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Tanner, Rachael A. (Rachael Ann). "Worker owned cooperatives and the ecosystems that support them." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81643.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-134).
By emphasizing wealth creation, communities can not only cultivate streams of income, but also build wealth. Through collectively owned and democratically governed assets, communities can build wealth. Economic development policy and practice should emphasize wealth creation. Employee ownership, through worker cooperatives is one way to build wealth. But worker cooperatives are rare in the United States; this is because there is not a supportive cooperative ecosystem. The province of Quebec, Canada has developed a robust cooperative ecosystem, leading the province to have the most cooperatives in Canada and a greater density of worker co-ops than the US. This thesis explores the Quebec cooperative ecosystem through analysis of interviews with 22 leaders of over 19 organizations, including two worker cooperatives. This thesis seeks to understand (1) how the organizations and institutions in the ecosystem work together, (2) how they support cooperatives, and (3) how the lessons from Quebec can inform the development of a cooperative ecosystem in New York City. This study reveals (1) the importance of historical, political, and cultural context in shaping the potential and possibilities for cooperative development; (2) that government support through policy, funding, and collaborative leadership is critical for the ecosystem's development; (3) apex organizations are necessary to provide leadership and technical assistance among cooperatives; (4) interaction among cooperatives of all kinds leads to a stronger network; and (5) the size of the sector makes it easier to secure public support.
by Rachael A. Tanner.
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Schoening, Joel. "Democracy derailed : cooperative values confront market demands at a worker owned firm /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1335361171&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-206). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Oliver, Natikca. "Mental Health Worker Retention at African American and Caucasian-Owned Mental Health Agencies." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/499.
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The purpose of this study was to determine which factor(s), including job satisfaction, employee-employer relationship, organizational climate, and ethnicity predict retention of mental health professionals employed by African American and Caucasian privately owned mental health agencies. Due to high turnover in the private sector in mental health in central Virginia, many agencies are closing after 5 years of business. The importance of this study was to determine which factor(s) can assist in reducing turnover in the mental health field and to determine which factor(s) assist in maintaining mental health professionals in order for the agency to remain operable. The variables were evaluated through 4 valid and reliable self-report surveys to determine their prediction of employee retention. The study used Vroom's expectancy theory as the theoretical framework, which focuses on the importance of rewards and incentives in the workplace. The study's research questions determined the predictive validity of the variables on employee retention among 46 African-Americans and 15 Caucasian mental health employees. The results from multiple linear regression indicated that job satisfaction was the only significant predictor of employee retention. The implications from this finding suggest that mental health professionals need a sense of job satisfaction from their agency in order to remain at their current agency. From the findings, social change can occur when African American and Caucasian privately owned mental health agencies increase retention and are able to continue to provide continued mental health services.
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Hampson, Peter Wright. "Working-class capitalists : the development and financing of worker-owned companies, in the Irwell Valley, 1849-1875." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2015. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/12134/.
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The mid-nineteenth century was an age of reform, which affected the whole of British society. Working people in southeast Lancashire were far from passive at this time, and the co-operative experiment in Rochdale was an inspiration. Many had pinned their hopes on the Chartist Land Plan, but when this failed they seized an unintended opportunity offered by changes in company law. The result was that over fifty industrial worker-owned and controlled companies were created in the period from 1850 to the onset of the Cotton Famine in 1861, with shares sold to other local people through pubs and shops. A database of these shares forms the basis of this thesis and their analysis provides much of the raw material. Following the Cotton Famine, a commercial revolution in the Irwell Valley and adjoining districts resulted and by the 1870s brought about a virtual stock market, where companies of all kinds were floated, including traditional family businesses. Many such businesses became worker-owned and added to the prosperity of the Irwell Valley. This valley had a quite unique geography and culture, which bred men and women willing to turn their hands to a variety of tasks. The worker-owned companies were intended to provide profit, but independence, pride and self-help were also important factors. The concept spread, and contributed to the formation of the better-known ‘Oldham Limiteds’. Despite many attempts, the source of industrial finance in the late Victorian period remains an unanswered question. This thesis demonstrates that for some industries, in this area, the finance came from the working classes, including women, a possibility not previously taken seriously. They funded a diversity of industries throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, providing millions of pounds of capital. The thesis also breaks new ground in being able to identify a significant percentage of investors as individuals whose activities can be reconstructed, sometimes in detail.
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Tiwana, Sebenzile Wilbert. "Developmental dynamics in land reform projects : comparative studies of two different land reform projects, farm-worker equity schemes and beneficiary-owned and run citrus projects." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5047.
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In this study, a comparison was made between two different land reform models in the Sarah Baartman District of the Eastern Cape to, firstly; evaluate and identify factors that influence long-term sustainability and prosperity of farms owned and run by beneficiaries, and farms jointly owned by beneficiaries and former farmer / mentor in a share equity scheme, referred to as Farmworkers Equity Share Schemes (FWES), and secondly; to identify forms of government support in each of the two models. Mixed methods were used to collect data for the study. It involved the administration of structured interviews to beneficiaries, and semi-structured interviews with the mentor and government officials. The study found that the equity share scheme improved the livelihood of the beneficiaries in terms of getting annual dividends and acquiring new properties, empowered beneficiaries in decision-making in terms of having a say in financial expenditure on farm operations and the structuring of dividend pay-outs, and the project showed great potential of long-term sustainability and prosperity. Conversely, the beneficiary-owned and run project did not improve the lives of beneficiaries, was prone to infighting and fraught with organisational and management problems with no prospects of long-term sustainability and economic viability.
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Brown, Emily Bates. "Her Money, My Sweat: Women Organizing to Transform Globalization." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1177354618.
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Skantz, Kristoffer. "Demokratisering som ett sätt att hantera komplexiteten i IDEA MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-55098.
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Idégenerering är den första fasen i en innovationsprocess och för att hantera den så finns det idéhanteringssystem som kort fattat är till för att generera, hantera, utveckla och utvärdera idéer. Den här processen är väldigt svår, vilket oftast har lett till att företag väljer att använda sig av en, eller flera experter för att utvärdera de idéer som kommer in. Detta är förmodligen den bästa lösningen när det gäller effektivitet och inkrementella innovationer. Däremot så är det inte optimalt när det kommer till medarbetarnas motivation, engagemang, kreativitet, idéernas kvalité och de radikala/diskontinuerliga innovationerna. Därför så har det här arbetet undersökt hur ett deltagardemokratiskt idéhanteringssystem kan fungera personalägda företag. Detta undersöktes genom fem intervjuer med respondenter som jobbade på personalägda företag, litteratursökning inom områdena deltagandedemokrati, idéhantering och personalägande, samt idégenereringsmöten med sakkunniga. Resultatet av arbetet blev ett tvåstegssystem som ska kunna hantera komplexiteten av idégenerering, hantering, utveckling och utvärdering. Det första steget är en öppen plattform där alla i företaget kan lägga in idéer, diskutera idéer och ändra idéer. På den här plattformen kan medarbetarna sedan rösta upp de idéer som dem tycker är bäst och bör tas vidare. När en idé får många uppröstningar så tas den vidare till nästa del av systemet. Fördelarna med det här steget är att företaget kan mobilisera medarbetarens kreativitet och kunskap på ett mycket bättre sätt. Till nästa del sätts en grupp ihop av personer som berör eller berörs av idéen ihop för att använda sin kontextuella kunskap för att diskutera och utvärdera idéen. Om den första urvalsgruppen är för stor för detta så görs ytterligare ett urval, för att gruppen ska kunna diskutera idéen på ett effektivt och konstruktivt sätt. När denna grupp är klar så läggs det fram ett slutgiltigt förslag som denna grupp får rösta på om det ska gå vidare eller inte. Här skapas en större känsla av delaktighet hos medarbetarna och en större förståelse/acceptans för de beslut som tas. Med det här idéhanteringssystemet stärks också medarbetarnas motivation och engagemang. Allt detta redovisas i en modell som visualiserar hur systemet fungerar och vilka vägval som görs under processen gång.
