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Hayward, Daniel J. (Daniel John) Carleton University Dissertation Political Science. "The operational manoeuvre group in Soviet military doctrine." Ottawa, 1987.
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Wee, Eng Wee Eng. "Review and Improve Operational Effectiveness of Internal Projects Group in MGO." Thesis, KTH, Tillämpad maskinteknik (KTH Södertälje), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118752.
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Salmon, John LaNay. "A methodology for quantitative and cooperative decision making of air mobility operational solutions." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49039.
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Many complex and interdependent systems engineering challenges involve more than one stakeholder or decision maker. These challenges, such as the definition and acquisition of future air mobility systems, are often found in situations where resources are finite, objectives are conflicting, constraints are restricting, and uncertainty in future outcomes prevail. Air mobility operational models which simulate fleet wide behavior effects over time, in various mission scenarios, and potentially over the entire design life-cycle, are always multi-dimensional, cover a large decision space, and require significant time to generate sufficient solutions to adequately describe the design space. This challenge is coupled with the fact that, in these highly integrated solutions or acquisitions, multiple stakeholders or decision makers are required to cooperate and reach agreement in selecting or defining the requirements for the design or solution and in its costly and lengthy implementation. However, since values, attitudes, and experiences are different for each decision maker, reaching consensus across the multiple criteria with different preferences and objectives is often a slow and highly convoluted process. In response to these common deficiencies and to provide quantitative analyses, this research investigates and proposes solutions to two challenges: 1) increase the speed at which operational solutions and associated requirements are generated and explored, and 2) systematize the group decision-making process, to both accelerate and improve decision making in these large operational problems requiring cooperation. The development of the Air Mobility Operations Design (AirMOD) model is proposed to address the first challenge by implementing and leveraging surrogate models of airlift capability across a wide scenario space. In addressing the second major challenge, the proposed Multi-Agent Consensus Reaching on the Objective Space (MACRO) methodology introduces a process to reduce the feasible decision space, by identifying regions of high probability of consensus reaching, using preference distributions, power relationships, and game-theoretic techniques. In a case study, the MACRO methodology is demonstrated on a large air mobility solution space generated by AirMOD to illustrate plausibility of the overall approach. AirMOD and MACRO offer considerable advantages over current methods to better define the operational design space and improve group decision-making processes requiring cooperation, respectively.
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Revely, Shirley. "Introducing the nurse practitioner into a group general medical practice : operational and theoretical perspectives on the role." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310358.
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Ferreira, José Alberto Martins. "A afirmação militar da União Europeia : a arquitetura de gestão de crises e a capacidade de comando e controlo." Master's thesis, FEUC, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/29676.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Relações Internacionais (Estudos Europeus), apresentada à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Daniel Marcelino Rodrigues.O Conselho Europeu de 19 e 20 de Dezembro de 2013 exortou os Estados Membros a aprofundarem a cooperação no domínio da defesa, aumentando a sua capacidade para conduzir missões e operações, salientando também a necessidade de melhorar as capacidades de resposta rápida da União Europeia (UE), através dos Battle Groups mais flexíveis e projetáveis. No âmbito da gestão de crises, a projeção rápida e eficaz dos meios civis e militares e a melhoria das capacidades de resposta rápida da UE depende do desenvolvimento da cooperação militar entre os estados membros e de uma maior institucionalização da sua dimensão militar, transferindo parte da sua soberania e legitimidade para o nível supranacional. A implementação de um Quartel General de nível militar estratégico permanente (Operational Headquarters) no Estado Maior da União Europeia dará à UE a coerência horizontal, entre a sua arquitetura institucional e os seus aparelhos burocráticos e, a criação de um Quartel General permanente de nível militar operacional (Force Headquarters) ou de vários, dependendo da vontade de cooperar dos 28 estados membros, a coerência vertical, com uma total integração entre ambos as estruturas de comando e controlo, dotadas de pessoal qualificado e disponível para planear, coordenar e comandar aos diferentes níveis, facilitando a cooperação institucional e a capacidade de resposta rápida da União Europeia. O conceito de Battle Group necessita de ser revisitado na sua vertente estrutural e operacional, devendo ser assumido desde o início da fase de preparação que o Battle Group, é uma Força Conjunta e Combinada que tem de estar preparada para executar operações conjuntas e combinadas em prazos muito curtos, o que terá implicações em toda a metodologia de planeamento, preparação, aprontamento, avaliação, certificação e projeção dos Battle Groups. Com o Tratado de Lisboa os mecanismos institucionais de cooperação existem, mas a sua aplicação prática será o resultado dum compromisso entre o método comunitário e o intergovernamental, que será certamente influenciado pelo papel central dos líderes atuais e futuros.
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Forrester, Charles James. "Montgomery and his Legions : a study of operational development, innovation and command in 21st Army Group, North-West Europe, 1944-45." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1753/.
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This thesis considers armour and infantry unit organization and structure in the British Army during the Second World War, specifically in Montgomery's 21st Army Group in North-West Europe. The strengths and weaknesses of how corps and divisions responded to Montgomery's command system - and in particular the commonality of doctrinal practice - has become an issue of debate among historians. This thesis examines and analyses the factors that produced both an effective weapon and a functional doctrine for combining armour and infantry. It does this by tracking how 21st Army Group moved from 'anarchy' to 'problem solving' under Montgomery's direction. It shows that far from being either authoritarian or anarchic, Montgomery's ultimate command system actually encouraged commanders to use their initiative within the goals set out by Montgomery in late 1944 in a series of pamphlets. He believed in the imposition of doctrine, but this overlooks mid-July to end-of-September 1944 when he was open to the "bubble-up" of new ideas: albeit post-pamphlets the subsequent price of uniformity of doctrine was a certain apparent inflexibility. By late 1944 when Montgomery's 21st Army Group "stood at the door of Germany", armour-infantry co-operation practice is shown to have involved the coordination of armour originally intended to play different roles; infantry, and artillery on the basis of commonly agreed upon understandings which had been reached by an essentially collaborative process. Once set out in Montgomery's pamphlets, however, no deviation from this framework was subsequently permitted. Simultaneously, success in action depended on commanders exercising their initiative to be proactive to a greater extent than has hitherto been suggested: Montgomery wanted to constrain choices yet he allowed armoured commanders enough freedom of action to respond to challenges within the "master plan". This thesis thus makes an original contribution to the debate on Montgomery's command style, and its consequences, and more widely on the role of a great commander.
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Sorrell, Toni P. "TUNING OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE PARAMETERS FOR MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5035.
