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Scott, Andrew. "On the shop floor in the 1980's : generating the politics of workplace compliance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303591.
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Franke-Hopkins, Lori. "Transforming District Office Culture One Strategy at a Time| An Action Research Project." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3626134.
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This study was an action research project using a mixed method approach. The researcher examined the current state of district office culture as well as how five interventions applied in an office setting played a part in improving the workplace climate and enhancing morale, trust, and self-efficacy among district office personnel. The interventions used for this study included changing the appearance of the office, introducing flexible scheduling, implementing training programs for personnel, updating staff at weekly meetings, and holding monthly celebratory gatherings. Methods included pre-and post-surveys, observations, and interviews. The study found that the workplace climate was positive, and that some of the interventions were welcome and perceived favorably while others were not.
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Carrasco, Vivian. "Building collaborative capacity across institutional fields a theoretical dissertation based on a meta-analysis of existing empirical research /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
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Geisler, Iris Arabella Cordula. "Her work, his play? The faculty salary structure at a Research I university." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289084.
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This dissertation contributes to three major issues in Labor Economics and Econometrics literature. The first contribution is providing new insights into panel-data techniques, the second is new findings on the relationship of women's and men's productivity and pay, and the third is a picture of the remuneration process for professors involved in research and teaching at a Research I University which is based on the detailed data set created for this study. Developing econometric panel data methodology, time-static information is added to a standard fixed effects model. In a setting where no suitable time-varying instruments for the time-static information can be found, it is necessary to calculate the estimates for those in a "second stage" fixed effects estimate. It will be shown that these second stage estimates are exactly equal to the pooled OLS estimates for the same model specification, but that the standard errors are different, and the second stage estimates are biased and inconsistent. Later, new tests for various components of the individual effects are conducted as well as tests to choose the best panel estimation method. Empirically, this work contributes to research on gender discrimination in pay, and its results affect more than the academic environment. So far, most studies were not able to include direct measures of productivity, and have assumed that the estimated gender gap represents an upper bound or overestimation of the real discrimination in pay. The results of this study show that this assumption is not necessarily correct. Looking specifically at the pay structure for university professors involved in teaching and research in a Research I University, several trends have been established. First, structural pay differences between colleges became very apparent, making a strong point against the usage of university-wide regression analysis. For the colleges of Business and Education, seniority lost much of its explanatory power in predicting salaries when publications were added to the analysis. Teaching awards were not rewarded at all in either college, but professors who did not teach were financially penalized.
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Andersson, Ragnar. "Fackförening i internationalisering. En studie av sex fackklubbars gränsöverskridande." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-1851.
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This rapport examines six Swedish workplace unions, in manufacturing internationalised companies, degree of internationalised trade union work. The report is based on interviews with local shop stewards. All local workplace unions were in some form internationalised. They were placed in three different groups of strategies: Passive, Tactical and Strategic. The Passive union only tried to get information; the Tactical unions were reactive against initiative from company management and used the channels provided of Industrial Relation laws. The Strategic unions where acting from an analysis that demanded collaboration with foreign trade unions and were active in trying to build contacts.In discussing why a local workplace trade union become internationalised three explaining factors was constructed: A relation to the company which gave the union more information and resources than the minimum level of required legislation. Second; a strategic analysis involving a threat against the employees. And third; a belief that the trade union could make a difference.
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Bertrams, Kenneth. "Les universités belges et le monde de l'industrie: essai de repérage historique, 1880-1970." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211202.
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Cette thèse de doctorat en histoire porte sur les interactions entre les universités belges et les milieux industriels. Elle tente de dégager les mécanismes qui ont permis de faire se rapprocher sur le temps long ces deux envrionnements institutionnels, sur les plans particuliers de l'enseignement et de la formation (relations indirectes), d'une part, et de la recherche (relations directes), de l'autre/This doctoral dissertation in history focuses on the interactions between Belgian universities and the industrial milieus. It aimed at describing on the long run the mechanisms that brought the two institutional environments closer together in the fields of teaching and training (indirect connections), on the one hand, and research (direct connections), on the other.Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation histoire
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Loni, Kholosa Siphe. "Trade union responses to the casualisation of labour in the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003056.
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This thesis focuses on trade union responses to casualisation of labour in the Eastern Cape. In the context of increased globalization, some employers have attempted to achieve high production outputs while saving on operational costs. The ‘flexible firm’ model is used as but one theory to explain increased flexibility in the workplace. In an effort to achieve increasingly flexible firms that may swiftly respond to subsequent challenges such as increased international competition, employers have been seen incorporating more non-standard workers in the form of casual, temporary, part-time, and seasonal workers. This has been a matter of concern for the unions for numerous reasons: some nonstandard workers are subjected to sub-standard working conditions, irregular working hours and little or no benefits; casual work is arranged in such a way that it is virtually impossible for these workers to join a union – a predicament which bears a high possibility of a decline in the typically standard worker–based membership of trade unions; and non-standard workers are often faced with the representation gap predicament which entails that they are not adequately protected by labour legislation. The thesis explores the responses of trade unions to these challenges, and the proposals that they have made in this regard, by focusing on the sectoral dynamics of non-standard labour in the province. It further discusses the regulation of non-standard labour, as poor representation of some non-standard workers bears consequences for the regulation of the practice of non-standard work. The research adopted qualitative research techniques in the form of semi-structured interviews, and used purposive and snowball sampling in accessing relevant data for analysis purposes.
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Akalin, Kazim. "Business-to-business e-markets in textile industry: An empirical perspective." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2619.
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Geelan, Torsten Karl Rosenvold. "Trade unions and the media : exercising and revitalising power after the financial crisis of 2008." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/267819.
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The Great Recession that followed the financial crisis of 2008 had a devastating impact on workers, leading to high levels of unemployment and underemployment, increased job insecurity and stagnant or declining wages. While the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism could be viewed as a turning point for labour internationally, the immediate response by political parties across the spectrum was one of austerity measures and cuts to welfare. As the largest collective representatives of workers, trade unions are at the forefront of mobilisations attempting to challenge this consensus. Simultaneously, they are engaging in new activities to enhance public awareness and understanding of the crucial role that trade unions play in the labour market. Thus, the 21st century crisis is creating both challenges and opportunities. Each trade union movement’s response depends on the different forms of power they possess and choose to deploy, their strategies and allegiances, and the specific socio-economic and political context in which they are situated. Questions concerning what constitutes union power and the ways in which it is being exercised and revitalized therefore represent fascinating lines of enquiry to explore. To do so, however, requires a new perspective on trade union power that recognises the significance of the media which has been overlooked in industrial relations theory. Drawing on insights from industrial relations, the sociology of media and social movement studies, this thesis proposes the concept of communicative power to trace how trade unions produce and circulate discourse through the media (either union-owned or corporate) to a mass audience. Methodologically, it uses the tripartite approach which focuses our attention onto three key communication processes involved in trade union attempts to exercise communicative power: the production of union discourse, the circulation of union discourse, and the reception of union discourse. This is applied to four cases involving seven union organisations in the UK and Denmark over a five-year period 2010-2015. Data was gathered using 40 semi-structured interviews with union officials and activists, content analysis of newspapers, union media outlets and social media, and secondary survey data. In sum, this thesis argues that the media is, and always has been, central to how trade unions exercise and revitalize power in society. And within the context of accelerating digital capitalism, it looks set to becoming an increasingly important determinant of their future trajectory.
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Wallgren, Lillemor. "Mellan skilda världar : En studie av doktoranders lärsituation i relation till förutsättningarna i fyra företagsforskarskolor." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för tema, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15961.
