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If you are creating a new learner account between 8am on Saturday 6 June - 8am on Monday 8 June, you might experience delays or difficulties in the process. This is due to an upgrade to a system related to new account creation. We apologise for the inconvenience.
If you are creating a new learner account between 8am on Saturday 6 June - 8am on Monday 8 June, you might experience delays or difficulties in the process. This is due to an upgrade to a system related to new account creation. We apologise for the inconvenience.
...work environments. The theory behind ROWE? Employees should be evaluated – and compensated – on the work they produce, not the number of hours they work. It aims to dismantle the idea that more hours equal more efficiency, and encourages employees to step away from the desk and work how, when, and where they want. Proponents of ROWE argue that it leads to happier,...
...work? This album reveals more creative ways to solve problems, other than relying on rational techniques such as brainstorming and lateral thinking. Employees at a small software company are shown how to access their unconscious minds using the power of imagery, associative thinking and metaphor, to find solutions and creative approaches to their work. Meanwhile at a...
...worked out with a consultancy called EquaTerra, which is now part of KPMG. ‘We asked ourselves what we wanted to achieve,’ says Taylor. ‘What’s the output we want to get to? Then, we worked with EquaTerra on how we would perform the benchmarks, because the issue with benchmarking is that everyone calibrates it in some sort of way. ‘So we said, if we look at the...
...work...Artist Duggie Fields has recently added a computer to the tools of his trade. Duggie has been an artist for over 30 years, building up a reputation as one of the world's leading post-pop artists. He has exhibited world-wide, and his London flat acts as a mini gallery of his work. Duggie's desire to reach a wider audience made him turn to computers and the Internet...
...work which has had a profound influence on theorising around space and place and has taken the study of geography into new inter-disciplinary directions... Introduction by Doreen Massey Doreen talks about her life and work at The Open University. Why geography matters OU Professor John Allen introduces the lecture Relational thinking Professor Ash Amin from Durham...
...work like any other form of selling labour, and that they therefore deserve the same rights as any other worker. However, not surprisingly there are a range of competing and conflicting views on all aspects of sex work and on the rights of sex workers, and that some believe that the right to buy sex is wrong and understand justice as supporting sex workers to leave the...
...work of women in mathematics today...[Emmy Noether] Emmy Noether OU research student Harry Kennard places the spotlight on Emmy Noether, the female mathematician who bucked the historical trends suggesting women can't be mathematical geniuses. Highlighting the achievements of women in mathematics The Fields Medal is widely regarded as the most prestigious award someone...
...work. What can be done to solve it? (The advice could work in other workplaces, too...)...It is a stomach-churning reality that the NHS rests on bullying the people who work in it. This “endemic culture of bullying” has facilitated a growing crisis of structural discrimination and racism, staff burnout and stress, and with it a risk to patient safety. Getting a...