Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Work with increased danger'

Проведено аналіз запропонованих Мінсоцполітики змін до нормативно-правових актів, що регулюють діяльність у сфері охорони праці та промислової безпеки. Показано, що прийняття запропонованих змін до вказаних документів сприятиме зростанню ризиків при експлуатації зношеного виробничого обладнання, рівня виробничого травматизму та аварій виробничого характеру під час експлуатації устаткування підвищеної небезпеки, що відпрацювало граничний строк експлуатації.
The analysis of the changes proposed by the Ministry of Social Policy in the regulatory legal acts regulating the activities in the field of labor protection and industrial safety was carried out. It is shown that acceptance of proposed changes to the indicated documents will increase the risk of exploitation of worn-out industrial equipment, the level of occupational injuries and industrial accidents during the operation of high-risk equipment, which has expired the limitation period of exploitation.

The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of violence exhibited by clients towards Youth Protection workers. The sample consisted of 59 Youth Protection employees of Batshaw Youth and Family Centres who were given a questionnaire related to their experience with client initiated violence. The study attempted to identify several factors such as whether violence was an important issue for workers; whether there was a relationship between gender, job status or work experience and violence; whether training and policy adequately meet the needs of workers. The thesis concludes with recommendations to the agency on how to better deal with the violence issue and suggestions for future exploration in research, policy development, training and education.

Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Highly competitive organisations are aware that their competitive edge lies within their human capital. In order for such organisation to stay ahead investing in best practices regarding people management and development is of paramount importance. In recent times, work engagement has been empirically linked to many positive organisational outcomes (Bakker, Demerouti, & Verbeke, 2004; Salanova, Agut, & Peiro, 2005; Schaufeli, Taris, & Bakker, 2006a). However, research on practical organisational interventions, aimed at increasing work engagement, is scant. Engaged employees often experience positive emotions (Bakker & Demerouti, 2008). Happy people are more sensitive to opportunities at work, more outgoing and helpful to others, more confident when interacting with others and more optimistic when taking on challenges. According to Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, and Taris (2008) engagement not only stems from job resources, but from personal resources as well. Building on Fredrickson’s (2000) Broad and Build theory of positive emotions, it is argued in this study that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a personal resource that has not been studied in relation to work engagement. EI refers to the capacity to effectively perceive, express, understand and manage emotions in a professional and effective manner at work (Palmer & Stough, 2001). EI regulation abilities (e.g. emotional management and control) help increase individuals’ coping and / or resilience when more positive affect is experienced, according to Fredrickson’s Broad and Build theory, and should therefore be a particularly important personal resource for the enhancement of work engagement. The development of EI has progressively been gaining positive momentum and various studies have provided empirical support to suggest that EI can be developed (Dulewicz & Higgs, 2004; Fletcher, Leadbetter, Curran, & O’Sullivan, 2009; Gardner, 2005; Gorgens-Ekermans, 2011; Nelis, Quoidbach, Mikolajczak, & Hansenne, 2009; Slaski & Cartwright, 2003). By using the Swinburne University Emotional Intelligence Test (SUEIT) theoretical framework, it is argued that by developing emotional recognition and regulation abilities, specifically that of emotional management, employees would be better able to manage their positive and negative emotions, thereby improving their positive psychological state at work, which should increase their level of engagement. It is furthermore argued that increased EI will also affect other positive organisational outcomes, such as organisational commitment and satisfaction with work life. To this end, an EI training intervention programme was implemented and evaluated within an international courier company based in Cape Town, South Africa. A controlled experimental design (two-group pre- and post-test design) was utilised for the research. The EI training programme was evaluated in terms of its effect on EI, work engagement, organisational commitment and satisfaction with work life. A second objective of the study was to investigate and replicate previous research on the interrelationships between the constructs in the study within a South African sample. The total sample consisted of 35 full time employees. Three assessments were conducted (one week before the start of the intervention, immediately after the completion of the training, and two and a half months thereafter) The findings of the study demonstrated limited empirical support for the notion that EI training could improve levels of EI. Although definite trends to suggest this were evident in the data, the results were not statistically significant. Empirical evidence further suggested partial and weak support for work engagement and satisfaction with work life levels increasing as a result of the intervention. Unfortunately no support for organisational commitment levels improving as a result of the training was found. In terms of exploring and replicating the interrelationships between the constructs in the study, favourable results were found. Significant positive relationships emerged between all the related constructs. The results, however, need to be interpreted in terms of the limitations that were identified for this study. The results suggest that more research is required in this domain.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hoogs kompeterende maatskappye is bewus daarvan dat hul vlak van mededingingheid grootliks opgesluit lê in hul menslike hulpbronne. Vir sulke organisasies om vooruitstrewend te wees, is die beleging in menseontwikkeling en bestuur van uiterste belang. Empiriese navorsing oor werknemerbetrokkenheid toon dat dit verband hou met baie positiewe organisatoriese uitkomste (Bakker, Demerouti, & Verbeke, 2004; Salanova, Agut, & Peiro, 2005; Schaufeli, Taris, & Bakker, 2006a). Navorsing oor praktiese organisatoriese intervensies om werknemersbetrokkenheid te verhoog, is egter skaars. Werknemers met hoë werknemerbetrokkenheid ervaar gereeld positiewe emosies (Bakker & Demerouti, 2008). Gelukkige werknemers is meer bewus van geleenthede, is meer sosiaal en hulpvaardig, meer selfversekerd in sosiale omstandighede, en meer optimisties wanneer hulle gekonfronteer word met uitdagings. Volgens Bakker, Schaufeli, Leiter, en Taris (2008) spruit werknemersbetrokkenheid nie net voort uit werksbronne nie, maar ook vanuit persoonlike hulpbronne. Na aanleiding van Fredrickson se (2000) “Broaden and Build” teorie oor positiewe emosies word daar in hierdie studie geargumenteer dat Emosionele Intelligensie (EI) ‘n persoonlike hulpbron is, wat nog nie in verwantskap met werknemersbetrokkenheid bestudeer is nie. EI verwys na die kapasiteit om emosies binne die werkskonteks te kan herken, verstaan en bestuur op ʼn professionele en effektiewe wyse (Palmer & Stough, 2001). EI reguleringsvaardighede (bv. emosionele bestuur en beheer) bevorder individue se hanteringsvaardighede en veerkragtigheid wanneer meer positiewe emosies ervaar word. Volgens Fredrickson se “Broaden and build” teorie behoort dit dus ʼn belangrike persoonlike hulpbron te wees wat tot verhoogde werknemersbetrokkenheid kan lei. Positiewe voortuitgang in studies oor die ontwikkeling van EI bestaan tans en verskeie studies het tot dusver wetenskaplike steun verskaf vir die verwagting dat EI ontwikkel kan word (Dulewicz & Higgs, 2004; Fletcher, Leadbetter, Curran, & O’Sullivan, 2009; Gardner. 2005; Gorgens- Ekermans, 2011; Nelis, Quoidbach, Mikolajczak, & Hansenne, 2009; Slaski & Cartwright, 2003). Deur gebruik te maak van die Swinburne Universiteit Emosionele Intelligensie toets (die SUEIT) se teoretiese raamwerk, word daar geargumenteer dat die bevordering van emosionele herkennings- en reguleringsvermoë, spesifiek emosionele bestuur, werknemers se vermoë om hulle eie positiewe en negatiewe emosies te bestuur, behoort te verbeter. Dit sou ʼn verbeterde positiewe sielkundige toestand by die werk tot gevolg kan hê, wat tot verhoogde werknemersbetrokkenheid kan lei. Daar word ook aangevoer that verhoogde EI ook ander positiewe organisatoriese uitkomste, soos organisatoriese toewyding en satisfaksie met werkslewe, positief sal affekteer. Gevolglik is 'n EI opleidingsprogram geïmplementeer en geëvalueer in ‘n internasionale afleweringsmaatskappy wat gebaseer is in Kaapstad, Suid Afrika. ‘n Beheerde eksperimentele ontwerp (twee-groep voor- en natoetsontwerp) is gebruik in hierdie navorsing. Die EI opleidingsprogram is geëvalueer in terme van die effek op die EI, werknemerbetrokkenheid, organisatoriese toewyding en satisfaksie met werkslewe. ’n Tweede doel stelling van die studie was ook om die verwantskappe tussen die konstrukte te ondersoek en vorige navorsing in die verband binne ʼn Suid-Afrikaanse steekproef te reproduseer. Die totale steekproef het bestaan uit 35 permanent aangestelde werknemers. Drie assesserings het plaasgevind (een week voor die aanvang van die intervensie, direk na die afhandeling van die opleiding, en twee en ‘n half maande daarna). Die bevindinge van die studie het beperkte empiriese bewyse verskaf vir die aanname dat EI opleiding wel EI vlakke kan bevorder. Alhoewel daar duidelike tendense was wat dit suggereer in die data, was die resultate nie statistiese beduidend nie. Die empiriese bewyse het verder slegs gedeeltelike en swak ondersteuning verskaf vir die aanname dat werknemerbetrokkenheid en satisfaksie met werkslewe verbeter het as gevolg van blootstelling aan die intervensie. Geen bewyse dat organisatoriese toewydingsvlakke verbeter het as gevolg van blootstelling aan die intervensie, is gevind nie. Gunstige resultate aangaande die verwagte verwantskappe tussen die konstrukte in die studie is gevind. Positiewe, betekenisvolle verwantskappe tussen al die konstrukte word gerapporteer. Die resultate van die studie behoort binne die konteks van die beperkinge wat vir hierdie studie geïdentifiseer is, interpreteer te word. Die resultate toon dat meer navorsing in hierdie domein benodig word.

