Consciousness Of Workers Research Articles

안전보건관리담당자의 안전리더십이 근로자의 안전의식과 안전행동에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

The purpose of this study is to activate the “Safety & Health Manager Assignment System”―a system that small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in manufacturing industry with 20-49 employees is required to have safety and health manager for workers’ safety and health―through a research on whether a medium is provided between safety consciousness and safety behavior.
 The research was conducted to have suggestions for improving safety consciousness and safety behavior of workers in SMEs by promoting awareness and acknowledging importance on the safety leadership, safety consciousness and safety behavior. In line with that, actual proof analysis was conducted about this.
 A research model and hypothesis were proposed and verification was carried out to achieve the purpose of the study. Looking at the proposed research model, safety leadership of the safety and health manager directly affects the safety consciousness and safety behavior of workers. Safety consciousness is used as a parameter in this process.
 In August 2021, a survey was conducted targeting 350 safety and health managers and workers in the manufacturing industry in Busan and Gyeongnam. Among them, 334 questionnaires excluding insincere responses were empirically verified. Using SPSS 24.0, basic statistical analysis, validity and reliability verification, and correlation were conducted. The analysis results are as follows: First, the safety leadership of the safety and health manager had a positive (+) impact on the safety consciousness of workers. Second, the safety leadership of the safety and health manager had a positive (+) impact on the safety behavior of workers. Third, it was confirmed that the safety consciousness of small and medium-sized workplace workers had a positive (+) impact on safety behavior. Fourth, the safety leadership of the safety and health manager directly affects the safety behavior and consciousness of workers, at the same time, the safety consciousness of workers indirectly affects the safety behavior of workers in return.
 In conclusion, the findings could confirm that safety leadership of safety and health manager is important in influencing workers' safety consciousness and safety behavior. The safety Leadership of safety and health manager directly affects the safety behavior and consciousness of workers, and the safety consciousness of workers indirectly affects the safety behavior.

The Role of Innovation Management in Organizational Trust and Work Consciousness of English Language School Teachers in Iran

The present research study aimed to investigate the role of innovation management in organizational trust and work consciousness of English language school teachers in Iran, Karaj city. This research was a descriptive-correlational study. To estimate the size of the statistical sample, Krejcie & Morgan's (1970) table was used. There were 122 male and 104 female participants in the current study. To collect data, the Innovation Management (IM) (Moghimi & Ramadan, 2011), Organizational Trust (OT) (Shafiee, 2011), and Work Consciousness (WC) (Costa & McCrae, 1992) questionnaires were used. The results showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between innovation management organizational trust and the work consciousness of the teachers. Besides, there was no significant difference between males' and females’ innovation management and organizational trust status in terms of gender while a significant difference was found in terms of females’ work consciousness. However, no significant difference was found between single and married teachers’ innovation management, organizational trust, and work consciousness. Furthermore, there was a significant difference in teachers’ innovation management in terms of their academic degree while there was no significant difference between teachers’ organizational trust and work consciousness. Likewise, no significant difference was found between teachers’ innovation management and organizational trust in terms of their work experience, whereas there was a significant difference between teachers’ work consciousness in terms of their work experiences.

HAK-IS: FROM A CLASS TO A TRADE UNION

In late industrialized countries, the principles of social differentiation have tended to be projected in divisions in trade unions. Trade unions in Turkey have been largely affected by the dynamics of the modernization adventure and the unique aspects of industrialization and proletarianization. In this process, divisions in trade unions have overlapped with social cleavages. The present study addresses the establishment and growth of the Turkish Confederation of Hak Isci Trade Unions (Turkiye Hak Isci Sendikalari Konfederasyonu; Hak-Is) relying on class differentiations. While the formation of the social structure underlying the idea of Hak-Is is discussed within the Bourdieuan theory of class, its establishment and organization processes are scrutinized within proletarianization and the design and change of industrial organization. Thus, it may be claimed that the formation of the confederation has been initiated by the class-cultural divisions that dominate Turkey’s social sphere rather than the culture and identity-based organizations considered grounds for classlessness claims. The rise of Hak-Is is discussed in relation to union practices that are all compatible with the conditions dictated by the new industrial regime. Finally, the paper focuses on the confederation’s struggle practices in industrial relations and the class consciousness of workers adopting a religious identity. In this regard, it may be asserted workers develop alternative resistance strategies apart from their collective class identities.