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Företagsforskarskolor syftar till att kunskaps- och kompetensnivån i näringslivet skall höjas och högskolan tillföras kunskap och erfarenheter från näringslivet. Detta är tänkt att ske genom en utvidgad handledning, bestående av både en akademisk handledare och en industrihandledare, vidare ett avhandlingsprojekt som är av intresse för företaget och dessutom genom att företagsdoktoranderna parallellt med sin utbildning till viss del arbetar inom ett företag. Doktorsavhandlingens övergripande syfte är att, genom empiriska undersökningar, få insikt i och förståelse för företagsdoktoranders situation, i vilken handledningen är en central del. Avhandlingens mer specifika syften är att beskriva doktorandernas perspektiv, upplevelser och erfarenheter av sitt deltagande i olika praktiker, parallellt med sin identitetsutveckling till forskare inom ramen för forskarutbildningsprocessen. Av särskilt intresse är att undersöka och belysa de i undersökningarna identifierade framgångsfaktorerna och hindren i termer av förutsättningar samt behov av anpassning till företagsdoktoranders särskilda situation, där samarbetet inom handledningen är en faktor. För att uppnå dessa syften intervjuades år 2001 och år 2004 ett anta doktorander antagna till fyra olika företagsforskarskolor och några av deras handledare. Stora variationer beroende på företagsmiljö och forskarskoletillhörighet framkommer när det gäller upplevelserna av att vara företagsdoktorand. Detsamma gäller doktorandernas identifikation och deltagande, som resulterar i olika lärsystem med avseende på både dimension och karaktär. Även handledarsamarbetet kring doktoranden varierar och olika handledarkaraktärer framträder. De stora variationerna beror på faktorer som kan hänföras till företagsmiljön, doktorandernas inträde i forskarskolan, avhandlingsprojektet, forskarskoleorganisationen, handledningen och doktorandernas förväntningar inför framtiden. De flesta av dessa faktorer, liksom lärsystemens olika utformning, synliggörs med hjälp av teorier och begrepp inom situerat lärande. Det gör däremot inte de påverkansfaktorer som identifieras och som kan relateras antingen till övergripande strukturer och makt eller till motsättningar mellan olika kunskapsbildningsformer och verksamhets- och lärandelogiker.
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Murray, Nicky. "A history of apprenticeship in New Zealand." Lincoln University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1599.
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This Master's thesis is a history of apprenticeship in New Zealand. Apprenticeship has traditionally been the main route for entry into the skilled trades. At one level apprenticeship is a way of training people to do a particular job. The apprentice acquires, in a variety of formal and informal ways, the skills necessary to carry out their trade. The skills involved with each trade, tied inextricably to the technology that is used, are seen as the 'property' of the tradesperson. Learning the technical aspects of the job, however, is only a part of what goes on during an apprenticeship. The apprentice is also socialised into the customs and practices of the trade, learning implicitly and explicitly the hierarchies within the workplace, and gaining an appreciation of the status of his or her trade. Apprenticeship must also be viewed in the wider context of the relationship between labour and capital. The use of apprenticeship as an exclusionary device has implications for both worker and employer. Definitions of skill, and the ways in which technological advances are negotiated, are both dependent on the social setting of the workplace, which is mediated by social arrangements such as apprenticeship. This thesis thus traces the development of apprenticeship policies over the years, and examines within a theoretical context the debate surrounding those policies. Several themes emerge including the inadequacy of the market to deliver sustained training, the tension between educators and employers, and the importance of a tripartite accord to support efficient and equitable training. Apprenticeship has proved to be a remarkably resilient system in New Zealand. This thesis identifies factors that have challenged this resilience, such as changes in work practices and technology, and the historically small wage differentials between skilled and unskilled work. It also identifies the characteristics that have encouraged the retention of apprenticeship, such as the small-scale nature of industry in New Zealand, and the latter's distinctive industrial relations system. It is argued that benefits to both employer and worker, and the strength of the socialisation process embodied in apprenticeship, will ensure that some form of apprenticeship remains a favoured means of training young people for many of the skilled trades.
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Rückert, Hugo, and Magnus Johnson. "Värdet av en Virtuell Relation : Aktivitet i förhållande till kontext – Spotify ur ett praktikperspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19159.
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The increased interest in relationship marketing and the potential of the Internet as a platform for relationship building activities have given rise to new ways for companies to interact with their customers, such as services based on a freemium pricing model. Based on the premise that relationships are processes consisting of interactive moments of value-creating activities, value is considered subjective, relative and dependent on the context in which the activity takes place. Value is therefore variable given its context and cannot be pre-defined without nuances being lost. Despite the Internet's given role in societal development, our understanding of what contributes to customers' intentions to build relationships with online services is yet to mature. As the music industry is well established on the Internet, alongside the change in how music is consumed, it is thus appropriate to examine activities in accordance with a freemium based service that distributes music online, since it still lacks in academic understanding. This study aims to provide insights about virtual relations and how online services that provide cultural content should relate to there users as well as contributing to the ongoing academic discussion regarding value and how it is manifested by highlighting contextual impact on relational activities. For a rapprochement of relations to online services in cultural industries, this study assumed a practice perspective. In accordance with practice theory and action research, primary data was collected through participatory observation set in users' natural social environment, with a targeted sample of informants well familiar with the object of study - the online service Spotify. The results show that value in virtual relationships arise inter-subjectively between users, where value is relative to past experiences, changeable over time, and expressed through individual and collective activities afforded by current context. If usage of a service is part of the daily routine, it also becomes a part of the user's identity, which the user, in order not to disrupt the routine, is willing to make sacrifices to uphold, thus maintaining their identity and ongoing relationship to the service provider. The more affordances a service provider manages to convey, the more meaningful a relationship is considered to be. The affective dimension of cultural products, especially music, allows for interpersonal coordination, and emotional convergence, where value is created inter-subjectively through collectively shared practices, allowing us to share feelings and experiences and enjoying how the closeness of interpersonal relationships contribute to our everyday lives. The inter-subjective value creation process thus also works as a process of humanizing the virtual relationship.Det ökade intresset för relationsmarknadsföring och Internets potential som plattform för relationsbyggande aktiviteter har gett upphov till nya sätt för företag att interagera med sina kunder, till exempel genom freemium-tjänster. Utifrån premisserna att relationen är en process av interaktionsögonblick av meningsskapande aktiviteter, förutsätts värde vara subjektivt, relativt och beroende av kontexten i vilken aktiviteten utspelas. Värde är således föränderligt givet kontexten och kan inte på förhand definieras utan att nyanser går förlorade. Trots Internets givna roll i samhällsutvecklingen, saknas fortfarande förståelse för vilka parametrar som bidrar till kunders intentioner att bygga relationer med online-tjänster. Då musikindustrin är väl etablerad på Internet, parallellt med att det skett en förändring av hur musik konsumeras, är det således motiverat att undersöka aktiviteter förenliga med en tjänst som distribuerar musik online, baserad på affärsmodellen freemium, då den akademiskt sätt ännu befinner sig i sin vagga. Studiens syfte är att ge insikter om virtuella relationer för hur online-tjänster med kulturellt innehåll ska förhålla sig till sina användare och bidra till den pågående akademiska diskussionen om hur värde manifesteras genom att belysa kontexters inverkan på relationer. För ett närmande av relationer till online-tjänster inom kulturella industrier, antogs för denna studie ett praktikperspektiv. I enlighet med aktionsforskning inhämtades primärdata genom deltagande observation i användarnas naturliga sociala miljö, baserat på ett målinriktat urval av informanter väl bekanta med studieobjektet - online-tjänsten Spotify. Resultatet visar på att värde inom virtuella relationer uppstår intersubjektivt mellan användare, är relativt mot tidigare erfarenheter, är föränderligt över tid, och kommer till uttryck genom individuella som kollektiva aktiviteter beroende av rådande kontext. Är användningen av tjänsten en del av den dagliga rutinen, blir användningen en del av användarens identitet, med påföljden att användaren är beredd att göra uppoffringar för att inte bryta rutinen och på så vis upprätthålla sin identitet och relation till tjänsten. Ju fler affordanser tjänster lyckas förmedla, desto mer meningsfull upplevs relationen. Den affektiva dimensionen som kulturella produkter för med sig, särskilt musik, möjliggör för interpersonal koordination och emotionell sammanstrålning, där intersubjektivt värdeskapande kollektivt tillskjuter värde i den gemensamma upplevelsen, då vi tillåter oss att dela våra känslor och upplevelser och njuta av den närhet som mänskliga relationer bidrar till i våra vardagliga liv. Det intersubjektiva värdeskapandet bidrar till ett förmänskligande av den virtuella relationen.
