Work Willingness of VHS Students at Post-Industrial Placement

Return to work: Toward post-industrial engineering

Industrial engineering was originally founded as a discipline that focused on the study and design of work. Yet, today the field has largely distanced itself from this early concern. This paper tracks the decline of work studies in industrial engineering and explores the question of why the discipline lost its concern for work and, ultimately, its ability to speak to the kinds of social and eco...

a comparative move analysis of the introduction sections of ma theses by iranian and native post-graduate students

since esp received universal attention to smooth the path for academic studies and productions, a great deal of research and studies have been directed towards this area. swales’ (1990) model of ra introduction move analysis has served a pioneering role of guiding many relevant studies and has proven to be productive in terms of helpful guidelines that are the outcome of voluminous productions ...

The Role of IT in the Transformation of Work: A Comparison of Post-Industrial, Industrial, and Proto-Industrial Organization

Placement Work Experience May Mitigate Lower Achievement Levels of Black and Asian vs. White Students at University

Ethnic minority groups have been shown to obtain poorer final year degree outcomes than their majority group counterparts in countries including the United States, the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. Obtaining a lower degree classification may limit future employment prospects of graduates as well as opportunities for higher level study. To further investigate this achievement gap, we analy...

The Changing Structure and Contents of the Employer’s Legal Responsibility for Health and Safety at Work in Post-Industrial Systems**

This paper aims to outline the main changes in the nature of the employer’s legal responsibility for health and safety at work in the transition from industrial to the post-industrial systems, with an extension of the area of application of health and safety protection beyond the boundaries of salaried employment. It is argued that in post-industrial systems the productivity gap between one emp...