Ordinary Work Research Articles

Session Frequency or Working Model? An Investigation into How We Can Think of the Difference Between ‘Intensive’ and ‘Non‐Intensive’ Work Using the Comparative Clinical Method

ABSTRACTThis is an exploratory account of an applied clinical method, the Comparative Clinical Method, used to address a specific question: how can we best think of the difference between intensive and non‐intensive analytic work? Normally, it is session frequency that is taken as a determining difference, as a marker of a different approach or method being employed. In our investigation, which consisted of the three authors presenting examples of their clinical work to each other, we did not find the intensive and non‐intensive work of each author to demonstrate clear and easily defined differences in method or technique. Instead, we found more evidence of each author adopting a coherent and consistent approach, based on an underlying and implicit working model, across their intensive and non‐intensive work. We conclude from this that the differences between intensive and non‐intensive work are best explored by encouraging more conceptually rigorous and clinically specific descriptions of the different kinds of analytic assumptions and methods employed in ordinary analytic clinical work.

Attentive to learning? Supporting social workers’ monitoring of learning skills in children placed in foster care

BackgroundThere is a high and increasing awareness in the Nordic countries of the disadvantaged educational positions of children placed in out-of-home care. Accompanied by a political quest for solutions, this has had an impact on social workers’ responsibilities, widening their primary focus on wellbeing to include learning. However, social workers in Denmark do not have a strong tradition of monitoring learning for children placed in out-of-home care, nor are they trained in methods of assessing educational performance. ObjectiveIn this article we evaluate the practical use of an academic screening tool introduced as part of social workers’ routine follow-up of children placed in foster care, examining the extent to which the screening is beneficial for their task of monitoring learning. As part of this we evaluate what the screening tool tells us about the children’s academic challenges and to what extent the screening seems to impact subsequent choice of action. MethodThe combined use of screening for wellbeing and learning was tested in a large feasibility study involving 72 social workers in eight Danish municipalities. To evaluate the use of screening in routine follow-ups we gathered quantitative data on screening results and actions taken after follow-up meetings, conducted semi structured interviews with social workers and foster families, and observed social workers’ meetings. Mixed-method analysis from a pragmatic perspective followed and shed light on the implications of screening for social work practice while mirroring the findings in Dewey’s concept of intelligent action. ResultsChildren in foster care are a group at high risk of falling behind in learning and academic skills. Consequently, a tool is required that stimulates action, and screening for learning is valued for its usefulness in that respect by the foster parents and social workers in our study. Screening for learning makes children’s academic challenges a more explicit topic at school meetings, it supports a dialogue between foster parents and teachers on more equal terms as both parties have provided evaluation, and it tends to ‘push’ reluctant school systems as well as social workers to take action when a child is in need of further academic support. Many social workers in this study managed to integrate screening into their ordinary work, thereby making it a tool that supported them in turning their follow-up meetings into sessions characterizable as intelligent action.

Receptivity to the Weight and Heft of the Natural World in our Inner Selves.

Through the literary explorations and poetry of Alice Oswald, and through analysis of detailed clinical material from a Kleinian perspective, the authors expand the bounds of reverie as it is usually construed in psychoanalytic consulting rooms. The authors draw attention to the presence of a relationship to the more-than-human world as an integral aspect of our internal experience, and to the value of consideration of the quality and dynamic meaning of connections to the natural world in ordinary analytic work. The relationship to the primary object heavily influences the form taken by the relationship to the natural world, but once established, this connection has the possibility for a life of its own, that can provide a different kind of containment than the human variety, allow experimentation with new ways of being, and can strengthen the ego. The authors address the clinical implications of listening enhanced by an ear for affiliation to the natural world.

Hearing God’s call one more time: Retrieving calling in theology of work

Calling is a very important concept in Christianity. In the medieval era, calling was restricted to ecclesiastical work alone, a devotion to the life of contemplation. Ordinary work or physical labour was not considered qualified to be a calling. Martin Luther was the one who taught that the ordinary work of the ordinary people was also God’s calling and equally spiritual as the ecclesiastical work. However, Miroslav Volf, a Croatian theologian, criticised Luther that his view of calling was too static and irrelevant to the modern context where people often choose to quit a job because of its negative effects and some people have to do multiple jobs in order to make ends meet. While recognising the validity of Volf’s critique, this article seeks to demonstrate that even in the modern context, calling is still a very important theological concept to reflect upon work. Luther’s vocational view of work could be retrieved in discussing the theology of work by putting it in dialogue with Calvin, Kuyper, and other theologians.Contribution: This article seeks to show that the concept of calling is indispensable in constructing a sound theology of work for the modern context. By understanding work as calling, Christian workers are enabled to see how they are participating in God’s redemptive work through their jobs.

