Designing Better Interventions: Insights from Research on Decent Work

Designing a “better” brain: insights from experts and savants

1 Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Centre for the Mind, School of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia 3 Centre for Research in Complex Systems, Faculty of Business, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, Australia 4 Complex Systems Research Group, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia *Corre...

Decent Work: A Psychological Perspective

This contribution, which serves as the lead article for the Research Topic entitled "From Meaning of Working to Meaningful Lives: The Challenges of Expanding Decent Work," explores current challenges in the development and operationalization of decent work. Based on an initiative from the International Labor Organization [ILO] (1999) decent work represents an aspirational statement about the qu...

Decent Work: Introducing the Obstacles Ahead

Our main aim was to identify and prioritize the obstacles to the implementation of decent work in the industry. The current research was applied in terms of purpose. It was also descriptive survey in terms of collecting data. Due to the large extent of industry sector actors, only one side of the main actors' triangle in the industrial sector in Yazd province was selected as the statistical sam...

Decent Work in Agriculture Synopsis of the Background paper (IWSDWA/2003) International Workers’ Symposium on Decent Work in Agriculture

Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work

Th is paper reviews evidence from both industrialized and developing countries on the relationship between labour market fl exibility and employment. It is argued that the notion of fl exibility and its impact is often oversimplifi ed. Th e evidence, such as it is, does not provide much support for the view that greater fl exibility results in higher employment. Th ere is more evidence for an i...