100-word Abstract. This paper examines roles of mandated Employee Participation Rights (EPRs), such as works council legislation, in corporate governance. Links between employment and corporate relationships are stressed. Market failure arguments are developed, predicting that EPRs, and the interaction between EPRs and investments in skills, can positively impact productivity; preliminary evide...

Present approaches utilizing awareness of context specialize on their unique domain of employment. Although similarities between those approaches exist, the concepts and systems utilized in this context are vastly heterogeneous. Our goal is the abstraction of the current situation in contextaware computing and the development of generalized concepts for approaching the development of contextawa...

the present research aims to study the relationship between cultural, social and economic factors conducted by imam khomeini relief committee and poverty alleviation among divorced women and widows. to do so, divorced women and widows from aleshtar city were chosen as the statistical society of the research. 120 subjects were randomly selected using clustering method. questionnaire was used to ...

AIMS The Study on Mental Health at Work (S-MGA) generates the first nationwide representative survey enabling the exploration of the relationship between working conditions, mental health and functioning. This paper describes the study design, sampling procedures and data collection, and presents a summary of the sample characteristics. METHODS S-MGA is a representative study of German employ...

A rapidly growing public policy concern facing the United States is whether future generations of retired Americans, particularly those in the "baby boom" generation, will have adequate retirement incomes. One reason is that Social Security's projected long-term financial shortfall could result in a reduction in the current-law benefit promises made to future generations of retirees. Another re...

Many governments world-wide are promoting longer working life due to the social and economic repercussions of demographic change. However, not all workers are equally able to extend their employment careers. Thus, while national policies raise the overall level of labour market participation, they might create new social and labour market inequalities. This paper explores how institutional diff...

This paper reports on the factors affecting occupational composition of Pakistani workers upon their return from Middle East employment locations as determined by using the 1986 ILO/ARTEP Survey of Return Migrant Households. Three issues related to post-migration occupation change of return migrants were explored: 1) the comparison of occupational composition in the pre-migration phase with th...

Purpose. We report on the quality of life following treatment for a malignant primary bone tumour around the knee in skeletally immature children.Patients. Patients (n = 41; mean age = 18 years; range 8-28) had all experienced chemotherapy in a neo-adjuvant setting, surgical excision of the tumour and endoprosthetic replacement.Methods. Interviews were conducted separately with the child and mo...

Propositional plans of all forms often display a certain level of concurrency which can be exploited by scheduling the plan. This reveals the earliest times at which each action can be applied whilst still achieving the goal and shortening the plan duration. However, the output of this scheduling process is simply a set of timestamped actions, losing implicit information present in the original...

literature review indicates that systemic agricultural human resource development (hrd) interventions are rarely carried out in developing countries, and limited knowledge exists about how successful they have been. a comparative study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of three multi-project hrd interventions including extension plans, adaptation plans and diffusion-push plans in...