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Cody, Celia. "Team work, piece work, or both : work reform at Levi Strauss." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65221.
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Mannberg, Mariann. "Communicative planning : (How) does it work?" Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Arkitektur och vatten, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17786.
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The global and everlasting quest for the limited resources of the earth has developed into a need to chisel out how each spatial area will be able to sustain its inhabitants. The connection between global and local sustainability is direct and undisputed. However, the global vision of sustainability and its concrete meaning in local terms are vastly separate. In order to be able to bridge this gap, there is a need to anchor the vision and make it more tangible locally. Physical planning at a local level has in many ways been pin-pointed as the tool to achieve this, since local planning results in a merging of the economic, ecological and social aspects of sustainable development. Alongside this broadened view, the governmental vision of democracy is turning towards increased decentralization. Citizen participation is therefore becoming a part of, and even a uniting link, in the realization of sustainable development. This has created entirely new demands for the individual municipal planner. His/her new task is mainly to merge local stakeholders into functioning planning processes. As a response to this new network-based view of society, collaborative-or communicative-planning is being tested both theoretically and practically as a tool for realizing it. There are, however, major reservations as to how well it serves this purpose. The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to this discourse on these reservations, perhaps offering some useful input for further research and/or future development of guidelines for the practising planner. It is based on two case studies of communicative planning processes carried out in a Swedish context. The main conclusions are that communicative planning, both theoretical and practical, should be developed in a more post-modern and pragmatic sense, anchoring it firmly in its local, spatial setting and releasing it from preset assumptions of the formal and informal rules and boundaries of government and/or governanceGodkänd; 2006; 20070109 (haneit)
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Smith, Jane Reno, and Julie Elizabeth Webb. "Work-load planning for Navy stock points." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27672.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.With the ever changing environment of Navy stock points, the Navy Supply Systems Command saw the need to design and develop a course in Stock Point Operations for mid-grade managers. This thesis is a part of that effort. The focus of the thesis research was the design and development of eight hours of course material on work-load planning to be included as a finishing section of the 40-hour Stock Point Operations course. Included in this thesis are a history of the need for the course development and the management methodologies incorporated in the course material. Chapter IV provides the framework for mid- grade managers to standardize the formulation of the most effective and efficient work-load plan for their own organizations.
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Smith, Jane R. Weir Julie. "Work-load planning for Navy stock points." Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 1990. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA241823.
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Thesis (M.S. in Management (Material Logistics))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 1990.Thesis Advisor(s): McMasters, Alan W. ; Weir, Maurice. "December 1990." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 2, 2010. DTIC Identifier(s): Inventory control, Navy, work load planning, stock points, warehouse management, theses. Author(s) subject terms: Work-load planning, Navy stock points, TQM, warehouse management. Includes bibliographical references (p. 153). Also available in print.
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Atwal, Anita. "The battlefield : discharge planning and multidisciplinary team work." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1999. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6428/.
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Discharge planning is remarkable in that despite government legislation and research which stretches back over twenty years it remains problematic. Furthermore it is an activity which requires collaboration between health and social care agencies. Indeed many researchers have highlighted problems associated with collaboration and joint working, which remain problematic. The aim of this thesis is to explore whether teamwork and discharge planning are compatible concepts and whether the team process influences the outcome of discharge decision making. The research design encompasses a case study approach which focuses on three individual cases within medicine, orthopaedics and elder care. It was necessary to combine both qualitative and quantitative techniques which included structured observation (Bales Interaction Analysis), in-depth interviews (critical incident approach) and a national discharge survey. The data from the research found that the social aspects of the discharge process are often ignored or neglected and that assessments are rarely coordinated. There was considerable cynicism surrounding multidisciplinary team work and that lack of time was reported to be the biggest barrier which effected interprofessional working. Non decision making frequently occurs in teams as professionals are reluctant to voice their opinions as its members choose not to participate. This is referred to as the 'multidisciplinary orchestration game.' Research is of little value if it does not make an impact on clinical practice or on health and social care policy thus the data from the research study was used to formulate a new model of practice in orthopaedics with fractured neck of femurs using a Delphi survey (postal questionnaire method) and action research. Despite the implementation of the interprofessional discharge model, professionals are failing to place the needs of the patient first the 'multidisciplinary orchestration game' continued. Thus discharge planning will remain problematic unless many of the problems identified in the study are resolved.
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Ferreira, Pedro N. P. "Resilience in the planning of rail engineering work." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12375/.
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The railway industry is today broadly recognised as a complex sociotechnical system that operates under considerable pressures for increased capacity and reliability. These pressures impact across the industry, in particular on rail engineering because of its responsibility in providing and maintaining the rail infrastructure. Within rail engineering, there is a growing need to address safety and operational risks emerging from high complexity. Planning has been identified as a fundamental organisational function for the safety and efficiency of engineering work. Within this scope, this thesis recognises in the planning of rail engineering work the characteristics of complex sociotechnical systems and investigates planning activities as a part of a wider rail engineering system. Resilience engineering has been recently proposed as a safety management approach that focuses on the development of means for better coping with the variability and uncertainty inherent to large scale complex sociotechnical system. The research documented in this thesis proposes the use of a resilience engineering based approach as a way to improve the ability of the rail engineering planning system to successfully contribute to the safety and efficiency of engineering work. Overall, the purpose of this research was to describe and understand human and organisational factors of rail engineering planning, understand planning performance in view of the support it provides to work delivery, and investigate improvement to the planning system based on resilience engineering concepts. A contribution to the development of resilience engineering as a discipline was also made, mainly through the investigation of possible methods for measuring and monitoring system resilience. The thesis has taken a research approach with emphasis on extensive top-down and cross-organisational exploratory work of the engineering work planning process. This was achieved through the use of quantitative and qualitative methods, namely the analysis of archival data on operational and safety performance, interviews, observations, and a questionnaire. The integration of the researcher within Network Rail’s Ergonomics National Specialist Team (NST) was fundamental for the access to a wide range of data and for the employment of a participant observation approach. The engineering work planning system is described as a complex decision making process, ranging from high level strategic business decisions down to the definition and scheduling of work delivery details. The main human and organisational factors that either hindered or facilitated planning decision making were identified and archival data were used to study planning performance. Results from these research steps were then used to support the understanding and measurement of resilience in planning. Data were interpreted in view of the resilience literature and used as basis for the investigation of potential measurement tools and system interactions with relevance for the understanding of resilience as an emergent system property. The methods used permitted a detailed description of the planning process and the identification of planning performance features within the wider frame of the rail engineering system. Human, organisational and system level factors were identified, which contributed to the understanding of planning and the identification of constraints and facilitating factors on decision making processes. Throughout the duration of this project, contributions to the development of resilience engineering and its methods were made, whilst identifying sources of resilience in the planning system and contributing to the development of measurement tools by means of a questionnaire approach. The understanding of resilience in rail engineering planning was used as a support for recommendations towards the improvement of the planning function’s ability to cope with operational pressures and successfully support work delivery.
