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Baah-Nuakoh, Kwame A. "Financial regulation of professional football in Ghana." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/19278.
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Football clubs have multiple stakeholders sometimes with different and conflicting objectives. If a club concentrates solely on achieving sporting success at the expense of its financial objectives, it risks jeopardizing its long-term stability, which may affect the sporting integrity of the league as a whole. The behaviour of one club potentially has externality implications for other stakeholders which cannot always be internalised. There is therefore the need for regulation of the pre-emptive type to avert such negative consequences for clubs. FIFA has requested all member associations to implement club licensing to improve upon professionalism in management and to ensure long-term stability of club football. This thesis picks up on this theme to review the financial regulatory system in Ghana, obtain lessons from other jurisdictions and develop an incentive-based context-specific Football Financial Clearinghouse framework that is applicable in Ghana. The thesis employs a mixed-method research approach to evaluate the financial disclosure, position and performance of professional football clubs in Ghana, utilising critical reviews, interviews, focus group discussions and questionnaires to answer specific research questions. The empirical analysis in this thesis shows that financial licensing and monitoring needs to be complemented by the provision of incentives and support services to clubs to achieve optimal regulatory compliance. The key incentive in the specific case of Ghana is to ensure regulated access to credit. This thesis makes four significant contributions to knowledge by showing that: Ghanaian football clubs are in a difficult financial situation; there is an appetite for change amongst Ghanaian football’s stakeholders for a new financial regulatory framework; the existing financial regulatory frameworks, especially in Europe, are not applicable in the Ghanaian context as they were made for a different jurisdiction; and that the FFC framework would be an appropriate context-specific framework to deal with the financial regulation of Ghanaian football clubs.
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Maxwell, Rachel Sarah. "The sufficiency of legal and professional regulation for the medical profession with respect to torture." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494030.
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Padgett, Stephen Mark. "Negotiating quality : everyday practices and nursing self regulation /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7306.
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Hall, Edwin Andrew. "The effect of professional associations on wages and employment in the UK." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312443.
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Heubeck, Tina. "Product and labor markets in professional team sports : regulation and consequences." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2780252&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Heubeck, Tina. "Product and labor markets in professional team sports regulation and consequences." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2780252&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Baldwin, Sharon. "Self-interest and the public interest, professional regulation in Saskatchewan, 1905-1948." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0022/MQ35827.pdf.
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Law, Melanie Ann. "The development of professional standards for editing in South Africa /|cM.A. Law." Thesis, North West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/12826.
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Currently, South African editors do not have a prescribed set of professional editing standards. The absence of standards is cause for concern because it reflects the largely unregulated status of the South African editing industry. An important problem arising from the lack of standards is that there is no way in which the industry can determine the competence of its practitioners. In addition, the absence of standards also affects other areas of the industry, such as training, accreditation, regulation and professionalisation. As a consequence, editors struggle to obtain professional recognition for their work. Against this background, this study postulates that the development of standards for South African editors is possible and necessary. However, because the South African editing industry is highly diversified in terms of the various contexts in which editors may work, the development of standards needs to be based on the identification of shared or core tasks and skills that are essential for the everyday work of all editors, together with the identification of tasks and skills specific to certain sectors. This may lead to the development of a set of core standards for editors, supplemented by sector-specific standards. The focal point of this study is the first of these two aspects: the development of core standards for editors in South Africa. In order to develop core standards for South African editors, this study comprises a literature review and empirical investigation. The literature review analyses the status of the South African editing industry, and also contributes to the identification of a comprehensive list of tasks and skills involved in editing. The empirical investigation is based on a survey questionnaire (utilising the tasks and skills identified in the literature review) designed to collect data on which tasks and skills form an essential part of South African editors' work. The questionnaire was sent to a stratified sample of South African editors, reflecting the four sectors identified for the purposes of this study: editing for book publishing, editing for mass media, technical editing and academic editing. The data collected from the questionnaire was analysed utilising various statistical methods, in order to extrapolate core (or shared) tasks and skills among South African editors. These core tasks and skills were used to draft a document outlining core standards for South African editors, which was tested for accessibility and clarity
by means of a semi-Delphi study.M.A., Language Practice, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010
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Khoo, Teng Guan. "A critical comparative analysis of racial integration laws and its impact on professional team sports." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2011. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/211744/.
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The following research aims to examine the interaction of law, either hard law (legislation) or soft law (governing body regulation), on achieving a balance between racial equality and success in sport. Nearly all national jurisdictions have legislated to some degree in an attempt to affect equality or equality of opportunity for its citizens. This might be based on achieving equality of opportunity or by means of affirmative action. The research aim is to ascertain how far racial discrimination laws have positive or negative impacts on the success of sports in different countries. The research also has a series of supplementary objectives: to ascertain and consider critically the extent to which the law in various jurisdictions (Malaysia, South Africa, England and the United States) has been used to promote equality; to develop a sequential model to describe general trends to predict the influence of affirmative action and equal opportunity legislation upon the potential success of countries’ sporting achievements; to review tensions inherent in reconciling the equality of citizens at a national level and their impacts upon the international sporting success of that nation; to establish a correlative relationship between the types of anti-discrimination law within nations and the impact of these upon the degree of international sporting success of those nations. The research conducted concentrates primarily on qualitative methods by first adopting a doctrinal approach in a comparative legal study of four jurisdictions (Malaysia, South Africa, England and the United States). A non-doctrinal approach is then adopted and a qualitative intrinsic case study completed, including interviews concerning the subject area. Thus, the research has used multi-method qualitative approaches. The research indicated different anti-discrimination approaches taken in achieving equality. This can be typified by countries such as the United States or England based primarily on meritocracy and countries such as South Africa and Malaysia based primarily on preferential treatment. There is evidence to suggest that these approaches do have a certain correlation, albeit not similar in the outcome of achieving equality for selection. From the evidence presented, the overall study illustrates that racial discrimination laws in the four jurisdictions produced a mixed outcome in relation to the success of professional team sports. Specifically, England and the United States witnessed a positive impact in terms of achieving international success in sports even though there are inherent difficulties in reconciling the equality of citizens at a national level. For Malaysia and South Africa, the result tends to be positive in general at this stage although it is equally recognised that this approach might result in some negative impacts in the long run. The research however is subject to certain limitations which are outside the scope of this thesis, but it is recognised that these might affect the overall success of professional team sports within those countries.
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Gignac, Kate. "Counsellors Negotiating Professional Identity In The Midst of Exogenous Change: A Case Study." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33154.
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This research study sought to understand how Canadian counsellors in the province of Ontario negotiated and constructed their professional identity amid unfolding regulatory changes. These changes would bring restrictions to both title use and practice of psychotherapy once the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario was established and legislation was fully enacted. For those who identify with the title of ‘counsellor’ and share overlapping scopes of practice with psychotherapy it is uncertain what they will draw upon to construct, rework or maintain their counsellor professional identity. The intention was to build a descriptive, experiential account of the identity work being done by counsellors as they navigated through the uncertainty accompanying this period of transition.
A qualitative single case study design was used to explore the particularity of this contemporary occurrence of professional identity construction employing multiple data collection sources to garner a holistic picture of this phenomenon. Input was gathered from twenty-four Ontario counsellors who were students, novice or experienced practitioners who either participated in two semi-structured interviews (n=10) or an asynchronous virtual focus group hosted in the discussion forum of Blackboard Learn™ (n= 14). Additional data sources included the use of a demographic questionnaire, participant observation, and document analysis. In order to augment more subtle or deeper meaning levels additional data collection instruments were employed and these included the use of participant diagramming, a request for a descriptive metaphor, and graphic elicitation diagram. Using a thematic analysis strategy, a within case and cross analysis of the embedded subunits was undertaken.
Findings from the data analysis revealed a number of salient themes that offered insights into how counsellors construct their professional identity during periods of uncertainty. There were five higher order or global themes which emerged: (a) counsellors have a sense of agency around the construction and communication of their professional identity, (b) identity construction is a process of organic, emergent growth that continues throughout professional life; (c) the shaping and negotiation of counsellor professional identity is guided by values; (d) when change contexts arise counsellors safeguard identity integrity by protecting its distinctiveness, definitional parameters and characterization in practice settings; and (e) during transition periods counsellors are willing to execute adaptive shifting as part of their identity work provided this does not infringe upon their professional values. Results indicate that meaning, values and agency galvanize the professional identity work done by counsellors and during transition brought about by a significant exogenous change event, such as the recent moves toward professional regulation, these negotiation strategies prevail.
This case study took advantage of a contemporary instance of counsellor professional identity construction during unprecedented change to provide not only a rich description of this phenomenon but also to introduce a thematic diagram to act as a starting point for further discussion. Implications for counsellors, counsellor education and training programs, the profession, and future research are each discussed along with ideas for fostering informal avenues for counsellors across the experience spectrum to nurture their professional identity in a protean, agential manner.
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O'Shea, John. "The contemporary factors shaping the professional identity of occupational therapy lecturers : narratives in education, representation and regulation." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2017. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/40155/.
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Occupational therapy (OT) lecturers are at the interface between student education and training and professional practice and therefore have unique insights into the contemporary factors shaping their professional identity and that of the profession. Two main contemporary and interrelated factors have been identified. Firstly, neoliberalist government policies which encourage the marketisation of health and social care provision, which has implications for how the profession is defined and for professional autonomy and values, ways of working, education and training. Secondly, how knowledge is constructed and used within evidence based practice and whether this is compatible with an emerging occupational therapy body of knowledge. These factors are being played out in the fields of representation, regulation and higher education, shaping OT lecturer professional identity and therefore approaches to teaching and learning. This was understood as a structure and agency relationship based on Bourdieu’s theories on ‘Habitus’, ‘Field’ and ‘Capital’ (Bourdieu 1998, 1990, 1977). To do this, nine narrative inquiry focused interviews of occupational therapy lecturers from two universities were carried out. These narratives were understood within wider organisational contexts using a document analysis. A thematic analysis was applied to both interviews and documents. Five main themes have been identified: professional identity and artistry; professional and philosophical body of knowledge; doing research, evidencing practice and the neoliberal agenda; the representation and regulation of the College of Occupational Therapists (COT) and the Health Care and Professions Council HCPC); and moving into new ways of working – the selling of OT. These have implications for the development of OT professional habitus, the relationship between COT and the profession and approaches to teaching and learning.