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Ainsworth, Rodney Phillip. "The entrepreneurial playwright : a relational approach to marketing plays in the regions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/19241/1/Rodney_Ainsworth_Thesis.pdf.
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This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be made towards the marketing of a work and the career progression of the playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context.
The thesis comprises the creation of a full-length theatrical work through the MA (Research) Program at Queensland University of Technology and an analysis of that journey in the context of regional theatre practice in Queensland. Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of the Relational Aesthetic is used as a way of charting my practice and of examining how this approach might be appropriate to theatre-making in regional Australia. The paper establishes strategies by which the playwright, when also undertaking the role of producer, might manage the complex set of circumstances and interactions between the work, the community and the industry.
Using practice-led research methodologies, the exegesis examines the process of the creation of a new play, Sinking, and explores, through the use of an autobiographical case study, what the process has meant to the author’s development as a playwright over a fifteen month period. The paper uses a network map to explore the interactions created through a rehearsed reading of the first draft of the play in October 2006 and, in doing so, demonstrates how a close engagement with the community formed the basis of the entrepreneurial strategy.
The exegesis demonstrates that Bourriaud’s work connects very closely with the author’s practice and examines how the approach might be useful for other regional arts practitioners, particularly those in the early stages of their careers. The research aims to identify how the creation of the play, and the subsequent interactions generated within a regional community, can lead to opportunities to create connections both within the author’s place of residence and in broader theatre industry contexts, nationally and internationally, in order to provide commercial and professional outcomes.
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Ainsworth, Rodney Phillip. "The entrepreneurial playwright : a relational approach to marketing plays in the regions." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/19241/.
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This exegesis examines the proposition that playwriting is an entrepreneurial activity when combined with the role of producer. The thesis demonstrates that, when a playwright combines the two roles and considers the development of a network of relationships in the process, positive steps can be made towards the marketing of a work and the career progression of the playwright. The issues of marketing and career progression are considered in a regional context.
The thesis comprises the creation of a full-length theatrical work through the MA (Research) Program at Queensland University of Technology and an analysis of that journey in the context of regional theatre practice in Queensland. Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory of the Relational Aesthetic is used as a way of charting my practice and of examining how this approach might be appropriate to theatre-making in regional Australia. The paper establishes strategies by which the playwright, when also undertaking the role of producer, might manage the complex set of circumstances and interactions between the work, the community and the industry.
Using practice-led research methodologies, the exegesis examines the process of the creation of a new play, Sinking, and explores, through the use of an autobiographical case study, what the process has meant to the author’s development as a playwright over a fifteen month period. The paper uses a network map to explore the interactions created through a rehearsed reading of the first draft of the play in October 2006 and, in doing so, demonstrates how a close engagement with the community formed the basis of the entrepreneurial strategy.
The exegesis demonstrates that Bourriaud’s work connects very closely with the author’s practice and examines how the approach might be useful for other regional arts practitioners, particularly those in the early stages of their careers. The research aims to identify how the creation of the play, and the subsequent interactions generated within a regional community, can lead to opportunities to create connections both within the author’s place of residence and in broader theatre industry contexts, nationally and internationally, in order to provide commercial and professional outcomes.
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Tassell, Natasha Ann. "Motivation and well-being in humanitarian health workers: relating self-determination theory to hedonic vs eudaimonic well-being, vitality and burnout : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand." Massey University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1138.
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This research examined the effects of motivation on the well-being of humanitarian health workers. Using Self-Determination Theory, I argued introjected and identified motivations were applicable to this occupational domain, and have differential effects on well-being. Introjected motivation would be positively related to hedonic well-being and burnout, while identified motivation would be positively related to eudaimonic well-being and vitality. Orientations to happiness and passion were proposed as mediating these relationships. An online quantitative questionnaire was used in the first phase of data collection. Respondents were N = 82 humanitarian health workers. A semi-structured interview methodology was used in the second phase. Participants were N = 5 humanitarian health workers. Path analyses revealed neither introjected nor identified motivation was significantly related to vitality or hedonic vs. eudaimonic well-being. Both motivations had significant direct effects on burnout, albeit in the opposite direction to hypotheses. Passion moderated the relationship between motivation and burnout. Additional path analyses showed obsessive passion mediated the path between introjected motivation and emotional exhaustion. Harmonious passion mediated the path between identified motivation and diminished personal accomplishment. Both obsessive and harmonious passion mediated the paths between each motivation and depersonalisation, although identified motivation had the strongest relationship with this aspect of burnout. Interview data supported the majority of quantitative findings. The results suggest the motivations underlying engagement in humanitarian work, are related to the development of burnout. The mediational effect of passion determines which aspect of burnout will be most prevalent. The findings have applicability to the design and implementation of recruitment strategies, and programs aimed at the treatment and prevention of burnout in workers, both pre- and post-deployment to humanitarian situations.
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Lowther, Dwain Eldred. "Customer relationship management: A financial perspective." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2694.
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This paper focuses on methods for financial institutions to perform precise customer level analysis to anticipate customers' evolving financial needs and maximize the lifetime value of each customer relationship. The paper proposes software packages that analyze customer relationship management from a financial perspective.
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Bews, Neville Frederick. "A sociological analysis of the concepts "post-industrial" and "post-modern" and their effect on the notion of employer-employee trust." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6289.
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M.A.Contemporary organisations and the people working within these organisations are currently facing a high degree of change which is having an adverse affect on the employer-employee trust relationship. This study examines the nature of this change and, in so doing, considers the issue of the post-industrial and the post-modern as an indicator of the arrival of a new era. The conclusion is reached that the grand narratives are inadequate as explanations for the arrival of a totally new era and that they rather refer to what may be seen as a transformational process. In this regard, attention needs to be given to more narrow theories. With this in mind emphasis is placed, not only on the continuities within society, but on social discontinuities and, in particular, on the erosion of employer-employee trust. The issue of trust as a factor in organisational success is discussed in some depth while attention is given to contemporary theories of trust and the apparent lack of synthesis amongst these theories. An attempt is made, based on some of the theories discussed, to develop a comprehensive model of trust. This model deals with both the conditions that lead to the onset of trust and those factors of trustworthiness which may enhance or erode trust within an existing relationship. The impact, of what appears to be the emergence of a new epoch and in particular the changing nature of work, on the notion of organisational trust is also discussed. Such issues as job losses, reduced opportunities and increasing work loads, changing job structures, changing employee values, organisational diversity and the rise of individualism are considered. This leads on to the conclusion that, within an increasingly competitive world, trust plays a central role within an organisation. For this reason it is argued that it is important for employer and employee to address the erosion of trust, and for the sociologist to become involved by taking an active role, as both researcher and facilitator, in the process of improving the employer-employee trust relationship.