The Labor Angle: Reflections on the History of the Working-Class and Radical Press

The Labor Angle: Reflections on the History of the Working-Class and Radical Press

Law, economy and legal consciousness at work

Building on earlier work, we state the case for an economic sociology of labour law which recognises and investigates the co-constitutive nature of law and the economy. Reviewing recent literature which shares this ambition, we argue that an important element of a co-constitutive theory of law and the economy is an understanding of the ‘legal consciousness’ of economic actors, meaning, in essence, their participation in the construction of legality or legalities, defined here as social structures which both enable and constrain actors. While a small number of studies have sought to understand the legal consciousness of workers, none that we are aware of has investigated the legal consciousness of human resource managers. This is a significant omission. Drawing on existing research in the field, we demonstrate the importance of human resource management (HRM) as a site where legalities can become bound up with other, especially market-focused and managerial, rationales, with significant consequences for compliance and enforcement. As a first step towards understanding the legal consciousness of human resource managers, we then situate HRM within a context of contradictory professional discourses and ideologies, and of processes of justification and legitimation of contemporary capitalism.

The responsibility for performing civil service of the local civil servants in Vietnam

The study was carried out by qualitative method through collecting secondary data, combined with quantitative method through surveying opinions of 450 managers of 250 representative commune-level government agencies for three regions of the country. Research results have confirmed: Attitude to serve the people (ASP) plays the most important role and has the strongest influence on the responsibilities for performing civil service of civil servants; Next is work responsibility (WR) and work consciousness (WC). From the results of this study, the author suggests some contents that need to be researched and adjusted for managers to improve the quality of local civil servants to meet the requirements of serving the people.

Settling in Motion as Consciousness: Nyasa (Malawian) Informal Transit Across Southern Rhodesia towards South Africa from the 1910s to the 1950s

ABSTRACT For some labourers who joined the colonial labour migration system, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) was not or did not become their final destination. Instead, they regarded the colony as a transit zone through which they clandestinely moved towards the more lucrative South African mines and farms. Not all succeeded in this quest. Those who did deployed numerous tactics ranging from engaging in contractual work within Southern Rhodesia to finance their southward mobility, work desertions, use of social networks, bribes, theft, forgery, and manipulation of the Rhodesian labour recruitment infrastructure. In essence, they ‘settled in motion’, as they systematically migrated either gradually or swiftly from Southern Rhodesia’s northern and eastern entry points towards the shores of the Limpopo River and the Bechuanaland (Botswana) border before eventually crossing into South Africa. The colonial archive includes trails of this internal and informal mobility of trans-Zambezian ‘alien natives’, mainly Nyasas (Malawians), between the 1910s and 1950s. The article, based mainly on this archival residue, casts light on the process of ‘settling in motion’ as a form of African worker consciousness through which industrious Nyasa labour migrants navigated the treacherous and restrictive colonial labour regimes in pursuit of better working conditions and prospects. It argues that in as much as Southern Rhodesia tried to monopolise northern labour for itself, this transient labour consciously viewed and exploited Rhodesia as a staging post for spatial mobility towards the promised land of South Africa. The article aims to contribute to the problematisation and condensation of the internal dynamics involved in this informal transit, and its contextualisation as part of the broader regional labour consciousness and how Nyasas meticulously executed it, as well as its potential contemporary parallels in southern Africa.

Crisis and organizing anti-capitalist consciousness in the aftermath of COVID-19

For leftists, the “COVID crisis” reveals and intensifies the conditions of exploitation and oppression under capitalism. Can a meaningful movement of workers and the oppressed arise, especially if a longer economic crisis unfolds? Making more visible or intense does not automatically translate into awakening. This essay examines the possibilities for substantial, sustained anti-capitalist organization, given the limits and complexities of worker consciousness. It points to a vicious circle: the absence of widespread anti-capitalist consciousness to populate substantial organizations; the absence of substantial organizations to help foster anti-capitalist consciousness. It suggests a way out via methods and strategies that are appropriate to the “COVID moment.”

