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Chakravarty, Urmi. "Online job portal." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38212.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Computing and Information Sciences
Daniel A. Andresen
“Dreams Job” is an online Job Search Portal, a web application through which job seekers can register and apply for jobs. Through this portal employers can also post their jobs and review applications. The traditional recruitment systems are time taking and costly. A job seeker must find jobs through advertisements, college fairs, job fairs etc., and the employers must put in much effort to find the right candidate for a vacant position. This application addresses such shortcomings and is a convenient platform for both job seekers to find and apply for jobs and for employers to post jobs and review applications with much ease. Candidates can search for jobs in any field through advanced search capabilities. They can upload their resumes to this application which is stored for future use also. Employers can download these resumes and post/delete job positions. The admin controls this portal and makes the decision about companies and jobs that can access/appear in this portal. Candidates and Employers can use this portal without any geographical barrier, from any part of the world. This application is also developed by using some cutting-edge technologies that are in great demand in the IT industry today. Some of them are NodeJS, AngularJS, Sequelize ORM, etc.
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Sowmya, Mathukumalli. "Job search portal." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34518.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science
Mitchell L. Neilsen
Finding jobs that best suits the interests and skill set is quite a challenging task for the job seekers. The difficulties arise from not having proper knowledge on the organization’s objective, their work culture and current job openings. In addition, finding the right candidate with desired qualifications to fill their current job openings is an important task for the recruiters of any organization. Online Job Search Portals have certainly made job seeking convenient on both sides. Job Portal is the solution where recruiter as well as the job seeker meet aiming at fulfilling their individual requirement. They are the cheapest as well as the fastest source of communication reaching wide range of audience on just a single click irrespective of their geographical distance. The web application “Job Search Portal” provides an easy and convenient search application for the job seekers to find their desired jobs and for the recruiters to find the right candidate. Job seekers from any background can search for the current job openings. Job seekers can register with the application and update their details and skill set. They can search for available jobs and apply to their desired positions. Android, being open source has already made its mark in the mobile application development. To make things handy, the user functionalities are developed as an Android application. Employer can register with the application and posts their current openings. They can view the Job applicants and can screen them according to the best fit. Users can provide a review about an organization and share their interview experience, which can be viewed by the Employers.
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Rozman, Ivan. "Strategic Analysis of the Job Portals in the Czech Republic." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193318.
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The aim of the theoretical part of this thesis is to describe the role of a marketing situational analysis and how it can benefit companies. The practical part describes the individual steps of the marketing situational analysis of the new employment website www.aulinks.cz. The analysis focuses on the employment websites market in the Czech Republic and reveals its customer segments, competitive environment and trends. The ultimate aim of this thesis is to propose www.aulinks.cz, based on the findings of the situational analysis, a penetration strategy, which will allow the company to utilize current market circumstances.
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Maguire, Meg. "The job of educating teachers." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1993. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-job-of-educating-teachers(4b6284e3-fc3c-4c7d-b16f-92ed0c3ff806).html.
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Ali, Syed Zeeshan. "An investigation into parallel job scheduling using service level agreements." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/an-investigation-into-parallel-job-scheduling-using-service-level-agreements(f4685321-374e-41c4-86da-d07f09ea4bac).html.
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A scheduler, as a central components of a computing site, aggregates computing resources and is responsible to distribute the incoming load (jobs) between the resources. Under such an environment, the optimum performance of the system against the service level agreement (SLA) based workloads, can be achieved by calculating the priority of SLA bound jobs using integrated heuristic. The SLA defines the service obligations and expectations to use the computational resources. The integrated heuristic is the combination of different SLA terms. It combines the SLA terms with a specific weight for each term. Theweights are computed by applying parameter sweep technique in order to obtain the best schedule for the optimum performance of the system under the workload. The sweepingof parameters on the integrated heuristic observed to be computationally expensive. The integrated heuristic becomes more expensive if no value of the computed weights result in improvement in performance with the resulting schedule. Hence, instead of obtaining optimum performance it incurs computation cost in such situations. Therefore, there is a need of detection of situations where the integrated heuristic can be exploited beneficially. For that reason, in this thesis we propose a metric based on the concept of utilization, to evaluate the SLA based parallel workloads of independent jobs to detect any impact of integrated heuristic on the workload.
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Owens, Courtney Elizabeth. "Development of a model of work-personality." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2019. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/development-of-a-model-of-workpersonality(0f2e4027-3bac-4200-b6b6-29597fbfabeb).html.
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Personality is important to job performance; meta-analyses published over the years repeatedly showed that self-rated personality traits can significantly predict overall job performance (Barrick & Mount, 1991; Barrick, Mount, & Judge, 2001). Despite their significance, these same meta-analyses, generally showed personality only had a small effect on overall job performance. The exception was conscientiousness, which had a less than medium effect. However, there is also a growing body of evidence suggesting that other-ratings of personality can show higher concurrent validities than self-ratings. Meta-analytic results showed that personality can have a large effect on overall job performance, if the personality traits are rated by others (Connelly & Ones, 2010). Moreover, concurrent validities increased when utilising narrow measures of both personality (Judge, Rodell, Klinger, Simon, & Crawford, 2013) and job performance (Bartram, 2005). In this study, the author examined the suggestion from meta-analyses that observer-ratings, rather than self-ratings, provide greater explanatory power when predicting job performance. Further, the concurrent validities of using narrow personality traits (facets) as predictors of narrow measures of job performance were investigated. This study comprised 1,041 participants, of which 92% were employed in a UK police organisation. Employees provided self-ratings and identified two co-workers and a manager who could provide other-ratings of personality and job performance. Online questionnaires measured 71 personality facets of the 11+ Factor Model (Irwing & Booth, 2013) and Bartram's (2005) Great Eight factors of job performance. Arguably the most comprehensive measure of personality, the 11+ Factor Model is comprised of 11 factors and 74 facets. Items from the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP; Goldberg, 1999) were utilised to create scales for each of the 74 personality facets. A planned missing data design was implemented to improve response rates (Graham, Taylor, Olchowski, & Cumsille, 2006). Measurement models were estimated first, followed by testing of the structural models (J. C. Anderson & Gerbing, 1988) to estimate the combined effects of personality facets on each of the job performance outcomes. Since cross-validation is a powerful approach for evaluating models (Millsap & Meredith, 2007), all models were cross-validated on two datasets. Fifty-two personality facets were identified and cross-validated. Some of these facets provided superior prediction over factors, when predicting narrow measures of job performance. The facets of integrity, leadership, harm avoidance and empathy explained much of the variance in the Great Eight job competencies. In some cases, self-ratings of personality provided superior prediction over other-ratings.
