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Hyland, Lee. "Electroless deposition of group eight metals." Thesis, University of Hull, 1995. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:3902.
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Electroless plating is the controlled chemical reduction of metals without the use of an applied external potential. The use of electroless plating has a number of advantages over electroplating including the ability to deposit coatings onto complex-shaped objects which can be metallic or non-metallic, such as plastics. The most widely used electroless coating is electroless nickel prepared using sodium hypophosphite as reductant. This results in coatings which contain phosphorus. The properties of metal coatings containing non-metals are frequently superior compared to those of the pure metal.The first part of present work was concerned with the development of an electroless plating solution capable of depositing palladium-boron coatings. The plating solution is based on EDTA-stabilised palladium (H) ions in the presence of dimethylamine borane as the reducing agent. At a pH of 10.5 the solution deposits bright adherent coatings at 1 μm per 10 h. The plating solution operates at room temperature within narrow limits of composition and concentration: small deviations in composition from the optimum results in solution decomposition.Characterisation of electroless palladium-boron coatings indicates that the inclusion of boron decreases the corrosion resistance of the coating. Examination of palladium-boron coatings by X-ray diffractometry show that the lattice parameter has been increased by 2.86%.The second part of the present work was concerned with the development of pure ruthenium coatings. The plating solution developed uses hydrazine hydrate as the reducing agent with methylamine as stabiliser. The plating solution operates at a pH of 13 and at 60°C, and deposits 65% of the available ruthenium in 5 h. This corresponds to a 3 gm coating over a substrate surface area of 25 cm2.The coatings produced are bright and adherent. The roughness of the substrate surface was found to be important to obtaining adherent coatings over 2 gm thick. A roughness in the order of 1100 A was found to be satisfactory. Scanning electron microscopy shows the coatings to be dense with no obvious pores. The porosity of the coatings was found to be low, decreasing with increasing coating thickness. However, the electrochemical properties of the coatings indicate that ruthenium coatings have poor corrosion resistance.The chemistry of the plating solution, particularly for ruthenium, is considered in some detail.
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Dowding, K. M. "Collective action, group organization and pluralist democracy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.381821.
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Morse, Lenore Booth. "A descriptive study of student-centered small-group discussion of eight short stories /." The Ohio State University, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487598748020051.
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Koger, Janae. "POWER AND COHERENCE MATTERS: DOES PERCEIVED GROUP ORGANIZATION INCREASE ATHEIST PREJUDICE?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/751.
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Atheists are some of the least liked people in the world. Previous research has demonstrated that in most stigmatized groups, increased prevalence of the group increases prejudice towards the group. However, the opposite has been found with atheists- increased perceived prevalence decreases prejudice towards atheists. One post-hoc explanation provided for this difference is that since atheists are easily concealable and unorganized as a group, their greater prevalence may not be perceived as a threat. In the present thesis, I 1) attempted to replicate the existing finding that perceived increased prevalence would increase trust towards atheists and 2) directly tested the hypothesis that if atheist groups are presented as collectively powerful and coherent, increased prevalence will no longer decrease anti-atheist prejudice. I did not find support for the hypothesis that prevalence increases atheist trust, nor did I find support for my hypotheses that power and cohesion would manipulate distrust. Atheist prejudice is still pervasive, however, prejudice against atheists may be changing.
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Cress, Daniel Miles. "Mobilization among the homeless: A comparative study of organization, action, and outcomes in eight United States cities." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186536.
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This dissertation examines mobilization and collective action by the homeless in eight U.S. cities. Much of the focus of social movement research emphasizes either broad macro-level social processes or micro-level individual characteristics to understand movement dynamics. This research focuses on the organizational context and dynamics of homeless mobilization. I argue that the organizational level not only mediates dynamics at the macro and micro level, but that organizational processes themselves shape the possibility and course of mobilization and collective action. I identify the environmental factors that constrain the possibilities of organizational action by the homeless and the organizational characteristics of homeless social movement organizations (SMOs) that are associated with the ability to successfully negotiate these environments. The core of the dissertation is organized around four related issues: the organizational environment, resources, form, and action and outcomes. I map the organizational field of homeless mobilization and illustrate how the presence or absence of various organizational orientations within the field influences the potential for resource acquisition, the type of form adopted, and the types of collective action tactics and outcomes available to the homeless. Next, I examine the resource relationships of homeless SMOs, the types of resources they mobilize, and the influence of particular types of resources on SMO viability. Following this, I explore the role of organizational form on homeless mobilization and collective action and the various pathways by which the homeless SMOs came to adopt or not adopt nonprofit form. Finally, I examine the determinants of collective action tactics utilized by homeless SMOs and their efficacy in procuring various outcomes. By emphasizing the organizational level, this dissertation operates at the intersection of the organizational and social movements literatures. Thus, the research offers theoretical insights for both while addressing a neglected level of analysis in the study of social movements.
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Geha, Marla, Risa H. Wechsler, Yao-Yuan Mao, Erik J. Tollerud, Benjamin Weiner, Rebecca Bernstein, Ben Hoyle, et al. "The SAGA Survey. I. Satellite Galaxy Populations around Eight Milky Way Analogs." IOP PUBLISHING LTD, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625799.
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We present the survey strategy and early results of the "Satellites Around Galactic Analogs" (SAGA) Survey. The SAGA. Survey's goal is to measure the distribution of satellite galaxies around 100 systems analogous to the Milky Way down to the luminosity of the Leo I dwarf galaxy (M-r < -12.3). We define a Milky Way analog based on K-band luminosity and local environment. Here, we present satellite luminosity functions for eight Milky-Way-analog galaxies between 20 and 40. Mpc. These systems have nearly complete spectroscopic coverage of candidate satellites within the projected host virial radius down to r(o) < 20.75 using low-redshift gri color criteria. We have discovered a total of 25 new satellite galaxies: 14. new satellite galaxies meet our formal criteria around our complete host systems, plus 11 additional satellites in either incompletely surveyed hosts or below our formal magnitude limit. Combined with 13 previously known satellites, there are a total of 27 satellites around 8 complete Milky-Way-analog hosts. We find a wide distribution in the number of satellites per host, from 1 to 9, in the luminosity range for which there are 5 Milky Way satellites. Standard abundance matching extrapolated from higher luminosities predicts less scatter between hosts and a steeper luminosity function slope than observed. We find that the majority of satellites (26 of 27) are star-forming. These early results indicate that the Milky Way has a different satellite population than typical in our sample, potentially changing the physical interpretation of measurements based only on the Milky Way's satellite galaxies.