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Adewoye, Oluwakemi. "The Effects of Professional Development and Formative Assessment Quality on Students' Self-Regulation in Primary School Mathematics." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5599.
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Student self-regulation is associated with mathematics achievement in Nigerian primary schools, and formative assessment holds promise for increasing self-regulation. However, to date no research has explored teacher professional development (PD) for formative assessment and its effects on students' self-regulation in Nigerian primary schools. This quasi-experimental nonequivalent control group design used Desimone's teacher professional development conceptual framework, Popham's model for practicing formative assessment, and Zimmerman's concept of self-regulated learning. Research questions concerned whether differences existed in teachers' practice and students' self-regulation between two groups of Nigerian primary school mathematics teachers who received variations of professional development. The sample was 13 volunteer mathematics teachers (7 in a workshop plus follow-up group and 6 in a workshop-only group) and 183 students from 7 primary schools. Teacher formative assessment quality (FAQ) data was collected from 3 classroom observations and student end-of-project self-regulation was measured via a questionnaire. Descriptive analysis at the teacher level showed that teachers in the workshop-plus group had a higher level of FAQ than workshop-only teachers. A t test showed students with workshop-plus teachers had significantly higher self-regulation scores on average than students with workshop-only teachers, although FAQ did not correlate with students' self-regulation scores, possibly due to a small sample size. This study contributes to social change by providing supporting evidence for school administrators to provide workshop plus follow-up coaching PD to teachers to increase the quality of formative assessment, which may have implications for improving mathematics achievement among primary students in Nigeria.
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Valdez, Diana Carol. "Effect of Biofeedback-Assisted Relaxation Therapy on the Psychophysiological Measures of Stressed-Out Working Professional Mothers." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5241/.
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This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of biofeedback-assisted relaxation therapy on reducing psychophysiological stress levels of working professional mothers. Participants were 14 working professional mothers from a major daily newspaper. Reported stress levels were measured with the 123 question Stress Profile (Nowack, 1990) three times during the eight week treatment study that was held at the women's workplace. A repeated measure ANOVA design was used to analyze the data and a partial eta squared was used to calculate effect size. As hypothesized, the study found a statistically significant reduction of reported stress levels (F=8.62; p=.001) and a statistically significant (F=3.65; p=.01) reduction in measured muscle tension across subjects. Practical significance (effect size) was found for reduction in reported stress levels (n=.39) and reduction in muscle tension (n=.21).
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O'Donnell, Brian Charles, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Education and Languages. "A model for registering teachers, accrediting teacher education and awarding advanced certification in Australia : a means for advancing the status of teaching as an autonomous profession." THESIS_FEL_XXX_O'Donnell_B.xml, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/78.
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Teaching in Australia is acknowledged as a profession. The public, however, generally perceives teaching as a poorly paid occupation whose practitioners exert little control over their own standards of practice. Consequently, the professional status of teachers is low, and very few of the most capable school leavers and high ability university graduates are attracted to teaching as a career. Furthermore, teachers' perceptions that the public does not appreciate their work have led to low morale, high rates of resignations, and early retirements among experienced practitioners. These factors will contribute to serious shortages of teachers in the new millennium. In the past Australian employers in both government and non-government school sectors have attempted to circumvent teacher shortages by reducing qualifications required for teaching. This anti-professional practice has contributed to the belief that teaching is something that anyone can do. It is argued in this thesis that the status of the teaching profession in Australia must be enhanced if teaching is to attract capable new recruits and retain knowledgeable, experienced practitioners. This could be achieved by giving teachers greater responsibility for their profession's standards through a system of statutory regulatory boards, comprised largely of practising teachers. The boards would be responsible for establishing and enforcing standards for registration of teachers, accreditation of teacher education, and provision of advanced certification. Furthermore, such regulation of the profession should be on a national basis to ensure that all children in all schools in Australia have access to competent, professionally qualified teachers, and to overcome the problems of interstate mobility of teachers. The thesis concludes by calling on all stakeholders to acknowledge teaching as a full profession. This could be achieved by accepting that teachers should regulate their professional standards in the same way that other professions do. A model to achieve that end is presented.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Inch, Andrew. "The new planning and the new planner : modernisation, culture change and the regulation of professional identities in English." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515211.
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Reforms to the English planning system introduced from 2001 by the New Labour government under the rubric of "modernisation" have made a series of claims to revitalise planning as a governmental and professional activity. In order to realise the ambitious goals of reform there have been widespread calls for a "culture change", particularly amongst professional planners in the public sector. The discourse of culture change is rooted in the managerialist thinking that has been central to long-term processes of state restructuring, and suggests a concern to regulate the attitudes and identities of workers. The thesis aims to interrogate the claims that have been made for a reformed planning system and practice. In so doing it seeks to uncover the cultural politics of modernisation, assessing the ways in which the discourses of reform have targeted and sought to change local planning cultures and planners' roles and identities. It therefore opens up identity as an analytical lens for assessing the modernisation of planning. I argue that the modemisation agenda has been marked by a series of tensions, simultaneously positioning planners as the agents of modernisation, but also as objects to be modernised. Reform has therefore imposed a considerable burden on planners as they seek to understand what is expected of them, and negotiate their professional identities in the midst of a complex set of changes that have intensified the demands of their practice. This suggests the need for greater attentiveness to the lived experience of processes of reform, and its impacts on those charged with realising change.
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Freeman, Stacey. "Emotions in Teaching: Self-Compassion." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6399.
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It has been hypothesized that negative emotions, left unresolved, contribute to feelings of burnout experienced by teachers. Self-compassion offers a kind, mindful way of approaching difficult emotions. The purpose of this study is to explore how teachers experience self-compassion by qualitative means. In semi-structured interviews, four elementary school teachers shared critical incidents of self-doubt or disappointment in their teaching. They also completed Neff's (2003a) Self Compassion Survey. Through intra-case and cross case analysis the findings revealed how teachers' lived experiences include episodes of conflict, reflection, resolution, and self-compassion, but in differing orders. Also, participants experienced self-compassion in ways that align with previous work on self-compassion, however an additional element of support seeking emerged. This study provided a context to understand the common ways in which self-compassion was lived out in the classroom while highlighting the differences in participants' experiences. This additional insight into the lived experience of the teachers adds to the body of knowledge regarding emotionality in the classroom and positive ways that teachers can and do regulate emotion through self-compassion. Additionally, participants' drive to seek support from others exposed a social side of self-compassion that Neff's (2003a) definition or a simple dictionary definition did not include.
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Jagsi, Reshma. "A comparative analysis of the political and professional regulation of junior doctors' work hours in the United States and United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395690.
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Mpofu, Charles. "Immigrant medical practitioners' experience of seeking New Zealand registration a participatory study : a thesis submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Health Science, 2007." Click here to access this resource online, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/404.
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This qualitative modified participatory study underpinned by social critical theory explored the experiences of immigrant medical practitioners seeking registration in New Zealand. The occupational science notions of occupation, occupational deprivation and occupational apartheid were used to understand the experiences of the participants. The objective of the study was to understand the experiences of the participants and facilitate their self-empowerment through facilitated dialogue, affording them opportunities for collective action. Data was obtained through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with eighteen immigrant medical practitioners who were doctors and dentists as well as two physiotherapists. The two physiotherapists were sampled out of necessity to explore diversity in findings. Transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. This method included the processes of coding data into themes and then collapsing themes into major themes which were organised under categories. Four categories were created in the findings describing the experiences of immigrant practitioners and suggesting solutions. Firstly; findings revealed that immigrant medical practitioners had a potential worth being utilised in New Zealand. Secondly; it was found that these participants faced negative and disabling experiences in the process of being registered. Thirdly; the emotional consequences of the negative experiences were described in the study. Fourthly; there were collectively suggested solutions where the participants felt that their problems could be alleviated by support systems modelled in other Western English speaking countries that have hosted high numbers of immigrant medical practitioners from non-English speaking countries. This collective action was consistent with the emancipatory intent of participatory research informed by social critical theory. This study resulted in drawing conclusions about the implications of the participants’ experiences to well-being, occupational satisfaction as well as diverse workforce development initiatives. This study is also significant in policy making as it spelt out the specific problems faced by participants and made recommendations on what can be done to effectively utilise and benefit from the skills of immigrant medical practitioners. A multi-agency approach involving key stakeholders from the government departments, regulatory authorities, medical schools and immigrant practitioners themselves is suggested as a possible approach to solving the problems faced by these practitioners.
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Lumma-Sellenthin, Antje. "Learning professional skills and attitudes : Medical students' attitudes towards communication skills andgroup learning." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för medicin och hälsa, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-91722.
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Medical education aims at forming students’ professional identity. This includes skills and attitudes such as communication and teamwork skills. One of the thesis’ aims is to identify students’ typical difficulties with learning communication skills, and to understand how these affect their identity development. Group discussions of student-patient interviews were video-taped, and selected discussions were transcribed and analyzed. Students had difficulties in establishing trustful relationships with their patients, asking about sensitive topics, responding empathetically, and with applying formal structures to the consultation. Students’ professional identity was supported by peer students’ and teachers’ comments, which created a common language and fostered selfmonitoring abilities. Another aim was to study the relationship between students* attitude towards communication training, group learning, and their self-regulatory skills. In a survey study, established instruments were combined with a new questionnaire. Four medical schools participated – two with traditional and two with problem-based curricula – in Sweden and Germany. Statistical analyses revealed that female students were more positive towards learning communication skills than male students were. Good self-regulatory skills were related to a positive attitude towards group learning and clinical experience before academic studies. It was concluded that early clinical experience benefits students’ selfregulated learning, and promotes a positive attitude towards communication training. Awareness of typical difficulties can facilitate the acquisition of coping strategies.Medicinsk undervisning syftar till att forma studenternas professionella identitet. Den omfattar färdigheter och inställningar, t.ex. kommunikationsfärdigheter och förmågan att arbeta i grupp. Ett av avhandlingens syften är att identifiera studenternas typiska svårigheter med att lära sig färdighet i läkar-patient kommunikation samt att förstå hur den påverkar identitetsutvecklingen. Gruppdiskussioner av student-patient intervjuer videofilmades, utvalda diskussioner transkriberades och analyserades. Studenterna berättade om svårigheter med att etablera förtroliga relationer med patienterna, att prata om känsliga ämnen, att visa empati och att använda intervjumallen. Den professionella identiten stöttas av studenternas och lärarnas kommentarer, vilka bidrar till ett gemensamt språk och förmågan till själviakttagelse. Andra syftet är att undersöka sambandet mellan studenternas inställningar till kommunikationsfärdigheter och grupparbete, samt deras förmåga till självreglerat lärande. I en enkätundersökning kombinerades befintliga instrument med ett nytt frågeformulär. Fyra medicinska fakulteter deltog: två med traditionella och två med problembaserade undervisningsmetoder, en av varje i Sverige och i Tyskland. Statistiska analyser visade att kvinnliga studenter är, jämfört med manliga, mer positiva till att träna upp kommunikativa färdigheter. Förmågan till självreglerat lärande var relaterad till en positiv inställning till gruppinlärande och till klinisk erfarenhet innan studierna påbörjas. Slutsatsen är att tidig klinisk erfarenhet fostrar självstyrt lärande och en positiv inställning till kommunikationsträning. Medvetenhet om typiska svårigheter kan underlätta för studenter att anamma strategier att hantera dessa.
