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Catchings, Christa Leigh. "Relationship of organizational communication methods and leaders' perceptions of the 2002 Farm Bill: a study of selected commodity-specific, general agricultural, and natural resources organizations." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2693.
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The purpose of this study was to determine perceptions of organizational communication methods used by selected commodity-specific, general agricultural and, conservation or natural resources organizations to disseminate information about the Farm Security and Rural Investment (FSRI) Act of 2002 within their organizations. A secondary purpose was to evaluate if preferred organizational communication methods related to organization leaders?? perceptions of the FSRI Act of 2002. Previous studies have assessed organizational communication methods and members?? perceptions, but little research has been completed on the combination of these variables.
The instrument used in this study was derived from modified versions of Sulak??s (2000) 1996 Farm Bill survey, a similar instrument by Catchings and Wingenbach (2003), and Franklin??s (1975) organizational communication survey. The target population (N=300) was all selected Texas organizations?? board members. The accessible population (n=160) were selected Texas organizations (commodity-specific, general agriculture, and conservation or natural resources) board members. There were 70 respondents with a response rate of 44%.
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The respondents from this study were mostly board members from a commodity-specific organization and were 46 to 55 years old. They had attended college or completed an undergraduate degree, were raised on a rural farm or ranch, and currently live on rural farm or ranch.
The respondents from selected Texas organizations indicated that they had some knowledge about 17 of the 18 primary issues or programs in the 2002 Farm Bill.
Selected Texas organizations board members strongly agreed that their respective organizations wanted to meet their primary objectives and information about important events or situations were shared within their organizations.
The respondents strongly agreed with the statement ??farm organization coalitions were essential for enacting the 2002 Farm Bill,?? and ??farm organizations strongly influenced the 2002 Farm Bill.??
This study summated and correlated the perceptions of organizational communication methods and perceptions of influencers affecting the outcome of the 2002 Farm Bill. Through that correlation, this study can conclude there was a moderately significant and positive relationship between perceived organizational communication methods and perceived levels of influencers affecting the outcome of the 2002 Farm Bill.
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Anderson, Thomas John. "Turning a small residential farm into a non-profit educational organization." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/agbsp/12/.
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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.Project advisor: Carol Sexton. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Mar. 24, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Carmichael, Shenique. "Small Farm Management of Information Communication Technology, E-Commerce, and Organization Performance." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4719.
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Many small farm farmers in the United States are reluctant to use information communication technology (ICT) and e-commerce, yet little is known about their decision-making rationale. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to explore U.S. small farm farmers' decision making, specifically, regarding use or non-use of e-commerce, in managing farm operations by using the Miles and Snow's typology of strategic management. The purposive sample consisted of 30 small farm farming operations in Kansas and Missouri with revenue less than $250,000 per annum. Data analysis was 3-tiered and involved use of horizontalization, thematic clustering, and synthesis. Using the Van Kaam method of data analysis, 4 themes emerged: (a) small farm farmers have a family-oriented farming experience with complex factors that lead to the reliance on fellow farmers for information and support; (b) small farm farmers rely on fellow farmers for advice and support as well as the use of established procedures in their farming operations; (c) while small farm farmers see the value in ICT in farming, many view it as either impractical or non-applicable for their own operations; and (d) small farm farmers recognized that ICT has a positive impact on farms productivity, income, and growth. However, some small farm farmers were reluctant to adopt ICT due to expenditure, location, and farm size concerns. Study findings also highlighted a few business models such as community-supported agriculture investment that small farm farmers use to enhance their daily farm operations. With insights from the study, small farm farmers in the United States may be able to improve their understanding of e-commerce applications, which could potentially lead to increased annual profits for these farmers, new customers and consistent product pricing for consumers.
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Hoskins, April D. "Development of a centralized database system for Embracing Horses and The Urban Farm." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2005. http://165.236.235.140/lib/AHoskins2005.pdf.
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Oakes, Nicole R. "The late prehistoric "Maohi fare haupape" : an examination of household organization in Mo'orea, French Polynesia /." Ann Arbor : UMI dissertation service, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40086039m.
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Crider, Autumn Marie. "Exploring employee preferences for the Farm Credit System incentive program." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14042.
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Master of AgribusinessDepartment of Agricultural Economics
Brian Niehoff
The purpose of this thesis was to examine the relative efficacy of the incentive plan for loan officers within Farm Credit of the Virginia’s, ACA (FCV). The purpose of FCV’s incentive plan includes promoting firm financial growth and stability, employee retention, and encouraging teamwork. Incentive plans are important financial decisions for companies and these plans have upside potential and downside risk that should be considered in the decision making process. A literature review was conducted to analyze incentive practices and management theory in addition to a review incentive plans from other Farm Credit associations. A survey was also conducted to understand loan officer perceptions of the current incentive plan at FCV. The results of the survey provide insight into employee perceptions about job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, understanding of the incentive plan, and timing of incentives. Finally, observations with regards to potential improvement in the incentive plan were provided.
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Wiertz, Dingeman. "A bridge too far? : volunteering, voluntary associations, and social cohesion." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:65726d10-6cf1-432c-9bac-9f2ffd9a4270.
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In this thesis, I seek to advance our knowledge about the factors that make people start and stop volunteer work, thus shedding light on the capacity of volunteering and voluntary associations to foster social cohesion. In particular, my goal is twofold: first, to reveal to what extent voluntary associations function as meeting places for people from different social backgrounds, and second, to assess the resilience of civic participation in the face of labor market experiences that might undermine such engagement. I make three core contributions to the literature on voluntary association involvement. First, I pay special attention to the organizational contexts in which volunteers are embedded. Second, I adopt a dynamic approach, analyzing decisions to start and stop volunteering. Third, I attempt to disentangle alternative mechanisms that could drive the associations observed between volunteering and its potential determinants. Analyzing data from The Netherlands and the United States, my findings expose limits to the integrative capacity of voluntary association involvement. As it turns out, the civic landscape is strongly segregated. People tend to sort into voluntary associations where they mostly meet people with similar characteristics as themselves. Such sorting occurs along multiple social dimensions, including educational attainment, religiosity, gender, and ethnicity. This constrains the opportunities for building relationships that cut across existing social boundaries. Indeed, these sorting processes can reproduce in the civic domain fault lines that dominate other spheres of life. Furthermore, civic engagement and participation in the labor market are shown to be strongly intertwined, with the former breaking down when labor force exits occur. Voluntary association involvement is, therefore, of limited value for drawing labor force outsiders into public life. However, this chain of events does not necessarily unfold, as long as labor force outsiders retain aspirations to participate in social life.
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Haught, Stacy C. "An Examination of Contemporary Initiatives to Facilitate Sustainable Agriculture Experiences." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1502631347157021.
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Montenegro, Jorge Antonio. "Interpreting Cultural and Sociopolitical Landscapes in the Upper Piura Valley, Far North Coast of Perú (1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532)." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/238.
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This dissertation is a diachronic settlement and landscape study undertaken from an interpretive archaeology perspective. The outcome of this study has been an interpretation of the settlement and landscape configurations as well as of the sociopolitical organization during the entire prehispanic occupation (ca. 1100 B.C.- A.D. 1532) of the Upper Piura River Valley in the Far North Coast of Perú. Also, the sociopolitical interaction between the local polities of the Upper Piura River Valley and the southern foreign Northern North Coast polities has been assessed. The Far North Coast is not an environmentally "marginal" area as compared to the Northern North Coast. Yet, in terms of its prehispanic cultural development, it often has been characterized as "marginal" or "peripheral". Such characterization is due in part to an overemphasis on the study of Mochica style cultural materials found in the Far North Coast. In particular, the emphasis on analyses of "high quality" Mochica ceramics has led to interpretations that view local Upper Piura River Valley sociopolitical developments from the perspective of the "dominant" Northern North Coast societies in an unbalanced situation disregarding the perspective of the supposedly "weaker, less developed" local societies. In this sense, interpretations drawn from iconographic and stylistic analyses of objects on the one hand, and from landscape analyses on the other, seem like two different versions of the same story. Since the latter is so uncommon and unexplored in Andean archaeology, I chose to apply it in this dissertation. For that purpose I followed two different but complementary paths of interpretation. The first path is an interpretation of the landscape from a dwelling perspective. The goal was to create an analogy of the experience of past individuals through an embodiment process via the movement of my body and mind through the landscape features. A second path of interpretation was merged with the first one. This second path comprised a classic settlement pattern analysis oriented to clarify the nature of the sociopolitical interaction between local polities of the Upper Piura River Valley and the intrusive polities of the Northern North Coast. The second path of interpretation also entailed overlapping the settlement patterns observed onto the spatial structures and topograms defined and interpreted by the dwelling perspective. As a result, I found that the study area is characterized by a 2600-year long process of dwelling in the landscape. Through this process and along the years, yet following a long, local process, revolving around the topograms, the landscapes conceptualizations and configurations changed. Two moments of the settlements and landscapes configurations were defined: the "old system" and the "new system". For most of its history (through all the "old system" and the first epoch of the "new system"), and acknowledging the mutual cultural influence with other areas (e.g., the Northern North Coast), the local landscape and settlement configurations were not disrupted and engaged in an egalitarian or coevolving sociopolitical interaction. Yet during the second epoch of the "new system", this situation changed drastically when a hierarchical and coercive interaction structure developed during the Chimú and Inca periods.
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Shubert, Natalie E. "No Farm, No Food: Organizing Appalachian Family Farms around the Politics of 'Good Food'." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1272911792.
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Chigavazira, Farai. "The regulation of agricultural subsidies in the World Trade Organization framework : a developing country perspective." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/1874.