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Ko, Chau Suk-yin Alice, and 高周淑賢. "A study of the Eight Immortals of Yangzhou in the Qing Period." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31950966.
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Yuan, Ming. "An Automatic Classifcation Approach to Idea Organization in Group Support Systems." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195266.
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With the rapid advance of information technologies, human beings increasingly rely on computers to accumulate, process, and make use of data. Knowledge discovery techniques have been proposed to automatically search large volumes of data for patterns.Group Support Systems (GSS) play an important role in streamlining group activities and improving group outcomes. Various attempts have been made to help automate several tasks in group activities under GSS environment. One of the approaches is to apply automatic approach to idea organization task in GSS.This research designed and tested an SVD-enabled system to automate the idea organization task in GSS. Specifically, this research was conducted to examine how the idea organization task, typically regarded as the most labor-intensive and cognitively demanding in group problems solving, can be automated using a system enabled by singular value decomposition techniques. For the purpose of evaluation, we compared the performance of our automated approach using SVD algorithm against that of human subjects. Two separate experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the automatic approach on two essential components of an idea organization; namely, generation of topic categories and placement of relevant comments into their respective categories.The general conclusion that can be made from this research is that idea organization in group problem solving can be facilitated both efficiently and effectively with the SVD-enabled system that can automatically generate topic categories and place relevant comments into their respective topic categories. Therefore, our automatic approach may provide a useful and promising tool for the idea organization task in GSS.
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Patil, Veena P. "Characterization of Group I Introns in the Ribosomal RNA Internal Transcribed Spacers of Eight Orders of Sharks." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1321488566.
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Ko, Chau Suk-yin Alice. "A study of the Eight Immortals of Yangzhou in the Qing Period Qing dai Yangzhou ba jia de yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31950966.
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Ng, Hang-sau. "Participation of grassroots' organization in environmental protection policy /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1992. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13417885.
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Riley, Sarah E. "The convergent new world : bona fide group perspective in an academic convergence news organization." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1318937.
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This study examines NewsLink Indiana, an innovative convergence news organization at Ball State University. The first chapter briefly introduces the organization and the study. The second chapter reviews relevant literature and poses the research question: How do the stakeholders in NewsLink Indiana construct their memberships in the group in light of their memberships in other groups? Methods of data collection and analysis are described in the third chapter. Transcribed interviews from fourteen members of the NewsLink Indiana organization were examined. The fourth chapter describes the four themes that emerged as results of this study. The final chapter provides conclusions, contributions, limitations, and suggestions for future research in this area.Department of Communication Studies
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Sánchez, Reyes Christian, Olivares Mauro Ugaz, and Lizárraga Mario Pasco. "Roundtable "Collective Bargaining and Group of Companies"." Derecho & Sociedad, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118644.
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In this roundtable, our speakers analyze, evaluate and criticize the new legal scenario which is the collective labor law, specifically related to collective bargaining, in an area influenced by the development of capitalism, which is beginning to cause different forms business organizations that break the paradigm of the definition of company we know, and thus leads us to redesign legal parameters to meet the challenges of the now called “business groups” and “network companies” for a proper defense of the collective rights of workers and defend the interests of employers.En la presente mesa redonda, nuestros ponentes analizan, evalúan y critican el nuevo escenario legal en el cual se encuentra el derecho colectivo del trabajo, específicamente relacionado con las negociaciones colectivas, en un ámbito influenciado por desarrollo del capitalismo, que empieza a originar distintas formas de organizaciones empresariales, que rompen el paradigma de la definición de empresa que conocemos, y que de esta manera, nos lleva a rediseñar parámetros legales para sobrellevar los desafíos de los ahora llamados “grupos empresariales” y “empresas en red” para un adecuada defensa de los derechos colectivos de los trabajadores y la defensa de los intereses de los empleadores.
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Spengler, Veronica Eileen. "An ethnographic study of a group of first language standard eight pupils in a "model C" school attempting to communicate meaning in writing." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21782.
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Bibliography: pages 121-131.This is an ethnographic study of the writing processes and meaningmaking attempts of a group of English first language pupils in a Cape Town secondary school. The project was based on a twostage design. During the first stage, pupils' writing behaviour was observed, and their writing samples and written reflections provided data for analysis. In the second stage, two "key informants" were selected and interviewed, after a preliminary analysis of their written work. Three main theoretical fields provided the conceptual framework for the project: process writing theory and research, discourse and genre theory, and theories of identity. In the first research stage, process theory highlighted those aspects of the school writing event which were shown to assist or obstruct pupil writers in communicating their meanings in writing. In the second stage, discourse and genre theory, and especially the concept of intertextuality, provided insights into how young writers borrow from other textual resources, and construct roles for themselves and their readers. The text analyses and the interview findings supported those theories of identity which showed how subjects may construct multiple Identities and roles for themselves in conversation and in writing.
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Chebaya, Philip. "The relationship between maternal serum and breast milk vitamin B12 concentrations in a primarly supplemented versus an unsupplemented group : assesed at eight weeks postpartum." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52421.