A Study on the Worker's Consciousness of Settlement according to Innovative Cities

A Study on the Worker's Consciousness of Settlement according to Innovative Cities

Comparison Analysis of Worker Consciousness Levels at Construction Sites in Vietnam and Korea with a Particular Consideration of Safety Management of Construction

Comparison Analysis of Worker Consciousness Levels at Construction Sites in Vietnam and Korea with a Particular Consideration of Safety Management of Construction

Measuring of Worker Consciousness Levels at Construction Sites in Vietnam and Korea

Measuring of Worker Consciousness Levels at Construction Sites in Vietnam and Korea

Industrial Noise Pollution and Its Impact on the Hearing Capacity of Workers: A Case Study of Gujranwala City, Pakistan

The main purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the impacts of industrial noise pollution onhearing of workers in Gujranwala. Noise pollution levels were measured at fifty locations with the help of sound levelmeter, which was placed at a height above 1.2 meters from the ground. Two hundred workers were interviewed throughquestionnaire method. Different statistical tests correlation and chi-square were applied to analyze the noise pollutionlevel in Gujranwala city. Impacts of industrial noise pollution on hearing of workers were shown in different mapsusing interpolation and buffers. The present study concluded that noise pollution levels were exceeding the WHOpermissible limit of noise pollution at all sample locations. Workers of factories were suffering from annoyance,hypertension, irritation, interference with speech communication and sleep disturbance. Thus, it is necessary to possessa hearing discussion program in factories. One of its main parts is education to raise the consciousness of workers aboutnoise risks and techniques of prevention. Lastly, the issues of noise annoyance should be included in all future studieson the usage of hearing protection devices.

Industrial Noise Pollution and Its Impact on the Hearing Capacity of Workers: A Case Study of Gujranwala City, Pakistan

The main purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the impacts of industrial noise pollution onhearing of workers in Gujranwala. Noise pollution levels were measured at fifty locations with the help of sound levelmeter, which was placed at a height above 1.2 meters from the ground. Two hundred workers were interviewed throughquestionnaire method. Different statistical tests correlation and chi-square were applied to analyze the noise pollutionlevel in Gujranwala city. Impacts of industrial noise pollution on hearing of workers were shown in different mapsusing interpolation and buffers. The present study concluded that noise pollution levels were exceeding the WHOpermissible limit of noise pollution at all sample locations. Workers of factories were suffering from annoyance,hypertension, irritation, interference with speech communication and sleep disturbance. Thus, it is necessary to possessa hearing discussion program in factories. One of its main parts is education to raise the consciousness of workers aboutnoise risks and techniques of prevention. Lastly, the issues of noise annoyance should be included in all future studieson the usage of hearing protection devices.

Impact of building BYOD environment on consciousness of workers

Impact of building BYOD environment on consciousness of workers

Production meetings at the enterprises of the Soviet industry in the 1920s-30s in the studies of Soviet, Russian and foreign historians

The article analyses the results of the historical research activities of productive meetings at the enterprises of Soviet industry in the 1920s-30s. Analysis of the historiography has allowed the authors highlighting the trends and stages of work study meetings. In the fi rst phase in the second half of the 1920s, the research focuses on the forms and methods of organisation of workers' self-government and its role in the life of enterprises. Subsequently, in the 1930s, the production meetings are considered as an element of socialist competition. At the third stage, in the 1950s-70s, historians focused on the role of production meetings in the development of political consciousness of workers. In 1980s-90s, interest in the study of this topic is reduced. At the present stage, due to the intensifi cation of the study of history of the working movement, the topic of production meetings has again become topical. The authors identify the tasks of further study of the history of production meetings.