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Johnson, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Rebecca) 1970. "Finding work in the city." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30106.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 131-136).
For the past three decades, rising skill requirements, increased income inequality, and the growth of suburbs as employment centers have altered the dynamics of urban labor markets. Have labor matching processes also changed in this time? And are these processes the same regardless of location? This study argues that job-finding patterns have changed in unexpected ways, that the methods used to find work differ by city, and that wage outcomes associated with those methods can also depend on location. The data for this project come from over 2500 Boston and Los Angeles respondents of the Multi City Study of Urban Inequality (MCSUI) survey, administered in the early 1990s. Research on labor matching can be categorized into two broad camps, one prioritizing the role of social factors, the other the role of spatial location. This study integrates these approaches in a series of analyses that evaluate social, spatial, and individual contributions to method use and outcomes. Despite the importance of individual characteristics, social networks, mobility, and neighborhood poverty for job finding, factors hypothesized to have an impact on method use, these variables do not account for job-finding differences between Boston and Los Angeles. After considering the cities' demographic distributions, personal contacts are still used more often in LA, by almost all groups. Findings show that Boston's labor market emphasizes formal methods over the personal contacts popular in Los Angeles, and that workers don't necessarily use the method tied to highest wages.
(cont.) These findings apply to job seekers across the labor market, but are of particular relevance for poor and low-skilled workers who have difficulty finding good jobs. The spatial variation of search methods' use and outcomes has implications for researchers and policy makers concerned with issues such as workforce development and place-based employment initiatives, as well as for job seekers, employers, and organizations designed to connect the two.
by Jennifer R. Johnson.
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Reynolds, Erica J. "The relationship between HIV/AIDS infected mother's knowledge about permanency planning, and their planning for their children's future." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2001. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2339.
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This proposal examined the relationship between the knowledge of permanency planning among African American HIV/AIDS status parents, and parents' planning for their children's future in the case that they become terminally ill or die. Knowledge is defined as receiving some type of supportive service, where information was provided to the parent as well as assistance in beginning the process of permanency planning. The setting for this study was Jerusalem House and Sister Love, both agencies that work with The Aniz Program. The sample population consisted of 25 African American HIV/AIDS status women with children who reside at one of the facilities. The participants were required to complete a one shot post-test questionnaire that measured their knowledge and attitude about permanency planning for their children. The hypothesis is that providing HIV/AIDS status women with information about permanency planning will cause them to plan for their children early in their illness.
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Pugh, Julian. "Multidisciplinary care planning using a developmental work research approach." Thesis, University of Bath, 2012. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.558859.
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This research addressed change management and learning in a multidisciplinary addictions chronic care environment in order to prepare for shared care planning within an electronic health record. It used a Developmental Work Research approach and was able to use insights from Bernstein’s theory of knowledge structures, Bakhtin’s work on social language and a Critical Realism approach to address weaknesses in the base Activity Theory approach. In these ways problems concerning fragmented, demarcated silo working across clinical and non-clinical addictions services could be examined. The objective of the study was to identify tensions and contradictions in working environments and to engage multidisciplinary workers in a collaborative change laboratory environment via the use of co-configuration and expansive learning. The working group examined past and current practice and were able to formulate new forms of practice, based on the use of a shared care plan tool, to address identified problems and national policy aims. It was able to use the aforementioned theoretical insights to illuminate the multiple utility of the shared care plan tool as a pedagogic device. This enabled the production of new practice possibilities, paradigms and planning to be undertaken, and the consideration of these within the context of ‘real time’ multidisciplinary activity within a forthcoming national IT system. This research has explored, identified and formulated new practice to improve multidisciplinary working between clinical and non-clinical workers across diverse sectors. This will have significant health and cost benefit gains for clients, workers and organisations as well as translating policy aims into effective practice. The next stage will be to manage the roll-out of the forthcoming IT system using the theoretical and methodological developments crafted in this research endeavour.
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Munzner, Michele. "Health Literacy and Discharge Planning in Social Work Practice." ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7945.
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Low health literacy is a public health crisis, currently, there is limited research on social worker engagement with the low health literate patient. The research questions for this study examined health literacy knowledge in medical social workers and how their MSW curricula built their knowledge of health literacy. It also explored challenges that arise when discharge planning for patients with low health literacy. It also asked what social workers can do to aid patients with limited health literacy during the discharge planning process. This basic qualitative research study used criterion sampling and was informed by the socioecological model. Data collection used 2 focus groups of 12 medical social workers comprised of 11 females and 1 male. Data analysis occurred by categorizing the data then classifying the data into themes based on the research question. Key findings include: (a) social workers have a medium to high level of health literacy; (b) MSW curricula would benefit from health literacy knowledge; and (c) challenges occur in discharge planning with people with low health literacy that include overall knowledge and attitudes of health literacy, sociodemographic variables, and lack of preventative health. Recommendations include standardizing healthcare social worker roles and providing educational opportunities in MSW curricula on health literacy. Implications for social change include improved health outcomes, empowering individuals to take personal responsibility for their healthcare which in the long run can help them overcome chronic disease and other health related anomalies. Social change may be seen with hospital health literacy screening to reduce hospital readmissions decreasing individual healthcare costs and reduce societal healthcare costs.
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Palasthira, Malina 1971. "Work 'n' play in the informational city : F2F interaction and emerging work and leisure patterns." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69413.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture; and, (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]-[117]).
The death of distance does not equal the death of cities and of urban life. Cities are transforming their roles and functions in reaction to a major technological shift --from post-industrial to informational. And contrary to popular belief, new telecommunications infrastructure will increase the significance of some cities as important physical meeting places. A host of new network cities have emerged from this new global infrastructure which supports the rapidly growing world of information technology. These cities, once the centers of manufacturing, are now the centers for the production of information that is distributed electronically around the globe. Contemporary cities are not just dense physical agglomerations of buildings, the crossroads of transportation networks, or the main center of economic, social and cultural life, but also the electronic hubs for telecommunication networks. Techno logy has extended the geographic reach of these cities to enable their denizens to interact more, both electronically and face-to-face. And as the material and intellectual basis of our society change due to the new digital revolution, widely accepted dichotomies --in particular, real/virtual, mind/body, local/global and natural/artificial-- are blurred and call for re-redefinition. New patterns of living and working are also emerging from these changes. By far, the largest impact of this electronic communication network is on the workplace, particularly in the growing area of information work. The workplace is today much more flexible both in terms of time and place. I believe that the office, now only one of many workplaces, will be used especially for intense face-to-face and collaborative work. Th is flexible and more sociable aspect of work and the ubiquitous and fine-grained nature of digital flow is blurring the, once, clear boundary between work and leisure. The thesis proposes an alternative design strategy, one centered around the aspect of work which is highly sociable. The Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan --a defunct but extremely busy hub--
by Malina Palasthira.