여성 조력전문가의 괜찮은 일과 일의 의미에 대한 잠재프로파일 분류 및 영향요인 검증

Based on the Psychology of Work Theory (PWT), this study aimed to investigate the influenceof personal and contextual factors on subgroup categorization based on experiences of decentwork and work meaning among 345 female helping professionals. The primary researchfindings are as follows: First, latent profile analysis identified four groups regarding decent workand work meaning, categorized as ‘not decent but meaningful work’, ‘decent and meaningfulwork’, ‘ordinary work’, and ‘not decent and meaningless work’. Second, personal and contextualfactors significantly affected the predictive elements of the latent profiles, displaying variedimpacts across these groups. It holds significance in providing an overall examination of theworkplace, particularly in elucidating practical recommendations for fostering more decent andmeaningful work.

Validated First-Order Derivative Ultraviolet Spectrophotometric Determination of Rebamipide in Pharmaceutical Products

A very simple, accurate, precise, and reproducible process has been established for the estimation of rebamipide in pharmaceuticals. The literature review suggested that no UV method for quantitative estimation of first-order derivative for the rebamipide, accordingly a method has been developed and reported. As per the need for design a novel approach to analyze the drug utilizing dimethyl formamide as a solvent was identified. Rebamipide has absorbance maxima for first order derivative 314 nm. Rebamipide drug follows Beer’s law in a range of concentration between 20 to 200 μg/mL. The recovery studies verified the proposed method’s accuracy and findings were validated in accordance with ICH recommendations. The findings were deemed to be reliable and satisfactory. As a result, the suggested method can be used to quantitatively estimate Rebamipide in ordinary analysis work

Rejecting Innovation: How Italian Public Employees are Killing Creativity and Digitalisation

Within the general context of new ideas generation, there is a grey area that still concerns the organizational design solutions related to creativity. In fact, if personal characteristics and other community-related issues have been quite explored, some organizational mechanisms still need to be deepened. In this paper, we aim to investigate the impact of professional networks on Innovative Work Behaviour in the local government to achieve public value. We investigate the contribution of creativity in the digitalization of Italian public administration considering the contribution of public employees to developing knowledge management. Moreover, we investigate a community of 190 employees of municipalities divided into three macro categories: deputy employees, Managers and Senior Managers. An OSL regression model has been used to understand to what extent the degree of collaboration and advice among employees and their propensity to adopt digitalization in ordinary practice considering social capital variables. What emerges from the OLS regression is that despite accelerating the ordinary work using the leverage of digitalization and knowledge management, there is the custom of not applying the enormous benefit of process re-engineering and continuing their work attitude in what the economic literature defines as “the comfort zone”. The results consolidate the current literature about the creation of public value showing the resilience of public employees to change their state of mind reflecting any kind of innovation.

Work-related Trauma: Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Stress, and Emotional Labor Climate

Work-related Trauma: Ordinary Work, Extraordinary Stress, and Emotional Labor Climate

Bureaucratic policy work and analytical capacities in central administrations in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain: The results of a comparative survey

Policy analytical capacity is a pivotal source of good governance. Although this capacity can be acquired by decision makers in various ways, it is clear that the internal stock of analytical capacity is strategic in terms of supporting policymaking. This stock can be concentrated in specific types of organisational roles (like policy professionals), but it can also be considered a constitutive component of ordinary bureaucratic work. This paper adopts this latter perspective to analyse the characteristics in terms of policy work and analytical capacities of high-level bureaucrats of the central administrations of the Old Southern Four: Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The data were collected through a large online survey involving more than 1000 high civil servants. The empirical evidence offered shows the high differentiation in terms of policy work and analytical capacities that characterise the four analysed central bureaucracies and confirms that, despite the expected similarities among the four countries, differences are striking and concern almost all dimensions of analysis. Moreover, Spain has a higher stock of policy analytical capacities. Thus, adopting a policy work perspective can be a fruitful lens for analysing whether and how administrative reforms are capable of penetrating the micro dimensions of administrative behaviour. Points for practitioners The paper offers the first comparative analysis of the policy work and the analytical capacities of the central administration in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The results show that, despite the many similarities among the four countries, there are significant differences in terms of ways of working and the held analytical capacities of the high level servants. The offered data show a specific map of policy analytical skills that can be used as a point of departure for designing improvements in high civil servants’ training.