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BACKGROUND: Vitamin B12 is an essential nutrient for adequate infant growth and development and breast milk is the only dietary source of vitamin B12 to the exclusively breast-fed infant. Little is known on the relationship between maternal serum vitamin B12 and breast milk vitamin B12. A better understanding of this relationship will provide insight into the determinants of milk vitamin B12 concentrations, including maternal vitamin B12 supplementation, for optimal infant vitamin B12 status.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between maternal serum and breast milk vitamin B12 concentrations at eight weeks postpartum in both a supplemented and unsupplemented population and to explore these associations with infant serum vitamin B12 concentrations in the supplemented group.
METHODS: Vitamin B12 concentrations were measured in infant serum, maternal serum and breast milk samples (n=186) collected from two previous studies; in Canada (supplemented) and New Zealand (unsupplemented). Supplemented participants were provided with a prenatal supplement containing 12µg of vitamin B12 during pregnancy to eight weeks postpartum. Breast milk and maternal blood were available from both studies, with infant blood only available from the supplemented group. Serum samples were measured using an Elecsys immunoassay analyzer, while an IMMULITE chemiluminescence machine measured breast milk vitamin B12 concentrations.
RESULTS: The supplemented group had significantly higher serum vitamin B12 concentrations (Geometric mean: 665pmol/l; 95%CI: 601,685) compared to the unsupplemented group (403pmol/l, 365, 445). Maternal serum vitamin B12 was associated with breast milk vitamin B12 in the supplemented and unsupplemented groups (r=0.577, p<0.0001; r=0.414 p=0.01, respectively). Infant serum vitamin B12 concentrations were associated with both maternal serum vitamin B12 (r=0.299 p=0.001) and breast milk B12 (r=337 p<0.0001) concentrations.
CONCLUSION: Supplement use during pregnancy and lactation may lead to higher vitamin B12 concentrations in maternal serum and breast milk. Infant serum vitamin B12 concentrations appear to be related to maternal status and this may be mediated by enhanced breast milk vitamin B12. Further RCT are needed to investigate the effects of maternal vitamin B12 supplementation on infant vitamin B12 status.Land and Food Systems, Faculty of
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Blanz, Franziska. "Solidarity research with Xochicuicatl e.V. : Exploring the dynamics between the organization its beneficiaries and the overall migrant group." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171209.
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This thesis project is an act of solidarity research with the Berlin based Latin American women’s organization Xochicuicatl. Along the idea that research should be based on the interests and needs of oppressed groups, the research design was developed in cooperation with the organization. The study centers on migration movements between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany. Moreover, it investigates the dynamics of inner-outer interplay between the organization the beneficiaries and the overall migrant group. The main method isa qualitative content analysis of documents out of the organization’s archive. The organization’s response to transformations is thereby analyzed through action within invited (coping) and invented (resistance) spaces of citizenship. In this regard, the organization’s space is understoodas a subaltern counterpublic which enables a connection between coping and resistance.
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Goosman, Stuart L. "The social and cultural organization of black group vocal harmony in Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, 1945-1960 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11232.
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Brav, Agneta. "Industrial work groups : the impact of job design, leader support and group processes on initiative and self-organization /." Örebro : Örebro University, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-2453.
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Nasi, Nicola <1991>. "Performing inclusion and exclusion in the peer group. Children's social organization and peer socializing practices in the classroom." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2022. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10059/1/Nicola%20Nasi%2C%20PhD%20thesis.pdf.
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This PhD thesis investigates children’s peer practices in two primary schools in Italy, focusing on the ordinary and the Italian L2 classroom. The study is informed by the paradigm of language socialization and considers peer interactions as a ‘double opportunity space’, allowing both children’s co-construction of their social organization and children’s sociolinguistic development. These two foci of attention are explored on the basis of children’s social interaction and of the verbal, embodied, and material resources that children agentively deploy during their mundane activities in the peer group.
The study is based on a video ethnography that lasted nine months. Approximately 30 hours of classroom interactions were video-recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with an approach that combines the micro-analytic instruments of Conversation Analysis and the use of ethnographic information. Three main social phenomena were selected for analysis: (a) children’s enactment of the role of the teacher, (b) children’s reproduction of must-formatted rules, and (c) children’s argumentative strategies during peer conflict. The analysis highlights the centrality of the institutional frame for children’s peer interactions in the classroom. Moreover, the study illustrates that children socialize their classmates to the linguistic, social, and moral expectations of the context in and through various practices. Notably, these practices are also germane to the local negotiation of children’s social organization and hierarchy.
Therefore, the thesis underlines that children’s peer interactions are both a resource for children’s sociolinguistic development and a potentially problematic locus where social exclusion is constructed and brought to bear. These insights are relevant for teachers’ professional practice. Children’s peer interactions are a resource that can be integrated in everyday didactics. Nevertheless, the role of the teacher in supervising and steering children’s peer practices appears crucial: an acritical view of children’s autonomous work, often implied in teaching methods such as peer tutoring, needs to be problematized.
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Goldstone, Erica Taggart Clarke Lugg Elizabeth T. "Case study of the involvement of the business community in the Illinois Partnership Academy in eight Illinois school districts from 1994 to 1997." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9924347.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1998.Title from title page screen, viewed July 13, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Elizabeth Lugg (chair), Larry McNeal, Amee Adkins, James Palmer, David Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-159) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Du, Toit Anna. "Group work in management education - the role of task design." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9541_1256551831.
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This theses examined adult learners' experiences of group work in management education. Group work is an integral part of learning and teaching methods at most business schools because it develops team skills demanded by today's workplace. Furthermore, group work in education is grounded in the belief that much learning happens through social interaction and that diversity within groups promotes learning. This study analysed learners' group experiences in a business school. The study also aimed to identify conditions that hinder and promote group interaction with a view to enhance learning.
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Hedin, Ellinor, and Sara Ragnvaldsson. "HUR SER EN HÅLLBARORGANISATION UT PÅ ETT MODERNTE-HANDELSFÖRETAG? : EN KVALITATIV STUDIE PÅ ELLOS GROUP." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-704.
