This paper examines the ethnic and racial discrimination faced by immigrants in workplace. The challenges immigrants face on and off the workplace due to their status, their amount of legal protection, and their knowledge of the work and legal system are illustrated. Although there have been many debates surrounding U.S. immigration policies concerning the assertion that natives lose jobs to im...

This report constitutes a scoping literature review that identifies and critically examines the evidence base surrounding health and wellbeing programmes conducted in the workplace and their impact on employees and their employing organisations. The review drew on a broad range of sources covering multiple sectors. However, the report additionally highlights evidence that relates specifically t...

background: psychologically traumatic workplace events (known as critical incidents), which occur globally, are increasing in prevalence within the usa. assisting employers in their response is a growing practice area for occupational medicine, occupational social work, industrial psychology and other occupational health professions. traumatic workplace events vary greatly in their level of org...

• Managers who hire refugees often do so for humanitarian reasons. This approach can be detrimental both and firms. Well-intended workplace integration efforts undermine refugees’ growth. Instead, a pragmatic to employing offers more benefits. Pragmatic explicitly recognize agency skills.

Australian healthcare is greatly enriched by its overseas-trained doctors (OTDs). There is no national approach to support the integration of OTDs into the workforce. The problem areas are well defined--the need for better information access; better orientation to our healthcare systems and the workplace; improving communication with patients and healthcare workers; standardised assessment of k...

When graduating from veterinary school, veterinary professionals must be ready to enter the complex veterinary profession. Therefore, one of the major responsibilities of any veterinary school is to develop training programmes that support students' competency development on the trajectory from novice student to veterinary professional. The integration of learning and assessment in the clinical...

We present a detailed description of the design and integration of auditory and haptic displays in a collaborative diagram editing tool to allow simultaneous visual and non-visual interaction. The tool was deployed in various workplaces where visually-impaired and sighted coworkers access and edit diagrams as part of their daily jobs. We use our initial observations and analyses of the recorded...

This article examines the influence of resource dependence and institutional processes on post-Civil Rights Act changes in private sector workplace segregation. We use data collected by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1966 through 2000 to examine organizations embedded within their firm, industry, local labor market and federal regulatory environments. Sex segregation decl...

Ubiquitous computing environments can support clinical administrative routines in new ways. The aim of such computing approaches is to enhance routine physical work, thus it is important to identify specific design requirements. We studied healthcare professionals in an emergency room and developed the computer-augmented environment NOSTOS to support teamwork in that setting. NOSTOS uses digita...

This qualitative research was designed to understand how the social integration process in the workplace unfolds with adults who have intellectual disabilities. Participant observation and interviews permitted an in-depth examination of 10 integration situations within a company, with regard for the actions and perceptions of the stakeholders. Analyses revealed various intertwined processes, in...