Cette thèse propose de faire le point sur les indicateurs disponibles pour la surveillance épidémiologique des lombalgies liées au travail, notamment les données de réparation de maladies professionnelles (MP) et les données issues du réseau pilote de surveillance des troubles musculo-squelettiques des Pays de la Loire.La part de hernie discale opérée (utilisée comme traceur de lombalgie) attribuable à l’activité professionnelle était particulièrement élevée pour les ouvriers des deux sexes et les employées femmes. La lombalgie est un phénomène complexe et ne peut être surveillée grâce à un indicateur unique. Les données de MP, malgré leurs limites, donnent des résultats comparables aux autres sources de données et présentent l’avantage de ne nécessiter aucun recueil spécifique. Les données de cohortes, basées sur un questionnaire standardisé, sont nécessaires pour permettre des comparaisons internationales. Enfin, les données chirurgicales issues des bases de données des hôpitaux et cliniques, fournissent l’information la plus fine, si elles sont complétées de données professionnelles. Il s’agit cependant d’un indicateur mixte de morbidité et de soins. Les fortes disparités territoriales qu’il révèle au sein d’une région incitent à la mise en place de programmes de prévention différenciés.En complément de ces trois indicateurs, il serait intéressant d’ajouter un indicateur d’invalidité ou d’incapacité dans le système de surveillance pour mieux cibler les actions de prévention en fonction du risque de désinsertion professionnelle, dimension importante en termes d’impact social pour les individus et de coût pour la société. / This thesis proposes to review the available indicators for the epidemiological surveillance of work-related low back pain, including compensation data of occupational diseases and data from the pilot surveillance system for musculoskeletal disorders in the Pays de la Loire region.The proportion of cases of lumbar disc surgery (used as sentinel event of low back pain) attributable to occupational activity was particularly high among blue-collar workers of both genders and lower-grade female white-collar workers. Low back pain is a complex phenomenon and cannot be monitored using a single indicator. Compensation data, despite their limitations, give results comparable to other data sources and don’t require specific gathering. Cohorts’ data, based on a standardized questionnaire, are necessary for international comparisons. Finally, surgical data from private and public hospitals databases provide the finest information, if they are completed with occupational data. However, this is a mixed indicator of morbidity and care. It shows large local disparities in a region, encouraging the development of differentiated prevention programs.In addition to these three indicators, it would be interesting to add a disability or incapacity indicator in the surveillance system to better target prevention programs according to occupational exclusion which is an important dimension in terms of social impact for people and cost for the society.

Comment le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement (PNUE) se fait-il reconnaître une autorité propre au-delà de la dotation symbolique de son mandat onusien et en dépit de la circulation des experts environnementaux sur lesquels il s’appuie ?Depuis 1972, les savoirs experts du PNUE assurent à la fois sa crédibilité et sa pertinence auprès des acteurs rivalisant avec lui pour définir et observer l’environnement global. Cependant, la reconnaissance de l’autorité propre du PNUE fait face à deux défis. D'abord celui d’une bureaucratie limitée par ses moyens ad hoc et le contrôle par les États. Ensuite, celui d’une compétition entre experts pour imposer leur autorité comme étant celle du PNUE, par rapport à celle d’autres organisations. Or, en dépit du tumulte entourant le PNUE, les experts adhèrent au mandat du PNUE et l’intériorisent. Cette croyance dans la valeur du PNUE crée son illusio, c’est-à-dire un intérêt des individus dans le PNUE, lui distinguant ainsi une autorité propre.Cette thèse argumente que le PNUE assoit son autorité en cooptant celle des experts par des pratiques qui stabilisent un savoir propre dont émerge un domaine pertinent pour son mandat. Les pratiques d’ancrage du savoir du PNUE renforcent son illusio auprès des experts afin de les maintenir investis dans un mandat qu’ils perçoivent être dans l’intérêt de leur carrière. Pour saisir ces pratiques d’ancrage du savoir, cette thèse se concentre sur le domaine de compétences des conflits armés et catastrophes du PNUE, ce dernier étant initialement exclu de son mandat. Retraçant le parcours de cette expertise des « crises » du PNUE depuis les années 1990, cette