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Booth, Lalita D. "ASccounting ethics and the AICPA code of professional conduct : a view through the lens of ethical theory." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1243.
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Marques, Rogério dos Santos Bueno. "A educação profissional entre a regulação do trabalho e o novo espírito do capitalismo." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7367.
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In order to understand the components of labor regulation and its impacts on the formulation and execution of public policies for professional qualification in Brazil, I reconstruct the institutional trajectory of the various spaces created by the State to manage this issue. From the initiatives of the first republic to the complexity brought about by the Vargas' corporate model to the initiatives of Brazil post-redemocratization, different solutions were undertaken and implied patterns of incorporation of civil society, the trade union movement and the business comunity in the formulation of qualification policies. I analyze these different institutional responses seeking to associate them with the different regulation patterns and different representations about the work present in the social actors' speeches. Justifications and criticisms voiced by deputies, senators, bureaucrats, presidents, ministers, trade unionists, researchers and other actors of civil society are used in the sense of understanding how different manifestations of the "spirit of capitalism" form the basis of the formulation and reformulation of Professional qualification policies. The analysis of the insertion patterns of the actors in the analyzed spaces highlights how different institutional constructions culminate in different potentialities of civil society participation in the decisions of the State as well as the formulation and reformulation of the policies in question. Based on the analysis of the creation of the bodies dedicated to the management of the workers' qualification, as well as their process, I highlight how different configurations of corporatism culminate in different types of democratization of public policies of work. The mismatch between qualification policies and the occupational structure as well as the insufficient results of several policies in being constituted as instruments of transformation of this structure motivated the beginning of this one of research, that ends up finding in the institutional dimensions and of the culture of the capitalism complementary answers to the Economic dimension to the complexity of the current structure of offer of professional qualification courses.
No intuito de compreender os componentes da regulação do trabalho e seus impactos sobre a formulação e execução de políticas públicas de qualificação profissional no Brasil, reconstruo a trajetória institucional dos diversos espaços criados pelo Estado para gerir esta questão. Das iniciativas da primeira república à complexidade trazida pelo modelo corporativo varguista até as iniciativas do Brasil pós-redemocratização, diferentes soluções foram empreendidas e implicaram padrões de incorporação da sociedade civil, do movimento sindical e do patronato na formulação de políticas de qualificação. Analiso estas diferentes respostas institucionais buscando associá-las aos diferentes padrões de regulação e a diferentes representações sobre o mundo do trabalho presentes em discursos dos atores sociais envolvidos. As justitificações e críticas verbalizadas por deputados, senadores, burocratas, presidentes, ministros, sindicalistas, pesquisadores e outros atores da sociedade civil são utilizadas no sentindo de compreender o modo como diferentes manifestações do “espírito do capitalismo” compõem a base da formulação e reformulação de políticas de qualificação profissional. A análise dos padrões de inserção dos atores nos espaços analisados destaca como diferentes construções institucinoais culminam em diferentes potencialidades de participação da sociedade civil nas decisões do Estado bem como de formulação e reformulação das políticas em questão. Com base na análise da criação dos órgãos dedicados à gestão da qualificação dos trabalhadores, bem como da sua processualidade, destaco a forma como diferentes configurações do corporativismo culminam em tipos distintos de democratização das políticas públicas de trabalho. O descompasso entre políticas de qualificação e a estrutura ocupacional bem como os resultados insuficientes de diversas políticas em se constituírem como instrumentos de transformação de tal estrutura motivaram o início desta de pesquisa, que acaba por encontrar nas dimensões institucionais e da cultura do capitalismo respostas complementares à dimensão econômica para a complexidade da atual estrutura de oferta de cursos de qualificação profissional.
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Britt, Faye. "School Leaders' Perceptions of Students' Antisocial Behaviors." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/253.
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There was a problem regarding students' antisocial behavior in a small rural school district in Washington State. Public data within the district indicated increasing incidents of students' antisocial behaviors. However, perceptions of school leaders regarding this problem were not known. As a result, there was a need to gain an understanding about school leaders' perceptions of students' antisocial behaviors in order to suggest potential solutions to reduce students' antisocial behaviors, as these perceptions are closely associated with their intent to address the problem. Bandura's theory of self-regulation provided the conceptual framework for collecting and analyzing data. Using an instrumental case study, the research questions explored school leaders' experiences in working with students who failed to manage their behavior and who exhibited antisocial behavior. Semi structured interviews were conducted with 13 school leaders in the district, and an iterative, inductive process of data collection, open coding, and thematic analysis was used. The themes that emerged from analysis of the data indicated a gap in the school leaders' practice regarding participation in ongoing, job-embedded professional development and an absence of a systematic school-wide positive behavior support approach to prevention and intervention. The findings indicated the need for professional development training to address these issues related to school leaders' practice. The suggested training could create positive social change by reducing students' antisocial behaviors, thus leading to an improvement in academic achievement. The recommended job-embedded professional development training resulting from exploring school leaders' perceptions can increase the capacity of the school leaders to manage students' antisocial behaviors.
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Van, Jaarsveld Aldri. "Private Military Companies as "new peacemakers" in Africa : is regulation sufficient?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/18710.
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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis evaluates and explores the function of Private Military Companies (PMCs) on the African continent. The phenomenon of PMCs evolved after the end of the Cold War. This study focuses on the relevant international and national legislation regulating PMCs that conduct active military assistance operations. These PMC operations have a strategic impact on the political, social, economical and security environments of the areas in which they are contracted to operate. The purpose of the thesis is to assess whether PMCs are efficient and cost effective, can be held accountable and to whom, and if current legislation (national and international) regulating PMCs is sufficient. This thesis is a literature survey that seeks descriptive and comparative information relevant to the purpose of this study. It deals with that information qualitatively. No empirical research has been conducted. It is therefore not an opinion survey as no questionnaires have been completed, although interviews with knowledgeable people have been conducted. The thesis focuses on the operations conducted by the now defunct Executive Outcomes (of the Republic of South Africa), a combat type PMC in Angola and Sierra Leone and Military Professional Resources Incorporated (of the United States of America), a non-combat type PMC in Equatorial Guinea. The study concludes that PMC operations through legitimate government contracts at international level are indeed legitimate. The regulations (international and national, if they exist) regarding PMCs are not sufficient, and allow for many grey areas. PMCs that operate in this sphere of grey areas are unacceptable for the international community in the current milieu. PMCs are, however, operating in a vacuum of accountability and regulation (international and national). With sufficient legislation, PMCs could be the new peacemakers.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis evalueer en ondersoek die funksionering van Privaat Militêre Maatskappye (PMM’e) en hul werksaamhede in Afrika. Die PMM-verskynsel het voortgespruit uit die stilstand van die Koue Oorlog. Die tesis fokus op die relevante internasionale en nasionale wetgewing rakende PMM’e wat aktief in een of ander formaat by militêre operasies betrokke is. Hierdie PMM-operasies het ’n beduidende strategiese impak op die sosio-politiese, ekonomiese en sekuriteitareas van die gebiede waartoe hul gekontrakteer is. Die doel van die tesis is om die effektiwiteit en koste-effektiwiteit van PMM’e te evalueer, asook om uit te vind of hulle aanspreeklik is en aan wie hulle verantwoording moet doen. Daar is ook gefokus op huidige wetgewing (internasionaal sowel as nasionaal) rakende PMM’e om die doeltreffendheid van sodanige wetgewing te bepaal. Hierdie tesis is ‘n opname van beskrywende en vergelykende literatuurstudies, relevant tot die doel van die tesis. Inligting is kwalitatief aangewend. Geen empiriese navorsing is onderneem nie. Hierdie tesis is ook nie gebaseer op ‘n meningsopname nie. Geen vraelyste is ingevul nie, maar daar is wel onderhoude met kenners van die betrokke vakgebied gevoer. Die tesis fokus op die vroeëre werksaamhede van die ontbinde “Executive Outcomes” as Suid-Afrikaanse PMM wat aktief betrokke was by oorlogvoering in Angola en Sierra Leone en ook op die steeds aktiewe Amerikaanse PMM “Military Professional Resources Incorporated” wat in Ekwatoriaal Guinieë werksaam is en wat nie aktief by oorlogvoering betrokke raak nie. Die tesis kom tot die gevolgtrekking dat PMM-kontrakte wat bekom word deur legitieme regeringskontrakte op internasionale vlak wel legitiem is. Daar is bevind dat wetgewing (internasionaal en nasionaal, waar wel beskikbaar) rakende PMM’e egter nie voldoende en effektief is nie. Daar is steeds baie grys areas rakende verantwoordbaarheid en wetgewing van PMM’e. Dit is in hierdie grys areas waarin baie PMM’e funksioneer en waardeur hulle onaanvaarbaar vir die internasionale gemeenskap in die huidige klimaat is. Doeltreffende wetgewing kan moontlik verseker dat PMM’e die nuwe vredemakers kan word.