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The Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) was adopted to eliminate the illegitimate use of tradedistorting agricultural subsidies and thereby reduce and avoid the negative effects subsidies have on global agricultural trade. However, the AoA has been fashioned in a way that is enabling developed countries to continue high levels of protectionism through subsidization, whilst many developing countries are facing severe and often damaging competition from imports artificially cheapened through subsidies. The regulation of subsidies in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been a highly sensitive issue. This is mainly due to the fear of compromising food security especially by developed countries. Developing countries have suffered negatively from the subsidy programmes of developed countries who continue to subsidize their agricultural sector. This position of the developing countries in the global trade system which has been described as weak, has drawn criticism that the WTO as it currently operates does not protect the interests of the weak developing nations, but rather strengthens the interests of the strong developed nations. The green box provisions which are specifically designed to regulate payments that are considered trade neutral or minimally trade distorting has grossly been manipulated by developed countries at the mercy of the AoA. Developed countries continue to provide trade distorting subsidies under the guise of green box support. This is defeating the aims and objectives of the AoA. The study examines the regulation of WTO agricultural subsidies from the developing countries’ belvedere. It looks at the problems WTO member states face with trade distorting subsidies, but focuses more on the impact these have on developing states. It scrutinizes the AoA’s provisions regulating subsidies with a view to identify any loopholes or shortcomings which undermine the interests and aspirations of developing countries. This is behind the background that some of the provisions of the AoA are lenient towards the needs of developed countries at the expense of developing countries.
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Stockwell, Ryan J. "Growing A Modern Agrarian Myth: The American Agriculture Movement, Identity, And The Call To Save The Family Farm." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2003. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?miami1050951369.
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Dias, Ivan Rodrigo Rizzo. "How far is World Champion from world class? : effects of Institutional and Strategic Networks in a NPSO Internationalization." Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, 2017. http://tede2.espm.br/handle/tede/255.
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Entidades esportivas tais quais clubes, federações, ONGs (Organizações Não Governamentais) e outras formas de organizações esportivas não lucrativas se tornaram organizações de interesse público mundial e não podem mais ser consideradas como fenômenos meramente locais, sendo reconhecidas tanto em mercados tradicionais (como Europa) ou mercados emergentes como Brasil, China e Índia e novas praças para o futebol como a América do Norte. Entre tanto, a grande disparidade entre clubes que pertencem aos principais mercados do futebol (chamados de “Big Five – Alemanha, Espanha, França, Inglaterra e Itália) representa um potencial de distanciar-se de equipes de outras ligas que pode afetar a capacidade de estes outros times investir além de seus mercados originais. O objetivo esta pesquisa é identificar os principais fatores para a internacionalização de uma equipe de futebol brasileira, por meio da abordagem teórica de redes estratégicas e visão institucional e identificar a dinâmica entre estes fatores, por meio da proposição de um modelo conceitual que descreve o desempenho de Organizações Esportivas Não Lucrativas. A revisão da literatura revela que os laços e conexões que permitem acesso a recursos inimitáveis, corridas de aprendizado e tornarse líder ou estar em posição estratégica em determinada rede estratégica são os principais fatores para a formação de uma rede visando a internacionalização de determinada entidade esportiva. Para atingir este objetivo, esta pesquisa foi realizada por meio de uma pesquisa exploratória qualitativa em estudo de caso único, utilizando a organização Sport Club Corinthians Paulista como objeto, com dados coletados via entrevistas semiestruturadas com 15 (quinze) atores-chave da organização (entre gestores e ex-gestores, jornalistas e parceiros de negócio). Os principais achados da pesquisa e o modelo proposto ao final desta pesquisa consideram a capacidade de aquisição de recursos de terceiros e as capacidades organizacionais internas como vetores do desempenho superior, além do tamanho da organização, sua imagem ou reputação além de fatores institucionais são fatores relevantes para a internacionalização de uma organização esportiva em redes estratégicas. Como contribuição teórica, organizações com marcas ou imagem superiores à média são fatores relevantes para a criação ou entrada em uma rede estratégica. Em relação à contribuição gerencial, destaca-se uma sequência de fatores que viabilizam a internacionalização de uma organização esportiva que visa audiência global.
Sports entities such as clubs, federations, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), and other forms of nonprofit sports organizations (NPSOs) can no longer be considered as local phenomenon to become organizations known broadly all over the world and public interest and awareness can be perceived not only in Brazilian market, as in traditional markets (such as European audience) and on emerging markets as China and India, new markets to football such as North America. However, the great disparity among clubs that belong to the called “Big Five” (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish Leagues) has potential to develop such a great distance to teams from other leagues that can have an effect on these teams capacity to invest beyond their original markets. The objective of this research is to identify the main factors for Brazilian football team internationalization by strategic networks and institutional view approaches by proposing a conceptual model which describes NPSO’s performance. Literature review reveals that ties and connections to inimitable resources, learning races and being a leader or to be in an important position in network are main factors for network formation in order to achieve internationalization. For that purpose it was adopted a qualitative exploratory research in single case study, with a Brazilian NPSO, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista – in this research called Corinthians, data was collected by in depth-interviews with fifteen key respondents. These depth-interviews were conducted with Corinthians’ management, business partners, as well as sports management journalists from major Brazilian media companies. At the end of this research it is proposed a performance model for nonprofit sports organizations, which considers the resource acquisition capacity, internal capabilities as antecedents to its performance. Main findings revealed that resource acquisition capabilities, organization`s size, brand and image reputation, in addition of institutional environmental are relevant factors for internationalization by networks. As a theoretical contribution, firms having strong brand and image reputation with resources that will strength network are an important factor for a firm entering a network or to form one. Regarding managerial perspective, a main contribution is to propose a sequence of factors for sports organizations aiming to achieve global audience.
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Mendes, Américo Manuel dos Santos Carvalho. "Three theoretical essays on the internal organization of agrarian firms: The farm family size decisions and the choice of land tenancy contracts." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187298.
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Based on the fact that a negative correlation exists between farm population and farm size, this work focus on farm population change and farmland mobility. Since there is a high degree of occupational inheritance in agriculture and the age profile of farm outmigration is U-shaped, the first two essays take up two important decisions underlying the process of farm population change: (1) fertility decisions; (2) offspring household membership decisions. The first decision is formulated as a stochastic programming model with a closed form solution for the intensity of birth control, the distribution of the birth spacings and the moment generating function of the expected family size. These results give an explanation for the "stalled fertility transition" and the "rural-urban fertility differentials" and are consistent with the "old age security hypothesis" and the "Caldwell's hypothesis". The farm offspring household membership decision is viewed as a "research project" where the offspring invests in human and non human capital to influence the probability of finding an alternative to the life in the parental household. The problem is formulated as a differential game between a selfish offspring and altruistic parents. The solution is consistent with some "stylized facts" such as the "flexibility of inheritance systems" and the "generational fragmentation" of the family property when the economic opportunities expand outside the parental household. Intrafamilial transfers and land tenancy transactions are, by far, the most important processes of farmland mobility. Having dealt with the intrafamilial transfers in the second essay, the third one takes up the issue of land tenancy. These contracts are modeled as a pairwise bargaining game in extensive form, embedded in an idiosyncratic market with exogenous search intensities, assortive matching and outside options corresponding to the possibility each player has to find an alternative partner. The probability of this event depends on the number of agents in the two sides of the market and establishes a linkage between farm demography and tenancy choices. The surplus sharing rules resulting from the perfect equilibrium strategies show how the contracts are tailored to fit the characteristics of the "relative bargaining powers" of the parties.
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Green, John J. "Community-based cooperatives and networks : participatory social movement assessment of four organizations /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3060099.
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Petinari, Ricardo Alessandro. "Agricultura familiar em microbacias do noroeste do estado de São Paulo : estrategias de reprodução e organização." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257063.
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Orientadores: Mauro Jose Andrade Tereso, Sonia Maria Pessoa Pereira BergamascoTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola
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Resumo: Os diferentes mecanismos de sobrevivência utilizados pela agricultura familiar permitem que esse tipo de agricultura, mesmo em condições adversas, se constitua como um importante setor para o país. Constitui objetivo do presente trabalho analisar as estratégias de reprodução social e organização de agricultores familiares do EDR de Jales-SP, especificamente em três microbacias hidrográficas dos municípios de Marinópolis, Santa Albertina e Santa Salete. Para a obtenção dos dados relativos à elaboração deste trabalho, foram aplicados questionários e realizadas entrevistas com os produtores dos três municípios, abordando especialmente as estratégias reprodutivas e organizativas desenvolvidas. A base econômica desses produtores está centrada na fruticultura, com destaque para a laranja, e na pecuária leiteira. As diferentes estratégias desenvolvidas pelos produtores, embora apresentem inúmeras configurações, mostram uma interação entre elas sendo freqüentes e variadas. De modo geral, os produtores rurais pesquisados estão buscando alternativas para melhoria das condições de vida em suas propriedades, aliando estratégias de reprodução social e organizativas. Com esses mecanismos pode-se ter uma idéia da cadeia de relações que se constituem em uma situação concreta. As estratégias estão ligadas aos mecanismos de obtenção de renda, relacionados às atividades agrícolas e pecuárias; à sucessão patrimonial, como forma de prolongar o uso da propriedade familiar; às formas de crescimento patrimonial, aliadas à manutenção da propriedade; à diversificação da produção, como alternativa marcante na geração de renda; e a organização rural, em que se sistematizam as atividades em benefício do bem comum
Abstract: Different survival mechanisms of family farm makes this type of agriculture a major sector in the country, even in adverse conditions. The present study has as objective analyzing the strategies of social reproduction and organization of family farmers from the EDR (Rural Development Office) in the city of Jales, upstate São Paulo, specifically in three microhydrological basins in the municipalities of Marinópolis, Santa Albertina and Santa Salete. In order to gather data to elaborate this study, questionnaires were applied and interviews were accomplished with producers from the three municipalities, particularly on the reproductive and organizational strategies developed. These producers¿ economic base focuses the fruit growing, particularly orange, and dairy cattle. The different strategies developed by the producers, although showing numerous combinations, show a frequent and varied interaction among them. In general, the rural producers researched are searching for alternatives to improve life conditions in their properties, allying social reproduction and organizational strategies. With these mechanisms one can have an idea of the relationship chain constituting a material situation. The strategies are linked to income mechanisms related to agricultural and cattle raising activities; the property succession as a way to lengthen the family land possession; the ways of asset growing allied to the property maintenance; the production diversification as a remarkable alternative of income generation; and the rural organization in which the activities benefiting common goodness are systematized.
