scholarly journals Diversity management strategies for the adaptation of educational systems to the challenges of social marginalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galyna Nesterenko ◽  
Ievgeniia Yemelianenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Innovation Potential ◽  
Closed Systems ◽  
Individual Self

Marginalization in the classical interpretation refers to the development in a traditional sustainable society of groups and individuals, positioned in a borderline, precarious state with respect to their social and cultural identity. Marginalization, thus, is a multifaceted process, reinforcing the internal diversity of a society. Today, the traditional society itself exists as an unstable network of disparate social groups. <The latter are in fact closed systems, which are connected by more discrete, formal communicative contacts rather than essential connections. Identifications currently are not woven into a strong social structure, and this structure itself is a transient, flexible mass. Therefore, we do not deal with individual marginal groups arising in a society, but with solid marginalized masses, among which there are “islands” of the traditional population groups. Processes of globalization and integration in the society, strengthening of social dynamics, migration, etc. are the objective reasons for this. In the context of strong ethnic and cultural diversity, military and political tensions, environmental and economic crises, rise in property stratification, social exclusion and inequality – processes of individual self-realization become more complicated. To create conditions for each individual’s development in order to meet urgent needs and improve life quality, becomes first of all the task of an educational system. All this requires more flexibility and adaptability of educational systems, which they unfortunately do not have. Under these challenges it is necessary to focus on finding ways of educational humanization in order to overcome the negative effects of marginalization processes and to use their innovation potential.

scholarly journals The development and validation of the workplace acceptance scale: Evidence from a sample of workers with disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Katharina Vornholt ◽  
Sjir Uitdewilligen ◽  
Gemma van Ruitenbeek ◽  
Fred Zijlstra
Keyword(s):  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Intent To Leave ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Workplace Diversity ◽  
Organizational Diversity ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Employees With Disabilities ◽  
Acceptance Scale

BACKGROUND: Recent trends in demographics and the labor market, such as an ageing workforce, bring forth a significant societal transformation and force organizations to conform to new circumstances. Diversity management strategies may help to counteract negative outcomes of these developments. However, organizational diversity triggers various reactions among the established workforce, evoking positive as well as negative social dynamics. OBJECTIVE: In order to better understand the dynamics that arise from workplace diversity, specifically from workplace disability, the present paper outlines the development of an eleven-item measure of perceived workplace acceptance. METHODS: Three independent samples of employees with disabilities (including multisource data) were used to demonstrate the reliability and validity of the scale. RESULTS: The scale shows good psychometric properties and exploratory as well as confirmatory factor analyses indicate that workplace acceptance is a unidimensional construct. The study shows that the scale is significantly related to constructs such as health and productivity, self-esteem, intent to leave, motivation, organizational commitment, and attitudes of colleagues, providing evidence for criterion-related validity. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the present study provides evidence for the validity of the Workplace Acceptance Scale and suggests that the workplace acceptance construct has important implications for both individuals with disabilities and groups of colleagues.

Unintended Negative Effects of Diversity Management

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.W. Von Bergen ◽  
Barlow Soper ◽  
Teresa Foster
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Diversity Training ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Social Pressures

Diversity management has grown out of the need for organizations, agencies, and departments to address a changing workforce and other pervasive social pressures. An army of experts has emerged to meet this growing need, but frequently with questionable results. This paper highlights why diversity training is important and will become even more so, issues related to quality control of providers and services, what may go wrong within the context of providing diversity training programs, and the results in these situations for individuals and organizations.

scholarly journals Spices-Reservoir of Health Benefits

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Sachdeva ◽  
Naveen Kumar Kaushik
Keyword(s):  
Disease Management ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Therapeutic Agents ◽  
Phytochemical Analysis ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Active Constituents ◽  
Medicinal Value ◽  
Ancient Times

Spices contribute to the quality, nutritive value, and flavor of food. Since ancient times, they hold a great medicinal value. Their antimicrobial, antiviral, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and other numerous properties have made them a potent source of therapeutic agents. Phytochemical analysis revealed presence of active constituents such as eugenol, curcumin, carotenoids in clove, turmeric, saffron respectively that explains the efficacious nature of these spices. Owing to their easy availability and consumption, it is advised to make spices daily part of our diet though in balanced amount as sometimes excess usage bear few consequences. Evaluating multiple benefits offered by these as immunity boosters especially in times of pandemic and incorporating them in our routine diet would improve disease management strategies. This chapter discusses the reservoir of activities exhibited by few spices along with the components responsible for these activities. Here, we also discussed their negative effects if at all.

scholarly journals Levantamento de informações socioambientais na comunidade da praia de Macapá - Luís Correia - Piauí - Brasil: contribuições ao gerenciamento costeiro participativo / Socioenvironmental Information gathering in the communitie of Macapá beach

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Glairton Cardoso Rocha ◽  
Antonio Carlos Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Socioeconomic Profile ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Environmental Functions ◽  
Quality Of The Population

