Making rotational field placements work

Integrating Coursework and Field Placements:

Making short-term international medical volunteer placements work: a qualitative study.

BACKGROUND International medical volunteering has grown in recent decades. It has the potential to benefit and harm the volunteer and host countries; but there is a paucity of literature on the impacts of international medical volunteering and a need to find ways to optimise the benefits of such placements. AIM In this study, one example of international medical volunteering was examined invo...

Reflective Decision-Making and Foster Care Placements

Making Online Work, Work

Releasing the potential of online collaborative technologies in distributed work contexts is still a challenge for work systems managers. The availability of the technologies has outrun proven business models that can maximise the extraction of business value. Key problem areas remain in the management of online human interaction, control of business objectives within the medium, and risk manag...

Making Work

This provocative statement by David Wellman, a sociologist of labor, can be read as a kind of challenge to work researchers. The sense in which it rings true is particularly remarkable given the large and growing body of literature dedicated to work-flow modeling, business process reengineering, and other methods aimed at representing work in the service of transforming it. At the same time tha...