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Planejamento e Desenvolvimento Rural Sustentável
Doutor em Engenharia Agrícola
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Adjin, Kougblénou Christophe [Verfasser], Christian H. C. A. [Akademischer Betreuer] Henning, and Arne [Gutachter] Henningsen. "Farmer Organizations, Spatial Effects, and Farm Household Performances : Econometric Evidence from Senegal / Kougblénou Christophe Adjin ; Gutachter: Arne Henningsen ; Betreuer: Christian H.C.A. Henning." Kiel : Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1238595715/34.
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Dobrowsky, David W. "Technical and allocative efficiency in determining organizational forms in agriculture : a case study of corporate farming." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85793.
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Thesis (MScAgric)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The optimal farm size and organizational form of agriculture is a widely discussed topic with little consensus as to which organizational form would be optimal under certain circumstances. There is often confusion as to what constitutes a corporate farm as well as a family farm, with the size of the farm often used as a distinguishing factor. This should however not be the case as there are many extremely large farms that are owner-operated within South Africa. The distinguishing factor should rather revolve around the management structures of these farms. It is these management structures that would seem to limit the metamorphosis of owner-operated farms into large corporate structures. This thesis uses an analysis of both technical and allocative efficiency in determining the organizational form chosen within agriculture. It is shown in the thesis that farm size determines or improves the technical efficiency and this is brought about by the farms ability to stay abreast with the technological times by having “economies of size” to their advantage. The evolution of farm size would therefore seem to be driven by this need to obtain “economies of size” so as to be able to earn comparable wages to off-farm activities. The attainment of this technical efficiency however does not seem to be linked to the organizational structure of the farm; it is rather dependant of the size of the farm. While the size of the farm is an important factor in achieving technical efficiency it is not as important in determining allocative efficiency, with various studies arguing that larger farms are less allocatively efficient than smaller farms. This reduced allocative efficiency seems to stem from various transaction costs and principle agent issues within the corporate setting that are not prevalent in the owner-operated farms. This is because in the owner-operated settings the family are the residual claimants to profit, which suggests that they do not have the incentive to shirk. The opposite is true for the corporate setting where the model is fraught with moral hazard and other issues of the principle-agent nature, which would seem to raise the transaction costs of this organizational form, and this has negative implications for the allocative efficiency with which these farms operate at. This thesis therefore uses data obtained from such a corporate farm, where the owners of the farms are kept on as farm managers and the company makes all the production decisions. This thesis argues that it is these agency issues and transaction costs that hamper this organizational form while it is shown that the technical efficiency for these farms are high suggesting that economies of size are important in determining the technical efficiency of these farms.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die optimale plaasgrootte en organisasievorm in die landbou is ’n onderwerp wat al baie aandag in die literatuur ontvang het, maar waar daar min ooreenstemming is oor watter organisasievorm optimaal sal wees onder spesifieke omstandighede. Met die grootte van die plaas wat dikwels as 'n onderskeidende faktor gebruik word, is daar dikwels verwarring oor wat ‘n korporatiewe plaas sowel as ʼn familie plaas uitmaak. Dit hoort egter nie die geval te wees nie, want daar is baie groot plase wat as alleen-eienaar bedryf word in Suid-Afrika (m.a.w. familie-plase met gehuurde arbeid). Die onderskeidende faktor moet eerder die bestuur strukture van hierdie plase wees. Dit is hierdie bestuur strukture wat die metamorfose vanaf eienaar-bedryfde plase na (groot) korporatiewe strukture beperk. In hierdie tesis word 'n ontleding van beide tegniese en allokatiewe doeltreffendheid gebruik in die ontleding van die optimale organisasievorm in die landbou. Die tesis bewys dat die plaas se grootte die tegniese doeltreffendheid bepaal of verhoog, vanweë die groter plase se beter vermoë om op hoogte te bly met tegnologiese ontwikkeling deur die "ekonomieë van grootte" tot hul voordeel te gebruik. Plaasgroottes pas aan by die geleentheidskoste van die eienaar-bestuurder en tegniese doeltreffendheid is nie afhanklik van die organisasiestruktuur van die plaas nie, maar is eerder afhanklik van die grootte van die plaas. Terwyl die grootte van die plaas 'n belangrike faktor in die bereiking van tegniese doeltreffendheid is, is dit nie so belangrik in die bepaling van allokatiewe doeltreffendheid nie. Verskeie studies wys daarop dat groter plase minder allokatief doeltreffend is as kleiner plase, hoofsaaklik as gevolg van verskeie transaksiekoste voordele van klein plase. Maar daar is ook prinsipaal-agent kwessies in die korporatiewe omgewing wat nie algemeen by eienaarbedryfde plase voorkom nie. Dit is omdat in die geval van die eienaar-bedryfde instellings die familie aanspraak het op die residuele wins, en dus ʼn aansporing het om opdragte uit te voer. By korporatiewe plase is daar egter prinsipaal-agent probleme wat gepaard gaan met morele risiko (‘moral hazard’). Dus het familieplase ʼn koste voordeel oor korporatiewe plase. Hierdie tesis gebruik dan data wat verkry is uit 'n korporatiewe boerdery onderneming, waar die eienaars van die plase die plaasbestuurders is en die maatskappy al die produksie besluite maak. Die tesis wys dat dit hierdie agentskap kwessies en transaksie koste is wat die organisasievorme belemmer terwyl dit blyk dat die tegniese doeltreffendheid vir dié plase hoog is wat daarop dui dat die ekonomie van grootte belangrik is in die bepaling van die tegniese doeltreffendheid van hierdie plase.
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Raupelytė, Lina. "Ūkininko ūkio kaip verslo organizacijos veiklos ir valdymo ypatumai." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2008. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2008~D_20080820_104656-65223.
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Ūkininko ūkyje yra vykdomos organizacijų valdymo funkcijos: ūkininkai turi vesti savo ūkio apskaitą, pasamdę darbininkus jiems vadovauja, gamina prekes bei kuria paslaugas, formuoja savo įvaizdį apie savo veiklą. Tačiau konkrečiai vertinant ūkininko ūkio valdymą, susiduriama su ūkininko ūkio kaip verslo organizacijos valdymo funkcijų analizavimo mokslinėje literatūroje stoka, o taip pat ir ūkininko ūkio sampratos neapibrėžtumu. Todėl buvo atliktas ūkininkų nuomonės tyrimas, siekiant išsiaiškinti kokias veiklas, būdingas verslo organizacijoms, vykdo ūkininkai, ko pasakoje, pateiktas ūkininko ūkio kaip verslo organizacijos valdymo tobulinimo projektas, pasiūlymai, kurie leidžia išsamiau įvertinti ūkyje vykdomas valdymo funkcijas.There are used many organization management functions in farmer’s farm: farmer’s have to do accounting, hire workers and supervise them, make goods and create services, build image of their work. However evaluating farmer’s farm management more precisely, we have to face with lack of farmer’s farm as business organization management functions analysis in scientific literature. Also with uncertainty of farmer’s farm conception. Therefore, there was made analysis of farmer’s opinion, in order to find out what activities similar to business organizations farmers do. That allowed to make organizations management improvement project in farmer’s farm as business organization and to give suggestions for evaluating management functions in farm more detailed.
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Williams, Brett Gerard. "The importance of disciplining the choice of policy instrument to the effectiveness of the GATT as international law disciplining agricultural trade policies /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phw72122.pdf.
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Nongauza, Anthony Davidson Mbulelo. "The role of a principal in an academically successful farm school: a case study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003631.
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This study looks at the various actions by the principal of a farm school in running an academically successful school. The study exposes the difficulties faced by farm schools and looks at how the principal confronts these difficulties and turn some of these into success stories. In trying to understand the role of the principal this study uses school effectiveness literature as a source and reference in an attempt to understand the actions adopted by the principal to make this farm school successful. The study uses the interpretive orientation as the methodology for investigating the principal’s role. This is in line with my attempt at explaining the perceptions, views and experiences of the people who are working closely with the principal. I have done this by employing semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The information gathered from the respondents helped in the development of the role of the principal which in this case, is the expressed views of the respondents. The investigation is conducted as a case study and the handling of the information provided by the respondents is in line with case study methods. The study has revealed that actions of the leader have an influence on the organizational success. The way in which the leader of Rocklands farm School conducts herself and the vision she shares with the people within the organization go a long way towards the improvement of organizational structures and their functioning. In this case the principal has been noted as particularly transformational, charismatic, instructional and transactional in her approaches to school administration and that her dedication to the cause of learners from disadvantaged background is reflected in her sacrificial actions. The study has also found that the principal is considered to be fairly autocratic in her leadership, which is a departure from current leadership thinking. The study has also shown that socio-economic disadvantages do not necessarily inhibit the school from performing beyond expectation. With good guidance from the leader and trust among staff members the farm school has been able to overcome some socio-economic pressures to emerge successful in the academic field. The fact that the principal of this school is a woman has not changed the overall findings that leadership qualities for successful schooling are universal and do not necessarily depend on the gender of the leader. This study suggests that leaders have a potential to turn poor situations in schools around and that leaders should as a matter of course ensure that they understand the organizational dynamics within their schools. They should be in the forefront as agents of change being mindful that those within the school understand and share the vision the leader has. The study also suggests that the human element in the educational processes in schools is of critical importance than the conditions in which schools find themselves.