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The tuning of optimization software is of key interest to researchers solving mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. The efficiency of the optimization software can be greatly impacted by the solver’s parameter settings and the structure of the MIP. A designed experiment approach is used to fit a statistical model that would suggest settings of the parameters that provided the largest reduction in the primal integral metric. Tuning exemplars of six and 59 factors (parameters) of optimization software, experimentation takes place on three classes of MIPs: survivable fixed telecommunication network design, a formulation of the support vector machine with the ramp loss and L1-norm regularization, and node packing for coding theory graphs. This research presents and demonstrates a framework for tuning a portfolio of MIP instances to not only obtain good parameter settings used for future instances of the same class of MIPs, but to also gain insights into which parameters and interactions of parameters are significant for that class of MIPs. The framework is used for benchmarking of solvers with tuned parameters on a portfolio of instances. A group screening method provides a way to reduce the number of factors in a design and reduces the time it takes to perform the tuning process. Portfolio benchmarking provides performance information of optimization solvers on a class with instances of a similar structure.
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Massin, Raphaël. "On the clustering of mobile ad hoc networks." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris, ENST, 2016. https://pastel.hal.science/tel-03689508.
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Cette thèse traite de la clustérisation des réseaux ad hoc mobiles. Ce mécanisme consiste à rassembler les noeuds du réseau en grappes appelés clusters, dans le but d'introduire de la hiérarchie dans le réseau, et ainsi de permettre son passage à l'échelle. L'objectif principal est de concevoir de nouveaux algorithmes distribués de clustérisation, adaptés aux réseaux non structurés, où tous les noeuds sont des pairs, ainsi qu'aux réseaux structurés, où il existe déjà une structure hiérarchique intrinsèque. Dans le but de permettre une allocation des ressources radio à l'intérieur des clusters plus efficace qu'entre les clusters, les algorithmes proposés forment des clusters qui satisfont certaines contraintes de topologie : la connectivité, une taille et un diamètre maximaux. Afin d'évaluer les performances de ces nouvelles solutions, comparativement à celles de la littérature, et de manière indépendante des mécanismes d'accès au canal radio employés, la première partie de la thèse introduit des fonctions de coût de réseau, qui incorporent le profil de trafic utilisateur ainsi que les coûts de communication intra-cluster. Ensuite, un algorithme distribué adapté aux réseaux structurés est proposé, et ses performances comparées par simulation à plusieurs autres solutions de la littérature. Une caractéristique originale de cet algorithme est qu'il ne fait pas appel à la notion de chef de cluster. Dans la dernière partie, grâce à la théorie des jeux de coalition nous revisitons l'algorithme précédemment proposé pour les réseaux structurés. Ce cadre théorique permet de formaliser le problème de la clustérisation dans un contexte plus général, et conduit à la définition d'un algorithme générique, applicable à tous types de réseaux, ainsi qu'à une meilleure connaissance théorique de ses propriétésThis thesis is about clustering of mobile ad hoc networks, which consists in building some sets of nodes, called clusters, in order to introduce hierarchy in the network and thus improve its scalability. The main goal is to design new distributed clustering algorithms suited to i) unstructured networks, where all the nodes are equal, and suited to ii) structured networks that have an inherent hierarchical structure, and in which the nodes are gathered in operational groups. In order to allow the implementation of a radio resource allocation process that is more efficient within clusters than between clusters, the proposed algorithms form clusters satisfying specific topology constraints: connectivity, maximum size and diameter. In the first part of the thesis, to compare these new solutions to the ones from the literature, independently to the medium access scheme, we introduce network cost functions which take into account the user traffic profil and the intra-cluster and inter-cluster communication costs. Then, we propose a distributed clustering algorithm suited to structured networks, and compare its performance to several clustering schemes from the literature. A salient feature of this algorithm is that it does not need to resort to the notion of cluster-head. In the last part, thanks to the coalition game theory we revisit this algorithm. This theoretical framework allows us to formalize the clustering problem in a more general context. This leads us to defining a generic algorithm suitable to any kind of ad hoc network, and enables us to acquire a better knowledge of its properties
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Kluch, Radek. "Dopady čerpání strukturálních fondů EU na příkladech mikroregionů Tachovska." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-113594.
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The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the effect of drawing funds from structural funds of EU to specific areas of the Czech Republic which is the region Tachov and micro-regions, which are located there. A sub-goal is to determine whether the observed micro-regions fulfill its role in the region, and whether there are other forms of small regional groups which are able to effectively draw and allocate financial resources from EU funds. The first part is a concise definition of regional policy and its implementation in the Czech Republic accompanied by a description of EU funds, which goes from support to the regions. The next section is characterized by the region Tachovsko and its micro-regions. The area is analyzed from both an economic and social terms and is conducted SWOT analysis. Next chapter deals with the operational programs that are relevant for the investigated area. The central part deals with the evaluation of projects in the both programming period, in 2004-2006 and in 2007-2013. It created a comprehensive overview of all completed and ongoing projects that are examining the impact of utilization of EU funds. Base on these findings are suggested for the region and both micro-regions for one thing in the drawing of funds EU and for another in activities in the field of micro-regions.
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Li, Rui. "Operation transformation based concurrency control in group editors." Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/4151.
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Collaborative editing systems (or group editors) allow a geographically dispersed
group of human users to view and modify shared multimedia documents, such as
research papers, design diagrams, web pages and source code together over a computer
network. In addition to being useful tools, group editors are a classic research vehicle
and model of interactive groupware applications, based on which a variety of social
and technical issues have been investigated.
Consistency maintenance as a fundamental problem in group editors has attracted
constant research attention. Operational transformation (OT) is an optimistic
consistency maintenance method that supports unconstrained collaboration among
human users. Although significant progress has been achieved over the past decade,
there is still a large space for improvement on the theoretical part of OT. In this dissertation,
we are concerned with three problems: (1) How to evaluate the correctness
of OT-based consistency maintenance protocols; (2) How to design and prove correct
OT-based protocols; (3) What are the consistency correctness conditions for group
editing systems in general.
This dissertation addresses the above three problems and makes the following
contributions: (1) propose a total order based framework including a new consistency model and the associated design methodology. This framework reduces the complexities
of the OT design; (2) improve the total order based framework by introducing a
natural order based framework. In contrast, this framework removes the requirement
of defining a total order that is not necessary to the OT design; (3) establish a generic
consistency model and propose the first set of practical design guidelines in OT based
on this model.
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Popova, Elmira Tomova. "New approaches to determining group maintenance policies." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1062610567.
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Cook, Edward. "Group Decision-Making." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5928.
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The present work explores improvements in group decision-making. It begins with a practical example using state-of-the-art techniques for a complex, high-risk decision. We show how these techniques can reveal a better alternative. Although we created an improved decision process, decision-makers were apt to protect their own organizations instead of the project. This tendency was reduced over the course of the decision-making process but inspired the first conceptual component of this work.