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Wu, Shuang. "Workers' everyday lives and the transformation of China's post-reform state-owned enterprises." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/753.
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The interweaving of China's "reform and opening-up" policy of 1978 with globalisation has shifted the landscape of Chinese economic geographies (CEGs). With influential economic, social, and ideological functions, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) vividly illustrate the multiple political economic, geographic, and socio-cultural dimensions of these changes. Regions with concentrations of SOEs have been particularly impacted. This includes North East (NE) China, which historically held the highest proportion of employment in SOEs and has witnessed the closure of many SOEs and regional decline. Explanations of these changes emphasise the structural and institutional mechanisms of reform under globalisation. I argue this extensive literature regards workers as passive factors of production and limits discussions of space and time. Drawing on scholarship on Global Production Networks (GPNs) and Assemblages, I propose a new conceptual framework that positions the everyday life of each worker at the heart of SOE transformation. My central research question is: "how are workers" everyday lives implicated in SOE transformation?" I explore this by re-reading transformation as the coming together of reform under globalisation with the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of workers' everyday lives. The novelty of this framework leads me to sketch three general research propositions rather than setting formal hypotheses. I address the research question and demonstrate my framework by using qualitative research methods and building grounded theory. To explore the differentiated ways in which SOEs are transforming, I studied 13 SOEs from three major cities of NE (Harbin, Changchun, and Shenyang). A three-phase research design was deployed. I completed 62 individual and 8 group interviews. To increase the reliability and replicability of the results, I triangulated data by considering in-depth interviews, public policy documents, internet forums, movies and magazines, and on-site field observation. The empirical findings are presented in three chapters which depict, respectively, the lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters of everyday life. First, I explore workers' lived experiences of social relations in the context of reform and their link to specific spatial arrangements. I characterise interdependent social relations and spatial arrangements constitute the socio-spatial formations. The next chapter further explores workers' mobile and immobile practices and the changing meanings of time and space of SOE socio-spatial formation. Third, I describe how encounters and affects give rise to intensity of feelings which reproduces practice and impacts the SOE socio-spatial formation. In a nutshell, understanding SOEs as socio-spatial formations implies that transformation is not "meted out" by a state or abstract market force but an "always already present"process of mutual constitution of lived experiences, practices, and affective encounters in everyday life. Overall, my thesis expands economic geographic knowledge by highlighting the ongoing and processual nature of space and time and, more specifically, by valorising worker agency. I reflect on implications for CEG to combine with cultural and social geographies. I conclude by calling for an ontological shift of focusing on the emergence and contingency of CEGs.
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Bailey, Marie. "The effectiveness of European Works Councils, as a mechanism of voice, for Hungarian workers of UK-owned multinational comanies in the printing, chemical and food industries." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2012. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22390.
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European Works Councils (EWCs) have received a mixed response amongst policymakers and research critics since their establishment in the mid-1990s. Whilst there are those who are optimistic about their achievements (Coms, 204; Lecher et al, 2001; Lecher and Rub, 1999), there are those who give a more measured response (Hall and Marginson, 2005); Waddington, 2005; Gilman and Marginson, 2002; Carley and Marginson, 2000; Wills, 2000; 1999; Royle, 1999) and those who believe EWCs have failed to offer workers an appropriate mechanism for strengthening the employee voice for workers of multinationals in Europe (Keller, 2002; Ramsay, 1997; Streeck, 1997). In 2004, EU enlargement prompted further European social integration and along with countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Hungary became an accession state. This meant that, for the first time, Hungarian workers of multinational enterprises became participants of new and established EWCs (Voss, 2006). In light of these politic al and socio-economic developments, this qualitative study, involving three UK-owned case study organisations from the printing, chemical and food industries, assesses whether EWCs are effective in delivering an employee voice for Hungarian workers. Moreover, the study considers how the multinational environment; local voice structures; and the internal dynamics and function of the EWC all shaped Hungarian employee voice. This analysis of EWCs and employee voice is embedded within a Marxist view of the employment relationship, in which power inequalities; management control; and a conflict of interests are believed to lie at the heart (Ackers, 2012; Budd, 2004; Ramsay et al, 2000; Kelly, 1998; Kochan, 1998; Hyman, 1997). The study argues that trade union-led mechanisma remain the more robust and effective channel for counterbalancing the inequalities and providing employee voice (Hyman, 1997; Kelly, 1996; Kirkbride, 1992; Freeman and Medoff, 1984) and the findings show that, in comparison to employee voice, is weak both at a local and European level. Whilst EWCs offer some opportunity for harnessing a voice, this has not been realised through effective pan-European coordination of trade union networks. In conclusion, the study recommends that local trade unions work towards cultivating closer links and strategies with EWCs to create stronger voices and solidarity links for Hungarian workers.
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Chui, Man-fat James, and 崔文法. "Prioritization of maintenance works for owner-occupiers in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4440072X.
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Kotele, Mothepane. "An investigation into the journalistic identities of news workers at the state owned Lentsoe La Basotho/Lesotho Today Newspaper." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002903.
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Informed by the political economy framework and the public service role of media in democracy, the main objective of the study was to use in-depth semi-structured interviews to understand news-workers’ professional journalistic identities in relation to their status as government employees and the understanding of their public service role as outlined in the paper’s mission statement. The main interest was to understand the complexity of negotiating these role identities. Through reference to the theories of journalism professionalism, the study highlighted the extent to which news-workers in the small newsroom of Lentsoe la Basotho/Lesotho Today see themselves as public service journalists in a democratic country. The interest was borne partly out of the views of the paper’s critics who see it as not serving the public but rather promoting the activities and policies of the government of the day, thus falling short of its democratic role. The contention of the study was that as a public service newspaper, the paper should have news-workers who do impartial journalism and reflect the public’s right to know in their reporting. The findings of the study suggests that news-workers at Lentsoe la Basotho/Lesotho Today continuously have to strive to negotiate the potential conflict between being a professional and working for a government-controlled newspaper. While they sometimes lay claim to being journalists, the reality is that in their political coverage they end up adopting the role of government mouthpieces.
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Govender, Dhevan. "Factors influencing job satisfaction of managers at state owned enterprises." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23807.
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Understanding the factors that influence Job Satisfaction of managers is vital because satisfied managers will improve overall effectiveness of an organisation. State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a crucial role within economies, however a lack of attention has been focussed on understanding the concept of job satisfaction within this context. The main objective of this research was to identify the factors which are most important to influencing job satisfaction of managers at SOEs and to verify whether these factors are influenced by demographics. A survey was developed and utilised to gather data regarding the importance of several factors to a manager’s job satisfaction. The data that was gathered was statistically analysed in order to support or reject the research propositions. The findings of the research indicated that three factors predominantly influenced the job satisfaction of managers at SOEs; namely, Inspirational Leadership and Purposeful Work, Equitable Rewards and a Facilitative Work Environment and Effective Working Relationships and Work Life Balance. The results also provided support for the research propositions concluding that the factors influencing job satisfaction are certainly affected by demographics. A Three Factor Framework and Organisational Effectiveness Framework were developed to graphically represent the findings of the study. CopyrightDissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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Clack, Elizabeth. "Exploring factors that sustain succesful women-owned informal micro businesses in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12753.
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Includes bibliographical references.The study explored factors that sustain successful women-owned informal micro businesses. This explorative qualitative study was conducted in Cape Town in the communities of Philippi and Khayelitsha. Face- to- face in-depth interviewing was carried out on a purposive sample of sixteen women-owned informal microbusinesses (WBOs) and five key informants from government and NGO institutions offering small business support services. The main findings indicated that some of the women are successful due to a variety of multifaceted and linked factors. These women have been operating their businesses successfully despite economic downturns and gender exclusion and other community related factors. A variety of behavioural and motivational factors also contribute to small business success. The WBOs are able to successfully operate businesses in economic downturns due to their adaptability, flexibility and innovation in their business practices. A resilient mindset, their strong spirituality, confidence and business aspirations enabled them to persevere in difficult economic and personal circumstances, while conducting business in often violent communities. The nature of trade and their knowledge of the market, customer care, relationships and their attitudes to competition were key to their business success. The family and institutional support however appears to be weak and barriers included sparse information about the support services from NGOs and government. The main recommendation is that these more successful informal micro-business women owners could be better documented and used as case studies and role models for best practice. Much more research is needed on a larger scale across the country since the informal sector is constantly expanding and changing.
