Employee status and collectivism : a study of managerial and professional trade unionism
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This research examines the managerial and professional status of members of three case-study unions: Nautilus International, Prospect and the Transport and Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA). It considers the extent to which members' behaviour in these unions constitutes a shift away from the individual and towards the collective. Where these memb...
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To meet the renewable targets set by the government's renewables portfolio, an increasing penetration of distributed generation, mainly wind energy conversion systems, is expected to connect to the UK power system networks. Since a significant proportion of these generators will connect to distribution networks, it is important for the network owne...
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Cette recherche porte sur la genèse et l évolution des Troubles Musculo-Squelettiques (TMS) dans un établissement de l industrie aéronautique. Nous proposons une formalisation de nos résultats regardés par le prisme 1. des régulations construites par les compagnons, 2. des phénomènes d usure, et 3. des processus de mise à l abri des compagnons lour...
Enterprise is moving towards business-IT fusion where the business value of its IT resources is maximised while maintaining acceptable cost effectiveness. To achieve such fusion, the enterprises are forced to assess the state of its current business and IT landscape at the operational level due to the increased complexity in business requirements a...
Issues as to the suitability of executive compensation packages have obtained an ever increasing profile in recent years. Whilst there has been quite extensive empirical investigation of pay-performance sensitivity, the framework of performance-pay has received less attention in the literature and examination to date. Besides this - whilst there ha...
The everything as a service concept enables dynamic resource provisions to be seen and delivered as services. Their proliferation nowadays leads to the creation of new value-added services composed of several sub-services in a pre-specified manner, known as service workflows. The use of service workflow appears in various domains, ranging from the ...