Análise crítica do modelo BPSO-96 de QVT a partir da teoria da atividade de A. N. Leontiev

Este artigo, fruto de uma dissertação de mestrado cuja metodologia adotada foi a pesquisa teórico-bibliográfica, discute criticamente o que se convencionou denominar como Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho (QVT), a partir da teoria da atividade de A. N. Leontiev, tendo como objeto específico de análise o modelo Biopsicossocial e Organizacional (BPSO-96) de QVT. Para isso, revisa o conceito e a história da QVT, bem como apresenta uma síntese das críticas a ela já apontadas por diversos autores. Na sequência, define e analisa o modelo BPSO-96. O intuito é contribuir com os estudos críticos da QVT, demonstrando que se trata de uma estratégia de gestão cujo objetivo velado é o aumento da produtividade do trabalhador, por meio de métodos que manipulam objetiva e subjetivamente os motivos da atividade de trabalho e obscurecem em sua consciência seu sentido alienado. Dessa forma, este artigo visa contribuir para o processo de tomada de consciência dos reais objetivos e consequências dos programas de QVT para a classe trabalhadora, mostrando que, apesar de seu discurso pseudo-humanista, esta estratégia de gestão atende prioritariamente aos interesses de maior produtividade da organização.

Strategi Dalam Meningkatkan Kesejahteraan Ekonomi Melalui Optimalisasi Pengelolaan Zakat Profesi Di BAZNAS Ponorogo

In the last few decades, the potential of zakat funds in Indonesia in recent years has reached 300 trillion. The Zakah of profession is one of the zakat funds collected in it. with the consciousness of workers and government employees allowing their salaries to be reduced to zakat. However, in the reality zakat funds collected from the Muslims have not been properly managed by the management of zakat. Evidently there are many socio-economic imbalances, low nutritional quality everywhere and prosperity is only enjoyed by certain groups of people only. This means that the manager has not had a good strategy in solving the problem of economic disparities among the surrounding Muslim community. Ttherefore by using a descriptive qualitative approach where the source data obtained through observation, interviews and documentation and the three data are analyzed inductively. Finally this article found three strategies that have been done by Baznas ponorogo to improving the welfare of society through zakat profession namely: first, by way of zakat publication. Second, the action in the management of zakat and third, the administration of zakat management.

A Study on the Safety Consciousness of Workers in Elderly Care Facility - Application of SHELL Model -

A Study on the Safety Consciousness of Workers in Elderly Care Facility - Application of SHELL Model -

The social organization of workplace mental health: local and translocal ruling relations

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to make visible the ways in which peoples’ experiences of mental ill health are coordinated and produced in the workplace setting.Design/methodology/approachThis institutional ethnography draws from data collected from 16 informants in one Canadian industrial manufacturing plant to explicate how texts organize activities and align worker consciousness and actions with company expectations of a “bona fide” illness.FindingsThe findings demonstrate how a “bona fide” illness is textually mediated by biomedical and physical work restrictions, thus creating a significant disjuncture between an experiential and ruling perspective of mental ill health.Research limitations/implicationsThe work of employees living with self-reported depression becomes organized locally and translocally around the discourse of “mental illness is an illness like any other.” This presents a profound disjuncture between the embodied experience of being too unwell to mentally perform work duties, and the textually coordinated practices of what it means to access sick time for a “bona fide illness” within a biomedical-based attendance management protocol.Originality/valueThe current study adds to the literature by shedding light on the disjuncture created between the embodied experience of mental health issues and the ruling perspective of what constitutes a bona fide illness, adding a unique focus on how people’s use of attendance management-related supports in the workplace.

Precarity’s Prospect: Contingent Control and Union Renewal in the Retail Sector

Precarity and deunionization have grown up (or down) together. Yet the focus of union renewal scholars on the forms and constituencies of organizing has neglected a holistic appraisal of their connection and the role of work itself. This article uses a focused examination of frontline retail to understand the links between deteriorating job quality, new modes of control and their effects on worker consciousness. Based on qualitative interviews with 75 workers at Macy’s and Target stores, I identify a paradigm of contingent control embodied in precarious employment, routinized tasks, “soft” management and a largely “secondary” workforce. This regime diminishes job identity and opposition but heightens workers’ solidarity, pointing toward a model of community-based industrial unionism that could serve as an organizational vehicle to reverse the growth of precarity.