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Huang, Kuo-chen, and 黃國城. "An Empirical Research on the Construction of the Content of Industrial Relations in the Taiwanese Enterprises." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31114140993386916329.
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碩士義守大學
工業工程與管理學系碩士班
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In the decade the economical structure has been changed in Taiwan. Hi-tech industries develop vigorously and the movement of industries increase, industrial relations is challenged seriously for the first time and forces the labor-management disputes growth rapidly. Therefore, to prevent and dealing method would be a tactic issue and the academic as well as the practice need to take more serious concern. This research is expected to realize the issue and find out the key factors of the success of the dealing of labor-management dispute in Taiwan. Intent of this is to create a content questionnaire of industrial relations specifically for enterprises. The research here combines two methods to create such an industrial relations assessment criteria: the Analytic Hierarchy Process（AHP）and the Delphi Method. Depend on the above assessment formula, creating the content questionnaire of industrial relations. The last portion of my research is to apply the content questionnaire of industrial relations to actual enterprise example. And the content questionnaire of industrial relations is practical. The results are concluded: (1) These may be further subdivided into 18 different categories based upon different principles. There are time off, absenteeism, leave office, dismissal, job environment, employees’ wage, employees’ benefits, employees’ performance, employees’ involvement, employees’ motivation, job satisfaction, industrial action, lockout, employees’ grievance handling, union, joint councils, joint consultation, collective bargaining;(2)There are five categories of the content questionnaire of industrial relations in individual: bargaining system, employees’ promise, enterprises’ stability, dispute style, wage and benefits;(3)There are five categories of the content questionnaire of industrial relations in whole: bargaining system employees’ promise, enterprises’stability, dispute style, employees’ system;(4)The study case that industrial relations is good and the wage, benefits, job environment satisfy their employees;(5)The study case that high seniority employee has a higher expect on labor invest and industrial relations. The recommendation will be made for the Practice in the administration of the government as well as the enterprises to dealing with the dispute whenever the dispute is happened.
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Lu, Yi-chun, and 盧怡君. "A Cross-cultural Research of Organization Communication and Industrial Relations－ the examples of Taiwanese, Americansand Japanese firms in Taiwan." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76627978218921712657.
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碩士大葉大學
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In order to increase the competition competency, reach the aim of the organization, make the visions of the firms come true, and complete the development of the industries, firms have to eliminate the inner obstruct that interferes the growth of competition competency. Among all the effective elements, the concordance of industrial relations is the most important of all. We are trying to compare three totally different firms in order to understand the different types of the organization communication and industrial relations under different cultural backgrounds in this study. Through the research, we find the following results: 1.Although American and Japanese firms intend to melt into the local culture, they are still affected by their own cultures and there are still differences existing. 2.Different cultures will affect the process of organization communication through organization cultures, management system and members’ viewpoints of organization communication. 3.Communication style of American firms tends to be individualism, while the communication style of Japanese firms tends to be teamwork. Taiwanese firms, however, tend to the style of people-relationships. 4.How personal elements affect the style of organization communication depends on members’ viewpoints of organization communication. 5.Most firms use face-to-face communication to cope with important problems in the organizations. And American firms tend to use E-mail to deal with general affairs. 6.The labor relations in Taiwanese firms put emphasis on people-relations; the labor relations in Japanese firms put emphasis on coordination. The labor relations in American firms, however, put emphasis on rights-responsibilities.
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Mahlo, Shongy Joyce. "A strategy to enhance positive working relationships among the role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7516.
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M.Cur.Managed healthcare was introduced in South Africa largely in order to control the rampant increase of medical costs, more especially in the private healthcare industry. Managed healthcare is a system of healthcare delivery, which ensures that cost effective quality care is provided to patients without jeopardising the health of the patient. Positive working relationships are necessary among the role players in the provision of cost effective quality care within the managed healthcare context. Role players experience problems in the delivery of healthcare, affecting their working relationships, which in turn affects the quality of care provided to patients. Because managed healthcare is a new concept in South Africa, little is known about the problems. As a result, there are no guidelines for the formulation of a strategy to enhance positive working relationships among the role players within the context of managed healthcare. Understanding the problems experienced by the role players will provide guidelines to the researcher to formulate a strategy to enhance positive working relationships, hence the reseacher sought to explore and describe these problems in the study. The purpose of the study is to formulate a strategy to enhance positive working relationships among the role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng. The specific objective is to explore and describe the problems experienced by the role players, as well as the possible solutions within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng. The relevant research questions are: * What are the problems experienced by the role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng, and what are the recommended solutions to counteract these problems? * What strategy can be formulated to enhance positive working relationships among the role players within the managed healthcare context in Gauteng? A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design was followed to answer the research questions. Focus group interviews and a workshop were conducted to collect data and a content analysis was conducted as described by Tesch (1990). The results were analysed in two phases: the problems experienced and the suggested solutions to counteract these problems. A strategy to enhance positive working realtionships was suggested. The strategy, which is based on role player empowerment, staff development, staff recruitment and selection, use of advanced information technology and standardisation of methods across managed healthcare industry, was derived from a synthesis of solutions suggested by the participants. Guba and Lincoln's (1983:290) principles of trustworthiness were employed by the researcher and the ethical standards as set by DENOSA (1998) were adhered to by the researcher to facilitate the quality of the study. It was recommended that the strategy be implemented and evaluated for its effectiveness by evaluating the quality of working relationships among the role players and that ethical standards be formulated in managed healthcare.
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Yuan, Zhenyu. "A preliminary development and validation of a measure of safety performance." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6185.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Safety researchers have devoted extensive attention to safety performance behaviors. However, current safety performance models have yet to differentiate between safety citizenship behaviors directed towards the organization and those directed towards individuals. This might be a potential oversight, considering that citizenship behaviors targeted at different beneficiaries might be associated with different antecedents. As such, the purpose of the present study was to develop and validate a new safety performance scale. Items from existing measures formed the item pool and those tapping into the proposed dimensions were selected. Next, items were pilot tested using an online panel of 333 employees from various safety-related industries. A 4-factor structure emerged after exploratory factor analysis and the scale was further refined using reliability analysis and item response theory analysis. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to replicate the factor structure using data from 137 employees. Theoretically related variables were correlated with the safety performance dimensions to establish the nomological network. Results supported the 4-factor structure of the new safety performance scale and construct validation hypotheses were largely supported. Implications, study limitations, and directions for future research are discussed.
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Harlos, Karen P. "Organizational injustice and its resistance using voice and silence." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/8637.
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This research is based on the premise that employees respond to dissatisfaction in
general and organizational injustice in particular in two primary ways: by speaking up and/or
by staying silent. This qualitative, theory-generating study examines the phenomenon of
organizational injustice (including its antecedents and consequences) and employees'
responses toward three research goals: 1) greater understanding of organizational injustice; 2)
greater conceptual consensus through concept development of voice and silence; 3) a process
model of organizational injustice, voice and silence. Also, new knowledge about voice and
silence is linked to organizational practice by examining the availability of various voice
systems and perceptions of their efficacy.
The research design is influenced by several organizational research streams, as well
as grounded theory and clinical methods. Thirty-two employees, each representing different
organizations and occupying both managerial/professional positions and clerical/line
positions participated in semi-structured, open-ended interviews in which they described 33
cases of workplace injustice. The interview design includes two methods: 1) a retrospective
critical incident technique to discuss a workplace experience which participants defined as
unjust; and 2) a projective exercise in which participants were asked to imagine that they
could speak with impunity to the person(s) involved or responsible for their perceived
injustice. Interview cases were supplemented by 30 archival cases of employees' voicing of
discontent through a government-sponsored voice system.
