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What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...work contract between capital and labour has been at the centre of economics since it developed as a social science 150 years ago. Now we're watching economists broaden the nature of what that contract is, recognising how people feel about their work, how they relate to it as a dimension that's pretty important in any calculation about productivity. I think that...
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Article 10 mins
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...work with young people in these years included work done by the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.2 Young people and social exclusion - [A photograph of a group of four teenagers, sitting on a wall at the side of a street.] Figure 3 The creation of the SEU was particularly significant in the development of partnership...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...working relationships are a complex set of social skills and behaviours (e.g. Bowes and Jones, 2006). However, here in this course, it is broken down into parts – thereby making it easier to study – and you will revisit this video in Session 2 to make further sense of it. Right now, at the beginning of this course, you should consider to what extent you use small talk...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...worked for Social Services. I was providing respite care for foster carers, looking after their children at the weekends to give them a break. Had varying needs of the children I was looking after, one little girl had meningitis which left her severely brain damaged, cerebral palsy, and many other health-related problems, and I looked after those to give the foster carers...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...social trends in the UK...Session 4: your work: present and future: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ayesha Peeran, Martin Upton and Jitka Vseteckova in collaboration with Legal & General. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Telephone bereavement support: does it work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Telephone bereavement support: does it work?

...working out how to eventually ‘let go’ and ‘move on’. It’s more about working out how we can live with the loss, continue relating to the memories of the person who has died, and carry on functioning as friends, parents, partners, work colleagues, neighbours, and so on. Findings from research tell us that, when we experience bereavement, around 60% of us will...
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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...work from home, whether hybrid or full time, this article examines the carbon footprint cost of remote working...Find out about The Open University's Environment courses. Digital carbon footprints and the remote workforce Today many companies find themselves at the intersection of two global workforce megatrends – distributed, remote workforces and the phenomenon known...
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Article 5 mins
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...social worker, or education welfare worker, many of those working with young people view their work as largely on the young people's terms. Young people are not required to see a youth worker; they do so of their own volition. This is a key factor in being able to play the role of an ‘ally’. However, this does not mean that boundaries do not need to be set. Being an...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs