Inherent constraints and creative possibilities: employee participation in Kenya

Employee Participation in Europe

The goal of this study was to identify the determinants of employee participation in organizations across Europe. Power distance, uncertainty avoidance, competition, unionisation, sector, organizational size and business strategy were all expected to influence amount of employee involvement. The hypothesised relationships were contrasted using data from the EPOC survey, a representative survey ...

Growth and Functional Development in 6 to 10 Years Old Soccer Players: Constraints and Possibilities

Sport and more specifically football is an important asset in youth lives. It is widely considered that biological maturity influences physical performance. Relationships between body size and performance are partly confounded by age. In fact, age is positively associated to strength and motor performance, even when height and weight are controlled. Studies on young footballer have been start...

Employee Participation and Productivity

This paper measures the productivity impact of shop-floor employee involvement. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the study finds that the introduction of team-work and autonomous work groups, and a reduction of hierarchies in 1996/97 significantly increased average establishment productivity in 1997 – 2000. The estimation strategy controls for unobserved invariant...

Teaching Creative Interface Design: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Interface design is an essential aspect of any interactive system and thus a core component of most Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) curricula. Teaching creative interface design is, however, a challenging task, as it involves both an understanding of HCI theory and practice. A trade-off exists between enforcing the use of standard design aids such as guidelines and patterns, or encouraging the...

Children’s participation in research: some possibilities and constraints in the current Australian research environment