David A C Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 1172003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A C Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT D A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chalmers University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9349-1936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Returning to Spiritual Sense
In recent theological scholarship, there has been a wave of interest in the tradition of spiritual sense and marginal social identities within analytic and philosophical theology. In this article, I explore the theologies of spiritual sense in analytic theology (AT) to highlight part of the reason for the predominance of cisgender heterosexual voices in the field. Many feminist voices in AT express a common concern for a lack of integration betwe…
Complying with conservation compliance? An assessment of recent evidence in the US Corn Belt
Conservation provisions of US farm bills since 1985 have been aimed at mitigating negative environmental impacts of US agriculture. One of the long term goals has been to protect against soil erosion, with a focus specifically on highly erodible land (HEL). Conservation Compliance (CC) mandates that, in order to receive federal subsidies, farmers who plant annual crops on HEL must implement a conservation plan, with practices such as rotating cro…
Introduction
This introduction sets out the rationale for an issue focusing on the demise of the A-level, and the value of bringing together the different voices and perspectives of teachers, students and examiners. The issue combines emotions and analysis, history and politics, reflections and potential futures
In defence of standards or an act of ‘cultural barbarism’? Anthropology and histories of A-level Reform
In this article the authors situate the demise of A-level anthropology within a longer history of policy concern with educational ‘standards’. The events leading up to 2015 offer an ethnographic case through to analyse the consequences of the progressive deregulation of educational provision and the accompanying centralisation of oversight. The article reflects on the implications of this history for future relations between politicians, teachers…
Group Working
This article describes a type of work organization that is an alternative to individual working based on division of labour and specialization. Working in groups, it is argued, overcomes the frustration and boredom brought on by the monotony associated with repetitive, differentiated work. A particular for of group working, which is team‐based, emphasises the virtues of working together, such as the ability to make use of the various skills withi…
Line Balancing
This article describes a technique for which the main objectives are to minimize the idle time when work is allocated along a line and spread it as evenly as possible across the workstations. Line balancing comprises two aspects, that is, determination of the required number of stations and the assignment of tasks to each station with the objective of maximizing efficiency.
System Loss
System loss occurs with product layouts where operators are “paced”, or required to keep working at the speed of the line, so they cannot complete all their work within the cycle time or have idle time on a cycle. The line then needs to be stopped for work to be completed, or products remain unfinished at the end of the line and need to be completed later, or workers further down the line are forced to have idle time.
Job Design
Job design is a general term given to the aspect of operations system design that relates to the way in which jobs are structured and workers motivated.
Work Organization
This article is about the way in which the people in the production or operation system can be organized and directed toward meeting its output objectives. It examines product, process and task‐oriented types of work organization as well alternative forms that that recognize the importance of how workers interact with technology.
Job Enrichment
This article defines job enrichment as being where jobs are extended vertically rather than horizontally, meaning that more satisfying jobs are created by adding work of a different level instead of merely increasing the amount of work carried out. Tasks of greater complexity can be undertaken or further responsibilitiescan be assigned such as production planning, material ordering, quality control, or maintenance.
Process Layout
This article describes one of the three basic options for laying out facilities to produce goods or deliver services. In a process layout similar production processes are grouped together in the same department or area. Advantages include specialized supervision and flexibility because the priority of batches can be changed. Disadvantages of process layouts including high work‐in‐progress levels, frequent setups, extensive material movement, and …
Balancing Loss
This article defines balancing loss in production lines together with the related activity of line balancing that aims to minimise idle time by allocating activities more evenly across the workstations in the line.
Product Layout
This article describes product layout and how it relates to the other facility layout options for producing goods or delivering services. It examines the different types of product layout and some of the problems associated with them, together with some of the approaches to solving them.
International Location
This article describes how an international location decision is taken at the highest level by organizations involved in international operations. Such organizations can be subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, international joint ventures, licensees, or franchising. It is also relevant to consider the configuration of a company's network at an international level.
Job Enlargement
This article describes an approach to job design that provides a way of increasing job satisfaction and motivation. A greater amount of work is carried out as a way of increasing worker involvement, but the level of work remains unchanged. This can lead to greater job satisfaction and, as a result, higher performance and better quality.