Significant results concerning the phenomenon of organizational injustice included
the introduction of a four-category typology which departs from traditional classifications
with its inclusion of interactional injustice (interpersonal mistreatment by a boss) as a distinct
category, the systematic delineation and description of interactional injustice according to
eight emergent behavioural dimensions, the identification of organizational antecedents to
workplace injustice according to four emergent groupings (i.e., structural, procedural, cultural
and global) and the identification of individual- and organizational-level consequences.
In addition, the concepts of voice and silence emerged as forms of resistance to
organizational injustice. Voice was found to encompass two distinct but related constructs:
formal and informal voice. Specific strategies by which participants resisted injustice were
identified for voice (formal and informal) and silence. A process model of voice and silence
in organizational injustice was also introduced.
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Burger, Marilize. "‘n Werksmotiveringsprofiel van die Eskom werknemer wat aan gewelddadige insidente blootgestel is." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/6159.
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M.A.Literature studies have shown that the organization, as well as the individual in the organization is directly affected by violence. The reasons and characteristics of violence have an emotional impact on the employee, and requires of him to work through the impact of incidents in his own time. The result of this process is delayed psychological growth, less creativity which eventually has an impact on productivity. Workmotivation is the force behind reaching goals individually as well as for the organization. External factors which includes violence, have an influence on the employee's ability to feel satisfied in his work situation. The goal of this research study is to determine if Eskom employees that were exposed to incidents of violence have a workmotivation profile that can be identified. A sample was selected with available statistics in Eskom, as well as the snowball method. The sample included 220 respondents. The respondents completed a unstuctured questionnaire, where they had to identify incidents in their work situation that made them feel good / happy, and incidents that made them feel bad / unhappy. The questionnaire was developed by Frederick Herzberg (1968) as part of his motivation hygiene theory where factors of worksatisfaction and rkdissatisfaction were identified. The results were computerized, and quantified by means of descriptive statistics. A workmotivation profile was constructed from the data. The study confirmed that a workmotivation profile of employees that have been subjected to incidents of violence can be identified. Determinants of worksatisfaction and work dissatisfaction were identified as responsibility, supervision, content of work, recognition, promotion, circumstances at work, personal circumstances and violence. On this profile violence received the highest percentage as a determinant of workdissatisfaction.
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Riggs, Brandon S. "A Multi-Level, Cross-Level Examination of Leader and Team Member Outcomes of Leader-Leader Exchange Differentiation." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10989.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Scholars have repeatedly demonstrated the positive benefits of high-quality leader-member exchange (LMX) for employees and organizations alike. Although some research has examined outcomes of differentiation of LMX relationships within teams, there is scant research into the way in which the combination of LMX and LMX differentiation (LMX-D) interact at the leader-level in the workplace hierarchy and the trickle-down effects these leader relationships have on subordinates. Moreover, no research has examined the potential buffering effect that subordinate team LMX may have on leaders who are experiencing the desire to withdraw from the organization as a result of the combination of their leader-leader exchange (LLX) relationships and the LLX differentiation (LLX-D) they perceive on their own leader teams. Thus, the present study sought to combine LMX and multilevel leadership theories to examine the effects of these leader-level exchange relationships on turnover intentions (TOI) for both individuals in leader-member dyads. Results suggested stronger negative relationships between LLX and TOI for both leaders and members when LLX-D is lower. However, examining this relationship at the leader-level when accounting for subordinate team LMX mean suggests that high-quality LMX relationships with the team members supervised by the leader attenuates the negative relationship between LLX and leader TOI. Theoretical and practical contributions are discussed, including the importance of the relationship of LLX, LLX-D, and team LMX mean on employee attitudes at multiple organizational levels.
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Lopes, Morrison Rachel. "Informal relationships in the workplace : associations with job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intentions." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/1666.
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The aim of this thesis was to develop and test a theoretical model of fiendships in the workplace. Friendships within organisations may have a profound effect on an employee's experience of work, potentially either hindering or facilitating organisational functioning, yet friendships have seldom been studied in an organisational context. The association between friendships at work and organisational outcomes such as job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intentions were investigated in three studies, assessing support for a theoretical model. In the first study, employees of a large Auckland hospital Waitemata District Health Board, Auckland (NZ) (n = 124) were surveyed using a written questionnaire. Results indicated that cohesiveness and opportunities for friendship were related to increased job satisfaction, leading to increased organisational commitment and decreased turnover intentions. The actual prevalence of friendships was primarily related to decreased turnover intentions. Overall there was good support for the proposed model. The need for further research to ascertain the generalisability of the findings was highlighted. A second study was conducted using an Internet based questionnaire, accessed both from within New Zealand and worldwide. A diverse sample of employees responded (n = 412). The analysis (structural equation modelling) indicated further support for most aspects of the model, suggesting that the findings are generalisable and the model is robust. The model of workplace relationships was cross-validated in a third study, confirming linkages between friendships at work and organisational outcomes. The model was then tested for intergroup invariance. The model was invariant across groups reporting differing needs for affiliation, autonomy and achievement, but non-invariant across groups occupying relatively less or more interdependent jobs. Results suggest that the interdependence of individuals' jobs affects the salience of work friendships more than respondents' subjective need. Overall, the research suggests that the presence of workplace friendships has a significant effect on several workplace variables, with the effect of friendships being more salient for individuals in interdependent work roles. The implications of the research findings are potentially far reaching. Not only do workplace friendships improve employees' experiences of work, but they also have the potential to affect the financial "bottom line" through factors such as enhanced organisational commitment, job satisfaction and reduced intentions to leave.
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Crask, Erin M. "Moving Beyond Work-Family: Establishing Domains Relevant to Work-Life Conflict." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3246.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)Theoretically, inter-role conflict can occur between any life domains that place competing demands on an individual. However, inter-role conflict research has mainly focused on the conflict between only two domains: work and family. This limited focus is problematic because it has excluded many other potential life domains in which people participate. In order to focus more attention on other life domains, however, it is necessary to understand which life domains people are participating in. As such, the goal of the present qualitative research was to identify and define the full spectrum of life domains by asking two questions: What life domains are relevant to work-life conflict, and how do people value the various life domains in which they are involved? A total of 13 life domains emerged from the data. Participants engaged in an average of 9 of these domains, indicating that people engage in many activities in life outside just work and family.
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Backhouse, Michael Allan. "A study of some factors influencing the individual-organization interface and their effects on job satisfaction and human performance among some agencies in the Durban customs clearing and forwarding industry." Thesis, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7680.
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In this study an attempt is made to explore the individual-organization
interface -- i.e., the nature of the relationship that prevails
between an organization and its members -- and determine its effects
upon such outcome variables as job satisfaction, instrumentality
belief and work performance. Attributes of the individual (human needs)
and the organization (dimensions of organizational climate), when
combined, are hypothesized to influence this interface.
This investigation is based upon a sample of fourteen shipping agencies
drawen from among some agencies within the Durban Customs Clearing
and Forwarding Industry. Agencies in this sample are divided into two
broad categories, namely members and non members of the Durban
Forwarders Association. Two hundred and eighty-three managerial and
clerical employees from these agencies participated in this study.
Scales designed to measure a set of work related needs, organizational
climate, job satisfaction, instrumentality belief and work performance
are administered to groups of employees from each of the participating
agencies. These scales, except for that measuring organizational
climate, are subject to a statistical procedure designed to calculate
reliability. Only the scales that satisfy a minimum requirement of
seventy percent for reliability are used in any further analysis.