<p class="CorpoA">Os ambientes costeiros são considerados espaços estratégicos devido à diversidade de funções econômicas, sociais e ambientais.  Nesses espaços se desenvolvem múltiplos usos, por agentes que possuem os mais variados interesses, levando muitas vezes a conflitos de ordem socioambiental. Estratégias de gestão podem ser usadas para enfrentar tais problemas, especialmente através do envolvimento popular. A inserção das comunidades deve ocorrer desde o levantamento de informações até o processo de tomada de decisão. O presente trabalho objetiva coletar informações  socioambientais por meio do uso de questionários semi-estruturados, na comunidade de Macapá, município de Luis Correia, estado do Piauí. Os questionários foram aplicados nas residências da comunidade e respondidos por um representante familiar, perfazendo um total de 78 participantes. A partir das informações levantadas foi possível traçar o perfil socioeconômico da comunidade, avaliar a estrutura higiênico-sanitária e identificar potencialidades e limitações de uso. Assim, verificaram-se o baixo nível de escolaridade e renda média das famílias e as deficiências relacionadas ao abastecimento de água, esgotamento sanitário e coleta de resíduos. Além disso, foi possível identificar potencialidades que podem ser exploradas por atividades de ecoturismo, por exemplo, e limitações relacionadas à implantação de estruturas rígidas. As informações apuradas são úteis para o delineamento de políticas de gestão que compatibilizem o desenvolvimento econômico, a melhoria na qualidade de vida da população e a manutenção da qualidade das funções ambientais.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Palavras–</strong><strong>chave</strong>: gestão costeira, políticas públicas, potencialidades e limitações de uso.</p><p class="CorpoA" align="center"> </p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Abstract</strong><strong></strong></p><p class="CorpoA">Costal environments are considered strategic spaces due to the diversity of economic, social and environmental functions. Agents that have the most varied interests develop several uses in those spaces, many times leading to socioenvironmental conflicts. Management strategies can be used to face such problems, particularly through popular engagement. The inclusion of communities should happen since the information gathering to the process of decision taking. The present issue aims to collect socioenvironmental information with semi-structured questionnaires in the communitie of Macapá, in the city of Luis Corrêa, State of Piauí. The questionnaires were applied in the cities residences, answered by a family’s representative, making up 63 attendees. From the information gathered, it was possible to draw the socioeconomic profile of the community, to evaluate the hygienic and sanitary structure and identify potentialities and limitations of use. Thus, a low level of schooling and average income of families were verified, deficiencies in relation to water supply, sanitary sewage and waste collection.  Besides that, it was possible to identify potentialities that can be explored by ecotourism activities, for instance, besides the limitations related the implantation of rigid structures. The collected information are useful for the drawing of management policies that reconcile the economic development, the improvement of the life quality of the population and the quality keeping of the environmental functions.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Keywords</strong>: coastal management, public policies, potentialities and limitation of use.</p>

scholarly journals On certain issues related to chronic exposure to occupational noise and impacts exerted by it on workers’ bodies (literature review)

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-196
Author(s):  
V.F. Spirin ◽  
◽  
A.M. Starshov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Loss ◽  
Chronic Exposure ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Physical Factors ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Work Related

Chronic exposure to noise becomes especially significant when it occurs at workplaces since it results not only in deteriorated life quality of workers but also in disorders in their occupational activities. Occupational sensorineural hearing loss (SHL) holds the 1st rank place among occupational diseases caused by exposure to industrial physical factors. As any other work-related disease, sensorineural hearing loss makes it more difficult to preserve labor resources in the country and leads to significant economic losses. Given that, it is extremely vital to develop procedures for early diagnostics, to determine all possible risks that cause hearing loss directly or indirectly, and to create efficient prevention activities aimed at preserving health of workers exposed to noise at their workplaces. We reviewed literature data published over the last 5–7 years and analyzed more than 100 scientific works on the matter. Our review covers data from 61 sources that are the most relevant regarding tasks we aimed to solve in this research. Literature analysis allowed us to conclude that hearing loss caused by chronic exposure to noise at a workplace was a rather significant problem outlined by occupational medicine experts all over the world. It was shown that noise factor, apart from its direct impacts on the acoustic apparatus, produced apparent negative effects on many organs and systems causing various functional disorders in them which could directly or indirectly exacerbate hearing loss in workers.