Heavy metal contamination in the environment is a global issue that is likely to increase in the future. This report investigates a construction area in which increased concentrations of the heavy metals cadmium, cobalt, copper, nickel and zinc and a decreased pH-value has been observed in the surface water recipient. The focus is on assessing contamination characteristics and identifying suitable remediation methods to avoid a river protected by environmental quality standards further downstream from getting contaminated. The bedrock in the area is sulphide containing and releases acidic leachate when oxidising, which is assumed to have occurred due to plane blasting and filling of residual rock. The contamination characteristics were assessed with the statistical methods modified double mass analysis and principal components analysis. A water balance was established to obtain the flowrates, discharge volumes and to determine the masses of the released metals in the surface water. Identification of suitable remediation methods was performed through a literature study of available remediation methods and using the findings of the assessments as basis. The results showed that there was a significant increase in metal concentrations and decrease in pH-value roughly around the same time as blasting and filling of residual rocks in the area was begun and that there were elevated levels of sulphide and sulphur, but they could not be specifically linked to any media. The yearly masses of metals released from the area into the surface water were between 77-98 % higher than allowed by the established guidelines. By separating the water assumed to carry the majority of the contaminants from the remaining natural water in the watershed, the volume that needs to be treated can be halved. As the contamination is so extensive, a mixture of remediation methods was proposed, including installing green roofs to decrease the runoff from the area, confining the crushed rock with bentonite and installing a filter for fast, efficient reduction. For long-term remediation, it is suggested to optimise the existing sedimentation basins and wetlands. The conclusions were that it will be very expensive to remediate the contamination, due to the extent and magnitude, and that handling sulphide containing bedrock for construction purposes should be legally regulated in order to avoid negative environmental and economic impacts.
Förorening av tungmetaller i naturen är ett globalt problem som troligtvis kommer öka i framtiden. Den här rapporten undersöker en byggarbetsplats där ökade koncentrationer av metallerna kadmium, kobolt, koppar, nickel och zink samt ett minskat pH-värde har observerats i ytvattenrecipienten. Fokus ligger på att analysera föroreningskaraktärer och identifiera lämpliga åtgärdsmetoder för att undvika att en å nedströms som är skyddad av miljökvalitetsnormer ska förorenas. Berggrunden i området är sulfidförande och släpper ut surt lakvatten när den oxiderar, vilket är antaget har hänt till följd av plansprängning och utfyllnad av överblivet bergmaterial. Föroreningskaraktärerna analyserades med de statistiska metoderna modified double mass analysis och principalkomponentsanalys. En vattenbalans etablerades för att ta fram flöden, volymer och för att bestämma massorna av de frigjorda metallerna i ytvattnet. Identifiering av lämpliga åtgärdsmetoder gjordes med en litteraturstudie av tillgängliga metoder som grund. Resultaten visade att det är en signifikant ökning av metallkoncentrationer och minskning i pH-värde runt samma tid som sprängning och utfyllning av bergmaterial påbörjades samt att det är förhöjda halter av sulfid och svavel, men de kunde inte bli associerade med ett specifikt media. De årliga massorna av frigjorda metaller som släpps ut från området i ytvattnet är mellan 77-98 % högre än tillåtet av de etablerade riktlinjerna. Genom att separera vattnet som kan antas innehålla majoriteten av föroreningarna från det naturliga vattenflödet i avrinningsområdet kan volymen som behöver renas halveras. Eftersom föroreningen är så omfattande föreslås en kombination av åtgärdsmetoder; installation av gröna tak för att minska avrinningen från området, inneslutning av utfyllnadsmaterialet med bentonit och installation av ett filter för snabb, effektiv reduktion. För mer långsiktig rening föreslås det att optimera de existerande sedimentationsdammarna och våtmarken. Slutsatsen är att det kommer bli väldigt dyrt att åtgärda föroreningen på grund av dess omfattning, och hantering av sulfidförande berg för exploateringssyfte borde vara lagstadgat för att undvika miljömässiga och ekonomiska kostnader.

Applied research project (D. Min.)--School of Theology and Missions, Oral Roberts University, 2007.
Translated from Korean. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-161).

Workplace stress costs -£3.7 billion per annum in the United Kingdom and in excess of $300 billion per annum in the United States. However, little research exists on the relationships between perceptions of social support, work-life conflict, job performance, and workplace stress. The purpose of this correlational study was to provide educational leaders with the information they need to examine the existence, strength, and direction of relationships between perceptions of social support, work-life conflict, job performance, and workplace stress in an Irish higher education institution. The theoretical framework for this study consisted of a combination of reward imbalance theory, expectancy theory, and equity theory. The study included an organizational stress screening survey instrument to survey the population (N = 1,420) of academic, research, and support staff. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to evaluate the relationships between the independent variables (social support, work-life conflict, job performance), the covariates (staff category, direct reports, age, gender), and the dependent variable (workplace stress). The results showed a negative correlation between social support and workplace stress, a positive correlation between work-life conflict and workplace stress, and a negative correlation between job performance and workplace stress (p < .05). The results also revealed significant relationships between the covariates direct reports and gender and the dependent variable workplace stress. By reviewing the findings of this study, educational leaders can enable social change by developing and implementing social support, work-life strategies, and potential pathways to reduce levels of workplace stress and improve quality of life for employees and their families.

Previous research of the controller role is extensive and has been studied in several sectors, whichprovides a wide range of definitions of the controller role. These definitions have contributed to an ambiguous controller role in regards to what work assignments are most important and to whom the controller should report. This thesis aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the controller role based on work assignments within a decentralised organisation working with complex financial products. This thesis also contributes to an understanding of how controllers perceive that their role is affected by their work with handling information and their report relations. This has generated three research questions: What role does the controller have in a Swedish universal bank based on work assignments? What are the eventual differences in the controller role depending on department in the organisation? How do the controllers perceive that their role is affected by their work with handling information and by their report relations? Delimitation was made to analyse controllers at various levels in Handelsbanken. In order to create an understanding of the controller role in this context, an abductive approach as been used in order to combine existing theories with empirical findings. Based on a qualitative approach, triangulation was chosen to combine assembled empirical data with semi- structured interviews. The result of this study implies that controllers mainly lean towards the role as a Business partner as they work as a support function to provide local or higher managers with relevant analysis for decision-making. Based on work processes with information, the controllers lean towards an Analyst and Coach as they generally handle all business related information. From this case study, controllers in decentralised organisations possess the role as a Specialist as they  are  situated in separate departments with a clear focus. Results also show that more automated work assignments due to technological development do not increase the controllers’ opportunity to dedicate more time on analysis. Instead, increased information flows require controllers to allocate resources towards assembling information. In terms of report relations, close adherence towards the local managers does not affect the controller’s objective reporting to higher management and the controller can arguably bemore independent within their report relations than what is described by literature.

