Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Economics and Management (CIREG 2016) Volume II

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Economics and Management (CIREG 2016) Volume II
Author: Houcine Berbou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2020-04-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1527549194

This book brings together papers presented at the 3rd Conference of Research in Economics and Management (CIREG) held in Morocco in May 2016. With a focus on the challenges of SMEs and innovative solutions, they highlight the contribution of researchers in the fields of business and management, with all their micro and macro-economic aspects. They shed light on the universal scientific vision of the importance of SMEs with answers relevant to their local context and adapted to their specific national situation. The relevance of SME research lies in its heuristic value of analyzing change, rather than in constructing a category, a particularly useful empirical concept. This third volume is focused on marketing and human resources.

Stress in Health and Disease

Stress in Health and Disease
Author: Hans Selye
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages: 1301
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1483192210

Stress in Health and Disease presents the principal pathways mediating the response to a stressor. It discusses the clinical background of cross-resistance and treatment with stress-hormones. It addresses the diseases of adaptation or stress diseases, diagnostic indicators, and functional changes. Some of the topics covered in the book are the concept of heterostasis; stressors and conditioning agents; morphology of frostbite; characteristics manifestations of stress; catecholamines and their derivatives; various hormones and hormone-like substances; FFA, triglycerides and lipoproteins; morphologic changes; and hypothalamo-hypophyseal system . The gastrointestinal diseases of adaptation are covered. The schizophrenia and related psychoses is discussed. The text describes the manic-depressive disease and senile psychosis. A study of the experimental cardiovascular diseases and neuropsychiatric diseases is presented. A chapter is devoted to the diseases of adaptation in animals. Another section focuses on the shift in adenohypophyseal activity and catatoxic hormones. The book can provide useful information to scientists, doctors, students, and researchers.

Understanding Business Ecosystems

Understanding Business Ecosystems
Author: Soumaya Ben Letaifa
Publisher: De Boeck Superieur
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 2804176762

Understanding Business Ecosystems: How Firms Succeed in the New World of Convergence? builds on strategic management and innovation management academic contributions to better understand theoretical and empirical challenges of business ecosystems. Even if the concept of business ecosystem was coined in 1993, it will lie fallow during more than ten years before gaining scholars’ interest. Managers will however recognize the relevance of this concept as it grasps the complexity of their business reality in terms of new collaborative and innovative strategies. Thus, the main purpose of this book is twofold. On the one hand, the objective is to identify the epistemological and theoretical fundamentals of business ecosystems, and on the other hand, the purpose is to analyse the various managerial challenges. This volume analyses in particular the issues of knowledge management, coopetition strategies, platforms, governance, etc. Understanding Business Ecosystems: How Firms Succeed in the New World of Convergence? is finally a key reference book that innovates by integrating for the first time well known French speaking scholars’ contributions from the strategy and innovation management fields.

Psychosocial Safety Climate

Psychosocial Safety Climate
Author: Maureen F. Dollard
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2019-08-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030203190

This book is a valuable, comprehensive and unique reference text on Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC), a new work stress theory. It proposes a new PSC theory concerning the corporate climate for workers’ psychological health, its origins and implications for work stress, and provides a critique of current research and theories. It provides a comprehensive review of all PSC studies to date. The chapters discuss state-of-the-art empirical evidence testing PSC theory in relation to management roles, organisational resilience, corruption, organisational status, cultural perspectives, illegitimate tasks, high PSC work groups, PSC variability in work groups, etc. They investigate outcomes such as psychological distress, emotional exhaustion, depression, worry, engagement, health, cognitive decline, personal initiative, boredom, cynicism, sickness absence, and productivity loss, in various workplace settings across many countries. This unique book allows practitioners to rapidly update practical measures, benchmarks and processes, and provides students and trainees with an introduction to PSC and important concepts and methods, quantitative and qualitative, in occupational health with leads to further sources. Students as well as experts on occupational health and safety, human resource management, occupational health psychology, organisational psychology and practitioners, unions and policy makers will find this book highly informative. It covers relevant materials for undergraduate and postgraduate education, drawing upon the concepts, topics and methods (diary, multilevel, longitudinal, qualitative, data linkage) within the multidisciplinary occupational health area.