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Corban, Ian. "Educational psychologists' views of factors that influence job approbation, job satisfaction and dissatisfaction when working within multi-agency local authority contexts." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/educational-psychologists-views-of-factors-that-influence-job-approbation-job-satisfaction-and-dissatisfaction-when-working-within-multiagency-local-authority-contexts(a489a1f4-12aa-4df0-80cf-4b7121bc887c).html.
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Background: Over the past decade Local Authority Educational Psychologists in England have been increasingly required to engage in multi-agency work. There has been limited research within the UK context looking at factors which facilitate or are barriers to EP job satisfaction and approbation. This qualitative study elicits Educational Psychologists‟ views of factors that influence approbation, job satisfaction and dissatisfaction when working within this context. Methods: 27 Main grade and senior Educational Psychologists working in the North West of England participated in a combination of focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews using a set of predefined questions. Interviews were audio taped and transcribed before being analysed using inductive, explicit thematic analysis. Results: Five themes of approbation, autonomy, job satisfaction, job dissatisfaction and multi-agency working were identified as relevant to the study. Conclusions: In-depth Educational Psychology interviews allowed examination of the factors related to approbation, job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. This resulted in a number of implications and recommendations for future policy and practice.
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Mikschik, Filip. "Automatizované testování znalostí uživatelů v projektu StartupJobs.cz." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-197674.
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This diploma thesis is focused on proposal and implementation of automatized user testing in StartupJobs.cz project. It describes it from theoretical preparation through implemenation to evaluation of this project after first year. It is divided into two main parts. First one is about description of company which is implementing the testing. It describes reasons and expectations from testing implementation. It also creates a theoretical background by describing Classical Test Theory (CTT), Item Reposnse Theory (IRT) and more others. End of this part is consists of review of relevant literary sources. In second, practical part is the thesis focused on using these theories in praxis. How to use them for company's purposes. It is followed by description of system implementation and main part of the thesis is focused on evaluation of user testing implementation using data collected through the first year. Goal of this thesis is to validate hypothesis which are related to testing implementation (relationship between having tests and success rate of candidates). Main contribution of this work is complex overview on this field from theories to practical implementation which created during first year a lot of unique data presented in this paper.
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Graham, Jill. "Job stress and satisfaction among hospital consultants : associations with psychiatric morbidity and burnout." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/job-stress-and-satisfaction-among-hospital-consultants--associations-with-psychiatric-morbidity-and-burnout(42631952-6cb5-455a-b008-ebc3735f4fd8).html.
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Femina, Devi. "Workplace social capital, job satisfaction and workplace performance in developed and developing countries." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/workplace-social-capital-job-satisfaction-and-workplace-performance-in-developed-and-developing-countries(9323de21-3677-452c-9546-dbb6d350d8c8).html.
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Although social capital had been found to solve collective action problems, social capital at work or workplace social capital has only recently begun to be researched. This is noteworthy given that most of our waking hours are spent in the workplace. While workplace social capital is suggested to improve workplace performance, job satisfaction had been found to improve workplace performance. However, workplace social capital and job satisfaction have never been examined together with regard to workplace performance. Furthermore, most studies on workplace performance have focused on developed countries with evidence from developing countries is lacking. The aims of this thesis were to investigate 1) whether workplace social capital affects job satisfaction; 2) the relationship of social capital, job satisfaction and workplace performance; 3) whether individual characteristics differ in determining job satisfaction in developed and developing countries; and 4) whether context of organisations in developed and developing countries differ in determining the relationship of social capital, job satisfaction and workplace performance. To achieve those aims, this thesis selects two sets of secondary data representing developed countries: EWCS2010 in Europe combining workers with their regions and countries and WERS2011 in Britain linking workers to their workplaces; while primary data froma developing country have been gathered from public hospitals in Indonesia associating workers with workplaces. As such, this thesis exploits two approaches using structural equation modelling in multilevel models. First, the customary Macro-micro approach is used to examine the relationship between workplace social capital and job satisfaction treating both variables as latent constructs. Second, the less common micro-Macro approach is exercised to investigate the relationship between workplace social capital, job satisfaction and workplace performance. Results from developed countries show that workplace social capital is positively associated with individual outcomes such as job satisfaction and well-being even in times of financial crisis. Comparing the results between developed and developing countries, workplace social capital is positively significantly associated with job satisfaction in Britain and in Indonesia. With regard to higher level outcomes, workplace social capital is associated with better financial performance, while job satisfaction is associated with higher quality in British general industry. Turning to results from Indonesia, workplace social capital is associated with lower expenditure per bed; job satisfaction, however, failed to be associated with any workplace performance measures. Several individual and workplace characteristics in both developed and developing countries have similar influences on job satisfaction and workplace performance. Nevertheless, there are some contrasting results regarding the influence of those characteristics in developed and developing countries.