thèse examine deux types de pratiques d’ancrage de ce savoir. D’abord, les pratiques bureaucratiques du PNUE, telles que la division du travail, la gestion des projets et la mise en écriture d’un savoir expert commun, ancrent les frontières symboliques de ce domaine. Ensuite, les pratiques professionnelles de cette branche du PNUE, dont l’autorité est reconnue dans ce domaine au-delà du PNUE, ancrent les frontières sociales d’un groupe socioprofessionnel déviant du PNUE. La méthodologie de la thèse s’appuie sur une analyse sociale de réseau (visualisations, prosopographie et professions) et une analyse qualitative de type ethnographique (entretiens semi-directifs, observations, documents). Reconstruisant ainsi l’illusio du PNUE par les pratiques de ses experts, cette thèse éclaire d’abord la compétition des experts pour son autorité se jouant aux frontières organisationnelles du PNUE. Ensuite, elle étudie les effets de frontières sectorielles induits par son expertise. Ils entrainent l’ancrage du savoir du PNUE, lequel se produit sous la surveillance-réflexive des experts. Ces analyses démontrent que l’autorité propre du PNUE est en réalité plus un assemblage de savoirs émergents, de projets répondant aux demandes d’expertise, qu’une traduction uniformisée de son mandat en un savoir propre par ses interfaces avec les experts. À mi-chemin de la sociologie de l’expertise et des professions et de la théorie des organisations appliquée aux relations internationales, cette thèse propose de renouveler notre regard sur l’autorité du PNUE, et des organisations internationales, par une sociologie politique de l’international sur les trajectoires des experts et les frontières de son expertise. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The arrival of the Big Data era has become a major topic of discussion in many sectors because of the premises of big data utilizations and its impact on decision-making. It is an interdisciplinary issue that has captured the attention of scholars and created new research opportunities in information science, business, heath care, and many others fields. The problem is the Big Data is not well defined, so that there exists confusion in IT what jobs and skill sets are required in big data area. The problem stems from the newness of the Big Data profession. Because many aspects of the area are unknown, organizations do not yet possess the IT, human, and business resources necessary to cope with and benefit from big data. These organizations include health care, enterprise, logistics, universities, weather forecasting, oil companies, e-business, recruiting agencies etc., and are challenged to deal with high volume, high variety, and high velocity big data to facilitate better decision- making. This research proposes a new way to look at Big Data and Big Data analysis. It helps and meets the theoretical and methodological foundations of Big Data and addresses an increasing demand for more powerful Big Data analysis from the academic researches prospective. Essay 1 provides a strategic overview of the untapped potential of social media Big Data in the business world and describes its challenges and opportunities for aspiring business organizations. It also aims to offer fresh recommendations on how companies can exploit social media data analysis to make better business decisions—decisions that embrace the relevant social qualities of its customers and their related ecosystem. The goal of this research is to provide insights for businesses to make better, more informed decisions based on effective social media data analysis. Essay 2 provides a better understanding of the influence of social media during the 2016 American presidential election and develops a model to examine individuals' attitudes toward participating in social media (SM) discussions that might influence their decision in choosing between the two presidential election candidates, Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. The goal of this research is to provide a theoretical foundation that supports the influence of social media on individual's decisions. Essay 3 defines the major job descriptions for careers in the new Big Data profession. It to describe the Big Data professional profile as reflected by the demand side, and explains the differences and commonalities between company-posted job requirements for data analytics, business analytics, and data scientists jobs. The main aim for this work is to clarify of the skill requirements for Big Data professionals for the joint benefit of the job market where they will be employed and of academia, where such professionals will be prepared in data science programs, to aid in the entire process of preparing and recruiting for Big Data positions.