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Traylor, Jessica. "Middle School Teachers' Experiences With Teaching Self-Regulation Skills to Adolescents With Disabilities." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3010.
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Research shows that adolescents with disabilities often lack self-regulated learning skills. Current research further indicates that explicit teaching of self-regulation skills is beneficial to adolescents with disabilities. The site of this study was a local middle school in rural Georgia that did not assess whether or not teachers were explicitly teaching self-regulation skills to adolescents with disabilities. It was unknown, therefore, whether adolescents with disabilities were learning self-regulation skills in school and whether teachers faced problems in teaching these skills. The study sought to explore this gap in knowledge and practice. Zimmerman's self-regulated learning theory and Bandura's self-efficacy theory served as the conceptual frameworks for this study. The research questions addressed middle school teachers' experiences with and perceptions of teaching self-regulation skills to adolescents with disabilities. Purposeful sampling was used to select 8 teachers, including general and special education teachers, who were currently teaching students with disabilities to participate in semistructured individual interviews. Additionally, lesson plans were reviewed to determine the use of planning for self-regulation interventions. Data were grouped into categories using coding and thematically analyzed. The findings indicated that teachers had experience teaching some aspects of self-regulation; however, they reported needing more information about the specific needs of their students with disabilities, ways to fit self-regulation skill instruction into the existing curriculum, and strategies to help their students build self-efficacy and motivation. With an increased focus on self-regulation skills, teachers may see an increase in the academic skills and motivation of students with disabilities.
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Quick, Oliver. "Error and the medical profession? : regulating trust. The end of professional dominance?" Thesis, Cardiff University, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490275.
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Germain, C. "Le Conducteur routier, gestionnaire de contraintes." Paris, CNAM, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988CNAM0095.
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Une analyse ergonomique des activites des conducteurs routiers effectuant un transport de marchandises sur de longues distances, permet de confirmer deux hypotheses: 1) le conducteur routier est le gestionnaire d'un systeme complexe avec des contraintes multiples, 2) les contraintes evoluent en fonction du produit transporte; le contexte environnemental constitue un facteur aggravant pour l'exercice de la profession
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Kloppers, Jacolette. "'n Ondersoek na die ontwikkeling van Die Matie studentekoerant se regulering en selfregulering sedert 1995." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1892.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.The development of the regulation and self-regulation of Die Matie, official student newspaper of the University of Stellenbosch (US), were researched in this study. Die Matie is subjected to a complete code of conduct since 1995, which has been approved by the US council. This code developed after several conflicts with university authorities in a period in which South Africa changed into a new political system and when government became more tolerant towards the press. The origin and development of Die Matie’s code of conduct, the operations of the Media Council, the origin and development of the Die Matie’s Financial Advisory Committee, and developments in terms of the subsidy Die Matie receives from the US on an annual basis, are therefore studied with in the context of the regulation and self-regulation of the South African press in general. The theoretical framework with in which this study was done is the normative media theory because this theory focuses on the ideal role the media should fulfil in society. The normative media theory also offers a basis from which the media’s responsibility and the quality of the media can be tested and controlled. The study has focused especially on the theory of social responsibility, which is one of the four original press theories and of which regulation and self-regulation forms a part. The methodology which has been used is that of historical research, a qualitative methode. This methode was refined even further more by using the approach of microhistory which, firstly, entails the analising of a small area, and secondly acknowledges the researcher’s personal experience of the subject. The study came to the conclusion that Die Matie firstly enforces self-regulation via its code of conduct, the Media Council and the Financial Advisory Committee. Secondly the editorial team has the freedom to publish whatever they would like to publish and to be as critical and controversial as they find necessary as long as they obey the regulations of the code of conduct. The study also finds that Die Matie’s position is currently protected and that the university authorities and the Student Representative Council can not take any random decisions about the existence of the newspaper.
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Pacheco, Cristiano Ricardo de Azevedo. "Arquitetura e urbanismo : estratégias profissionais, disputas mercadológicas e ascensão profissional." Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, 2018. http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/8296.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESThis dissertation aims to analyze the architects and their spaces of professional activity, in particular, analyze the social, institutional and political circumstances of professional participation in labor market instances. The departure of the architects of the previous Federal Council of Engineering, Architecture and Agronomy (CONFEA) and the creation of the new Council of Architects and Urbanists (CAU) brought to the fore debates about the extra-professional confrontations and the possible strategies of market reserve. In this sense, the discussions about the installation of the new representative council of the architects made it possible to show the struggle for the definition of investments for professional insertion and career ascension. In this way, the agents use a set of accumulated resources related to the social origins and the insertion in diverse social spheres. However, the extra-professional confrontations for imposition of performance and attributions of distinct professions were not only revealing a struggle for space in the labor market, but also made it possible to show an internal division, among the architects, stimulated by diversification of opinions related to the forms and behavior in the labor market. In order to understand the conflicts in analysis, it was fundamental to assimilate the system of social relations that architects establish among themselves, among other actors and with the labor market. For this, it was necessary to research the corporate and informal actions, to apprehend the social dynamics and the professional culture of the group of architects and urban planner. Thus, the spaces of action were analyzed, revealing the professional relations from the entry of new actors in a market considered restricted by the architects and urban planner. On one hand, the empirical universe is composed by the architects established in Aracaju, which are considered protagonists in the local market, and on the other, by the Council of Architecture and Urbanism of Sergipe. During the work, we studied their biographical and professional trajectories. To fulfill the purposes presented here, we subdivided this research into three main stages. In the first moment, we made a historical study of the process of structuring the field of action of the architect, distinguishing the actors that compose this space and how the discussions of professional socialization happened. In the second moment, we investigated what the architect does in practice and what his main spaces of action, discerning the social, political and economic influences that reflected in the trajectory of the profession. Finally, we identified the contents and forms of sociability of the protagonist architects who invest in the main fields of professional activity, based on changes in the labor market after the new professional regulation. This dissertation made it possible to demonstrate how the spaces of action of the architects show the formulations about the labor market and its position as architect and urbanist in front of the other actors, among their peers and before society. The present research allowed to testify that the exercise of architecture and urbanism activity is associated to the competence of application in several areas and that this proactive condition is determinant for the success in the professional trajectory. The present research corroborated that the exercise of the architecture and urbanism activity is associated to the competence of application in several areas and that this proactive condition is determinant for the success in the professional trajectory. In addition, here, there is information that allowed the understanding of the collective history of the profession and, in this way, made possible to recognize the resources that describe the investments in the profession of architecture and urbanism.
Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar os arquitetos e os seus espaços de atuação profissional, em específico, analisar quais as circunstâncias sociais, institucionais e políticas de participação profissional em instâncias do mercado de trabalho. A saída dos arquitetos do pregresso Conselho Federal de Engenharia, Arquitetura e Agronomia (CONFEA) e a criação do novo conselho de Arquitetos e Urbanistas (CAU) trouxeram à tona debates sobre os confrontos extraprofissionais e as possíveis estratégias de reserva de mercado. Nesse sentido, as discussões em torno da instalação do novo conselho representativo dos arquitetos possibilitaram mostrar a luta pela definição dos investimentos para inserção profissional e ascensão na carreira. Dessa forma, os agentes se utilizam de um conjunto de recursos acumulados relacionado às origens sociais e à inserção em esferas sociais diversas. Contudo, os confrontos extraprofissionais para imposição de atuação e atribuições de profissões distintas foram reveladores não apenas de uma luta por espaço no mercado de trabalho, mas também possibilitaram mostrar uma divisão interna, entre os pares arquitetos, estimulada por diversificações de opiniões quanto às formas e às condutas de atuação no mercado de trabalho. Para compreender os conflitos em análise, tornou-se fundamental assimilar o sistema de relações sociais que os arquitetos estabelecem entre si, entre demais atores e o mercado de trabalho. Para isso, foi preciso pesquisar as ações corporativas e informais, para colher as dinâmicas sociais e a cultura profissional do grupo de arquitetos e urbanistas. Em vista disso, foram analisados os espaços de atuação, revelando-se as relações profissionais a partir do ingresso de novos atores em um mercado considerado restrito pelos arquitetos e urbanistas. O universo empírico considerado é constituído, de um lado, pelos arquitetos estabelecidos em Aracaju e que são considerados protagonistas no mercado local, e de outro lado, pelo Conselho de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Sergipe. No decorrer do trabalho, foram estudadas suas trajetórias biográficas e profissionais. Para cumprir os propósitos aqui apresentados, esta pesquisa subdividiu-se em três etapas principais. No primeiro momento, efetivou-se um estudo histórico do processo de estruturação do campo de atuação do arquiteto, distinguindo os atores que compõem esse espaço e como aconteceram as discussões de socialização profissional. No segundo momento, investigou-se o que o arquiteto faz na prática e quais seus principais espaços de atuação, discernindo as influências sociais, políticas e econômicas que refletiram na trajetória da profissão. Por fim, identificaram-se os conteúdos e formas de sociabilidade dos arquitetos protagonistas que investem nos principais campos de atuação profissional, assentando-se nas alterações ocorridas no mercado de trabalho após a nova regulamentação profissional. Esta dissertação possibilitou demonstrar como os espaços de atuação dos arquitetos evidenciam as formulações sobre o mercado de trabalho e sua posição como arquiteto e urbanista frente aos demais atores, entre seus pares e perante a sociedade. A presente pesquisa permitiu testemunhar que o exercício da atividade de arquitetura e urbanismo apresenta-se associado à competência de aplicação em diversas áreas e que essa condição proativa é determinante para o êxito na trajetória profissional. Além disso, encontram-se, aqui, informações que permitiram a compreensão da história coletiva da profissão e, dessa forma, possibilitaram reconhecer os recursos que descrevem os investimentos na profissão de arquitetura e urbanismo.
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Warcup, Margaret K. "Regulation of health professions, the regulation of the physiotherapy profession in British Columbia and the changes in regulatory policy implemented with the Health Professions Act (1996)." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ62543.pdf.
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Zemanová, Petra. "Pracovní podmínky a práce řidičů nákladní dopravy." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264340.