M.C.P.
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Cohen, Alexander Nobler 1979. "Public transportation is not going to work : non-work travel markets for the future of mass transit." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16620.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-201).
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
For public transportation agencies to attract new riders in an automobile-dominated environment, niche markets must be targeted. The downtown journey to work is already recognized as a successful niche for transit. This thesis seeks to identify non-work travel markets with strong ridership potential. Nationwide data sources indicate that about half of all transit trips in the largest US cities are non-work trips, and that non-work travel has contributed to transit ridership growth in 13 of 20 large US cities. Based on these findings, St. Louis and Chicago are selected as cases for further analysis. St. Louis is the successful case, in which non-work travel contributed to overall ridership growth in the 1990's. Chicago is the baseline case, in which overall ridership declined in the 1990's, with no evidence of growth in non-work ridership. Detailed case studies of St. Louis and Chicago are conducted. First, an overview is presented, providing a description of transit routes; a profile of transit riders; and an understanding of recent ridership changes. Next, non-work ridership markets are identified, based on original analysis of travel survey data and off-peak ridership data. Finally, the characteristics of those markets are reviewed, based on secondary sources, press articles, and existing market research. This is done in order to evaluate the benefits of providing transit service to each market, and the effectiveness of current transit service to each market. Five non-work travel markets are identified in the case studies as strong sources of ridership.
(cont.) These markets are: tourists; large events; shopping; younger adults without children, living in urban areas; and people who prefer not to own cars. To pursue non-work ridership growth, transit agencies must be proactive about improving service to meet the unique needs of these markets. Doing so can yield a variety of social, political, and economic benefits for the transit agency, transit riders, and the general public. In conclusion, recommendations are offered for effective transit service to each non-work travel market. General recommendations are offered, as well as specific applications to the Chicago Transit Authority and to Tren Urbano in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
by Alexander Nobler Cohen.
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Jurey, Nathan W. D. "The live-work-play district: from vision to implementation." Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13731.
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Master of Regional and Community PlanningDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Jae Hong-Kim
The concept of Live-Work-Play has grown in popularity in the field of planning, as various strands of the planning literature increasingly have highlighted the potential benefits of providing places to live, work, and play in close proximity. This study explores the theoretical foundations of the Live-Work-Play concept and discusses its effectiveness as a strategy for creating vibrant urban areas by reforming the spatial arrangement of the built environments. More specifically, the present study empirically examines how the segregation or the mixture of places to live, work, and play may create differences in terms of growth, inequality, education, the built environment, and transportation by analyzing the Boston metropolitan region as an example. The empirical analysis with the use of census tract level socio-economic data shows that the Live-Work-Play mixes can encourage more desirable travel patterns, while the mixes may not significantly promote growth in small areas. However, the analysis also revealed racial and income inequalities exist in the provision of the mixes in the Boston region. These findings suggest planners carefully should consider the equity issues when adopting the Live-Work-Play concept and providing its potential benefits.
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Ali, Hassan Ali. "Manpower planning and development in Oman." Thesis, Bangor University, 1990. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/manpower-planning-and-development-in-oman(2fa2cd0e-e24d-45d8-9fe6-76d97c143f1b).html.
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1. The Sultanate of Oman is the second largest country in the Arabian Peninsula with a total population of approximately two million. Young people below the age of 15 account for a large proportion (46 per cent) of the po pulation. According to studies carried out by various organizations, (i.e. World Bank, ECWA), it has been found that a majority of the population live in rural areas. 2. Before 1970, Oman had a great shortfall in most economic and social aspects. The dawn of development started after 1970, following Sultan Qaboos Bin Said's accession to the leadership and the launching of a broad plan to modernize and develop the country. 3. Oil is the main source of its economy. According to the Development Council statistics, the share of oil revenue in 1988 accounted for 79.6 per cent of the total. The oil net revenue was (993.6) million Rials Omani from a total of (1247.6) million Rials Omani. Actual development investment increased from (3341) million Rials Omani during the First Development Plan (1976-1980) to (7872) million Rials Omani during the Second Development Plan (1981-1985). The planned development investment during the Third Development vii plan (1986-1990) is estimated as (8164) million Rials Omani. One important factor to be noticed is the attempt of the government to diversify its strategy so as in the long run to depend on other sources rather than oil. Manufacturing is one of the main concerns of development for the government. Despite the dominance of the modern sector (in terms of contribution to the gross domestic product), Oman still remains a predominantly rural society. Up to 80% of the Omani population is estimated to live in rural areas. 4. The rural labour force has been steadily declining, emigrating to urban areas at a rate of 5000 people (mostly economically active males) annually. At present, Omanis form 30 percent of the total labour force employed in the modern sector; most of them occupy jobs at an unskilled and semi-skilled level. At present more than 200 thousand expatriates are working in the modern sector in Oman, which represents 70 percent of the total labour force in that sector. 5. The size of population and its rate of growth are obviously very important elements in the manpower assessment in the long term of the next 15 to 20 years. It becomes a more critical issue when the labour market patterns are not clearly known and defined. 6. Oman relies on a large number of non-Omani workers, essentially because human resource development (education and training of the population to produce an effective modern workforce) cannot keep pace with viii economic growth demands in terms of skilled manpower requirements. 7. The basic fact which should be considered is that manpower requirements are related proportionally to economic growth. In Oman, with late development, high priority was given to economic growth to build up the infrastructure and have a modern state. Economic planners, the executers of development projects and the contractors wish to see as high a rate of economic growth as possible. Although economic planners may acknowledge that reliance on non-Omani workers may present problems, they are not thought important enough to warrant any limitation of economic growth. Clearly then, the planning of human resources development in the Omani context lags behind general economic planning. 8. To cope with manpower requirements, due to the needs created by economic development, Education and Training plans were drawn up to form a human resource development plan. 9. No educational system existed before the 1970s. Only 3 primary schools were available with 900 students. No education for girls was provided. The present situation of education is the result of rapid development. An education ladder was formed which was based on a 6-3-3 structure. Technical and vocational education and training systems were established. The establishment operation of the university has added a new ix dimension in completing the educational system. In 1984/85, more than 225 thousand students were enrolled in educational institutions. 10. Despite the development of education in recent years, Oman is still not capable of meeting its manpower requirements internally. A large segment of the population is functionally illitrate, including a sizeable population of young males with a strong desire to share in the counry's new economic prosperity. The quality of education has also suffered considerably due to the rapid expansion in education. 11. Due to the great demand for labour and the shortage of Omani labour supply, manpower development has become an important issue. The Council of Education and Vocational Training under the Chairmanship of HM the Sultan Qaboos with 9 members at minister's level was formed in 1978 to set general policies of education and training in the context of manpower development. 12. The present trends in manpower development, whether from the education or training side, do not match with the long term objectives, set by the government, nor have they realized the potential to cope with future requirements. 13. This present study of manpower planning and development in Oman dicusses manpower development in relation to manpower planning. This research will analyse the past and present trends of manpower development and anticipate its effectiveness in the future. The manpower x development concept is discussed in terms of its objectives, manpower requirements and social demand. The discussion will highlight the main problems in the present system of manpower development: in the context of manpower planning in Oman. The system of manpower development is also analysed in terms of its relevance to, and possible conflict with the purpose of manpower development schemes. The present focus of such schemes is closely examined. 14. The main problems related to manpower development lie in: [1] The role of the technical and vocational education and training system and its performance in operating (a) The Vocational Education system run by the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY). (b) The Vocational Education System run by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MOSAL). [2] Social pressures from the student population in terms of their expectations on completing their general education versus the government policies 1 in having a sound output of manpower requirement T to fuf ill the country's needs. This create a conflict in the definition of objectives. [3] Lack of enrolment in vocational and training system due to the lack of vocational guidance, the social attitude towards it, and due to the closed xi pattern existing in technical education and training system, in not providing the student with access to further studies. This also affects manpower development schemes. [4] The unstable educational output in relation to manpower requirements. 15. The arguments are developed so 4ko propose a new model of manpower development for the future. This model aims to achieve a new target in producing an integration of educational and training concepts in manpower development. 16. In discussing the various hypotheses, and analysing the various concepts in comparis on with other countries, a new manpower development model will be proposed to meet the objectives and to overcome the above stated problems. This model aims to integrate manpower demands and educational and training outputs in relation to individual aspirations and manpower targets.
