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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Workers' perceptions"”.
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Coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation
This research investigated coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation. The research was done in an engineering manufacturing company in Epping, Cape Town. Fifty-six subjects were selected by means of a stratified random sample. Subjects were weekly paid factory workers in …
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Low-Income Workers Perceptions About a Living Wage in the Tshwane Municipality
… as one of the panaceas to take low-remuneration workers out of the poverty trap, to empower and sustain them to live a dignified life. In the literature it is argued that low-remuneration workers work in precarious jobs globally. Theoretically a living wage is predicted by many factors, but for …
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Rehabilitation care workers perceptions of the outcomes of a pilot training programme
… s including a cadre of community health workers (CHWs) that have a broad skills mix suited to reaching a larger number of people with first level intervention. With this in mind, a pilot group of CHWs were up-skilled as Rehabilitation Care Worker s (RCWs). The training program was a joint …
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An exploration into statutory Social Workers' perceptions and experiences of their child protection work
… (UNICEF, 2016). Concurrently, skilled Social Workers are in demand in South Africa but subject to complex social dynamics while working under immense pressure (DHET, 2018; Calitz, Roux, & Strydom, 2014). The purpose of this study was to explore Statutory Social Workers’ perceptions and …
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Using Focus Groups to Determine Blue-Collar Workers' Perceptions Regarding Dietary Practices and Cancer Prevention
… levels within a population, and that blue-collar workers tend to consume 38-40% of total calories as fat. It is possible that national campaign efforts to change dietary practices are not reaching educationally and economically challenged populations. This research identifies the perceptions of …
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Methods and madness : researching community health workers' perceptions of mental illness in Khayelitsha and Nyanga
… qualitative methods to research community health workers' (CHWs) perceptions of mental health problems in Khayelitsha and Nyanga, two peri-urban Black townships in the Cape Town area. Since the historic WHO-UNICEF meeting at Alma-Ata in 1978, there has been widespread interest in the concept of …
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An investigation of domestic workers' perceptions into the effects of employer involvement on parenting and parental autonomy
Domestic workers (DWs) have been described in sociological literature as "trapped" workers. They have been portrayed as workers coerced into powerlessness and unassertiveness by virtue of their economic dependence on employers. Observations of DWs in clinical settings have confirmed these …
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Exploring child protection social workers' perceptions of how their experience of work and wellbeing influence each other
… study explored child protection social workers' perceptions of how their working experience and wellbeing positively and negatively influence each other. It also further considered child protection social workers' perceptions of the support currently available to them as well as any …
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Being settled and unsettled : an IPA study exploring residential social workers' perceptions of relationships with young people in one children's home
… such a gap by focusing on residential social workers' perceptions of relationships with the children in their care within a number of enabling and constraining psycho-social factors. It adopts a detailed case study of seven residential social workers in one children’s home in Northern Ireland. …
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What are social workers’ perceptions of needs and services to LGBT people living with dementia and what factors influence their perceptions?
This study set out to explore social worker’s perceptions of needs and services towards LGBT people living with dementia and the factors that influence their perceptions. The focus of the study is primarily related to social workers practicing in England with data collected within this context. The …
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Social movement trade unionism: An investigation of workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions practices on election and living wage issues
This study investigates workers’ perceptions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) practices on elections and living wage issues from a social movement perspective from the Apartheid (South Africa) and Unilateral Declaration of …
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The organizational environment and its relationship to social workers' absenteeism and overall job satisfaction
This study was designed to examine social workers' perceptions of a selected set of organizational job factors and their relationship to workers' absenteeism and overall job satisfaction. The organizational job factors were examined from three different organizational levels: individual needs for …
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Quarry Workers' Hazard Identification, Severity Interpretation, and Prevention Strategies
… a rigorous study about understanding craftworkers' perceptions of a safe work environment is lacking. This study particularly investigated quarry workers' safety behaviors regarding work hazards by adapting findings from construction safety research because construction and mining …
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Unveiling the organisational identity: a spatial approach based on the office. The case of ORES Picardy Wallonia transition towards an activity-based workspace
… alters the ways of being and of working, and workers’ perceptions of their organisation’s identity. In order to address this question, this thesis is based on a qualitative empirical research in which data were collected through semi-structured interviews, documentary analysis, and …
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Skill, remuneration, and employment in production and service related work in Canada : a quality assessment
… study, job structure is assessed in terms of workers' occupational status and mobility. Job quality is accounted for in this process on the basis of workers' perceptions of their skill requirements and job security, and on the basis of their level of intrinsic interest. The findings indicate …
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Investigating the perceptions to and effectiveness of an ally skill-building workshop
… racial attitudes, modern sexist attitudes, and perceptions of inclusive norms to determine effectiveness of an ally skill-skill building workshop and behavioral intentions over time. Data were collected from employees (N = 218) working for a Fortune 500 organization and were analyzed using …
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An exploratory study of the diffusion of instructional computing innovation among social work faculty
… nation-wide were surveyed about their use and perceptions of computers as instructional tools. Rogers' (1983) Diffusion Theory was used to identify variables hypothesized to be correlated with the innovational adoption process. The findings suggested that the innovational attributes of …
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