The first concept describes the “Cost of Conflict” that can arise in a group decision, using game theory to represent the non-cooperative approach and comparing the outcome to the cooperative approach. We demonstrate that it is possible for the group to settle on a non-Paretto Nash equilibrium. The sensitivity of the decision-maker weights is revealed which led to the second conceptual portion of this work.
The second concept applies social network theory to study the influence between decision-makers in a group decision. By examining the number and strength of connections between decision-makers, we build from intrinsically derived weights to extrinsically derived weights by adding the network influences from other decision-makers. The two conceptual approaches provide a descriptive view of non-cooperative decisions where decision-makers still influence each other. These concepts suggest a prescriptive approach to achieving a higher group utility.
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Hamilton, Martin. "Finiteness conditions in group cohomology." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/182/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2008.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences, University of Glasgow, 2008. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Brown, Thomas JoseÌ. "Success in Civil Military Operations." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/2004.
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The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question of what determines the success of Civil Military Operations (CMO). With the United States military involved in the largest CMO mission since World War II in Iraq, answering this question becomes even more important. In this thesis, success will not be confined to tactical, operational or strategic CMO success. To determine what causes success or failure in CMO, this thesis will conduct three different case study analyses of Iraq based on the three predominant ethno-religious regions of the country: Kurdish North, Sunni Center, and Shi'a South. In order to analyze, compare, and contrast these three separate cases, this thesis will use three independent variables: integration of CMO in all phases of the operations; balance of CMO between the combat or civilian operations; and attitude of the Host Nation (HN) or occupied area. These variables set the conditions necessary for CMO success. In conclusion, this thesis provides essential principles for CMO planning and identifies requirements in doctrine, training, organization, and structure of CMO forces for future operations.
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Štenclová, Jaromíra. "Využití fondů EU pro rozvoj infrastruktury obce." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-222551.
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The goal of the submitted thesis is the utilization of EU funds as a development of a local infrastructure, concretely construction of the new bicycle lane. First part of the thesis revers to a basic conception regional policy, operation programmes and describe process of steps in the project. In the next parts there are description of a starting transportation position in the village, setting up a particular project and valuation the project as a whole.
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Franceschi-Diaz, Katherine G. "Group presence in virtual worlds : supporting collaborative e-learning." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3523.
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Even though e-learning endeavors have significantly proliferated in recent years, current e-learning technologies provide poor support for group-oriented learning. The now popular virtual world’s technologies offer a possible solution. Virtual worlds provide the users with a 3D - computer generated shared space in which they can meet and interact through their virtual representations. Virtual worlds are very successful in developing high levels of engagement, presence and group presence in the users. These elements are also desired in educational settings since they are expected to enhance performance.
The goal of this research is to test the hypothesis that a virtual world learning environment provides better support for group-oriented collaborative e-learning than other learning environments, because it facilitates the emergence of group presence. To achieve this, a quasi-experimental study was conducted and data was gathered through the use of various survey instruments and a set of collaborative tasks assigned to the participants. Data was gathered on the dependent variables: Engagement, Group Presence, Individual Presence, Perceived Individual Presence, Perceived Group Presence and Performance. The data was analyzed using the statistical procedures of Factor Analysis, Path Analysis, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA).
The study provides support for the hypothesis. The results also show that virtual world learning environments are better than other learning environments in supporting the development of all the dependent variables. It also shows that while only Individual Presence has a significant direct effect on Performance; it is highly correlated with both Engagement and Group Presence. This suggests that these are also important in regards to performance. Developers of e-learning endeavors and educators should incorporate virtual world technologies in their efforts in order to take advantage of the benefit they provide for e-learning group collaboration.
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Graves, Samantha A. "Energy efficient group context aware sensor management strategy for tactical operations." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/37633.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedShared situational awareness (SSA) is essential to success and safety in tactical environments, whether fighting wars or providing relief during disasters and humanitarian catastrophes. The increased availability of sensors in mobile devices offers groundbreaking opportunities for continuous context-aware applications that are capable of responding to the operating conditions of users and their environment. However, continuous context-aware applications involve high-energy consumption. A key challenge in tactical environments is to make the most effective use of scarce resources. There are numerous approaches for reducing energy consumption of continuous context-aware applications. This thesis examines two methods: Sensor Substitution and Triggering (SENST) and Acquisitional Context Engine (ACE). The goal of this thesis is to explore the capabilities and limitations of SENST and ACE for group context-awareness and provide a group energy-efficient sensor management strategy that enhances the dissemination of SSA in tactical environments.
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Ljung, Marcus, and Vadin Adam Staf. "Säkerställning av mätprocessers tillförlitlighet : En fallstudie på Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Maskinteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40906.
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Quality insurance is an important part of a manufacturing company in order to achieve and maintain its competitiveness. To measure how the company’s processes are performing, it is necessary to have reliable measurement data. Reliability of measurement data is naturally a crucial and important factor for a company to deliver the right quality to its customers. Without confidence in the measurement data, there is a potential risk that the customers end up with defective products if the measurement results are misinterpreted. This thesis project has been conducted at Volvo GTO in Skövde at the crankshaft manufacturing department. Volvo GTO wants to understand how well their manufacturing process of crankshaft performs by assigning a capability value. One of the requirements for obtaining a reliable capability value is that the measurement system is reliable. Volvo suspects that they do not have a reliable measuring system for measuring the roundness of bearing surfaces on a crankshaft. To clearly identify the problems of the measurement system, several possible causes of errors were identified and then analyzed deeper. These possible causes have attempted to be disproved and the errors which couldn’t be disproven may be a possible cause of error. The result of this thesis project shows that the company doesn’t meet the requirements to perform reliable measurements with such small tolerances. The main cause of the uncertainty in the measurement process is the external factors, such as the measuring environment. This report also includes recommendations on how the company can eliminate the measurement uncertainties to get a more reliable measurement process.För att ett tillverkande företag ska kunna uppnå och bibehålla sin konkurrenskraft är kvalitetssäkring en viktig del av verksamheten. För att kunna uppmäta hur företagets processer presterar är det nödvändigt att företaget har tillförlitlig mätdata. Tillförlitlighet till mätdata är av naturliga skäl en avgörande och viktig faktor för att ett företag ska leverera rätt kvalitet till sina kunder. Utan tillit till mätdatan finns det en potentiell risk att defekta produkter hamnar hos kunden genom att tolka mätresultatet felaktigt. Detta examensarbete har utförts på Volvo Group Trucks Operations (GTO) i Skövde på vevaxels-avdelningen. Volvo GTO vill förstå hur väl deras tillverkningsprocess av vevaxlar presterar genom ett duglighetstal. Ett av kraven för att få ett pålitligt duglighetstal är att mätsystemet är tillförlitligt. Volvo anser idag att de inte har ett tillförlitligt mätsystem vid rundhetsmätning av vevaxlar. För att tydligare kartlägga de problem som idag finns med mätsystemet så identifierades ett antal felmöjligheter som analyserades djupare. Dessa felmöjligheter har försökts att motbevisas och de som inte har kunnat motbevisas kan vara en möjlig felorsak. Resultatet uppvisar att det finns brister i de grundförutsättningar som krävs för att en tillförlitlig mätning skall kunna utföras. I arbetets gång är det tydligt att det främst är de yttre faktorerna som skapar en osäkerhet i mätprocessen. Rapporten avslutas med en rekommendation kring hur företaget kan eliminera mätosäkerheten för att få en tillförlitligare mätprocess.