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O nosso objetivo é interpretar o risco-perigo entre os cortadores de cana-de-açúcar residentes em um bairro de Jacarezinho, localizado no vale do Paranapanema na divisa entre os estados do Paraná e São Paulo. Procura-se captar o dizível e o indizível, o dito e o não dito, o modo de viver em uma vila que traz na história da sua organização e formação social, emblemas e estereótipos sobre aqueles que enfrentam as condições próprias do assalariado rural em sua atividade itinerante, na contigüidade entre o local de moradia e o talhão de cana. Classificados como trabalhadores desqualificados, estes homens e mulheres, ao se dirigirem no rumo dos canaviais, tornar-se-iam invisíveis e impedidos de se fazer reconhecidos e valorizados publicamente por aquilo que desenvolvem; suas atividades passam a ser consideradas descartáveis, algo que pode ser executado por qualquer um, mediante os novos saberes que até então os recomendavam. E, dentre todos aqueles que não tem acesso aos meios de produção, especificamente, os trabalhadores que vieram se tornar assalariados rurais trazem sobre si as marcas da herança do passado, do costume em se lidar com a terra, mas que sob a civilização da usina, em uma lógica de igualdade de chances de trabalho para todos, deliberadamente faz uso da diferenciação entre homens e mulheres, jovens e velhos, negros e brancos, impondo uma hierarquização nas relações de trabalho que não se faz circunscrita ao talhão de cana. Condições que passam a ser comuns, e que retiram do tempo passado a sua legitimidade: um tempo em que revolver a terra com o arado, puxado por animais, em comparação à esteira mecânica dos nossos dias, parece não oferecer maiores implicações à saúde de quem é obrigado a se submeter a esta disciplina. Indiferenciação que trouxe consigo situações outras que aquelas vividas... .
In this speech interpreted on the risk-danger in the sugar-care cutters residents in Jacarezinho's Municipal District neighborhood. Located in Paranapanema's Village, boderlining Paraná and São Paulo. It's captured the said and unsaid, towards the way of live in a village that brings in its history's organization and social structure. Emblems and stereotypes about and among those who faces ownerns conditions rural in its itineranty activity and in a continguity between residence and bound sugar cane. Classifield as non qualification employees, this people in a sugar cane plantation, will become invisible and forbiden to be recognized and praized publicaly by what they developt, it means, their activities started to be considered disposable, some thing that can be executed by anyone towards the new knoledge since then recomended them. And, because of those who were blocked ascess of productions, specifically the employed became earns salary rural bring itself the inheritance marks in the past, the costume to lead the earth, but under sugar cane civilization in a equality logic of chandes of job for all, deliberately the diference usage between men and women, younger and older, black and white, imposing a hierarchization in the job relationship that doesn't bound the sugar cane. The conditions that become ordinary and take away the past of time and its legitimacy. A time to revolve earth with the plow, pulled by animals, in comparison to the mechanical wake of our days, its doesn't seems major implications to health by those who are obligate to be under this discipline. Indiference thath brought by itself other situations human another lived in coffe brazilian plantations time and the job relation partnership, paused the other way it is not only social, but also space towards new relations social and productive. The contiguity between São Paulo Village and the cuttings, appeared, started in the end of forties, brought in it span, so much in a new.

From January 2016 until August 2021, at least 436 women or girls have been deliberately murdered in Spain by men. Non-intimate femicide (and, particularly, murder committed by complete strangers to the victim, to which this study refers as “stranger femicide”) has historically been, and still is, the most covered type of femicide in the media. This is also the case in the Spanish press, and more specifically, El País, the most read media outlet in the country. This thesis examines how El País framed Diana Quer’s case, the most high-profile, intensively covered femicide case in Spain in the past 5 years. It will also examine which ethical problems the reporting presented. From a feminist perspective and through a mixed-method approach of content analysis and frame analysis, this study examines 86 articles corresponding to the two informative peaks of Diana Quer’s case coverage. The periods go from August to October 2016, the first two months of her disappearance, and from December 2017 to January 2018, the 15 days following her killer’s arrest and crime confession. The findings reveal that the coverage in El País constructed a victimization iconography with DQ’s case that engendered cautionary tales and failed to address femicide as a social issue. The reporting also presented a series of critical ethical problems calling for a reformation of femicide reporting guidelines.

