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Unexpected Problems (unexpected + problem)
Selected AbstractsTemporary Employment and Strategic Staffing in the Manufacturing SectorINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2009MATT VIDAL While prior research has identified different ways of using temporary workers to achieve numerical flexibility, quantitative analysis of temporary employment has been limited to a few key empirical indicators of demand variability that may confound important differences. Our analysis provides evidence that many manufacturers use temporary workers to achieve what we call planned and systematic numerical flexibility rather than simply in a reactive manner to deal with unexpected problems. Although temporary work may provide many benefits for employers, a key function appears to be the provision of numerical flexibility not to buffer core workers but to externalize certain jobs. [source] Impact of experience on maintenance skillsJOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, Issue 2 2002Magne Jørgensen Abstract This study reports results from an empirical study of 54 software maintainers in the software maintenance department of a Norwegian company. The study addresses the relationship between amount of experience and maintenance skills. The findings were, amongst others, as follows. (1) While there may have been a reduction in the frequency of major unexpected problems from tasks solved by very inexperienced to medium experienced maintainers, additional years of general software maintenance experience did not lead to further reduction. More application specific experience, however, further reduced the frequency of major unexpected problems. (2) The most experienced maintainers did not predict maintenance problems better than maintainers with little or medium experience. (3) A simple one-variable model outperformed the maintainers' predictions of maintenance problems, i.e. the average prediction performance of the maintainers seems poor. An important reason for the weak correlation between length of experience and ability to predict maintenance problems may be the lack of meaningful feedback on the predictions. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Doctors' perspectives on their innovations in daily practice: implications for knowledge building in health careMEDICAL EDUCATION, Issue 10 2008Maria Mylopoulos Context, When individuals adapt their practice in order to solve novel or unexpected problems of practice, they are creating new knowledge. This form of innovation development is understood as a core competency of adaptive expertise and the basis for knowledge building community practice. However, little is known about the ways in which this knowledge, produced through daily, innovative problem solving, is developed, identified and shared by health care professionals. Methods, Following this line of inquiry, we conducted semi-structured interviews with a saturation sample of 15 clinical faculty staff at the University of Toronto. Results, A grounded theory analysis of the results showed that our participants held the view that innovation was focused on outcomes, developed through research practice and diffused for adoption in the broader community. As a result, their own individual improvements to daily practice were excluded from this view of innovation. Furthermore, their perceptions of innovation limited participants' engagement in the sort of collaborative process that is central to the practice of knowledge-building communities. Conclusions, This research demonstrated that thinking about innovation and innovative practice must be changed in order to foster the development of knowledge-building communities in medicine. [source] Conservative therapy in placenta accreta: unexpected problems after drug-induced uterine contractionsBJOG : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 13 2009JM Palacios-Jaraquemada No abstract is available for this article. [source] Conservative therapy in placenta accreta: unexpected problems after drug-induced uterine contractionsBJOG : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 13 2009M Morgan No abstract is available for this article. [source] | ||||||||||