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Balwani, Siddharth (Siddharth Vashdev). "Operational efficiency through resource planning optimization and work process improvement." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78490.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; in conjunction with the Leaders for Global Operations Program at MIT, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-85).
This thesis covers work done at National Grid to improve resource planning and the execution of pipeline construction and maintenance work carried out at the yards. Resource Planning, the art of picking the right jobs for the right days and assigning the right crews to them while meeting constraints of regulation, customer service, and safety at the minimum cost is an extremely difficult problem. This is exacerbated by the fact that there needs to be enough slack in the system to deal with one or more pipeline leaks that may be called in. At the execution stage, when the jobs are carried out by crews, the lack of standardization in work processes dealing with granting and approval of overtime, productivity tracking, data collection, and imperfect alignment of incentives make it difficult to get the best work from the crews. These issues lead to high levels of overtime at yards, which are the major source of costs for gas operations for the company. We propose the Resource Allocation and Planning Tool (RAPT) accompanied by yard level process management to improve operations performance. To automate short term planning, RAPT includes a two stage stochastic optimization model to perform job scheduling and crew assignment in the presence of a variable number of emergency leaks, thus creating optimal daily and weekly plans with minimal overtime costs. The tool also serves as a business intelligence platform, providing a companywide view of gas operations efficiency and as a decision aid, enabling management to predict the impact of management policies on field operations. The execution of work was improved by the creation of new processes for scheduling, crew data entry, overtime approval, incorporating accountability and oversight at multiple levels. This work has enabled more consistent processes, better overtime and productivity management, and the ability to understand and track deviations. These changes are currently being piloted at yards across the company and the initial results are very encouraging. As a direct result of this work, National Grid has the potential to achieve up to 65% reduction in overtime, saving the company a substantial amount of money.
by Siddharth Balwani.
M.B.A.
S.M.
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Webb, Thomas Coykendall. "People putting cells to work or cells putting people to work? : a case study of biotechnology & employment in Massachusetts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70647.
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Ponce, Lopez Roberto. "An exploration of non-work destinations in Singapore." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120234.
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Thesis: Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-252).
Non-work destinations refer to the locational choices of people regarding where they go for non-work activity. My exploration focuses on the daily trips with a primary purpose of shopping, entertainment, dining and refreshment in Singapore. The uniqueness of non-work trips, compared with home-to-work commuting trips, is that we do not observe the spatial tractability of the alternatives (home and work locations are known). Travelers have flexibility in location and schedule for non-work destination choices, and such selections repeat day after day. The flexibility to choose a non-work destination turns the modeling and forecasting of these trips into a complex task because a combination of factors, including the location of the supply of non-work activities, the activity pattern of the traveler, and the cost of traveling, affects the selection of non-work destination alternatives. This thesis utilizes a spatial-temporal scanning tool on cellphone-locational data to improve the spatial representation of places with high concentration of human activity, and use these places as a proxy of non-work destinations. Then, a clustering algorithm characterizes the spaces at the interior of those previously identified places by the geometry, diversity and density of the commercial establishments that they contain. Finally, the results of two statistical models that estimate housing price and destination choice indicate that the characterization of places capture additional information, which are useful in identifying the characteristics of neighborhoods (or space) and representing the destination alternatives of non-work activity. The model of destination choice shows the potential of the method to construct richer spatial nested structures of destination choice to what is currently in the literature. The main contribution of this thesis is the systematic development of measures that are useful to urban planners in characterizing places. These measures can help us to improve our understanding of non-work destination travel behavior. Another finding is that the spatial organization of the offer of non-work activities in Singapore is reminiscent of Central Place Theory. The spatial structure of non-work activities is highly monocentric, supplemented by additional facilities spread across clearly defined satellite suburban places. Three places in Singapore emerge as the top non-work destinations: Bugis, Orchard Road and Downtown. The distinctive attribute of these three places is that they comprise a diverse and dense number of patches or sub-spaces catering to various audiences.
by Roberto Ponce Lopez.
Ph. D. in Urban and Regional Studies
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Pagaran, Lourdes N. (Lourdes Navaro) 1957. "Making decentralization work : building local institutions in Cambodia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8258.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000."September 2001."
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-217).
This dissertation examines the dynamics of decentralization in a highly centralized, institutionally constrained, and externally resource-dependent environment. It uses a case study of Seila, a decentralization program in Cambodia, based on extensive fieldwork from 1996 to 1999. Initiated in 1996 by UNDP, the Seila program took a different path from other rural development programs by working through established provincial and local development structures on a pilot basis in five Cambodian provinces. It provided grants to target communes and selected sector along with the introduction of decentralized systems and mechanisms and the provision of capacity building at provincial and local levels. The findings of this study suggest that the Seila program has been able to establish decentralized systems and mechanisms to deliver local services and to influence macro level policy reforms on decentralization in three ways: by a delicate balancing act between process and output, by developing capacity and institutional networking at various levels, and by gaining support of various key institutional actors including provincial and local authorities, central government, donor agencies, and NGOs. The literature on fiscal federalism and on participatory and governance focuses on the primacy of either process or output. Contrary to these views, the close links between process and output have encouraged local communities to undertake collective action and have engendered accountability and responsiveness from provincial and local authorities.