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Carr, Ewan Gabriel. "The moderated consequences of post-industrial employment." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-moderated-consequences-of-postindustrial-employment(40179b40-cedf-408f-b786-b36f4bdc9e41).html.
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This thesis considers how work has changed in post-industrial society. It shows that while insecure or stressful work can be reliably linked with poor health, individual outcomes depend upon a range of micro- and macro-level moderators. Bad jobs are invariably harmful, but context matters. It begins by charting the shift in advanced economic nations from industry and agriculture to service sector and knowledge-based employment. Most accounts of post-industrialisation share common flaws. Namely, the tendency for technological determinism; the depiction of discontinuous, all-encompassing social transformation; and the dislocation from individual experience. Such failings, however, do not negate the micro-level impact of these changes. This thesis focuses on two: job insecurity and work intensity. Recent decades have witnessed a destandardisation of employment relations and an intensification of working conditions. These changes have important consequences for well-being, whether or not they collectively constitute a new form of society. The methodological theme is one of moderation. Successive analytical chapters show how the consequences of insecure or stressful work depends upon (a) family arrangements, (b) economic climate, (c) labour market policies, (d) job resources and (e) national characteristics such as culture or trade union density. The analyses combine European survey data and contextual information using a range of quantitative methods, including multilevel modelling, structural equation modelling and latent class analysis. While the empirical chapters contribute to their respective literatures, they also feed into broader arguments regarding the synthesis of micro- and macro-level perspectives. Work invariably impacts upon health, but a simultaneity of moderating influences results in a diversity of outcomes. These findings underline the contextual sensitivity of work-related policy.
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Galanová, Dagmar. "Internetový portál hledání práce." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-81976.
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The objective of this thesis is to propose new functionality of job search website which would better reflect the customers' needs than current job search websites. It focuses on the job applicant segment to improve and simplify the whole process of searching for a relevant job offer and also to take in account the real users' requirements on the system. At first an introduction to the field of Human Resource Information Systems will take place together with its relationship to the job search website systems. Next step is to analyze and compare five Czech job search websites to find out and describe their functionality in detail. Results of the comparison will be presented in the form of SWOT analysis and will serve as a main source of questions in the users' survey in the following step. The purpose of the survey is to verify the results of the analysis and also to confirm potential users' interest in the newly proposed functions for the job search website. The results of the analysis, together with the survey results, make up for a basic source of information to be used in the process of designing new functionality to improve the current job search website systems and thus completing the main objective.
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Clack, Gillian Beverley. "Is personality related to doctors' speciality choice and job satisfaction : a study of a Cambodian classic." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2002. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/is-personality-related-to-doctors-speciality-choice-and-job-satisfaction--a-study-of-a-cambodian-classic(70bc9912-818d-40fb-b3b9-72796aa62460).html.
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Alnuaimi, Asma. "Happiness at work in the UAE : the role of leadership style and human resource management." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/happiness-at-work-in-the-uaethe-role-of-leadership-style-and-human-resource-management(0c69e769-c454-4261-9c4e-b622d357f2d2).html.
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There is a wealth of literature on job satisfaction from both Western and Eastern experiences and perspectives, but the literature is limited when it comes to happiness at work, especially in the Arab region. This study is an attempt to encourage research studies in the field of happiness at work in the Middle East and specifically in the United Arab Emirates, the context of the present research, to influence planning in government organisations in implementing a strategy for long-term impacts on happiness levels. This research uses a mixed methods approach of both questionnaires and interviews to collect data. The analysis is conducted by using quantitative and qualitative tools to recognise the gaps and the factors that influence happiness at work and suggests recommendations in order to raise happiness across organisations over the long run. The findings of this study emphasise the necessity of correlating HRM practices, rules and systems with strategic planning that focuses on employee happiness as the greatest purpose of an organisation. The findings emphasise the power of three factors related to employees' feelings towards work which are: Leadership style, organisational culture and organisation structure and how reflecting them in an organisation will positively influence satisfaction and build a strong, positive and happy workplace. This research also discusses one of the controversial inquiries found in the literature about the relationship between job satisfaction and happiness. A conceptual framework is suggested to illustrate the connection between job satisfaction and happiness from a new perspective and clarify how these two concepts positively interact. It clarifies that organisations that indicate a high-level of happiness at work usually indicate a high-level of job satisfaction, and when an organisation achieves a high-level of job satisfaction, it can be deduced that people in the organisation are happy, even where happiness per se is not measured. The findings also show that the role of religion in raising happiness in general is clearer than its role in raising happiness at work and that employees from the sample group, who emphasise the importance of practicing religious rituals, still indicate low feelings towards work regardless of all the facilities that are provided to them to practice their religion.
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Dalati, Serene. "The relationship between leadership, organizational culture and job satisfaction : the empirical evidence from retail banking industry in Wales." Thesis, Bangor University, 2008. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-relationship-between-leadership-organizational-culture-and-job-satisfaction--the-empirical-evidence-from-retail-banking-industry-in-wales(f326e071-012e-4c9c-a58a-9d3acddce9e2).html.