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Junod, Fabien. "Unstable Adams operations on ρ-local compact groups." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531931.
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Let G be any compact connected Lie group and let T ≤ G be a maximal torus. Then for any unstable Adams operation f of degree k, the following diagram commutes up to homotopy «!» And conversely, any map f that makes the above diagram commute must be an unstable Adams operation. Using this characterization, we will construct a self-map of a p-local compact group (S,F,L) in order to define unstable Adams operations on a more general setting. THEOREM. For any p-local compact group (S,F,L) there is a self-equivalence such that the map on the objects when restricted to the identity component of S is a qm-th power map.
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Holland, Jane Caroline. "The development of a model to assist in the strategic management of operational research groups." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329051.
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This thesis describes a research programme which investigates further the models developed by Conway [1] - the dynamic model of the process of operational research and the life cycle of in-house operational research groups. It studies the relationships between the two, and also extends the range of applicability of the models. From this the research develops a useful tool to assist the strategic management of in-house operational research groups. In the prev ious study, the two mode I s had been re I ated in theory only. This study investigates the actual relationships and develops a method of defining an operational research group's position on its life cycle using data about the mix of proj ects of the dynamic mode I project types. This method was developed using data from the Conway study, and tested on data collected in two surveys conducted during the current period of research. In certain circumstances, it was found to be essential that other aspects of the data on operational research projects were used to help define more exactly the current state of health of the operational research group. The level or importance of the project was shown to be significant, as was the approach employed when tackling the project. The validity of the model with respect to other forms of operational research group was also investigated, and external consultancy was chosen for this research. A classification was developed which categorised consultants according to their managerial structure, and consultants from each of the types in the classification were interviewed using Systems Based Interviewing. The interviews showed that the dynamic model of the process of operational research was a valid way to describe external operational research consultancy. Some preliminary concepts involving the life cycle of consultancies were also developed, but could not be tested within the time scale of this study. 1. CONWAY, D.A., (1984), "The Development and Application of a Dynamic Model of the Process of Operational Research". PhD thesis, Hatfield Polytechnic.
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Byerline, M. Joleen. "How Kaizen Group Leader Selection Affects Group Participation." TopSCHOLAR®, 2013. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1273.
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Organizational communication research indicates group member participation increases as the legitimate power differences among group members decreases. Lean principles and practices indicate Kaizen Event members will contribute regardless of legitimate power levels, due to member training, education, and the Lean team-oriented culture. Further study is needed to determine if Lean culture and training maximize group member contribution, or if legitimate power levels in Lean environments manipulate participation. The focus of this case study is a central Kentucky Lean manufacturing organization that practiced Lean principles for at least three years and completed a Kaizen Event within twelve months previous to the beginning of the study. The participating organization indicated the legitimate power levels of Kaizen Event members. Kaizen Event members received a voluntary survey consisting of Likert scalescored questions regarding his or her perceptions of level of participation, encouragement and opportunity to participate, comfort in participating, and the degree the group listened to the member. The results of the survey indicated participation in the Kaizen Event groups did not significantly differ among different legitimate power levels.
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Duhaylongsod, Jose Benedicto. "Behavioral studies on individual and group decisions in supply chain planning." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ESEC0002.
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Les chaînes logistiques font de plus en plus une partie intégrante de la stratégie d’une entreprise et ont une étendue mondiale. Ils sont optimisés pour la rapidité et l’efficacité sur le plan de livraison ou d’approvisionnement des stocks chez les clients, offrant un avantage concurrentiel. Par conséquent, la formation des solutions rentables pour faire correspondre l’ordre à la demande reste un défi pour la gestion de la chaîne logistique. Le pouvoir de maintenir l’équilibre ordre-demande est étroitement liée à la performance ce qui favorise la recherche dans ce domaine. Lorsque cet équilibre est atteint, une entreprise peut satisfaire la demande à des niveaux de service élevés avec moins de stocks excédentaires et moins de risques de majoration. Les conclusions de cette thèse suggèrent que le contexte et sa compréhension sont importantsIn this dissertation, I study the sales and operations planning (S&OP), a cross-functional integration process in supply chain planning whose goal is to align a firm’s demand plan. In Chapters 2 and 3, I analyze group or aggregate demand forecasting in an S&OP where a sales planner and an operations planner create a joint demand forecast to build inventory before demand realization. In Chapter 4, I investigate how inventory managers learn from past decisions and examine the outcomes of those decisions in settings where stock outs lead to high disruption cost
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Meyer, Rikard. "Beslutet om EU Battle Group : ett trendbrott?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-1600.
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Ovanstående citat ger en bild av hur snabbt förändringarna sker i vår omvärld idag. Förr varframtiden enkel att förutspå och de planer som gjordes sträckte sig över flera år, men idag ärdet en förändrad värld vi lever i och förändringarnas vindar blåser allt starkare även kringFörsvarsmakten. Detta har inneburit ett stort omställningsarbete för Försvarsmakten och detär en process som går framåt om än i långsam takt. Samtidigt kommer allt fler och snabbarekrav på förändring från den politiska nivån. Ett sådant inspel är ovan nämnda EU BattleGroup koncept där Sverige tillsammans med Finland och Norge och Estland skall sättasamman ett förband som skall vara insatsberett 2008.I denna uppsats studeras hur denna beslutsprocess sett ut och hur den påverkats av de kortatidsförhållandena och den politiska styrningen från EU.Denna beslutsprocess avviker till stor del från andra typer av beslut eftersom den har varitmycket kort och möjligheterna att analysera tänkbara konsekvenser av beslutet har varit små.Därför är det intressant att se om detta är ett trendbrott för hur den politiska styrningenkommer att se ut för Försvarsmakten i framtiden.Avdelning: ALB - Slutet Mag 3 C-upps.Hylla: Upps. ChP 03-05
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Malyon, Brett Edwin. "Planning for the strategic management of South Africa's West Coast rock lobster fishery : an integrated approach to group decision support." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9573.
