scholarly journals Sacked! An investigation of young workers' dismissal

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashlea Kellner ◽  
Paula McDonald ◽  
Jennifer Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advocacy Organisation

AbstractLimited academic attention has been afforded to young workers relative to their adult counterparts. This study addresses a phase of the employment relationship for young people that is very infrequently examined – during or around the time when the relationship ends. It examines the relative frequency of different forms of dismissal and the circumstances preceding the dismissals via a content analysis of 1259 cases of employee enquiries to a community advocacy organisation in Australia. Results indicate that dismissal was most commonly associated with bullying, harassment, and taking personal leave. Young men, compared to young women, were disproportionately likely to report allegations of misconduct as preceding dismissal, while females experienced higher rates of sexual harassment and discrimination. The research highlights the types and circumstances of dismissal across a range of employment contexts and reveals the complexities of youth employment relationships which may differ from those of the general workforce.

scholarly journals Sacked! An investigation of young workers' dismissal

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashlea Kellner ◽  
Paula McDonald ◽  
Jennifer Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Relative Frequency ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Advocacy Organisation

AbstractLimited academic attention has been afforded to young workers relative to their adult counterparts. This study addresses a phase of the employment relationship for young people that is very infrequently examined – during or around the time when the relationship ends. It examines the relative frequency of different forms of dismissal and the circumstances preceding the dismissals via a content analysis of 1259 cases of employee enquiries to a community advocacy organisation in Australia. Results indicate that dismissal was most commonly associated with bullying, harassment, and taking personal leave. Young men, compared to young women, were disproportionately likely to report allegations of misconduct as preceding dismissal, while females experienced higher rates of sexual harassment and discrimination. The research highlights the types and circumstances of dismissal across a range of employment contexts and reveals the complexities of youth employment relationships which may differ from those of the general workforce.

scholarly journals Gendered transitions from education to work: The mysterious relationship between the fields of education and work

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Wyn ◽  
Hernán Cuervo ◽  
Jessica Crofts ◽  
Dan Woodman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Linear Relationship ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Time Structure ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Key Dimensions ◽  
Relational Framework ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Enduring Power

This article addresses the paradox that, despite achieving educational participation exceeding their male peers, young women see fewer returns for this investment in the labour market. We argue that this paradox is obscured by youth transitions frameworks that assume a close, linear relationship between education and work. We draw on Bourdieu’s concept of field to highlight the distinctive logics (particularly the ‘time economy’) that shape different engagements by young people in education and work. This approach reveals the enduring power of the time structure of paid work in Australia to dominate key dimensions of life, including caring work, placing many women in a situation where they feel they must ‘choose’ career or parenthood. Our analysis of the intersections and disjunctions of these different fields highlights the challenges for young women’s transitions from education to work, and highlights the need for a relational framework to critically analyse the relationship between these fields.

scholarly journals Supporting girls and young women victims of sexual harassment in schools: “me and you and everyone we know”

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Goodman ◽  
Melania Calestani
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Long Term Impact ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Purpose This study aims to highlight an innovative project, across three European countries, namely, Italy, Sweden and Romania, that used pictorial designs to empower young women to demand the right to live without sexual harassment. Design/methodology/approach Abstract figures in terms of race and gender of young people were produced on cards, which allowed the imagination of the viewer to interpret and discuss these images freely. Other cards had definitions and scenarios. The cards generated discussion and comments both with the young participants and educational professionals. Findings Using the cards produced a rich set of responses from the students. Not all recognised that what was happening between young men and women was sexual harassment. There was a need to develop the concept of empathy and personal responsibility for behaviour and etiquette between the sexes. The response from professionals also varied in terms of sympathy and understanding. Research limitations/implications The three countries had different degrees of openness to addressing sexual harassment of girls in schools. The results may not be generalisable to the UK and researchers would like to use the tool developed in other countries. Practical implications The focus groups with young people in schools highlighted different attitudes towards sexual harassment in girls and young women, between the young women and young men, and the variations in the three countries. There was a need to educate professionals of the long-term impact of sexual violence and harassment. Social implications The research revealed the importance of producing a tool (the cards), which enabled young people to discuss sexual harassment in a focused way. Young women will gain in confidence to challenge sexual and oppressive behaviour. Originality/value This paper gives a voice to young people to discuss an issue, sexual harassment, that is addressed to varying degrees in the countries involved. The competition for young people to produce posters led to some amazing creative ideas.