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This study examines the relationship between managerial leadership, organisational culture and job satisfaction in organisations. The first section of the study examines three leadershipb ehavioursw hich are visionary, communicativea nd team-oriented leadershipb ehavioursT. he seconds ectiono f the study examinesfo ur dimensionso f organisationacl ulture. Thesed imensionsa re task vs. peopleo rientedc ultures,o pen vs. closed communication system cultures, tight vs. loose control system cultures and individual vs. collective cultures. This research benefits from the combination of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. The sample of the study is selected from six commercial banks that provide retail banking services in Wales. The unit of analysis for this research is bank branch mangers. The first proposition of the study examines the relation between visionary, communicative and team- oriented leadership and task vs. people oriented cultures, open vs. closed communication system cultures, tight vs. loose control system cultures and individual vs. collective cultures. The correlation analysis between managerial leadership behaviours and organisational culture dimensions shows strong and significant relation in certain organisational aspects and negative relationship in other aspects. The correlation analysis between organisational culture and job satisfaction shows strong positive significance in certain dimensions like the correlation between individual vs. collectivec ulturesa ndj ob satisfactiond imensions.
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Morgan, Richard. "Exploring how fishermen respond to the challenges facing the fishing industry : a study of diversification and multiple-job holding in the English Channel fishery." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/exploring-how-fishermen-respond-to-the-challenges-facing-the-fishing-industry(87f179f0-cdf7-44c7-917a-bf0aa7b73c59).html.
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Fishermen in the UK face a range of administrative, socioeconomic and environmental challenges that affect the financial performance, and ultimate viability of their businesses. These challenges are particularly salient within the ‘inshore sector’; those vessels of less than ten metres in length which account for over-three quarters of the domestic fleet. While diversification of fishing activity is a well-established response to such challenges, the opportunity to exploit alternative fishing grounds and stocks is increasingly constrained by management controls. An alternative response is to develop strategies that are not subject to restrictions on fishing effort and output. These strategies include diversifying into activities that maintain a link with fishing (i.e. fisheries diversification), and seeking complementary employment outside of the fishing industry (i.e. multiple-job holding). Despite the potential contribution of such strategies to the sustainability of individual fishing businesses and fishing communities, this remains an area that has received limited academic attention to date. This thesis seeks to make an original contribution to knowledge by examining how fishermen in the English Channel respond to challenges upon financial performance; and exploring the practices, motivations and constraints of engaging in fisheries diversification and multiple-job holding. The research design adopted in this study comprises a mixed method approach formed of three distinct phases: an inventory of existing fisheries diversification activities; a survey of fishermen and industry stakeholders; and a qualitative phase of research with fishermen. The results of the inventory reveal that fisheries diversification is historically well established among fishermen in the Channel and is currently practised in a range of forms. The type of diversification practised is found to be subject to a range of factors, including geographical location; market demand; and the characteristics of individual fishermen. Additionally, a number of key constraints were identified that may deter fishermen from adopting this strategy. The relative importance of these constraints was examined in a survey of fisherman and non-fishing stakeholders using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. The results revealed that respondents attributed similar levels of importance to administrative, economic and social constraints, and lack of opportunities; but considered lack of information to be relatively unimportant. Through the analysis of qualitative data, a conceptual framework is developed to understand the main challenges faced by Channel fishermen and the strategies they adopt in response. The framework demonstrates that the challenges faced by fishermen, the impact upon their businesses and the types of response developed are shaped by the interaction of three environmental ‘contexts’. These relate to attributes of the individual fisherman; the characteristics of their fishing business; and the external environment within which they operate. The model indicates that the strategies adopted in response to challenges upon financial performance follow a hierarchical structure: fishermen are most likely to respond by adapting their fishing practices, prior to considering a strategy of fisheries diversification. In contrast, multiple-job holding is not widely practised nor regarded by fisherman as a viable response strategy. To this end, a recommendation is made to support fishermen in both improving the profitability of their fishing businesses, and developing complementary sources of income where viable.
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Yang, Wei-Ning. "'That's not what I signed up for!' : a longitudinal investigation of the impact of unmet expectation in the relation between career plateau and job outcomes." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/thats-not-what-i-signed-up-for-a-longitudinal-investigation-of-the-impact-of-unmet-expectation-in-the-relation-between-career-plateau-and-job-outcomes(b2561081-5a96-4665-9678-323a505aa8c8).html.
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The changing working environment and ageing workforce suggest that many workers will inevitably reach a career plateau, a stage where people regard future promotions as unlikely, or no longer feel challenged at work. Experiencing career plateau is found to be associated with negative job attitudes and performance in the workplace. However, existing studies have been mainly cross-sectional in design and few of them investigate the mechanisms and the conditions that influence the negative relationship. This study follows a quantitative longitudinal research design to further enhance the understanding of the relationships between career plateau and job outcomes. The job outcomes in this research include work attitudes such as job satisfaction, organisational commitment, turnover intentions and three aspects of job performance. Specifically, the three research aims of this thesis are: (1) to understand the causal directions between career plateau and job outcomes, (2) to examine whether employees’ unmet expectations may explain these relations and (3) to investigate whether employees’ age may modify the mediation effects of career plateau on job outcomes via unmet expectations. Three waves of data were collected from working individuals in various industries over an eight-month period. The majority of the participants were working in the UK or in Taiwan. Results showed that unmet expectations partially explain the negative relationship between career plateau and job attitudes over time but not for job performance. Furthermore, age did not affect the strength of the mediation effect of career plateau on the job outcomes through unmet expectations. The significance of this research is three-fold. First, it provides a new explanation for the unfavourable work attitudes of plateaued individuals. The findings that career plateaued employees have lower job satisfaction, lower organisational commitment and higher turnover intentions can partly be explained by unfulfilled expectations in receiving promotions or challenging tasks. Second, the study signals the danger of career plateau at any age, as younger and older workers were found to be equally influenced by career plateau. Finally, this is the first study in the area that seeks to resolve the debate over the directional relationship between career plateau and job outcomes. The implications in theory and in practice, limitations and suggestions for future research directions are discussed.