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Bibliography: leaves 175-184.As Bryson (1995) points out, strategic planning is particularly useful for assisting organisations and communities to deal with change. This study was carried out at a time of great change in South Africa, when a new fisheries policy was being formulated and negotiated. The research describes an intervention with a group of .fisheries managers, scientists, fishing company directors and other key stakeholders, in planning for the future management of the West Coast Rock Lobster fishery. The primary objective of the study was to consider an integrated approach to group decision support, incorporating a particular soft-OR approach, SODA, together with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). An integration of these two approaches has recently been suggested by researchers, for several reasons. Firstly, different phases of an intervention usually involve different tasks. Secondly, mixing methodologies will enable different aspects of the problem to be modelled and analysed. SODA was used at the outset, for divergent exploration and structuring of the problems surrounding the development of an operational management procedure (OMP) for the fishery, including more subjective and qualitative information. Several stakeholder groups opposed the idea of an OMP in the form in which it was proposed.
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Jansson, Victor. "A Prioritization Model for Investments : A Case Study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387892.
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Volvo’s plant in Umeå has a constant need for development, where to start new activities like projects and investments are important tools, where the competition on the market is increasing. The need for investments are major compared to the resources available, both in terms of human resources and economic resources. The plant needs to prioritize trying to choose what kind of investments are the best for the plant’s future. The problem is that there is a lack of reliable priority model for investments that consider several different parameters. To solve this issue the goal is to create a useful model that can work as a tool to prioritize projects and investments in an appropriate and reliable way. The study began with a literature review to make the researcher approach the subject and gather the knowledge needed for this study. After this, qualitative semi-structured interviews were made with different managers at the plant, to acquire their expertise and knowledge regarding the selection of criteria and their preferences of how the model should work. The next step was to analyze the old model used at the plant, its strengths, and weaknesses. At the same time, constant discussions were held with the supervisor and his manager but as well with the university, mainly through seminars. When the researcher felt he was ready he started to create the new model. There were 30 criteria included in the model, mainly collected through interviews. The large number of criteria collected were sorted into Volvo’s catchwords SQDCEP (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Environmental, People). These were decided to function as the main criteria in the model, and all the 30 criteria were called sub-criteria. The model itself originates from a process called the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). It is an established and wellknown methodology to make prioritizations. Its main idea is to compare every single project against each other which makes the method very thoughtful, solid and probably better than other ones. The conclusion is that the model is complete and should work perfectly to be used for Volvo and other companies in the complex manufacturing industry. Furthermore, the criteria chosen for the model should also be applicable for other similar companies to Volvo, as the criteria are not unique.
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Rees, Jeffrey Wilson. "Leading a local church to develop and implement team ministry in its structure and operation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Reddy, Chandupatla Surender. "The impact of product group forcing on individual item forecast accuracy." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1055945658.
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Cao, Wen Yuan. "Explore the role of QQ groups in Chinese tuishou operations." Thesis, University of Macau, 2011. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2525513.
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Pastor-Nieto, Rosalia. "Familiarity and co-operation in spider monkeys : coping with group living in captivity." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.577975.
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Li, Yue E. "The operation of repair in L2 learner conversation, group work and classroom discourse." Thesis, Aston University, 1992. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14829/.
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The present study is an empirical investigation into repair in spoken discourse, specifically focusing on L2 learner conversation, group work and teacher-fronted classroom interaction. The core of the investigation concentrates on identification of the problem type, classification of repair strategies and examination of interaction in the repair process. A comparison between Conversation (CS), Group Work (GW), and Teacher-fronted classroom interaction (CR) suggests that more repair is undertaken in CS. The results of the study suggest that the fundamental differences between CS, GW and CR are of two types: in the frequency of repair and in the nature of the repair itself. It has been found that other-initiation for production problem repair occurs mainly in CR, other-completion is characteristic of GW and self-repair is most frequent in CS. Factors affecting the occurrence of repair in CS, GW and CR are related to content and social and communicative features of context. Importantly, the study shows the frequency of repair in GW falls between that of CS and CR in most of repair strategies. This result lends support to the argument that group work can assist L2 learners to develop their communicative competence. It is suggested that the analysis of the repair process in CS, GW and CR can be useful in throwing light on the intricacies of spoken discourse in general and can be exploited by applied linguists for both theoretical and pedagogical purposes.
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De, Cremer David. "Beyond self-interest in social dilemmas : a relational model of co-operation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299416.
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Willey, Max A. "Demonstrating the requirement for Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) replenishment in sea-based logistics operations." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1997. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA341490.
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Thesis (M.S. in Operations Research) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1997."December 1997." Thesis advisor(s): David A. Schrady. Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-41). Also available online.
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Jansson, Sofie, and Frida Delin. "Process for preparing work instructions : A multiple case study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Logistik- och kvalitetsutveckling, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-118904.