Optimizing Project Performance by Applying the Crashing Method to Road Construction Project

In the implementation of projects, various obstacles are often encountered which cause delays which have an impact not only on the duration of implementation but also on the costs incurred. These constraints can be in the form of a lack of resources, weather factors to social factors. Thus, it is necessary to accelerate and optimize what can be done to overcome the delay. As well as efficient resource management. One of the acceleration methods that can be used is the Crashing method. One of them is the application of the crashing method to the Ringinrejo - BTS road construction project. Regency. Malang STA 2+350 – 6+300 which experienced delays in its implementation. After analyzing the remaining work, the duration of the remaining work was 273 days or completed on December 31, 2022. In the initial planning, the project was scheduled for completion on October 3, 2022, so based on this, the project experienced a delay of 89 days. The total minimum fee that must be incurred is IDR 1,524,960.00 with an additional fee of IDR 21,180,000.00 per day. Daily productivity for ordinary excavation works, which was originally 303.20 m³/hour, increased to 909.59 m³/hour. For daily productivity on ordinary embankment work which was originally 371.92 m³/hour to 743.84 m³/hour and productivity on road construction work which was originally 330.91 m³/hour to 661.81 m³/hour. After the acceleration using the crashing analyzing method on existing critical paths, it is known that the duration of project implementation which was originally 273 days became 184 days by adding the number of heavy equipment. with an additional fee of IDR 1,524,960,000

Wooden spoons and “pulling the mom card”: A critical discourse-historical analysis of an interview with a social worker

Despite increasing acknowledgement within and beyond the social work profession of our role in enacting violence against people we claim to care for and serve, discursive strategies that rationalize and naturalize violence are endemic within social work discourse. In this article, I use critical discourse-historical analysis to examine one interview I conducted with a practicing social worker in Alberta, Canada. Grounded in an intersectional critical approach to inquiry, I elucidate how rationalization strategies for professional violence emerge in ordinary social work talk and situate one social worker’s description of her practice within a historical context of the fabrication of social work in Canada. I focus on this social worker’s reports of threatening clients with a “virtual wooden spoon” to identify linguistic and discursive patterns at play and their semiotic significance as means to rationalize and normalize professional power and control. I specifically situate the analysis within the context of social work as a story of racist, classist, and ableist violence often committed by morally exalted, wealthy, white women. I conclude by reflecting on the importance of examining discursive strategies to rationalize, dismiss or diminish violence in our everyday social work talk.

Dampak Tari Budaya Gayo Tari Saman dalam Tradisi Islam di Desa Titi Pasir Kecamatan Semadam Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara

This research examines the cultural impact of the Gayo saman dance on the Islamic tradition in Titi Village. This type of research is field research (research in the field) which is a research carried out by collecting data by research at locations where there are symptoms that will be examined to find facts found in society. The results of this study are that the Saman Gayo dance choreography is not an ordinary dance work, but Saman is a dance that contains basic Islamic concepts symbolized through rhythm, movement, poetry, floor patterns, clothing, stages of performance, purpose of offerings. From the choreography produced, it can be seen that the Saman Dance is a symbol of the Gayo tribe in carrying out Islamic law in their daily lives, so that the Saman Dance is synonymous with Islam and in accordance with the customary system in Acehnese society, namely "adat with syaraad, syaraq with Kitabullah". This statement becomes clear by looking at the performance of the Saman dance itself, which was originally an activity of the Gayo people in taking advantage of the time between their breaks by playing a game which was later called pok ane. This game later became a medium for spreading the teachings of Islam, especially in the Gayo Lues highlands. The lyrics mean advice, religious advice, rules that guide life, and so on. This dance is a symbol of brotherhood, education, religion, courtesy, heroism, cohesiveness, and togetherness. Through the Saman dance, the community is taught to behave according to politeness in Islam which is also in accordance with the customs that apply to the Gayo tribe.