A factor analysis is carried out on the refined data for the scale of
work related needs. Four factors emerged, surgency, passivity,
assertiveness and financial incentive. The need indices together with
these factors are intercorrelated using a Pearson's Product Moment
Correlation. The results show that there are distinctly different
patterns of organizational climate prevailing in member and non
member organizations. Member agencies tend to be affiliation orientated;
non member agencies, achievement orientated.
A multivariate analysis is repeatedly calculated to identify the
need-climate combinations that are related to one or more of the
outcome variables. Canonical correlation is then employed to calculate
the variance explained by each group of combination variables.
The results show that the outcome variables explain approximately
eighteen percent of the total variance in the data.
In conclusion it is suggested that more research be undertaken using
different sets of outcome variables to establish grounds for comparing
the results of similar studies. It is further suggested that research
of the nature can be used by an Organization Development Consultant
as a diagnostic tool for the purpose of assessing the relationship that
prevails between the individual and the organization.Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban. 1986.
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Ghazi, Mirsaeid Seyed Mahdi. "La précarité d’emploi, la pluriactivité et la polyactivité chez les musiciens montréalais." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/25619.
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Le travail des artistes en général, constitue un champ scientifique peu étudié en sciences sociales, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux conditions d’effectuation du travail des musiciens. Cela explique notre raison d’étudier les conditions de travail des musiciens qui résident à Montréal. En effet, notre étude se base sur deux questions fondamentales, c’est-à-dire, la précarité de l’emploi oblige-t-elle les musiciens montréalais à opter pour un modèle de vie professionnel pluriactif et polyactif? Et quelle signification attribuent ces professionnels à cette pluriactivité et polyactivité?
Ce projet se base sur deux axes. Le premier concerne la précarité d’emploi qui caractérise le marché du travail musical et le recours contraint à la pluriactivité et à la polyactivité, et le second axe concerne le recours des musiciens montréalais à ces deux phénomènes comme une stratégie et une opportunité professionnelle.
L’incertitude quant à l’avenir professionnel et au revenu qui caractérise le travail des musiciens montréalais, joue un rôle important dans la précarisation du travail de ces professionnels. En effet, la précarité d’emploi est un facteur fondamental qui pousse ceux-ci vers un cumul d’emplois. En ce qui concerne la pluriactivité, celle-ci regroupe toutes les ressources de revenus du musicien venant des emplois artistiques liés à son champ d’expertise. En ce qui concerne la polyactivité, celle-ci regroupe toutes les activités qui sont en dehors de son champ d’expertise principal (artistique et non-artistique). Malgré la nature contrainte de ce modèle de vie pluriactif et polyactif, celui-ci présente une stratégie efficace face aux défis qui existent sur le marché du travail musical et aborde une opportunité de socialisation pour ces professionnels.
Notre recherche étant de nature qualitative, nous optons pour une approche empirique exploratoire hybride. Nous avons réalisé dix entrevues semi-dirigées portant sur la vie professionnelle de nos participants.The work of artists in general constitutes a scientific field that has been under-researched in social sciences, particularly regarding the conditions under which musicians work. This explains our reason for studying the working conditions of musicians who reside in Montreal. Indeed, our study is based on two fundamental questions, that is to say, does the precariousness of employment among Montreal musicians force them to opt for pluriactivity and polyactivity in their professional life? And what significance do these professionals attribute to this pluriactivity and polyactivity? This project is based on two axes. The first concerns the precariousness of employment that characterizes the musical labor market and the forced recourse to pluriactivity and polyactivity, and the second axis concerns the recourse of Montreal musicians to these two phenomena as a strategy and a professional opportunity. The uncertainty about the professional future and the income that characterizes the work of Montreal musicians plays an important role in the precariousness of the work of these professionals. Indeed, job insecurity is a fundamental factor that pushes them towards multiple job holding. Regarding pluriactivity, this brings together all of the musician's income resources from artistic jobs linked to his field of expertise. As for polyactivity, this includes all activities that are outside of his main field of expertise (artistic and non-artistic). Despite the constrained nature of this pluriactive and polyactive model of professional life, it presents an effective strategy to face the challenges that exist in the musical labor market and addresses a socialization opportunity for these professionals. Our research follows a qualitative approach in which we opt for an exploratory and hybrid empirical technique. We have also conducted ten semi-structured interviews concerning the professional life of our participants.
کار هنرمندان به طور کلی یک زمینه علمی است که در علوم اجتماعی ، خصوصاً با توجه به شرایط کاری موسیقی دانها ، به طور کمی مورد مطالعه قرار گرفته است. این امر دلیل ما را برای مطالعه شرایط کار نوازندگان ساکن مونترال توضیح می دهد. بدون شک، تحقیق ما بر دو سوال اساسی استوار است. به این معنا که آیا نا امنی شغلی در بین نوازندگان مونترآلی، آنها را مجبور به چندکاری می کند؟ و این که اینچند کاری چه معنی برای این نوازنده ها دارد؟ این پروژه بر دو محوراستوار است. اولین مورد مربوط به ناامنی شغلی است که مشخصه بازار کار موسیقی دانان و توسل اجباری به چند فعالیتی می باشد و محور دوم مربوط به توسل موسیقیدانان مونترال به این پدیده به عنوان یک استراتژی و یک فرصت حرفه ای است. عدم اطمینان در مورد آینده شغلی و درآمد که ویژگی کار نوازندگان مونترال است ، نقش مهمی در به خطر افتادن کار این متخصصان دارد. در واقع ، عدم امنیت شغلی عاملی اساسی است که آنها را به سمت نگهداری چند شغلی سوق می دهد. چند شغلی این امکان را به نوازنده می دهد تا منابع مختلف درآمد را در اختیار داشته باشد که مرتبط با شغل اصلی وی به عنوان نوازنده می باشند. در مورد نوع دیگری از چند فعالیتی باید ذکر کرد که ، شامل کلیه فعالیتهایی است که خارج از حوزه اصلی تخصص نوازنده (هنری و غیر هنری) است. علیرغم ماهیت محدود کننده این مدل زندگی حرفه ای چندمنظوره و چند فعالیتی ، این یک استراتژی موثر برای مقابله با چالشهایی که در بازار کار موسیقی وجود دارد و همچنین فرصتی برای اجتماعی شدن این متخصصان به حساب می آید. تحقیق ما از یک رویکرد کیفی پیروی می کند که در آن ما یک روش تجربی اکتشافی را انتخاب می کنیم. ما همچنین ده مصاحبه نیمه ساخت یافته در مورد زندگی حرفه ای شرکت کنندگان خود انجام داده ایم.
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hwang, tie-kae, and 黃悌愷. "The Research of Relation Between Stock Dividend Announce with Stock Price in Different Industries." Thesis, 1996. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14263913123079792077.
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翁甄薇. "Research on the Relation between Academic Performance and Characteristics of Students in the Department of Industrial Design." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15037141841558858756.
