The Vision Seminar Process is a process for developing an efficient, sustainable, IT- supported future work and a tool for proving a solid basis for the development of IT systems. The process provides a framework where practitioners and designers cooperate in the design of both sustainable work and usable IT systems. A practical approach is provided to facilitate for practitioners’ reflective in-depth analysis of their work practices as well as to question and discuss their entire work situation and organization. This report gives a practical and basic description of the process procedure based on experiences from several projects where the process has been carried

Health and Moral Stress Questionnaire (HMSQ) was constructed with the aim to assess organizational learning processes and individual skills necessary for the handling of problems connected to five areas of activity: work demands, work task control, support, computer tool use, and ethics. The main hypothesis was that the existence of organizational learning processes and individual skills contributes to lower levels of stress by providing the knowledge needed to solve the problems arising during IT-supported work. The results showed that it is possible to construct a questionnaire to assess organizational learning and personal skills as a factor defining stress level at IT-based work. High levels of reliability were obtained. In accordance to our hypothesis five factors could be discerned as well as an underlying factor representing learning processes and personal skills.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights is appointed by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to consider matters relating to human rights in the United Kingdom (but excluding consideration of individual cases); proposals for remedial orders, draft remedial orders and remedial orders. The Joint Committee has a maximum of six Members appointed by each House, of whom the quorum for any formal proceedings is two from each House.

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Fleishman (1988) described biodata selection technology as among the most promising avenues for generation of new knowledge in personnel selection. However, researchers generally hold biodata selection systems in low regard due to its perceived atheoretical nature. Further, surveys indicate biodata is used in less than 5 % of personnel selection decisions. We argue that biodata systems are no more atheoretical than other popular selection technologies. We review aspects of biodata instruments that make them unique among selection devices and biodata theory as embodied in the ecology model (Mumford, Stokes, & Owens, 1990) before offering two extensions. First, we propose to extend the ecology model by focusing on negative life events, reviewing diverse literatures addressing affective and cognitive reactions to these events. Second, an individual difference variable labeled "moxie " is proposed as a key mediator and/or moderator of latent negative life event-job performance relationships. Specific directions for needed research are presented. Life Experiences 3

This study examined the effects of outsourcing on employee attitudes to work. The research was conducted in the area of call centre services where there has been a substantial growth in the provision of external suppliers. Findings supported the propositions that outsourced employees had lower organizational commitment and a greater intention to leave their firm than in-house employees. They also displayed lower levels of trust and reported greater work pressure. The results of the study suggest that market-mediated employment arrangements such as subcontracting can be associated with attitudinal and behavioural responses which may impair the quality of service provision to customers. 1

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The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relationship between persistence in distance education and resilience, life events, and external commitments. Previous studies in persistence in distance education have largely examined withdrawal and identified family, job and life circumstances as major reasons why students dropout or fail to complete courses. Recent literature has described resilience as a quality that characterizes individuals who, though exposed to significant stress and adversity in their lives, do not succumb to the educational and life failures predicted for them. Although resilience has not, to date, been extensively examined in distance education, it was believed to be a major factor affecting persistence and dropout behavior in distance education. The sample consisted of 121 randomly selected undergraduate students, between the age of 30 to 45, who were registered in their first undergraduate course at Athabasca University and who returned the previously mailed questionnaire packets. Data relating to gender and course completion was obtained from student records. Scores from the Resiliency Attitudes Scale (RAS), the Life Events Inventory (LEI), and one questionnaire relating to external commitments completed the data set.

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*An earlier version was awarded best paper at the second Industrial