La frontière entre vie privée et vie professionnelle tend vers la confusion. La notion de vie privée est variable par l'importance que chaque individu lui accorde, elle suit également l'évolution de la société. Au sein de la relation de travail, caractérisée par le lien de subordination, quelle place doit-on lui assigner ? S'il est admis qu'il existe bel et bien une sphère privée résiduelle dans l'entreprise, comment la conjuguer efficacement avec les impératifs de productivité du monde du travail ? Malgré une forte protection de la vie privée du travailleur, l'empiètement de la sphère professionnelle sur la sphère privée est un risque supplémentaire de voir la notion se vider de sa substance. Notre étude s'attache à mettre en exergue les mutations intervenues dans l'entreprise notamment par l'usage des nouvelles technologies et les difficultés qu'elles occasionnent au regard de l'impératif de respect des libertés individuelles du salarié. Dans ce contexte, nous envisagerons des solutions pour faire coexister les deux sphères au regard de l'exigence de proportionnalité qui doit présider à la relation de travail. / The border between private and professional life can be confusing. The notion of private life differs from the importance each individual allows it, it follows as well the evolution of the society. Inside the working relationship, distinguished among the subordination connection, which priority should we assign it ? If there is agreement that in the working place a remaining private sphere truly exists, how can we efficiently unite it with the productivity requirements of the working environment ? Despite a strong protection of the employee's private life, the professional sphere stepping into the private one is an additional risk to see this idea to lose its meaning. The goal of our study is to point out the changes that occurred at work especially with the use of new technologies and the difficulties experienced due to the requirements to respect the employee's personal freedom. In this context we are considering some solutions to have those two spheres working together despite the balance requirement that must oversee the working relationship.

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Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Work and family constitutes the dominant life roles for most adults in contemporary society. In that, work may be interrupted by family and family may be interrupted by work. Work often generates ambivalent feelings; it can create both positive feelings (e.g. gives energy, enables development) and negative feelings (e.g. lack of freedom). Therefore, most people accept the overall life experiences including the various dimensions or domains that play a role in work-personal life interaction, such as, time spent on one domain, pressures experienced, responsibilities carried, sense of loyalty with work and family, as common and conflicting aspects. Recent developments in boundary theory highlighted the fact that integrating, or rather interaction means bordering between the two domains of work and personal life is permeable. The main objective of this study was to investigate work-personal life interaction (WPLI) experiences of Setswana speaking police officials. This study also concentrated on the existence of work-personal life interaction, aspects involved, consequences thereof and coping mechanisms employed by the police officers. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample (n = 12) was taken of Setswana speaking police officials from the Mafikeng area in the North West Province. Data collection was done through a phenomenological method of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data systematically and objectively. Results from the content analysis based on the experiences were recorded as reported. The results indicated that there was a definite interaction between work and personal life. However, some police officials experienced interaction more than others. Furthermore, they also experienced the interaction to be more negative than positive due to organisational stressors and the management style of the organisation. Consequently the participants experienced high levels of strain and difficulty when managing their time and dealing with the interaction between their work and personal lives. The time and strain difficulties induced a lot of conflict in their homes as well as their social lives. However, there were some police officials who experienced positive aspects in their lives regardless of the difficulties of being a police official. In addition, it was identified that they made use of coping mechanisms that acted as a buffer against negative experiences of WPLI. Recommendations were made for both the organisation and for future practice. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

In an ever-changing world, work and personal life are the main areas in which most employed adults spend their time. Today the essence of the relationship between work- and personal life is that these two domains overlap and interact. Consequently, an increasing number of employed adults are confronted with bigger demands in both their work and personal lives, and many of their daily hassles stem from job responsibilities that are incompatible with responsibilities in their personal lives. Educators' work has also become more intricate and demanding and may be one of the professions in which individuals find it difficult to combine their work and personal lives. The objective of this study was to determine how Setswana-speaking educators experienced their work-personal life interaction (WPLI), and more specifically to determine the significant domains, antecedents, consequences and strategies associated with WPLI for the participants. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample (N = 10) was taken of Setswana-speaking secondary school educators from the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp areas in the North West Province. Data collection was done through a phenomenological method of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Data was analysed by the use of content analysis The results indicated that educators experienced factors in both their work and personal lives to be demanding. In addition, work demands led to various time constraints and strain. However, factors were identified that made the demands less overwhelming and it was also found that educators valued certain things (family, friends, leisure time, church and personal time) in their personal lives. Educators nevertheless employed certain strategies to cope with this interaction, which in turn led to numerous positive outcomes. Lastly, an interesting finding relating to this study was that educators felt a responsibility towards the children. Recommendations were made for the organisation and for future practice. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