The Qualimetrics Approach

The Qualimetrics Approach
Author: Henri Savall
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2011-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1617354775

The impetus for this work emerged from Savall’s belief that there is a doubleloop interaction between social and economic factors in organizations, between behaviors and structures, and between the quality of life in organizations and their economic performance. When managers underestimate this dynamic interaction, the resulting tension ultimately manifests in lowered performance and increased costs, what he refers to as the “hidden costs” of organizational life. Only by delving into the depths of these organizational dynamics can we hope to fully understand – and create the basis for improving – organizational performance. The Qualimetrics Approach presents a different and challenging way of thinking about analyzing organizations, one that draws together quantitative information, financial analysis and qualitative insights into organizational dynamics. As Savall and Zardet argue, to gain a true understanding of what is happening in organizations, intervener-researchers must focus on all three perspectives, as ignoring any one of them will lead to incomplete understandings. Their approach underscores the importance of using qualitative data to validate quantitative depictions (“the numbers”) of organizational performance in understanding the construction of financial statements. The strength of Savall and Zardet’s approach is that it pushes us to go deeper, to fully understand the narratives underlying the numbers and the social construction of our financial assessments.

Comprendre et prévenir les risques psychosociaux

Comprendre et prévenir les risques psychosociaux
Author: Christian Drugmand
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9782124654543

Ce livre propose une approche extrêmement originale. Les risques psychosociaux y sont radiographiés par Line, une jeune chercheuse en anthropologie d'entreprise, âgée de 25 ans. Nous sommes en 2035, notre héroïne s'intéresse à la période 1995-2015, époque de la prise de conscience du risque psychosocial dans le monde du travail. Line rapporte les témoignages des acteurs clés et propose des pratiques de prévention pour anticiper et prévenir les risques psychosociaux au sein de l'entreprise. Au gré de ses questionnements et des réponses qui lui seront apportées, chaque DG, DRH ou consultant, trouvera des solutions appropriées à son contexte. La dernière partie est un véritable "cahier de mise en pratique" recensant recommandations et solutions pratiques ! En ouvrant de nouvelles pistes, ce livre propose une dynamique vertueuse qui vous permettra de vous prémunir contre les pratiques nocives tout en améliorant la réussite individuelle, la performance collective et la qualité de vie au travail !

Work and Quality of Life

Work and Quality of Life
Author: Nora P. Reilly
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 940074059X

Employees have personal responsibilities as well as responsibilities to their employers. They also have rights. In order to maintain their well-being, employees need opportunities to resolve conflicting obligations. Employees are often torn between the ethical obligations to fulfill both their work and non-work roles, to respect and be respected by their employers and coworkers, to be responsible to the organization while the organization is reciprocally responsible to them, to be afforded some degree of autonomy at work while attending to collaborative goals, to work within a climate of mutual employee-management trust, and to voice opinions about work policies, processes and conditions without fear of retribution. Humanistic organizations can recognize conflicts created by the work environment and provide opportunities to resolve or minimize them. This handbook empirically documents the dilemmas that result from responsibility-based conflicts. The book is organized by sources of dilemmas that fall into three major categories: individual, organizational (internal policies and procedures), and cultural (social forces external to the organization), including an introduction and a final integration of the many ways in which organizations can contribute to positive employee health and well-being. This book is aimed at both academicians and practitioners who are interested in how interventions that stem from industrial and organizational psychology may address ethical dilemmas commonly faced by employees.

Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights/Annuaire de la convention europeenne des droits de l'homme , Volume 36 Volume 36, 1993

Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights/Annuaire de la convention europeenne des droits de l'homme , Volume 36 Volume 36, 1993
Author: Council of Europe/Conseil de L'Europe
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 1078
Release: 1995-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789041101518

This volume of the Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, prepared by the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe relates to 1993. Its presentation follows that of the previous volume. Part one contains basic texts and information of a general nature; part two deals with the European Commission of Human Rights; part three with the European Court of Human Rights; part four with the Resolutions of the Committee of Ministers; and parts five and six with the other work of the Council of Europe in the field of human rights, the situation in the Member States, and developments within the European Communities. A Bibliography and Index are included. Ce volume de l'Annuaire de la Convention européenne des Droits de l'Homme, préparé par la Direction des Droits de l'Homme du Conseil de l'Europe, concerne l'année 1993. La première partie contient des textes fondamentaux; la deuxième partie contient les rapports de la Commission européenne des Droits de l'Homme; la troisième partie donne des informations sur la Cour européenne des Droits de l'Homme; la quatrième partie contient des Résolutions du Comité des Ministres; et les cinquième et sixième parties regroupent toutes les autres activités concernant la Convention dans le cadre du Conseil de l'Europe et comprennent des informations sur les débats devant les parlements nationaux et sur les développements au sein des Communautés européennes concernant la protection des droits de l'homme. Le volume se termine avec une bibliographie et une index alphabétique.