Exploring the turning points in researchers’ lives: using the three-scene storyboarding technique

This publication sets out an approach to careers work called three scene storyboarding. Storyboarding aims to help researchers to set down their experiences, to think about their careers and to take action based on this reflection. Storyboarding is a creative technique which asks researchers to think about their lives in narrative terms and to set down their experience in the form of drawings. This is an innovative technique that asks them to think about their careers in an unfamiliar way. It can therefore be a challenging technique for professionals to get started with. However, this report shows that the storyboarding approach can be useful and that it can expand any researcher's career-management repertoire.Vita

Qatar Rides Out the Blockade

The air, land and sea blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt – otherwise known as the Quartet - has significantly impacted Qatar’s economy, but not nearly as much as the four had both hoped for and expected. Following the initial shock, Qatar responded to the blockade with alacrity. A look at one of the Arabian emirate’s key businesses, Qatar Airways, gives an insight into how the Qataris, with little fanfare, have demonstrated their resilience

Will 2018 see MbS stake a claim to greatness?

In 2017 the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) marked himself out as a Middle East leader to be reckoned with. The consolidation of his power was completed with two audacious maneuvers that saw the removal of the 32-year old's chief rivals to the throne currently held by his aged and debilitated father King Salman

The Knowledge Society and High Performance Workplace Systems: Enhancing 'Worker Voice'

This paper focuses on an aspect of the 'Future of Work ·. The introduction of high performance workplace systems (hpws) is, in genera/terms, consistent with the bro ad thrust of the 'knowledge society’ debate. The central thesis holds that the introduction of hpws has the potential 10 enhance 'worker voice, ‘especially in the context of a 'third way' political environment that fosters a more tripartite approach to industrial relations. The paper draws on several pieces of research, each of which has its own methodological approach. The discussion of the 'knowledge society’ debate and the 'third way' political context draws on policy analyses undertaken by Law and Piercy. The body of the paper is based on a survey by Law of union members engaged in a hpws in a large NZ daily factory. That research involved focus groups and a postal survey. Qualitative (write-in) responses were further analysed using a dynamic coding system developed by Law. The findings are consistent with the (US) work of Black and Lynch. With some qualifications, the introduction of hpws has enhanced worker participation. Active union involvement was a positive factor. For a proportion of union members, the introduction of hpws has had positive off-site effects