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DEd (Educational Management) / Department of Educational Management / The aim of this study was to explore the effect of mentoring as a strategy for teacher professional development. The study was underpinned by Vygotsky, Piaget and Bandura socio-cultural theories. The study is anchored on the interpretivist or constructivist paradigm to enable the investigator to deconstruct the realities of the experiences of practicing teachers during the mentoring process. The qualitative research approach was adopted in the study. The population comprised all teachers at six (6) selected high schools in the Thabina Cluster schools. Purposeful sampling method was employed to select 12 teachers that participated in the study. Qualitative data was generated through face-to-face interviews, observations and document analysis. Data was analysed thematically. The study established that teachers value and acknowledge the importance of mentoring as a strategy for teacher professional development. There is also a need for mentoring to be conducted with new teachers to offer them opportunities for professional growth. The study recommendations are that the Department of Education should develop and regularly implement mentoring programmes to enhance the competency of teachers. / NRF

This master's thesis deals with the possibilities of employment of direct care workers in day care centers. The thesis is divided into two parts. The theoretical part provides a primary insight into the system of social services with the specification of day care centers as social care services according to Act No. 108/2006 Coll., On social services. It also discusses the range of professions that can be employed in day care centers based on the Czech Republic's legal system. The practical part presents quantitative research which had an aim to find out the possibilities of employment of direct care workers in day care centers in a selected region, the capital city of the Prague region. The research monitors the professional proportionality of multidisciplinary teams concerning the level and field of education and employee participation in activities carried out in day care centers. Based on the research results, the last part of the work proposes recommendations for practices. There is a demonstration of work using the staging method and applying the principles of experiential learning. The demonstration's intention is the development of functional communication and the practice of establishing social contacts for clients with an autism spectrum disorder. The motivation for the activities is Daisy...

5 Abstract The dissertation thesis occupy by defining of volunteering characteristics. There are some questions about what the volunteering should be and what shouldn't be, what is volunteering motivation and what is volunteering background in Czech Republic. Afterwards it is occupy by of volunteering management for purposes of quality management, specifically in recruitment, education, audit and evaluation, risk management or quality standard defining. There is a research of managers and volunteers from profit and non-profit organisations about their access to volunteering and to each other. Afterwards there is an analysis of interviews and their evaluation. The conclusion contain some description of new phenomenon of volunteering in Czech environment and there is also evaluation of its' practical impact.

This diploma thesis mainly deals with the attitudes of professionals from helping professions towards people with disabilities. Nowadays is a great emphasis on the theme of inclusion of handicapped people and is important to go especially those people who interact with them most frequently with their attitudes and behaviour as example for society. The aim of the study is to compare responses of four selected professional areas - education, psychology, social work and health, and to determine differences in attitudes and opinions towards people with disabilities. The first part contains theoretical ground concepts related to attitudes, handicapped persons and survey conducted research on this topic. The second part is dedicated to the research conducted using a structured questionnaire. This research showed that some selected attitudes across helping professions are really different.

