Industry restructuring and job loss: helping older workers get back into employment

Restructuring in the Australian manufacturing industry has resulted in many Australians being displaced from their jobs. This particularly impacts older, lower-skilled workers. Involving an extensive review of past research and case studies in four states, this research identifies practices that can assist with the successful skills transfer, re-skilling and the attainment of new jobs by displaced older workers in the manufacturing industry

Canonical and Functional Schrodinger Quantization of Two--Dimensional Dilaton Gravity

We discuss the relation between canonical and Schrodinger quantization of the CGHS model. We also discuss the situation when background charges are added to cancel the Virasoro anomaly. New physical states are found when the square of the background charges vanishes.Comment: 12 pages, revtex Minor correction

Professional Sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the Economic Redevelopment of New Orleans: Revisited

Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in late August 2005, resulting in damage to much of the city’s sports infrastructure and the temporary departure of both of New Orleans’ major league professional sports teams, the National Football League Saints and the National Basketball Association Hornets. The city spent over $500 million restoring the sports infrastructure in New Orleans, and both teams subsequently returned to the city. In addition, New Orleans has since hosted numerous mega-sporting events including the Super Bowl, NCAA Men’s Basketball Final Four, and several college football national championships. This paper examines the economic impact of Hurricane Katrina on professional sports in New Orleans and traces the recovery of the city in conjunction with spectator sports

Gauge Theoretic Formulation of Dilatonic Gravity Coupled to Particles

We discuss the formulation of the CGHS model in terms of a topological BF theory coupled to particles carrying non-Abelian charge.Comment: 4 pages. Talk given at QG99 Meeting, Sardinia, September 1999. Uses espcrc2.sty (twocolumn

Predictors of ethical code use and ethical tolerance in the public sector

This paper reports the results of a survey of ethical attitudes, values, and propensities in public sector employees in Australia. It was expected that demographic variables, personal values, and contextual variables at the individual level, and group and organisational-level values would predict use of formal codes of ethics and ethical tolerance (tolerance of unethical behaviour). Useable data were received from 500 respondents selected at random across public sector organizations in a single Australian state. Results supported the study hypotheses, but indicated that different mechanisms underlie each of the criterion variables. Use of ethical codes was determined primarily on the basis of a perception that others use the code, while ethical tolerance was determined by personal values. At an applied level, the research highlights the need for organizations to establish a critical mass of code users, so that this operates as a normative influence on others in the organization

Continuity and change: Employers' training practices and partnerships with training providers

A number of factors influence the motivations of employers to train their workforce and the ways in which they engage with the training system. This study combines a national survey and interviews with Australian employers and registered training organisations (RTOs) to provide a comprehensive picture of the way in which employers navigate the Australian training system and how partnerships with RTOs are established. The study also provides insight into how practices have evolved over the last 20 years