The structure and dynamics of instrument collaboration networks

Complex scientific questions often require collaboration between scientists to access scientific instruments (deS. Price, Res Policy 13:3–20, 1984; Shrum et al. 2007, Structures of scientific collaboration, The MIT Press, 2007), knowledge and social capital from scientists outside of their immediate networks (Burt, Am J Sociol 110:349–399, 2004; Collins, Tacit and explicit knowledge, University of Chicago Press, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo8461024.html, 2012; Granovetter, Am J Sociol 78:1360–1380, 1973; Polanyi, Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy (Repr. (with corr.)). Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962). Synchrotron radiation facilities are a unique case to explore this type of collaboration, as external scientists going to the facility to do their ordinary research work are common. These external users use complex scientific instrumentation that could require the additional accumulated knowledge of internal scientists and staff more familiar with the technical and social aspects of the instruments. These collaborations sometimes result in a co-authored publication with internal staff, employed in these facilities. However, this is not always the case. Data from the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) shows that most often, external scientists do not include internal staff in the co-author fields of the subsequent publication from scientific work done in one (or more) instruments in these facilities. Instrument collaboration networks are constructed and analysed over the period 2000–2018 for the different scientific instruments within the facility. A strong relationship between the level of external collaboration and the structure of the networks is found and explored. The results provide further insight into factors that shape collaboration and knowledge transfer, also relevant to policy makers and facility managers seeking to promote these activities.

Eitt sindur um tuberklasmittuna

This paper is part of a treatise dealing with the clinical features of primary tuberculous infection, and the purpose of the present work is to contribute to the clinic of primary tuberculosis. Some literature about the theme is surveyed. The material used has been collected at the Tuberculosis Station of the Faroe Islands at Hoydal during the author's time of service there from 1939 to 1947. An account is given of the working plan of this tuberculosis station, where besides ordinary station work special attention is paid to the tuberculin register. The tuberculin reaction used has been Pirquet 's test. The material comprises a total of 430 cases of initial fever. The fever curve for adults was typically continual, while with children it vas irregular; the duration of the fever was similar for children and adults, generally 2 or 3 weeks; in l/4 of the cases it lasted more than one month. Maximum temperature generally about 39 degrees C might, however, be higher, especially with children. The duration and height of the fever had no prognostic significance. Slow pulse was a constant symptom witli adults, but was seldom noticed with children. This relative bradycardiagenerally lasted till the middle of ihe fever period. Krythema nodosum was a frequent symptom ot' initial fever and occurred 76 times among the 430 cases of initial fever. Sedimentation rate practically always increased, as a rule moderately, and decreased as the fever fell, but more slowly. X-rays examinations have been made during initial fever in 146 cases. X-rays changes were stated in all the children and in more than % of the adults. The changes stated were chifly enlarged hilar shadows, some had also infiltrations. Rather more than *4 had subjective symptoms, a number which is undoubtedly too low. The most frequent symptoms where retrosternal pain and soreness of the lower end of sternum, a stitch in the side, and pain between the shoulderblades. The mentioned symptoms must be supposed to bi' caused by tlie pathologic anatomic changes.

Edukacja zdalna w przedszkolu w czasie pandemii w percepcji nauczycielek

The subject of this interpretative research is knowledge about the planning, organisation and implementation of remote kindergarten education by kindergarten teachers of the Lubusz and Lower Silesian voivodeships using non-standardised interviews. The need for a sudden transition to remote education highlighted not only shortcomings in institutions preparing online classes, but also the low digital competences of kindergarten teachers, as well as children and their parents. The school managements did not present a position, but simply had talks with the teachers about how to implement remote preschool education. Teachers described how their remote work evolved, from simple transfer of materials, through texts read, experiments, theatres, or films. They pointed out the lack of ability to work remotely, spending more time (than in ordinary work) at the expense of their private life. For teachers, the problem was also the lack of interaction with children. Some of the parents even disregarded cooperation with the teacher at the expense of their children. Generally speaking, teachers had a negative attitude towards remote preschool education.