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Sammanfattning Titel: En kvantitativ studie om balans mellan arbete och privatliv i relation till självmedkänsla, utbrändhet, arbetstillfredsställelse och uppsägningsintention Nivå: Examensarbete på grundnivå (kandidatexamen) i ämnet företagsekonomi Författare: Sara Tosterud Lundin och Cornelia Widmark Handledare: Dr Jonas Kågström Datum: 2023 - juni Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur balansen mellan arbete och privatliv ser ut för anställda inom finanssektorn i kontrast till mer traditionella vårdyrken, samt vilken betydelse balansen har på organisatorisk nivå. Därtill ämnar studien undersöka hur faktorerna självmedkänsla, utbrändhet, arbetstillfredsställelse och uppsägningsintention förhåller sig tillbalans mellan arbete och privatliv. Metod: Kvantitativ metod av deduktiv art där det empiriska materialet samlats in med hjälpav två digitala enkäter som skickades ut till 7 104 bankanställda respektive publicerades somett inlägg i en Facebook-grupp för 22 600 socionomer. Totalt resulterade enkäterna i 531 svar som kunde användas. Den empiriskt insamlade datan har analyserats i statistikprogrammet JASP genom deskriptiva-, korrelations- och nätverksanalyser samt ett t-test. Resultat & slutsats: Studien visar att bankanställdas balans mellan arbete och privatliv är god, dock bör organisationerna ha en medvetenhet om att frågan om balans är komplex då det finns många faktorer som kan påverka nivån av balans. Samtliga av studiens hypoteser bekräftades, vilket var i enlighet med tidigare forskning. Bland annat visade studiens resultat att balans mellan arbete och privatliv har ett positivt samband med självmedkänsla och arbetstillfredsställelse, samt ett negativt samband med utbrändhet och uppsägningsintention. Utöver studiens hypoteser framkom två nya korrelationer. Dessa korrelationer visar att en högre självmedkänsla härleder en högre arbetstillfredsställelse och en lägre uppsägningsintention. Examensarbetets bidrag: Bidraget är ökad kunskap kring hur dessa fem ämnesområden påverkar varandra i en svensk kontext avseende finansbranschen. Detta då tidigare studier inom dessa ämnesområden framförallt är riktade till populationer inom sjuk- och hälsovården. Studien har även påvisat ytterligare två direkta samband mellan två ämnesområden: självmedkänsla och arbetstillfredsställelse samt självmedkänsla och uppsägningsintention. Förslag till fortsatt forskning: 1. Genomföra en liknande generaliserbar studie avseende finansbranschen; 2. Undersöka hur det ser ut för dem som varit utbrända men sedan kommer tillbaka till jobbet; 3. Undersöka om svaren skiljer sig mellan olika roller inom yrket; 4. Kombinera enkätundersökningen med intervjuer för att undersöka ämnet mer på djupet genom direkta interaktioner. Nyckelord: Balans mellan arbete och privatliv, självmedkänsla, utbrändhet, arbetstillfredsställelse, uppsägningsintention, finanssektorn, vårdyrken, bankanställda, socionomer / Abstract Title: A quantitative study of work-life balance in relation to self-compassion, burnout, jobsatisfaction, and turnover intention Level: Bachelor’s thesis in business administration Authors: Sara Tosterud Lundin and Cornelia Widmark Supervisor: Dr Jonas KågströmDate: 2023 - juni Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the work-life balance of employees in the finance sector compared to more traditional healthcare professions, and the balance impact at organizational level. Additionally, the study aims to investigate the relationships between self-compassion, burnout, job satisfaction and turnover intention with work-life balance. Method: A deductive quantitative approach was employed, and the empirical data was collected through two digital surveys distributed to 7 104 bank employees and posted in a Facebook group comprising 22 600 social workers. A total of 531 usable responses were obtained. The empirically collected data was analyzed in the statistics program JASP, employing descriptive, correlational, network, and t-test analyses. Results & conclusions: The study demonstrates that the work-life balance of bank employees is satisfactory; however, organizations should be aware that the issue of balance is complex, as there are numerous factors that can influence the level of balance. All of the study'shypotheses were confirmed, which aligns with previous research. Among other factors, the study's findings indicate that work-life balance is positively related to self-compassion and job satisfaction, while being negatively associated with burnout and turnover intention. In addition to the study's hypotheses, two new correlations emerged. These correlations reveal that higher levels of self-compassion are linked to increased job satisfaction and reduced turnover intention. Contribution of the thesis: This thesis contributes to increased understanding of how these five research areas interrelate within the Swedish context, specifically in the finance industry. Previous studies have primarily focused on populations within the healthcare sector. Furthermore, the study identified two direct relationships between two research areas: self-compassion and job satisfaction as well as self-compassion and turnover intention. Suggestions for future research: 1. Conduct a similar generalizable study regarding the financial industry; 2. Examine the experiences of individuals who have experienced burnout but returned to work; 3. Explore potential differences in responses among different job roles within the profession; 4. Combine the survey method with interviews to delve deeper into thetopic through direct interactions. Key words: Work-life balance, self-compassion, burnout, job satisfaction, turnover intention, finance sector, healthcare professions, bank employees, social workers.