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Och, Nathan Ronald. "The Effect of Export Promotion Programs on Establishing Export Markets." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2010. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/29631.
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There is a pattern of growth throughout agribusiness in North Dakota in which agricultural products ranging from commodities to machinery have all seen growth since 2000. Exports have contributed to most of this production increase. Agribusinesses across North Dakota are exporting to many areas of the world. With the help of the North Dakota Trade Organization (NDTO) many companies have developed trading relationships with clients in other nations. The purpose of this research is to measure the value of NDTO export promotion on North Dakota agribusiness [through the use of marketing, export programs, and counseling]. If the data supports the use of the NDTO, firms may be encouraged to use the services provided by the NDTO when export issues arise. This thesis uses a Tobit left censored model to bring the data together to produce empirical results which can be associated with the NDTO and its impact on a firm's total exports. Firm-level export promotion was found to be insignificant. However, small and
medium firms were shown to benefit from the use of the NDTO through an average increase in 2008 export revenue of about $16,095 and $269,317, respectively. Furthermore, this is a $6.44 and a $107.73 return on dollar investment for small and medium firms investing in the services of the NDTO, respectively.
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Rhodin, Hanna. "Saving dogs from dinner plates: An analysis of Animal Welfare Organizations’ strategies to end South Korea’s dog meat trade through advocacy, civic engagement, and social change." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23699.
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Human consumption of dog meat in South Korea has been a topic of international scrutiny since the 1980s. This paper presents the findings of a research into how Korean and international animal welfare organizations design and implement initiatives that aim to bring an end to the dog meat trade, increase civic engagement and affect social change. Fourteen animal welfare organizations’ strategies and activities were analyzed complemented by qualitative interviews with animal welfare professionals. Results were informed by the school of thought of advocacy, participatory versus diffusion approaches, social change, and civic engagement; elements often found in Communication for Development. Given the complexities inherent in measuring social change, this is largely an explorative study. Furthermore, literature on animal welfare in the field of Communication for Development is scarce; this research attempts to bridge this gap. This research finds that Korean and international animal welfare organizations have employed a multitude of different strategies and engagement of civil society to mobilize social change and bring an end to the dog meat trade in South Korea. Yet as advocates for a specific cause there are limitations in conducting fully participatory based models. Nevertheless, these efforts contribute to a holistic approach that reaches different stakeholder groups, each with unique needs and motivations, for a greater impact than the sum of each organization’s efforts on its own.
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Borges, Júlio César Pereira. "Fazenda-roça goiana: matriz espacial do território e do sertanejo goiano." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5853.
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Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG
The decline of mining in Goias in the second half of the eighteenth century, directs you to a new spatial organization, which we call Farm-farm Goias. This led Goias for about two centuries, the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, when it was crossed by the modernization of the countryside. This organization represents the interaction of internal and external factors which, dialectically, particularized and integrated the Farm- farm Goias into the Brazilian and global spatial condition of the time. Condition that led us to consider that this is a singularity, because there was no other like it in Brazil, even within the totality under the capitalist command. In this sense, defined by the ratio of internal and external mediated elements, adapted and conflicted, the Farm-farm Goias characterized by an intrinsic reality to molds of rurality in which Goias was based and the hinterland existence. This reality is presented as-guiding of this research, which mediated by Geography, we imbued to interpret it as the founding basis of the backcountry world of Goias. Therefore, we did a research based in reading of integrating political, economic, social and cultural elements that constituted the territorial matrix of Goias and Goias backcountry. This approach is presupposed in mind that the geographic space synthesizes structural, qualitative, political and symbolic elements that reveal the spatial organization of the Farm-farm Goias. We understand as well, that this structure is the spatial organization that supported the territorial basis of Goias and conditioned the structuring of Goias hinterland society, evidenced in economic relations, power relations and cultural representations, which shaped the Goias reality of the hinterland. Faced with this situation, we understand that the backcountry is the result of spatial organization of the Farm-farm Goias. Therefore, from the moment that the organization loses its predominance ceases to exist as space hegemonic ordering of Goias, the mode of existence of the backcountry is considerably altered, leading him to rehabilitation in a new spatial organization. We affirm then that the modernization phenomenon of the field resulted in Goias at the end of forming the basis of Goias backcountry in its originality. However, he goes on about new existential conditions.
A decadência da mineração em Goiás na segunda metade do século XVIII direciona o estado para uma nova organização espacial, a qual chamamos de Fazenda-roça goiana. Essa comandou Goiás por aproximadamente dois séculos, final do século XVIII a meados do século XX, quando foi atravessada pela modernização do campo. Tal organização representou a interação dos elementos internos e externos que, de forma dialética, particularizou e integrou a Fazenda-roça goiana à condição espacial brasileira e mundial da época. Condição que nos levou a considerar que se trata de uma singularidade, pois não existiu outra igual no Brasil, ainda que dentro da totalidade sob o comando capitalista. Nesse sentido, delineada pela relação de elementos internos e externos mediados, adaptados e conflitados a Fazenda-roça goiana caracterizou-se em uma realidade intrínseca aos moldes da ruralidade na qual se fundamentava Goiás e a existência sertaneja. Nosso objetivo é de deslindar essa realidade direcionadora da pesquisa. Mediada pela Geografia, imbuímos de interpretá-la como as bases fundantes do mundo sertanejo de Goiás. Para tanto, fizemos uma pesquisa baseada em leitura da integração dos elementos políticos, econômicos, sociais e culturais que constituíram a matriz territorial de Goiás e do sertanejo goiano. Essa abordagem foi pressuposta na consideração de que o espaço geográfico sintetiza elementos estruturais, qualitativos, políticos e simbólicos que revelam a organização espacial Fazenda-roça goiana. Entendemos, assim, que essa estrutura foi a organização espacial que suportou a base territorial de Goiás e condicionou a estruturação da sociedade sertaneja goiana, evidenciada nas relações econômicas, nas relações de poder e nas representações culturais, as quais configuraram a realidade de Goiás do Sertão. Ante a essa situação, entendemos o sertanejo como fruto da organização espacial Fazenda-roça goiana. Portanto, a partir do momento em que essa organização perdeu predominância enquanto ordenadora espacial hegemônica de Goiás o modo de existir do sertanejo foi consideravelmente alterado, levando-o a uma readaptação em uma nova organização espacial. Afirmamos, então, que o fenômeno modernização do campo em Goiás resultou no fim da base formadora do sertanejo goiano em sua originalidade. No entanto, ele prosseguiu sobre novas condições existenciais. À medida que se intensificou a investigação sobre a estrutura e a organização da Fazenda-roça goiana descobrimos que aquele mundo simples testemunhou o modo pelo qual espaço e tempo mediaram a construção da sociedade brasileira.
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Mello, Márcio Antonio de. "Sementes que brotam da crise : a produção de novidades organizacionais na agricultura familiar do oeste de Santa Catarina." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/22663.