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Syftet med den här rapporten var att ta reda på hur en hållbar organisation kan se ut på ettmodernt e-handelsföretag. Anledningen till att detta syfte valdes var för att organisationen lättglöms bort medan produktionen ständigt genomför förbättringar och effektiviseringar.Utgångspunkten i litteraturstudien var Henry Mintzbergs omfattandeorganisationsteori vilket tydliggjorde bilden av hur en organisation är uppbyggd. Tack vareintervjuer och observationer på Ellos Groups logistikavdelning förtydligades nuläget i derasorganisation och en analys kunde genomföras. Analysens jämförelser mellan teori ochnulägesbeskrivning ledde till att slutsatser uppnåddes. Dessa slutsatser baserades påfrågeställningen och fokuserade därmed främst på att kunna bidraga till en hållbarorganisation som kan hantera framtida förändringar på bästa sätt. Viktiga slutsatser för attuppnå detta var att ha tjänster som är enhetliga, tydliga och rättvisa samt stämmer överensmed verkligheten. Ytterligare en slutsats var att ha en organisation som fokuserar på helaproduktionen istället för på endast en avdelning vilket underlättas om mellancheferna arbetarmer över avdelningsgränserna. Slutsatserna betonade med andra ord framförallt vikten avtydlighet, rättvisa, enhetlighet och att teori bör stämma överens med verklighet för att enhållbar organisation skall kunna uppnås.The purpose of this report was to find out how a sustainable organization could look like in amodern e-commerce business. The reason for this purpose was because the organization iseasily forgotten while production constantly implements improvements and efficiency.The scientific frame of reference in this study was based on Henry Mintzberg'sextensive organizational theory, which clarified the picture of how an organization is built.Interviews and observations at Ellos Group’s logistics department clarified the currentsituation in their organization and the analysis could be conducted. The analysis comparisonsbetween theory and present situation resulted in conclusions being reached. These conclusionswere based on the issue, thus focusing mainly on being able to contribute to a sustainableorganizational which can handle future changes in the best possible way. An importantconclusion to achieve this was to have employments that are consistent, clear and fair.Another conclusion was to have an organization that focuses on the entire production insteadof only one department, which is facilitated if the managers are working more crossdepartmental.The conclusions highlighted in other words in particular the importance ofclarity, fairness, consistency, and that theory should be consistent with reality if a sustainableorganization is to be achieved.
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La, Foret Annmarie. "My Role as a Technical Communicator in an Interactive Media Organization." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1036699157.
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Streck, Mary Theresa. "Distributed leadership and shared decision making leadership practices that promote collaboration /." Connect to resource online, 2009. http://library2.sage.edu/archive/thesis/ED/2009streck_m.PDF.
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Thesis (E.Ed.)--The Sage Colleges, 2009."A Doctoral Research Project presented to Professor of Education James Butterworth, Doctoral Research Committee Chair, School of Education, The Sage Colleges." Suggested keywords: distributed leadership; shared decision making; leadership. Includes bibliographical references: (p. 69-74).
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Williams, Phillip. "The Influence of Situational Organization, Age Gender, and Peer Group Interaction on the Emergence of the Early Social Self." TopSCHOLAR®, 2004. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/538.
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The objective of the present study was to investigate the influence of preschool learning environments on the frequency of prosocial behaviors. The analyses were conducted according to gender, age, and whether the activity was child-chosen or teacher-imposed. The behaviors for analysis included responding prosocially to verbal massages from other children, engaging in cooperative play, attending to cries and pleas of others, and commenting on behavior of others when potentially dangerous. The data were gathered through nonparticipant observations, teacher interviews, and a behavior checklist. Nonparametric statistical analyses were used to analyze the data. Results indicated that older girls were more likely to exhibit prosocial behaviors than all boys regardless of learning center, and younger boys were more likely to increase prosocial behaviors during teacher-imposed activities than any other group. In addition, the art center had a significantly higher mean number of prosocial acts than other centers. The findings yielded an archive of direct social behavior observations across situations and over repeated occasions. The research method allowed me to investigate the natural organization of the children's behavior without the usual reliance on self reports and tester-created situations. Based on these results, the researcher offered theoretical propositions for future research to test the relationship between preschool learning environments and prosocial behaviors.
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Cutler, Phillip. "Associations between hospital expenses and licensed hospital bed size, location, ownership, and group purchasing organization participation A project report." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527366.
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The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were associations between hospital costs and hospital size, hospital location, hospital ownership type, and Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) participation. The 2008 American Hospital Association annual survey responses were used as the instrument for a retrospective secondary study. Analyzing results from the various tests employed in this study showed there was a statistically significant association between hospital costs and hospital size. There were statistically significant differences between the means when comparing cost with hospital location and ownership type. There was not an association between hospital costs and GPO participation, likely as a result of the unadjusted cost metric used. Further research using a time series approach would help determine the true association of GPO participation. Expanding the criteria to identify whether the hospitals participate in a regional alliance may also return different results relative to cost and GPO participation.
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Di, Clemente G. "A whole new world : journey towards self-compassion : how do individuals who struggle with eating difficulties experience self-compassion following an eight-week compassionate mind group?" Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/17546/.
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Objective This research explored the experience of self-compassion in women with eating difficulties who completed an eight-week compassionate mind training group. Background Research that examines self-compassion has mainly focused on the general population and the methods utilised mainly involve quantitative methodologies, such as questionnaires or surveys. Therefore, it appeared important to conduct this research by exploring participants’ lived experiences. Methods To collect data, semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven women between the ages of 25 and 51 years old. All participants were fluent in English and they had participated in the therapy group one to three years prior to taking part in this research. Results During the analysis stage four superordinate themes were developed: “A Whole New World – Journey towards discovering and describing self-compassion”, “It’s a Long Way To The Top – Journey towards finding self compassion”, “Journey For Life – Journey towards integrating self-compassion in life” and “A Trouble Shared Is a Trouble Halved – The experience of being in therapy group”. Each of these themes encompasses three sub-themes. The analysis of the data represents my understanding and interpretation of the participants’ lived experiences. Conclusion These themes were further discussed in relation to the literature and attempts were made to explore how compassionate mind therapy could be introduced in the treatment of eating disorders. The findings of this study provide some insight for Counselling Psychologists and other mental health practitioners that work with individuals suffering with eating disorders.
