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Socio-economic Context (socio-economic + context)
Selected AbstractsA comparison of HRM systems in the USA, Japan and Germany in their socio-economic contextHUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, Issue 2 2006Markus Pudelko This article provides a comparative analysis of the HR practices of American, Japanese and German companies. The starting point is an investigation of the managerial, economic, socio-political and cultural contexts of the three HR systems. It will be demonstrated that the socio-economic contextual factors of the American and Japanese HR systems are in many ways at opposite ends of the spectrum, with the German factors in between. Subsequently, the three HR systems themselves are analysed. The data show that the same pattern, USA and Japan at the extremes and Germany taking a middle position, is valid also for the HR systems. This suggests that the relevant socio-economic context is highly pertinent for the establishment of an HR system. This outcome does not exclude either the integration of HR practices from a foreign HR model into the domestic one or standardisation efforts of HR practices of multinational companies, but confines the potential for cross-cultural learning and standardisation to what is within the ,fit' of the relevant socio-cultural context. [source] The Tagus Middle Basin (Iberian Peninsula) from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (V-I Millennium Cal.OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 3 2000BC): The Long Way to Social Complexity This study is the result of surveys and excavations carried out in a selected area of the middle basin of the Tagus river (Southern Meseta, Iberian Peninsula). The analysis of palaeoecological data, material assemblages, settlement patterns, domestic structures, funerary evidence and socio-economic context in the regional archaeological record from the Neolithic (5000 BC) to the beginning of the Iron Age (500 BC) allows us to identify several long-term historic processes; particularly, two habitational, demographic and socio-economic cycles, which contradict the traditional idea that the prehistory of inner Iberia presents almost no apparent change during these four millennia. [source] INVITED REVIEW: Key issues in European food science research: a review of the European Food Science Day 2009QUALITY ASSURANCE & SAFETY OF CROPS & FOOD, Issue 3 2010Daniel Spichtinger Abstract This paper is a report on the European Food Science Day (Brussels, 18 November 2009, organized by the CommNet network of food science communicators) and its outcomes. The article presents FP 7 as a key funding mechanism in European food and nutrition research and it puts research in this sector in a socio-economic context. The article then reviews the specific activities of several EU-funded projects in the field of risk, safety, and health, discussing key issues and research questions in these fields. Spichtinger D., Pongratz I., Jönsson J., Braun S., Colmer C., Poms R., Smith R., Ashwell M., Demeneix B., Skerfving S., van der Poel W.H.M., van der Laag P., Kück M., Warkup C. (2010). Key issues in European food science research: a review of the European Food Science Day 2009. Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods, 2 114,119. [source] A new zoogeography of domestication and agricultural planning in Southern GhanaAREA, Issue 2 2009Michael Campbell Animal behaviour is vital for livestock choices, but is less researched in West Africa than economic considerations. An animal geography framework is applied to the socio-economic context of livestock behaviour in coastal Ghana, assessing the shared ,actant' behaviour of people and animals, and the contribution of such a study to animal geography and agricultural knowledge. Data were gathered on cattle, sheep and goat behaviour and the impact of these on human livelihoods, perceptions and the socio-environmental context. Animal behaviour was more important in the choice of livestock species, but economic considerations were more important in the decision to acquire animals. Goats had more incidents with people in village centres than sheep and cattle. Cattle had more incidents in farmland and grassland than goats and sheep. Women and young people were more affected by livestock behaviour. These findings increase the understanding of livestock zoogeography and livelihood decisionmaking, and contribute to animal geography by documenting the relevance of individualised gender- and age-based human behaviour, as well as intra- and inter-species animal behaviour to a shared actancy perspective, and a more dynamic zoogeography. [source] | ||||||||||