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Work Space (work + space)

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Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Evaluating products of matrix pencils and collapsing matrix products

NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS, Issue 6-7 2001
Peter Benner
Abstract This paper describes three numerical methods to collapse a formal product of p pairs of matrices down to the product of a single pair Ê,1Â. In the setting of linear relations, the product formally extends to the case in which some of the Ek's are singular and it is impossible to explicitly form P as a single matrix. The methods differ in flop count, work space, and inherent parallelism. They have in common that they are immune to overflows and use no matrix inversions. A rounding error analysis shows that the special case of collapsing two pairs is numerically backward stable. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Emotion Work and Emotion Space: Using a Spatial Perspective to Explore the Challenging of Masculine Emotion Management Practices

BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, Issue 2008
Patricia Lewis
This paper sets out to investigate the possibility that employees may challenge management through their colonization of work space, facilitated by the transportation of ,private' behaviours and activities into the ,public' world of organization. It does this within the context of a broader project on the management of emotions within a special care baby unit characterized as a high risk, emergency working environment. Focusing on the experience of night nurses and drawing on the concept of differential space the article seeks to demonstrate how the dominant form of emotion work (characterized as masculine) on the unit may be contested. This is done through the creation of the unit at night as a space of empowerment, achieved through the visible enactment of a feminized form of emotion work. In this sense the analysis explores how the performance of feminine emotion work can be understood as acts of spatial resistance to the authority of the masculine emotion regime. In other words night nurses make the special care baby unit into a space which challenges the masculinist emotion management which dominates the unit. It will be suggested that our understanding of the performance of emotion management practices in particular and management practices in general may be limited if space is ignored. [source]

Professionals on the Sidelines: the Working Lives of Bedside Nurses and Elementary Core French Teachers

GENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 3 2007
Isolde Daiski
Oppression exists at many levels and in varying degrees. To demonstrate how marginality affects differently situated professionals, two occupational groups considered to be marginalized were studied: bedside nurses and elementary core French teachers. The findings confirm that women (and men) in ,feminized' fields experience, as well as exercise, oppression. Devaluation of their worth is internalized and taken for granted by most who inhabit these work spaces, including the members concerned. While those groups ,on top' bully those ,below,' dominance is also reinforced laterally amongst the members. Thus marginality between groups, as well as within them is thereby produced, with the centre of oppression constantly shifting. The authors conclude that professionals are not unified categories, readily distinguishable from outside oppressors. Their members, too, are caught up in power relationships amongst themselves. Recognition of the shifting centre of oppression is an essential first step to improve conditions for the marginalized. [source]

COMMUNITY, CONTEXT, AND THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN DISTRIBUTED WORKPLACE INTERACTION

ANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2008
Michael Youngblood
Instantaneous communications technology has made it possible for distant coworkers to be interconnected to an unprecedented degree. Despite this, distributed workers often feel deeply disconnected from the production and performance of conventional workplace relationships and workplace culture. As the knowledge economy workforce trends toward ever-greater distribution and globalization, this raises important questions about the practice and experience of creative coengagement by colleagues who are not proximate to each other in time and space. How are shared understandings of workers' behavioral norms disseminated and practiced when workers are physically isolated from the collective workspace? How are relationships of collegiality and hierarchy constructed and performed through increasingly narrow channels of social interaction? How do workers signal their energy and commitment to a collective creative enterprise when their actual productive activity is largely invisible to others with whom and for whom they work? This article draws on my research with distributed knowledge workers, informal observations of colleagues, and personal experiences working as an independent consultant in distributed settings. It focuses on the challenges these workers face in defining their workplace community and effectively representing their professional selfhood when working at a distance. In this article I suggest that one key to alleviating these challenges is to extend the attributes of "placehood" to distant work spaces. [source]