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Moeller, Juliana Lynne. "Evaluation of a Small Group Executive Functioning Intervention with Fourth Grade Students." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1548256183261965.
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Eschenfelder, Beth E. "Interagency Collaboration and Communication: Funders and Service Providers Working Together to Create a Management Service Organization." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002174.
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Алексенко, Ольга Василівна, Ольга Васильевна Алексенко, Olha Vasylivna Aleksenko, А. Luhova, and V. Suprun. "Model of business process of management engineering company "Automation Group"." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/46975.
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The aim of this study is to examine the problems of improving information security management organization, modeling business processes, detailed analysis and create a model of information technology management.
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Lagerin, Elin, and Elin Pettersson. "Ledares agerande i kunskapsutbytande grupper." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353601.
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Effectiveness and performance in groups are largely dependent on how group members manage to share their individual knowledge with each other. When group members share and combine their individual knowledge at an optimal level in order to find new solutions, they achieve knowledge integration. In this thesis, we examine how group leaders act to encourage knowledge integration. An observational study was used to evaluate how leaders in three different groups act when solving a group task. We focused on the leaders’ actions in relation to group behaviours that would promote and prevent knowledge integration. With support from theories, we created a behaviour model to help us identify a set of relevant behaviours. We also supported our analysis with leadership theories. The results showed us that leaders’ actions were to a great extent dependent on the current followership and dynamics of each group. Another result was that group members who were familiar with one another before entering the group, had more difficulties in adopting behaviours that would promote knowledge integration. This meant that the leader did not come to terms with the leadership in order to promote knowledge integration.I en alltmer komplex omvärld ökar behovet av samarbetsskicklighet. Kunskapsintegration anses vara ett viktigt fenomen när grupper samarbetar för att prestera bättre och arbeta effektivt vid mötet av nya behov och problem. Grupper uppnår kunskapsintegration då deltagarna på en optimal nivå utbyter kunskap med varandra, eftersom gruppen då utnyttjar sin fulla kunskapspotential till att finna nya lösningar. Den rådande gruppdynamiken blir därmed avgörande för gruppens prestationsförmåga. En person som har ett särskilt ansvar för gruppens kollektiva arbete är gruppledaren. Huruvida ledare faktiskt agerar för att främja kunskapsintegration är därför centralt i den här uppsatsen. Syftet med studien är att undersöka ledarageranden i förhållande till de gruppbeteenden som kan antas främja eller förhindra kunskapsintegration. Vi har valt att fokusera på arbetsprocessen i en undersökning som går ut på att observera ledaren för en grupp som tilldelas en uppgift, där deltagarna tillsammans ska lösa ett problem. Vi observerade tre grupper på sex personer vardera där en av deltagarna utsågs till ledare genom lottdragning. Processerna dokumenterades med hjälp av filminspelning. Vi har använt oss av teorier för att kunna identifiera gruppbeteenden som kan antas främja och förhindra kunskapsintegration. Med hjälp av teorierna skapade vi en egen beteendetabell att ta stöd av i våra observationer och i vår analys. För att ytterligare undersöka ledarens roll i observationsgrupperna har vi använt oss av ledarskapsteorier. I analysen gick vi först igenom händelseförloppen i filmerna, för att sedan kunna urskilja de beteenden som stämde överens med vår beteendetabell. Därefter specificerade vi ledarens ageranden i förhållande till dessa. Resultaten av studien visade att ledarskapet tycks anpassa sig mycket utefter följarskapet och därmed dynamiken i gruppen och därför identifierade vi inga gemensamma nämnare för ledarageranden i grupperna. Följarskapet i grupperna varierade stort och därför agerade också ledarna på olika sätt. Resultaten gav oss även en oförmodad slutsats som visade att grupper där fler deltagare känner till varandra sedan tidigare hade svårare att anta beteenden som kan antas främja kunskapsintegration. Detta ledde därför till att ledarens agerande blev svårt att bedöma.
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Rademacher, Franz L. "DISSENTING PARTNERS: THE NATO NUCLEAR PLANNING GROUP 1965-1976." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1217257345.
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Bedford, Christian. "An analysis of the use of political marketing by an insurgent group : a case study of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99575.
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In his 2005 work entitled The Marketing of Rebellion , author Clifford Bob explores the phenomenon of political marketing and its use by insurgent groups struggling to achieve their aims, most often against a central government opposed to their platform. In his book, Bob makes two central arguments: that courting support from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is central to the success of insurgent groups; and that support is given to insurgent groups from NGOs not because of need, but rather because of political marketing techniques that insurgent groups use to attract that support. Thus, a successful and savvy insurgent group or opposition movement must employ sophisticated political marketing techniques in order to acquire the support they seek, and thus succeed in their struggle.Using Bob's framework as a model, this paper examines the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) and their use of political marketing techniques, largely in the period of 2001-2006. In existence since 1965, the MeK is Iran's largest opposition group, having been formed to oppose the rule of Shah Reza Pahlavi, and currently opposed to the clerical regime in Tehran. The bulk of the group has been based in Iraq since 1986, and has been confined to their main base, Camp Ashraf, since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Ba'ath regime in Iraq in 2003. The MeK aggressively uses political marketing to promote their cause and attract support, and thus the paper examines their strategies, discusses characteristics of the MeK, and ultimately offers a series of explanations as to the outcome of their efforts as they stand in 2006.
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Manalo, Eusaquito P. "The Philippine response to terrorism: the ABU Sayyaf Group /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2004. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/04Dec%5FManalo.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Security Building in Post Cinflict Environments)--Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 2004.Thesis Advisor(s): Gaye Christoffersen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-91). Also available online.