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The present diploma thesis deals with the work of professional freight traffic drivers and is focused primarily on the requirements, which has to be fulfilled to become a professional driver. The theoretical part describes all of the requirements for the driver, as well as drivers operating modes and also compares the Regulation no. 561/2006 with AETR contractual agreement. An integral part of the work is a description of recording devices and possible checks of drivers and carriers. The second, practical part, deals with a survey among professional drivers focused primarily on their knowledge of the applicable regulations. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of drivers and freight charge of their working day
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Lyubimov, Alexey. "Regulation and the Auditing Profession." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5808.
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The dissertation consists of three studies examining three different regulatory issues that affect the auditing profession. The first study has two main foci. First, the study investigates the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the Big 4 fee premium. Second, the study investigates the relationship between the size of an audit client and annual fee change. The results show that in the post-SOX environment, clients of non-Big 4 firms have experienced greater increases in audit fees than the clients of the Big 4 firms, resulting in a diminishing Big 4 premium. This is consistent with the notion that non-Big 4 clients had to make significant adjustments to meet post-SOX quality requirements by increasing their effort (and consequently audit fees). The results also show audit firms' large clients experience the largest percentage increase in audit fees. This is consistent with the theoretical view of consumer surplus, where the large clients, with more resources, have greater levels of consumer surplus, which is being captured by the audit firms. The study contributes to our understanding of the impact of SOX on audit fee premium and the economics of audit market competition in different client segments. The second study is focused on three main areas: 1) the relationship between audit fees and audit market concentration on a country level; 2) the effect of a country's litigation regime on the relationship between audit fees and market concentration and 3) the inter-relations between competition, fees, and quality in the market for audit services. The study is motivated by the current debate in the United States and the European Union about the possible problems associated with the current oligopolistic structure of the audit market. The contribution of this study lies in the fact that it provides a multi-national empirical investigation of the audit competition-fee relationship, and examination of how country-level fees affect the competition-quality relationship, while controlling for country level factors. Results show a negative relationship between country-level market concentration and audit fees but only in highly litigious countries, suggesting that the firms are able to obtain economies of scale in more concentrated markets and are willing to pass savings down to their clients. However this relationship only holds for the clients of the Big N firms. Analysis of audit quality suggests that audit quality is higher in more concentrated markets but mediation analysis did not show that the fees mediate the relationship between audit quality and market concentration. The third study addresses current regulatory debate about the responsibility of the principal auditor in the group audit environment. Current United States standards allow the principal auditor to disavow responsibility for parts of the audit which were performed by a third party auditor by referencing them in the auditor's opinion and then indicating the part of the audit which was performed by them. This disclaimer of responsibility is prohibited under the international auditing standards, which require the principal auditor to be responsible for the entire group audit. Specifically, this study examines 1) audit quality implications related to such opinions, and 2) the relationship between having a shared opinion and audit fees. The results show that the audit quality is significantly lower for the firms whose audit opinion referenced a third party auditor. The results also provide some evidence that audit fees are lower in shared responsibility situations.Ph.D.
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Cornock, Marc. "Regulation and control of health care professionals." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54775/.
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This thesis is concerned with the regulation and control of health care professionals. In particular it examines the current regulation to which health care professionals are subject. The hypothesis put forward by this thesis is that the regulation of health care professionals is not fit for purpose. Fit for purpose being defined as satisfying the need for public protection and patient safety, its primary aim, but also enabling to the health care professional by allowing them autonomy to undertake their practice. In examining its hypothesis, the thesis provides an analysis of the nature of a health care professional as well as determining the context within which health care professionals undertake their professional practice. The regulation of health care professionals is analysed through a framework of five elements of regulation that are considered necessary for regulation to achieve its primary aim. These five elements are: protection of titles and registration education for initial registration clinical competence standards for performance and, fitness to practise. Consideration is given to proposals for reform of the regulation of health care professionals, that are yet to be introduced. The thesis finds that some of the elements of regulation are individually fit for purpose but that the current regulation of health care professionals is not fit for purpose as a whole. Recommendations are put forward to improve the effectiveness of regulation. The scope of this thesis is limited to that of health care within England.
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Hege, Robin. "La régulation du marché de l'aide professionnelle à domicile pour les personnes âgées dépendantes." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01E006/document.
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Le marché de l’aide professionnelle à domicile pour les personnes âgées dépendantes en France est régulé. L’APA solvabilise une partie de la demande d’aide professionnelle à domicile tandis que certaines structures d’aide professionnelle sont tarifées et ont l’obligation de répondre à l’ensemble des demandes qu’elles reçoivent. Ces politiques de régulation sont décentralisées au niveau des Conseils départementaux et ont pour objectif de réduire les inégalités financières et géographiques d’accès à l’aide professionnelle à l’intérieur de chaque département. L’objectif de la thèse est de déterminer si ces politiques de réduction des inégalités intra-départementales conduisent à des inégalités interdépartementales. Le premier chapitre de la thèse utilise une enquête menée au niveau des Conseils départementaux afin de déterminer si la décentralisation des politiques de régulation conduit à une forte hétérogénéité de politiques entre départements. Le deuxième chapitre de la thèse analyse l’impact de l’hétérogénéité constatée. Ce chapitre propose une estimation de l’élasticité au reste à charge de la demande d’aide à domicile des personnes âgées dépendantes, à l’aide d’une enquête nationale. Le troisième chapitre de la thèse analyse, à l’intérieur d’un département, la répartition des financements publics en fonction des revenus et son impact sur les écarts de consommation. Pour cela nous utilisons des données de facturation d’un service d’aide à domicile. Enfin le quatrième chapitre de la thèse propose un modèle théorique de marché mixte, étudiant les effets de l’obligation de service d’une partie des structures du marché sur la qualité de l’aide offerteThe professional home-care market for the disabled elderly in France is regulated. The APA partially reimburses the professional home-care demand and the price of some home-care producers are fixed by the regulator. These producers must serve every area on the territory. The departmental councils set up these regulation policies. Their goal is to reduce financial and geographical inequalities in terms of access to home-care inside each department. Our thesis tries to determine if reductions of inequalities inside each department increase inequalities between department. The first chapter uses a departmental survey to check if the decentralization of regulation policies creates a heterogeneity between department. The second chapter aims to estimate the effects of the heterogeneity observed in the previous chapter on the home-care consumption. We use a national survey to estimate the price-elasticity of the professional home-care demand. The third chapter uses firm’s billing data to analyze the distribution function of the public support according to personal income and its impact on consumption. Finally, the fourth chapter presents a theoretical model of a mixed market where two firms compete on a market, one of which has a ubiquity constraint. The model studies the effect of this ubiquity constraint on the quality
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Hoppe, Christina Roberta Gina. "Predicting health professionals' management of obesity." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/predicting-health-professionals-management-of-obesity(fe0ce36e-9881-4b82-8bcb-6bdeb3d1daf4).html.
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Rezgui, Hichem. "Contingence de la normalisation comptable pour les banques islamiques entre le légitime et le légal : une étude des convergences comptables des IFAS vers les IAS/IFRS." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2015CNAM0972.
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La finance islamique connaît depuis trois décennies une croissance soutenue. La problématique de recherche consiste à vérifier si l’existence de normes de comptabilité financière spécifiques aux institutions financières islamiques peut être un obstacle à l’objectif d’harmonisation comptable internationale entrepris depuis une quarantaine d’années avec la création de l’IASC. Une première phase de recherche normative suggère que les valeurs comptables issues d’une morale « islamique » seraient incompatibles avec les valeurs comptables portées par les normes internationales d’information financière (IAS/IFRS). Cependant, une deuxième phase descriptive et comparative confirme la convergence des normes comptables islamiques (IFAS) vers les IAS/IFRS illustrant un comportement « schizophrénique » du normalisateur comptable islamique (AAOIFI). En effet, cet organisme érige des normes conformes à la jurisprudence islamique pour les règles comptables de présentation mais qui convergent vers les IAS/IFRS pour les règles d’évaluation, mettant, alors, en relief la fonction « communication relationnelle » des données comptables. Afin d’étudier les facteurs de cette convergence, nous adoptons, dans une troisième phase explicative, une double approche théorique (Sociologie néo-institutionnelle et théorie de la dichotomie sacré-profane) et nous réalisons des entretiens avec les membres de deux comités opérationnels de l’AAOIFI : le comité Charia et le comité comptable (AASB). Ainsi, la convergence comptable s’expliquerait par le mimétisme des banques islamiques et de l’AAOIFI qui adoptent les mêmes réflexions et comportements que les banques classiques et le normalisateur comptable international (IASB). De même, des « luttes professionnelles » entre les deux comités opérationnels de l’AAOIFI aboutissent à la domination des membres du comité comptable plus influencés par une « culture IFRS » orientant, alors, certains choix de normalisation vers un renforcement de la convergence des IFAS vers les IAS-IFRS. De ce fait, des conflits entre « juridictions » professionnelles aux frontières mal définies permettent l’établissement d’une échelle de pouvoir et facilitent l’agissement d’effets mimétiques, coercitifs et normatifsIslamic finance has grown steadily for three decades now. The research question consists inchecking whether the existence of specific standards of financial accounting for Islamicfinancial institutions can be a hindrance to the goal of international accounting harmonization undertaken over the last forty years with the creation of the IASC. A first normative phase of research suggests that accounting values resulting from Islamic moral are incompatible with the accounting values of International Financial Reporting Standards (IAS / IFRS). However, a second descriptive and comparative phase confirms the convergence of Islamic Financial Accounting Standards (IFAS) to IAS / IFRS illustrating a "schizophrenic" behavior of the Islamic accounting standard-setting body (AAOIFI). Indeed, this organization sets up standards in compliance with Islamic jurisprudence for accounting presentation rules but that are converged with IAS / IFRS for valuation rules, while highlighting the "relational communication" of accounting data. To study the factors of this convergence, we take in a third explanatory phase, a dual theoretical approach (neo-institutional sociology and theory of sacred-profane dichotomy) and perform some interviews with members of two operational committees of AAOIFI: the Shariah Board and the Accounting Board (AASB). Thus, the accounting convergence is explained by the mimicry of Islamic banks and Islamic accounting standard-setting body that adopt the same thoughts and behaviors than conventional banks and the International Financial Accounting Standards Board (IASB). Similarly, "professional struggles" between the two operational committees of AAOIFI lead to the domination of the accounting committee members that are more influenced by an "IFRS culture" while directing some decisions of standard-setting process towards greater convergence of IFAS to the IASIFRS.Thus, conflicts between professional jurisdictions with ill-defined borders allow theestablishment of a scale of power and facilitate the conduct of mimetic, coercive andnormative isomorphism
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Hardy, Maryann L., Beverly Snaith, Lisa Edwards, John Baxter, Paul Millington, and Martine A. Harris. "Advanced Practice: Research Report." Health & Care Professions Council, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/18531.