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Magola, Esnath. "Identifying the challenges faced by novice community pharmacists and developing a peer support intervention to ease their transitions to independent practitioners." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/identifying-the-challenges-faced-by-novice-community-pharmacists-and-developing-a-peer-support-intervention-to-ease-their-transitions-to-independent-practitioners(34f38a4e-4ca9-4740-b55e-1ac2368ca5fd).html.
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Background: The transition from trainee to newly-registered (novice) practitioner is regarded as the most stressful and challenging of time of a healthcare professional's career. Community pharmacists are unusual in that they transition into roles where they commonly work as the sole pharmacist, manage a team of support staff and are accountable from day one of professional registration (without any formal support structure), yet little research exists in this area. This study aimed to identify the transition challenges faced by novice community pharmacists and to develop and feasibility test an evidence-based intervention to ease their transitions to independent practitioners. Methods: Medical Research Council guidance for developing complex interventions was used to frame this programme of work. During development, evidence from existing literature and an exploratory nominal group study identified and prioritised the challenges faced by novice community pharmacists. Findings informed the iterative design process for a peer-coaching intervention with the following components; a social media group, one-to-one coaching, a handbook, group activities and weekly clinical/practice scenarios for group discussion. Twelve novice community pharmacists were recruited purposively to participate in the draft intervention, which was evaluated using semi-structured telephone interviews. Results: Twenty-five participants took part in homogenous group discussions consisting of novice community pharmacists, early career pharmacists, pre-registration tutors and pharmacy colleagues. Similarly to challenges reported by novice doctors and nurses, nominal group discussions identified the following challenges [in order of importance]; relationship management; lack of confidence; decision-making; being in charge and accountable; and adapting to the workplace. Relationship management was attributed to novices' lack of affective skills. There were some differences however in the challenges reported by novice community pharmacists, such as power struggles (with managers or pharmacy colleagues), inverse hierarchy, professional isolation, target culture and full immediate accountability. A number of factors perpetuating these differences were perceived to increase the weight of professional accountability and augment stress; the retail community pharmacy context, the relative lack of support and isolation from peers. Hence, the draft intervention focussed on supporting the novice community pharmacist to develop cognitive and affective skills. All participants viewed the social media forum as the most valuable component because it provided a confidential space for reassurance, feedback, and sharing or discussing practice experiences. Participants also valued one-to-one discussions with the coach, which supported meaningful reflection and developing self-awareness. Outcomes reported by all participants included increased self-efficacy, increased confidence in decision-making/managing others, an increased sense of preparedness and the ability to cope during transition. Through group components, novice community pharmacists developed and reported feeling less isolated in the workplace. Conclusions: This novel programme of work revealed the challenges faced by novice community pharmacists during transition. Findings suggest that a lack of affective and cognitive skills, the demands of the job and professional isolation caused novices to experience psychosocial stress and high job strain. A group peer-coaching intervention designed to ease the transitions of novice community pharmacists was reported to be acceptable, feasible and beneficial. Study findings led to some recommendations for transition support interventions: incorporate psychosocial support with developmental activities; provide a supportive learning space for developmental discourse that is accessible facilitated and structured; and offer coaching and supported reflection from an experienced pharmacist coach.
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Coutinho, James. "Workplace democracy, well-being and political participation." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/workplace-democracy-wellbeing-and-political-participation(8caf3766-fc92-4a7c-8f55-fb09457b4cf1).html.
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A democratic workplace is one where workers as a body have the right to determine the internal organization and future direction of the firm. Worker co-operatives are a type of democratic firm. In a worker co-operative employees are joint-owners of the firm and participate democratically in workplace governance. Much has been written about the supposed benefits of worker co-operatives for workers and for society. One thread of this research, originating with Carole Pateman’s theoretical work (Pateman 1970), argues that worker co-operatives act as sites of political learning for workers. By participating democratically in workplace decisions, individuals are thought to learn the skills and psychological dispositions needed to participate in political democracy. A second thread argues that co-operatives will improve worker well-being. Democratic governance will give workers control over work organization, increasing autonomy in their daily lives, and leading to an increase in non-material work rewards such as job satisfaction. Worker ownership will equalize the material rewards from work and improve job security. These arguments are premised on the idea that democratic governance structures and worker ownership will lead to widespread, effective worker participation in decision-making and the equalization of power at work. However, insufficient attention is given to the contextual factors beyond formal governance and ownership structures that shape the internal dynamics of workplace democracy. I conduct an in-depth, mixed-methods case study of a worker co-operative with 158 employees in the UK cycling retail industry. Using survey research, social network analysis, in-depth interviews and direct observation, I show how individual differences, firm-level contextual factors such as the social composition of the organization, and macro-level factors such as economic and cultural context, lead to unequal participation opportunities and different outcomes for different groups of workers within the firm. My research leads to three conclusions. First, the outcomes of workplace democracy for workers are highly context-dependent. They will differ across groups of workers within co-operatives, across different democratic firms, and across cultures. Second, the relationship between workplace democracy and political participation is more complex than the Pateman thesis suggests. It is contingent on the political identities of workers, which are themselves shaped by wider political economic context. Political identity affects both participation behaviour at work, and how workplace experience shapes political views. Third, the subjective well-being outcomes of workplace democracy depend on workers’ expectations about work. Expectations are shaped by the same forces that mould political identity. Workplace democracy raises expectations for certain groups of workers, leading to well-being harms when expectations are not met. Overall, the benefits of workplace democracy for workers and for society are overstated. In the UK context, co-ops are unlikely to realize the benefits attributed to them without large-scale public policy interventions.