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Esta tese investiga as recentes transformações sociais, econômicas e ambientais promovidas pelo processo de modernização da agricultura e da mercantilização no Oeste de Santa Catarina. Também identifica e estuda algumas estratégias colocadas em prática pelos agricultores familiares para enfrentar o contexto de crise, que desde meados dos anos 1980 envolve a agricultura da região. Busca-se compreender e analisar como as inovações e novidades organizacionais, promovidas pelos agricultores, emergem e se enraízam no território. Como propósito geral buscou-se analisar algumas das principais mudanças sociais e econômicas decorrentes do processo de reestruturação produtiva da agricultura, bem como as transformações que as inovações e novidades promovem no ambiente socioeconômico onde elas emergem. Mais especificamente, os objetivos foram de analisar a forma de atuação do capital agroindustrial na região e seus reflexos socioeconômicos e ambientais, assim como na organização da produção e do trabalho da agricultura familiar. Da mesma forma analisamos como são construídas pelos agricultores familiares e outros atores sociais as inovações e novidades organizacionais e os efeitos que elas promovem na forma de produzir, de organizar a produção e de se inserir no mercado. O problema desta pesquisa nasce do entendimento de que mesmo em situações desfavoráveis à reprodução econômica e social, como tem sido o caso do Oeste de Santa Catarina, os agricultores familiares buscam construir espaços de manobra na luta por autonomia. Todavia, em grande medida essas iniciativas não recebem a fundamental atenção acadêmica e política para que possam florescer e se difundir. Para dar conta dos objetivos propostos, a pesquisa empírica foi executada em dois momentos distintos. No primeiro realizou-se um estudo de caso no município de Coronel Freitas, considerado representativo da trajetória histórica e do processo de modernização e mercantilização da agricultura familiar da região. A principal técnica de pesquisa foi a aplicação de questionário padronizado em 83 unidades familiares e a utilização de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com informantes-chave. O segundo momento da pesquisa estudou, em 12 municípios da região, três novidades organizacionais: uma pequena cooperativa de comercialização de leite; a experiência da produção agroecológica e sua inserção em cadeias curtas de comercialização e a experiência de agregação de valor em agroindústrias familiares rurais, constituídas de forma individual ou em pequenas cooperativas articuladas em rede. Para tanto, foram realizadas 35 entrevistas com agricultores e informantes-chave. Os dados da pesquisa foram analisados e interpretados a partir de um conjunto de abordagens teóricas que têm em comum a Perspectiva Orientada ao Ator. Em termos gerais os dados da pesquisa mostram que as “novidades” ou “iniciativas de desenvolvimento rural” nascem em determinado contexto sócio-cultural, mas podem se irradiar pela região, dependendo das conexões, alianças e apoio capaz de promover a aprendizagem coletiva. A construção dessas novidades produtivas e organizacionais representam inovações sociais de onde pode germinar as “sementes da transição” e promover um processo de desenvolvimento rural. O enraizamento e a consolidação dessas novidades no território vai depender, no entanto, da criação de alianças e conexões capaz de criar um ambiente sócio institucional favorável.This thesis investigates recent social, economical and environmental changes promoted by the process of modernization of agriculture and the commoditization taking place in the western region of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It also identifies and studies some of the strategies carried out by family farmers seeking to face the context of crisis that involves farming in the region since the mid 1980s. We seek to comprehend and analyze how organizational innovations and novelties promoted by the farmers emerge and take root in the region. The overall purpose is to identify and analyze some of the main social and economical changes caused by the productive restructuring process in agriculture, as well as the transformations that the innovations and novelties have promoted in the socialeconomical environment in which they emerge. More specifically, our goals are to analyze the performance of the agro-industrial capital in the region and its reflections on socialeconomical and environmental issues and on the organization of production and work of the family farmers. Moreover, we analyze how the organizational innovations and novelties are undertaken by the family farmers and other social actors and the effect they have in production, organization and market insertion. The question of the research arose from the comprehension that even in unfavorable situations for economical and social reproduction, as has been the case in western Santa Catarina, family farmers have sought to find room to maneuver in their struggle for autonomy. These initiatives in large measure still do not receive the necessary academic and political attention for them to flourish and spread. In order to reach the goals proposed, the empirical research was carried out in two different moments. In the first moment, a case study was carried out in the municipality of Coronel Freitas, considered a representative place in the historical trajectory of modernization commotidization process of family farming in the region. The main research technique involves the application of a standardized questionnaire in 83 family units and the use of semi-structured interviews with key informants. The second stage of the research involves the study of three organizational novelties in 12 municipalities of the region: a small milk commercialization cooperative, the experience of agro-ecological production and its insertion in the short chain of commercialization and the experience of value aggregation in rural family agro-industries, built individually or in small net-articulate cooperatives. For such purpose, 35 interviews with farmers and key informants were carried out. The research data was analyzed and interpreted following a set of theoretical approaches that have in common the Actor-Oriented Perspective. In general terms, the research data demonstrated that the “novelties” or “rural development initiatives” are born in a certain social-cultural context, but can radiate through the region depending on the connections, alliances and support capable of promoting collective learning. The construction of these organizational and productive novelties represent a social innovations from which the “seeds of transition” can sprout and a process of rural development can be promoted. The development of roots and the consolidation of these novelties in the region will depend, however, on the creation of alliances and connections capable of creating a favorable social-institutional environment.
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Esteves, Rui Manuel Moreira Pinto. "A saída dos pilotos da Força Aérea Portuguesa para as empresas de aviação civil." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5125.
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Tese de Mestrado em Gestão e Políticas PúblicasDado que um dos grandes problemas das organizações, no que respeita aos recursos humanos, é a saída de quadros altamente qualificados para as suas congéneres, a Força Aérea Portuguesa neste campo não é diferente das demais organizações, no que respeita aos seus pilotos. O presente estudo pretende ser uma análise de antecedência dos factores que levam a este abandono, sabendo que a alternativa que estes pilotos têm, face à permanência ou não na organização, pode ser condicionada pelo seu comprometimento com a organização, e que por conseguinte ele toma uma estratégia comportamental. Neste estudo, optou-se por aplicar o modelo das três-componentes do comprometimento organizacional de Meyer e Allen (1971), modelo este que propõe a existência de um comprometimento organizacional afectivo, um normativo e um outro Calculativo. No que respeita às estratégias comportamentais adoptadas por estes indivíduos, aplicar-se-á o modelo EVL de Hirschman (1970), onde são relacionados os constructos Exit, Voice e Loyalty (Saída, Voz e Lealdade). A amostra utilizada é o reflexo da população de pilotos que abandonou a Força Aérea portuguesa nos últimos anos, num total de 73 inquéritos validados.
As one of the biggest problems facing organizations, with regard to human resources, is the output of highly qualified staff for their counterparts, the Portuguese Air Force in this field is no different from other organizations, with regard to its pilots. This study aims to advance an analysis of the factors leading to this abandonment, knowing that the alternative that these pilots have for to remain in the organization may be constrained by its commitment to the organization, and therefore it takes a behavioral strategy. In this study, we choose to apply the three-component model of organizational commitment by Meyer and Allen (1971). This model proposes the existence of an affective organizational commitment, a normative and calculative. With regard to behavioral strategies adopted by these individuals will apply the model EVL Hirschman (1970), which are related constructs Exit, Voice and Loyalty (Exit, Voice and Loyalty). The sample reflects the population of pilots who left the Portuguese Air Force in recent years, a total of 73 validated surveys.
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Schink, Anne-Kathrin [Verfasser]. "Studies on the prevalence, distribution and organization of extended-spectrum β-lactamase genes and transferable (fluoro)quinolone resistance genes among Enterobacteriaceae from defined disease conditions of companion and farm animals / Anne-Kathrin Schink." Hannover : Bibliothek der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1024516393/34.
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Dinten, Carolina Alexandra Marchant. "O trabalho na avicultura de corte : organização, tecnologia e resultados da produção." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/257248.
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Orientadores: Roberto Funes Abrahão, Julieta Teresa Aier de OliveiraTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agricola
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Resumo: Este trabalho, realizado junto a unidades avícolas de uma Cooperativa do interior do estado de São Paulo, teve como objetivo verificar as relações entre as formas de organização do trabalho, a tecnologia empregada na produção e os impactos sobre o trabalho do ponto de vista ergonômico. O método da Análise Ergonômica do Trabalho permitiu identificar os principais fatores relacionados às dificuldades na execução das tarefas. O trabalho em equipe e a colaboração entre os funcionários ajudavam a minimizar esforços e alcançar melhores resultados. Observou-se que, se por um lado, o grau de tecnologia adotado permitia o emprego de um número menor de trabalhadores e tornava o manejo mais fácil e preciso, por outro, criava subtarefas e fazia com que o bom funcionamento dos equipamentos dependesse muito da vigilância dos funcionários, diminuindo constrangimentos físicos como menor transporte de carga, mas criando alguns constrangimentos psíquicos, como a própria vigilância. Observou-se que nas propriedades que adotavam força de trabalho total ou parcialmente familiar obtiveram melhores resultados de produção que as patronais. Esta situação pode ser atribuida ao fato de que estas unidades utilizavam tecnologias mais consolidadas e que os trabalhadores gozavam de uma maior autonomia, o que se refletia em maior motivação para que a produção alcansasse bons resultados
Abstract: This work was performed within production units of a poultry cooperative in São Paulo State and the objective was verify the relations among work organization forms, the technology used in the production and the impacts on the work in face of the ergonomic point of view. The method regarding the Work Ergonomic Analysis allowed to identify the main factors linked to task execution difficulties. The teamwork and the contribution among workers help minimize efforts and achieve better results. The adopted level of technology has taken facilities to a reduced number of workers and it makes the management easier. On the other hand, it created sub-tasks involving equipment functioning which depend on worker¿s vigilance. This technology reduces physical constraints, on the other side, it creates some psychic constraints, as the vigilance itself. The properties in which the workforce composition is totally or partially familiar have reached better production results. This may be due to the fact the workers have more autonomy and use a consolidated level technology which leads to a higher motivation for reaching good results
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Kovalscki, Patrick Machado. "Agricultura familiar: a constituição de um campo: relações de poder e agricultura familiar em São Lourenço do Sul." Universidade Federal de Pelotas, 2011. http://repositorio.ufpel.edu.br:8080/handle/prefix/3321.
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A partir da década de 90, uma nova agenda de pesquisas propôs a agricultura familiar como objeto de estudos pelo mundo. No Brasil, esses estudos conjugam-se com a afirmação dessa categoria por um movimento impulsionado por fatores sociais e políticos. A proposta desta pesquisa é analisar o modo de fazer a agricultura familiar nas organizações criadas para representar e fomentar a organização social, política e econômica desses grupos. As questões que orientam este estudo buscam compreender como agentes, em diferentes posições sociais e com expressiva assimetria de recursos, constroem a categoria agricultura familiar. O objetivo desta dissertação é compreender os elementos e processos, que determinam as relações de poder entre agricultores familiares e mediadores sociais, nas organizações da agricultura familiar. O estudo de caso tem como contexto empírico organizações da agricultura familiar fomentadas por mediadores sociais no município de São Lourenço do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Os resultados da presente pesquisa evidenciam que a relação entre mediadores sociais e agricultores familiares é alicerçada sobre uma assimetria estrutural de recursos objetivos que reproduz relações desiguais de poder, dificultando as intenções igualitárias entre esses agentes.