From Postbox to Powerhouse
Checking the Post
Introducing the twentieth anniversary issue of new formations in Autumn 2007, David Glover and Scott McCracken agreed with the journal's founding editor, James Donald, that the days when the prefix 'post' seemed to capture the Zeitgeist were severely numbered. If the prefix (or, as Glover and McCracken's Freudian slip had it, 'the suffix post') had signalled a pervasive sense of an ending when it came into vogue during the 1980s, we were finally,…
Lyotard, Post-politics and Riotous Music
When the finger points at the moon, the IDIOT looks at the finger. Chinese Proverb--graffito on the wall of the Paris Conservatoire de Musique, May, 1968 (1) In the wake of the 'evenements' of May 1968, Jean-Francois Lyotard promised to write a history, or rather an 'antihistory', of the irreducibly singular energy-events he took them to be. His statement of intent survives with the subtitle: 'Unpublished introduction to an unfinished book on the…
The Sonorous, the Haptic and the Intensive
In a recent discussion of his work, the Australian composer David Chesworth described his Melbourne-based sound installation 'Proximities' as an example of 'disturbed space'. (1) Conceived by Chesworth and his collaborator Sonia Leber as 'a sonic corridor of human voices', 'Proximities' is a soundscape built up from the artists' recordings of the singing voices of people from fifty-three Commonwealth nations now living in Australia. The work is s…
Libidinal economy, prostitution and consumer culture
Two Tool Boxes for Wildlife Management
This article likens Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal wildlife approaches to two “tool boxes.” Drawing on examples of Australian land and wildlife management issues, the authors explore similarities and differences between the two cultures in wildlife management goals, authority sources, views on appropriate uses, knowledge transfer and knowledge bases, and management techniques applied. Examples discussed include use of fire in northern A…
Often crude and quaint
The title and topic of this paper are drawn from a statement by Baldwin Spencer: ‘Australia is the present home and refuge of creatures, often crude and quaint, that have elsewhere passed away and given place to higher forms. This applies equally to the aboriginal as to the platypus and kangaroo.’ The paper investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of some Arnhem Land peoples as illuminated through their rock-art and attempts to underst…
Wildlife and world views
Research in a number of western and non-western cultures suggests there are only a limited number of basic orientations toward other species. In the broadest sense, these can be related to fundamental cultural assumptions about what the world is like - world views, world metaphors or cosmologies —and how other species are represented as a result of these assumptions.\nIn this paper we explore our topic in relation to two cultural traditions - tho…
Salman Rushdie as Post-postmodernist
(1997). Salman Rushdie as Post‐postmodernist: The Politics of Genres and Self‐Representation in the Satanic Verses ’Affair’. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-37
Libidinal economy, prostitution and consumer culture
The Sonorous, the Haptic and the Intensive
In a recent discussion of his work, the Australian composer David Chesworth described his Melbourne-based sound installation 'Proximities' as an example of 'disturbed space'. (1) Conceived by Chesworth and his collaborator Sonia Leber as 'a sonic corridor of human voices', 'Proximities' is a soundscape built up from the artists' recordings of the singing voices of people from fifty-three Commonwealth nations now living in Australia. The work is s…
Salman Rushdie as Post-postmodernist
(1997). Salman Rushdie as Post‐postmodernist: The Politics of Genres and Self‐Representation in the Satanic Verses ’Affair’. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 1-37
Wildlife and world views
Research in a number of western and non-western cultures suggests there are only a limited number of basic orientations toward other species. In the broadest sense, these can be related to fundamental cultural assumptions about what the world is like - world views, world metaphors or cosmologies —and how other species are represented as a result of these assumptions.\nIn this paper we explore our topic in relation to two cultural traditions - tho…
Often crude and quaint
The title and topic of this paper are drawn from a statement by Baldwin Spencer: ‘Australia is the present home and refuge of creatures, often crude and quaint, that have elsewhere passed away and given place to higher forms. This applies equally to the aboriginal as to the platypus and kangaroo.’ The paper investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of some Arnhem Land peoples as illuminated through their rock-art and attempts to underst…
Two Tool Boxes for Wildlife Management
This article likens Australian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal wildlife approaches to two “tool boxes.” Drawing on examples of Australian land and wildlife management issues, the authors explore similarities and differences between the two cultures in wildlife management goals, authority sources, views on appropriate uses, knowledge transfer and knowledge bases, and management techniques applied. Examples discussed include use of fire in northern A…
Checking the Post
Introducing the twentieth anniversary issue of new formations in Autumn 2007, David Glover and Scott McCracken agreed with the journal's founding editor, James Donald, that the days when the prefix 'post' seemed to capture the Zeitgeist were severely numbered. If the prefix (or, as Glover and McCracken's Freudian slip had it, 'the suffix post') had signalled a pervasive sense of an ending when it came into vogue during the 1980s, we were finally,…
Lyotard, Post-politics and Riotous Music
When the finger points at the moon, the IDIOT looks at the finger. Chinese Proverb--graffito on the wall of the Paris Conservatoire de Musique, May, 1968 (1) In the wake of the 'evenements' of May 1968, Jean-Francois Lyotard promised to write a history, or rather an 'antihistory', of the irreducibly singular energy-events he took them to be. His statement of intent survives with the subtitle: 'Unpublished introduction to an unfinished book on the…
The Sonorous, the Haptic and the Intensive
In a recent discussion of his work, the Australian composer David Chesworth described his Melbourne-based sound installation 'Proximities' as an example of 'disturbed space'. (1) Conceived by Chesworth and his collaborator Sonia Leber as 'a sonic corridor of human voices', 'Proximities' is a soundscape built up from the artists' recordings of the singing voices of people from fifty-three Commonwealth nations now living in Australia. The work is s…
Libidinal economy, prostitution and consumer culture
From Postbox to Powerhouse
Group Working
This article describes a type of work organization that is an alternative to individual working based on division of labour and specialization. Working in groups, it is argued, overcomes the frustration and boredom brought on by the monotony associated with repetitive, differentiated work. A particular for of group working, which is team‐based, emphasises the virtues of working together, such as the ability to make use of the various skills withi…
Line Balancing
This article describes a technique for which the main objectives are to minimize the idle time when work is allocated along a line and spread it as evenly as possible across the workstations. Line balancing comprises two aspects, that is, determination of the required number of stations and the assignment of tasks to each station with the objective of maximizing efficiency.
