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Introduction The concept of ‘wellbeing’ is typically thought of in human-centric ways, referring to the affective feelings and bodily sensations that people may have which inform their sense of health, safety, and connection. However, as our everyday lives, identities, relationships, and embodiments become digitised and datafied, ‘wellbeing’ has ta...
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... those on the tree were produced using computer numerical controlled (CNC) carving. The central timber post is covered with human and more-than-human traces, such as old tool marks, weather damage, and wood borer holes. Alongside these traces, the CNC-carved fungi forms add a conspicuously digital layer of human intervention. In Hand of Signs ( fig. 5), we extend this idea of both organic and digital data traces as something that can be 'read' or interpreted. Inspired by the practice of palmistry, this work reinterprets line reading, the historical wooden anatomical model, and human body scanning as ways of reading for signs of wellbeing in past and future. Palm readers interpret ...
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... The results obtained (β = 0.326; t-value = 2.566; p < 0.05; f 2 = 0.088) indicate that the intensity is moderate. Previous studies have shown that structured training is a critical success factor [88]. The employer image of companies that invest in the further training of their employees is generally perceived positively [65,66]. ...
Performance measurement refers to the systematic evaluation and analysis of the performance and results of business processes, initiatives, or strategies. This study discusses the crucial role of communication using signaling theory in employer branding in the context of the social economy organization (SEO). The aim is to measure employee satisfaction in concrete terms and to determine the status quo of the communication culture of the organization under investigation in order to develop an employer branding strategy based on the results. The authors use an employee survey as a quantitative research method and limit the data collection to the EU member state of Germany considering the research background. The results provide insights into the specific communication policy in relation to employer branding. The focus here is on (digital) communication. Organizations need to understand how communication strategies directly influence the perception of the employer brand in the social economy. Furthermore, practical implications are derived in order to increase employer attractiveness. Concrete recommendations of action for SEOs should help them be successful in the competition for qualified specialists and talent.
Previous studies of self-tracking often focus on themes such as control, surveillance and the production of self-optimising neoliberal subjects. This article extends understanding by exploring the affective capacities of self-tracking in fostering wellbeing and forging meaningful relationships. Drawing upon a Deleuzian conceptual framework and the experiences of a sample of self-tracking individuals in the United Kingdom, we examine how self-tracking practices can encourage the formation of new relationships, habits and capacities that enhance wellbeing in unique and personal ways. Our analysis presents three key themes: tracking towards meaningful relationships, routinising wellbeing and self-tracking through the struggle. Crucially, our findings move beyond the ‘body productive’ exposing how the affective capacities of self-tracking emerge through dynamic interactions between users, devices and wider assemblages, rather than being solely determined by technology. In doing so, we highlight the importance of personal and relational dimensions of wellbeing as they intersect with self-tracking technologies.
The performance of a company is measured using a complex system of interconnected criteria. Furthermore, the crucial role of communication using signal theory in employer branding in the context of social economy organizations (SEO) is discussed. The aim of this article is to explore the interactions between SEO’s communication strategy and its employer brand. The authors use a case study as a qualitative research method and, due to the research background, limit the data collection to the EU member Germany. The results provide insights into the specific challenges and opportunities SEO faces in relation to employer branding. Particular attention is paid to the role of (digital) communication. An understanding can be developed of how the design and implementation of communication strategies have a direct influence on the perception of the employer brand in the social economy. Furthermore, practical implications are derived in order to specifically optimize communication approaches and at the same time increase employer attractiveness. This article contributes to understanding the connections between communication and employer branding using signaling theory. At the same time, concrete recommendations for action are formulated for SEO to be successful in the competition for qualified specialists and talent.
In the latest two decades, there has been an increasing number of publications in education studies drawing on Actor-Network Theory (ANT). However, the uptake of ANT in education studies was not immediate, and the investigations on educational leadership through ANT have been rare. With the aim of promoting the study of educational leadership through ANT, this article shows that ANT is a vocabulary to counter modernistic thinking in education and brings ecological materialism to critical educational leadership studies. While modernity inscribes educational leadership in binary (mind vs body; people vs things; human vs machine) and humanist thinking (humans above things), ANT invites to see it as a more-than-human activity of (re)assemblage of people, technologies, and things for the (re)composition of the common world.