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Oosthuizen, Janine Dalnet. "The relationship between stress and salutogenic functioning amongst employees in a state owned enterprise." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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is the buzzword of the 21st century and is becoming the core value of organisations. In South Africa it is estimated that more than R500 million is lost annually through absenteeism and loss of productivity as a result of stress. Employees are key contributors to the bottom-line and should be selected, placed and applied in such a way that the company only benefits from their output. Therefore, if the human element is a crucial element it becomes essential for the organisation to nurture, protect and optimise individuals to their full potential.
There is a fair degree of agreement on the variables that act as organizational stressors, however, studies on stress and salutogenic functioning in a state owned enterprise have not been found. According to the literature, salutogenic factors function as generalised resistance resources and a high score on sense of coherence, as well as an internal locus of control correlates with low scores on stress. The present research has a general aim of exploring the relationship between stress and salutogenic functioning, within a state owned enterprise. The levels of stress were correlated with the presence of high or low levels of sense of coherence and whether the individuals display an internal or an external locus of control. A sample of 240 employees (N=240) was used from the organisation.
The following questionnaires were utilised to measure the range of variables. Levels of stress were measured by the Experience of Work and Life Circumstances Questionnaire (WLQ). Whereas the salutogenic construct, sense of coherence was measured by the Orientation to Life Questionnaire (OLQ) and the second salutogenic construct, locus of control, was measured by the Locus of Control Inventory (LCI). The statistical analyses included inferential (correlation, t-test and analysis of variance) and descriptive statistics. The results demonstrated significant relationships between low stress levels, sense of coherence and internal locus of control. As such, salutogenic functioning in terms of sense of coherence and locus of control, had a significant correlation with levels of stress.
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Young, Robyn, and na. "Comparative Study of Work-Life Balance in Franchised and Independently Owned Small Business Models." Griffith University. Department of Marketing, 2009. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20100617.110649.
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Work-life balance is a concept that has attracted attention for several years. It is relevant as people attempt to apportion time to different demands they face from both work and life. The multiplicity of demands that individuals have can increase this challenge as people strive to incorporate many more activities into lives. The focus of current literature regarding work-life balance tends to focus on how employees can be provided with opportunities by their organisations for achieving this elusive balance. Research has been conducted into various strategies that organisations have implemented to facilitate their employees lifestyle options. Furthermore, studies have examined the role of organisational initiatives and staff retention. However, many of the organisations providing these opportunities for employees have substantial resources, thereby enabling the provision of these initiatives. Previous empirical research has examined work-life balance in depth. However, there are aspects that call for further attention. In particular, the management of this concept within small business requires further research. Australia has a large number of small businesses, which comprise a large proportion of the labour force and contribute significantly the national economy. The broad category of small business includes different business models, and two of these models are the independent and the franchised business. The success of these models has been demonstrated by their rapid growth in the Australian economy. As one of the reasons most commonly cited for entering into a small business is to regain the control over ones life and work-life balance, the purpose of this research is to investigate work-life balance from the perspective of small business owners. Examination of different research issues considering the perception of work-life balance, the impact of control, of owning a small business, and the choice of business model on work-life balance is undertaken. The research considers how small business owners perceive the concept of work-life balance, and whether it is regarded as important to them. This research seeks to understand how work-life balance is viewed differently for small business owners. The concept of control requires examination to clarify how control and work-life balance relate to each other. Due to the popularity of franchising in the small business sector, a comparison of the concept of work-life balance by both franchised and independent small business owners is warranted...
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Ismail, Noorhasyimah. "Implementation of the work-family balance practices (WFBPS) in the Malaysian oil and gas workplace : experiences amongst managers and executives." Thesis, Brunel University, 2018. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/17035.
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Work-family balance practices (WFBPs) in the workplace have caused growing interest amongst employees and employers in developing countries like Malaysia. Previous research has shown that the application of work-family balance interface (e.g. work-family integration) in the workplace has an impact on the role of manager, particularly at the micro level analysis. The study has four objectives, which are: (1) To explore how managers and executives in the O& G sector perceive the notion of WFBPs; (2) To identify the type of WFBPs introduced in the Malaysian O&G companies; (3) To compare the WFBPs in both government-owned and privatelyowned O&G companies; and (4) To evaluate the role of a manager in implementing WFBPs in O&G companies. A qualitative method was employed in this study by using a face-to-face, semi-structured interview approach. The interview approach was used to explore the concept and dimensions of the understanding of WFBPs, as this is the appropriate approach to gain a viewpoint from an individual perspective. The empirical result of the investigation has recognised the significant themes of the implementation of WFBPs on the O&G employees' work-life balance. Firstly, it provided the WFBPs' notions of the integration, separation and integration-separation concept between work and family lives to the O&G workforces. Secondly, the study identified and examined the utility of the WFBPs that enables the comparison of formal and informal WFBPs for both government-owned and privately-owned O&G companies. Thirdly, the study evaluated the role of the manager in undertaking the WFBPs and factors that motivate the O&G workforces in the workplace. This study also revealed the impact on the individual and the organisation from the implementation of WFBPs. Hence, the study showed the interconnected manager roles in achieving the work-life balance whilst working with the O&G industry.
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Lee, Eunju. "Gendered processes : Korean immigrant small business ownership /." New York : LFB Scholarly Pub, 2006. http://www.ebrary.com/.
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Talabi, Taiwo. "Workers who continue to be occupationally exposed to second-hand tobacco smoke (SHS) in the UK." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources. Restricted no access until Sept. 20, 2009, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25325.
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Yandell, Janet Smaltz. "It's their mission developing a manual to encourage church leaders/youth volunteers to begin a youth designed/youth-owned work mission program in the local church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Richard, Audrey. "Des "commerciaux" chez les cheminots ? : Ethnographie des agents "au contact de la clientèle" à la SNCF." Thesis, Limoges, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIMO0071.
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Cette thèse, fondée sur une enquête ethnographique, est consacrée aux employés de la SNCF qui travaillent en gare, « au contact de la clientèle ». Figures familières des voyageurs, les agents de vente, d‟accueil et d'escale ferroviaire voient leur activité professionnelle évoluer autour d'injonctions relatives à la « qualité de service » rendu, à la « satisfaction client » et au respect d‟objectifs comptables. Des dimensions qui sous-tendent notamment le renouvellement constant d‟un ensemble de normes encadrant leur travail et leur comportement. Cette thèse vise ainsi à mettre en évidence le fait que, bien qu'étant « une réalité ancienne » [Finez, 2013], la régulation marchande qui s'opère à la SNCF est une réalité multiforme, avec pour corolaire des réformes managériales qui redessinent progressivement les contours de l'activité des agents en gare, exigeant d'eux un « travail commercial ». Ces évolutions conduisent à interroger parallèlement le regard qu'ils portent sur ce rôle « commercial » et, plus généralement, la manière dont ces agents perçoivent leur condition professionnelle dans une entreprise publique en mutation.Ce travail s‟inscrit dans le sillage d'un ensemble d'études menées au sein d'entreprises et administrations publiques qui ont mis en exergue les transformations intervenues suite à l'introduction et à la généralisation de dispositifs d'organisation et de gestion appliqués dans le secteur privé. L'objectif est ainsi d'analyser les recompositions professionnelles mais aussi sociales que les exigences commerciales et gestionnaires de la SNCF entraînentThis thesis, based on an ethnographic survey, focus on SNCF employees working at therailway station, “in contact with customers”. Sales, reception and railways stopover agents,who are the familiar figures of the travelers, see their professional activity evolving accordingto injunctions towards the quality of service returned to the customers, customer satisfactionand respect of sales target. Consequently, the norms around their work tasks and behaviorsare constantly changing due to those types of injunctions. This thesis aims at highlightingthat, despite being “an ancient reality” [Finez, 2013], the trade policy of the state-ownedcompany SNCF is an ongoing reality. It leading to managerial reforms that reshape theactivity of those previously mentioned agents with an important “commercial” dimension. Asa consequence, it is also important to question agents about their option regarding their“commercial” role, and, more generally, about the way they perceive their professionalcondition in a public company undergoing changes. This work falls in with a group of studies conducted in state companies and administrations which underline the changes occurred after the insertion and spread of organizational and managerial measures applied in the private sector. The purpose of this work is therefore to study the professional and social reconfigurations caused by the SNCF commercial and managerial demands
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Zhang, Lijuan. "Ti zhi zhuan xing yu guo you qi ye gong ren fen hua de duo chong luo ji = Institutional transformation and the multi-facet logic of differentiation of state-owned enterprise workers /." View abstract or full-text, 2006. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?SOSC%202006%20ZHANG.