System Loss
System loss occurs with product layouts where operators are “paced”, or required to keep working at the speed of the line, so they cannot complete all their work within the cycle time or have idle time on a cycle. The line then needs to be stopped for work to be completed, or products remain unfinished at the end of the line and need to be completed later, or workers further down the line are forced to have idle time.
Job Design
Job design is a general term given to the aspect of operations system design that relates to the way in which jobs are structured and workers motivated.
Work Organization
This article is about the way in which the people in the production or operation system can be organized and directed toward meeting its output objectives. It examines product, process and task‐oriented types of work organization as well alternative forms that that recognize the importance of how workers interact with technology.
Job Enrichment
This article defines job enrichment as being where jobs are extended vertically rather than horizontally, meaning that more satisfying jobs are created by adding work of a different level instead of merely increasing the amount of work carried out. Tasks of greater complexity can be undertaken or further responsibilitiescan be assigned such as production planning, material ordering, quality control, or maintenance.
Process Layout
This article describes one of the three basic options for laying out facilities to produce goods or deliver services. In a process layout similar production processes are grouped together in the same department or area. Advantages include specialized supervision and flexibility because the priority of batches can be changed. Disadvantages of process layouts including high work‐in‐progress levels, frequent setups, extensive material movement, and …
Balancing Loss
This article defines balancing loss in production lines together with the related activity of line balancing that aims to minimise idle time by allocating activities more evenly across the workstations in the line.
Product Layout
This article describes product layout and how it relates to the other facility layout options for producing goods or delivering services. It examines the different types of product layout and some of the problems associated with them, together with some of the approaches to solving them.
International Location
This article describes how an international location decision is taken at the highest level by organizations involved in international operations. Such organizations can be subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, international joint ventures, licensees, or franchising. It is also relevant to consider the configuration of a company's network at an international level.
Job Enlargement
This article describes an approach to job design that provides a way of increasing job satisfaction and motivation. A greater amount of work is carried out as a way of increasing worker involvement, but the level of work remains unchanged. This can lead to greater job satisfaction and, as a result, higher performance and better quality.
Introduction
This introduction sets out the rationale for an issue focusing on the demise of the A-level, and the value of bringing together the different voices and perspectives of teachers, students and examiners. The issue combines emotions and analysis, history and politics, reflections and potential futures
In defence of standards or an act of ‘cultural barbarism’? Anthropology and histories of A-level Reform
In this article the authors situate the demise of A-level anthropology within a longer history of policy concern with educational ‘standards’. The events leading up to 2015 offer an ethnographic case through to analyse the consequences of the progressive deregulation of educational provision and the accompanying centralisation of oversight. The article reflects on the implications of this history for future relations between politicians, teachers…
Complying with conservation compliance? An assessment of recent evidence in the US Corn Belt
Conservation provisions of US farm bills since 1985 have been aimed at mitigating negative environmental impacts of US agriculture. One of the long term goals has been to protect against soil erosion, with a focus specifically on highly erodible land (HEL). Conservation Compliance (CC) mandates that, in order to receive federal subsidies, farmers who plant annual crops on HEL must implement a conservation plan, with practices such as rotating cro…
Returning to Spiritual Sense
In recent theological scholarship, there has been a wave of interest in the tradition of spiritual sense and marginal social identities within analytic and philosophical theology. In this article, I explore the theologies of spiritual sense in analytic theology (AT) to highlight part of the reason for the predominance of cisgender heterosexual voices in the field. Many feminist voices in AT express a common concern for a lack of integration betwe…
Computer Science (11 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Work (physics) (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Assembly Line Balancing Optimization (5 works) · Mechanical Engineering (5 works)