Orientador: Christina de Rezende Rubim
Banca: Reinero Antônio Lérias
Banca: Bárbara Fadel
Banca: Áureo Busseto
Banca: Ethel Kosminsky
Resumo: O nosso objetivo é interpretar o risco-perigo entre os cortadores de cana-de-açúcar residentes em um bairro de Jacarezinho, localizado no vale do Paranapanema na divisa entre os estados do Paraná e São Paulo. Procura-se captar o dizível e o indizível, o dito e o não dito, o modo de viver em uma vila que traz na história da sua organização e formação social, emblemas e estereótipos sobre aqueles que enfrentam as condições próprias do assalariado rural em sua atividade itinerante, na contigüidade entre o local de moradia e o talhão de cana. Classificados como trabalhadores desqualificados, estes homens e mulheres, ao se dirigirem no rumo dos canaviais, tornar-se-iam invisíveis e impedidos de se fazer reconhecidos e valorizados publicamente por aquilo que desenvolvem; suas atividades passam a ser consideradas descartáveis, algo que pode ser executado por qualquer um, mediante os novos saberes que até então os recomendavam. E, dentre todos aqueles que não tem acesso aos meios de produção, especificamente, os trabalhadores que vieram se tornar assalariados rurais trazem sobre si as marcas da herança do passado, do costume em se lidar com a terra, mas que sob a civilização da usina, em uma lógica de igualdade de chances de trabalho para todos, deliberadamente faz uso da diferenciação entre homens e mulheres, jovens e velhos, negros e brancos, impondo uma hierarquização nas relações de trabalho que não se faz circunscrita ao talhão de cana. Condições que passam a ser comuns, e que retiram do tempo passado a sua legitimidade: um tempo em que revolver a terra com o arado, puxado por animais, em comparação à esteira mecânica dos nossos dias, parece não oferecer maiores implicações à saúde de quem é obrigado a se submeter a esta disciplina. Indiferenciação que trouxe consigo situações outras que aquelas vividas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo).
Abstract: In this speech interpreted on the risk-danger in the sugar-care cutters residents in Jacarezinho's Municipal District neighborhood. Located in Paranapanema's Village, boderlining Paraná and São Paulo. It's captured the said and unsaid, towards the way of live in a village that brings in its history's organization and social structure. Emblems and stereotypes about and among those who faces ownerns conditions rural in its itineranty activity and in a continguity between residence and bound sugar cane. Classifield as non qualification employees, this people in a sugar cane plantation, will become invisible and forbiden to be recognized and praized publicaly by what they developt, it means, their activities started to be considered disposable, some thing that can be executed by anyone towards the new knoledge since then recomended them. And, because of those who were blocked ascess of productions, specifically the employed became earns salary rural bring itself the inheritance marks in the past, the costume to lead the earth, but under sugar cane civilization in a equality logic of chandes of job for all, deliberately the diference usage between men and women, younger and older, black and white, imposing a hierarchization in the job relationship that doesn't bound the sugar cane. The conditions that become ordinary and take away the past of time and its legitimacy. A time to revolve earth with the plow, pulled by animals, in comparison to the mechanical wake of our days, its doesn't seems major implications to health by those who are obligate to be under this discipline. Indiference thath brought by itself other situations human another lived in coffe brazilian plantations time and the job relation partnership, paused the other way it is not only social, but also space towards new relations social and productive. The contiguity between São Paulo Village and the cuttings, appeared, started in the end of forties, brought in it span, so much in a new.
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Between the Promise of Specificity and the Demand for Evidence – A study of knowledge and the approach to knowledge in socially oriented non-profit, private and public sector organizations In the social work field it is possible to identify two parallel processes in time. On the one hand a qualitative developmental process―even towards a form of standardization―where central concepts are academisation, professionalization, scientifically produced knowledge, expertise and evidence based methods. Simultaneously, there is a drive to create the conditions for increased diversity, where hopes are especially being pinned on the non-profit sector. In spite of representations and expectations concerning the non-profit sector and its so-called specificity, however, much of existing research lacks a comparative perspective, i.e., studies where non-profit organizations are related to comparable activities in the private and public sector. The aim of the study―with special focus on issues concerning evidence based knowledge in social work―is to compare and analyse whether and in that case how employee conceptions differ between the sectors, and whether and in what way non-profit employees and their activities can be said to fulfil the expectations of contributing to increased diversity. Data is from a questionnaire directed to about 1300 social work employees. The results show a greater interest in research and more marked efforts at professionalization in the public sector, while above all in the non-profit sector there was skepticism about science paired with reservations about work carried out in a professional way. In the non-profit, but also in the private sector, issues of ethics, views of humanity and values were paid greater attention. Also stressed here was the importance of creating relationships, the unique human encounter, genuine commitment, and human kindness.  However, there was significant uniformity across all sectors in the use of methods, where three dominated: solution focused measures, network support/therapy, and psychosocial work.

The subject of this thesis is "Quality management, occupational safety, health and fire protection in construction company". Its task is to introduce the basic rules and requirements of quality management, occupational safety, health and fire protection in construction industry. The second part of the thesis deals with quality management, occupational safety, health and fire protection in construction companies, which are presented and analyzed in detail. These findings are then applied to create methodology of implementing the occupational safety, health and fire protection management system for construction companies.

碩士
國立中山大學
人力資源管理研究所
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In an era of information and scientific technology, the marketing value and competitive advantage of a company is determined by its staff. An eligible employee is able to provide the organization with an outstanding performance and productivity while an ineligible one can waste the administration costs of recruiting and job training. Therefore, it is crucial for a company to investigate the key factors of how its novices’ job values interact with its culture and of how the novices’ EQ (emotion quotient) influence their job performance. The investigation assists the company not only in improving the efficiency of the recruiting but also in redesigning the work environment and managerial system, so as to achieve the goals of attracting capable talents and raising competition. The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss the influence of the job values and EQ of the staff in property insurance on their job performance. Our study will target the staff members in Taiwan by questionnaires through ways of convenient sampling. According to our study, the job values of the insurance staff do not influence their job performances directly. Nevertheless, First, the insurance staff need to have many kinds of professional knowledge and broad visions. Second, their workplaces and job properties are flexible and variable. Third, the insurance staff have to know a little basic law knowledge, and they have to negotiate or communicate with people to achieve compromises. Fourth, it’s common for the insurance staff to contact any kind of people. Fifth, the insurance staff have special feelings and conceptions for their job values, which differentiate them from those whose workplaces and job properties are fixed and standardized. Emotional Quotient and job performances are proved to have positive and influential relationships. Our evidence verifies that outstanding insurance staff are aware of their emotions and they develop good interpersonal relationships by hiding and adjusting their emotions. Besides, the outstanding insurance staff develop their social skills well by extending their interpersonal relationships with their colleagues and society. In the end, they achieve the goals set by their companies.

