Work, organisational practices, and margin of manoeuver during work reintegration

<p><b>Background:</b> Many individuals of working age experience cardiovascular disease and are disabled from work as a result. The majority of research in cardiac work disability has focused on individual biological and psychological factors influencing work disability despite evidence of the importance of social context in work disability. In this article, the focus is on work and organisational features influencing the leeway (margin of manoeuvre) workers are afforded during work reintegration.</p> <p><b>Methods:</b> A qualitative method was used. A large auto manufacturing plant was selected owing to work, organisational, and worker characteristics. Workplace context was assessed through site visits and meetings with stakeholders including occupational health, human resources and union personnel and a review of collective agreement provisions relating to seniority, benefits and accommodation. Worker experience was assessed using a series of in-depth interviews with workers (<i>n</i> = 12) returning to work at the plant following disabling cardiac illness. Data was analysed using qualitative content analysis.</p> <p><b>Results:</b> Workers demonstrated variable levels of adjustment to the workplace that could be related to production expectations and work design. Policies and practices around electronic rate monitoring, seniority and accommodation, and disability management practices affected the buffer available to workers to adjust to the workplace.</p> <p><b>Conclusions:</b> Work qualities and organisational resources establish a margin of manoeuver for work reintegration efforts. Practitioners need to inform themselves of the constraints on work accommodation imposed by work organisation and collective agreements. Organisations and labour need to reconsider policies and practices that creates unequal accommodation conditions for disabled workers.Implications for rehabilitation</p><p>Margin of manoeuvre offers a framework for evaluating and structuring work reintegration programmes.</p><p>Assessing initial conditions for productivity expectations, context and ways and means to support work reintegration can be integrated with worker perceptions of work ability and possibilities for adaptation to structure and then monitor work reintegration programmes. Margin of manoeuvre can be used to evaluate sustainability of work at the end of rehabilitation.</p><p>Cause-based workers’ compensation schemes, collective agreement provisions, and organisational approaches to non-compensable disability create two tiers of disabled workers and make certain workers more vulnerable to occupational disability.</p><p></p> <p>Margin of manoeuvre offers a framework for evaluating and structuring work reintegration programmes.</p> <p>Assessing initial conditions for productivity expectations, context and ways and means to support work reintegration can be integrated with worker perceptions of work ability and possibilities for adaptation to structure and then monitor work reintegration programmes. Margin of manoeuvre can be used to evaluate sustainability of work at the end of rehabilitation.</p> <p>Cause-based workers’ compensation schemes, collective agreement provisions, and organisational approaches to non-compensable disability create two tiers of disabled workers and make certain workers more vulnerable to occupational disability.</p

Growth and Goals Module: A Course-Integrated Open Education Resource to Help Students Increase their Learning Skills

We developed and launched an online, course-integrated module called Growth & Goals aimed to help students better develop evidence-based learning skills. The module focuses on five main concepts: self-regulated learning, goal-setting, metacognition, mindfulness, and mindsets (growth and fixed continuum). Growth & Goals is an open education resource available for download at no cost to any educator through FlynnResearchGroup.com/GrowthGoals. The module is available in both French and English and can be customized to any university course. The module addresses the aforementioned concepts through a combination of text and videos, with interspersed interactive activities that students use to develop their learning skills. Growth & Goals is intended to help students effectively manage the challenges they may encounter as they progress through their postsecondary academic career and beyond and become more proficient learners. Since 2017, the module has been implemented in more than 15 university courses and has been used by over 8000 students. The preliminary evaluation of Growth & Goals has been largely positive, indicating that the module has been well received by both students and educators and that it successfully guides students in learning the module’s concepts

Module Growth & Goals (Module de croissance et d’objectifs) : une ressource éducative ouverte intégrée au cours pour aider les étudiants et les étudiantes à améliorer leurs compétences d’apprentissage

We developed and launched an online, course-integrated module called Growth &amp; Goals aimed to help students better develop evidence-based learning skills. The module focuses on five main concepts: self-regulated learning, goal-setting, metacognition, mindfulness, and mindsets (growth and fixed continuum). Growth &amp; Goals is an open education resource available for download at no cost to any educator through FlynnResearchGroup.com/GrowthGoals. The module is available in both French and English and can be customized to any university course. The module addresses the aforementioned concepts through a combination of text and videos, with interspersed interactive activities that students use to develop their learning skills. Growth &amp; Goals is intended to help students effectively manage the challenges they may encounter as they progress through their postsecondary academic career and beyond and become more proficient learners. Since 2017, the module has been implemented in more than 15 university courses and has been used by over 8000 students. The preliminary evaluation of Growth &amp; Goals has been largely positive, indicating that the module has been well received by both students and educators and that it successfully guides students in learning the module’s concepts.Nous avons mis au point et lancé un module en ligne intégré au cours intitulé Growth &amp; Goals (Croissance et objectifs) qui vise à aider les étudiants et les étudiantes à mieux développer leurs compétences d’apprentissage basées sur l’évidence. Le module se concentre sur cinq concepts de base : l’apprentissage auto-régulé, la fixation d’objectifs, la métacognition, la pleine conscience et les états d’esprit (continuum de croissance et fixe). Le module Growth &amp; Goals est une ressource pédagogique libre qui peut être téléchargée gratuitement par n’importe quel éducateur par le biais de FlynnResearchGroup.com/GrowthGoals. Le module est disponible en anglais et en français et peut être personnalisé pour correspondre à n’importe quel cours universitaire. Le module traite des concepts mentionnés plus haut par le biais d’une combinaison de textes et de vidéos avec des activités interactives intercalées que les étudiants et les étudiantes peuvent utiliser pour développer leurs compétences d’apprentissage. Le module Growth &amp; Goals vise à aider de manière efficace les étudiants et les étudiantes à gérer les défis auxquels ils peuvent être confrontés alors qu’ils progressent dans leur carrière universitaire et au-delà et deviennent de meilleurs apprenants et de meilleures apprenantes. Depuis 2017, ce module a été mis en application dans plus de quinze cours universitaires et utilisé par plus de 8000 étudiants et étudiantes. L’évaluation préliminaire de Growth &amp; Goals a été généralement positive, ce qui indique que le module a été bien reçu à la fois par les étudiants et les étudiantes et par les éducateurs et les éducatrices, et qu’il guide avec succès les étudiants et les étudiantes dans l’apprentissage des concepts du module