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yesThe Health Care and Professions Council (HCPC) regulates fifteen different professions; some of these are large groups like Physiotherapists and some are much smaller such as Speech and Language Therapists (SLT). Most of the people registered by the HCPC work within their own areas of clinical expertise and defined professional scope of practice. However, an increasing number of registrants are undertaking new or additional roles beyond the traditional scope of practice for the defined profession. These roles are often shared with other medical or health professionals and persons undertaking these roles are often, but not consistently, referred to as Advanced Practitioners. Advanced Practitioners are employed within the NHS across all four countries of the UK and are also employed by private healthcare providers. The roles they undertake vary from the highly specialised (e.g. an advanced podiatrist might specialise in biomechanics) to more general roles with greater professional autonomy and decision-making (e.g. a paramedic working in a GP Practice assessing patients with undifferentiated acute problems). As a result, there is currently no consistency in role title, scope of advanced practice, necessary underpinning education or professional accreditation across the HCPC registered professions. This study was undertaken to explore these issues and seek opinion on the need for additional regulatory measures for persons working at an advanced practice level. NB: For the purposes of this study, advanced practice was considered to encompass all roles, regardless of role title, where the level of practice undertaken was considered to be advanced. Method Three approaches to data collection were undertaken to ensure the differing opinions across all HCPC registered professions, different stakeholders and the four nations of the UK were collected. Data were collected through: 1. A UK wide survey of HCPC registered healthcare professionals; 2. A UK wide survey of organisations delivering AHP & scientific advanced practice education; 3. A series of focus groups and interviews across a range of stakeholder groups. Findings The concept of advanced level practice was not consistently understood or interpreted across the different stakeholder groups. Those participants identifying as working at an advanced practice level undertook a range of activities both within and out with the traditional scope of practice of the registered profession adding a further layer of complexity. Educational support and availability for advanced level practice varied across professional groups and inequity of accessibility and appropriateness of content were raised as concerns. There is no consensus across participant groups on the need for regulation of advanced level practice. Perceived advantages to additional regulation were the consistent and equal educational and employer governance expectations, particularly where multiple professional groups are undertaking the same role, all be it with a differing professional educational foundation and lens. However, while some voices across the participant groups felt regulation was essential to assure practice standards and reduce risk of role title misuse, there was equally a lack of appetite for regulation that inhibited agility to respond to, and reflect, the rapidly changing healthcare environment and evolving scope of advanced level practice. Importantly, no evidence was presented from any participant group that advanced level practice within HCPC regulated professions presents a risk to the public. Conclusion The study data presented in this report reflect the complexity of the concept of advanced practice within the HCPC regulated professions. Much of this is a consequence of the differing speeds of professional role development across healthcare organisations and professional groups, often related to service capacity gaps and locally developed education to support local initiatives. Despite this, there is no clear evidence, based on the findings of this research, that additional regulation of advanced level practice is needed, or desired, to protect the public. However, as the HCPC is one of the few organisations with a UK wide remit, it may have a central role in achieving unification across the 4 nations in relation to the future role expectations, educational standards, and governance of advanced level practice.
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Santos, Wellington Luiz. "CURSOS SUPERIORES DE TECNOLOGIA EM SEGURANÇA NO TRABALHO: PERCEPÇÃO DO(A)S ALUNO(A)S E PROFESSORE(A)S." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2015. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1679.
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The dissertation analyzes the technological education in its current configuration, investigating the perception of students of a degree of security technology at work, for their insertion in the professional field; investigating the hypothesis that these agents can sense lags in the real social process, which are expressed in the inadequacy between: the course structure of security technology at work, the judicial-legal sphere and the structure of the labor market. The research adopts an exploratory qualitative approach, based on the case study method to collect data. To discuss the issue of the professional formation and technological education in Brazil, we use bibliographic research in order to unveil the type teaching evolution in the contextual way in its relation to economic phenomena, social and political. To verify the research hypothesis, we investigated students and teachers of a safety course at work in an educational institution, through questionnaires and interviews; and we conducted a documentary research in related legislation on the issues of professional regulations in the specific field of the safety area at work. The results confirmed the research hypothesis, establishing serious modifications in the purpose and objectives of technological training, especially in its social effects. The documentary research articulated to the subjects’ answers, indicated the gap of the politics between the education area and the politics of labor and employment. Nevertheless, in the teachers’s discurses evidences were found to support hypothesis of the issue dealt with here, extend to other courses. The results show that it are necessary, further studies on this issue and to restablish a research agenda aimed at agents and process involved in this context, for the purpose of promoting discussions and identify actions and procedures to guide, correct any distortions and reduce the possibility of the repetition of events related to the problem under discussion.
A dissertação analisa a educação tecnológica em sua atual configuração, investigando a percepção de alunos de um curso superior de tecnologia em segurança no trabalho, para sua inserção no campo profissional; investigando a hipótese de que estes agentes pressentem defasagens que se encontram no processo social real e, que se exprimem na inadequação entre: a estrutura do curso de tecnologia em segurança no trabalho, a esfera jurídico-legal e a estrutura do mercado de trabalho. A pesquisa adota uma abordagem qualitativa exploratória, pautada no método de estudo de caso para a coleta de dados. Para discutir o tema da formação da educação profissional e tecnológica no Brasil, utilizamos a pesquisa bibliográfica de forma a desvelar a evolução desta modalidade de ensino de modo contextual em sua relação com os fenômenos econômicos, sociais e políticos. Para verificar a hipótese de pesquisa, investigamos discentes e docentes de um curso de segurança no trabalho em uma instituição de ensino, por meio de questionários e entrevistas; e realizamos uma pesquisa documental na legislação relacionada a questão da regulamentação profissional do campo específico da área de segurança no trabalho. Os resultados obtidos confirmaram a hipótese da pesquisa, configurando grave desvio no propósito e objetivos da formação tecnológica, mormente, em seus efeitos sociais. A pesquisa documental articulada às respostas dos sujeitos, indicou defasagem das políticas entre a esfera da educação e das políticas de trabalho e emprego. Ainda, na fala dos docentes verificou-se evidências que sustentam a hipótese da problemática tratada aqui, estender-se a outros cursos. Os resultados evidenciam que se faz necessário, aprofundar estudos neste tema e estabelecer uma agenda de pesquisas dirigidas aos agentes e processos envolvidos neste contexto, para fins de promover discussões e alcançar ações e medidas que visem orientar, corrigir eventuais distorções e reduzir a possibilidade de repetição de eventos relacionados ao problema em discussão
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Dobbin, J. S. "Regulation of the land surveying profession in Canada." Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/572.
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Dobbin, James S. "Regulation of the land surveying profession in Canada." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0003/MQ46247.pdf.
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Lace, Susanne. "The globalisation of regulation of the legal profession." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3492/.
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The thesis investigates the nature and regulation of the international practices of large commercial law firms. The overseas work of City solicitors, German commercial lawyers and US corporate lawyers is examined; almost seventy interviews were undertaken with lawyers and regulators based within the jurisdictions of England and Wales and Germany. A wide variety of literature, ranging from the fields of globalisation and regulation to the sociology of the professions, contextualises the empirical research. It is argued that the processes of globalisation have intensified within the last quarter of this century. The heightened internationalisation of business has impacted upon the worlds of many professionals, including those of lawyers in large law firms. Many of the largest law firms are moving to more commercialised forms of practice, where entrepreneurship is highly valued. Indeed, one of the reasons why foreign offices are opened is to take advantage of "green-field" sites abroad. However, law firms' strategies do vary; the thesis aims to tease out some of the differences in the international practices of the law firms investigated. In so doing, it cautions against over-generalising when discussing the overseas strategies and experience of "mega-law firms". Nevertheless, international developments do test the limits of current regulation. Large law firms often operate beyond the regulatory concerns of professional associations yet several features of their practice are worrying. For instance, the tendency of commercial lawyers not to consider anything other than their clients' immediate interests (to act as "hired guns") calls into question the legitimacy of regulatory systems. The thesis proposes a programme of reform to address such concerns.
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Olarnsakul, Tavinie. "Can Regulation Improve Ethics Within The Auditing Profession?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1672.
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This paper will examine the effectiveness of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) in improving ethics within the external auditing profession. The first chapter explores well-known ethical theories and professional code of conducts related to the auditing profession. The second chapter details the generally accepted auditing standards and changes that have been made throughout the years. The third chapter examines past corporate fraudulent scandals (Waste Management, Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, Enron) and studies the role of auditors in contributing to the collapse of these corporations. The forth chapter details the objective of the SOX and how it plans to protect the investing public and improve the reliability of financial information. Finally, the fifth chapter compiles various research studies that examine the effects of the SOX and its impact on audit quality.
The author discovered that regulation could help enhance ethics through indirect measures that aim to improve audit qualities, and thus, promote virtue ethics within the auditing profession. Some of these measures include establishing an oversight board to strengthen regulation and enforcement (section 101), reducing the scope of non-audit services (section 201), requiring auditors to attest to a client’s internal control operating effectiveness (section 404) and promoting principles-based standards within the profession (section 108). Through these measures, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has managed to regain the public trust and improve audit quality, thereby, enhancing ethics within the auditing profession.
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Tiao, Beyon Luc Adolphe. "Régulation des médias d'Afrique francophone : cas du Burkina Faso." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30006/document.