Germination Ecology of Two Australian Populations of African turnipweed (Sisymbrium thellungii)

Weed Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 752-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulshan Mahajan ◽  
Amar Matloob ◽  
Michael Walsh ◽  
Bhagirath S. Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Seed Germination ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Wheat Crop ◽  
Burial Depth ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Water Ph ◽  
Winter Crops ◽  
Residue Study

AbstractAfrican turnipweed (Sisymbrium thellungiiO. E.Schulz) is an emerging problematic broadleaf weed of the northern grain region of Australia. Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of temperature, light, salinity, pH, seed burial depth, and the amount of wheat crop residue on germination and emergence of two AustralianS. thellungiiweed populations (population C, cropped area; population F, fence line). Both populations behaved similarly across different environmental conditions, except in the residue study. Although the seeds of both populations ofS. thellungiicould germinate under complete darkness, germination was best (~95%) under light/dark conditions at the 20/10 C temperature regime. Both populations ofS. thellungiigerminated over a wide range of day/night temperatures (15/5, 20/10, 25/15, and 30/20 C). Osmotic stress had negative effects on germination, with 54% seeds (averaged over populations) able to germinate at −0.1MPa. Complete germination inhibition for both populations was observed at −0.8MPa osmotic potential. Both populations germinated at sodium chloride (NaCl) concentrations ranging from 50 to 100 mM, beyond which germination was completely inhibited. There were substantial reductions in seed germination, 32% (averaged over populations) under highly acidic conditions (pH 4.0) as compared with the control (water: pH 6.4). Seed germination of both populations on the soil surface was 77%, and no seedlings emerged from a burial depth of 1 cm. The addition of 6 Mg ha−1of wheat (Triticum aestivumL.) residue reduced the emergence of the C and F populations ofS. thellungiiby 75% and 64%, respectively, as compared with the control (no residue). Information gathered from this study provides a better understanding of the factors favorable for germination and emergence ofS. thellungii, which will aid in developing management strategies in winter crops, especially wheat, barley (Hordeum vulgareL.), and chick pea (Cicer arietinumL.).

Strategic Practices and Crisis Management

2019 ◽  
pp. 156-181
Author(s):  
Yacoub Adel Nasereddin ◽  
Fayez Albadri
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
State Level ◽  
Preventive Strategy ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Recognition Phase ◽  
Shock Phase ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Phase Recognition ◽  
Adaptation Phase

Important as it is, crisis has become the hallmark of the present era, making it necessary to confront, contain, and reduce its negative effects. As a science, crisis management is associated with responding to crises, and as an art, it is about making decisions under exceptional pressure in the absence of information. It also needs to follow methodical practices such as strategic thinking, strategic planning, and strategic management to ensure effectiveness. This chapter provides an overview of crisis management as a discipline, highlighting important aspects, such as the definition of crisis and related terms (accident, conflict, danger, and disaster), concepts, causes, and characteristics, and distinguishing between crisis management and management crisis in practice. The study also outlines a typical crisis life cycle and its phases (shock phase, regression phase, recognition phase, and adaptation phase). The research then moves to identifying crisis management strategies, defining preventive strategy technique, emphasizing the importance of effective strategic practices in crisis management, and minimizing their impact. The research concludes by proposing a model to increase the effectiveness of crisis management through effective strategic practices at the state level.

Workplace Incivility and Job Satisfaction

2022 ◽  
pp. 1237-1254
Author(s):  
Rose Opengart ◽  
Thomas G. Reio Jr. ◽  
Wei Ding
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Organizational Outcomes ◽  
Workplace Incivility ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Working Adults ◽  
Reported Study ◽  
Negative Effect

Workplace incivility is common in organizations across the world and can have negative effects on individuals and organizations. The purpose of the reported study is to examine the effects of supervisor and coworker incivility on job satisfaction and examines emotion management as a mediator of these relationships. Data from 268 working adults were collected by survey battery and analyzed via a number of multivariate techniques. The model was supported in that both supervisor and coworker incivility had strong direct negative effects on emotion management and job satisfaction, and emotion management partially mediated the incivility-job satisfaction relationship. With supervisor and coworker incivility, the participants reported lower levels of job satisfaction. However, the participants' emotion management mitigated the negative effect of incivility on job satisfaction partially. The findings suggest that organizations need to be aware of the unfavorable consequences of incivility. Organizations need to discover ways to reduce incivility and implement efforts to help employees develop positive emotional management strategies. These actions may help reduce the negative influences of incivility on important organizational outcomes like job satisfaction.

scholarly journals Introduced and cryptogenic species and their management in Paranaguá Bay, Brazil

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 623-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Somaio Neves ◽  
Rosana Moreira da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Population Monitoring ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Paranaguá Bay ◽  
Cryptogenic Species ◽  
Information Database ◽  
Hard Substrates ◽  
Underwater Structures

The aim of this work was to identify the introduced and cryptogenic species in encrusting and associated communities of hard substrates in Paranaguá Bay, Brazil, and to attempt to determine which of these species could negatively affect the local community to suggest management strategies for these species. At least four introduced species were found - a large number in comparison with other port surveys. These were the hydrozoan Garveia franciscana Torrey, 1902, the polychaete Polydora cornuta Bosc, 1902, the barnacles Amphibalanus reticulatus (Utinoni, 1967) and Striatobalanus amaryllis Darwin, 1854, all with potentially harmful impacts. Of the 33 cryptogenic species, four were also listed in the literature as causing negative effects. We propose the following management practices: periodic cleaning of all underwater structures, population monitoring of invasive species and potential substrates, an information database of potential sources of introduction.

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