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Tordsson, Johan. "Portable Tools for Interoperable Grids : Modular Architectures and Software for Job and Workflow Management." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-19630.
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The emergence of Grid computing infrastructures enables researchers to shareresources and collaborate in more efficient ways than before, despite belongingto different organizations and being geographically distributed. While the Gridcomputing paradigm offers new opportunities, it also gives rise to newdifficulties. This thesis investigates methods, architectures, and algorithmsfor a range of topics in the area of Grid resource management. One studiedtopic is how to automate and improve resource selection, despite heterogeneityin Grid hardware, software, availability, ownership, and usage policies.Algorithmical difficulties for this are, e.g., characterization of jobs andresources, prediction of resource performance, and data placementconsiderations. Investigated Quality of Service aspects of resource selectioninclude how to guarantee job start and/or completion times as well as how tosynchronize multiple resources for coordinated use through coallocation.Another explored research topic is architectural considerations for frameworksthat simplify and automate submission, monitoring, and fault handling for largeamounts of jobs. This thesis also investigates suitable Grid interactionpatterns for scientific workflows, studies programming models that enable dataparallelism for such workflows, as well as analyzes how workflow compositiontools should be designed to increase flexibility and expressiveness. We today have the somewhat paradoxical situation where Grids, originally aimed tofederate resources and overcome interoperability problems between differentcomputing platforms, themselves struggle with interoperability problems causedby the wide range of interfaces, protocols, and data formats that are used indifferent environments. This thesis demonstrates how proof-of-concept softwaretools for Grid resource management can, by using (proposed) standard formatsand protocols as well as leveraging state-of-the-art principles fromservice-oriented architectures, be made independent of current Gridinfrastructures. Further interoperability contributions include an in-depthstudy that surveys issues related to the use of Grid resources in scientificworkflows. This study improves our understanding of interoperability amongscientific workflow systems by viewing this topic from three differentperspectives: model of computation, workflow language, and executionenvironment. A final contribution in this thesis is the investigation of how the design ofGrid middleware tools can adopt principles and concepts from softwareengineering in order to improve, e.g., adaptability and interoperability.
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Sales, Willame Santos de. "Dialogiza??o de vozes: o fio construtor do estilo de Jos? Bezerra Gomes no romance A porta e o vento." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2014. http://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/19581.
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A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar o processo de constru??o estil?stica na prosa romanesca do escritor norte-rio-grandense Jos? Bezerra Gomes, tomando, como corpus, o romance A porta e o vento. Os fundamentos te?ricos sobre os quais se assenta esta empresa est?o relacionados ?s ideias difundidas pelo chamado C?rculo de Bakhtin, especialmente, as no??es de linguagem dial?gica, palavra liter?ria, enunciado concreto, vozes sociais e estilo/estil?stica sociol?gica. Quanto ? orienta??o metodol?gica, o trabalho caracteriza-se por adotar o paradigma interpretativista de base s?cio-hist?rica, situando-se, ainda, no grande campo da Lingu?stica Aplicada, ?rea de investiga??o indisciplinar e fronteiri?a cujo foco primordial ? a linguagem concretamente situada. A an?lise dos discursos presentes na obra A porta e o vento possibilitou-me escutar diversas vozes sociais ali encarnadas, enxergar diversas formas de di?logo, in?meras vis?es de mundo em embate constante que, em raz?o do gerenciamento e do acabamento dados pelo autor, acabam por conferir-lhe um tom, um estilo peculiar frente aos demais discursos e estilos circulantes em seu meio. Os embates ideol?gicos s?o evidentes: voz da tradi??o versus voz particular do personagem Santos, no que respeita ? institui??o do casamento; confronto entre imagens de sert?o antag?nicas ? um sert?o vivo (rico e diverso) em contraposi??o ? no??o estereotipada de sert?o (pobre e est?ril); e A porta e o vento como met?fora de uma arena de combate e ind?cio de uma poetiza??o da linguagem da prosa. A caracter?stica principal do estilo bezerriano, em A porta e o vento, est? relacionada aos modos de dialogiza??o das aludidas vozes presentes no romance. Nesse sentido, tem-se, com frequ?ncia, o uso de pol?micas veladas, r?plicas dial?gicas e di?logos velados, que s?o categorias j? discutidas na teoria bakhtiniana, mas tamb?m outros modos de dialogiza??o novos, alicer?ados na din?mica da linguagem viva e concreta
This research aims to investigate the process of stylistic construction in novelistic prose of Northeastern Brazilian writter Jos? Bezerra Gomes, taking as a corpus his novel called A porta e o vento. The theoretical foundations supporting this study are related to the ideas disseminated by a group of linguistic researchers known as Bakhtin Circle, especially the notions of dialogic language, literary word, concrete utterance, social voices, and sociological style/stylistic. Concerning to methodological guidance, this work is characterized by adopting the interpretive paradigm of socio-historical background, still situated in the great field of Applied Linguistics, an undisciplinary area of research and frontier whose primary focus is concrete and situated language. The analysis allowed me to hear several social voices embodied therein, realizing a variety of dialogs, numerous worldviews in constant struggle, that due to the management and the finish given by the author, eventually create a tone, a unique composition compared to other discourses and current styles in his midst. Ideological clashes are evident: the voice of tradition versus particular character Santos? voice regarding the institution of marriage; confrontation between antagonistic hinterland pictures - a living hinterland (rich and diverse) as opposed to the stereotypical notion of hinterland (poor and sterile); and the door and the wind as a metaphor of a fighting arena and a hint of poeticization of the language of prose. The main feature of Bezerra?s style in A porta e o vento is related to the aforesaid modes dialogization voices present in the novel. Therefore, one can found veiled polemic, dialogical replicas and veiled dialogues, which are categories already discussed in Bakhtin's theory, but also other new modes dialogization, grounded in the dynamics of living and concrete language
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Wenkel, David H. "The emotion of joy and the rhetoric of reversal in Luke-Acts : a socio-rhetorical study." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2011. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-emotion-of-joy-and-the-rhetoric-of-reversal-in-lukeacts(7ba974d8-bc5d-4bfc-bb9a-90f09f479b7a).html.
