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Stability and Security in Employment and Decent Work
This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.FLA_2012_Rpt_Stability_Security_Decent_Work.pdf: 1885 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020
Aging and effective temperatures in the low temperature mode-coupling equations
The low-temperature generalization of the mode-coupling equations corresponds
to the dynamics of mean-field disordered models in the glassy phase. The system
never achieves equilibrium, preserving the memory of the time elapsed after the
quench throughout its evolution. A concept of effective temperature can be made
quite rigorous in this context by considering readings of thermometers in
different time-scales and the thermalization of weakly coupled subsystems.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, LaTeX, Contribution to YKIS'96, Kyoto, November
1996, to appear in Prog. Theor. Phy
Modeling the life and death of competing languages from a physical and mathematical perspective
Recent contributions address the problem of language coexistence as that of
two species competing to aggregate speakers, thus focusing on the dynamics of
linguistic traits across populations. They draw inspiration from physics and
biology and share some underlying ideas -- e. g. the search for minimal schemes
to explain complex situations or the notion that languages are extant entities
in a societal context and, accordingly, that objective, mathematical laws
emerge driving the aforementioned dynamics. Different proposals pay attention
to distinct aspects of such systems: Some of them emphasize the distribution of
the population in geographical space, others research exhaustively the role of
bilinguals in idealized situations (e. g. isolated populations), and yet others
rely extremely on equations taken unchanged from physics or biology and whose
parameters bear actual geometrical meaning. Despite the sources of these models
-- so unrelated to linguistics -- sound results begin to surface that establish
conditions and make testable predictions regarding language survival within
populations of speakers, with a decisive role reserved to bilingualism. Here we
review the most recent works and their interesting outcomes stressing their
physical theoretical basis, and discuss the relevance and meaning of the
abstract mathematical findings for real-life situations.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures. Fifth chapter of the book Bilingualism and
Minority Languages in Europe: Current trends and developments by F. Lauchlan,
M. C. Parafita Couto, ed
The Challenges of Strategic Human Resources Management in Southeast Asian Universities
Nowadays the Higher Education Institutions face major challenges in its development.
Demanding from different actors and the orientation of the research, more oriented to
innovation and value creation, request news capacities to answer to that.
Southeast Asia shows a strong economic growth with a large increase in GDP and a
growing improvement in the position of The Human Development Index promoted by United
Nations.
This reality creates a different pressure on the higher education institutions in southeast Asia
that requires a change in the universities, in the way they implement the mission and in the
requested capacities, specially the human resources capacities.
In this way, a new paradigm and model of human resources management for southeast
higher education institutions need be developed to create the conditions to answer to this
new reality, where the main analysis variables will be talent, performance, motivation and
retention, coaching, cross cultural, integrity and permanent adaptability and flexibility.
The main objective of this communication is to reflect and contextualize in terms of
theoretical models where we find the assumptions for the implementation of strategic human
resources management for southeast Asian universities.
What kind of profile is request for the staff in this new reality?
What we need to change in human resources management?
How can this change be implemented?
What HRM tools are most relevant to this reality?
These are the main issues on which we will reflect with a critical thinking approach in order
to present a set of clues to southeast Asian universities according to our analysis and
interpretation, as Portuguese and European
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