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0000-0001-5154-6888
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University of South Australia
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University College London
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Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 24-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 10-09-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 12-2022
DOI: 10.1177/10353046221125512
Abstract: This article increases understanding of university labour processes. The antecedents and characteristics of early retirement schemes implemented by Australian universities between 2010 and 2020 were considered. Twenty-eight schemes were identified across 20 universities. Content analysis of descriptions of the schemes contained in official documents was undertaken. This revealed somewhat common justifications for the schemes, linked to concerns about organisational sustainability/resilience in the face of external threats and the implementation of modernising efforts. Such justifications appeared to be underpinned by similar ageist biases on the part of management. Despite this broad commonality, however, the schemes manifested a multifurcation of possible work-retirement pathways across institutions. Such reorganisation of labour processes, based on ageist representations that potentially place established workers in conflict with others, represents an incongruence between the market-oriented objectives of universities and areas of public policy responding to workforce ageing. It is argued that drawing momentum from emerging conceptions of sustainability and current ersity initiatives such as Athena Swan and Age Friendly Universities it may be possible to sever the link university leadership perceive between the estment of older workers and the fulfilment of modernising agendas.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 18-02-2022
DOI: 10.3389/FPSYG.2021.759226
Abstract: The future of work is forcing the world to adjust to a new paradigm of working. New skills will be required to create and adopt new technology and working methods. Additionally, cognitive skills, particularly creative problem-solving , will be highly sought after. The future of work paradigm has threatened many occupations but bolstered others such as engineering. Engineers must keep up to date with the technological and cognitive demands brought on by the future of work. Using an exploratory mixed-methods approach, our study sought to make sense of how engineers understand and use creative problem solving. We found significant associations between engineers’ implicit knowledge of creativity, exemplified creative problem solving, and the perceived value of creativity. We considered that the work environment is a potential facilitator of creative problem-solving. We used an innovative exceptional cases analysis and found that the highest functioning engineers in terms of knowledge, skills, and perceived value of creativity, also reported working in places that facilitate psychosocially safe environments to support creativity. We propose a new theoretical framework for a creative environment by integrating the Four Ps (Person, Process, Product, and Press) and psychosocial safety climate theory that management could apply to facilitate creative problem solving. Through the acquisition of knowledge to engage in creative problem solving as in iduals or a team, a perception of value must be present to enforce the benefit of creativity to the engineering role. The future of work paradigm requires that organisations provide an environment, a psychosocially safe climate, for engineers to grow and hone their sought-after skills that artificial technologies cannot currently replace.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 20-10-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-02-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.GERINURSE.2018.05.004
Abstract: The current study describes aged care workers' interpretation of the concept of person-centred care and identifies the barriers that exist to impede its practice, and the facilitators that encourage person-centred care practice. Data were collected from interviews with aged care workers from two residential aged care facilities providing both high and low care for residents with and without physical and psychological issues based in Australia. Data were analysed to identify and explore categories of meaning for barriers and facilitators. Analysis is grounded in Brooker's VIPS framework for person-centred dementia care which is utilised as a comparative tool for analysing participants' understanding of person-centred care. Findings revealed that aged care workers have a reasonable but incomplete understanding of person-centred care. Insufficient time and residents' dementia behaviours acted as barriers to care workers' provision of person-centred care. Teamwork was found to facilitate person-centred care by increasing instrumental and relationship resources.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2018
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: Australia
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