Making judgements about students making work: Lecturers’ assessment practices in art and design

Discriminating Citizens: Making Judgements About Science

A Supply - Scarcity and Strategic Decision-Making Angle: High Performance Work Practices in Small Firms

High performance work practices (HPWPs) are human resource management practices aimed at stimulating employee and organisational performance. The application of HPWPs is not widespread in small organisations. We examine whether the implementation of coherent bundles of HPWPs (aimed at employee ability, employee motivation or at the opportunity to perform) depends on the scarcity of resources, a...

Data Diagnosis: Making DQ Assessment Work

Executive Summary/Abstract: Data Diagnosis a practical “RAD” approach to data quality from several years working with tricky telecommunications data. The lessons learned are applicable across any data in any sector. This presentation shares how these tactics can address gaps in data knowledge, ensure early wins, at the same time underpinning a “TQM” approach to data quality across an organizati...

Making design work Sustainability, Product Design and Social Equity

This paper discusses the relationship between the product designer, sustainability and the creation of good quality work within the manufacturing sector. When the principles of sustainability are applied to the nature of employment it points to a new direction for design and product production where ethics, environmental issues and social wellbeing become far more important criteria for ‘succes...

Should GPs avoid making ethical judgements?

We were aware that publications in the clinical ethics literature suggested that conscience and compassion were problematic concepts in health care for clinicians.1,2 While these address compassion and conscience, they are possibly interpreted as clinicians ought not to make ethical judgements, or enact human values beyond those strictly stipulated by the job. Personal conscience (at least with...