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Based on the policy of the Ministry of Education of our government there are three ways for high school students to enter universities, through traditional entrance examination, through application, and through recommendation. Because different departments in the universities mean different professions, and may require different capabilities and aptitudes, it is very important but also very difficult for universities to examine and to select right students with appropriate characteristics. In order to continually improve the methodology for selecting right students for industrial design, it is certainly essential to understand how already-in students match with this profession. Therefore this research intended to answer this question by analyzing the academic performance and the aptitude of different groups of freshman in the Department of Industrial Design of Da-Yeh University. First, the required capabilities and characteristics for industrial design profession were summarized through literature survey. The items were then used for designing a set of questionnaire for students’ self-review. Three teachers of “Fundamental Design” course were asked to evaluate students’ capabilities and characteristics using the same set of questionnaire. In order to understand their aptitude, students were also asked to do the Holland aptitude test and three kinds of creativity aptitude test. The results were compared among groups of students who entered school through three different ways. Scores of design-related courses were analyzed to see their official academic performance as well. In addition to the above analyses, the correlations between the four aforementioned aspects were made to see if there exists any relation between them. Through the investigation, the results provide some indications for improving the methodology for student selecting. It also signifies a first step for systematically selecting and educating the right students for right professions.
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Chen, Chin-Chih, and 陳欽智. "The Research on the Comparison Between the Salary Systems of High-Tech and Traditional Industries, and Their Relations with Management Performance." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57082315651363487316.
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會計研究所
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To maintain the economic growth on its track, the government of the Republic of China has brought forward the plans to make Taiwan an island of science and technologies. Over the past years, high-techindustries of Taiwan related to electrify and information have been in prosperous development, and have attracted a great pool of job seekers to join the industries with the offer of high pay. The research was designed in a questionnaire manner to explore the discrepancies between expectations and satisfaction of the management echelon and employees of the high-tech and traditional industries at the salary systems, and the relations between each discrepancy and management performance. The results show: 1.The satisfaction of the management levels of the high-tech industries in the corporate salary system and requirements is strikingly different from that of the traditional industry. 2.As to the satisfaction of the salary systems, the employees of the high-tech industry expressed the following four noticeable features in contrast to their counterparts of the traditional industry: the standard of corporate achievement rewards higher than other industries, bonus occupying a great share of the payment; employees'' understanding of salary adjustment; corporate stocks as a stimulus. 3,In the following eight areas, there were evident differences in individual expectations and satisfaction among management levels and employees of the high-tech and traditional industries: the corporate should provide employees with programs of further education, training, and advanced studies; employees'' opinions should be valued in designing the salary systems; employees have the opportunities of expressing their opinions in the stipulation of the salary systems; the policy and execution of the salary systems will help to morale ascend;the policy and execution of the salary systems will benefit recruiting of the talents the corporate needs; the policy and execution of the salary systems will contribute to the achievements of the employees; the policy and execution of the salary systems conduce to harmonious relations of the labor and capital; the contents of employee achievement evaluation should be in harmony with the corporate aims (such as market shares, management revenue). 4.Among the management and employees of the high-tech and traditional industries, the discrepancies between their expectation and satisfaction, and the relations with management achievements indicated in the research that the discrepancies were related to both financial and non-financial indexes to some extent. Because of the diffenent natures of these two industries, the relation of other achievement indexes with discrepancies are different with each other, as well as the outstanding connections of the rate of employees'' absence without leave with the gap between employees'' employees'' and satisfaction toward salary structure.
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Van, Rensburg Maria Magrietha Janse. "Employee substance abuse in the SAPS : strengthening the collaborative working relationship between first line managers and police social workers by evaluating the Sober Workplace Programme for Managers." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26465.
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An intoxicated police employee can never keep the community safe and secure, as
mandated by law enforcement prescripts. However, limited attention is given to
harmful or hazardous substance abuse or the binge drinking habits of police
employees. Substance abuse being a ‘culture’ in law enforcement agencies and the
maintenance of the blue wall of silence as a protective measure necessitates
scientific research to explore how a collaborative working relationship between the
occupational social worker and especially First Line Managers (FLMs) can
contribute to addressing this phenomenon in a timeous manner.
The researcher applied a quantitative research approach and utilised a switching
replication quasi-experimental design to determine whether the collaborative
working relationship between South African Police Service (SAPS) FLMs and Police
Social Workers (PSWs) can be strengthened to the extent that they effectively and
efficiently deal with the harmful or hazardous substance abuse or binge drinking
habits of SAPS employees by exposing the FLMs to a social work intervention,
namely the Sober Workplace Programme for Managers. The pre-, mid-, and posttest measurements are based on knowledge, attitude, and behaviour constructs to
determine if the two hypotheses formulated were supported. The study, however,
did not indicate that the Sober Workplace Programme for Managers strengthens the
collaborative working relationship between the FLMs and PSWs to address the
harmful or hazardous substance abuse or binge drinking habits of employees in the
workplace. Alternative research and occupational social work strategies are
recommended to establish if and how the Sober Workplace Programme for
Managers can be implemented to strengthen the collaborative working relationship
between the FLMs and PSWs to address the harmful or hazardous substance abuse
or binge drinking habits of employees.Social Work
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Yao, Chen Pao, and 陳寶瑤. "Investigation of the Relation Between Financial Statement Analysis and Abnormal Returns - An Empirical Research of the listed Electronic-Industries Companies in Taiwan." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23151015316403261659.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
商業教育學系在職進修專班
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The practical function of financial statement analysis is to give investors a beneficial prediction of abnormal returns. Due to the different results of academic investigations about abnormal returns for domestic security market, the purpose of this study is looking for a relationship between financial ratios and abnormal returns in Taiwan stock market. Furthermore, the predictable behavior of financial ratios for abnormal returns is used to deduce the utility of financial statement. The study samples used in this research are focused on the listed electronic-industries companies in Taiwan, and the analytic data range between 1994 and 1997. The independent variables are composed of thirty selected financial ratios. The value of cumulative abnormal return (CAR) is used for the dependent variable of forecasting model. The significant independent variables are picked up by univariate Logistic Model, and these values are further applied in multivariate Logistic Model to develop the final forecasting model. Eventually, the analytic data in 1998 are putted on the forecasting model to check the reality of the predictive behavior. There are three substantial conclusions in this empirical research: 1.Ten financial ratios, which are picked up according to univariate Logistic Model, are significant. 2.Return on Total Assets and Return on Stockholder’s Equity are the most utile variables in multivariate Logistic Model to predict the abnormal returns. 3.For both the demarcations of (0.5, 0.5) and (0.6, 0.4) forms, the values of cumulative probability function (Pr) calculated from forecasting model are 58.93% and 61.54%, respectively, and have better reliability than random probability. 4.According to the analysis of financial ratios, the predictive results of abnormal returns for stock markets in the field of electronic industries are approved. It means that there are predictable efficiency for stock markets in Taiwan’s electronic industries. It is useful and beneficial for investors to predict the abnormal returns by using the analysis of financial ratios.
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Chakrabarti, P. K. "Structure, Process And Environment Of R & D Function In Manufacturing : A Study In Relation To Technology Adoption, Adaptation And Innovation." Thesis, 1996. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/1961.
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Dobson, Toby. "Mitigation of political risk in the IT sector in Panama." 2008. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/50731.