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Leung, Ka-man, and 梁嘉雯. "Factors affecting private owners to carry out maintenance works for their buildings: case study of owner-occupiedhousing in Sham Shui Po District." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45009326.
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Leung, Ka-man. "Factors affecting private owners to carry out maintenance works for their buildings : case study of owner-occupied housing in Sham Shui Po District /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40698348.
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Gordon, Rebecca. "Constructed selves : the manipulation of authorial identity in selected works of Christopher Isherwood." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=53335.
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Hillskemper, Erik. "Dissolving the floors of memory perceptions of time and history in the works of Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25874.
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陳生洛. "中國國有企業的產權變革與黨的領導 = The change of property rights in state-owned enterprises and the party leadership." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2000. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/213.
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Florén, Henrik. "Managerial work and learning in small firms." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Centrum för innovations-, entreprenörskaps- och lärandeforskning (CIEL), 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-555.
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This thesis deals with how managerial work sets the agenda for managerial learning in small firms. Although studies of learning in organizations are numerous, research on managerial learning in the small-firm context is limited. In particular, our knowledge of managerial learning suffers from an insufficient understanding of what top managers in small firms do. The primary purpose of this thesis is to describe how the work of small-firm managers sets the agenda for managerial learning, and how their learning can be supported. Additionally, the thesis explores the use of so-called “Action Technologies” in supporting managerial learning in small firms.Drawing on an observational study of six owner-managers in small (17-43 employees) manufacturing firms, and a synthesis of earlier studies, this thesis shows that three features of managerial work shape managerial learning in small firms: The small firm’s top manager (i) operates in context with specific structural conditions that affect his/her behavior, (ii) have certain cognitive predispositions guiding his/her behavior, and (iii) have certain behavioral preferences directing his/her behavior.The main argument in this thesis is that managerial learning in small firms is made difficult due to features that make it hard to come to a point where learning (in terms of reflection and conceptualization) is given time and resources, as the manager has trouble in finding time for learning, and as learning risks to become low-priority. Learning is also difficult due to barriers related to the learning process: the work of the manager fosters a superficial learning orientation, makes it difficult to probe deeply into and to develop complicated understandings of issues at hand, and makes peer-learning rarely possible.Drawing on an action research project of managerial learning in four networks of small-firm owner-managers, the thesis also explores, in a concrete manner, how managerial learning might be supported in a way that circumvents the deficient situation for managerial learning in this kind of firm. More specifically, it seems that Action Technologies by their design constitute a learning context that supports the learning of the small-firm top manager by dissolving the barriers to learning identified above.Original papers included. Paper III, "Managerial behavior in small firms - a critical analysis of evidence from observational studies" changed title to "Managerial work in small firms: summarising what we know and sketching a research agenda".
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Riestola, Päivi. "Chef i en högpresterande kultur : implementering av ett globalt managementkoncept i lokala organisationskulturella kontexter." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen för Pedagogik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-3664.
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The subject matter of this thesis is governance principles in global management concepts and the application of such principles by managers at a local level. The thesis includes a case study on a foreign-owned Swedish group of companies that has introduced the management concept of High Performance Culture in all of its consolidated group countries. Global management concepts usually originate from the United States and make use of neorational governance principles. High Performance Culture is a management concept that puts increased performance and individualisation in the foreground. In addition, the concept advocates co-determination and self-development. The governance principles further promote employee autonomy orientation and self-development in addition to a leader-centric approach. The case study results indicate a discrepancy in the requirements of the governance principles of the management concept, highlighting the various dimensions of cultural layers and values to which managers in the same organisation are subject. The same values had an effect in different ways on the managers’ interpretation and handling of the management concept. This interpretation and handling of the management concept tools led to an implementation that partially opposed what the French management team and management concept advocated. The managers choosing to oppose the governance principles of the management concept can be seen as an example of modern individualism, according to which people are increasingly questioning rigid and hierarchic authority while showing initiative and assessing one’s own personal work. Hence, the values of modern individualism can act as a counterforce to neorational governance principles.Akademisk avhandling för avläggande av doktorsexamen i Arbetsvetenskap, som med tillstånd av Fakultetsnämnden vid Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, vid
Karlstads universitet framläggs till offentlig granskning fredagen den 25 oktober 2013 kl. 13.00, sal C203, Högskolan i Borås.
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Didla, Shama. "Influence of leadership and safety climate on employee safety compliance and citizenship behaviours." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2008. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=25498.
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Santos, David André Silva. "Proposta de Metodologia de Controlo de Custos de uma Obra Pública: caso prático." Master's thesis, [s.n.], 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10284/3881.
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Dissertação apresentada à Universidade Fernando Pessoa como parte dos requisitos para a obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia CivilA presente dissertação tem como principal objetivo aprofundar e contribuir para o estudo da temática de controlo de custos de uma obra pública, essencialmente pela vertente de controlo custos, em fase de obra. Deste modo, o trabalho propõe a abordagem de um possível método de controlo de custos em fase de obra que, de acordo com a legislação, permita um efetivo controlo de custos na fase de execução da empreitada, possibilitando a qualquer momento o conhecimento da evolução dos trabalhos e a possível identificação de desvios que possam ocorrer, permitindo rápidas intervenções de forma a mitigar os efeitos desses desvios. Assim, na presente dissertação propõe-se uma descrição de todos os procedimentos necessários para assegurar uma efetiva gestão de custos de uma obra desde o lançamento da empreitada a concurso, a adjudicação, até à elaboração de mapas de autos de medição e faturação ao controlo dos trabalhos efetuados e a efetuar. O método seguido na presente dissertação, visa produzir um modelo de controlo de custos em Microsoft Excel para satisfazer as necessidades do Dono de Obra, com base no novo Código de Contratos Públicos. O modelo produzido será aplicado ao caso em estudo para sua validação.
This work has as main objective to strengthen and contribute to the study of the theme of cost control of a public work, essentially under strand control costs, in construction phase. The study proposes the approach of a possible method of cost control in construction phase according to the legislation, allowing an effective cost control during the implementation of the contract enabling anytime the knowledge of progress and identification of possible deviations that may take place, enabling rapid interventions to mitigate the effects of these deviations. This dissertation proposes a description of all procedures necessary to ensure effective cost management of a project, since the launch of the tendering contract, to adjudication, until mapping of costs of quantities and billing control the work carried out and perform. The method followed in this dissertation aims to produce a model of cost control in Microsoft Excel to meet the needs of the Owner of Work, based on the new Public Procurement Code. The model produced will be applied to the case study for validation.
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Lodin, Emilia. "Styrelsens roll i små och medelstora företag : en studie om företagsägares attityder till en arbetande styrelse." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-9638.
