Benchmarking labour market performance and labour market policies
theoretical foundations and applications
Power, ideology and structure: the legacy of normalization for intellectual disability
Abstract: Since its first formulation in English, the "principle of normalization" has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have...
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Abstract: Since its first formulation in English, the "principle of normalization" has had a profound impact on policy and practice in the field of intellectual disability. Over the past fifty years, normalization, and Social Role Valorization, have drawn on liberal humanist philosophy, adopting varied and complex positions in relation to it. This article will consider an apparent structural correspondence between a discourse of "liberal equality" with versions of normalization that emphasised conformity to social norms, and those drawing primarily on "liberal autonomy", emphasising independence and self-determination of people with intellectual disabilities. Despite this seeming correspondence, the article eschews a structuralist account in favour of a discursive and rhizomatic model, in which the philosophical elements are seen as tactical forces deployed in the pursuit of wider strategic ends. The article concludes by highlighting paradoxes in contemporary thinking that can be traced to t
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Benchmarking labour market performance and labour market policies: theoretical foundations and applications
Abstract: "Over the last few years, 'benchmarking' advanced to a key word in organisational development and change management. Originally, benchmarking was a tool in business studies summarising the process of comparing your own with a similar...
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Abstract: "Over the last few years, 'benchmarking' advanced to a key word in organisational development and change management. Originally, benchmarking was a tool in business studies summarising the process of comparing your own with a similar organisational unit (mostly the competitor) in order to improve the competitive position. Benchmarking must be distinguished from purely analytical methods of comparison: First, performance indicators must be developed which differ from traditional design. Secondly, an organisational unit must be found which can be classified as the 'best performer' concerning the chosen indicators. The comparison then aims at finding options for the improvement of your own organisational unit in different hierarchical levels with the objective to progress in the position of the 'best performer'. It is understandable to investigate whether or not benchmarking procedures are also applicable in non-profit and public organisational units. In this field, one of the princip
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Constructive power and discordant discourses in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Abstract: The present paper aims to focus on how the circuit of different discourses in Alexandria and Rome contributes to the subject formation in Antony and Cleopatra. Identity, which acts as trap in this play, precipitates the characters from two...
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Abstract: The present paper aims to focus on how the circuit of different discourses in Alexandria and Rome contributes to the subject formation in Antony and Cleopatra. Identity, which acts as trap in this play, precipitates the characters from two different countries or contexts into a war through creating binarized categories with heterogeneous possibilities. Mark Antony - one of the Triumvirs of Rome in search for self-actualization strives against his country’s discourse in the beginning, he places himself in the warring discourses of Rome and Alexandria. When in Alexandria, he is inside the discourses of Rome, and when in Rome, he is inside the discourses of Alexandria. Like the nature of the signifier as it can happen and be determined by other contexts, Antony retains references to Rome when he is Alexandria, and establishes himself as a subject and makes his signification possible in this foreign country by relating himself to epicurean concepts other than his own former stoic attit
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Types of governance in education: a quantitative analysis
Abstract: "This study creates a typology of education systems. It uses empirical analysis to deter-mine six types of education governance on the basis of various factors such as the degree of state involvement or funding sources, and structural...
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Abstract: "This study creates a typology of education systems. It uses empirical analysis to deter-mine six types of education governance on the basis of various factors such as the degree of state involvement or funding sources, and structural differences of average time spent on homework or the degree of support for low achievers. It reveals differences in output among these 'types' as measured by student performance, and relative equality of performance. The typology reflects similarities in governance of education among groups of countries, and indicates that common geography and history may be more of a linking factor than expected in a globalized world." (author's abstract)
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Female teams im eSport: Re-Konstruktion der Kategorie Geschlecht
Abstract: "Das Ziel dieses Papers ist es, die Herausbildung von "female Teams" im eSport zu untersuchen. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt hierbei auf Rekonstruktionsmechanismen der Kategorie Geschlecht, welche durch Sprache und Diskurse gebildet, erlernt und...
