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Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?
Money & Business

Employee-owned firms: More engaged and productive employees?

...language, they might be expected to be more willing than an employee in a conventional firm, to ‘go the extra mile’. What did we find? We found the so-called ‘three-pronged hypothesis’ to be valid. This refers to the need for employee ownership to be complemented with increased employee participation in decision making and with supportive human resource policies....
Systems explained by Humberto Maturana
Money & Business

Systems explained by Humberto Maturana

...language and emotions. Transcript 12. Information: The false turn by attempting to quantify meaning; Belongs to engineering not biology; Dynamics of structural change Transcript 13. Triggering change in human social system; Escaping traps; Totalitarian system Transcript 14. Reflecting on the use of his ideas; Education systems grounded in love Transcript Further links...
Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)
Education & Development

Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

...language to describe their thoughts and feelings and be able to ask questions providing time and space for children to be heard. The session ended with participants reflecting on what they will do next. Wills included exploring: further research opportunities with children and parents further opportunities and ways of ensuring RSE input at The Open University is relevant...
What's creative about creative writing?
History & The Arts

What's creative about creative writing?

...language, and uses of the term ‘creative writing’. [Toby Litt] Toby Litt Read a transcript of Toby Litt's discussion Sally O'Reilly & Emma Darwin on the relationship between history and historical fiction Novelists Sally O’Reilly and Emma Darwin discuss the relationship between historical ‘truth’ and historical ‘fiction’. [Sally O'Reilly and Emma Darwin]...
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...course of the century and, in many ways, Gothic writing developed in response to it. The political instability of previous centuries also continued to haunt Irish society and contributed to something of a national identity crisis. As Kevin Whelan puts it, “In Ireland the appeal to the past inevitably worried old wounds on which the scar tissue had never fully...
Beyond belief: talking to the dead
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beyond belief: talking to the dead

...dying and grief? This film interactive delves into spiritual healing and your views on life after death...Start the interactive [Beyond Belief interactive launch image] Select the image to begin... Instructions For best results, use a modern web browser. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer or try a free alternative like Google Chrome, Firefox or Safari....
The art of performing under pressure
Health, Sports & Psychology

The art of performing under pressure

...language, and he taught him visualisation to create an air of inevitability about his shots. “You have to rehearse all that, it’s about the processes that involve a certain mindset.” Over the next 18 months, Donald won six tournaments and had three top-11 finishes in the majors. He became world number one in May 2011 and stayed there for 40 weeks. They went their...
Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...I Dare Not Utter a Word”: Truth, Lies, and Political Violence in Spinoza. Transcript References Spinoza, Benedictus de. (2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and politics...