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Enligt svensk lagstiftning måste aktiebolag ha en styrelse. Dock skiljer det sig på vilket sätt styrelsen involveras i företags strategiska arbete och hur företagsägare förhåller sig till dess funktion. I små och medelstora företag fyller styrelsen sällan någon reell funktion. När företaget växer blir det dock svårt för en person att ensam klara av att styra och kontrollera bolaget, vilket leder till ett ökat behov av en arbetande styrelse. Tidigare forskning visar att företagsägarens personliga mål ofta avgör den strategiska riktningen i små och medelstora företag. För att kunna bemöta de krav som existerar, behöver därför företagsägaren förstå styrelsens roll och nyttan av strategiskt arbete. Syftet med studien är att utifrån ett företagsekonomiskt perspektiv bidra med kunskap om styrelsearbete i små och medelstora företag, samt att undersöka vilka attityder företagsägare i dessa företag har till styrelsens funktion. Studiens empiri har inhämtats från en kvalitativ datainsamling, i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med fyra företagsägare ur tre olika små och medelstora företag. Den teoretiska referensramen berör ämnet bolagsstyrning och de aspekter som anses vara viktiga för ett framgångsrikt styrelsearbete. Studien kommer fram till att kunskapen vad gäller styrelsearbete är relativt låg hos företagsägare i små och medelstora företag, vilket gör att styrelsen inte används på ett effektivt sätt. Kunskapsnivån hos företagsägaren styr också huruvida styrelsen anses som viktig i det egna företaget, samt hur styrelsen arbetar. En annan slutsats som dras är att företagsägarens personliga mål påverkar dennes attityd till styrelsen. Om de personliga målen innefattar tillväxt, har företagsägaren en mer positiv attityd till en arbetande styrelse. Vidare ökar en positiv inställning till en arbetande styrelse sannolikheten att företagsägaren även har en positiv attityd till externa styrelseledamöter.According to Swedish law, limited companies must have a board. However, it differs in the extent to which the board is involved in a company´s strategic work and how business owners relate to its function. In small and medium-sized enterprises, the board seldom fills any real function. As the company grows, it becomes difficult for one person alone to manage and control the company, leading to an increasing need for a working board. Previous research shows that business owner's personal goals often determine the strategic direction of small and medium-sized enterprises. In order to meet existing demands, business owners need to understand the board´s role and the benefits of strategic work. The purpose of the study is, from a business perspective, to contribute knowledge about board work in small and medium-sized enterprises and to examine the business owners' attitudes toward the functioning of the board. The study's empirical data has been collected from a qualitative data collection, in the form of semi-structured interviews with four business owners from three different small and medium-sized enterprises. The theoretical framework involves the subject corporate governance and the aspects that are considered important for a successful board work. The study concludes that awareness regarding board work, is relatively low among business owners of small and medium-sized enterprises, which means that the board is not being used effectively. The level of knowledge of the business owner also controls whether the board is considered as important in their own company, and how the board works. Another conclusion drawn is that the business owner's personal goals affect his attitude towards the board. If personal goals include growth, the business owner has a more positive attitude towards a working board. Furthermore, a positive attitude towards a working board increases the probability that the business owner also has a positive attitude towards outside directors in the board.
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Rosim, Daniela. "Trabalho e aprendizagem gerencial do dirigente da pequena empresa: estudo com survey e etnometologia no setor metal-mecânico." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18157/tde-17022016-161722/.
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O objetivo da pesquisa foi potencializar a explicação da relação da aprendizagem e do trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa conhecendo objetivamente o estilo e os papéis e compreendendo o seu significado subjetivo. O tema da pesquisa foi estudar o trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa objetivamente, por meio de um levantamento e subjetivamente por meio da abordagem etnometodológica, juntamente com os estilos de aprendizagem do dirigente. Para isso o trabalho de campo foi realizado em duas fases: na 1ª fase a abordagem foi quantitativa: levantamento sobre os estilos de aprendizagem - por meio do inventário de estilos de aprendizagem de Kolb - e dos papéis do administrador - por meio do questionário utilizado na pesquisa de Oliveira (2010) que foi desenvolvido com base na abordagem dos papéis de Mintzberg (1973); na 2ª fase a abordagem foi qualitativa com estudo de caso etnometodológico e análise da conversação a fim de compreender a percepção dos dirigentes sobre seu estilo de aprendizagem e seu trabalho. Ao final, quantitativamente não foi possível estabelecer uma relação significante entre as variáveis estilo de aprendizagem, trabalho do dirigente e desempenho organizacional, porém, qualitativamente essas relações foram identificadas e explicadas. Também foi realizada uma triangulação dos dados quantitativos e qualitativos a fim de comparar os resultados e identificar a importância de cada técnica.The aim of the study was to improve the relationship explanation between learning and work manager objectively knowing the style and the roles and understanding their subjective meaning. The theme of the research was to study the small business work manager objectively, through a survey and subjectively through the ethnomethodological approach, along the learning styles of the manager. So the fieldwork was conducted in two phases: the 1st phase was quantitative approach: survey on learning styles - through the Kolb inventory of learning styles - and administrator roles - through the questionnaire used in Oliveira survey (2010) that was developed based on the approach of Mintzberg roles (1973); the 2nd phase was a qualitative approach with ethnomethodological case study and conversation analysis in order to understand the perception of the managers on your learning style and your work. Finally, quantitatively could not establish a significant relationship between the variables learning style, manager work and organizational performance, however, these relationships were qualitatively identified and explained. A triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data was also performed to compare the results and identify the importance of each technique.
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Lara, Roberto. "Optimering av personal- och lönesystemet Primula vid Språk- och litteraturcentrum vid Lunds universitet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Industriell teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-385882.
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The purpose of the thesis project has been to improve the use of personnel and administrative system at the Center of Languages and Literature (SOL) at Lund University. By using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, data has been identified and divided into the first three steps of the DMAIC methodology. Define phase highlights the requirements needed for work with the system. Measure phase and the used of process-based system model (PBSM) identified problem processes or resources for work improvement. The analysis phase highlighted the need for a process owner who can drive improvement work from within the organization with support from the management. Process owner as improvement proposals means a systematic and strategic work at a higher organizational level that can support Center of Languages and Literature and other stakeholders. The process owner's role responds to the thesis project's goal which was to structure and simplify Primula's work; clarify roles and tasks and increase transparency in the system.Syftet med examensarbetet har varit att förbättra möjligheterna för de anställda att användadet personal- och administrativa systemet på SOL-centrum vid Lunds Universitet. Genom enkombination av kvantitativa och kvalitativa metoder har data identifierats och indelats enligtde tre första stegen inom DMAIC-metoden; Define-fasen synliggör de krav som finns för attjobba med systemet. Measure-fasen och tillämpningen av den processbaseradesystemmodellen identifierade problemprocesserna och resurser till förbättringsarbete. Analysfasenlyfte behovet av en processägare som kan driva förbättringsarbete inifrån organisationenmed stöd från ledningen. Processägare som förbättringsförslag innebär ett systematisk och strategiskt arbete på enhögre organisatorisk nivå som kan stödja SOL-centrum och andra intressenter.Processägarens roll svarar på examensarbetets mål, som var att strukturera och förenkla arbetei Primula, tydliggöra roller och arbetsuppgifter samt öka transparensen i systemet.
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Junior, Luiz Adalberto Philippsen. "O trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa: estudo do setor da construção civil no contexto de obras públicas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18157/tde-28042016-093036/.
