Employees as Individually and Collectively Acting Subjects—Key Contributions from Nordic Working Life Research

The quality of working life among employees

Human resources play a crucial role in the evolution of the organizations, and huge organizational developments caused by unlimited intellectual capacity of human resources. Therefore, of the priorities of any organization is to preserve these valuable resources. In this regard, an appropriate alternative is to improve the quality of work life in organizations. To this aim, the quality of work ...

Nordic Working Papers

Quality of Working Life of BPO employees: Literature Review

QWL is short form of Quality of Working Life, Quality means ‘what something is like or how good or bad something is. BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) is the assignment of responsibility of one or more IT-Enabled Services to a service provider that in turn owns, administers and manages the selected process based on defined and measurable performance criteria. BPO is one of the quick growing se...

Intelligent Agents Acting as Artificial Employees in an Electronic Market

This paper describes an agent-based electronic market system whose underlying communication and cooperation protocols establish an artificial environment with advanced features. Using the system, actors (i.e., customers and merchants) can delegate a variety of tasks to personal software agents that act as their artificial employees. Contrary to other approaches, where a new agent is launched wh...

All cyclophilins and FK506 binding proteins are, individually and collectively, dispensable for viability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

The cyclophilins and FK506 binding proteins (FKBPs) bind to cyclosporin A, FK506, and rapamycin and mediate their immunosuppressive and toxic effects, but the physiological functions of these proteins are largely unknown. Cyclophilins and FKBPs are ubiquitous and highly conserved enzymes that catalyze peptidyl-prolyl isomerization, a rate-limiting step during in vitro protein folding. We have a...