Since the 90's, a new research agenda proposed the family farm as the object of study throughout the world. In Brazil, these studies are combined with the assertion of that category by a movement driven by social and political factors. The purpose of this research is to analyze the way to make family farm in the organizations created to represent and promote the social, political and economic organization of these groups. The questions guiding this study, looks to understand how actors in different social positions and asymmetric resources, builds the family farm category. The objective of this dissertation is to understand the elements and processes that determinates the power relations between farmers and social mediators in family farm organizations. The empirical context is the case study of family farm organizations fostered by social mediators in São Lourenço do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. The results of this study demonstrates that the relationship between social mediators and farmers is based on an asymmetry of structural resources that produces unequal power relations, making difficult the egalitarian intentions between these agents.
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Freeman, Carrie Packwood. "Struggling for Ideological Integrity in the Social Movement Framing Process: How U.S. Animal Rights Organizations Frame Values and Ethical Ideology in Food Advocacy Communication." Thesis, Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8281.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 384-398). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.
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Wahlén, Boel. "Svensk utlandsskola-att ta sig an elever i behov av särskilt stöd "så långt det är möjligt", Swedish school organization in foreign countries-meeting the support needs of pupils "as far as possible"." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-32307.
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SammanfattningWahlén, Boel (2016), Svensk utlandsskola med statsbidrag – att ta sig an elever i behov av särskilt stöd ”så långt det är möjligt”. Specialpedagogprogrammet, Skolutveckling och ledarskap, Lärande och samhälle, Malmö högskola, 90 hp.Förväntat kunskapsbidragDå kunskapen om vilka förutsättningar och hinder de statsbidragsberättigade svenska utlandsskolorna står inför i arbetet med elever i behov av särskilt stöd idag är liten och begränsad, samt att de i nuläget finns få studier med fokus på detta, vill vi med vår studie bidra med en ökad kunskap inom detta område.Syfte och frågeställningarStudiens syfte är att analysera de förutsättningar och utmaningar som de svenska utlandsskolorna står inför i relation till elever i behov av särskilt stöd, med fokus på tvetydigheten i regelverket gällande utlandsskolornas ansvar för dessa elever.Frågeställningar:1.Vilken bild har svenska skolmyndigheter och svenska utlandsskolors stödorganisationer, dvs. Svensk Utlandsundervisnings Förening (SUF) och Riksföreningen Sverigekontakt, av de svenska utlandsskolornas arbete med elever i behov av särskilt stöd?2.Hur beskriver utlandsskolornas personal förutsättningarna och utmaningarna i relation till elever i behov av särskilt stöd på de svenska utlandsskolorna?3.Hur hanterar de svenska utlandsskolorna tvetydigheten i regelverket kring elever i behov av särskilt stöd?TeoriStudiens teoretiska förankring utgår från socialkonstruktivismen och KORP (kommunikativt relationsinriktat perspektiv). Vidare belyses Grosins modell för att undersöka det pedagogiska och sociala klimatet, PESOK.Metod Vi använde oss av enkäter till samtliga svenska utlandsskolor och av halvstrukturerade intervjuer vid besöket på en utlandsskola. Vi genomförde också telefonintervjuer.ResultatStudiens resultat visar att det gällande regelverket för utlandsskolorna som innefattar vem som bär ansvar för elever i behov av särskilt stöd är svårtolkat och tvetydigt då skolorna endast ska bedriva undervisning enligt svensk skollag ”så långt det är möjligt”. Detta ger fri tolkning för varje enskild skola. Skolans ansvar för dessa elever är oklar då det gäller rätten till stöd och leder till godtycklighet då familjens ekonomi och skolans vilja styr huruvida eleven antas till skolan eller inte samt vem som bär ansvar för olika stödinsatser. Då dessa skolor ska ligga i den svenska statens samhällsintresse, och deras existens göra det möjligt för svenska medborgare att arbeta utomlands och kunna ta med sig sina barn, ter sig resultatet något märkligt. Utlandsskolorna har inte samma skyldigheter som de svenska ordinarie skolorna att ta sig an elever i behov av särskilt stöd och kan tacka nej till dessa. Utlandsskolorna är endast skyldiga att erbjuda ”rimlig” skolhälsovård vilket ger stort tolkningsutrymme. Begreppet ”så långt det är möjligt” är inte känt för majoriteten av personalen vilket förvånade oss. Denna skolform ter sig inte som en skola för alla som vi ser det. Förutsättningarna på utlandsskolorna att ta emot elever i behov av särskilt stöd anser de inte själva vara goda medan intervjuer och enkäter visar på att det finns goda förutsättningar för detta. ImplikationerStudien visar på nödvändigheten av att förtydliga riktlinjerna för elever i behov av särskilt stöd vid de svenska utlandsskolorna. Det behöver bli tydligare vem som ansvarar för vad och vad den enskilda eleven i behov av särskilt stöd kan förvänta sig när hen befinner sig på en utlandsskola. Likaså har vi i studien identifierat ett behov av kontinuerlig fortbildning för all skolpersonal rörande specialpedagogikens ramar för att förändra inställning, kunskap och hantering av elever i behov av särskilt stöd, vilket skulle kunna leda till ett minskat behov av särskilda insatser. Utfallet av vår studie är svårbedömt och därför krävs ytterligare forskning rörande de svenska utlandsskolornas förutsättningar och utmaningar i relation till elever i behov av särskilt stöd med fokus på en likvärdig skola för alla. Nyckelord: svensk utlandsskola, elever i behov av särskilt stöd, anpassad undervisning, stödåtgärder, skolmyndigheter
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Siqueira, Tiago Teixeira da Silva. "Forme d'organisation et profil environnemental de l'exploitation agricole : le cas du secteur laitier." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20116/document.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’apporter une contribution à l’analyse de la relation entre formes d’organisation et performance environnementale des exploitations agricoles. Elle étudie les liens entre d’une part, la manière dont l’exploitation est organisée et gouvernée et, d’autre part, l’ensemble des pratiques qui fondent son profil environnemental. Elle offre une revue de la littérature économique relative à l’analyse de la performance environnementale des exploitations agricoles et de ses déterminants. Dans le prolongement des propositions théoriques relevant de l’économie néo-institutionnelle et de l’économie évolutionniste, elle propose un cadre analytique de la relation entre formes d’exploitation et profils environnementaux. Ce cadre est appliqué au cas des exploitations agricoles laitières autour de trois chapitres complémentaires, qui combinent à la fois une approche quantitative mobilisant des données du Recensement agricole français de 2010, et une approche qualitative basée sur des monographies d’exploitations réalisées au Brésil. Ainsi, cette thèse contribue à la littérature empirique sur la performance environnementale par son approche systémique et multicritère des exploitations laitières qui permet la construction d’un profil de pratiques agro-environnementales. Dans l’analyse des déterminants de ce profil, elle montre l’importance d’une conception de l’exploitation en tant que système complexe doté d’une structure, d’une gouvernance et d’une capacité d’adaptation propres, et évoluant en interaction avec son environnement externe. La thèse montre enfin qu’il n’existe pas un alignement strict entre formes d’organisation et performance environnementale mais que certaines formes d’exploitation sont plus aptes que d’autres à prendre en compte certaines pratiques agro-environnementalesThis thesis contributes to the analysis of the relationship between farm’s forms of organization and environmental performance. The links between the way in which farm is organized and governed and all the practices related with its environmental profile will be studied. First, the economic literature about environmental performance of farms and its determinants will be reviewed. Based on the insights of the neo-institutional and the evolutionary economics, an analytical framework of the relationship between forms of organization and environmental profiles will be proposed. This framework will then be applied to dairy farms in three complementary chapters. These chapters combine both quantitative approach using data from the French agricultural census of 2010 and a qualitative approach from semi-directive interviews carried out in Brazil. An insight to the empirical literature on environmental performance will be provided thanks to a systemic and multi-criteria approach of dairy farms thought a profile of agro-environmental practices. The analysis of the determinants also shows the importance of studying the farm as complex system with its own structure, governance and adaptability evolving in its external environment. Finally, the thesis bring out that there is no strict alignment between forms of organization and environmental performance. However, certain forms are more apt than others to take into account certain agro-environmental practices
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Godeiro, Diego Philipe de Oliveira. "A influ?ncia da cultura organizacional na ado??o de pr?ticas de qualidade Seis Sigma: um estudo explorat?rio no segmento de farm?cia de manipula??o do Estado do Rio Grand do Norte." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2008. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14891.
