Time and cost overruns of industrial projects in kerala

Poor project planning, implementation and control and the subsequent cost and time overruns are ubiquitous features that have been posing serious concern at all levels - state, national and international. It results in wastage of the nation's scarce resources and retards the socio-economic progress. Although several studies peripheral on project overruns have been made at the national level, no serious attempt has been made at the state level to identify the magnitude of overruns, their causes and impacts on industrial projects. The present study "Time and Cost Overruns of Industrial Projects in Kerala" is an earnest attempt to probe in depth the time and cost overruns and their impact on industrial projects. The study places emphasise on the identification of the real reasons behind the cost and time overruns. It also covers the present project management practices of industrial projects in Kerala.

Reaching for the skies: Time and turbulence in digital technologies and practices

This research examines dynamics associated with new representational technologies in complex organizations through a study of the use of a Single Model Environment, prototyping and simulation tools in the mega-project to construct Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport, London. The ambition of the client, BAA. was to change industrial practices reducing project costs and time to delivery through new contractual arrangements and new digitally-enabled collaborative ways of working. The research highlights changes over time and addresses two areas of 'turbulence' in the use of: 1) technologies, where there is a dynamic tension between desires to constantly improve, change and update digital technologies and the need to standardise practices, maintaining and defending the overall integrity of the system; and 2) representations, where dynamics result from the responsibilities and liabilities associated with sharing of digital representations and a lack of trust in the validity of data from other firms. These dynamics are tracked across three stages of this well-managed and innovative project and indicate the generic need to treat digital infrastructure as an ongoing strategic issue.

Varieties of capitalism and investments in human capital

This paper explores the relationship between national institutional archetypes and investments in training and development. A recent trend within the literature on comparative capitalism has been to explore the nature and extent of heterogeneity within the coordinated market economies (CMEs) of Europe. Based on a review of the existing comparative literature on training and development, and comparative firm-level survey evidence of differences in training and development practices, we both support and critique existing country clusters and argue for a more nuanced and flexible categorization.

Care, disability and HIV in Africa: diverging or interconnected concepts and practices?

Recent research and policy have recognised the central role of unpaid care-givers (often women and girls) in the global South. Disability rights perspectives, however, challenge the language of ‘care’ and ‘dependence’. Drawing on qualitative research with women living with HIV and children caring for them in Tanzania, and on learning from the National Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA), this paper explores the divergences and interconnections between the concepts and practices of care, disability and HIV in the context of East Africa. Despite the development of interdependent caring relations, both care-givers and people living with HIV in Tanzania experience ‘diminished autonomy’. The participation of people living with HIV, including disabled people, in home-based care and in peer support groups, however, can enhance ‘relational autonomy’ for both care-givers and care-recipients. We reflect on opportunities and challenges for mutual learning and cross-movement advocacy by disabled people, people living with HIV and care-givers.

Relações de trabalho na atividade industrial de Rio Claro (SP): uma contribuição ao estudo do processo global de reestruturação produtiva da indústria

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

Da ação social a relação social: estudo das práticas de comunicação no Complexo Industrial de Barcarena

A presente dissertação averigua as práticas de comunicação adotadas pelas empresas Albras-Alunorte no contexto do Complexo Industrial de Barcarena. Nesse sentido, investiga como as estratégias de práticas de comunicação organizacional podem melhorar e gerar valores nas relações entre as organizações do Complexo Industrial de Barcarena e seus públicos estratégicos, colaborando para manter a identidade e a imagem corporativa na Amazônia e no mercado internacional. O estudo pretende responder a uma das muitas contradições nas práticas de comunicação organizacional no Complexo Industrial de Barcarena após a implementação dos chamados grandes projetos. As mudanças ocorridas no espaço onde estão localizadas as grandes empresas de mineração são sentidos em diversas áreas, dando origem a novas formas de relacionamento entre os atores sociais envolvidos, e abalando o sentimento de grande expectativa por parte daqueles que já estavam no local: predominava o anseio por emprego e renda. Assim, a chegada desses grandes projetos modifica a maneira de viver dos primeiros moradores da região, altera o relacionamento com a terra e o meio ambiente e transforma as relações interpessoais de comunicação social. Dessa forma, procura-se descrever o caminho percorrido pelas empresas, através das práticas de comunicação organizacional, que transformou as ações sociais na atual relação social, além de como essas empresas construíram e mantiveram sua identidade e imagem corporativa.

Labor relations in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.

Mode of access: Internet.

Labor and labor relations in the new industries of southwest China,

Reproduced from type-written copy.

Federal preemption in the field of labor-management relations : a bibliography /

"September 19, 1960."

Industrial & labor relations review.

Book review index.

Report, proceedings and evidence of the Select Standing Committee on Industrial and International relations upon the question of insurance against unemployment, sickness and invalidity as ordered by the House on the 14th of February, 1929 : Third session of the sixteenth Parliament of Canada.

Includes index.

Labor relations and productivity in the building trades,

Mode of access: Internet.