(cont.) By building capacity and developing strategic partnerships, both at horizontal and vertical structures, provincial and local development committees have effectively managed local demand. Thus, these findings confirm the emerging literature on decentralization that developing effective local governments requires wholesale capacity building and establishing a broad spectrum of support networks. The support from key institutional actors, which enabled the Seila program to sustain its field-level initiatives and to buttress them through institutional and policy backing from central government, suggests that decentralization is indeed both a political decision and outcome of consensus building among politicians and decision makers.
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Tinsley, Byron B. "A program evaluation of the Fulton County discharge planning program." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2005. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/1398.
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This evaluation examines the effectiveness of the Fulton County Discharge Planning Program in expediting the mentally ill defendant through the criminal justice system. The sample consists of 30 males who have been diagnosed as mentally ill and consented to jail diversion. Participants were randomly selected from a list provided from the discharge planner without demographic restrictions. Data for this study was collected using a 49-item questionnaire. The Attitude Measure Scale II (AMSII) questionnaire consists of 49 questions inquiring about the participants' beliefs about professionals, knowledge about the Fulton County Discharge Planning Program and community mental health services. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. The findings showed that the Fulton County Discharge Planning Program is effective in expediting the mentally ill defendant through the criminal justice system.
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Finney, Clifford Lucas. "Reconnections home/work/environment /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Berglund, Martina. "Using Tentacles in Planning and Scheduling Work : Activities, Roles and Contributions." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Ergonomi, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10564.
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Handling production scheduling is increasingly difficult for manyenterprises, and human involvement is necessary. The overall objective ofthis research was to gain further understanding of planners’ and schedulers’work within the manufacturing industry, to elucidate how their worksituation is formed, and to explain their significance to other employees’work and company activities. Scheduling work was studied in fourcompanies in the Swedish woodworking industry; a sawmill, a parquet floormanufacturer, a furniture manufacturer and a house manufacturer. Themethod used was activity analysis which is based on the analysis of workactivities in real work situations. Data collection included 20 days’observations and 65 interviews. Cross-case analysis with British cases onplanning work was also included.The findings revealed that the schedulers’ tasks lead to many activities. Twothirds of these are what can be expected. The remaining third constitutesactivities that depend on the schedulers’ individual attributes and the contextin which they work. The schedulers serve as problem solvers in a number ofdomains and constitute efficient information nodes, making them animportant service function. Furthermore, they have an alignment rolebetween different organizational groups. This role is specifically remarkablein dealing with production enquiries that must be aligned with productioncapability. Here, both planners and schedulers play an essential role inlinking the manufacturing and the commercial sides and their differentfunctional logics.Planners and schedulers in daily work exert strong influence on others. Theydo not hold legitimate power. Instead their influence emanates mainly fromaccess to and control of information and their ability to apply expertise tointerpret this information and examine the impact of decisions made acrossdifferent areas of the business. Personal power related to social skills is alsosignificant.Furthermore, they facilitate others’ work in continuous personalinteractions, serving the technical scheduling software system, and aligningdifferent organizational functions. In combination with expert knowledgeand developed social skills, they significantly contribute to quality operationsperformance. Finally, the schedulers influence the decision latitude of otheremployees and may indirectly promote job satisfaction, thus contributing todeveloping appropriate working conditions for others in the company.QC 20100624
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Berglund, Martina. "Using tentacles in planning and scheduling work : activiteis, roles and contributions /." Stockholm : Skolan för teknik och hälsa, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-10564.
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Klaiber, Julia Beth. "Affordable live/work housing for artists in urban economic development planning." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371285.
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Markle, Gail. "Work and Family Conflict: Expectations and Planning Among Female College Students." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4546/.
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Young women today are anticipating involvement in both career and family. The competing demands of family and work often result in work-family conflict. A survey was administered to 124 female college students exploring the importance they place on work and family roles, the expectations they have for combining these roles, and their attitudes toward planning for multiple roles. Identity theory provides a foundation for understanding the choices women make regarding their anticipated participation in work and family roles. The results suggest that although college women are expecting to have demanding careers and involved family lives, they are not planning realistically in order to facilitate the combining of career and family roles with a minimum of conflict.
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Malaghan, Pavankumar L. "COMPARISON OF WORK ZONE QUEUE ANALYSIS SPREADSHEET TOOLS." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1419333352.
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Bates, Timothy W. (Timothy Waterbury). "Community and collaboration : new shared workplaces for evolving work practices." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66875.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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The 'collaborative community workplace' is a growing type of shared, flexible workplace that has emerged in recent years in response to a growing need for productive workspaces for mobile, distributed, and independent workers and small businesses. The way work is accomplished is transforming as the economy of the United States continues to shift toward knowledge work. As corporate structures have been streamlined and an increasing amount of work outsourced, the mobile and independent workforce has grown. This trend has been complemented by a shift in work environments, which aim to better serve the needs of modern workers. Although telecommuting from home offices and 'telework' centers appeared in the 1980s, it was the wireless Internetconnected laptop and cellular telephone that truly enabled work to be accomplished anywhere, from the daily train commute to the local coffee shop. New shared workplace typologies are broadening the spectrum of alternative workplaces and offer footloose workers a professional home base and network. Collaborative community workplaces fall into several typologies that embody unique approaches. They typically emphasize community and collaboration among independent workers and small firms, and each offers a different package of physical space, location, amenities, programming, and specialized services and equipment. As a result, these workplaces can provide a host of benefits, including enhanced productivity, efficiencies of scale, networking opportunities, social identity, and face-to-face interaction. Using data gathered through 25 site visits and over 40 interviews with space operators and tenants in three U.S. cities, this thesis characterizes these workplaces and identifies the needs they fulfill. It also develops a set of guidelines for future shared workplaces, exploring the creation of a larger, urban-scale shared workplace district, or cluster.
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McKee, M. Kevin. "Planning for youth ministry in the larger church a case study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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McCarthy, Priscilla. "Child Welfare Concurrent Planning and Bonding for Foster Parents." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/811.
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There has been a great deal of research published on foster youth’s perspectives regarding their relationships with foster parents, their experiences within the foster care system, and their longing for their biological parents. Limited research exists on foster parents’ experiences with the foster care system. More recently, foster parents have been asked to engage in the concurrent planning process, in which social workers work towards reunifying foster youth with their biological families, while at the same time planning for long-term, alternative placement in case reunification is not possible. The child welfare system depends on foster parents to care for and possibly be a long-term permanent placement for foster youth, yet we have little knowledge of foster parents’ experiences with concurrent planning and whether it impacts the foster parents’ ability to bond with foster youth.
