This search was conducted to focus on the relationship between the type of Taiwanese managers¡¦ politics of downward influence and job performance, with responsible individual correlation, and to influence job performance. The search method this study used was group segmentations. After empirical analysis, we found out: 1. By using K-means ¡§Cluster analysis¡¨, we got three different types of Taiwanese manager¡¦s politics of downward influence. We named them by their downward influence politics and strategies as follows: 1-1 Controlling & Counteracting. 1-2 Reciprocal Networking. 1-3 Exerting Pressure. 2. The relationship between individual variable and the type of politics of downward influence are below: 2-1 Manager to the type of politics of downward influence with gender, age and martial status has no significantly effect. 2-2 Manager to the type of politics of downward influence with the education background, working experience and job level has significantly effect. 3. The relationship between the type of Taiwanese managers¡¦ politics of downward influence and job performance are below. 3-1 Manager of the ¡§Reciprocal Networking¡¨ has better contextual performance than ¡§Controlling & Counteracting¡¨. However, manager of the ¡§Exerting Pressure ¡§doesn¡¦t reveal the difference with the contextual performance. 3-2 Manager of the ¡§Exerting Pressure¡¨ has better task performance than ¡§Controlling & Counteracting¡¨. However, manager of the¡¨ Reciprocal Networking¡¨ doesn¡¦t reveal the difference with the task performance. 3-3 Manager of the¡¨ Reciprocal Networking¡¨ has better job performance than the ¡§Controlling & Counteracting¡¨. Manager of the ¡§Exerting Pressure¡¨ has better job performance than ¡§Controlling & Counteracting¡¨.

This thesis is an exploring study. It is exploded which source and base of human resource (HR) executives¡¦ influence power come from. It is studied what factors of outside and insides impact the influence power. In the process of study, it is used the method of the focus group interview. From the experience practices of human resource executive it could be analysis and understood how human resource executives to influence their boss, colleague, subordinate and so on. It could be referred for human resource workers or specials. At last this study generalize the sources, base, and strategy and tactics of human resource executives¡¦ influence power, and propose some propositions as fellows: Proposition 1: The highly position or title of HR executives, the effectively they could introduce HR function. Proposition 2: The influent sources of HR executives mainly include business knowledge, capabilities, experience background, interpersonal relationship, performance of work, and personal characteristic. Those could push effectively the influent power. Proposition 3: HR executives of new companies could easily develop their job than old companies. Proposition 4: HR executives of foreign companies could easily develop their job than local companies. Proposition 5: HR executives of affiliate companies could easily develop their job than central companies. Proposition 6: HR executives of high tech companies could easily develop their job than heredity manufacture companies. Proposition 7: the concept of boss could impact the function and job of HR executives. Maybe the bosses of heredity manufacture companies could be conservatism, so the HR executives of heredity manufacture companies must use special method or strategy of influence. Proposition 8: the different strategies of influence for the object have interactive and reinforcing effect. Proposition 9: The roles of HR executives¡¦ of different industries (e.g. high tech vs. heredity manufacture) are different. Accordingly strategies of influence for the subject or issues object are different. Proposition 10: HR executives expect different influence effect, so they choose different strategies of influence. Proposition 11: HR executives choose different strategies of influence because their personalities and preferences. Proposition 12: HR executives choose different strategies of influence because their different levels (e.g. position or title)

published_or_final_version / Language Studies / Master / Master of Arts

Students spend most of their waking hours with their teachers and peers, who are considered to be the significant others, that influence their learning motivation and school life. Whether a student likes to go to school or not, whether she can adjust in school and engage in all learning activities, whether she can get good grades or fail depend not only on herself, but on the significant others. In this study, the aim is to find out how and in what ways teachers and peers influence adolescents in their academic life. Forty-one articles were reviewed to discuss around four research questions: What kinds of influences do peers have on adolescents in the academic context? In what ways do teachers’ high expectations affect the students? What kind of teacher-student relationships do students perceive in order to have positive attitudestowards school and have satisfying outcomes? What aspects in adolescents’ academic life are influenced by teachers’ self-efficacy? Teachers and peers are important motivators in students’ academic life. When the school, teacher and parents are aware of the influences from peers and teachers, they are given a chance to improve the factors involved so that students can learn best in a supportive atmosphere and environment.

Researchers have long-studied whether the media have an agenda or are strictly objective in their coverage. Using several agenda setting studies, this study built upon them and used the third-effect theory, which assumes people will the influence that mass communications has on the attitudes and behavior of others, to examine perceptions.This study examined whether Indiana mayors allowed the local newspaper to impact policy decisions. The effort determined that mayors perceived newspaper headlines impacted others more than the mayors.Indiana’s 115 mayors were divided by population classes and used to compare and contrast the results to questions examining agenda setting. One hypothesis assume mayors of larger cities would be impacted greater by the local newspaper than mayors of smaller cities. Statistically there was no correlation between the city size and how stories influence the operations in city hall. In fact, all mayors tended to agree that newspapers have little effect on policy decisions.The second hypothesis was based on the assumption that mayors perceived information in the newspaper had a greater effect on general readers of the newspaper than it did on the mayors. The results supported the notion and other third-person effect theories, which assume people will say information has a greater impact on someone else, the "third person," than it does on themselves. / Department of Journalism