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O objetivo desta pesquisa é analisar o trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa a partir da teoria das abordagens dos papéis proposta por Mintzberg e sua possibilidade de descrever o trabalho do dirigente, tendo como unidade de análise o setor da construção civil e o contexto de obras públicas. A pequena empresa é vital para a economia dos países. Da mesma forma, a indústria da construção civil contribui com significativo percentual do Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) do Brasil e de diversos países, sejam desenvolvidos ou em desenvolvimento. Embora apresentem-se como relevantes áreas de estudo - a pequena empresa e a indústria da construção civil - carecem de uma melhor análise integrada de suas inter-relações. Na primeira etapa da pesquisa foi realizado um mapeamento sistemático (MS), em uma base de dados de periódicos indexados, para levantar o estado da arte do tema da pesquisa: o dirigente da pequena empresa. Para explorar a questão da pesquisa foi desenvolvido questionário estruturado dividido em duas partes fundamentais. A primeira para obter dados qualitativos (nominais e ordinais) e quantitativos (discretos e contínuos). A segunda parte para identificar a incidência de cada um dos dez papéis propostos por Mintzberg, utilizando modelo categórico de resposta - escala Likert de cinco pontos. A amostra da pesquisa é composta por 39 dirigentes (n = 39) de empresas que entre 2013 e 2015 executaram obras civis - subsetor edificações - para empresa pública da esfera Federal via licitação pública. A análise dos dados foi realizada por meio das médias de frequência obtidas e testes de análise de variância (ANOVA) entre as variáveis (primeira parte do questionários e papéis desempenhados pelo dirigente - segunda parte). Como resultado constata-se que dirigentes de empresas de construção civil inseridos no contexto de obras públicas desempenham atividades fundamentalmente relacionadas aos níveis de atuação interpessoal e decisório. Os papéis de líder e contato, ao nível interpessoal, e os papéis de alocador de recursos e negociador, ao nível decisório, são desempenhados com maior frequência pelo dirigente da amostra, representando grande parte do seu dia a dia de atuação. Das variáveis analisadas, a idade do dirigente (para os papéis de contato e disseminador), a estrutura organizacional da empresa (para o papel de disseminador), o percentual de contratos firmados com a Administração Pública em relação ao total de contratos firmados no período de um ano (para o papel de porta-voz) e a capacidade financeira da empresa (para o papel de porta-voz) apresentaram significância estatística, indicando a associação com a variável resposta da pesquisa - o papel desempenhado pelo dirigente da pequena empresa de construção civil. Comprova-se que a abordagem dos papéis de Mintzberg é capaz de explicar o trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa de construção civil, constatado pelas médias de frequência apresentadas nos três níveis de atuação e dos papéis desempenhados, além das significâncias estatísticas apontadas pela ANOVA. As inferências realizadas contribuem para uma melhor compreensão integrada do trabalho do dirigente da pequena empresa de construção civil inserido no contexto de obras públicas e melhoria de sua gestão.This study\'s aim is to analyze the small business owner-manager\'s work regarding the public civil construction sector grounded on Mintzberg\'s managerial roles and its possibility to describe the owner-manager\'s work. Small businesses are vital to a country\'s economy. Likewise, the civil construction industry contributes to a high GDP percentage in Brazil and other countries as well, whether developed or not. Although these two topics are relevant areas of study - civil construction industry and small business - its integration is not very much understood. A sistematic mapping was conducted in the first phase. The used database, in which the articles are indexed, established the state of art for the research theme: small business owner-manager. To analyze the research question, a structured questionnaire was created. It was divided in two fundamental parts. The first one to obtain qualitative data (nominal and ordinal) and quantitative (discrete and continuous). The second one to indentify the incidence of one of each Mintzberg\'s ten managerial work roles using a categorical response model, the five point Likert scale. The sample consists in 39 (n=39) small business owner-managers who worked in public civil construction in a Federal bureau between the years of 2013 and 2015 by bidding. The data analysis was performed by the mean and frequencies obteined and by comparison between variables - first part of the questionnaire and the owner-managers roles - using an analysis variance (ANOVA). Findings reveal that the small business owner-managers perform roles grounded on interpersonal and decision making levels. The leader and leaison roles, at the interpersonal level, and the resource allocator and negociator roles, at the decision making level, are the ones the owner-managers spend more time performing. The owner-manager\'s age (for leaison and disseminator roles), the organizational configuration (for the disseminator role), the percentage of the signed contratcs within the Public Administration with the total of the signed contracts between a year period (for the spokesperson role) and the business financial capacity (for the spokesperson role) are statistically significant, showing direct relationship with the response variable - the owner-mager\'s work. The results also support that Mintzberg\'s managerial rolles is able to explain the small business owner-manager\'s work, verified by means and frequencies and the ANOVA comparison. This study contibutes to a deeper and integrated understanding about the small business owner-manager in the public civil construction sector.
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Rabenschlag, Ann-Judith. "Völkerfreundschaft nach Bedarf : Ausländische Arbeitskräfte in der Wahrnehmung von Staat und Bevölkerung der DDR." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-108755.
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The claim to successfully have eliminated racism and xenophobia in socialist Germany was crucial for the GDR’s demarcation against the Federal Republic and for GDR’s political self-conception. According to the state party SED, both the GDR’s government and its people met with all members of the working class, regardless their ethnicity or culture, in the spirit of Völkerfreundschaft – the peoples’ friendship. In the early 1960s, suffering from a lack of work power, the GDR began to recruit foreign workers, and continued to do so up until German reunification. When workers arrived from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, the propositions of antiracism and peoples’ friendship were tested in practice. Following a discourse-analytical approach this study analyzes how the ideal of Völkerfreundschaft was reproduced, exploited and altered both by citizens communicating with the state and within party-loyal circles. It examines when, why and by whom ethnicity was downplayed in favor of common class affiliation, and under which circumstances it regained importance. While latest research on foreigners in the GDR has focused on diagnosing the discrepancy between ideological claims and reality this study goes beyond such an approach and analyzes how this discrepancy was dealt with – both by state authorities, the state-owned factories and ordinary people – in everyday life. This study is a contribution to migration research, as well as to everyday-life-history and history of mentality in the GDR.
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Trimua, Arthur Lilas. "La concession : éléments de renouveau d'une catégorie contractuelle." Thesis, Poitiers, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018POIT3007.
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La concession, instrument contractuel de coopération économique public-privé, connaît un engouement mondial. La relation tripartite vertueuse qu'elle établit entre l'autorité concédante, l'opérateur économique et les investisseurs a largement contribué à l'adoption de ce mécanisme d'origine française par divers systèmes juridiques sous l'appellation générique de partenariat public-privé (PPP). D'origine jurisprudentielle et longtemps protégé des influences extérieures, le modèle concessif bénéficie, sous l'empire de l'ordonnance du 29 janvier 2016 et du décret du 1er février 2016 relatifs aux contrats de concession, d'une européanisation de ses critères et de son régime juridique. En cristallisant le risque d'exploitation dans sa fonction de critère de discrimination ultime de la summa divisio de la commande publique, le nouveau droit des concessions bouleverse la hiérarchie des critères classiques d'identification du modèle concessif français. Cette évolution substantielle des éléments d'identité de la concession s'est accompagnée du renouvellement de son régime juridique. Cet environnement juridique transformé invite à une relecture globale du modèle français de la concession à travers la novation de ses éléments constitutifs et de son régime juridiqueConcession, a contract tool for economic cooperation, generates worldwide enthusiasm. The virtuous tripartite relationship it establishes between conceding authorities, economic operators and investors has widely contributed to the adoption of this originally French mechanism by various legal systems under the generic term of “public-private partnership” (PPP). The French concessive model was originally created through case law and shielded from exterior influences for a long time, though the criteria and legal regime of the French concessive model as set out by the January 29th 2016 ordinance and the February 1st, 2016 decree relating to concession contracts are being Europeanised. By crystallizing operational risk in its function as the ultimate discrimination criteria of public contract's summa divisio, the new law on concessions rattles the French concessive model's classic identification criteria. This substantial evolution of the concession's identity elements came with the renewal of its legal regime. This transformed legal environment begs a global re-read of the French concession model through the renewal of its constitutive elements and its legal regime
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Rice, Jennifer E. "Dogs in the Workplace: The Emotional, Social, and Physical Benefits to Employees." Xavier University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=xavier1565807557585623.
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Yang, Ming-Feng, and 楊明峰. "The Influence of Worker Director System on Industrial Relations Climate in State-Owned Enterprise —The Case of Taiwan Power Labor Union." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75152742421293227750.