This is a quantitative study, which uses survey questionnaires developed by the researcher to explore foster parents’ experiences with concurrent planning and their self-reported experiences with bonding to foster youth. The survey was sent to 107 licensed foster parents at two Southern California foster family agencies using Qualtrics. The results of the survey questionnaires were documented in Qualtrics and a statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS Version 2.1.
The foster parent participants in this study reported a range of experiences related to concurrent planning. Some reported receiving explicit training on the process from their social workers, while others received little to no information on concurrent planning. The study found a strong, positive correlation between the level of training and education participants received and their overall perceptions of the concurrent planning process. The study also explored relationship between the age of the foster child and the placement status of the foster child with the foster parent’s reported bonding to the child. The study found a small, positive correlation between the age of the child and the foster parents’ reported bonding. Similarly, the study’s findings suggest that foster parents with permanent placement youth report slightly higher levels of bonding with the youth than those with family reunification cases; however, this finding was not statistically significantly.
This study’s findings suggest the need for more research regarding foster parents’ experiences working with concurrent planning and with the child welfare system in general. This study suggests that factors such as foster parent experiences, as well as foster youths’ characteristics, may play a role in bonding between foster parents and foster youth. These factors should be further explored to provide the best chance for children to develop strong, lasting relationships with their foster parents that may lead to permanency. Understanding foster parents’ experiences may provide insight on the kinds of support, education, and training child welfare agencies should provide for foster parents who serve as such crucial resources for the child welfare system and the children it serves.
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Lusiani, Maria <1981>. "Formal planning rationality in public sector professional work: between discourse and practice." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2011. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/3701/.
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Although rational models of formal planning have been seriously criticized by strategy literature, they not only remain a widely used organizational practice in private firms, but they have increasingly been entering public, professional organizations too, as part of public sector managerial reforms. This research addresses this apparent paradox, exploring the meaning of formal planning in public sector professional work.
Curiously, this is an issue that remains under-investigated in the literature: the long debate on formal planning in strategy research devoted scant attention to its diffusion in the public sector, and public sector studies have scrutinized the introduction of other management tools in professional work, but very limitedly formal planning itself. In fact, little is known on the actual meaning of formal planning in public, professional services.
This research is based upon a case of adoption of formal planning tools in a public hospital. Embracing a discourse analytical lens, it examines which formal planning discourse entered professional work, to what extent, and how professionals interpret it and engage with it in their practice.
The analysis uncovers dynamics of social construction of meaning where, eventually, a formal planning discourse both shapes and is shaped by professional practice. In particular, it is found that formal planning rationality largely penetrated professional work, but not to the detriment of professional values. Morevover, formal planning ‘fails’ as a tool for rational decision making, but it takes up a knowledge work and a social value in professional work, as a tool for explicitation of action courses and for dialogue between otherwise more disconnected parts of the organization.
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Quint, Malcolm Morris. "Changing household structure and the impact on the journey to work." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76861.
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Arteaga, Elisa. "Permanency Planning for Youth in Foster Care." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/692.
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Despite the efforts to shorten the time youth spend in foster care, every year about 37, 362 youths emancipate from the foster care system without reaching permanency. Permanency for foster youth has not received adequate attention from the child welfare community due to the belief that youths are unadoptable. Using a qualitative approach, this study will explore the social workers’ perceptions related to permanency planning for youth with behavior problems and/or juvenile involvement in foster care and analyze the influence of the social workers’ perception on permanency planning for these youths.
This research study found that social workers considered the mental health of youths as most important in considering placement and permanency options. They believe that reunifying the youths with their families of origin was the optimal permanency outcome. However, when this option was not available, they felt that placing the youths with extended family members or family friends under legal guardianship was a good permanency outcome. This study also found that most of the participants limited the youths’ permanency options to only those known family members or friends already named by the parents; they did not consider reinstating reunification services to the parents, reaching out to incarcerated parents, searching for maternal and paternal extended family, or searching for lost siblings. Implications for social work research and practice are discussed.
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Vieira, Arlete Cândido Monteiro. "Work cooperate system: a possible alternative to work and revenue generation." Universidade de Taubaté, 2005. http://www.bdtd.unitau.br/tedesimplificado/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral, a verificação do Cooperativismo de Trabalho como uma possível alternativa à geração de trabalho e renda. Sendo assim, procurou-se descrever os principais conceitos que definem a Economia Solidária e o Cooperativismo, dando um maior enfoque à experiência brasileira, mostrando suas origens históricas e evolução contemporânea. Passou-se a analisar a Cooperativa e sua atuação que vai além da geração de emprego e renda. A pesquisa foi do tipo exploratória, com os dados coletados por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e analisada de forma documental. Apesar da crise do mercado de trabalho apresentar um quadro de complexo enfrentamento e dos desafios enfrentados pelas cooperativas não serem poucos, pôde-se concluir que essa forma de trabalho pode ser considerada uma alternativa aos trabalhadores excluídos, desde que estes desfrutem de uma ideologia de vida que permeie a colaboração, a cooperação e a solidariedade, sejam direcionados por políticas públicas de apoio e incentivo, e organizem suas ações por um projeto, tendo como objetivo principal o resgate social e a cidadania.This research had as an objective to verify the Work Cooperate System, as a possible alternative to work and revenue generation. Following this, described into the main contents, which arrange the Solidary Economy and the Cooperate System, with a closer approach to the Brazilians historical origins and contemporary evolution. Once this subject was understood, the research turn to analyze the Cooperative, and its performance, which goes beyond the generation of job and revenue. The research was descriptive type and all data base had been collected by means of bibliographical researches and by documentary form analyses. Despite of the crisis on the offering job market showing a complex scenario of confrontation and many challenges by the cooperatives. It follows that this form of work could be considered as a good alternative way to allow the integration of excluded workers, since they embrace this ideology of life, which consist into mutual contribution, cooperation, solidary, by a public politics of support and incentive, and an action plan regarding their projects. All this in order to achieve the social rescue and citizenship.