In South Africa, the staff of higher education institutions experiences several stressors in their work and home domains. Therefore, it is important to understand how these two life domains are in interaction with each other. The general objective of this study was to investigate how higher education staff experienced work-personal life interaction (WPLI). A sample of 24 higher education staff that was willing to participate in the study was taken from different faculties and departments from a higher education institution in the Free State Province. For the purpose of this research, a qualitative design from a phenomenological approach was used. The specific objectives of this study were to determine the experiences, main dimensions, antecedents, consequences, and strategies in the lives of higher education staff. The results obtained indicated that Afrikaans and African women and men experienced time and strain-based conflict. Their work environment was characterised by a heavy workload, long working hours, resulting in work being taken home, and their home environment was characterised by a demanding family (spouses and children) and household duties. Men and women also thought about things in the family domain (e.g., when their children were sick) while they were at work. This caused a constant spill over, leaving employees tired and stressed. Strategies (e.g., prioritising, planning and time management) and support (e.g., spouses, division of family and household duties, friends and colleagues, as well as the flexible working hours) helped them to cope with this interaction. Recommendations were made for future research and the organisation. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Work and family constitutes the dominant life roles for most adults in contemporary society. In that, work may be interrupted by family and family may be interrupted by work. Work often generates ambivalent feelings; it can create both positive feelings (e.g. gives energy, enables development) and negative feelings (e.g. lack of freedom). Therefore, most people accept the overall life experiences including the various dimensions or domains that play a role in work-personal life interaction, such as, time spent on one domain, pressures experienced, responsibilities carried, sense of loyalty with work and family, as common and conflicting aspects. Recent developments in boundary theory highlighted the fact that integrating, or rather interaction means bordering between the two domains of work and personal life is permeable. The main objective of this study was to investigate work-personal life interaction (WPLI) experiences of Setswana speaking police officials. This study also concentrated on the existence of work-personal life interaction, aspects involved, consequences thereof and coping mechanisms employed by the police officers. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample (n = 12) was taken of Setswana speaking police officials from the Mafikeng area in the North West Province. Data collection was done through a phenomenological method of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data systematically and objectively. Results from the content analysis based on the experiences were recorded as reported. The results indicated that there was a definite interaction between work and personal life. However, some police officials experienced interaction more than others. Furthermore, they also experienced the interaction to be more negative than positive due to organisational stressors and the management style of the organisation. Consequently the participants experienced high levels of strain and difficulty when managing their time and dealing with the interaction between their work and personal lives. The time and strain difficulties induced a lot of conflict in their homes as well as their social lives. However, there were some police officials who experienced positive aspects in their lives regardless of the difficulties of being a police official. In addition, it was identified that they made use of coping mechanisms that acted as a buffer against negative experiences of WPLI. Recommendations were made for both the organisation and for future practice. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2008.

Today, the importance of big data from lifestyles and work activities has been the focus of much research. At the same time, advances in modern sensor technologies have enabled self-logging of a signi cant number of daily activities and movements. Lifestyle logging produces a wide variety of personal data along the lifespan of individuals, including locations, movements, travel distance, step counts and the like, and can be useful in many areas such as healthcare, personal life management, memory recall, and socialisation. However, the amount of obtainable personal life logging data has enormously increased and stands in need of effective processing, analysis, and visualisation to provide hidden insights owing to the lack of semantic information (particularly in spatiotemporal data), complexity, large volume of trivial records, and absence of effective information visualisation on a large scale. Meanwhile, new technologies such as visual analytics have emerged with great potential in data mining and visualisation to overcome the challenges in handling such data and to support individuals in many aspects of their life. Thus, this thesis contemplates the importance of scalability and conducts a comprehensive investigation into visual analytics and its impact on the process of knowledge discovery from the European Commission project MyHealthAvatar at the Centre for Visualisation and Data Analytics by actively involving individuals in order to establish a credible reasoning and effectual interactive visualisation of such multivariate data with particular focus on lifestyle and personal events. To this end, this work widely reviews the foremost existing work on data mining (with the particular focus on semantic enrichment and ranking), data visualisation (of time-oriented, personal, and spatiotemporal data), and methodical evaluations of such approaches. Subsequently, a novel automated place annotation is introduced with multilevel probabilistic latent semantic analysis to automatically attach relevant information to the collected personal spatiotemporal data with low or no semantic information in order to address the inadequate information, which is essential for the process of knowledge discovery. Correspondingly, a multi-signi ficance event ranking model is introduced by involving a number of factors as well as individuals' preferences, which can influence the result within the process of analysis towards credible and high-quality knowledge discovery. The data mining models are assessed in terms of accurateness and performance. The results showed that both models are highly capable of enriching the raw data and providing significant events based on user preferences. An interactive visualisation is also designed and implemented including a set of novel visual components signifi cantly based upon human perception and attentiveness to visualise the extracted knowledge. Each visual component is evaluated iteratively based on usability and perceptibility in order to enhance the visualisation towards reaching the goal of this thesis. Lastly, three integrated visual analytics tools (platforms) are designed and implemented in order to demonstrate how the data mining models and interactive visualisation can be exploited to support different aspects of personal life, such as lifestyle, life pattern, and memory recall (reminiscence). The result of the evaluation for the three integrated visual analytics tools showed that this visual analytics approach can deliver a remarkable experience in gaining knowledge and supporting the users' life in certain aspects.

