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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"white-collar workers"”.
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Reskilling white-collar workers : what's in it for firms?
Increasing rates of skill obsolescence amongst white-collar workers resulting from rapid technological and organizational shifts within firms, coupled with an insufficient supply of workers proficient in technical areas such as software engineering and data science, has meant that firms are …
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Heart rate variability and neurocognitive performance in blue- and white-collar workers: Implications for cardiac risks
… 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 experimental …
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Organizational Culture, Class Values, and Subordination at Work
… 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 culture, …
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The Influence of Contextual Aspects on New Zealand Muslim Males' Environmentally Ethical Behaviour
… to perform EEB. Compared to the economic aspect, white collar workers, number of household occupant, work involvement with the environment, type of house, and age had a weaker statistically significant relationship with EEB. The relationships were positive, meaning that the better the consumers' …
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ADAPTING THE OFFICE WORK CHAIR TO ACCOMMODATE PRODUCTIVE NAPPING
… for opportunities to increase productivity among white-collar workers. The process of design development has been developed based on a human-centered approach, beginning from a general context to a more specific context. With the main consideration of interaction occurring between human needs and …
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Collective action and changes in wage labor
… of capital, and growth in the ranks of white-collar workers are not supported with data on manufacturing industries in the post-war era. Moreover, this study introduced collective action as an important determinant for explaining changes in the labor process and in the distribution of …
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How post-pandemic public transit journeys can inform employers’ return to office strategies in Boston, MA and Washington, DC
… previous research on work-from-home trends among white-collar workers, leading to the central question of how employers in dense urban areas can manage a return to the office amidst fluctuating public transit service levels and changes in job accessibility. To address this question, the research …
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Stylistic change in men's business suits related to changes in the masculine roles in the United States, 1950-1988
… for business and professional men often called "white collar workers." The suits are a social product given to change as collective tastes are manifest over time. The masculine role, a set of behavioral expectations dictated by consensus, is also a social product given to change over time. This …
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Development of industry-based strategies for motivating seat-belt usage among blue-collar workers
Research 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 …
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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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A survey of landowner attitudes toward posting and fee hunting and fishing on private land in Southwest Virginia
… use of their land, often farming or leasing; are white-collar workers; and have high incomes, often greater than $15,000. Concerning fee hunting and fishing, the traditional view of open and free hunting and fishing prevails among the majority of private landowners; 9 of 495 are currently …
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Psychological capital and work engagement : an investigation into the mediating effect of mindfulness
… variable. A descriptive cross-sectional study of white-collar workers was conducted in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A survey was distributed to a sample of 203 participants, of which 52% were female and 47% were male. Consistent with previous research, the current study found that psychological …
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The Growth of Trade Unionism in the London clearing banks, 1960-1970:a sociological interpretation
… 1960 and 1970. In Chapter One the growth of white collar occupations and white collar trade unionism in the British economy is briefly characterised. After a review of the literature on the determinants of white collar unionisation in Chapter Two and a discussion of the nature and history of …
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Mapping trends: patterns of employment trajectories in the United States, 1967-2005.
… previously under-studied social groups such as workers in the secondary labor market, blue-collar occupations, and those outside big firms, were compared by optimal matching analysis and cluster analysis. Accounting for gender, age period, and birth cohort, the distance of Americans’ career …
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Kōda Rohan and the golden era of Sōgō Zasshi
… population of college-educated intellectuals and white-collar workers (“salaryman”). Through their huge commercial success, they also replaced college-based literary magazines as the authority of literature, placing writers and literary works in the emerging mass economy. While on the surface …
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Proportionate income differentials: a long walk to social justice. A case study on the Entgeltrahmenabkommen (ERA) Baden-Wuerttemberg, a general agreement on pay grades, that seeks to achieve pay equity in this region of the German metal and electrical industry and a critical evaluation of how this model can assist in the implementation of section 27 of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) of South Africa
… skilled work performed predominantly by white employees was artificially overvalued, while unskilled work performed predominantly by black employees was systematically undervalued. These discriminatory social and legal norms laid the foundation for the existent disproportionate income …
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An Inconvenient Coalition: Climate Change and Democratic Party Elite Discourse on Class, 1988-2008
… college-educated and non-college educated workers that have shaped American politics since the 1970s. I focus on how Democratic interest in environmentalism changed as a 'professional-managerial-class' or 'new class' supplanted unionized, industrial workers as the primary social base of the …
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Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers
… places of work and places of residence for the workers of the South east, and overcoming this disconnection is challenged further by an inefficient and expensive public transport service, upon which they are fully dependent. By way of the interviews with businesses from various industrial areas …
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Young today-adult tomorrow! Studies on physical status, physical activity, attitudes, and self-perception in children and adolescents
… for occupations such as industrial and building workers, mechanics, assistant nurses and hairdressers, all of which are occupations involving physical effort, had lower physical capacity than students in theoretical education among both boys and girls. A correlation was found between physical …
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An assessment of the representativeness of elected and appointed school board members in selected school districts in Virginia and Kentucky
… in both Virginia and Kentucky were found to be white collar workers, earning $15,000 or more in family income, college trained, white, male, working in the city or county of residence, between the ages of forty-five and fifty-nine, and born in their respective states.
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