Essays about: "contingent work"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 37 essays containing the words contingent work.

  1. 21. Procuring and Outsourcing IT contingent talent workers in the digital era: A Work System Lens : Information Technology Outsourcing

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

    Author : Saad Saad; [2016]
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    Abstract : Digital age is a challenging period for multinational companies resulting in a greater need for flexible organisational activities creating a huge demand for IT contingent talent workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the challenges associated with this growing phenomenon. READ MORE

  3. 22. Empowerment job design and satisfaction of the blue-collars’ motivational needs : A case study of Étoile du Rhône and Rastatt Mercedes-Benz factories

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Edouard de Willermin; Hong Nguyen; [2015]
    Keywords : assembly line system; automotive industry; blue-collars; empowerment; Job Design; motivation; motivational needs; need satisfaction;

    Abstract : The main purpose of this research is to study the impact of the empowerment Job Design (JD) techniques on the satisfaction of the blue-collars’ motivational needs in the context of assembly line system in the automotive industry. We have developed this purpose aiming to make a theoretical contribution due to the fact that only a few studies were developed and were linked to the empowerment model developed by Conger and Kanungo (1988) which is a JD model relevant for the context of assembly line work which is qualified as repetitive and monotone. READ MORE

  4. 23. A Combinatorial Auction with Equilibrium Price Selection

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT)

    Author : Kiril Videlov; [2015]
    Keywords : Combinatorial auction; Equilibrium price; Discrete optimization;

    Abstract : Financial markets use auctions to provide accurate liquidity snapshots for traded instruments. Combination orders, such as time spreads require the atomic trading of more than one security contract. In order to auction such complex order types, a new design, which considers all contingent instruments simultaneously, is required. READ MORE

  5. 24. Law, Biopolitics, and the Problem of Historical Specificity : An Analysis of the Juridical Paradigm of Aesthetic Genre between 1750 and 1850

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Ludwig Schmitz; [2015]
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    Abstract : Abstract Within the conceptual framework of biopolitics and political theology, the author draws from the work of Foucault, Agamben, Derrida, Benjamin, and Schmitt to discuss the historical and theoretical conditions for an aesthetic theory structured according to a legal logic. The thesis discusses the two contrary positions of Foucault and Derrida on the historical specificity of madness, in order to argue that the same theoretical and methodological impasse emerges in subsequent discussions of biopolitics and the ontology of law. READ MORE

  6. 25. Women in congress and the substantive representation of women in Chile

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Sarah Sascha Herold; [2015]
    Keywords : substantive representation; women in parliament; Chile; feminist triangles;

    Abstract : The topic of this research are the linkages between the descriptive and the substantive representation of women. The research questions seek to explore 1. in how far and on what basis women in parliament represent women and women's issues and how women in civil society perceive this 2. READ MORE