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Abstract: "Das Ziel dieses Papers ist es, die Herausbildung von "female Teams" im eSport zu untersuchen. Das Hauptaugenmerk liegt hierbei auf Rekonstruktionsmechanismen der Kategorie Geschlecht, welche durch Sprache und Diskurse gebildet, erlernt und fortgeführt werden. Der Anteil der Spielerinnen, die das Computerspielen als Sport betreiben, wächst stetig an - deshalb soll in dieser Studie der Profibereich des eSport näher betrachtet werden. In einem Tätigkeitsfeld, in dem nicht der Körper im Mittelpunkt steht -im eSport ist kein Körperkontakt von SpielerInnen gefordert- wird nicht die körperliche Leistung im Sinne von "Körper gegen Körper" gemessen und verglichen. Es werden vor allem kognitive Fähigkeiten wie Reaktionsvermögen, strategisches und technisches Verständnis erfordert. Welche Mechanismen -ob bewusst oder unbewusst- haben in diesem Feld zur Rekonstruktion der Kategorie Geschlecht geführt?" (Autorenreferat)
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Physician reimbursement, time-consistency and the quality of care
Abstract: "We use a model of horizontal and vertical differentiation to study physicians' incentives to provide quality in the physician-patient relationship under price regulation. If the price is the only regulatory variable, the social planner...
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Abstract: "We use a model of horizontal and vertical differentiation to study physicians' incentives to provide quality in the physician-patient relationship under price regulation. If the price is the only regulatory variable, the social planner cannot implement the first-best policy. Moreover, the second-best policy is time inconsistent. Excess entry and firstbest efficient total quality provision is observed in the game without commitment. Allowing physicians to compete in prices does not solve the commitment problem since the competitive solution coincides with the time consistent outcome. In the median voter equilibrium the time consistency problem is more severe." (author's abstract)
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Gütekriterien und faktorielle Struktur des IMC-Gitters zur Messung von Leistungs-, Macht- und Anschlussmotiven
Abstract: Der Beitrag analysiert das IMC-Gitter (Individual Motive Constellations) in Hinblick auf Reliabilität und Gültigkeit der faktoriellen Struktur. Das IMC-Gitter erhebt den Anspruch, Leistungs-, Macht- und Anschlussmotive simultan erheben zu...
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Abstract: Der Beitrag analysiert das IMC-Gitter (Individual Motive Constellations) in Hinblick auf Reliabilität und Gültigkeit der faktoriellen Struktur. Das IMC-Gitter erhebt den Anspruch, Leistungs-, Macht- und Anschlussmotive simultan erheben zu können. Der Beitrag beruht auf den Daten von N=244 Probanden, welche im Rahmen von Personalauswahlprozessen erhoben wurden. Nach einleitenden Bemerkungen werden die Entstehungsgeschichte und empirische Erfahrungen mit dem Einsatz des Instruments berichtet. Eine anschließende Itemanalyse zeigt überwiegend akzeptable Schwierigkeiten, hohe Trennschärfen sowie befriedigende bis gute interne Konsistenzen für die einzelnen Skalen. Eine konfirmatorische Faktorenanalyse bestätigt zumindest fünf der sechs postulierten Faktoren des IMC-Gitters. Es zeigt sich, dass das IMC-Gitter die aus der Leistungsmotivationsforschung bekannte zweidimensionale Struktur des Motivs 'Furcht vor Misserfolg' nicht abbilden kann. Eine Überarbeitung der beiden Skalen oder altern
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The effectiveness of online and on-to-one tutoring in the writing center on the students' achievement: a multiple case study
Abstract: The Writing Center at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) is a place where students can improve and develop their writing skills by working one-on-one with tutors. This study compares between the progress performance of students who come...
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Abstract: The Writing Center at Notre Dame University-Louaize (NDU) is a place where students can improve and develop their writing skills by working one-on-one with tutors. This study compares between the progress performance of students who come regularly to the Writing Center to work one-to-one with the same tutor and use the online tutorial services to students who don't visit the Writing Center, but only depend on the traditional classroom instructions and direct instructor's comments and feedback on the writing. This study is divided into two parts. As a start, 80 students were asked to write two in-class essays on two different days. Each of these essays was considered as draft one. Then, in the first part of the study, 58 students sat twice per week one-on-one with the same tutor in order to seek help before writing draft two for the two essays. 29 students met face-to-face with the tutors and the other 29 students worked on-line with the tutors. Whereas, the other 22 students were a
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