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Previous issue date: 2008-07-21In recent debates about the issues of quality, the theme organizational culture and Six Sigma has appeared ever more frequently. In this context several authors suggest that the adoption of Six Sigma practices is influenced by culture. This work focuses on the relationship of organizational culture and quality to the practices of Six Sigma quality. Thus a descriptive-exploratory and correlational study of forty pharmacies of manipulation from Rio Grande do Norte was undertaken. Data collection identified features of companies and the level of use of the practices of Six Sigma quality that have been identified in the literature. For the Organizational Culture evaluation was used the Competitive Value Model (Cameron & Quinn, 1996), tested on north-American organizations and considered a high value academic and professional instrument. This model has been involved with the taximetrics created by Cameron who classifies quality culture in four levels. The results suggest that the Group and Developmental cultures are associated with higher levels of use of the practices of Six Sigma quality than the Rational and Hierarchical Cultures. Regarding the levels of the culture s quality, the highest levels were most frequently cited in Errors Prevention and Perpetual Improvement and Creativity, being the last one more positively related to the Six Sigma indicators
Nos debates recentes a respeito das quest?es da qualidade, o tema cultura organizacional e Seis Sigma t?m aparecido cada vez com maior freq??ncia. Nesse contexto, diversos autores sugerem que a ado??o de pr?ticas do Seis Sigma ? influenciada pela cultura. Sendo assim, este trabalho enfoca a rela??o da cultura organizacional e da qualidade com as pr?ticas de qualidade Seis Sigma. Para tanto, realizou-se um estudo explorat?rio-descritivo e correlacional em uma amostra composta por quarenta farm?cias de manipula??o do estado do Rio Grande do Norte. A coleta dos dados identificou caracter?sticas das empresas e o n?vel de utiliza??o das pr?ticas de qualidade Seis Sigma que foram, por sua vez, identificadas na literatura. Para avalia??o da cultura organizacional utilizou-se o Modelo dos Valores Competitivos (Cameron & Quinn, 1996), testado exaustivamente em organiza??es norte-americanas e considerado um instrumento de alto valor acad?mico e profissional. Esse modelo foi associado ? taxionomia criada por Cameron que classifica a cultura de qualidade em quatro n?veis. Os resultados sugerem que as Culturas Cl? e Inovadora s?o as que melhor representam o perfil cultural das farm?cias e tamb?m est?o mais associadas de forma positiva ?s pr?ticas de qualidade Seis Sigma que as Culturas Mercado e Hier?rquica. Em rela??o ao n?vel de qualidade, os maiores valores aparecem nos n?veis Preven??o de erros e Qualidade Criativa Perp?tua, estando este ?ltimo mais relacionado positivamente com os indicadores Seis Sigma
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Albergaria, Isabel Soares de. "Quintas e jardins da Ilha de S. Miguel : 1785-1885." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de História da Arte, 1996. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29846.
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Albergaria, Isabel Soares de. "Quintas e jardins da Ilha de S. Miguel : 1785-1885." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UNL-Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- FCSH-Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas -- -Departamento de História da Arte, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/116238.
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Johansson, Katarina. "Local perspectives on how to improve living and working conditions in South African wine industry." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-30571.
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The aim of my study is to investigate how representatives of wine-farm workers' unions and wine-farm workers' support groups formulate their ideas about procedures aiming at achieving improved conditions. As sustainability work and ethical follow-up are terms which most often are used within companies, and not reflect methods, procedures instruments etc. for change, I have chosen to name them approaches. The study's data is collected between April and June 2016, through interviews with representatives for the farm workers' unions and farm workers' support groups in the Western Cape province (where most of the wine districts are located) in South Africa. The results are structured by using the theory around 'mapmaking', originally created by Smith (2005), and which Newman (2012) further developed in her theory known as 'working the spaces of power'. The various approaches on how to improve working and living conditions that the study will show, are structured in clusters according to where the spaces of power are created. This forms the first part of the analysis and its purpose is partly descriptive. The map that is formed, containing the various approaches to improve the farm workers' positions, shows the plurality of aspects in which improvement can be made. The second part of the analysis is based on the presented result's clusters, on which theories of governmentality then are used to place the study in a broader context.2017-01-31
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Watermeyer, Louis Hendrik. "'n Veiligheidsanalise van plaasaanvalle in die RSA, 1997 tot 2003." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10172005-143120/.
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Wei, WenDa, and 魏文達. "Analyzing The Enterprisation Of Non-Profit Organizations Based On An Organizational Change Approach—Daan Sheltered Farm Of New Taipei City As An Example." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96178532833320109773.
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The development of nonprofit organization is always influenced by environmental factors, such as political, economical and social-cultural factors. Nonprofit organizations realize that it’s not a permanent solution to rely on government grants and private donations. Therefore, nonprofit organizations engage in organizational change toward enterprisation in order to improve the self-employed income and achieve financial autonomy. Daan Sheltered Farm (DSH) is not only the first sheltered workshop operated with farm models, but also the first farm possessed the international certification of ISO9001. Daan is managed by New Taipei City Association of the Visually Impaired (AVI). Its earlier position tends to educational function like the characteristics of school, and then it gradually transits to economical function like the characteristics of workplace. In the future, it hopes to transform into a complex leisure farm. Accordingly, the process of the enterprisation could be observed evidently in this case. Based on J. I. Porras’ approach of planned organizational change, supplemented by secondary data analysis, depth interviews, participant observation and in-depth interview to collect data, this study found four important points: first, the components of the organizational vision are mission of public interest, goal of independence and guideline of enterprisation. These three elements linked complementarily promote the development of enterprisation steadily; Second, the adjustments of hardware equipment and the content of work setting were incrementally to be more in line with the demands of the enterprisation, and provide a solid foundation to develop a leisure farm; Third, although the sheltered employee could meet the concrete task demands, they cannot perceive the implication of enterprisation, they also have a confused identity on employee of their own; Fourth, due to the reliance on Priority Procurement Law and project founds, the dependence on government still high even if the performance of Daan got a significant growth. Therefore, in order to move towards sustainable development, Daan enrich its capability by the grants of government at this stage. Overall, the enterprisation of Daan got quite gains in many ways, but there is still spaces for improvement. Here are some recommendations, first, in order to promote its business and increase the autonomy, the position of Daan should be more specific and the marketing should be more active. Second, in terms of governments’ policy, the principle of “same pay for same work” should be more adapted to local condition, and the delivery time of grants should be punctual. Third, the case of Daan reminds us the leadership play an important role in the process of enterprisation. As the same time, the members’ mindset should take government grants healthily and strive for different resources aggressively. In the end, its purpose is to be a independent social enterprise. There are few studies observing the enterprisation process of nonprofit organization based on organizational change approach. This study presents how to investigate enterprisation via organizational change approach. In addition to fulfill the vacancy in the academic, this easy demonstrates the organizational change approach do help us comprehend the practical process of enterprisation in depth, meanwhile, other nonprofit organizations could learn some lessons from the case of Daan. These are the contribution to the theory and practice of this study.
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Lee, Chiu-Fen, and 李秋芬. "Organizational Greenhouse Gases Inventory and Analysis - An Example of Leisure Farm." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5vn9k9.
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Agriculture is the major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), agriculture accounts for one-fifth of the annual increase in anthropogenic greenhouse warming. Most of this is due to methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O); agriculture produces about 50% and 70%, respectively, of their anthropogenic emissions. GHG emissions from agriculture mostly come from the management of agricultural soils, livestock, rice production, and biomass burning. This study proposes a research structure. First, the standards of ISO/CNS 14064-1 and the guides compiled by Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) are used to investigate the guiding principles and required procedures of organizational GHG inventory for a leisure farm. Next, the GHG emissions of the leisure farm are inventoried and the results are analyzed. Finally, the baseline of GHG emissions of the leisure farm can be established. The findings can be used as the reference of GHG reduction in the future. A real leisure farm is used to expound the research structure proposed in this study and the year of GHG inventory is 2013. Based on the results of the study, the total GHG emission of the leisure farm is 1915.55 tons CO2e/year and the emission strength of the leisure farm is 33.61 tons CO2e/(one ton of oranges) in 2013. Comparing the emissions of major GHG emitters, the emission of “organic ammoniates” is 1860 tons CO2e/year and the percentage is 97.1%. Therefore, organic ammoniates will be the major GHG reduction directions for the leisure farm.
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LI, YUAN-GUAN, and 李源泉. "Studys on organization and management at on-farm level of irrigation systems in Taiwan." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28960478250125041101.
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Li, Ling-Chia, and 李玲嘉. "Research on The Influences of Organization Culture on The Farm Management Strategy and Farm Management Performance－A Case on the Farms Managers of 4H members." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15752556516093369756.
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The purpose of the study is to understand the management of 4H organization. Use the Structural Equation Modeling to prove the suitability of the influences of organization culture on the farm management strategy and farm management performance. The results showed that the model construction for organization culture on the farm management strategy and farm management performance could be used to explain and predict the influence relationship of the organization culture, the management strategy and the farm management performance. Besides, the manifest variables of these three aspects also could be used to prove the prominent correlation amply. Finally, proffer the possible implications of the management of 4H organization based on the research results. In addition, render the concrete recommendations on management measurement and estimation for the government, relevant agencies and 4H organization.
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Earl, Paul D. "Rhetoric, reality and righteousness : the ideological debate between the farm organization and the grain trade, 1917-1935." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3702.
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This is a study of competing ideologies. More precisely, it is a study which traces the course of the particular ideological debate which took place in Western Canada, ca. 1917 to 1935, between those who believed that wheat was best marketed through the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, and those who thought that this institution should be replaced by a centralized, single desk, selling system. It is, moreover, a study which has a particular focus on the moral dimension to the debate. As we shall see, the attack on the open market was motivated not only by economic considerations, but by ethical - and ultimately religious - ones as well. One cannot understand the debate, nor particularly the fervour wlth which it was pursued, without an understanding of the ethical and religious basis from which the critique of the status quo was mounted.... It is time, therefore, for a more balanced treatment. It Is time for a study of the debate of the 1920's and 30's which recognizes that the untrammelled operation of the open market created serious problems for farmers, but which does not, perforce, assume that all light, truth and purity lay on one side. It is time for a study which provides a sense of proportion about the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments raised 1n the debate, wlthout denying the moral authenticity of the open market on the one hand, or the legitimacy of the farmers' problems on the other. It is time, in short, for a study whose objective is to disentangle the rhetoric of debate from the reality of the market systems which each side sought to defend or to revile, and that is precisely what this study is intended to do....
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Yang, Fu-mie, and 楊富美(釋晴元). "An Alignment between the Mission of Religious Organization and its Performance of Affiliated Unit : An Organic Tea Farm Case." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62f6cg.