Making ends meet: Young people, work and the criminal economy

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob White
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Young People ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Young Men ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to locate changes in young people's involvement in crime, and the policing of young people, within the context of a changing political economy and the broken transitions experienced by a significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by significant proportion of young men and young women. It begins by discussing how many young working class people have been excluded from the formal waged economy due to structural changes in the labour market. The paper then explores the relationship between the “cash crisis” affecting many unemployed school leavers, and their income and lifestyle options in the spheres of the informal waged economy, the informal unwaged economy, and the criminal economy

scholarly journals Music for everyone? The failure of music public radio in Spain on streaming music services

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lola Costa Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Public Radio ◽  
Music Distribution ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

It is intended an approach to the relationship of music public radio in Spain with streaming music services. The Internet provides the music industry new forms of music distribution and streaming music services have an important role in this scenario. Personalisation and immediacy may be a threat, but also it could be an opportunity for music public radio, usually associated with prescription and legitimacy. In addition, the Internet strengthens the relationship between radio and listeners and especially among young people, an aspect that has been extensively studied, but less so in relation to streaming music services. Therefore, this issue is addressed with a methodology that combines content analysis with interviews. The results show a scarce presence of music public radio in Spain on streaming music services that should be urgently solved.

scholarly journals The formation of young workers: The cultivation of the self as a subject of value to the contemporary labour force

2018 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Farrugia
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
The Self ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This article explores the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force. In this, the article goes beyond an existing emphasis on young people’s ‘transitions’ through employment, to a focus on the practices through which young people are formed as labouring subjects, and therefore on the relationship between youth subjectivities and post-Fordist labour force formation. Theoretically, the article builds upon increasingly influential suggestions in studies of post-Fordism that the formation of post-Fordist workers now takes place through the conversion of the whole of a subject’s life into the capacity for labour, including affective styles, modes of relationality, and characteristics usually not considered as productive dimensions of the self. In this context, the article shows that whilst young people form themselves as workers through practices that are not specific to institutionalised definitions of education and labour, these practices – and the modes of selfhood they aim to cultivate – vary in ways that contribute to classed divisions within post-Fordist societies. In this, the study of the formation of young workers offers a critical insight into the way that the formation of subjectivities intertwines with the disciplinary requirements of post-Fordist labour in their classed manifestations.

scholarly journals Searching for Oneself on YouTube: Teenage Peer Socialization and Social Recognition Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512090947
Author(s):  
Claire Balleys ◽  
Florence Millerand ◽  
Christine Thoër ◽  
Nina Duque
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Peer Culture ◽  
Peer Socialization ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews

YouTube is the preferred online platform for today’s teenagers. As such, this article explores the relationship between socialization processes in adolescent peer culture and the meanings behind the production and reception of YouTube videos by teenage audiences. Two fields of enquiry comprise the data analyzed in this article. First, through content analysis, we studied the production of videos on YouTube by teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18. The discursive construction of an audience is expressed by YouTubers through intimate identity performances using specific, dialogical, and conversational modes. The second study investigated the reception of these videos by teenagers between the ages of 12 and 19 through the use of focus groups and in-depth interviews. The results explained the way young people develop a sense of closeness with YouTubers. When examined collectively, our studies reveal how teenage YouTube practices, both as production and reception of content, constitute a twofold social recognition process that incorporates a capacity to recognize oneself in others—like figures with whom one can identify with—and a need to be recognized by others as beings of value. The “intimate confessional production format,” as we have termed it, reinforces this bond.

