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"Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of remote e‐working on the key research areas of work‐life balance, job effectiveness and well‐being. The study provides a set of generalisable themes drawn from the key research areas, including building trust, management style and the quality of work and non‐working life.

Design/methodology/approach
The paper is an exploratory study into the psychological factors affecting remote e‐workers using qualitative thematic analysis of eleven in‐depth interviews with e‐workers, across five organisations and three sectors. All participants worked remotely using technology independent of time and location for several years and considered themselves to be experts.

Findings
The paper provides insights into the diverse factors affecting remote e‐workers and produces ten emerging themes. Differentiating factors between e‐workers included access to technology, ability to work flexibly and individual competencies. Adverse impacts were found on well‐being, due to over‐working and a lack of time for recuperation. Trust and management style were found to be key influences on e‐worker effectiveness.

Research limitations/implications
Because of the exploratory nature of the research and approach the research requires further testing for generalisability. The emerging themes could be used to develop a wide‐scale survey of e‐workers, whereby the themes would be further validated.

Practical implications
Practical working examples are provided by the e‐workers and those who also manage e‐workers based on the ten emerging themes.

Originality/value
This paper identifies a number of generalisable themes that can be used to inform the psychological factors affecting remote e‐worker effectiveness."

"Widely quoted cross-country evidence finds income to be negatively associated with inequality, which suggests that there is no trade-off between efficiency and equity. Such inference presumes that countries are at the frontier in the efficiency-equity space. We refute this for most OECD countries, and find that the best-practice frontier displays a trade-off. In accordance with standard economic theory, a larger tax burden is associated with lower efficiency and more equity. Interestingly, there is no evidence that the trade-off has become steeper over the sample period 1980-2010. Country positions differ significantly with some being consistently at or close to the frontier, while others are well inside the opportunity set."

"This publication presents findings from about 100 study visits in 2008/09 related to improving quality and efficiency, one of the strategic priorities of European cooperation in education and training, and specifically, its important components: acquisition of key competences, challenges to teachers and trainers and new approaches to leadership and management.
Group reports prepared by participants during study visits were the main source of information for this publication. They are a rich source of information about practices in education and training in participating countries. This selection represents only a small sample of initiatives identified and presented during visits and also at Cedefop's seminar on 1 and 2 February 2010 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
This publication is aimed at building bridges between educational and VET institutions and developing interesting cooperation projects."

"Cet article a pour objectif d'analyser l'influence de la culture organisationnelle sur les problèmes d'épuisement professionnel dans la main-d'œuvre. Ceci est important pour explorer des pistes d'intervention qui vont au-delà des employés eux-mêmes et des conditions de travail ainsi qu'afin de mieux comprendre comment les éléments du contexte organisationnel peuvent influencer le développement de l'épuisement professionnel dans les organisations. En intégrant à la fois la culture organisationnelle et les conditions de l'organisation du travail, il est possible d'examiner comment la culture influence les différentes composantes des conditions de l'organisation du travail et comment celles-ci peuvent, ensuite, donner lieu au développement ou à l'aggravation des différentes dimensions de l'épuisement professionnel. Cette étude s'appuie sur le courant fonctionnaliste, selon lequel la culture existe dans l'organisation par ses manifestations et artefacts — qui expriment les valeurs et les croyances partagées —, et sur lesquels la haute direction peut avoir une emprise. Des analyses de régression multiples de type multi-niveaux ont été conduites à partir de données recueillies dans 60 établissements privés canadiens auprès de 1824 individus lors de l'étude SALVEO (2009-2012). Les résultats montrent que les cultures groupales, rationnelles et développementales s'associent aux différentes dimensions de l'épuisement professionnel. Ainsi, les cultures organisationnelles groupales et développementales, qui sont caractérisées par la flexibilité, s'associent indirectement à un niveau plus faible d'épuisement émotionnel et de cynisme et à un niveau plus élevé d'efficacité professionnelle. La culture rationnelle, qui est caractérisée par la performance, s'associe indirectement à un niveau plus élevé d'épuisement émotionnel et de cynisme. La culture hiérarchique, quant à elle, ne s'associe pas avec l'épuisement professionnel. Les résultats obtenus démontrent l'importance d'intégrer des variables reliées au contexte organisationnel dans les études portant sur l'épuisement professionnel."

"As the debt crisis in Europe continues to unfold, renewed attention is placed increasingly on public (and private) investment as a vehicle for reigniting growth and counterbalancing the austerity effects of fiscal consolidation policies. Nowhere is this more urgent, or salient, than in Greece. However, there is remarkably little research, at least in that country, examining the criteria under which public investment is allocated across functional categories and across space. This article offers an extensive analysis of the spatial and functional allocation of public investment in Greece over a 33-year period and for various political-economic sub-periods. It examines the prevalence of criteria relating to redistribution, efficiency and equity; the temporal stability and functional complementarity of the observed allocations; and the extent of specialisation, concentration and clustering. Our results offer little evidence of regional or functional targeting, the exploitation of synergies and scale effects (efficiency), or the pursuit of objectives related to equity or redistribution. This raises serious questions about the efficacy of past public investment allocations in Greece and, with the expected increase in funding emanating from the EU, highlights the need for (re)defining the priorities and criteria for the spatial and functional allocation of public investments in the future."

"Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de mettre le Mind Mapping au service de la formation : un outil simple, unique, d'apprentissage rapide et aisé, destiné au formateur occasionnel ou confirmé. La carte heuristique (mind map) présente un système d'informations synthétique grâce auquel l'animateur visualise d'un seul coup d'œil ce qui doit être fait et la manière de le faire, lui permettant ainsi de concevoir, construire, animer et évaluer un module de formation, de l'élaboration des supports et exercices à l'organisation des séances. Elle fournit une vue d'ensemble instantanée du contenu du module, décliné en objectifs pédagogiques, choix des méthodes, lignes de temps, interdépendances entre les actions, offrant ainsi gain de temps et clarté."