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A study made by Johansson, Fast-Berglund and Moestam (in press) shows that diversity regarding how information is used exists in global production networks. To be closer to markets, organizations have chosen to globalize their business which is one reason for why diversity arises. This because product types and brands historically have been different. One company that is currently working with improving consistency among processes is Volvo Group Trucks Operations (GTO). The company wants to evaluate how the process for preparing assembly work instructions looks like at different sites within their production network. This enables Volvo GTO to start their work towards a standardized process and uniformity. A starting point for this is to make a current state analysis of the process for preparing assembly work instructions when producing Volvo trucks, engines and transmissions in Sweden. The purpose is to identify key activities within the process and important factors to consider when standardizing the process. This is done on three sites, one for each area. Volvo GTO is the part of the Volvo Group that covers all production of engines and transmissions as well as the production of Volvo, Renault, Mack, and UD trucks. In 2012 the group choose to reorganize from brand based where each brand was an own organization to joint units, for example center of development, operations etc. This has led to a greater need of one common process for preparing assembly work instructions in order to create uniformity among the brands Volvo, Renault, Mack, and UD trucks. The result of the current state analysis shows that the process for preparing assembly work instructions is differently performed depending on the site studied. Despite this, some activities in each process are similar. These were found to be: design, review, time setting, time analysis, balancing, station marking, create assembly work instructions, and share information. Since some activities actually are similar, it would be possible to standardize the process for preparing assembly work instructions in the future. Important to consider when standardizing a process is to create awareness and involvement among employees. It is also important to have the management committed as well as uniformity among IT systems used when performing a process. One last thing to consider is that the process needs to be adaptable because sites are located all over the world and have different culture and regulations.En studie gjord av Johansson, Fast-Berglund och Moestam (i tryck) visar variation i hur information hanteras i globala produktionsnätverk. För att komma närmre marknader har organisationer valt att globalisera sin verksamhet, vilket är en anledning till varför variation uppstår. Detta eftersom produkttyper och märken historiskt har varit annorlunda. Ett företag som för närvarande arbetar med att förbättra enhetligheten mellan processer är Volvo Group Trucks Operations (GTO). De vill utvärdera hur processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner ser ut på olika siter inom produktionsnätverket. Detta gör det möjligt för Volvo GTO att starta sitt arbete mot en standardiserad process och enhetlighet mellan siter. En början i detta arbete är att göra en nulägesanalys av processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner vid produktion av Volvo lastvagnar, motorer och växellådor i Sverige. Syftet är att identifiera nyckelaktiviteter inom processen och viktiga faktorer att tänka på när man standardisera processen. Detta sker på tre siter, en inom varje område. Volvo GTO är den del av Volvokoncernen som omfattar all tillverkning av motorer och växellådor samt produktion av Volvo, Renault, Mack och UD lastvagnar. År 2012 valde Volvokoncernen att omorganisera från varumärkesbaserad till organisatoriska enheter, till exempel utveckling, tillverkning etc. Detta har lett till ett ökat behov av en gemensam process för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner för att skapa enhetlighet mellan varumärkena. Resultatet av denna nulägesanalys visar att processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner utförs annorlunda beroende på siten som studerats. Trots detta är vissa aktiviteter i varje process liknande. Dessa visade sig vara: design, granskning, tidsättning, tidsanalys, balansering, stationsmärkning, skapa monteringsarbetsinstruktioner och dela information. Eftersom vissa aktiviteter faktiskt är lika skulle det vara möjligt att standardisera processen för framställning av monteringsarbetsinstruktioner i framtiden. Viktigt att tänka på när man standardisera en process är att skapa medvetenhet och engagemang bland medarbetarna. Det är också viktigt att ha ledningens engagement och stöd samt enhetlighet mellan IT system som används för att utföra processen. En sista sak att tänka på är att processen måste kunna anpassas då siter är placerade över hela världen och har olika kultur och lagar.
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Väänänen, André. "Smart Process for Automated Engineering Tasks : A case study at Volvo Group Trucks Operations." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för teknikvetenskap och matematik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-82773.
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Volvo Group Trucks Operations is a subordinate organization to the Volvo Group concern, which is one of the world's largest manufactures of trucks, buses, construction equipment, marine and industrial engines. Volvo Group Trucks Operations organization encompasses all production of the Volvo Group’s engines and transmissions as well as all production of Trucks. Volvo Group Trucks Operations is looking into digitize the methods utilized for information handling within their assembly plant in Tuve, Sweden, and this thesis project part in the digitization process. The currently used assembly work instructions at the assembly plant in Tuve are printed on paper and contains excessive amounts of information that makes it challenging for the assembly operators to consume the work instructions efficiently. Therefore, Volvo Group Truck Operations want look into the possibility to introduce dynamically adjustable and digital work instructions that could be tailor fitted to an operator's experience level and presented with smart technologies. The project is divided into two parts where the first part was assigned to identify the information need for smart process capable of generating dynamic digital work instructions and the second part to research how this information need could be satisfied with currently used simulation tools. The information needs analyses showed that the smart process needs to be divided into two sub-processes, one for gathering and processing production specific data into a fully detailed work instruction and the other one for filtering the fully detailed work instruction to tailor fit an operator independent of their skill level within assembly work. A framework containing three information aspects is stated to describe the information need for the smart process. These information aspects are Inputs, Smart process and Outputs. The information aspects are then further broken down into five required information areas that is important for the smart process functionality. The required information areas are Data, Attributes, Inputs, Instruction and Information structure and Instruction consummation. When combining the results for the information aspects and the required information areas, the framework for the smart process needed to be able to generate dynamic digital work instruction could be stated. Using the simulation software IPS IMMA to simulate a generic assembly demo case to generate and export production specific data in the human readable XML coding language showed that it is possible to satisfy the framework for the smart process. However, comparing the simulated data with the information need for the framework resulted in the discovery that the IPS IMMA version used in the project, PMTS event exporter, withholds information regarding the assembly work. The generated data provides information regarding movement distances, movement times and grip types when interacting with work objects. For the smart process to be able to generate fully detailed instructions it needs to be supplied with additional information regarding the work objects in action and directions of movements conducted during the assembly work. Despite this withhold of information from the export data, it would still be possible to fully satisfy the framework for the smart process. All the missing information is contained within the IPS IMMA hence the software needs an update that adds the additional information to the data export.
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Kennedy, Chris A. "Construction of Maps by Postnikov Towers." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1533034197206461.
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Veitch, William. "Ideology and hearings system operations : the perceptions of five participating groups." Thesis, University of Stirling, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21842.
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Recent research related to the children's hearings system - Scotland's juvenile 'justice system - is limited. This study is an attempt to address this empirical deficiency. It examines the perceptions of members of five participating groups (guidance teachers, social workers, police officers, panel members and reporters) on the structure and practices of the hearings system in three regions of Scotland. The research involved 389 respondents in a questionnaire survey, followed by 45 semi-structured interviews with a selected sub-sample. The study incorporated three research issues. Firstly, the groups' ideological perspectives on juvenile justice and their potential influence on attitudes towards the hearings system, secondly, the groups members' observations on present hearings system operations and thirdly the participants' convictions concerning future practice and structure. The general conclusions drawn from the investigation indicate that support across the five groups exists for the continuation of a welfare based juvenile justice system in Scotland but that differences between groups emerge on the matter of the organisation of that system. Majorities in the police officer, guidance teacher and social worker samples were ideologically opposed to lay decision-makers in juvenile justice and most interviewees from these groups expressed reservations concerning the continuation, in its present form, of the lay panel as the decision making body in the hearings system. Most panel members and reporters in contrast however, and again in accordance with their ideological stances, continued to support the dominant role of lay people in the decision-making process within hearings. The research conclusions further suggest the existence of a process of ideological modification on the part of group members when translating theoretical concepts into practical settings. This process, identified as situated accounts, in some instances permitted participants to acknowledge and work with aspects and practices within the hearings system which contradicted their underlying ideological beliefs.
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Choi, Daejeong. "Differentiated leader-member exchange and group effectiveness: a dual perspective." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2457.