scholarly journals My lawfully wedded workplace: identifying relational similarities of marriage and employment

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-160
Author(s):  
Irit Alony ◽  
Helen Hasan ◽  
Andrew Sense ◽  
Michael Jones
Keyword(s):  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Oral History Interview ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel direction of enquiry into predictions of employee turnover through the application of a qualitative method adapted from marital research. This method focuses on diagnosing the relationship, and has been able to predict divorce with an accuracy of over 90 per cent, as opposed to existing turnover prediction methods’ modest success of about 30 per cent. By demonstrating that the method can be applied to turnover research, this study completes a seminal step in developing this promising direction of enquiry. Design/methodology/approach – The Oral History Interview method for predicting divorce is adapted to employment settings, and tested on Australian legal and healthcare employees. A qualitative analysis of their responses maps the results from this inquiry onto separation-predicting processes identified in marital research. The results are compared to turnover data collected two years later. Findings – Similar relational processes exist in marital and employment relationships when the marital relationship diagnostics method is applied to organisational settings, demonstrating the utility of this tool in the employment context. Preliminary turnover data indicate that some relational processes are significantly associated with employee turnover. Research limitations/implications – Future research should examine the predictive power of this tool on a larger sample, and apply it to a wider range of professions, tenure, and positions. Practical implications – The results indicate that it is viable to diagnose an employment relationship using this diagnostics method developed in marital research. Social implications – The novel perspective offered in this paper has potential to greatly improve this employment relationship across jobs and organisations, thus improving organisational productivity and individual wellbeing. Originality/value – Researchers of employee turnover and practitioners seeking to understand and manage it can benefit from this novel and practical perspective on employment.

scholarly journals KEDUDUKAN PERJANJIAN BERSAMA (PB) TERHADAP PERJANJIAN KERJA BERSAMA (PKB) DALAM HUBUNGAN INDUSTRIAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Holy One N Singadimedja
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Collective Agreement ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Labor Agreement ◽  
Legal Effect ◽  
Collective Labour Agreement ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRAKLegally that the relationship between workers and employers are the same even though the socio-economic position between employees and employers is different, the nature of the employment law has resulted in employment relationships are not always harmonious between workers / unions and employers in industrial relations, the number of employers who eliminate or reduce workers' rights to conduct collective bargaining (PB) to deviate the collective Labour agreement (CLA), whereas in the company there has been a Labour agreement (CLA) is still valid by reason of the collective labor agreement (CLA), which is not in accordance with laws and regulations.The conclusion obtained is that the position of the Collective Agreement (PB) as a Source of Law Autonomous Employment Law is part of the Collective Labor Agreement for the duration of the validity of PKB there are things that do not fit in the employment relationship so it is possible made the Collective Agreement which will then be included in the change PKB with the provisions PB must be registered at the Industrial Relations court, the legal effect of the NT tertentangan with CLA, PB may be declared null and void, cancellation of PB can be done through the judicial land in the area of collective agreements made, since the Industrial Relations court has no competence to resolve disputes cancellation of the Collective Agreement. Keywords: Position, the Collective Agreement, Working Agreement

scholarly journals The effects of education on patterns of youth integration into the labour market in Portugal

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Parente ◽  
Madalena Ramos ◽  
Vanessa Marcos ◽  
Sofia Alexandra Cruz ◽  
Hernâni Veloso Neto
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Employment Relationships ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Secondary Information

Throughout the development of capitalist societies, there has been a steady increase in the importance attributed to education/training in the process of employability: it has asserted itself as a key variable in the functioning of the labour markets. In the light of an analysis of the data in the 2007 Personnel Charts, the aim of this article is to understand to what extent educational levels still represent a variable that explains the different types of employment relationships among young people between 15 and 24 years of age. The relevant and innovative aspects of this study are, firstly, a multiple correspondence analysis of the unpublished secondary information and, secondly, the findings that new patterns of integration into the labour market have emerged, with distinctive characteristics, though they do not call into question the positive association between educational certificates and the employment relationship.

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