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Crankshaw, Amy. "A food sovereignty critique of the G8 New Alliance on food security and nutrition." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19945.
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International Relations
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University of WitwatersrandThe G8 New Alliance on Food Security and Nutrition (NAFN) is a new, under-researched and rapidly spreading partnership initiative. As the latest attempt to target hunger in Africa by developed countries, it deserves a certain level of scrutiny to decipher the intended development trajectory for African food systems and the possible implications for smallholder farmers, since these smallholders produce more than ninety percent of the continent’s food supply. Food sovereignty provides the ideal lens through which to analyse the New Alliance, being a political economy critique of agro-industrial food systems, as well as a constitutive approach to rights and the building of a grassroots movement and alternative. This research seeks to ascertain how the New Alliance may globalise African agriculture and undermine food sovereignty. An exploratory research design was used, first historicising African globalised agriculture, then decoding the main objectives of the New Alliance, and finally using the African Food Sovereignty Alliance as a case study to critique its translation into African countries’ commitments. The first few predictions of the hypothesis were strongly validated with findings that the New Alliance will result in large-scale investment of land, the commercialisation of the seed industry and an increased use of agro-chemicals and GMOs, increased foreign investment, and monopolisation of agribusiness by MNCs. To a lesser degree, the prediction that it would decrease barriers to trade and increase imports and exports was confirmed; however, there was little evidence that it intends to cut domestic support measures like some previous development programmes. The New Alliance is beyond reform, built on flawed neoliberal assumptions about development. This and further research could contribute to a movement to abolish the New Alliance before it induces negative long term effects, and to warn off other African countries contemplating this initiative.
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"The new IT organization : eight imperatives." Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/2623.
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Kuo-Chung, Liu, and 劉國忠. "Organization of Taiwan Video Surveillance Industry analysis In eight Listed or Companies." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h6s8mn.
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碩士國立臺北大學
社會學系
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This paper focuses on the expansion of the growth of the technology industry of imitation and learning What is the difference? The organization in the company how to respond to changes in the industry during the heigly expansion? When industry technology faced with the Internet innovation, the organization learn how to imitate? How to convert new technology in existing niche markets? How to choose the conversion time point? The purpose of this thesis main study those companies in Taiwan cabinet video surveillance industry didn't seize market expansion with aggressive expansion of capital and human resources over the past decade. What factors have led companies to produce similar collective organizational behavior? What is effect of system and environment in Taiwan's capital market for securities companies? Second, in the continued expansion of the industry, why some companies are still able to stay afloat after a decade of advantage? Some companies are flat or decline? Those foreign competitors with actively expand the market and prices undermine policy impact on the domestic video surveillance of industrial ecology. What is the impact of new technologies on network marketer original analog technology products? Related theory of institutional theory, organizational ecology theory and technological innovation-oriented evolution theory, and for example ,Taiwan listed counters and eight video surveillance Enterprise. Discussion converted from analog video surveillance technology products to network technology industry transition and its influence. Study the relevant information to the securities market is mainly public information and various annual reports issued by these companies,and studying foreign competitors has the same information. Research found that companies will be affected by the stock market Cabinet policies and systems. Imitating each other leading companies meet investor expectations for corporate profit outstanding. Second, the development of imitation leads to homogeneity and groupthink.During industry transition disruptive innovation ,people neglect IP technology in low-end products market industry. Finally, companies will be delayed or do not react due to organizational inertia when companies faced organizational ecological changes. In addition to the organizational culture, the key lies in the establishment of the length of time the organization, and the organization niche dependence in the original ecosystem survival.
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Payne, Marvalisa M. "A family of matrix representations of the figure eight knot group /." 2005. http://etd.utk.edu/2005/PayneMarvalisa.pdf.
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Thesis (M.S. ) -- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005.Title from title page screen (viewed on June 30, 2005). Thesis advisor: Morwen Thistlethwaite. Document formatted into pages (v, 31p. ). Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16 ).
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Cao, Qiao-Kai, and 曹喬凱. "Self-Organization Behavior of Adamantyl Group Diblock Copolymers." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/379j4r.
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Quilliam, Neale E. "Group cohesion, loyalty and conformity to group norms in a formal multi-racial organization." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12079.
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M.A. (Sociology)Most, if not all, groups as well as major commercial concerns existing in South Africa today, begin through the actions of one man, or a small group of people. These people were usually wealthy investors, who had the purpose of profit in mind, but nonetheless, were responsible for the conglomerates now active in today's economic world. People such as, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (Anglo American Corporation) Sir John Patterson (Standard Bank of South Africa) Douglas Murray (Murray & Roberts) and many others, began with an idea, and joined by a small group, rose from humble beginnings and formed the major corporations we know today. To be able to expand to the size of today's big companies, more and more people were required to staff the work stations and start up the subsidiary companies and head office divisions that today comprise the holding companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. This is not just a historical event, but the same process is continuing on an ever increasing rate in the modern commercial climate.
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lin, chia-chun, and 林佳君. "The Impact of Transformational Leadership and Group Dynamics on Organization Effectiveness in the Rural Educational Organization." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19735242372178189088.