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Leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation, the extent to which the leader forms different quality exchange relationships with group members, is the fundamental premise of LMX theory. The present study tests whether, why, and when LMX differentiation increases group outcomes. More specifically, I suggest a dual perspective model of LMX differentiation and group effectiveness, which includes both leaders' and members' perspectives on LMX differentiation. To explicate the effects of leader- and member-rated LMX differentiation on group effectiveness, I delineate two group processes (task and socio-emotional processes) to link LMX differentiation to two aspects of group effectiveness (group performance and group viability). I propose that leader-rated LMX differentiation increases group performance via task group processes (group role clarity and group coordination) whereas member-rated LMX differentiation decreases group viability via socio-emotional processes (relationship conflict and group potency). Furthermore, I propose moderators (distributed expertise, leader-leader exchange, leader prototypicality, and group power distance) suggesting when leader-rated LMX differentiation relates to task group processes more strongly and positively, and when member-rated LMX differentiation relates to socio-emotional group processes less strongly and negatively.
Survey data, based on the US and South Korean employees working in 57 teams, were collected from three different sources (group leaders, members, and upper-level managers) at two points in time (with 3-month time lag). Results revealed three important findings: (a) leader-rated LMX differentiation is positively correlated with group role clarity, group coordination, and group potency and negatively correlated with relationship conflict, (b) group mean member LMX and group mean leader LMX were more robustly, positively related to most group process and effectiveness variables, and (c) leader prototypicality moderates the relationship between member-rated LMX differentiation and relationship conflict such that the negative relationship is significant only when members perceptions of leader prototypicality was high.
The present study contributes to the LMX and team leadership literature by (a) providing a theoretical framework of a dual perspective to understand the LMX differentiation-group effectiveness relationship at the group level, (b) providing empirical evidence showing that leader-rated LMX differentiation is positively related to some group processes although these relationships were not significant when controlling for group mean LMX, (c) finding that the leaders' and members' perspectives on LMX differentiation are not highly correlated, and (d) emphasizing the role of leader prototypicality in understanding the effect of member-rated LMX differentiation at the group level. Based upon these findings, I suggest future research directions such as ways to improve measurement and operationalization of LMX differentiation, development of a theoretical model explaining the low level of LMX agreement between members and leaders, and examining LMX differentiation in broader contexts (e.g., HR systems or strategy and cultural contexts).
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Lindqvist, Jonas, and Linus Lund. "Emission allowance origination and trading : How does it affect ABB and its Group Treasury Operations?" Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Production Economics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16570.
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The purpose of the thesis is to determine how ABB’s treasury department (GTO) should respond to an increasing awareness and interest in the carbon credit markets. Emission caps have been introduced on national levels and also for certain industries in Europe as a consequence of the Kyoto Protocol. This allows for trading of certain carbon credits as well as for the creation of new credits. ABB is a company which has many solutions for efficient energy use; solutions that aim to reduce electricity cost and in the prolongation also emissions. The awareness of the carbon market is growing within ABB, but no carbon credit generating projects have been completed and the initiatives are scattered. The thesis describes the Kyoto Protocol and its implementation within EU, the markets available for trading by companies as well as what instruments and derivatives exist. With the underlying regulations described an empirical study of ABB’s involvement is conducted. The study shows that ABB has few installations with emissions caps and that the potential for generating new credits as a way to increase profit is quite big. However, there have been no carbon generating projects registered up to this point and there are many barriers to overcome before ABB receives any carbon credits.To ensure a thorough analysis, a model of factors affecting ABB’s carbon credit involvement is formed. The model is based on the available literature on the subjects organizational performance, transfer pricing, project- and financial risk and risk management.GTO’s immediate response should be to set up a pool to which subsidiaries with compliance requirements are to send their carbon credits. The pool will then redistribute the credits so that each subsidiary’s needs are fulfilled and finally settle the net remainder on the open market. A unit independent of GTO, called Group Carbon Operations (GCO) in the thesis, should be formed in the near future with responsibility to actively follow the progress of CDM pilot projects and to facilitate their implementation. Depending on the outcome of these pilot-projects ABB can then either, in case of a negative outcome, quickly end the direct CDM involvement and reach closure or, in case of a positive outcome, further develop the GCO department to profit from ABBs involvement in the CDM market. In case of a positive outcome, the GTO should be further involved regarding risk handling and internal pricing.
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Key, Catherine Ann. "Co-operation, paternal care and the evolution of hominid social groups." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1383487/.
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Humans are social animals. Human societies emerge from vast networks of cooperative interactions between many different individuals. In this respect, humans are similar to most other primates. However, human societies are unusual among primates in the number of different types of cooperative relationships that are involved. In humans, males and females form strong pair bonds within large multimale, multi-female societies in which many other cooperative relationships are also important. How and when did human social systems arise? Do males and females use different types of cooperative strategies? Under what conditions does paternal care evolve? Do males and females have different constraints, and how do these affect the types of social strategies they employ? How do factors such as environment quality and seasonality modify these strategies? This thesis seeks answers to these questions using computer simulations based on the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The hypotheses generated by these models are tested using data from living primates. They are then used to investigate the kinds of societies that our hominid ancestors may have lived in. The theoretical and empirical evidence presented in this thesis suggests that sex differences in the energetic cost of reproduction determine the cooperative strategies, and ultimately the types of social groups, that evolve. It is proposed that during hominid evolution female energetic costs increased greatly, in comparison to male energetic costs, due to changes in body size dimorphism, diet and brain size. A two-stage model of hominid social structure is developed. The first stage, at the transition from the australopithecines to Homo erectus, would have involved an increase in female cooperation, especially food sharing. The second stage, occurring between 500,000 and 100,000 years ago, would have involved male care giving, the formation of pair bonds and the sexual division of labour within the context of a wider cooperative network.
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Carr, Daniel. "The Effectiveness of Collaboration Within Supply Chain Management: A Case Study of Adidas Group." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2078.
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For a multi-national company like Adidas, supply chain management is one of the most crucial aspects of business operations. Products cannot be sold unless Adidas’s supply chain is well-managed and efficient, and public perception of a brand/company is critical to success.
This case study analyzes the effectiveness of Adidas's distinct “collaborative approach” to supply chain management, which is characterized by not only monitoring and auditing suppliers, but also training them to make Adidas’s standards their own and approaching suppliers with the intention of building long-term relationships where the suppliers can become self-sufficient.
This study reviews the structure of Adidas's supply chain, the nature of Adidas's collaborative approach to supply chain management, the benefits that collaboration provides over the conventional "compliance" approach to supply chain management, and the potential shortcomings of Adidas's approach. A conclusion is reached that the collaborative approach is the backbone of Adidas's success as one of the largest apparel manufacturers in the world because of its holistic nature and consideration for unique cultural challenges.
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Al-Mir, Atheer. "Eliminiation of bistable operation in the stabilisation of multi-group ALOHA systems with improved throughput." Thesis, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394494.
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Ando, Matthew. "Operations in complex-oriented cohomology theories related to subgroups of formal groups." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13230.
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Demmons, Elizabeth Rohlinger David Heiman Julie. "A strategic decision matrix for analyzing food service operations at Air Force Bases." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2006. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA460298.