This study was conducted to explore the identity of gamers. The purpose of the survey was to: Explore the identity gamer. What it takes to develop this identity, and I answered this purpose with help from three questions. To answer these questions four life-stories were made were the interviewees told about their identity progression from childhood to adulthood. After all the information was received, it was sort out together with my four chosen theories: Identity, field/habitus, personal life and stigma.           Based on my analysis, I could draw some conclusions. In these cases, the identity begun early, but initially in a more playful manner that later developed to become part of their self-identity. There is also a difference between playing games and being a gamer, it must meet certain requirements in the form of capital to be included in this field. The identity gamer can be created both as self-identity but most importantly in social contexts. This identity has been stigmatized. The stigma was created based on a stereotype that does not represent a fair picture of what a gamer really is. Words such as: isolated, lonely and weird was common and these words did not fit the typical gamer. Gamers have over the years been more freed from this stigma and the interviewees present some means to fight it. This study wants to present gamers in their true identity of what it means to be a gamer.

ROCHA, Antonio Glauton Varela. As noções de pessoa e vida pessoal em Emmanuel Mounier: fundamentos de sua proposta de sociabilidade e de sua crítica ao processo de despersonalização. 2011. 131f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2011. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-08T14:16:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-AGVROCHA.pdf: 1077546 bytes, checksum: b6d21e16fd9eb87a5d4d054ab9fea2ee (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-11-08T14:57:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-AGVROCHA.pdf: 1077546 bytes, checksum: b6d21e16fd9eb87a5d4d054ab9fea2ee (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-11-08T14:57:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2011-DIS-AGVROCHA.pdf: 1077546 bytes, checksum: b6d21e16fd9eb87a5d4d054ab9fea2ee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / The thought of Emmanuel Mounier had developed as a synthesis between the metaphysical exigency of the constitution of the concept of person and the existencial requirements of its own unpredictability and paradox which generally mark the personal life. These concerns of conceptual order, from which Mounier will develop his anthropology, add up to the concerns of material order, that is, Mounier will always try to think the person placed into his social context and realize how the influences of this sphere interfere on personal life’s development. Therefore, we can say the thought of Mounier is better understood when we try to perceive the interconnections between the anthropological and political concerns presented in his philosophy. To Mounier, the person can’t be defined, for it is not an object. However, it possesses personal dimensions that are like traces to penetrate into the personal universe. These are the dimensions (incarnation, communication, and vocation) which become reference to the properly human exist, and such exist (that Mounier calls personal life) becomes the reference to the personalist community understanding. To Mounier the notion of person is only completed with the notion of community, in fact they are complemented ideas, former of a binomial opposed both to individualism and coletivism. To Mounier, the personalist community it’s an ideal, a model that do not perform an achievable realization in this world, but must be anyway a model to our actions in search for a sociability compatible with human dignity. It is precisely in view of the personalist community model and the capacity that each political organization has to make the personal life that Mounier shall distinguish the political and economic systems in personalizers and depersonalizers. Hence emerges his critics to the various totalitarianism and the capitalism, as well as his proposal of a sociability compatible with the personal dignity. / O pensamento de Emmanuel Mounier se desenvolveu como uma síntese entre as exigências metafísicas da constituição de uma noção de pessoa e as exigências existências próprias da imprevisibilidade e do paradoxo que comumente marca a vida pessoal. Estas preocupações de ordem conceitual, a partir das quais Mounier irá desenvolver sua antropologia, somam-se às preocupações de ordem material, isto é, Mounier buscará sempre pensar a pessoa inserida em seu contexto social e perceber como as influências deste âmbito interferem no desenvolvimento da vida pessoal. Portanto, podemos dizer que o pensamento de Mounier é melhor compreendido quando buscamos perceber as interligações entre as preocupações de ordem antropológica e de ordem política presentes em sua filosofia. Para Mounier, a pessoa não é definível, uma vez que não é um objeto. No entanto, possui dimensões pessoais que são como pistas para adentrarmos o universo pessoal. São estas dimensões (a encarnação, a comunicação e a vocação) que se tornam a referência para o existir propriamente humano, e este existir (que Mounier chama de vida pessoal) se torna a referência para compreensão da comunidade personalista. Para Mounier a noção de pessoa só se completa com a noção de comunidade, na realidade são noções complementares, formadoras de um binômio que se opõe tanto ao individualismo e ao coletivismo. Para Mounier a comunidade personalista é um ideal, um modelo que não possui realização alcançável neste mundo, mas deve ser o modelo para as nossas ações em busca de uma sociabilidade compatível com a dignidade humana. É justamente tendo em vista o modelo de comunidade personalista e a capacidade que cada organização política possui de viabilizar a vida pessoal que Mounier distinguirá sistemas políticos ou econômicos em personalizantes ou despersonalizantes. Daí emerge sua crítica aos diversos totalitarismos e ao capitalismo, assim como sua proposta de sociabilidade compatível com a dignidade pessoal.