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What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide

...Works in Chicago were observed to be more productive in better-lit conditions" is positioned above the light.] [A bright yellow halogen bar light is positioned horizontally across the top of a black rectangular background. Text below is written in white and says "the initial conclusion was that paying more attention to working conditions would improve how well workers...
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Emotion management for translators
Languages

Emotion management for translators

...working as employees in organisations who need to employ specific emotional skills in their working context...Emotion management for translators is an 18-hour training package designed to enhance specific emotional competences in participants, such as understanding and identifying emotions, listening to and expressing emotions, and managing emotions to foster wellbeing....
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Women in Science
Science, Maths & Technology

Women in Science

...working in its Faculty of Science, to nominate their personal choice of outstanding woman of science. The female scientists nominated include several Nobel Prize Laureates, such as Marie Curie, Dorothy Hodgkin and American geneticist, Barbara McClintock. The academics also talk about their own experiences of being a woman in the sciences today... Marie Curie Dr Liz...
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Open Hip Hop
History & The Arts

Open Hip Hop

...work in a managed safe environment...WHY: Following two very successful biannual conferences, feedback from our delegates and supporters have led us to conclude that this type of platform is both innovative and essential and requires an ongoing effort to secure a structured, organised and accessible space for Hip Hop Education. WHAT: Our aim is to document, engage with...
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Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...works with children, observes and plans for further activities while she also records her thoughts and ideas using a video camera. Further video tracks reveal how creativity is nurtured in young children to develop their abilities, how an artist in residence works with nursery children, as well as how the work of bilingual and special needs assistants mean that no child...
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From Astrobiology to Parliament
Science, Maths & Technology

From Astrobiology to Parliament

...working with POST, in conversation with Ann Grand, a fellow member of AstrobiologyOU. ...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. [Devyani, standing by the Jubilee Fountain in New Palace Yard, to the north-west of the Houses of Parliament. Big Ben behind.]Looking back, what were the highlights of your time working with POST? Honestly,...
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Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
History & The Arts

Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic

...in the value of hard work into our everyday ethic. ...How does religion fit with the world of business? Perhaps more closely than you think. The sociologist and economist Max Weber argued that after the Reformation one form of Christian Protestantism, Calvinism, encouraged a different attitude to work, with far-reaching effects. Delve deeper into some of the themes raised...
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Future of Empowerment
Society, Politics & Law

Future of Empowerment

...work-life balance and flexible employment are now firmly part of the mainstream. Yet these advances have been offset by the loss of labour power linked to the decline of trade unions and the emergence of the “gig economy”. Indeed, these empowering desires are up against it and, according to some, even ironically reinforce an often disempowering free-market reality....
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