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碩士大葉大學
人力資源暨公共關係學系
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The main purpose of the study was to discuss the factors that affected organizational effectiveness and group dynamics in the rural educational organizations. Datum was collected and analyzed in terms of literature review and questionnaires survey. Discussed literature included domestic and foreign reforming transformational leadership, group dynamics and school organizational effectiveness. The questionnaire was mainly provided to Nantou County city 27 elementary schools' department deans, department assistant deans, homeroom teachers and non-homeroom teachers. Of the 322 samples, 297 were valid. Effectiveness rates are 92%. Finally, the questionnaire survey material carries on the t test, One-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, and the simple Multiple-Regression. Based on the material analysis, research results as followings: 1. Sex and different education levels of the educators in the elementary schools did not show significantly different in the level of principal transformational leadership. The differences of sex and the period of service of the educators in the levels of elementary schools of consciousness school group dynamics were not significant. Sex, duty, and education level of the educators in the elementary schools of consciousness school organizational effectiveness were not significantly different as well. 2. Age, duty, and the period of service of the educators in the elementary schools did not show significantly different in the level of principal transformational leadership. Differently, age, duty, the levels of education, and the school scale were significantly different in the levels of consciousness group dynamics and in the levels of school organizational effectiveness. 3. Each constructs of transformational leadership and the school organizational effectiveness were significantly correlated. Also, each constructs of group dynamics and the school organizational effectiveness were correlated. 4. The interaction of principal’ transformational leadership and the group dynamics significantly influenced on the parents’ participation construct of of the school organizational effectiveness.
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Chang, Wen-Wei, and 張文偉. "An Impact of Organization Development Intervention on Small Group Interaction." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6vr86p.
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碩士國立交通大學
管理學院碩士在職專班管理科學組
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As the environment of industry has rapidly changed, the way to solve the issues by using the right organization development interventions has become a critical factor to the effectiveness of organizational change. This research is attempt to establish an impact model that may help companies understand the critical factors of a small group interaction. We start from literature review for getting the subjects of critical factors of small group interaction and then construct a list of factors. Data were collected by several depth interviews with the managers, subordinates and HR Manager within the company. The findings of this research present that a small group interaction is affected by the factors of group member background and internal influences. The factors of group member background consist of gender, education, job grade, tenure, and age. The factors of internal influences consist of communication style, group consensus, interpersonal relationship, conflict and problem solving, working atmosphere. After adopting intervention, the factors of internal influences are affected directly. The impacts of different small group interaction are varied by the factors of group member background.
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Wu, Cheng-Hsuch, and 吳政學. "Panda Restaurant Group''s Organization Culture and Human Resource Management." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70512817777802796053.
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碩士國立中興大學
高階經理人碩士在職專班
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In the high speed developing era of internet, retail businesses are facing recession from the fast growing web-business and global economic slow-down impact. However researcher has been absorbing the trend nowadays in the macro-economy, discovered restaurant businesses will not be replaced by the internet business, restaurant businesses always have high demand, minimum criteria, failure cost is minimal, to enter the restaurant industry, which is the first choice priority for people who wish to start-up new business or changing job. researcher himself has over 20+ years experience of managing restaurant service business, deeply realized that it is not so easy to “sustain long term growing” restaurant business. The researcher’s enterprises entered the United States'' market in year 2008, and became close acquaintance with Panda Restaurant Group. Since then, researcher had been visited the founder: Andrew Cherng. In every visit of Panda restaurant, researcher discovered every employee of Panda restaurants is cheerful and joyful, and everyone enforces high standard of hygiene in the restaurant and everyone has strong sense of company loyalty. This has inspired researcher to set the research agenda to study Panda Restaurant Group and corporate culture. How does the corporate culture in Panda Restaurant Group has influences on Human Resource System activity? How does Human Resource System activity support corporate culture?In order to learn and understand further about Panda Restaurant Group. The two days researchgoing to the headquarter of Panda Restaurant Group in the United States and two Panda restaurants, proceeding the company visits and in-depth interviews with the founder and employees of Panda Restaurant Groupbegan in August 2015.Based on the interviewing content, the researcher conductedand analysed the discussion record. According to outcome of interview and research, the researcher discovered Panda Restaurant Group has highly pay attention to cultivating corporate culture and talent, investing lots of time and efforts in these two aspects. The Mission, Vision, Core Value, Corporate culture related slogans of Panda Restaurant Group are all seen in every corner of headquarter office, logistics warehouse, computer desk, business cards, restaurant stores. During the interview, many different people have the same comments about the company. In Panda Restaurant Group, there is No Best, Only Better! The vision of Panda Restaurant Group by year 2020 is to become the world''s leading organization of cultivating talent and a name-brand by every customer, has major investments particularly in the professional development and personal growth of every employee, setting up the interning-restaurant classrooms in the headquarter office, establishing Panda University. In PandaRestaurant Group, precise job responsibility and accountability are clearly announced in every position, let each employee clearly understand the job role and responsibility, enforcing corporate culture and cultivating talent are all part of the job performance evaluation. Panda Restaurant Group has spent 40 years in improving corporate culture and human resources management, researcher believes after learning with minor adjustments of Panda Restaurant Group’s corporate culture and human resources management, its system can be applied and executed within the researcher’s enterprises, to further expedite the company growth.
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Tsai, Hsueh-Hung, and 蔡雪紅. "The Effects of Eight-week Group Exercise Program on Well-Being and Functional Fitness in Elders." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/768rj5.
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碩士國立屏東科技大學
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Objective: This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of eight-week group exercise program on well-being and functional fitness in elders. Methods: We had 17 subjects from a community care base in Pingtung County with 60 minutes/day twice a week group exercise program and lasted it for 8 weeks; before and after experiment, their well-being and functional fitness were tested. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, one-way anova, independent t-test, paired sample t-test, pearson's product-moment correlation and stepwise regression by SPSS 18.0. Results: The results indi-cated that eight-week group exercise program significantly improve the life satisfaction factors, self-affirmation factors, self-confidence factors and overall well-being in elders, and also improve the upper limb muscle strength, upper and lower limb softness. Conclusion: This activity could promote overall well-being and functional fitness in elders. The static balance ability explained the variance of overall well-being in elders. Recommendation: Encouraging community elders to participate in structured sports. The balance training should be increased in elders.
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Tzu-Ying, Lee, and 李姿瑩. "Agency group activities benefit the elderybordgames A conservation organization in Pingtung." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6a9j84.