Summaries after each chapter
Flourishing organisations realise that employees make a critical difference when it comes to competitiveness, performance and innovativeness. Employees are required to be dedicated, energetic and absorbed in their work (Bakker & Schaufeli, 2008). In short, organisations require employees who are engaged. The general aim of this research was to use a controlled experimental research design to establish whether the participation of employees in an emotional intelligence intervention would increase their levels of emotional intelligence and thus improve their levels of work engagement. The researcher concluded that the intervention did not result in a significant increase in the employees’ levels of emotional intelligence and work engagement.
Industrial and Organisational Psychology
M. Com. (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)

Several modern marine engines use multiple injectors for lower heat losses and higher efficiency. However, the heavy-duty vehicles still apply a single injector per cylinder. This work investigates how multiple injectors can be operated in compression ignition heavy-duty engines along with potential benefits from such concepts. The studies aimed to avoid high boundary gas temperatures by having two injectors at the rim of the bowl, in addition to the standard injector. A longer injector-wall distance reduces the amount of hot gases at the boundaries for reduced convective heat losses. Additional degrees of freedom also follows from an increased number of injectors to simplify combustion control. The thesis included CFD simulations, metal engine experiments, and optical engine diagnostics to investigate the efficiency –and emission benefits for two –and three-injector concepts compared to the single-injector approach. The CFD simulations aimed to set beneficial spray angles and chamber geometries for reduced heat losses and reasonable emission levels with and without swirl at different load conditions. A flat bowl with two injectors reduced the heat losses by 4.2 %-points resulting in a direct efficiency increase of 1.9 %-points at middle-load conditions. Metal engine studies confirmed the simulation results by testing two -and three-injector concepts. The higher three-injector flow rate raised efficiency and diminished heat losses while providing low nitric oxide levels. Thus, three injectors lessen the typical trade-off between efficiency and nitric oxides. The thesis further performed single-injector optical engine experiments to investigate combustion control limitations. The results concluded that high soot levels occur from the multiple injections used to achieve isobaric combustion. These high soot levels followed by injecting into fuel-rich zones, which can be avoided by using multiple injectors. Finally, the thesis provides a multiple injector design suitable for heavy-duty production engines.

Physical activity (PA) has many health benefits, both physical and psychological. PA has been linked to improved cognitive functioning, superior overall health, and enhanced emotional well-being in populations ranging from school-age children to older adults. There has been less research, however, examining the benefits of PA in atypical preschool populations. The present study examined the efficacy of a PA intervention in preschool-aged children at risk for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ADHD symptomatology, response inhibition, and physical activity were measured at three time points over a 6-month period. Results provide support for the efficacy of PA as an alleviative tool in preschoolers with ADHD. This research is some of the first to use objective measures to examine PA as viable intervention in atypical preschool populations.

碩士
中州科技大學
機械與自動化工程系
103
ABSTRACT This study in Taichung City firefighters work stress and perceived risk both for the well-being and further work to explore the impact of job satisfaction of the situation, taking advantage of sampling was under the jurisdiction of the Field for firefighters, and based on the results of this study, to Fire Bureau of Taichung City Government and future recommendations, expected results of the study it can effectively reduce the firefighter job stress and improve their job satisfaction. The results found that in regression analysis, the operating pressure has a positive impact on the work of well-being, but there was no impact on job satisfaction; perceived risk Jie positive impact on job well-being and job satisfaction; work on happiness job satisfaction also have a positive impact. In mediation effect model, the work happiness during the working pressure and perceived risk impact on job satisfaction in having a partial mediator effects of which affect the perceived risk of job satisfaction will be converted to the negative impact from the positive effect, the impact of the work of well-being and job satisfaction for the positive effect, and the effect is enhanced. Key words: working pressure, aware danger, the sense of happiness for work, job satisfaction.