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Les flux nés de la libéralisation du secteur des médias ont suscité des interrogations quant à la maîtrise du traitement de l’information par des hommes dont la grande majorité n’avait aucune connaissance en matière de journalisme. De même, les impératifs de service public et une répartition équitable des ondes devenaient une préoccupation des politiques publiques en matière de communication. C’est dans ce contexte, qu’un nouveau paradigme, celui de la régulation, apparaît dans la reformulation des politiques des médias. Appliquée au secteur des médias, la régulation devait non seulement protéger et garantir le bon fonctionnement du système mais aussi en assurer en cas de besoin une répartition équitable de son domaine d’action. Les instances de régulation en Afrique sont confrontées à de nouveaux défis auxquels elles sont désarmées. Il s’agit de l’évolution exponentielle de la technologie de l’information et de la communication (Tics). Elle se traduit en termes de la gestion des flots d’information véhiculés par les médias ligne et la problématique de la transition vers la télévision numérique terrestre. Pour les Sciences de l’information et de la communication, il s’avère important de comprendre la pertinence de la régulation des médias, d’en analyser les moyens et le champ. Notre question principale pourrait donc être formulée comme suit : Dans quelle mesure la régulation des médias peut-elle être un moyen de consolidation de la démocratie ? Cette question nous semble pertinente quand on voit les conflits d’intérêts entre les acteurs du débat public qu’ils soient du pouvoir politique, qu’ils soient inscrits dans des mouvements politiques ou dans la société civile. L’hypothèse qui se dégage est que la régulation médiatique peut être un outil de consolidation de la démocratie. Le mode de régulation étant tributaire du contexte de chaque pays, le champ de notre recherche se circonscrit au Burkina FasoLarge flows stemming from the liberalization of the media sector arose questions related to the mastery of information processing by men among whom a large majority didn’t have any knowledge of journalism. Besides, the requirements of public services and a fair distribution of broadcasting systems constituted a major concern for public policies in connection with communication. This context has brought about a new paradigm that has urged the inclusion of media regulation in the reformulation of the media policies. The regulation process which is applied in the media sector should not only protect and guarantee the appropriate operation of the system but also ensure, in case of need, a fair distribution of its action scope. Regulations systems in Africa are confronted with new challenges which they face desperately. For instance, we can cite the rapid surge of information and communication technology (ICT). It is occurring in terms of managing information flows conveyed by line media and tackling the issue of turning the process into land digital television. In the field of information and communication sciences, it is important to understand the relevance of the media regulation and conduct an analysis of its means and scope. Therefore, our main question could be raised as follows: To what extent can media regulation constitute a means to consolidate democracy? This question seems to be relevant to us when one notice conflicts of interest arising between actors of the public debate whether they belong to the public power or they are registered in political movements or in civil society. With regard to this situation, we can assume that media regulation can be considered as a proper tool for the consolidation of democracy. Owing to the fact that the regulation mode depends on the context of each country, our research scope is limited within Burkina Faso
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Gauthier, Julie. "L'université française et la fabrique de professionnels : Essai de typologie des formations universitaires." Phd thesis, Aix-Marseille Université, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00785340.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif d'enrichir la notion de professionnalisation. S'articulant autour des notions de régulation de l'entrée dans un corps professionnel et de fabrique de professionnels, elle propose une conception originale du processus de professionnalisation des formations universitaires. Elle tente principalement de construire une typologie des formations à partir de l'analyse synchronique et diachronique de leurs contenus et de leurs méthodes d'apprentissage. Ce travail mobilise un ensemble hétéroclite de travaux de sciences sociales allant de l'histoire des universités et de la sociologie des professions à la philosophie aristotélicienne. À partir de la question de recherche " Quels types de professionnels les formations universitaires sont-elles en mesure de fabriquer ? ", il part du postulat que la nature des savoirs transmis fixe les modalités de cette fabrication. Il montre que ces savoirs participent de trois types de discipline (discipline pratique, discipline scientifique et discipline poïétique) auxquels sont rattachés quatre types de formation : la formation professionnelle généraliste, la formation professionnelle spécialiste, la formation professionnelle scientifique et la formation professionnelle poïétique.
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Lapostolle, Dany. "L'ingénierie territoriale vue des pays : une bureaucratie professionnelle territoriale en gestation." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO20016/document.
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L’étude de l’ingénierie territoriale dans les Pays du Beaujolais et du Roannais en Rhône Alpes, en liaison avec de nombreux autres dispositifs (Contrats d’agglomération, Contrats Territoriaux Emploi Formation, Leader) met en lumière une tendance forte à la recentralisation de la gestion publique territoriale.L’ingénierie territoriale est une bureaucratie professionnelle territoriale coincée entre les injonctions autoritaires de l’État et les velléités d’autonomie du pouvoir local. D’un côté, on observe que l’Europe, les services centraux de l’État diffusent des représentations et les bonnes pratiques aussi strictes que les règles impersonnelles du modèle bureaucratique wébérien. De l’autre côté, les pouvoirs locaux, face aux insuffisances des services déconcentrés de l’État structurent une ingénierie territoriale composite pour se doter de l’expertise nécessaire à leur stratégie de développement. Paradoxalement, c’est dans le cadre des politiques constitutives, que le pouvoir local en se dotant d’un appareil d’expertise, gage d’autonomie, crée les conditions de son propre contrôle et de sa soumission au régime d’agence qui s’impose comme nouveau mode de régulation de l’action publique au détriment de la négociation contractuelle.En d’autres termes, les instruments d’action publique et les savoir mobilisés par l’ingénierie territoriale dans la démarche de projet participent d’une technologie de gouvernement qui ne met pas fin à la rationalité bureaucratique, elle la transformeThe study of territorial engineering in two “Pays” (rural areas) of the Rhône-Alpes Region – the “Beaujolais” and the “Roannais”, linked to a number of other measures (urban area contracts, territory/employment/training contracts, Leader) reveals a strong trend towards re-centralising the public management of territories.Territorial engineering is a professional bureaucracy caught between authoritarian dictates from the State and local authority desires for autonomy. On one hand, Europe and central State services convey representations and good practices as strict as the impersonal rules of Weber’s model of bureaucracy. On the other hand, local authorities, faced with the insufficiencies of decentralised State services construct their own composite territorial engineering to acquire the expertise necessary for their development strategies. Paradoxically, it is in the context of constitutive policies that local authorities, in acquiring a system of expertise – guarantee of autonomy, create the conditions of their own control and their submission to an agency system which asserts itself as the new way of regulating public action to the detriment of contractual negotiation.In other words, the instruments of public action and the expertise mobilized by territorial engineering in project planning participate in a technology of governance which, rather than bringing bureaucratic rationality to an end, transform it
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Araujo, Rosemeire Baraúna Meira de. "A nova gestão pública, a regulação da educação e a gestão democrática no contexto dos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia." Faculdade de Educação, 2014. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/17784.
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Nesse trabalho desenvolvemos um estudo qualitativo, com base nas abordagens da Análise de Políticas e no Ciclo de Políticas, com o objetivo de analisar o modelo de gestão de Institutos Federais de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica à luz da Nova Gestão Pública. A criação desses institutos está inserida no conjunto das políticas educacionais recentes expressas no Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação (PDE), caracterizada como Expansão da Rede Federal de Educação Profissional e Tecnológica. Discutimos as formas de regulação da educação profissional no Brasil e seu efeito para a democratização da gestão dessas instituições, articulando essas medidas com as orientações de organismos internacionais, com a concepção de Estado e a organização da administração pública subjacente. Como procedimento metodológico, realizamos análise de conteúdo de documentos formais e de legislação específica, além da consulta à literatura pertinente. Nesse processo, quatro categorias se destacaram com maior evidência no estudo: gestão democrática, planejamento, gerencialismo e regulação. Essas categorias foram analisadas a partir de documentos de dois institutos situados no Estado da Bahia. Com essa pesquisa questionamos os efeitos do gerencialismo como orientador da modernização da gestão e seus impactos para a consolidação dos princípios democráticos. Os resultados dessa investigação revelam formas específicas de regulação da educação profissional, expressas por meio do planejamento, de contratos de gestão e da atuação dos órgãos de controle externo. Essa política de expansão da rede federal de educação profissional incorpora nos documentos oficiais certo hibridismo que mescla os ideais de uma gestão democrática à tendência gerencial, que enfatiza o alcance de resultados e a responsabilização dos executores em detrimento do acompanhamento dos processos. Desse modo, são reduzidos os espaços para uma discussão sistemática que aprofunde as análises sobre seus benefícios, limites e incompatibilidades na condução da gestão nessa rede.
ABSTRACT In this research work, we present a qualitative study based on Policy Analysis and Policy Cycle approaches, aiming to analyze the model of management in Federal Institutes of Professional and Technological Education, focusing on the New Public Management. The creation of these institutes is in the set of recent educational policies stated in Plano de Desenvolvimento da Educação (PDE) – Educational Development Plan -, characterized as the Expansion of Federal Network of Professional and Technological Education. We discuss forms of regulation in professional education in Brazil and their effect on management democratization of these institutions. Moreover, articulating these measures with guidelines from international organizations, the concept of the state and the organization of the underlying public administration. As methodological proceedings, we conducted the analysis of content using formal documents and specific legislation, besides consulting relevant literature. In this process, four categories pointed out clearly in the study research: democratic management, planning, managerialism and regulation. These categories were analyzed in documents from the two institutes located in the State of Bahia. In this research work, we question the effects of managerialism as a guide to modernization in management and its impacts on the consolidation of democratic principles. The results of this investigation showed specific forms of regulation in professional education, expressed through planning, management contracts and the performance of the external control agencies. This policy of expanding the federal network of professional education incorporates, in official documents, a certain hybridity which mixes the ideals of democratic management with managerial tendency. It emphasizes the achievement of results and administrative liability of the performer agents in detriment to management monitoring processes. Thus, the spaces to a systematic discussion to deepen the analysis on benefits, limitations and incompatibilities in the conduct of management in this federal network are reduced.
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Eldaly, Mohamed Khaled. "Effects of the new regulations of the audit profession on the audit firms' strategies." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294283.
