work environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofworkandenvironment
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work
noun
uk/wɜːk/us/wɝːk/
an activity, such as a job, that a person uses physical or mental effort to do, usually ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofworkandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofwork environment
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Nurses are invited to focus on strategies that can be implemented in theirworkenvironment.
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Protests usually sought to maximise incomes or to control theworkenvironment.
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Contextual models of development suggest that certain characteristics of theworkenvironmentmay shape adult personality development and well-being.
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To achieve this aim, two applications have been developed that run simultaneously (concurrently) in theworkenvironment.
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These overlaps, however, are limited, and each of the two types ofworkenvironmentcontains a diverse range of occupations.
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A team approach was used in order to examine how teachers working together as a team could become knowledge-productive learners in theirworkenvironment.
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Participants, contemporary records suggest, experienced great enjoyment during the festival, which represented a world very different to their rigidly controlledworkenvironment.
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There are useful sections here on economic restructuring, theworkenvironmentand health promotion.
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Attributes are rated as being present in theworkenvironmenton a four-point scale where 1 represents 'strongly disagree' and 4 represents 'strongly agree'.
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A second aim was to see the extent to which these organizational attributes are actually present within the currentworkenvironment.
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The combination of complex technology, patients with life-threatening diseases and the use of high-energy radiation can lead to a highly stressfulworkenvironment.
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This importance of women'sworkenvironmentrelative to other factors that promote reproductive innovations may change with broader socioeconomic and cultural transformation of society.
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Workers also show heterogeneous sleep quality by three measures ofworkenvironment: air quality, privacy level and number of co-workers.
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Her material, however, also points to deeper problems in an unreceptiveworkenvironmentand an unresponsive workforce.
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From this perspective, it is important to move beyond simple comparisons, to examine how characteristics of theworkenvironment(microsystem) impact on women.
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Almost all of the potential dangers in the robot-manworkenvironmentare the result of combinations of unsafe conditions and unsafe actions.
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It also provided older volunteers with the feeling that they were part of an organisational structure similar to aworkenvironment.
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The book rightly observes that the challenge is not only to adapt systems to the widely acknowledged changes in the demographic, economic andworkenvironment.
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The collectivized environment is associated with lower fertility and higher contraceptive use than either the individualizedworkenvironmentor not working outside the home.
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