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"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, December 2006."Advisor(s): Howard, Randall ; Hudgens, Bryan. "December 2006." "MBA professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on June 18, 2009. DTIC Identifiers: Constraints, Group Dynamics, Decision Matrix, Air Force Bases. Author(s) subject terms: Services, Strategic Decision Matrix, Food Service, Mess Attendant, Tool for Decision Makers, Feeding Contract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-105).
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Li, Christina S. "Fake it to make it: managing Person-Group fit with impression management." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6983.
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Person-Group (PG) fit is defined as the perceived compatibility between an individual and his or her workgroup, reflecting various social- and task-related elements of group work (Li, Kristof-Brown, & Nielsen, 2019). Although Yu’s (2013) theoretical motivation model of fit suggests that individuals are motivated and capable of changing and managing their PG fit perceptions, there is limited research on the specific actions that individuals take to manage their fit perceptions. Rather, most of the research in fit is concentrated on the positive outcomes (e.g., job satisfaction, commitment, performance) associated with fit (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2005) and portrays individuals as passive recipients of their fit perceptions. The purpose of this study is to extend Yu’s (2013) model to demonstrate that individuals are active agents who seek to maintain high levels of PG fit and alter low levels of PG fit. To understand how individuals manage PG fit, I adopt the perspective that fit perceptions are, in part, socially constructed, such that groupmates’ actions can make individuals believe that they are more/less of a fit (Follmer, Talbot, Kristof-Brown, Astrove, & Billsberry, 2018). Thus, individuals are triggered to use impression management (IM) tactics to create, maintain, alter, control, and protect the images that others form of them (Leary & Kowalski, 1990). However, with the myriad of IM tactics, it is unclear what type of PG fit perceptions will trigger which specific IM tactics. This dissertation develops and tests a model that situates IM tactic usage based on what type of PG fit (e.g., social vs. task-based PG fit) is being pursued and what level of PG fit (higher vs. lower) the individual is currently perceiving. To facilitate the connection between PG fit and IM tactics, I also develop a typology that classifies commonly used IM tactics for explaining the situations that will influence the selection of specific tactics. Finally, I explore the psychological and emotional aftermath of engaging in IM tactics by examining which specific IM tactics are more likely to promote or harm: 1-individuals’ perception of PG fit, 2-individuals’ perception how groupmates perceive their PG fit, and 3-groupmates’ perception of the focal individuals’ PG fit.
I tested this model with a multisource, three waved time-lagged field survey study across a two-month period. I collected data in two samples: university staff employees who work in group settings and student groups in a business consulting class. Using structural equation modeling and latent change scores, I found that individuals are not passive respondents of their PG fit perceptions. Rather, they are active agents who seek to maintain higher levels of fit and alter lower levels of fit using IM tactics. Yet, the likelihood of using certain tactics for individuals with higher levels of fit differed from the tactics used by individuals with lower levels of fit. Some tactics were associated with improvements in fit, others were not, and a few were associated with reductions in fit. Generally, individuals who began with higher levels of perceived PG fit engaged in IM tactics that were later associated with improved fit. In contrast, individuals who had lower levels of perceived PG fit (namely social-based PG fit) engaged in IM tactics that were later shown to be associated with reductions in fit. These results suggest that individuals with high levels of fit tend to choose the “correct” IM tactics to maintain and improve their fit to an even higher degree, but the misfits tend to choose tactics that damage their fit even further. This highlights the importance of understanding that even though individuals are active agents who seek to manage their perceived fit, the specific actions they engage in to do so are complex and not always appropriate. Theoretical and practical implications, as well as future research directions, are discussed.
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Dhamankar, Sunil Yashwant. "An efficient group-theoretic algorithm for an assignment problem with a single knapsack constraint." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1055344390.
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Callegaro, Filippo. "Cohomology of finite and affine type Artin groups over Abelian representation /." Pisa, Italy : Edizioni della normale, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=017728632&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Hinson, William B. "A statistical analysis of individual success after successful completion of Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Training." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2005. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/05Sep%5FHinson.pdf.
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Melo, Heather Aurora Florence de. "Totally real Galois representations in characteristic 2 and arithmetic cohomology /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1048.pdf.
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Trochu, Morgan. "NH hotel group: road to operational efficiency…" Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/35214.
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LIN, Tze-Min, and 林澤民. "Display Panel Business Strategy for Operational Business Models - Take Hon Hai Group as an Example." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/jfhmh6.
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碩士國立交通大學
管理學院高階主管管理碩士學程
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Taiwan's FPD industry has experienced many years of development. The upstream and downstream output value of the display industry is more than 1.4 trillion US dollars, second only to South Korea. In 2017, the total output value of the display industry chain was about NT$1.4 trillion, with a market share of 27.6%. It is the second largest supplier of monitors in the world. The output value of the display industry is also the second largest electronic component industry in Taiwan, second only to the semiconductor industry. The output value of the display industry accounts for about 8% of Taiwan's GDP. In 2017, the overall industry chain of overall displays is estimated to exceed 200 companies in Taiwan, and the overall industry supply chain has created more than 150,000 jobs. Taiwan's largest display products are large-size panel products, accounting for 69%, followed by small-sized panel products accounting for 28%, and other (OLED, touch...) accounting for 3%. In recent years, the panel industry's production capacity has continued to invest, driving the development of key upstream components and forming a complete industrial cluster in Taiwan. The 2008 financial tsunami has challenged the panel industry's past high debt business model. From 2010 to the second quarter of 2015, the debt of four panel factories has decreased from NT$529.6 billion to NT$275.6 billion and debt relief of NT$250 billion. The Taiwanese currency has greatly reduced the operating pressure of Taiwanese manufacturers, but this has caused Taiwan's panel makers to build layouts for the next generation of LTPS and AMOLED production lines, which is not enough. At the same time, although Hon Hai is the last group in Taiwan to enter the panel industry (establishing Innolux), it has become the largest panel supplier in Taiwan through flexible acquisition and other strategies, and plays a pivotal role in the global panel industry. Shake up Samsung's panel supply. This research takes Michael Porter's Five Forces Model, BCG Model, Added Value Analysis, etc., A short, medium and long term panel industry trend is expected with the CQM model established by Prof. Lawrence R. Klein, a Nobel economist in 1980. Which points out that Hon Hai is using the correct product strategy to match the company's global layout and the advantages of upstream and downstream industries. Gradually build a huge panel empire across Taiwan, China, Japan and the United States. On the other hand, from the rising trend of the panel industry in Mainland China, we analyzed the corresponding strategies of Taiwan's panel industry and Hon Hai Group. Finally, it puts forward proposals for the panel industry players in Taiwan to move toward niche products, intelligent manufacturing and globalization.