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Dutta-Koehler, Madhu Chhanda. "Making climate adaptation work : strategies for resource constrained South Asian mega-cities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81638.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This dissertation compares the responses of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Kolkata, India to the serious challenges posed by climate change, particularly in the water sector. Drawing on the theories of "adaptation as development" and cross-case analyses of ongoing planning initiatives in these two bellwether cities, this dissertation explores the factors that promote or hinder successful climate action. This work identifies practical, less resource-intensive adaptation strategies suited to the context of urban South Asia, where the findings suggest that, given the absence of dedicated adaptation planning at the city level, the most effective approaches are those that integrate both development and adaptation criteria. Resources allocated for local development can thus simultaneously address adaptation needs without substantial additional investments. Moreover, since such efforts are already part of ongoing planning initiatives, they obviate the need for more extensive "specialized adaptation" planning and technical expertise. These actions may thereby reduce the vulnerabilities of urban residents in these most threatened regions of the world. Drawing upon over ninety in-depth interviews, primary documents, firsthand observation, relevant scholarship, and three emblematic, developmentally oriented project case studies that address the cities' most urgent climate risks in water, flood and wetlands management, this research proposes a "contingent adaptation" approach as best-suited to such resource-constrained environments. Such an approach has the ability to overcome inherent local resource constraints, institutional limitations, while increasing the likelihood of adoption of adaptation-oriented projects. This work identifies several factors-among them, developing collaborative partnerships to bridge technical deficits, reforming local organizational structures to generate internal resources, and building political consensus for climate action-as essential for successful climate adaptation. This work seeks to provide a theoretical framework for effectively implementing adaptation-related local planning initiatives while building broader support for substantial climate action. Such contingent adaptation approaches may thereby provide a blueprint for immediate, proactive, and cost-effective practical applications in similar cities in South Asia and in comparable developing regions.
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Savoy, Jenelle Ann. "A descriptive study of discharge planning for "at-risk" elderly patients at Grady Memorial Hospital." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1992. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2393.
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This was a descriptive study of the discharge planning for "at risk" elderly patients at Grady Memorial Hospital. The researcher also examined variables associated with the discharge planning process. The variables were: 1) efforts of the medical social workers in discharge planning; and 2) presenting factors necessitating help for the "at-risk" elderly patients.
Findings revealed that 73% of the "at-risk" elderly patients had successful post-discharge continuing care placement. Thus, indicating that the medical social workers were also successful in their discharge planning efforts. Of the elderly patients placed, 17% needed twenty-four (24) hours skilled nursing care, versus 3% who needed intermediate (lower level) care. In addition, 76% of the "at-risk" elderly suffered from multiple medical problems. Eighty percent of the elderly patients had families who were unable to provide post-hospital care; 7% had families who were unwilling to provide post-hospital care, and 13% had no family to provide care. Only 1% of the "at-risk" elderly patients needed continuing care placement due to elder abuse. A significant number (53%) of elderly patients were found to have no impaired mental-functioning, many received medical insurance funding, 47% Medicare, 33% Medicaid, and 20% social supplemental income.
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Westman, Göran. "Planning primary health care provision : assessment of development work at a health centre." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Socialmedicin, 1986. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-100557.
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At the Primary Health Care Centre in Vännäs (VPHCC), northern Sweden, a development work was implemented in 1976-1980. The overall purpose was to enhance primary health care planning. In trying to improve health care delivery cooperation with community members was initiated and some organizational changes like a new appointment system, a new medical record and local care programs for some common diseases were introduced. Official statistics were also used for comparative purposes. The aims of the work were postulated (increased accessibility, higher continuity, more equitable distribution and enhanced cooperation) and suitable methods were designed. From postal surveys, chartreviews and administrative data (from hospitals, out-patient clinics and health centres) figures and information were collected. Accessibility was studied by waiting room time which was reduced and continuity, analyzed with a new concept - visit based provider continuity - was improved. The question of equitable distribution was studied by the consultation rates at different out-patient clinics. It seemed as if the local development work changed the patterns of utilization but some important issues were not decisively answered. Repeated postal surveys reflected the question of equitable distribution and the cooperation between the VPHCC and the community members. Positive responses were recorded in aspects like telephone accessibility and health care information. In a tracer study of diabetes the quality of care was studied. The local care program was actually implemented in the daily practice but the question of care quality needs further penetration. Within the frames of the development work new methods in the health care planning were introduced. Our work started from the prerequisits of the VPHCC and other health centres might find other ways of planning for care provision. On a general level, however, the structure of our work - defining aims, means and evaluation methods - can be used by others.Diss. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Umeå universitet, 1986, härtill 6 uppsatser.
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Chan, Kwun-hang Coway, and 陳冠恆. "Pedestrian planning in Central District: a place to work; a place to walk." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259583.
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Purves, Graeme A. S. "The life and work of Sir Frank Mears : planning with a cultural perspective." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2118.
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Chan, Kwun-hang Coway. "Pedestrian planning in Central District : a place to work ; a place to walk /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19906067.
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Campbell, Elizabeth L. "Anticipating Work and Family: Experience, Conflict, and Planning in the Transition to Adulthood." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84183/.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the development of work and family plans in young adults, and to clarify the long-term stability, prevalence, and consequences of anticipated work-family conflict. The study utilizes Super’s model of career development and social cognitive career theory, as well as research on current work-family interface, as a framework for understanding the period of anticipating and planning for multiple role integration that occurs between adolescence and adulthood. A sample of 48 male and 52 female college students assessed two years prior completed self-report questionnaires measuring work, marriage, and parenting experience; anticipated work-family conflict; and multiple-role planning. Results of this study suggest that students desire both a career and a family, and recognize potential challenges of a multiple-role lifestyle. Such recognition of anticipated work-family conflict varies by conflict domains and measurement methods, but remains stable over two years. Results also suggest that anticipated work-family conflict does not mediate the relationship between experience and planning; instead, marriage experience predicts planning directly. Implications for the findings are discussed as are suggestions for directions of new research concerning anticipated work-family conflict and planning for multiple roles.
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Brandt, Karin Leah. "Making Immigrant integration work : a case study of refugee resettlement in Philadelphia, PA." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59716.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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This research seeks to understand what are the conditions under which refugees integrate successfully in urban areas. This question is of particular importance to urban areas despite the fact that refugees account for only 10 percent of total US immigration. Refugee resettlement disproportionately impacts a city's urban fabric and foreign-born profile through the establishment of immigrant enclaves and subsequent chain migration. Moreover, a refugee community's initial resettlement period has long-term effects for integration outcomes. This research examines the institutional development of the refugee resettlement process in the city of Philadelphia, PA and draws on a case study of Liberian refugee resettlement where the presence of an existing community and English language ability did not facilitate integration as would be expected. This research investigates how stakeholders can make integration work for refugee immigrants.
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Evans, Kathleen Nessa. "Tracking and evaluating economic self-sufficiency programs in moving to work housing authorities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73813.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "June 2012."