The present study is the first of its kind. It is a study about the involvement of Kuwaiti females in sports and physical recreation. The study invesigates both the structures and resources that make female participation in sports and physical recreation possible, and the ideological and physical barriers that prevent girls and young women from taking part. The development of female sports and physical recreation in Kuwait is investigated in relation to relevant historical and political developments, taking particular account of the influence of Islamic ideologies about the role of women in society, women's enfranchisement, and women's bodies. It provides evidence from the Holy Qur'an in support of the need for girls and women to exercise their bodies. The research highlights the contradictory position that Kuwaiti women find themselves in living in a relatively liberal Islamic state with an official discourse of gender equality, but facing traditional and unequal gender divisions in daily life and throughout culture, specifically in sports and physical recreation. Opportunities for females in sports and recreation are tied to the political administration system of the state and the study looks at the present day situation of public provision and resourcing, following the liberation of the country from Iraq, as well as private resources that have developed as a result of westernized, global influences.. The study presents recommendations for Kuwaiti sports policy-makers, planners, and providers - that may be useful, too, for those in other societies in the Arabian Peninsula - concerning sports and physical recreation for Muslim girls and women in the future. The project traces the development of organised sport and physical recreation for females from 1950 until the present day. It includes details of physical education in schools, and the establishment and expansion of sport clubs and other facilities that are now in the country. Reference is made to the role of government agencies and departments - in particular the Public Authority for Youth and Sport (PAYS) that has special responsibility to establish stronger and more specialized opportunities. Since there is virtually no previous research or literature about the topic of girls and young women's involvement in sport and physical recreation in Kuwait, the main method of data collection was through questionnaires and interviews, supported by documentary evidence, including official statements.

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Mémoire (M.Ed.)-- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1993. / Résumé disponible sur Internet. CaQCU Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

Mémoire (M.Ed.)--Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 1997. / Document électronique également accessible en format PDF. CaQCU

La présence iranienne dans les régions pontiques, bien qu’apparaissent de manière incidente dans de nombreuses études, n’a jamais fait l’objet d’une thèse de doctorat. Ce travail de thèse se propose de retracer l’histoire de la présence des Iraniens dans les régions pontiques des origines à la chute de l’Empire achéménide. Dans la première partie de notre thèse, nous passons en revue les discussions les plus récentes sur l’origine, les stades de la formation et la répartition des populations nomades iranophones dans les steppes eurasiatiques. Nous nous penchons notamment sur les rasions du passage au grand nomadisme pastoral monté de ses tribus à l’aube du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. Dans la deuxième partie de notre thèse, nous retraçons d’abord l’histoire du peuple cimmérien, puis nous traitons in extenso du problème de leur appartenance linguistique et anthropologique. Dans cette partie sont également examiné l’origine de la culture de la Scythie du Pont, l’établissement des Scythes en Asie antérieures et leur retour aux steppes nord-pontiques. A la fin de cette partie, nous reprenons l’analyse de la première légende d’origine des Scythes rapportée par Hérodote et nous tentons, en utilisant la méthode comparative dumézilienne, de démontrer que les éléments constitutifs de cette légende sont la résurgence et l’assemblage de schémas narratifs des mythes fondateurs des peuples iraniens. La troisième partie de notre thèse est consacrée à l’étude de la présence iranienne dans les régions pontiques à l’époque achéménide. Nous nous appliquons à dresser le portrait historique de ces espaces géographiques sous la domination achéménide et nous tentons d’identifier les traces de l’occupation achéménide ainsi que les « marqueurs » de la présence iranienne dans ces régions. Les documents de natures diverses et complémentaires permettent de confirmer non seulement la présence iranienne, mais aussi la profondeur des contacts inter-culturels entre les Iraniens de la diaspora impériale, les Grecs et les populations locales de ces régions. / The thesis studies the presence and influence of the Iranian peoples and tribes in the Pontus region from the origins to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire. While the sedentary Iranian people have been the center of attention, this work focuses firstly on the nomadic Iranian peoples originally living in western Siberia and who moved later in the north-Pontic region. In the absence of Cimmerian and Scythian written documents, the first part of thesis attempts to reconstruct a historical narrative of the migration and invasion of these people through the references made to them in ancient Greek and Assyrian texts, as well as by archaeological evidence. Modern debate about the Cimmerians’ linguistic and ethnic affiliation continues at a lively pace, for the existing documentation is both sparse and full of contradictions. Nonetheless, the inclination today is to consider them as an Iranian people. The second part of thesis traces the history of Scythian tribes in the North Pontic region. The first Scythian legend of origin, as related by Herodotus is studied and it is suggested that this legend incorporates typical features of Iranian legends of origin. The third part of the thesis studies the history of Pontus regions in the Achaemenid period and attempts to evaluate the impact of Persian and Iranian presence there. This part discusses the political status of the Pontus regions within the Achaemenid empire and attempts to determine the nature and the level of political incorporation of these regions into Achaemenid administrative organization. The work concludes by reviewing the written, archeological, artistic and various other sorts of evidence which suggests that there was not only a permanent presence of Persians and Iranians of the imperial diaspora, but also a considerable impact by the Achaemenid political and cultural influence in the Pontus region. This was due to the intense intercultural exchange between these Iranians and local populations.