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This dissertation seeks to cover the entire joy theme in Luke-Acts. The Gospel of Luke has been called the ‘gospel of joy', and the joy theme has been recognized in Acts. Although the joy theme is clearly present in Luke-Acts, it has received relatively little attention in New Testament scholarship. This study seeks to examine the joy theme from a socio-rhetorical vantage point. In order to facilitate a careful study of the persuasive use of the emotion of joy and its social impact, the distinct but interrelated textures of the Lukan tapestry are examined separately. From the wide vantage point of the Lukan corpus, the nature of the treads woven into the tapestry are clearly visible. In order to trace these threads, I examine: (1) the repetition of joy, (2) the use of intertextuality from Isaiah, (3) the relationship between joy and God, and (4) joy as an ideological tool amidst conflict. The thesis presented here demonstrates that the joy theme empowers the Lukan rhetoric of reversal. This study contributes to scholarship by connecting the well-known use of ‘reversal' with the emotion of joy. In other words, Luke's two-volume corpus is based on a worldview that is totally ‘upside-down'. Objectively, the joy theme provides the reader/auditor with evidence that YHWH has fulfilled or begun to fulfill his promises. Subjectively, the joy theme provides pathos or emotional power that draws the reader/auditor into the narrative and ultimately into the upside-down world. The emotion of joy is one of the primary ways that the narrative seeks to persuade the reader/auditor to enter into the values and beliefs that characterize this ‘upside-down' world in which YHWH has visited his people in Jesus. This stands in contrast to recent claims that Luke does not utilize emotion as a rhetorical tool.
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Kennedy, Caroline Sarah. "'The joy of the Lord is your strength' (Neh 8:10) : an evaluation of the Bible Explorer programme." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-joy-of-the-lord-is-your-strength-neh-810(1a7418fb-cb94-4cff-867f-c3bfb5e6e2bc).html.
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Bible Explorer (BX) is a non-denominational, non-confessional and non-conversionary programme specifically designed to assist British primary schools in the fulfilment of their Locally Agreed Syllabus on religious education. The aim of BX is to teach pupils in Key Stage 2 (school years 5 and 6) the storyline of the Bible. Children are taught a set of keywords and hand signs to help them remember the overarching narrative of both the Old and New Testaments and to place people and events in the correct biblical order. Lessons are not scripted but the keywords provide a framework for each session. The delivery method is lively and fast-paced, using storytelling, drama and multi-media presentations to engage the children. The evaluation of the Bible Explorer programme took the form of a case study, using different research methods. There were three data sources: the feedback forms returned by schools after completion of the programme; a series of semi-structured interviews with current BX presenters; and a survey, open to all BXers, which was advertised on the BX website and via email. The dual use of quantitative and qualitative data provided a rich description of Bible Explorer, and reinforced the validity of the conclusions reached. It is clear that Bible Explorer is highly regarded by the teachers and children who experience the programme. It has survived for 30 years, growing steadily; today, more than half a million pupils in both faith and community schools have participated in the scheme. Much of the programme’s success derives from the material it presents and the method by which this is delivered in the classroom. In its own small and specific way, Bible Explorer demonstrates the range of possibilities inherent in story and story-telling, As such, it offers both encouragement and challenge to the wider church community.
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Redding, Graham Ernest. "The significance of the priesthood of Christ for a theology of prayer in the reformed tradition, with special reference to T.F. and J.B. Torance, and the Eucharistic tradition of the Church of Scotland." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1999. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-significance-of-the-priesthood-of-christ-for-a-theology-of-prayer-in-the-reformed-tradition-with-special-reference-to-tf-and-jb-torance-and-the-eucharistic-tradition-of-the-church-of-scotland(09a090c3-6598-428f-8656-ebb2301f7646).html.
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Julien, Valérie. "Le sujet à l’épreuve de la guérison, une intégrité affective au fondement de notre consistance." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE3067/document.