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This thesis investigates the measurement and evaluation of economic self-sufficiency programs at the Cambridge Housing Authority (CHA). CHA has established a reputation as a leading innovator and implementer, but the agency is beginning to recognize the need to improve their capacity for program measurement and evaluation. Agency leadership is working to restructure internal hierarchy and to attract and engage with the local academic community - all with the aim of conducting and learning from data driven evaluations of programs and activities. At the same time, CHA is developing a broad suite of economic self-sufficiency programs for their tenant population. Within the next three years, more than 500 households will have access to these programs. Yet many initiatives lack well-developed evaluation plans that would allow the agency and their peers to gain valuable insights and develop transferable, scalable guidelines. This thesis creates a framework for understanding CHA's unique regulatory and reporting requirements, and the agency's position within the larger field of housing-based economic self-sufficiency programs. This foundation affords a more nuanced understanding of the agency's own programs, and existing plans and protocols for assessment. It then goes on to compare other methods of measurement and evaluation and how such models may inform CHA's next steps. Finally, it offers broad recommendations for achieving clarity and resolving mission conflict, improving both data collection and data management, and governing collaborative efforts with partners. These suggestions are meant to be informative prompts for further inquiry and action, but there are by no means comprehensive instructions.
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Anderson, Dulcy 1970. "Career ladders and work pathways : organizational shifts toward job-placement programs in Boston." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62949.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, June 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 76-79).
Federal welfare-to-work legislation (the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 and related federal grants) and the anticipation of the consolidation of job training programs through the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 have created new relationships amongst local government, for-profit and non-profit sectors. Related shifts toward work-oriented programs in public housing (through the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998) and facilitation of work for those with disabilities (through the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999) are also involved in this transition. Together, the new public/private mix is expanding "job readiness" services, childcare, private-sector involvement in training of the low-wage labor force, and coordination of welfare, unemployment and reemployment initiatives. The reconfiguration also seems to be fundamentally bluffing the boundaries between traditionally male-based job training and unemployment insurance and traditionally female-based aid for families and related services. In addition to a blurring of the boundaries between male and female systems of aid, there seems at times to be an implicit recognition of the blurred boundaries between the working-poor and welfare recipients. This paper explores the work of several organizations in Boston that have received Department of Labor (F/S) Welfare-to-Work grants. While the Welfare-to- Work grants are a time-limited source of funding (established in 1998 and scheduled to end in FY2001), they have served as a catalyst for organizational changes in ways that seem likely to be lasting and they seem to be paradigmatic of the sort of incentives and programs that are coming out of combined Health and Human Services and Department of Labor programming that seek to employ "hard-to-place" populations. By considering organizations that have received this funding and their relationships to city and state agencies, the for-profit sector, and other organizations in the not-for-profit sector, this paper creates a "map" of some of the important public and private institutions involved in the welfare-to-work transition in Boston. It also suggests the impacts of legislative changes on the evolving trajectories of individual organizations.
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Yip, Cheryl. ""Quality" control in China's reform era : investigating the suzhi discourse in women's work." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44343.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-62).
China's reform era has coincided with an emergence of a Chinese Communist Party-State ideological discourse concerning "population quality." Claims and accusations of 'low quality' are particularly targeted at rural migrant women who have been migrating to Chinese cities at an increasing rate. This investigation attempts to delineate to what extent this is a story of complete domination of the hearts and minds. To what extent do the women themselves internalize these claims of low 'quality?'The thesis has been built around fieldwork conducted in the Beijing household services sector. Known as an industry for perpetrating unjust labor conditions for women, this site proves to be an appropriate site to explore a discourse that attempts to justify these conditions with claims of women's low 'quality.' It will analyze various manifestations of the suzhi discourse on-the-ground, as experienced the household service agency, women's organizations, and the migrant women domestic workers themselves. Analysis of each of the players' relationship to the discourse is complex: there are instances of submission and resistance; defiance and internalization; and nuances and generalizations.
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Cowling, Shelby. "Revitalization of a local church through survey planning." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Ratliff, Judith Diana 1950. "Lessons learned from 13 street tree programs that work." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291409.
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As public and private groups around the country--spurred on by the deforestation of our cities--gear up for a major tree planting effort between now and the turn of the century, many planners are seeking examples of successful planting programs to give them ideas about how best to proceed. An extensive survey of 13 acknowledged successful street tree planting programs was undertaken to illuminate a shared framework for fruitful action, including organizational structure and funding strategies. Street tree programs were targeted because these trees planted in the public right-of-way are truly community trees. Both governmental and privately run programs were part of the survey. A major finding is that many cities are moving toward a partnership between private organizations and city forestry programs to fund the planting and maintenance of trees. While the surveyed programs have proved fairly adept at matching trees with existing planting sites, there is almost a complete lack of master planning of the vegetative resource and no thought given to altering prevailing modes of urban development to make more room for trees.
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DeHart, Lisa Joanne. "LATE ADULT LIFE PLANNING: ADDRESSING SELF CAPACITY AND NEGLECT." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/479.
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This study explores the relationship between Adult Protective Service (APS) referrals and the link between dementia type behaviors. The question is does self-neglect, due to dementia precipitate multiple APS referrals? A quantitative-study was conducted based upon a random selection of fifty client files from the years 2014 and 2015. The information collected was based upon data provided to the APS hotline and what was determined by the APS investigators. SPSS software was used to determine the values of the data. Table 1 displays the results of demographics with 37% males and 63% females. Results of this study are inconsistent with the existing literature.
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Oesch, Martha Elizabeth. "Bedpans, vital signs, and meds : hospital restructuring and the skill polarization of nursing work." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69267.
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Quirós, Rosa M. (Rosa Maria). "Rural water supplies that work, endure, and reach the poor : lessons from Ceara, Brazil." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69359.
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Kluver, Jean. "From work to home--Boston's hotel workers and the prospects for union-sponsored housing." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75528.
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Sanders, Linda S. "Parental Perspectives of Permanency Planning and Staffing Barriers in Child Welfare." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7737.
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Caseworker turnover in child welfare agencies has been a problem for many years. The turnover negatively impacts the agency, and the staff left behind by their departing peers, and continuity of services provided to clients. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore parental experiences with child welfare staff turnover to determine how clients perceived that turnover impacted their child welfare case. The research questions for this study focused on (a) how clients perceived that child welfare turnover impacted their case and (b) how the turnover impacted their case plan and (c) recommendations for child welfare to enhance services. Conceptually, ecological and general systems theories provided the framework for understanding perceptions of child welfare clients’ experiences. Data were collected using semistructured questions administered to the 8 former child welfare clients in individual interviews. The participants were recruited through purposeful and snowball sampling. The selection criteria for participants were previous clients who had experienced the loss of their caseworker at least 3 times due to turnover. The collected data were transcribed verbatim from an audio recording. Codes were assigned to the data and reliability checks were conducted. The themes that emerged from analysis of the data included (a) effect of turnover on the outcome of the case, (b) loss that comes with turnover, (c) different perspectives, (d) frustration with notification of change, (e) case plan changes, and (f) advice for child welfare agencies. The knowledge gained from this study can help child welfare agencies learn how clients are affected by turnover and what families need from the child welfare agency when facing turnover. The findings of this study could potentially contribute to positive social change by providing guidance for practice and a greater opportunity to help families who experience staff turnover in child welfare agencies.