As the leader of a Ford Foundation research initiative on issues of equity, conducted in collaboration with three large US corporations, she was the first to argue that it is not policies and benefits but the way work is accomplished that needs to change to alleviate work-life conflicts.
"Our objective is to alleviate working conditions like those described in the report in order to make sure that workers don't bear the brunt of poor factory management practices and keep their jobs," Alan Hassenfeld, a spokesman for the organization, said in the statement.
Although accidents and issues related to shift work and fatigue are gaining attention in the media, many companies are still not addressing ways to help alleviate work fatigue.
Large manufacturers today, however, are facing massive labor turnover and increased pressure to alleviate dangerous work conditions.
However, high hindrance stress developed by perceived constraints at work may cultivate a "learned helplessness" in individuals, which prevents them from effectively utilizing work-family balance practices to alleviate their work-family conflict.
Support groups are a great way to get new information about tricks you can try to alleviate RLS; what works for someone else may work for you, too.
A sociotechnical perspective on workplace safety affords researchers and practitioners a systems-based theoretical and practice-oriented framework within which to envision, study and work to alleviate safety risks and hazards, particularly within complex work settings.
The model's creators believe that a more flexible system is needed, particularly to alleviate pressure on working parents.
Colquhoun, a Glaswegian merchant and magistrate, had co-founded a soup kitchen in London that aimed to "alleviate distress" among working families.
The foundation wanted to advance the work of those organizations doing extraordinary work to alleviate human suffering.
To alleviate this problem, a working bioinformatics pipeline was established with this work that can be applied to subsequent transcriptome efforts for other species of terebrids.
