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Attitudes Influencing the Interaction between Professional Workers and Deaf-Blind Clients
In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 120-122
ISSN: 1559-1476
A Gendered Analysis of Work, Stress and Mental Health, Among Professional and Non-Professional Workers
In: Professions and professionalism: P&P, Band 11, Heft 2
ISSN: 1893-1049
This study examines the differences in mental health experiences of workers in professional and non-professional roles, with a particular focus on the influence of gender. We examine: i) the perceived mental health of a subset of professional workers including accounting, academia, dentistry, medicine, nursing, and teaching, chosen because they represent different gender composition and sectors; and ii) work stress and work absences. Statistical analyses were applied to data from the Canadian Community Health Survey and a related Mental Health and Well-Being survey. Those in the selected professions reported better mental health, higher job satisfaction, and a lower prevalence of mental disorders, but higher self-perceived life and work stress compared to workers in non-professional roles. Workers in these professions reported higher job security and higher job control, but also higher psychological demands. Women in these professions showed significantly higher physical exertion and lower job authority and higher rates of work absences.
Professional call centres, professional workers and the paradox of the algorithm: the case of telenursing
In: Work, employment and society: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 195-210
ISSN: 1469-8722
Although the professional call centre has been theorized, little empirical work has been carried out on this form of service delivery. The existing literature fails to distinguish adequately between professional call centres and professionals who work in call centres. In this study of telehealth it is shown that a centre which exhibits the features of a professional call centre does not overcome problems associated with this type of labour process. Ambiguities over the use of skill in a system that requires the deployment of computer algorithms gives rise to conflicts over monitoring, performance evaluation and the use of time. Conflict over the appropriation of technique may be exacerbated in professional call centres although this has not been reported upon in the call centre or telehealth literature.
Workplace partnership and professional workers: 'about as useful as a chocolate teapot'?
In: International journal of human resource management, Band 25, Heft 6, S. 879-894
ISSN: 1466-4399
Local Residents as Mediators between Middle-Class Professional Workers and Lower-Class Clients
In: Social service review: SSR, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 56-63
ISSN: 1537-5404
Computerized Data-Based Systems and Productivity among Professional Workers: The Case of Detectives
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 196
ISSN: 1540-6210
EXAMINING THE OBSTACLES TO BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING: EVIDENCE FROM A SURVEY OF PROFESSIONAL WORKERS
In: Contemporary economic policy: a journal of Western Economic Association International, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 413-421
ISSN: 1465-7287
This article describes the results of a survey of professional workers that was designed to explore the underlying reasons for the widely documented underrepresentation of women in information technology (IT) jobs. Our analysis suggests that it is different occupational personalities between men and women rather than the demanding nature of IT work that is largely responsible for the relatively few women in IT occupations. We discuss the implications these results have for policies that are designed to create greater gender equity in the rapidly growing IT industries. (JEL J08, J24, J70)
Report of the Tripartite Meeting on Conditions of Work and Employment of Professional Workers
Constructing Unemployed Job Seekers as Professional Workers: The Depoliticizing Work–Game of Job Searching
In: Qualitative sociology, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 403-416
ISSN: 1573-7837
The Seminar Series: A Strategy for Acquainting Professional Workers with the Problems of the Blind
In: Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 97-102
ISSN: 1559-1476
Political preferences in the new middle class: A 'correspondence analysis' of the orientations of Australian professional workers
In: Politics: Australasian Political Studies Association journal, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 18-28
White collar unions and professional organizations [trends and factors in the development of unionization among professional workers, such as social workers, librarians and teachers; unionism and professional organizations among engineers; business and the salaried worker
In: Science & society: a journal of Marxist thought and analysis, Band 14, S. 214-236
ISSN: 0036-8237