The value and cost of children to Australian, Greek and Italian parents

The study was concerned with the definition of the value and cost of children to Australian, Greek and Italian parents. The conceptual framework of values, costs and alternatives in having children was applied to an Australian and Southern European sample, as a cultural extension of our knowledge of the values and costs of children, and as a new line of inquiry into trends which have occurred in Australia towards the acceptance of the smaller family. A total of 717 husbands and wives were individually interviewed in metropolitan Sydney between May, 1977 and January, 1978. All parents were once-married and with one or more children. The socio-demographic data collected in the interview indicated the realities which surrounded the young couples in bearing and rearing children. Moreover, the background information highlighted the distinctivenes s of the Southern European immigrant relative to the host population, especially in indices of education and the level of occupation. In contrast to Australians , immigrants were less likely to be trained above a basic schooling, and were employed more in unskilled occupations (Chapter 2). In Chapters 3 and 4, differences were identified in the value and cost of children across socio-ethnic groups, the sex of the parent , the sex of the child and the stage of family formation. Australian respondents emphasised the general pleasure of children , their emotional benefits , and aspects of personal improvement in becoming a parent . Southern Europeans mentioned more frequently the happiness in having children , and advantages to the marriage and the family unit . All ethnic groups emphasised the financial , emotional and childrearing costs in being a parent , and other analyses provided a ranking of these costs (Chapter 5). Overall , males and females expressed similar benefits and costs in having children. Chapter 4 investigated changes in the value and cost of children over the family building process, especially in the salience of sex preference and family completion advantages with higher order births. An interesting development in Australia has been the increased participation of married women in the work-force. In Chapter 6, the working role for married women was recognised as an extension of the role in being a mother, as women have accepted the financial necessity to work. Interpretations of family size expectations indicated that Australian and Italian parents wanted two or three children, but Greeks were more likely to expect a two-child family. Australian Catholics desired larger families than non-Catholic Australians, and Catholic Italians (Chapter 7). Measures of attitudes to and practice of contraception indicated the acceptance of birth control and especially 'the pill' among Australian and Southern European women. Some Australians had accepted the benefits of sterilisation. The majority of parents held positive evaluations of the influence of children upon their personality and life-style (Chapter 8). The period after childrearing was dominated by perceptions of travel and work, especially the working role for women. In the final chapter, the general conclusions of the survey were related to the results of other studies of the value and cost of children, and to an interpretation of factors which might be influencing the acceptance of the smaller family

Black Holes in the Gauge Theoretic Formulation of Dilatonic Gravity

We show that two-dimensional topological BF theories coupled to particles carrying non-Abelian charge admit a new coupling involving the Lagrange multiplier field. When applied to the gauge theoretic formulation of dilatonic gravity it gives rise to a source term for the gravitational field. We show that the system admits black hole solutions.Comment: Action is improved to be reparametrization invariant. Misprintings corrected. 10 pages, Late

Injunctive and descriptive logics during newcomer socialization:the impact on organizational identification, trustworthiness, and self-efficacy

Failure to adjust to a new organization has major personal, team, and organizational costs. Yet, we know little about how newcomers' pre-entry institutional assumptions influence and shape their subsequent socialization. To address this issue, we propose and test a model examining whether the discrepancy between newcomers' injunctive logics (pre-entry beliefs about what institutional practices ought to be) and their descriptive logics (actual experience of these institutional practices) influences the development of organizational identification, perceived organizational trustworthiness, and self-efficacy. We examined the impact of discrepant logics in a healthcare context by surveying new staff on their first day of employment and then again six weeks later (N = 264). We found that when there was a negative discrepancy between injunctive and descriptive logics (that is, when the prevailing logics did not match what newcomers thought they ought to be), organizational identification and perceived organizational trustworthiness decreased over time and consequently so did self-efficacy. The results highlight the important role of institutional logics in shaping socialization processes and outcomes soon after organizational entry. We conclude that histories and personal and professional moral codes provide a background against which newcomers evaluate their new institutional, social, and work context. Copyrigh

Relación entre las dimensiones del Síndrome de Burnout y la satisfacción laboral en obstetras de un hospital del cono norte de Lima

Objetivo: determinar si existe relación entre las dimensiones del Síndrome de Burnout y la Satisfacción laboral en obstetras del Hospital Carlos Lanfranco La Hoz, Puente Piedra - Lima, 2015. Materiales y métodos: La investigación fue cuantitativa, descriptiva, correlacional de corte transversal y la información se recolectó a través de dos instrumentos: el Inventario Burnout de Maslach (MBI) y la Encuesta de Satisfacción del Personal de Salud (MINSA). El estudio fue realizado con 50 obstetras. Los análisis datos fueron procesados en el programa SPSS versión 22, se utilizó la Prueba X² de Pearson para evaluar asociación entre dos variables y el coeficiente de correlación de Pearson (r). Resultados: Con respecto a las dimensiones del Síndrome de Burnout se encontró que el 70% (n=35) de los profesionales presentan un nivel bajo de agotamiento emocional, el 66% (n=33) presentó un nivel bajo de despersonalización y el 50% (n=25) un alto ni