O presente trabalho teve como propósito propor um programa de intervenção com vista a trabalhar a perceção que os trabalhadores da organização em estudo (setor da construção civil) têm sobre os riscos profissionais e os comportamentos inseguros. A pertinência de desenvolver o estudo no setor da construção civil deve-se ao facto de ser um dos setores considerado de risco elevado do ponto de vista legal e no que respeita à sinistralidade, um dos setores com maior representação no número de acidentes de trabalho. Neste sentido, foi elaborado um diagnóstico com o qual foi possível analisar, os comportamentos de segurança, a atribuição causal e a perceção de risco, através da aplicação de um questionário ao universo total (N=20) da organização em estudo com funções administrativas e operacionais. Dos resultados obtidos, estes apontam para adoçam de comportamentos de segurança, com uma forte incidência para o cumprimento das regras de segurança, para atribuição essencialmente causas externas e não controláveis das quais resultam acidentes de trabalho e para uma baixa perceção dos riscos profissionais a que se encontram expostos. Com base neste diagnóstico é proposto um Programa de Intervenção, que uma vez bem-sucedido irá permitir uma mudança organizacional no âmbito da segurança, da saúde e do bem-estar físico, psíquico e social dos trabalhadores, promovendo a evolução e a sustentabilidade.
The purpose of this study was to propose an intervention program in order to work on the perception that workers in the organization under study (construction sector) have about professional risks and unsafe behaviors. The pertinence of developing the study in the civil construction sector is due to the fact that it is one of the sectors considered to be of high risk from the legal point of view and with regard to accidents, one of the sectors with the highest representation in the number of accidents at work. In this sense, a diagnosis was made with which it was possible to analyze safety behaviors, causal attribution and risk perception, through the application of a questionnaire to the total universe (N = 20) of the organization under study with administrative and administrative functions operational. From the results obtained, these point to the adoption of safety behaviors, with a strong focus on compliance with safety rules, attributing essentially external and uncontrollable causes that result in work accidents and a low perception of the professional risks to which are exposed. Based on this diagnosis, an Intervention Program is proposed, which, once successful, will allow an organizational change in the scope of safety, health and physical, psychological and social well-being of workers, promoting evolution and sustainability.

Na presente investigação, analisamos as implicações das políticas neoliberais nas práticas dos assistentes sociais nas Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens com incidência na área territorial de abrangência da Coordenação Regional do Centro da CNPDPCJ. Realizamos uma análise e uma interpretação dos sistemas de proteção à criança numa perspetiva internacional, dando maior ênfase à realidade de Portugal e do Reino Unido. Analisamos os impactos das medidas de austeridade adotadas em Portugal na sua dimensão humana, problematizando o discurso profissional de modo a captar tanto a experiência no terreno ao nível da ação protetiva, como as influências da racionalidade neoliberal sobre o seu desempenho junto das crianças. Utilizámos uma metodologia comprometida com os objetivos definidos e hipóteses de investigação, suportada no método dedutivo a fim de encetar uma análise teórico-crítica do neoliberalismo que nos permitiu percecionar como essa racionalidade tem vindo a impactar o exercício profissional, e no método indutivo baseado na observação das vivências, dos significados e das interpretações desenvolvidas pelos profissionais das CPCJ sobre os seus contextos de intervenção. Utilizámos ainda a pesquisa bibliográfica, documental, as técnicas de inquérito por questionário e o focus group. Concluímos que as políticas implementadas em Portugal, revelaram-se pouco adequadas ao nível social, dado que contribuíram para o aumento das situações de perigo experienciadas pelas crianças e para a degradação das condições sociolaborais dos assistentes sociais no sistema de proteção à criança. Relativamente às práticas nas CPCJ, verificámos que os profissionais evidenciam um conhecimento reflexivo, uma intervenção baseada no princípio da responsabilidade, entrega e dedicação. O interesse superior da criança e o modelo ecológico destacam-se como elementos preponderantes na avaliação do perigo. A falta de tempo, formação especializada e de recursos condiciona a concretização de um trabalho qualificado ao nível das competências parentais.
The present investigation analyses the implications of neoliberal policies on the practices of social workers in the Children and Young People Protection Commissions with a focus on the territorial area covered by the Regional Coordination Center of the CNPDPCJ. We carry out an analysis and interpretation of child protection systems from an international perspective, giving greater emphasis to the reality of Portugal and the United Kingdom. We analyse the impacts of the austerity measures adopted in Portugal in their human dimension, problematizing professional discourse in order to capture both the experience on the field at the level of the protective action and the influences of neoliberal rationality on its performance among children. We used a methodology committed to the defined objectives and hypotheses of research, supported in the deductive method in order to initiate a theoretical-critical analysis of neoliberalism that allowed us to understand how this rationality has impacted the professional exercise, and the inductive method based on observation of the experiences, meanings and interpretations developed by CPCJ professionals about their intervention contexts. We also used bibliographical, documentary research, questionnaire survey techniques and the focus group. We conclude that the policies implemented in Portugal have proved to be inadequate at the social level, since they have contributed to an increase in the danger situations experienced by children and to the deterioration of the socio-labor conditions of social workers in the child protection system. Regarding the practices in the CPCJ, we verified that the professionals show a reflexive knowledge, an intervention based on the principle of responsibility and dedication. The best interest of the child and the ecological model stand out as predominant elements in the assessment of the danger. The concretization of a qualified work at the parental level is conditioned by the lack of time, specialized training and resources conditions.