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The audit firms play an important role in the capital markets by verifying that auditors provide reliable information to the decision makers. However, trust in auditing firms has been questioned following Enron‘s failure and accounting scandals at WorldCom and other companies. As a result, Arthur Anderson failed and the number of big audit firms fell to four firms and no one knows who might be next. Defond and Francis (2005) believe that a critical trigger occurred when Deloitte & Touch issued a “clean” peer review report on Arthur Andersen in December 2001, just a few weeks before Andersen publicly announced that it had shredded documents related to Enron audit. The credibility and integrity of the profession‘s self-regulation program was immediately in doubt. To protect public interests and to restore confidence in the capital markets, the USA government issued the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002. Similarly, the Financial Reporting Council in the UK provided the Professional Oversight Board with similar mission. This thesis aims to explore the role of independent audit regulators in promoting confidence in the audit profession, and analyse the big four firms’ strategies that react toward these regulatory changes in the audit markets. The lack of studies in this area supports the use of grounded theory as a research methodology. 24 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the top management level of the audit regulators and big four firms’ partners. This study contributes to the literature as it provides a better understanding of the satisfaction of the big four audit firms toward the new independent regulators, and how these firms react toward the additional requirements of the independent inspectors.
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Saluja, Patricia Gail. "Vetting the vets : the regulation of the veterinary profession in the UK." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=158484.
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This thesis investigates the regulation of the veterinary profession in the UK. In the UK this profession is regulated by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) under the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966 (VSA 1966). Since that date there have occurred vast changes in veterinary medicine and science and the delivery of veterinary services, legal developments in other areas, including professional regulatory law, and societal changes in attitudes towards animals and expectations of the professions. This research was undertaken in order to determine whether the regulatory system for the veterinary profession in the UK is well designed to achieve the aims appropriate to the present-day profession, and to propose reforms where these are indicated. The system was evaluated by applying a set of benchmark criteria used by the National Health Service Ombudsman for England whose jurisdiction encompasses clinical as well as administrative matters. The study shows that the current system is well suited to functions such as regulating and monitoring veterinary education and rule-making for the control of animal diseases and zoonoses. However, the overall conclusion is that the VSA 1966 is outdated and should be replaced by new legislation. Arguments are made in favour of the following key reforms: separation of regulatory role from Royal College functions; changes in the composition of the regulatory body; introduction of the regulation of paraprofessionals and veterinary practices; plus a range of changes across the disciplinary system involving revision of the grounds and sanctions for disciplinary action, clarification of the identity of the regulator, reforms in the investigation of complaints, disciplinary hearings, appeals and the position of the complainant in the disciplinary process. Whilst some improvements could be made under the current regime, the view remains that new legislation is needed. Although it appears that the RCVS is in favour of this, the necessary political will seems to be lacking on the part of government.
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Capano-bottino, Gerardo. "Dynamique identitaire et individualisation : approche socioprofessionnelle exploratroire." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010MON30022/document.
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Parmi toutes nos activités, le travail occupe une place centrale dans nos sociétés et il n’échappe pas aux profondes transformations de la société. Les trajectoires professionnelles ne sont plus linéaires ni stables, elles introduisent moins les individus dans des collectifs socio-catégoriels. Comment les sujets se construisent-ils aujourd’hui ? Quel est l’impact de l’individualisation sur la dynamique identitaire socioprofessionnelle, dans un contexte où l’emprise catégorielle est en perte d’influence ? Cette thèse a comme objectif d’approfondir la question de l’identité et les méthodes qui s’y adjoignent dans un contexte organisationnel en profonde mutation. Je présenterai un cadre théorique pluridisciplinaire et une double démarche exploratoire (ego-écologique - Zavalloni, 2007), conduite auprès de sujets contrastés par leur expérience professionnelle. Nous pourrons ainsi observer la dynamique identitaire, ses composantes, ses relations, son contexte psychosocial, en faisant émerger les processus qui la sous-tendent. A l’heure des démarches compétences dans les organisations et de la personnalisation du travail, l’intégration du projet de soi (Kaddouri et Barbier, 2006) et du système capacitaire (Costalat-Founeau, 2009) comme fondements des dynamiques identitaires, ouvre de nouvelles perspectives à la compréhension des processus mis en œuvre dans la construction de soi et de réalisation de soi. Par voie de conséquence c’est la constitution du sujet de l’action qui est ici abordéeAmong all our activities, the work occupies a core place in our society and can not escape the profound social transformations. The career paths are not linear nor stable, they don’t introduce individuals in social categories as in the past. How individuals are built today? What is the impact of individualization on social and professional dynamics of identity in this context? This thesis is intended to deepen the question of the identity and its methods in a radically changing organizational context. I present a multi-pronged theoretical framework and a double exploratory approach (ego-ecological - Zavalloni, 2007), conducted with individuals opposed by their professional experience. We can thus observe the dynamics of identity, its components, its relationships, its psychosocial context, bringing out the processes that underlie it. At time of competencies management and personal work, the integration of the self-project (Kaddouri & Barbier, 2006) and the capabilities system (Costalat-Founeau, 2009), as the basis of identity dynamics, opens new perspectives for understanding the processes used in self-construction and self-realization. As a consequence it is the constitution of the subject of the action that is addressed here
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Gassert, Edine. "Le paritarisme à l'épreuve de l'évaluation : genèse instrumentale, travail d’organisation et fragilité institutionnelle dans le champ de la formation professionnelle continue." Thesis, Paris, HESAM, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020HESAC017.
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Bien que le renforcement des enjeux cognitifs soit une évolution marquante de la négociation collective en France (Bévort, Jobert, 2008), les "pratiques de connaissance" (Mias, 2013) visant à équiper le travail syndical à des fins de qualification et de gestion des accords collectifs, sont encore rarement saisies en tant qu'objet de recherche, alors même que la compréhension de leurs modalités d'appropriation autorise un questionnement plus large sur les transformations contemporaines des relations professionnelles. Partant de cette ambition de départ, cette thèse examine sous l'angle ethnographique l'institutionnalisation d'une politique paritaire d'évaluation initiée en 2009 au plan national et interprofessionnel dans le domaine de la formation professionnelle continue (FPC).La première partie restitue les conditions d'émergence de l'évaluation en tant qu'enjeu politique, ainsi que les problématiques liées à son opérationnalisation. Ces processus sont interprétés à la lumière des rapports de force entre acteurs (partenaires sociaux, Etat) dans un contexte de recomposition des modes de régulation politique et financier des fonds de la formation continue.La seconde partie décrit le "travail d'organisation" (Terssac de, 2003) de l'évaluation au sein des institutions paritaires interprofessionnelles. Elle propose une analyse monographique de l’instance d’évaluation d'origine paritaire, le Conseil national d'évaluations de la formation professionnelle (CNEFP). Cette exploration est complétée par l’examen de trois études de cas, qui met au jour les contraintes liées à la pratique de l’évaluation, mais aussi les dynamiques engendrées en termes d'apprentissage.La troisième partie conclusive explore les ressorts d'une dégradation, lente mais progressive, du positionnement institutionnel du CNEFP. Plusieurs facteurs sont examinés comme la détérioration des formes d'engagement syndical et patronal, la concurrence des niveaux de régulation des politiques paritaires et l'instabilité institutionnelle dans un contexte de rapprochement des gouvernances des politiques d'emploi, de formation professionnelle et d'orientation. Au final, sur la base des éléments fournis, c'est l'organisation du "déclin du paritarisme" (Luttringer, 2018) au bénéfice d'une reprise en main par l'Etat de la régulation du système qui est discutéAlthough the intensification of cognitive stakes is one of more important evolution of french collective bargaining (Bévort,Jobert, 2008), the « knowledge practises » (Mias, 2013) aiming at providing the union work with tools for a betterassessment of collective agreement are seldom considered as a subject of research, at a time when understanding their modeof appropriation require a broader questioning about the contemporary transformation of professional relationship. Basedon this assumption, this study examines the institutionalisation of the joint evaluation policy from an ethnographicperspective. The latter was initiated in 2009 on a national and interbranch level in the field of vocational training. The firstpart deals with the condition for the emergence of evaluation as a political issue on the hand and the problem related to itsopérations on the other hand. These processus are viewed in the light of the power relationship between actors (socialpartners, state) within a context of recomposition of political and financial mode of régulation regarding the vocationaltraining funding. The second part describes the « organizational work » (Terssac de, 2003) for the evaluation within theinterbranch joint institutions. It offers a monographic analysis of the national council of vocational training evaluation(CNEFP), the body of joint evaluation. This study is illustrated by three case studies highlighting ans updating theconstraints related to the evaluation practices, but also the learning dynamics consequences. The third conclusive partexamines the deterioration of the CNEFP 's institutional positioning. Several factors are fingerpointed such as the lesseningof union and employers commitment, the rivalry among the various levels of joint policy and also the institutional instabilityon a context of rapprochment between employement policy, vocational training and orienteering governing bodies.Ultimately, according to research results, it’s the « decline of joint policy » organization (Luttringer, 2008) in aid of statetaking over the regulation of system that is debated
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O'Leary, Chris. "Who benefits? : comparing public and private interest explanations of professions regulation public policy." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2015. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/who-benefits(952451ab-43d8-40cc-bc8d-d1d15cd2cd18).html.
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What motivates actors as they engage in the professions regulation policy process? Are they motivated to serve their own, selfish interests or the wider, public interests? This key question has been at the heart of policy and academic debate since the first independent regulatory body, the General Medical Council, was established by Parliament in 1858. It is a debate that has affected changes in the professions meta-regulatory framework as well as the regulatory regimes affecting many different professions, aspiring professions and occupational groups. In this thesis, I compare public and private interest explanations of the policy process around professions regulation in the UK. I have explored this question by examining five very different professions – architects, hearing aid dispensers, pharmacists, psychotherapists and teachers - and their relevant regulators as they managed changes in their regulatory regimes. I explored the observable expectations arising from two private interest models, bureau-shaping and rent seeking, as they applied to the motivations of regulators and professional bodies respectively. I also explored public service motivation theory, a theory has seen much academic interest in recent years, particularly in the public administration field. I examined these theories with respect to three key non-political interest groups: regulators, professions and the public. Overall, my research suggests, on balance, private interest theories provide a more convincing explanation of the motivations of regulators and professional bodies as they engaged in these regulation policy developments. But there were differences, over time and between regulators and profession bodies, as to whether private or public interest motivations were more dominant or evident. There was evidence that public interests also motivated these actors. I also draw a number of conclusions about the theoretical validity of both rent seeking and public service motivation theories.