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碩士南華大學
宗教學研究所
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The non-profit organizations(NPO),which of the main purpose lie in its social value , come in types of charity, public welfare, education, religion and so on. In Taiwan, there’s a trend that NPO have been increasing in recent years. In 1994, the statistics of the civil associations under the Jurisdiction of the central government is 2,419, and the civic associations under the Jurisdiction of the local government is 14,652. In 2012, the number of the civil associations of the central government is 11,959, and the civic associations of the local government is 39,494. Under the competitive environment, the management of NPO is getting harder and harder. Besides, the religious NPO haven’t been restricted and pay attention to minimum management. For religious caring for the people, religious organizations do not calculate the benefits and costs; and its key features are efforts and perseverance, do not have professional and internal management. Now, because the religious NPO are faced with increasing competition groups and most donations from society have been centralized to major religious groups. What’s more, the government''s welfare budget has been shrinking. Therefore, for the religious NPO, it is more challenging to sustain the development in the long run and good management seems to be a must- do way to exist. Through making elaborate mission and identifying the purpose of existence, religious organizations enable to develop self-reliance business and affiliated Unit. In addition, by framing vision and effective strategy, including executing methods, the religious NPO will make the best use of resources and even acquire more available resources, and construct a self-sufficiency, reasonable and practical management system. This research usees a case study method and explores a religious organization affiliated unit of Buddhadharma Mt owned a organic tea farm. 1. Explore the problems of an alignment between the mission of religious organization and its performance of affiliated unit. 2. Explore the problems between operations and performance of affiliated unit of Buddhadharma Mt. by using research methods of literature review, direct observations, and focus group interview. Offer advice and give references of other religious organization development. This research has reached the following results : 1. The mission of Buddhadharma Mt. is to popularize cultural education , hold charities, expand organic Farming Zen Dharma Gate, and establish organic land. 2. The operation of organic tea farm is that the masters are responsible for cultivation and the believers manage to marketing. 3.The organic tea farm doesn’t take effective managements about performance.However, all aspects of its performance perform well, and non-financial performance perform very well, too. Due to the media’s high attention and clear visibility, the tea farm also received many awards from all over the world, becoming one of Taiwan''s largest organic tea farm with the biggest planting area, the best quality, and lots of domestic and foreign organic certification. This case study is involved in tea farm earlier and its performance is considered quite successful. Although its financial performance fails to achieve the high level, but the break-even point already meet the goal.The ideal is that the tea farm can get rid of depending on donations and government grants,like traditional NPO or religious organization, is expected to be realized soon.
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"Terrorist waves and corresponding terrorist groups: a comparative analysis of the IRA, FARC and AL QAEDA." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1371.
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M.A.For the past 135 years, four waves of terrorism have arisen. Sparked by various circumstances, the Anarchist, Anti-Colonial, New Left and Religious Waves have plagued the international system. Emerging from these waves are five types of terrorist groups, namely national-separatists, social revolutionaries, religious fundamentalists, religious extremists and right wing groups. Terrorism is therefore not a new phenomenon, but the events of recent years have reflected a dramatic change in its scale and destruction. The 11 September 2001 attacks have precipitated a swell in terrorist literature, especially in the field of counter-terrorism strategy. However, sufficient in-depth analysis of individual terrorist groups remains lacking. In an effort to better understand the workings of terrorism, this study presents a comparative analysis of three terrorist groups originating in three consecutive and overlapping waves of terror. The groups are the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and Al Qaeda. This study investigates the similarities and differences between the groups and addresses specific aspects of terrorist group analysis, which are important tools of clarification. The “why” of the group is reflected in its historical and socio-political context. The “what” and “how” are explained through the group’s organisation, characteristics and operational methods. Terrorists cannot operate in a vacuum and consequently the actors affecting the groups are also explored. Finally, international responses to the IRA, FARC and Al Qaeda are examined in an effort to determine whether these reactions have any impact on the workings of the groups. A main finding of the study is that despite overt differences there are many underlying similarities between the IRA, FARC and Al Qaeda and although terrorism is dynamic, common indicators do exist that may aid efforts to counter it. If the international community or indeed individual states are to combat terrorist activity, their principal objective should be to understand the terrorist’s background, ambitions and means. The present inquiry is designed with these aspects in mind and is intended to contribute to the field.
Prof. D.J. Geldenhuys
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Nongauza, Anthony Davidson Mbulelo. "The role of a principal in an academically successful farm school : a case study /." 2004. http://eprints.ru.ac.za/166/.
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Segale, Beatrice Matshidiso. "To teach and to manage: a case of principal-teachers in multi-graded classrooms in farm schools." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/570.
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This research project is undertaken in order to investigate into the situation of principal-teachers who are both principal and teacher in multi-graded classrooms in farm schools. Possible solutions to the problem are to be found after establishing how principal-teachers construct meaning of their daily working lives. Although it is true that the frustrations and problems of principal-teachers in farm schools are unique and diverse, an attempt is made in this research project to alert the stakeholders to the need of physical and human resources as well as a staffing model for farm schools. The literature review indicates that there are gaps in the provision of farm schooling. There are also suggestions for possible means of overcoming these problems. The one with the challenging task is the principal-teacher who has to be trained for the “super”-work that he or she has to face on a daily basis. The contribution of other social partners or stakeholders is also of great importance. The conditions under which the farm school children live at home should be monitored by the Department of Health to help bring about improvements which will enhance the learning ability of the child at school.Dr. M.C. van Loggerenberg
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Tang, Kuen-Lin, and 湯坤霖. "Research on The Relationship between organizational commitment and Job performance-An Example from Taiwan Sugar Corporation Farm workers." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70453875403341294383.
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碩士國立屏東科技大學
農企業管理系所
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The current research mainly has discussed about the relations between the farm employees of Taisugar to their organizational commitments and job performances. The sbjects of the study are the farm employees from the eight districts of Taisugar. 370 questionnaires were sent out. A total of 89% questionnaires were effective. T-test, Single-factor analysis of variable and Regression analysis of test were presented through SPSS statistic software to exam each study hypothesis. The current study results have found: The analysis of the farm personal attributes has revealed that male, including 45- year-old and above, high school level of education,15 working years and more, working for one farm before and serving as a farm technician are the majority in Taisugar. The current results of the empirical analysis have exposed: 1. Different personal attributes differ in organizational commitments - ages, levels of education, working years, serving numbers of farms and job positions…ect. are significant. 2. Different personal attributes differ in job performances - ages, levels of education, working years, serving numbers of farms and job positions…etc. are significant. 3. A positive correlation has presented between employees of agricultures and enterprises on organizational commitments and job performances.
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Segwapa, Makgato Phillip. "Assessing the performance of school governing bodies of selected farm schools in the Limpopo Province." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/648.
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This research was conducted in the Waterberg District with particular focus on the Nylstroom Circuit. The primary aim of this research was to assess the performance of farm school governing bodies in the Limpopo Province. The farm schools that were selected for this purpose were in the Nylstroom Circuit since it had a number of farm schools.
The school governing body members such as the chairpersons, the principals and educators in the governing bodies of those farm schools participated in this study. The primary data collection method used in this research was semi-structured interviews. Participant observations were carried out on the sites before the interviews were conducted. Documents were analysed at the randomly selected schools.
This research revealed that many farm school governing bodies cannot perform their duties because of various challenges such as poverty, illiteracy, lack of time off from work and the long distances that have to be travelled to meetings. In order for these farm schools to overcome these challenges, this research made a number of recommendations, based on the conclusions reached.Educational Studies
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Yang, Chih-Chiang, and 楊志強. "A Study on Relationship among Internal Auditor and Group Auditor for an organization group – Based on the Case of Far Eastern Group." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12969130880930892280.
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碩士元智大學
管理研究所
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The role of the internal auditor has recently become an emerging discipline development and more important and essential when the scales of the enterprise and business structure continuously expanding. The Chairman of Far Eastern Group (the Group) in particular has recognize this, on top of the internal auditor departments in the 8 listed company, the Chairman proposed a concept of a cross-organization department for the roles of helping the Group to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of more than 130 subsidiaries within the Group. The Group Auditing Department was established in year 1999 and in year 2005 the department is integrated in the FEG central office. This study explores the roles of listed company internal audit department, in particular the Far Eastern Textile Co., and Group Auditing Department and the potential influences on the internal control system. Interviews were taken among the auditors and the managements from subsidiaries with the focus on the cause and effect on the roles of internal auditor on variability of the enterprise environment and organization structure
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Ho, Tsung-Chieh, and 賀宗傑. "AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF RELATIONSHIP AMONG ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION, TRUST, AND WORK ATTITUDE－THE CASE OF FAR EASTERN TEXTILE LTD." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97353351369537072735.
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碩士元智大學
管理研究所
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This study was conducted to understand the situation of Far Eastern Textile Ltd. (FETL) employees’ organizational communication、organizational trust and work attitude. According to several relative question analysis, we also hope to research the relationships and influences of FETL employees’ organizational communication、organizational trust and work attitude. This study adopts the method of investigation through questionnaires, 300 questionnaires were distributed and 270effective ones were returned, SPSS was utilized to conduct Descriptive Statistical Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Analysis of Variance, Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis for testing the hypotheses of this study. The results of this study are shown as follows: 1. There are positive influence on organizational communication and organizational trust. 2. There are positive influence on organizational communication and employees’ work attitude. 3. There are positive influence on organizational trust and employees’ work attitude. 4. Organizational trust is the mediator between organizational communication and employees’ work attitude. 5. There are partial significant differences on organizational communication, organizational trust and work attitude among different attributes employees.