Em função da crescente complexidade dos problemas sociais que caracteriza o trabalho desenvolvido nas Comissões de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens (CPCJ), uma prática interprofissional e uma liderança colaborativa é cada vez mais necessária na intervenção social, quer ao nível das redes de prevenção quer ao nível da promoção do superior interesse da criança e do jovem aquando da definição do seu projeto de vida. Foi com base nestas premissas que a presente dissertação, eminentemente de carácter quantitativo, pretendeu compreender como se consubstancia e identifica a abordagem colaborativa em contexto de CPCJ a diferentes níveis nomeadamente na estratégia de liderança adotada nas mesmas, bem como ao nível da participação de cada membro, face à sua interprofissionalidade/interdisciplinaridade aquando da tomada de decisão na gestão do problema social complexo que, no caso, são as crianças e jovens em risco e/ou perigo. O presente estudo de natureza exploratória e quantitativa de âmbito nacional decorreu durante o mês de abril de 2021 junto de todas as CPCJ, através da aplicação de um questionário online junto dos/das ex-comissários/as e comissários/as. O estudo evidenciou a incorporação de práticas colaborativas ao nível da articulação inter e intrainstitucional bem como na visão holística e sistémica da intervenção, acrescida da importância da autonomia dos profissionais face aos seus saberes académicos na tomada de decisão da gestão do problema social complexo, não obstante, a existência de algumas lacunas no que diz respeito à comunicação e articulação entre os diferentes membros que as compõem.
According to the increased complexity of social issues that is associated with the work developed in Child and Youth Protection Committees, an inter-professional and collaborative leadership practice is increasingly necessary in social intervention, in prevention networks and in promoting the best interest of children and youth regarding their life project. Based on these premises that the present dissertation, imminently of a quantitative nature, intended to understand how the collaborative approach is substantiated and identified in Child and Youth Protection Committees on different levels, namely the adopted leadership strategy as well the level of participation of each member, given its interprofessionality/interdisciplinarity when making decisions in managing the complex social problem, which in this case are children and young people at risk and/or in danger. This nationwide study took place during the month of April 2021 with all the Child and Youth Protection Committees, through an online survey applied to ex- commissioners and current commissioners, evidenced the incorporation of collaborative practices, both at the level of inter- and intra-institutional articulation as well as in the holistic and systemic view of the intervention, with a further importance of the professionals autonomy regarding their academic knowledge in the decision-making of the complex social problem management. Nevertheless, there’s also evidence of some gaps regarding communication and articulation between the different members that compose them.

All companies have strategic assets comprising financial capital, physical capital, human capital and organisational capital which, when effectively utilised, contribute to the competitive advantage necessary to survive in a globalised economy. The manifestation of adverse factors in a company will impact detrimentally on the performance of these strategic assets. Since the 1980s, one factor has become prominent in the management of a company’s human capital, namely sexual harassment. Sexual harassment constitutes behaviour of a sexual nature that leads to, and perpetuates, a working environment in which it becomes unpleasant to work, and if allowed to go unchecked, will lead to the underperformance of the company’s human capital. Besides the cost of litigation associated with sexual harassment, companies are confronted with the more troubling and subtle costs arising out of the psychological and physiological harm to both victims and co-workers. The psychological and physiological effects manifest themselves in symptoms such as depression, frustration, decreased self-esteem and fatigue which, in turn, lead to decreased productivity and increased absenteeism. Accordingly, in an effort to gain the competitive advantage to survive in a globalised economy, companies must manage the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the workplace. The existing theoretical principles relating to the management of sexual harassment in the workplace have been analysed in depth and a model developed to satisfy this need. This model was subsequently used to determine to what extent sexual harassment management is taking place within companies affiliated to the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA). Various informative findings resulted from the investigation, amongst which were the lack of a proper sexual harassment policy within companies, the lack of proper training of employees regarding the occurrence of this phenomenon in the workplace, and the absence of proper formal/informal complaints procedures. It thus became evident that the management of sexual harassment in these companies – despite the Government’s Code of Good Practice on the Handling of Sexual Harassment Cases – had not been fully established and that there is a need for guidelines in this regard.
Business Management
D. Comm. (Business Management)

The diploma thesis deals with problems of depression in older people. Mainly the work is focused on identifying and analyzing the role of nurses in screening for depression in older people in primary care, acute care, long-term care and home care. This thesis was focused on theoretical direction and was used the method of design and demonstration. In this thesis was set one main goals with five research questions. The main goal was to identify and analyze the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly. RQ 1: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 2: What is the role of the nurse in the primary care in screening for depression in the elderly? RQ 3: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in hospitalized patients in acute care? RQ 4: What is the role of the nurse in screening for depression in seniors in long-term and home care? RQ 5: What rating scales and methods are used in screening for depression in the elderly? The thesis introduce the concept of depression. The following are specified the causes of and the important factors that affect depression in the elderly. It also deals the differences in the clinical symptomatology of depression in old age. It explains possibilities and various barriers in the diagnosis of depression. Another chapter introduces complete geriatric examination, diagnostic classification systems, possible screening methods and scales for detection of depression in the elderly population. It also deals methods of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and its possible complications associated with older age. By reason of increased suicide rate caused by depressive disorder the issue of suicidal behavior in the elderly is introduced. The next chapter deals with the nursing process, which is used by nurses in practice. It consists of the evaluation of the patient's health condition, making nursing diagnosis, creating nursing plan and subsequent implementation and evaluation. The nursing process is also needy for providing quality care. The nursing process in the stage of nursing diagnosis, introduces possible nursing diagnosis for a patient suffering from depression, which are based on the latest classification. Finally is described the role of nurses in screening for depression in the elderly in different health facilities and their contribution to the timely evaluation of depression in the elderly. This chapter introduces the role of nurses, nursing screening and collaboration with a physician. The role of nurses in screening for depression in different medical facilities is based on the first phase of the nursing process of assessment. On the basis of objective and subjective information, the nurse will assess the overall health and mental condition of the patient. Primarily, it was investigated what is the role of the nurse in screening for depression. On the basis of content analysis and synthesis it was necessary to used and processed domestic and foreign literature. A number of relevant sources are the results of various studies and Meta-analyzes, mostly from abroad, but also from the Czech Republic. The thesis can serve as a basis for nurses. The result of this thesis is to create e-learning material available for students in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice in the tutorial called Moodle.