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ABSTRACT The issue of “worker director” was widely discussed by the academics and the enterprises in the past three years. However, most of the existent literatures show more of their interest in the introduction of the system and comparative analysis of foreign systems, rather than the feasibility of adopting the worker director system in Taiwan and the study on future amendment. The purpose of the thesis is to study the influence of worker director system on industrial relations climate in the state-owned enterprise in Taiwan. The study is based on the result of questionnaire filled out by 463 cadres of Taiwan Power Labor Union（91.68 % effective rate of return）. It will examine the relationships between the design-factors of worker director system, the satisfaction with the system-operation, the demographic variables of union cadres and industrial relations climate. Using Frequency distribution, Chi-square test analysis, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method, Factor analysis, Correlation analysis and Regression analysis, the study has reached some major conclusions as follows: 1. The design-factors of worker director system（e.g. “pay”, “election”） are significant to the satisfaction with the system-operation. 2. The demographic variables are significant to the design-factors of worker director system. 3. The demographic variables （e.g. “gender”, “age” ） have no significant connection to the satisfaction with the system-operation, except for “working location”. 4. There are positive correlations between the satisfaction with the system-operation and industrial relations climate. In other words, the higher the degree of the satisfaction with the system-operation, the better the industrial relations climate. 5. In general, union cadres think that the adoption of worker director system in the state-owned enterprises leads to medium degree of industrial relations climate. Finally, according to the conclusions mentioned above, this study will propose some suggestions for further study for enterprise world, labor union and government.
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Sobering, Katherine Elizabeth. "From worker to worker-owner : emotional labor in the cooperative workplace." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-6254.
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Many studies into emotional labor are constrained by a capitalist paradigm, where emotional labor is performed within corporate organizations with hierarchical divisions of labor. Using the case of Hotel BAUEN, this paper considers emotional labor in different organizational and relational context: a worker-owned and worker-recovered business in Argentina. Drawing on ethnographic observations in Hotel BAUEN, this paper shows how service work is structured in the cooperative hotel. Instead of doing emotional labor in the traditional “service triangle,” worker-owners provide services in a “cooperative dyad” without the oversight of a boss. This structural difference has both organizational and relational implications for the business. First, worker-owners provide a variety of services to a broad set of customers. Second, the processes of autogestión (self-management) rely on workers’ emotional labor to cultivate lateral workplace relations through self-management. Ultimately, within the cooperative service workplace, emotional labor functions differently than the literature would suggest. Rather than reproduce social inequalities, workers use emotional labor to generate capital and sustain an organization that seeks to reduce inequality.text
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Gao, Guo-Hao, and 高國皓. "Doing Chinese? Highly-skilled Taiwanese Workers in a China’s State-owned Enterprise." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sm9qb7.
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Abstract Unlike former Taishang （Taiwanese investors）studies, which mainly focuse on the context of operation in Taiwanese enterprises, this paper attempts to examine the work experiences of Taiwanese skilled workers in a Chinese state-owned enterprise from the perspective of institutionalization. Although the Chinese central government has started the reform of marketization since 1978, the state-owned enterprises in post-socialist China are still largely controlled by Chinese Communist Party. That is, the Chinese Communist Party is still capable of shaping the rules of the game in the state-owned enterprises through formal and informal regulations, such as rewarding systems and informal rules. Under these circumstances, the Taiwanese skilled workers with relatively more competence and experience still have to follow the rules and behave like a Chinese to obtain the legitimacy in the state-owned enterprises. In a “red” enterprise as the case presented in my study, the Taiwanese skilled workers would have the behavioral model of “semi-party member”, and act as “a Chinese who loves the nation and its party”. Consequently, it is difficult for them to apply the former Taiwanese communication model in Chinese state-owned enterprises. However, in the personal territories, such as the dormitory, foot bath shops, and restaurants, the Taiwanese skilled workers behave differently in the back stage and actively seek an inner expression of “self-recognition” in their living space. By complaints and gossips, they constantly challenge the pressure and authority imposed by the institutional structures. Such behavior differences of the Taiwanese skilled workers in the front and back stages not only highlight the presentation of self in institutionalization, but also increase our understanding of organization theories regarding what would happen on the back stage. Keyword: Taiwanese skilled workers , migration , state-owned enterprises, institutionalization, , Chinese party regime.
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Lee, Chien-Hsin, and 李健新. "The Influence of Laid-off Workers of State-Owned Enterprises on theSociety of Mainland China." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78997799817110193912.
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碩士淡江大學
中國大陸研究所碩士班
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Since Deng Xiao-Ping succeeded political power in 1978, China had enforced “Reform and Open-up” policies. The concept of capitalistic economy was introduced to China that caused its economic growth rate to increase on average of higher than ten percent over the past twenty years. Under this awesome economic growth, China government carried on the innovation of economic system, from central-planned economy system to socialism market economy system. But unavoidably, the changes led the original system to a vast crash. Many state-owned firms abiding by the direction of the government continued to innovate to meet the need of the new economic system. However, the market efficient economic system influenced the operation of the state-owned firms on the process of socialism market economic system. The traditional management of state-owned firms also faced the challenges of the innovation and the transition so as to compete with foreign enterprises and non-state firms. Hence, the innovation of state-owned firms gave rise to numbers of laid-off workers and brought about many unstable social phenomenon in China. In our research, several conclusions could be made in the following: 1. The unemployment of the laid-off workers resulted from the following three factors: the interior population structure, the transition of economic system and the innovation of state-owned firms. 2. As derivative Chinese word “unemployment” appeared and “laid-off” became oblivion, “the laid-off problems” seemed to be solved, but actually these were still concealed behind enormous unemployment, and had not been cleared up. 3. During the innovation these laid-off workers from state-owned firms became new inferior minorities in cities, whose superior position and welfare (while they worked in the state firms) had been lost. Once they could not find their feet, the chance of returning to work would be harder. 4. Workers in state-owned firms made a stand against the higher authority or Governments by meeting, writing or going into the streets due to uneven distribution of income, which hindered the social development. 5. The urgent policy for laid-off workers was to carry out economic compensation and social protection so that unsatisfied voice could be repressed to minimum. 6. Although “the laid-off problems” could not overthrow the Communist regime, it was likely to become a menace in politics. While it combined with other forces against the Communist regime, it would cause a great impact on the future of China.
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Horrungruang, Chaipol. "A comparative study of Thai middle managers' perceptions of their quality of work life in American-owned, Japanese-owned and Thai-owned companies operating in Thailand." 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/29348068.html.
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Shen, Tung-wei, and 沈東衛. "A Study of the Labor Mobility and the Laid-off Workers of State-Owned Enterprises in China." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40698242895542735782.
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碩士國立中山大學
大陸研究所
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This paper primarily concentrates on the causation of labor mobility and laid-off workers in China. In order to realize the causation of the Chinese labor mobility in urban and rural China after 1978, this paper has collected data and materials about institutional changes of labor management in China. This paper has found that China’s rural labor migration to the urban labor market has been steadily rising. Because of the gap between urban and rural wages, pressures on the urban job market have increased, while urban labors migrating to the rural job market has been minimal. The institutions for labor management in China have undergone changs, and although central and local authorities have inacted various restrictions on labor migration, these restrictions have been a statistic bias and lacked in real effects.
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HUANG, YANG-EN, and 黃仰恩. "The Impact of Incentive Mechanism on Commission Workers' Performance in State-Owned Bank-A Study of the H Bank." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ks9uhz.
