zarghami ◽  
János Abonyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
Process Engineering ◽  
Massive Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Data Content ◽  
Hidden Patterns ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Big data is an expression for massive data sets consisting of both structured and unstructured data that are particularly difficult to store, analyze and visualize. Big data analytics has the potential to help companies or organizations improve operations as well as disclose hidden patterns and secret correlations to make faster and intelligent decisions. This article provides useful information on this emerging and promising field for companies, industries, and researchers to gain a richer and deeper insight into advancements. Initially, an overview of big data content, key characteristics, and related topics are presented. The paper also highlights a systematic review of available big data techniques and analytics. The available big data analytics tools and platforms are categorized. Besides, this article discusses recent applications of big data in chemical industries to increase understanding and encourage its implementation in their engineering processes as much as possible. Finally, by emphasizing the adoption of big data analytics in various areas of process engineering, the aim is to provide a practical vision of big data.

Learning Motivation of Adults Involved in AAC Intervention

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber Thiessen ◽  
Christy Horn ◽  
David Beukelman ◽  
Sarah E. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Key Characteristics

Abstract The augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) personnel framework identifies the various types of people involved in successful AAC interventions. The purposes of this article are to summarize information in the AAC intervention literature that documents the role and impact of various AAC personnel, describe key characteristics of adult learners, and review research that focuses on learning motivations and preferences of adults within the AAC framework.

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