The fragility of functional work systems in steel

The I/N case offers insight into the interrelationship between work systems, living standards and performance. It demonstrates that a high road approach and functional work systems positively impact stakeholders’ lives, improve production efficiency and benefit the local and macro-level economies and societies in which they are embedded. It also shows that such work systems can be implemented in contexts with a history of adversarial labor-management relations. However, broader external forces can conspire to make it very difficult for firms to sustain functional work systems despite initial successes in specific contexts. Financial markets in particular make long term commitment to stakeholder groups other than shareholders (i.e. employees, suppliers and communities) conditional on profit maximization and share price appreciation. Yet the logic of profit maximization for the benefit of shareholders leads to short termist decisions that undermine the very commitments that were so necessary for creating a new work system: security is threatened, training is put on the back burner; trust is irreparably undermined. Indeed, because of the inherent contradiction between strategic approaches to maximizing stock market and long term product market success, these high road systems are fragile in national frameworks that subject them to low road pressures without a forum for resolving the difficulties that arise from opposing market pressures and responses

How to make YouTube videos

Project Title: How to Make YouTube videos Name: William Barnes Major: Digital Arts & Culture Expected Graduation: August 2020 Project Medium: Video Technology and Software Used: OBS Studios, Movie Studio 16.0, YouTube Artist Statement: This project is something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. Well, not this specific video but the surrounding elements, the YouTube channel and the other videos. Way back when I was a kid, I wanted to become a YouTuber, I wanted to make videos, make money from it, and make millions of people laugh while I played video games. While I am nowhere near that dream, this is a start. Even if I never make YouTube a living, having it there and knowing that people watch the stuff I make and laugh would be good enough for me. This video is more of a technical look at how a YouTube video is made, and a showcase of what I’ve learned to do while making these videos. I hope to accomplish in my work the same thing that others did for me when I was a kid. This video is more to show people that the editing process of a video isn’t just magic and showing them how to edit. Hopefully people that watch it could get inspired to make their own videos after watching mine and seeing how they’re made. I know that the editing side of making a video is the most harrowing part, I was scared to make videos because I didn’t know anything about video editing. Having this video up and showing how simple it can be hopefully helpful to anyone who watches it and give them the push they need to start making their own. Making videos for me is all about wanting to do it, because if I make a video I didn’t want to make then what would be the point of making it. If I don’t enjoy what I do it becomes work, and a hobby becoming work is never a good thing. The best example of this is my “Un-Understandable” video. I wanted to make a video like that, so I did. For this video, I wanted to make this as a sort of milestone, showing all that I know and how to do it, so I could look back on it and see how much I’ve changed. I originally wanted to make this video as just a tutorial, but it became a milestone video as I thought more about what this kind of video would mean to me. One of the major challenges with making a video like this is that you want it to be engaging and entertaining while also being informative. If it’s just informative then you might lose the audience that watch it casually, and if it’s just entertaining then the people that came to learn are going to be disappointed or confused. Finding the right balance was tricky, but I believe I found a good place for it. Showing how to make a certain clip then showing that clip directly; it shows them the editing process, then gives them a punchline with the funny clip. Making the video was my first crack at a fully scripted video, and it combined with everything else I’ve done has been fun, and I will love continuing these projects in the future. Dark Souls Remastered Knight\u27s Honor Playthrough: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QipA3KAagu

Path Dependence And Behavorial Lock-In At Work: The Challenge Of Sustaining High Performance Work Systems In The U.S.

This article draws on path dependency literature and recent extensions to frame the evolution of high performance work systems (HPWS) in the U.S. and to reflect on the implications for firms and policy. The article briefly discusses institutional and social influences in the U.S. context that may be “locking in” managerial behavior that can prevent HPWS from diffusing or that renders HPWS vulnerable over time. In the face of this, in the short run firms may need to insulate the organization from institutional pressures and behavior that can erode new work systems. The article concludes by noting corporate governance models that elevate employee voice and security may be more compatible with HPWS for the long term

Ensemble strong coupling

PublishedJournal Article© 2015 IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. Strong coupling between light and an ensemble of molecules leads to the formation of new hybrid states and offers the exciting prospect of a new route to control material properties. Now a theoretical model has been introduced to complement the recent observation of strong coupling between the vibrational modes of molecules and an electromagnetic (cavity) mode. This new work by del Pino et al (2015 New J. Phys. 17 053040) makes an important contribution by offering fresh insight into the underlying physics, especially into the role of dephasing processes in determining the dynamics of ensemble strong coupling