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碩士美和科技大學
社會工作系碩士班
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The lately modulating to the physical and mental degeneration in elderly people, with the appearance changing in additional to the disable of the body activity, inducing the depressed emotion, reducing the frequency of outdoor activities and increasing the feeling of loneliness. With the circumstances mentioned previously, the emotional pressure progresses gradually uncontrollable and also contributes multiple inconvenience of the daily lives of elderly population. The ultimate goals of this research – 1. Estimating the modification of the depression of elderly people participate grouping table game. 2. The beneficial effect of cognition of the elderly population.This study used experimental method, participation in 12 meetings of table game group activity in the experimental group, control group participants routinely General group activities. Research results displayed in cognition and depression did not Significant level, Observation records findings activity in a number of member participation is not like the original , but at a later stage in the activities of the members participate quite actively ,table Games help bring their interest to the activity, and table games also promote positive interpersonal interactions, let elderly people happier.
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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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Phipson, P. K. "Factors influencing antiretroviral compliance in a small group of children between eight and twelve years of age." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7528.
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic has implications at every level of social functioning. It affects individuals, families, communities and organisations. The burden of caring for those exposed, affected and infected is vast, but one of the most significant developments which have the potential to reduce disease burden is antiretroviral therapy. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is complex and difficult to administer, and requires a learning process which is mediated through a number of means. Vygotskian theory was utilised to better understand the process of adherence through mediated learning, and as a framework for explaining compliance. In this study, mediated learning occurs both in the context of the clinic staff and the clinic attendees, and the caregivers and the child. Therefore Vygotsky‟s theory offers useful insight into this process.
This qualitative study aimed to research the factors which contribute to ART adherence in a small sample of HIV positive children who are attending a local clinic. Eight child-caregiver dyads were interviewed, and drawings utilised to better understand child and caregiver factors which contribute to compliance. There were a number of psychosocial factors identified which contribute to compliance, or lack thereof, including social support, stigma, medication fatigue, disclosure, access difficulties, psychoeducation, and motivation. A number of qualitative differences were also identified between children who knew their HIV status and those who did not. These differences emerged primarily through the analysis of the child participants‟ drawings and there appeared to be a number of inter- and intrapersonal benefits to disclosure. The factors identified in this study, if better understood, can inform interventions to improve compliance on ART.Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2010.
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Amponsah, Cornelius. "The Determinants of Private Savings in the EU: The Case of the Group of Eight Entrant Countries." Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-278888.
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Private saving in the CEE countries can be described as having stabilised over the period of reform. Among the transition variables employed in the study, price liberalisation stands out as the most potent correlate of private saving. This is seen as a direct consequence the gradual removal of the soft budget constraint under the command system and by extension the elimination of involuntary saving. Another remarkable outcome from the GMM model is the positive response of the first lag of private saving which demonstrates persistence of savings in the CEE over the transition period. Tied to this is the strong response of private saving to sound macroeconomic discipline in the CEE countries. This is evidenced in the positive response to key variables like GDP growth and improvements in the terms of trade. Most importantly, the aged dependency ratio is seen as the most consistently strong influence on private saving. This brings to the fore the role of pension reforms in these countries and its impact on public and private funds. Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe, EU, Private Saving, Stabilization, Transition. 5
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Ning, Tan Cheng, and 陳振寧. "The Relationship Among Core Expansion Model, Organization Change and Group Performance - with S Group as a Case Study." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/497p3c.
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碩士醒吾科技大學
行銷與流通管理系所
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The competition among International Talents and the Rapidly changes of raw materials and environmental costs within the manufacturing industries has been proven intense, in which, traditional manufacturer should engage proactively with the improvisation of corporate strategies than upholding simple production modules to avoid market invasions which can be further worsened to extent of facing eliminations. Taking considerations onto operating traditional manufactures as advanced manufactures, while exceeding the efficiency and dynamic of the current manufacturers would be necessary, such attitude should be taken up by the existing operators in order to maintain corporate sustainability, especially during the imminent time. This research would mainly focus on the accountability of the corporate constitutions and organizational planning towards both internal and external pressures, while making necessary alterations, grasping and fully utilizing the resources, and sustaining competitive advantages. Research has been carried out based on the analysis of real-life cases. Corporate has been taken as the research subject in which, has made alterations based on the adversities faced, while making the expansion of its primary operations for the past 10 years. The research would engage with in-depth interviews, extensive collection of relevant information, verifying and analyzing concurrent situation, while probing into decisions made by the organization, such as the expansion module and the organizational reformation, in order to sustain the growth of the corporate operations. The research was concluded as below, 1. The appropriate expansion of its primary competition would closely relates with the corporate primary resources. As the resource covers more thoroughly, the primary competition shall be operated onto a more comprehensive module. 2. The expansion of its primary competition should be closely related with the organizational reformation. As the expansion of its primary competition being more comprehensive, concurrently, the organizational transformation should be intense and audacious. 3. Appropriate expansion module of the primary competition and organizational transformation would have a large impact with the growth of the corporate’s revenue concurrently; while on the other hand, the expansion of the primary force and the complete organizational transformation, would made a large impact onto the continuance and sustainability of the growth in corporate’s revenue.
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Lu, Joseph, and 魯思豪. "A Comparison on Organization Management and Faith Attitudes of Congregation between Cell-group and Non-cell-group Churches." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62953620335538652412.
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碩士國立交通大學
管理科學學程碩士班
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This study adopted the method of qualitative research to compare the differences between cells-group churches and non-cells-group churches on the organizational management (organization design, management operation and structural dimensions) and congregational faith attitude (cognition, affection and behavior). The result shows that the organization of the cells-group churches is more complicated than the non-cells-group churches. The job involvement, organization commitment and faith satisfaction of the congregation in the cells-group churches are higher than those of the congregation in the non-cells-group churches. However, the full-time evangelists in the non cells-group churches have a greater influence on the congregation’s faith attitude. For the cells-group churches, in addition to the full-time evangelists, the cells group itself shares an influence on the faith attitude of the congregation. Based on the above findings, this study gives suggestions about the organizational management of cells-group churches.