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La maladie soit un mal dont il faille guérir, c’est ce que déjà l’instinct nous dicte, mais il s’agit de savoir si l’instinct suffit à rendre raison de l’évidence, autrement dit si la raison peut même rendre raison de ce qui résiste à son emprise de rationalité. En bref s’il est possible de tenir un discours “raisonnable” sur une question qui d’emblée met en jeu le sujet.Ce travail s’inscrit dans une perspective de phénoménologie herméneutique. Il questionne cette occurrence critique du vivre qui est la confrontation à la “grande maladie”, c’est-à-dire celle que la “nature” ne suffit pas à guérir, et recherche ce que l’effort fait pour entreprendre de guérir nous apprend sur notre humanité. A distance d’une perspective qui voudrait saisir “l’essence de la guérison,” mon propos est d’interpréter ce qui se joue dans la dynamique du sujet qui entreprend de guérir autrement dit de garder le sens de l’engagement, indépendamment des conditions objectives de sa guérison. Car la prise en compte de l’exigence individuelle et collective de santé pourrait occulter la part subjective du rapport à la santé dans la part croissante accordée à la conception du soin et du bon soin. Avec les meilleures intentions du monde la recherche de la santé pourrait faire l’économie de la question de la participation du sujet au projet de bien vivre et se traduire par une nouvelle entreprise de normalisation de l’humanité. Je choisis d’examiner les conditions de possibilité et de maintien de notre résistance en tant que sujet car la confrontation à la maladie nous dessaisit de notre pouvoir et nous assigne à prendre position pour la vie, pour un sens de la vie, malgré l’exposition à la mort. Moment de vérité – et en ce sens événement - où l’être du sujet, est mis en jeu. Ainsi, à contre-courant de l’évidence qui est que la maladie est l’épreuve, nous explorerons l’hypothèse d’une épreuve de la guérison même. Je tente alors d’éclairer de biais à quel sujet s’adresse la pratique médicale pour susciter un questionnement et si possible ouvrir un champ de ressources pour les personnes en charge de guérison. Un champ de ressources qui invite à réinvestir autrement notre rapport au sensible et à l’illusion de sa maîtrise compassionnelle. Un champ de ressources qui tisse et retisse le lien à la vie, dont la première épreuve pour nous est toujours “affective,” convaincue que si seul le sujet décide de sa guérison, nul ne peut guérir seul.Le déploiement de mon argumentation explore l’enracinement ou non du sujet dans l’affectivité du vivre, réinterroge le lien contingent ou nécessaire de l’affectivité et de la liberté ainsi que le rapport du même et de l’autre dans la responsabilité.Je voudrais montrer que le phénomène de la résilience ne permet pas de fonder l’hypothèse d’une possibilité d’intégrité du sujet. J’émets l’hypothèse sans doute épineuse que la culpabilité chemine en complice du mal physique et moral et altère ainsi la possibilité d’engagement d’un sujet résistant. Qu’une intégrité affective, au cœur du sujet a toujours précédé le mal et affirme avant toute destructivité et tout négativité une générosité de soi.Je m’engage enfin à explorer la faculté d’aimer comme une réalité de premier ordre pour penser l’intégrité d’un sujet, animé de joie de vivre qui entreprend de porter le bien. De ce dont procède cette générosité, c’est ce que nous appelons dans le cadre de notre recherche guérisonInstinct tells us that sickness is an ill from which we must recover, but we must know if instinct is enough to explain what is evident, in other words, if reason can even account for what resists its hold on rationality. In short, if it's possible to argue "with reason" on a question which, from the outset, involves the subject. This work falls within the scope of hermeneutic phenomenology. It questions the critical life experience of confronting "serious illness", meaning an illness that "nature" cannot cure, and looks at what the effort required to recover teaches us about our humanity. Separate from the perspective which seeks to identify “the essence of the cure,” my aim is to interpret what is at play in the subject's personality, who undertakes to recover, in other words maintains their commitment, independently of the objective conditions for recovery. As taking into consideration both individual and collective health requirements could mask the subjective element of the relationship to health in the growing importance accorded to the concept of care and ‘’good’’ care. With the best intentions in the world health research could avoid the question of the subject's participation in defining "living well" and transform itself into a new attempt to normalize humanity. I have chosen to examine the conditions for the possibility of and upholding of our resistance as a subject for the confrontation with illness strips us of our power and obliges us to make a stand for life, for a meaning to life, despite being exposed to death. The moment of truth – and in this sense an event – where the self of the subject, is at stake. Faced with illness, the subject experiences an ordeal which is intimately bound to their attitude to life, which itself is no longer evident. I try to throw some light on which subject medical practice addresses to elicit interrogation and if possible to open a new area of resources for people responsible for healing. Resources which lead to a rethinking of our relationship to sensitive subjects and the illusion of one’s compassionate control. Resources which reconsider the subject’s capacity to resist “the way things are”. Resources which make and remake the vital link to life, of which the primary test for us is always “emotional,” convinced that if the subject alone decides their recovery, none can heal alone.My reasoning will explore the entrenchment, or not, of the subject in the affectivity of life, look again at the potential or necessary link between affectivity and liberty as well as the connection between the one and the other to responsibility.This will lead us to question the paradigm of resilience to consider the subject's capacity for integration, to question guilt as the norm which regulates the moral conscience and disaffection with love in order to remain master of one's self.I want to show that the phenomenon of resilience does not permit the hypothesis of a possible integrity of the subject; resilience can also be considered as an artifact produced by an individual who assembles an attitude to the disaster residing in them and destroying them bit by bit.I put forward the, without doubt thorny, hypothesis, that guilt is an accomplice of the physical and moral ill and thereby alters a resistant subject's ability to confront the situation. That emotional integrity, “at the heart of the subject” has always preceded the ill and affirms before any destructiveness and negativity a “generosity of self.”Lastly, I will explore the ability to love as a reality of the highest importance to consider the integrity of a subject, filled with the love of life who undertakes to spread "good". From this, comes this generosity, this is what, in the framework of our research, we call “healing.”
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Bárta, Tomáš. "Využití internetu pro získávání talentů." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-336915.
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This diploma thesis presents the current knowledge on the use of internet for the purpose of talent acquisition. Its main objective is to determine to what extent organizations emphasize this knowledge in practice. For this purpose the first chapter refers to the academic compilation of talent management concept. The aim is to define the term of talent within the talent management concept as well as within the personal management. The second charter presents the academic compilation in the field of recruitment focused on specifics in talented individuals acquiring. The third chapter presents current knowledge of internet recruitment. Next chapters focus on recruitment in practice by analyzing the online recruitment documentation of three specific organizations. Based on this analysis, it is apparent, that the surveyed organizations accentuate current trends to a large extent. Key words: talent management, talent acquisition, internet, e-recruitment, career website, job board site, social network, social recruiting.