Plastic Culture: an Approach to the Study and the Main Characteristics

The author discusses the phenomenon of plastic culture and art. An expanded understanding of body movement is proposed, including gestures, poses, facial expressions, expression, the involvement of the artist and the viewer in external social rhythms and in music, internal movements and rhythms of the soul. All these movements are organized within the framework of plastic culture, although they exist by themselves, they have different sources of formation and areas of functioning. The immersion of a person into an aesthetic, more broadly artistic culture that has permeated, since antiquity, even the ordinary life of a person, not to mention specialization in a particular kind of art, triggers the process of organizing human movements and rhythms. The author identifies two factors that significantly determine this organization: the conditions and requirements of the sphere of art and the artistic language, understood extremely broadly. He characterizes the sphere of art with the features of publicity, differences from ordinary life and work, art opens an outlet to another, usually attractive, reality (to gods, beauty, ideals, to another world), sets a special type of communication. Describing the artistic language, the author points out that meaningful constructions of this language perform a different task than ordinary signs: they do not set unambiguous denotations, but should introduce into artistic reality and help the viewer to construct events in this reality. On the basis of these provisions, an analysis of the formation of dance is proposed and a characteristic of plastic art and culture is given.

The Utilization of Magnetized Water for the Improvement of Crude Oil Quality

The crude oil binds from the oil fields to the refinery with water. This water contains dissolved salts, mostly chloride salts (CaCl2, NaCl, MgCl2), which are one of the components of the water emulsion in crude oil leading to the contamination of the crude oil. This pollution has a serious negative impact on the refinery units if left untreated, causing many Problems such as (corrosion, sedimentation, blockage of exchanger tubes and furnaces, and other problems). As a result, it is necessary to treat the crude oil salts and remove the effect of the salts by desalinating the oil at different stages during production at the wells and then in the refinery unit. Desalination is the main equipment used in the process of washing crude oil from salts using ordinary freshwater This work aims to use magnetized water as a substitute for normal water in the stage of washing crude oil salts by installing a water magnetization device with strength of (4500) gauss, at the site of the washing water injection line before the mixing valve at the desalination remover. The results showed that the magnetized water increased the efficiency and energy of the water used, reduced the deposition of salts and corrosion in the tubes of the distillation unit, as well as helped to crack the salt ions and transform its molecules into smaller particles and reduce their concentration in the crude oil.

Transition back to work after mild TBI: A qualitative study

Background While many persons who sustain a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) can resume work shortly after their injury, some experience persisting symptoms leading to longer-term sickness absence. In-depth knowledge about how these persons experience the return to work (RTW) process is needed. Aims To explore how persons with MTBI experience the process of returning to ordinary competitive work after a prolonged period of sickness absence. Material and methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six persons (four women) approximately 12 months after sustaining an MTBI. Data were analysed using a stepwise-deductive inductive method. Results When starting work the participants experienced a crisis. They described the importance of making the actual decision to RTW. Being present at the workplace was significant. In the process of increased workload, they expressed having challenges related to time perception and capacity restrictions. The importance of being seen and valued was emphasised. When reintegrated into the workplace revaluing work tasks and priorities shaped the RTW process as well as a further professional career. Conclusions and significance The process of RTW contained the experience of unpredictability and incompatibility with own identity and performance. Working had an impact on social participation, self-worth, daily structure, as well as reconstructing occupational biography.

What is liberal about Adam Smith's “liberal plan”?

AbstractBy the middle of the eighteenth century the word “liberal” had had multiple non‐political meanings. Adam Smith famously advances “the liberal plan” of political economy. InThe Wealth of Nationshe indicates several ways that his liberal plan is “liberal” in a non‐political sense. The liberal plan leads to economic growth, which leads to a rise in real wages and population through an extending division of labor. The liberal plan facilitates market integration, leading toward a distribution of food supplies that could be called liberal and generous if it was brought about by design of a distributor. The liberal plan entails a generous view of the person that dignifies the mundane and elevates ordinary work. Considering ways that Smith's liberal plan is “liberal” shines light on the soul of classical liberal political economy.

POLICING FORENSIC EVIDENCE

POLICING FORENSIC EVIDENCE