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Background: Spatial skills are essential for independent living as they enable navigation to new locations, route learning and path retracing. Alongside motor coordination difficulties, there is evidence that individuals with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) experience spatial processing difficulties. However, although self-reports indicate that adults with DCD report difficulties with sense of direction and navigation, no known studies have investigated navigation skills and strategies in DCD. Furthermore, given evidence that individuals with DCD report higher levels of anxiety, we will additionally investigate associations between anxiety and navigation in this group. Aims: This study compares navigation abilities, navigation strategies and spatial anxiety in adults with and without DCD.

Background: Spatial skills are essential for independent living as they enable navigation to new locations, route learning and path retracing. Alongside motor coordination difficulties, there is evidence that individuals with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) experience spatial processing difficulties. However, although self-reports indicate that adults with DCD report difficulties with sense of direction and navigation, no known studies have investigated navigation skills and strategies in DCD. Furthermore, given evidence that individuals with DCD report higher levels of anxiety, we will additionally investigate associations between anxiety and navigation in this group. Aims: This study compares navigation abilities, navigation strategies and spatial anxiety in adults with and without DCD.

This report concludes a project about workplace surveillance in Poland and Germany with a particular focus on monitoring in call centres. In order to understand normalisation of surveillance technologies at work, we studied how this process is affected by legal norms, political discourse and attitudes of the call centre employees in both countries. We analyzed the German and Polish law following the coming-into-force of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We also conducted in-depth interviews with call centre employees, as well as with experts from trade unions, employer’s associations, and public institutions, who influence the political discourse on the topic. The interviews revealed that despite the recent legal changes, prompted by the introduction of the GDPR, experts from both countries still consider current legislation on workplace monitoring as too imprecise. We also found that call centre employees had very little awareness of their rights concerning privacy and data protection at work, and that their attitudes towards workplace surveillance varied greatly depending on their norms and values, as well as on the workplace conditions.

Supplemental material, supplement_material for Power through empowerment? The managerial discourse on employee empowerment by Mirela Ivanova and Christian von Scheve in Organization

The rise of digital platforms requires a deeper understanding of the structural role of algorithmic management in work environments. In this interdisciplinary study, we examine how digital platforms, which offer food delivery service, use a mobile application for management of their workforce. Drawing on interviews with self-employed riders at Deliveroo and employed riders at Foodora, we compare how the app affects the interplay between autonomy and control of riders, and how the app-based management relates to different contractual models.

The rise of digital platforms requires a deeper understanding of the structural role of algorithmic management in work environments. In this interdisciplinary study, we examine how digital platforms, which offer food delivery service, use a mobile application for management of their workforce. Drawing on interviews with self-employed riders at Deliveroo and employed riders at Foodora, we compare how the App affects the interplay between autonomy and control of riders, and how the app-based management relates to different contractual models., Arbeit | Grenze | Fluss - Work in Progress interdisziplinärer Arbeitsforschung

Democracy thrives on social dialogue and collective search for solution. As a forum for new ideas and impulses the Körber-Foundation seeks with its projects to involve citizens actively in social discourses. The private, non-profit-making foundation provides a forum for involvement in politics, education, science and international communication. Citizens who take part in competitions and round table discussions organized by the foundation benefit in many ways: they can pass on knowledge, identify problems and initiate activities. These kinds of stimulus form the Körber-Foundation’s contribution to the everyday culture of democracy.

Европа е част от моята биограФия, от стиховете мии свободата ми. Hе континет а дърҗава на духа идумите. Човек, у когото җивеят безброй хора. The first time I came across the term “Europe” was in a poem by our national poet, Ivan Vasov. In this poem he addresses Europe as a person who is dear and close to him and whom he would like to continue to trust, mainly because it knows the price of freedom. Therefore the attitude of indifference that Europe displays toward the brutality and the atrocit...