“Polizisten bewachen das Symbol der Wall Street”

Quelle: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:The_Corporatist_State_2011_Shankbone_2_DE.JPG&filetimestamp=20111023083613

Lob des Privateigentums! In praise of private property!

Picture taken at a cemetery in Berlin (by Doris, thanks)

Kinderarbeit – Child Labor

(Bild bereitgestellt von Shanjoy (Shanjoy) [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons)

Der Fotograf GMB Akash schreibt auf seiner Webseite:

“Born to work

Child labour is not a new issue in Bangladesh. as children remain here one of the most vulnerable groups living under threats of hunger, illiteracy, displacement, exploitation, trafficking, physical and mental abuse. Although the issue of child labor has always been discussed, there is hardly any remarkable progress even in terms of mitigation.

17.5 percent of total children of the 5-15 age group are engaged in economic activities. many of this children are engage in various hazardous occupations in manufacturing factories. factory owners prefer to employ children as they could pay them less and also able to keep their factories free from trade unionism. a child labour gets taka 400 to 700 ( 1 USD = 70 taka) per month, while an adult worker earns up to taka 5000 per month.” (Quelle: http://www.gmb-akash.com/view_gallery.php?album_id=16 ).

Die Fotografien sind zugleich sehenswert und erschütternd.

Buy Nothing Day, 27.11.2010

Viele fahren Rad…

“Everyone’s on bikes, from the pelotons of the Tour de France to the bicycle transporters of Burundi” (Quelle). – Große Unterschiede zeigen sich auch im Kleinen – im Radfahren. Die schöne Fotostrecke verdeutlicht das.

(Thanks to Joe Shlabotnik for the picture, http://farm1.static.flickr.com/70/203777564_a397447510.jpg )

Wer nicht arbeiten kann …

Dieses Foto zeigt den Türklopfer der Eingangstür des Arbeitshauses Gressenhall in Norfolk. Den künftigen Insassen wurde symbolisch klargemacht, was sie erwartete – die harte Hand, die Faust sogar.

Go to the Shops

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“Kaviar und Innovation” – Vortrag von Prof. Ken Parry an der UDE

Professor Ken Parry von der Griffith Business School (Brisbane, Australien) hielt am 14.5.07 während eines knapp einwöchigen Arbeitsaufenthaltes am Lehrstuhl für Personalwirtschaft an der UDE (Essen) einen Vortrag zum Thema

Metaphors for innovative organisations: Findings from a national qualitative questionnaire and implications for leadership.

Hier die Zusammenfassung: “A national survey used a qualitative questionnaire to test for perceptions of: climate for innovation; organisational culture; and metaphors for the organisation. Huge differences were found between the most innovative and the least innovative organisations, in terms of the food metaphors that represented these organisations in the minds of respondents. Inter alia, the most innovative organisations were lobster and caviar, while the least innovative organisations were meat&veg or pie&chips. Interview data uncovered the social constructions that reflected these metaphors. Inter-rater reliability was confirmed. Internal reliability was confirmed. Convergent validity was confirmed. Common method variance was removed. Implications for sensemaking and for organisational leadership are discussed.” (Quelle: Ken Parry).

Neben den interessanten inhaltlichen Ergebnissen war auch die Verbindung von qualitativer und quantitativer Forschung außerordentlich anregend.
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