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張賢榮. "The study of relating factors concerning influence on institite and university of technology electrical engineering department to promote Research & Development of the academic and industrial joint venture." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19786041943055923337.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
工業教育研究所
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Abstract In hope of raising referential method for the activation of industy and education partnership, this study purpose to explore the internal and external factors of the industy and education partnership , and take into account the opinions of electronic engineering department teachers and business research development personal on this subject. To carry out the study, The methodology researched relating literature as the foundation of the project theory; furthermore, gathered effective information by distributing questionnaire that edited about the relating factors. Research objects included teachers of electronic engineering departments of vocational colleges and relating corporations. Total effective samples sum up to be 343 copies. The collected information was processed by descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution, means and standard deviation, and inferential statistics such as students'''' t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and Scheffe''''s posterior comparisons. With the statistics analysis, follow results with attained: 1. The significant factors that affects industy and education partnership categories: government policies (3 articles), management (12 articles), financial rewards (4 articles), professional knowledge (7 articles), and data obtaining (6articles). 2. Among the samples of the school teachers, the level of significance was scarce when it came to different school types, years of teaching experience, teaching subjects, bureaucratic positions, and educational levels; whereas the difference in the levels were apparent concerning the aspect of experience in cooperative development, and numbers of years in cooperative development experience. 3. Among the samples of the industries, the level of significance was not obvious considering industrial capital sum, educational level, numbers ofyears in cooperative development experience and working positions; however, the significance rises considering owership, industrial structure , owership and experience in cooperative development. 4. Comparing school teachers and business research and development people, there was a significant difference in the aspects of total presentation and government policies, management, financial rewards, professional knowledge and active communication, meanwhile data obtaining demonstrates no apparent difference. 5. Comparing experienced school teachers and business research and development workers, significant differences were apparent in the categories of total presentation, government policies, management, and financial rewards. Meanwhile, professional knowledge and data obtaining and active communication shew no significant difference. This research hopes to provide constructive advice to the government, academic institutions and business corporations concerning the improvement of the cooperation between the academy, business and industry. Keywords：Industy and Education Partnership , Research and Development(R&D) , Institute and University of Technology , Electronic Engineering Departments
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Lee, Chung-Chu, and 李中柱. "A Research in Relating Adaptation of International Marketing Strategies and Performance on Ventures of Own Brand Exportation Companies: a Comparison of High-Tech. and Traditional Industries in Taiwan." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7svc6b.
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碩士靜宜大學
企業管理研究所
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Since international marketing of own brand ventures of our exporting companies has been one of the key successful factors in the international competitive markets, the relationship between the performance and international marketing strategies, especially whether adaptation or globalization, is thought to be important in practice. On the other hand, due to majority of the past literatures about this subjects are using case studies, we try to explore the relationships among internal and external forces of environments of own brand exportation companies, adaptation of international marketing strategies, and performance by empirical examination in this study. And also we make a comparison between companies of high technology, and those of traditional industries. The empirical results show that internal and external forces of environments, promotion adaptation and support to foreign distributors are significantly positively related to performance of international marketing. International ability of enterprises does affect performance of international marketing. And strategies on product adaptation and promotion adaptation are used significantly differently within companies of high technology and those of traditional industries.
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Koenigsknecht, Theresa A. ""But the half can never be told" : the lives of Cannelton's Cotton Mill women workers." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4655.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)From 1851 to 1954, under various names, the Indiana Cotton Mills was the dominant industry in the small town of Cannelton, Indiana, mostly employing women and children. The female industrial laborers who worked in this mill during the middle and end of the nineteenth century represent an important and overlooked component of midwestern workers. Women in Cannelton played an essential role in Indiana’s transition from small scale manufacturing in the 1850s to large scale industrialization at the turn of the century. In particular, this work will provide an in-depth exploration of female operatives’ primary place in Cannelton society, their essential economic contributions to their families, and the unique tactics they used in attempts to achieve better working conditions in the mill. It will also explain the small changes in women’s work experiences from 1854 to 1884, and how ultimately marriage, not industrial work, determined the course of their later lives.
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Hickey, Kelly Lee. "Tender places: unsettling settler-colonial relationship to land through place-based, creative, and pedagogical practice." Thesis, 2022. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/44409/.
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Humanity is living through a time of major ecological crisis exemplified by anthropogenic climate change and planetary-wide ecological system collapse. This is a driver for widespread and intersecting humanitarian and social crises including resource wars, famine, mass migration, and displacement. These entwined ecological and social crises are underpinned by global colonial capitalism that fuels systems of violent and inequitable extraction of wealth and resources from lands, people, and creatures. Indigenous and settler scholars acknowledge that addressing and dismantling colonialism is essential to effective action on the impacts and drivers of climate change, and other ecological and social crises, and the development of sustainable societies for the future.
The research proposes that for settler individuals and communities to take action against ecological and social violence, they must develop ways of being, doing, and knowing that attend to the issues of colonialism and extractivism. For settler-colonists, engaging with and through place is particularly important due to the centrality of land and the subsequent ongoing role of colonialism in severing, masking, ignoring, and denying the relationship between land and people’s embodied identities and lived experiences.
Tender places uses creative and pedagogical practices to examine the moral responsibilities of settler people in the time of ecological and social crisis. The research seeks to develop tools, processes that support anti-racist and anti-colonial creative practice that respond to ecological crises. The development of these tools and process has occurred through iterative engagement with a constellation of feminist, anti-colonial, Indigenous and queer scholarship including the work of Deborah Bird Rose, Max Liboiron, Claire Land, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang. The practices and ethics of engagement with anti-colonial and Indigenous literature are outlined within the exegesis.
This doctoral research is undertaken as creative practice led research, with a 50/50 split between the creative product and the exegesis. I recommend viewing the work after reading the exegesis. As the creative works were created in three iterations, presented in multiple locations, and include an ephemeral durational installation, I’ve produced a website to create a permanent record of the work for assessment and documentation purposes. You can view the creative work here: https://tenderplaces.net/.
The creative practice was undertaken at the Ilparpa Claypans, a series of 12 ephemeral claypans, located on ‘crown land’, 13 km southwest of the township of Mparntwe/ Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, Australia. The popular recreational site was chosen due to my decade-long relationship with this place, and my distress over the impacts of dumping, four-wheel driving, and invasive weeds witnessed over this time. I undertook this research through the lens of Australian settler culture, as a queer, female, fourth generation Northern Territory settler of Irish, Scottish, and German descent. I bring my lived experience as an artist and activist to this inquiry.
Through the research, I developed a practice of reading, walking, and making at the Ilparpa Claypans, as a method by which to investigate the use of critical race and environmental humanities literature as an agent of defamiliarisation, with the aim to disrupt the settler gaze within place. I documented new ways of seeing and being with/in place, which emerged from this disruption through field notes, photos, and creative works. These creative translations informed the development of three artworks reflecting on the impacts and responsibilities of settler people and cultures to the Ilparpa Claypans.
Postcards from the Claypans was the first iteration of creative practice at the Ilparpa Claypans, which took place from May to June in 2019. In this iteration, individual walks were documented on individual postcards and mailed to individual peers in different parts of the world.
The second work, Shadow Work is an autoethnographic map of settler experience and the impact on the Ilparpa Claypans was developed in January, 2019. This map is comprised of twelve cyanotypes created from dumped refuse and weeds found at the claypans.
The third work, Testing Ground, was an 18-day durational performance installation, which positions the researcher’s body in service to place through daily visits to the Ilparpa Claypans to remove buffel grass (an invasive weed) and dumped items. These recovered items were used to create an installation that made visible the impacts of the ecological harms on the Ilparpa Claypans, alongside a soundscape created from field recordings and a public process journal of the 18-day practice.
The exegesis locates the research inquiry theoretically and methodologically, and articulates the process, findings, and impacts. The autoethnographic component of the exegesis draws on the creative works, reflective writing, field notes, and formal research documents, to examine the development and use of arts and place methodologies and methods as a research process. Creative and reflective writing are used throughout the exegesis as a mode by which to locate the reader with my lived experience of place and process throughout the research lifespan.
This exegesis, Tender Places, identifies and contributes processes for settler people to reflect on their complicity individually and collectively in ongoing colonial and extractivist drivers of entangled ecological and social violence. The methods and methodologies utilised in this project can aid the development frameworks of moral responsibility for the action that addresses these violences in order to restore social and ecological justice.