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碩士大葉大學
人力資源暨公共關係學系
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Since the economic recession in 2008, financial holding corporations and banks have all established financial management centers in order to enhance their competitive advantages. Top management levels in banks have to apply effective motivation systems and performance management to shift passive marketing in the past top active marketing. The samples of the research are financial consultants for individual customers at wealth management in a specific governmental bank in Taiwan. The purpose of this research is to discuss the effects on how motivation systems influence job performance. Because financial consultants are not so enthusiastic about promoting financial products as those salespersons in other industries, this study is expected to reinforce the job involvement and sales skills by applying effective motivation systems. Consequently, the research used perception of motivation system as the independent variable for job performance and then furthermore analyze whether job performance can produce mediation effect according to the above reasons. Ultimately, it would discuss how perception of motivation systems would influence job performance for financial consultants. Moreover, mediation effect between work involvement and job performance was analyzed. In the study, 350 surveys were distributed to financial consultants and 268 returned were valid with 64 % of respond rate. After T-testing, One Way ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, and Regression Analysis, key results were discovered below: 1.Financial consultants in governmental banks with more satisfaction with motivation systems involved more and performed better at work. 2.The more involved in jobs financial consultants are, the better job performance they had. 3.Job involvement is an essential mediation effect between perception of motivation systems and job performance. Based on the research findings, some suggestions are proposed for a case company. 1.A clear, perfect, and more satisfactory motivation system should be established for financial consultants in governmental banks. 2.A robust and transparent promotional system should also be set up. Besides, how to enhance job security plays an important role for job performance as well. 3.An appropriate evaluation of job performance should be established. In addition, evaluation should be executed regularly.
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"Impact of Proposed Legislation Concerning Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products Removal on Publicly Owned Treatment Works." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15913.
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abstract: Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) are a large, diverse group of emerging contaminants comprised of pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, detergents, and insecticides. Studies have shown that PPCPs are entering aquatic environments, wastewaters, and water supplies. The occurrence of these PPCPs has generated concern resulting in proposed federal legislation that could require control, monitoring, and treatment of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products by Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs). This study evaluated the potential financial impact this proposed legislation could have on U.S. POTWs using City of Mesa, Arizona as a model POTW. The current laws concerning PPCPs as well as the proposed legislation were described. The proposed federal legislation would create investigational studies about PPCPs. The studies could lead to regulations concerning the control, monitoring, and treatment of PPCPs by POTWs. The potential financial costs of the following strategies were assessed: multiple barriers concept for PPCP control or prevention programs by POTWs, PPCP monitoring of wastewater, and upgrading POTW treatment technology for PPCP removal. Study results found no new wastewater treatment technologies were economically suitable for POTWs, however, community education and programs such as Household Take-back programs could be financially viable.Dissertation/Thesis
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Lee, Tzu-Liang, and 李姿良. "Transformation of Family-owned Business into Corporate Family －The Case of San Shing Hardware Works Co., Ltd." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75973205505007229952.
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碩士國立中山大學
資訊管理學系研究所
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ABSTRACT In Taiwan, the private sector has played an important role in the development of the contemporary economy. Most of these companies are family-owned and are facing the challenge to transform themselves into professionally run corporate families because of the competition brought forth by the globalization of the world economy. The San-Shing Company has been a leader in the fastener industry and served as a good model of successful transformation from a family-owned company into a corporate family. Our study shows this success can be attributed to the following reasons. First, a family-owned company’ financial crisis serves as a catalyst for transformation. Next, the role of the management team is critical. The team must succeed in securing the financial support while at the time severe the influence of the family owners. It team must also manage to maintain a high level of employee royalty. Finally, a strong support from the banks is necessary to provide not only financial support but also advices to the transformation.
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Hsieh, Shih-Yung, and 謝詩詠. "A case study of the adoption of dispatched workers in the process of privatization of formerly-state-owned enterprises:The A.I.D.C. and R.S.E.A." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44420318888509668991.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
工業科技教育學系
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A case study of the adoption of dispatched workers in the process of privatization of formerly-state-owned enterprises:The A.I.D.C. and R.S.E.A. Author: Shih-Yung Hsieh Adviser: Jian Yu ABSTRACT The purposes of the study were:(1)to study the motivation and background of strategy.(2)to study the situation that Formerly -State-Own Enterprises Adopted.(3)to study the strategy of Temporary Worker Service affected: The research method employed in the study was multiple cases with an instrument of self-developed interview questions. The interviewees selected in the study were 6 retirees and 7 workers with different positions. the conclusions are as followed:(1)Temporary workers worked for Formerly-State-Own Enterprises, but he didn’t have the contract’s relationship with them. (2) Temporary workers got paid by temporary company.(3) Temporary company gain the profit by managering temporary workers. (4) The percentage of temporary workers are 20-30% in formerly-state -own enterprises. (5)The differentence of industry is a factor to affect formerly-state-own enterprises adopted dispacted worker.(6) Formerly-state-own enterprises gived the basic training for temporary workers. the strategy of Temporary Worker Service affected: (1)To reduce the labor cost of book. (2)Included hinding cost. (3) Temporary workers and organization works exists a competition relationship. (4)Temporary workers become a new group in organization. In addition, the results of this study proposed suggestions to the future researchers and these cases. Key Words: Pivatization, Dispacted worker
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Tsung, Li Chin, and 李金聰. "An Owner Side Study of Risk Assessment and Procurement Strategy for Military Works." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90791552980826477518.
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碩士國防大學理工學院
軍事工程碩士班
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In recent years, National Army military works often can not be completed on schedule, especially during the construction phase. The causes are mainly due to uncertainty factors during planning and design phases. In this study, various uncertainty factors of military works in the planning and design stages that influences the schedule during construction phases were investigated. A related project risk level evaluation model was then developed. Furthermore, the appropriate procurement strategy was then developed and recommended due to different risk levels. Firstly, the author uses the literature review to establish the risk factors that influence military works and applies the Fuzzy Delphi Method to screen risk factors. Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process is then used to determine weight for each risk factor. Finally, the establishment of the "Form of owner side evaluation of degree of risk for military works," and "Table of recommended procurement strategy for different risk level " are developed. These models can be used as an aid to implement decision-making for National Army military works before notice for tendering. Two military works case studies using above mentioned form and table were investigated. The results were consistent with the actual cases. The research findings and recommendations were finally proposed.
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Lee, Kyung Ah, and 李京兒. "The Change in Women''s status in Contemporary China : A Study of Married Female Workers of Taiwanese-owned Enterprises in the Economic Special Zone, Xiamen." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25073701207174283249.
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博士國立臺灣大學
國家發展研究所
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The studies so far on female workers in the third world have confined female workers within the ahistorical analytical scheme, therefore they looked upon all female workers of the third world as the homogenized one. They neglected the fact that the socio-cultural conditions of each country could influenced the status of female workers in each specific context. This study analyzes the gendered strategies of labor control peculiar to Taiwanese-owned enterprises(Taishang) and the China''s socio-cultural conditions simultaneously exert effects on the status of female workers in both labor and domestic domains. The status of female workers in Taiwanese-owned enterprises manifests both the general principle of the capitalist system which adopts a gendered strategy of labor control and the peculiarity resulting from the interaction of the above-mentioned general principle and China’s socio-cultural institutions.
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Wu, Chiang, and 吳江. "An Owner Side Integrity Study of Planning and Design for Project Management of Military Works." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28841771927763558332.
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碩士國防大學理工學院
軍事工程碩士班
101
In the past, many studies in the literature and practical management were focused on the performance management during construction phase both in the academic and three level quality management systems governed by the Public Construction Committee, Executive Yuan. However, fewer studies were intent to discuss how the key tasks during planning and design phase will affect the successful execution of project during construction stage. In this study, the Owner perspective and PMI project management knowledge areas were adapted, literature reviews of project management on the domestic public works were referenced, questionnaire for both National Army works experts and civil PMI project management experts were interviewed, Fuzzy Delphi Method and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process were used in a two-stage survey to screen out those key tasks in the planning and design phase that affect the successful implementation of project during construction. The evaluation frame of integrity of project in the planning and design phase was developed, and the “weighted military works project management integrity score sheet” was then established. It was hoped that the integrity of planning and design would support the successful implementation of project during later on construction stage. Finally, the integrity of planning and design of two recent military works was investigated. It is proved as a practical case verification.