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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"blue-collar workers"”.
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Industrialization and Korean Blue-Collar Workers (Automobile Industry, Hyundai)
… describes the characteristics of Korean blue-collar workers, and compares them with auto workers in four other countries to evaluate the applicability of three theories (convergence, dependency, and cultural) dealing with the effects of industrialization upon these workers. This study …
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Blue-collar workers in Japan and Holland: a comparative study
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_190570296.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Development of industry-based strategies for motivating seat-belt usage among blue-collar workers
… has shown that seat belt wearing among white-collar workers can be motivated through the use of incentives. Incentive strategies have not, however, been effective among blue-collar workers for several reasons: (1) lack of identification with the programs; (2) lack of influence on development …
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Using Focus Groups to Determine Blue-Collar Workers' Perceptions Regarding Dietary Practices and Cancer Prevention
… and income 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 …
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Work-family conflict and turnover intention amongst blue-collar workers : does resilience play a role?
… have had on this relationship. Participants were bluecollar workers (N = 136) within the chemical-specialty industry in the Western Cape. Exploratory factor analysis illustrated the unidimensionality of work-family conflict, however there was a strong theoretical argument to treat work-family …
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The effects of sense of coherence on work stressors and outcomes in blue collar workers
… were obtained from a sample of 111 male, white, blue collar workers at a large chemicals manufacturing organization from a questionnaire compiled for this study, and organizational records. The data were subjected to correlational analysis, supplemented by a form of moderated multiple regression …
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Individual differences in work behaviour of blue-collar workers : a study of rubber tappers in Malaysia
… rubber tappers. Rubber tappers are unskilled blue-collar workers who essentially do the same type of work and are paid the same rates of pay. There are very few studies that have compared male and female blue-collar workers doing similar jobs in organisational settings. This study is one of …
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The Structure of Working Class Economic Inequality Under Market Socialism: A Labor Market Analysis of Blue-Collar Workers in Yugoslavia
… a survey of the labor market characteristics of workers in Yugoslavia. Savezni Zavod za Statistiku (Federal Office of Statistics) in Belgrade supplied aggregated data from this census on industries in Slovenia and Macedonia, two republics with contrasting levels of industrial development. Zavod …
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Heart rate variability and neurocognitive performance in blue- and white-collar workers: Implications for cardiac risks
… between HRV and neurocognitive performance in blue- and white-collar workers. Data was obtained from n = 101 participants aged between 19-61 years comprising of n = 48 white-collar workers (male: n = 25, female: n = 23) and n = 53 blue-collar workers (male: n = 42, female: n = 11). The …
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Peer Influence: A Method to Help Manage Stress
… find a difference between middle managers’ and blue-collar workers’ episodic non-work related and work related stress events. The information that was found was to be developed into a “peer influence” program to help prevent the workers from experiencing chronic stress symptoms.</p> …
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What s justice got to do with it? : the relationship between injustice at work and counterproductive work behaviour
… behaviour (CWB). Participants consisted of 152 blue-collar workers from a national retail group consisting of six chain stores. The research was conducted in the Western Cape in two of these chain stores and comprised of an exploratory survey with Likert-type scales.
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Inclusive Leadership and Job Performance: A Study of Blue-Collar Worker Perceptions
In South Africa, blue-collar workers typically operate in labour-intensive work environments where inclusive leadership behaviours are often not viewed as a value-adding tool and where employee willingness to contribute to organisational processes is low. All of which can negatively impact …
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Labor arbitrage : impact of offshoring in the U.S. labor market
… is accelerating affecting both white and blue collar workers. While there many papers that analyze the productivity increase due to offshoring practices [Mitra, 2007], [Global Insight, 2004], [Houseman, 2010], most of them just assume that this improvement is automatically translated into …
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Organizational Culture, Class Values, and Subordination at Work
… online job reviews, I document a gap between blue- and white-collar workers’ evaluations of organizational culture and assess the role of two competing explanations. Worker values– or shared beliefs about what workplace culture should beare commonly thought to influence evaluations o f …
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Facilitators and Barriers to Physical Activity and Nutritional Adherence In A Worksite Wellness Intervention
… of the study, surveys were distributed to 80 blue collar workers at the BOSE manufacturing facility in Blythewood, SC. Nineteen surveys were returned and some of the common facilitators for the program were: medical feedback, using the pedometer, and creating accountability through team work. …
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The Impact of an Incentive/Competition Program on Participation and Smoking Cessation Among High Risk Smokers at the Worksite
… program attracted a higher percentage of hourly (blue-collar) smokers (18.5%) compared to the "M" program (9.3%), or the "T" program (7.9%). Incentives with competition were also effective for improving abstinence for as long as 6 months (41%) compared to the "M" program (23%), and for 12 months …
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Saltine box full of dreams: one Mexican immigrant woman's journey to academic success
… to completion of the master's degree. Like many blue-collar workers, her parents provided "invisible" support that teachers often could not see: hard work, Catholic values, optimism, and determination. Offering both emic and etic perspectives of life in the orchard communities, the author gives …
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Padmaker
… a family of "padmakers" (road builders). These blue-collar workers built and maintained South Africa's roads in the years between 1951 and 1980 and lived transient lives, moving from town to town, unsettling their families. The author, being the child of one such a family, researched the craft …
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Telecommuting in the developing world: a case of the day-labour market
… a great deal of travelling in search of jobs by workers and a search for workers by employers. These travels place heavy economic pressure on the day-labourers, hence reducing their net earnings while they struggle with extreme poverty. The first objective of our study was to find out how and …
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Examining the predictors of co-worker attitude towards support for breastfeeding at work in clothing factories in Cape Town
… This study examined the relationships between coworkers' attitude towards support for breastfeeding at work and three possible predictors, (1) their perceptions of family supportive supervisor behaviours (FSSB) in the factory, (2) their personal breastfeeding experience and (3) their perceptions …
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