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Studies have acknowledged various conceptualisations of diversity management. These studies have also provided guidance for better and effective ways for managing diversity at the organisational, national and global levels. Nonetheless, it has been argued that focus on conceptualising diversity management has mainly been within the context of the Global North: reflecting mainly Anglo-centric and neo liberal structuring. As a result, this has limited the growth of management styles in Africa. To this effect, this research explores the nature and concept of diversity in Nigeria; it examines diversity management approaches by Shell and General Electric (GE) subsidiaries in Nigeria, and evaluates the broader role of these diversity management practices in contributing to the National Development Plans in Nigeria. Though starting from an Anglo-centric and neo liberal position, I go beyond this structuring as I critically examine the diversity management practices from a Nigerian context and by conducting interviews about the significance of these practices in Nigeria. This research adopts a feminist lens that gives voice and unveils power relations. In addition, I draw on four Western diversity frameworks, including Cox Taylor organisational types and dimensions, Ely and Thomas model of diversity, relational framework by Syed and Ozbilgin and intersectionality theory. These frameworks and approaches analyse the implication of diversity management within these MNC systems in Nigeria as they promote social equality and foster development. In addition, evaluating the broader roles of these MNCs in contributing to national development planning emphasises the need for incorporating diversity management in human resource development theorizing.

The problem of this study was the status of higher education in Haiti. The purposes were to analyze the organization, administration, and contributions of higher education to national development from 1958 to 1988 and to provide background information from foreign literature which might assist in the improvement Haiti's system of higher education. In an effort to locate information necessary to achieve these purposes, a computer search was conducted. A survey of available literature in French, Creole, and English and personal and telephone interviews were also conducted. The results of this study reveal that, in the past three decades, higher education in Haiti has merely functioned as a symbol of social prestige. Haiti's system of higher education exhibits no apparent direction, purpose, of long-term goals. With more than 90 percent of its professors part-time and ill-prepared, its curriculum unrelated to the needs of Haitian society, and its student body in revolt for the past three years, higher education in Haiti is urgently in need of radical reform. Any contribution made to national development by the system of higher education is weak at best. The small but oppressive elite group that dominates the economic and political realms in Haiti has proved to be a stumbling block to educational reform. The prospect of the establishment of an adequate system of education depends heavily on the establishment of a democratic government. The State University, which is the prominent instrument for higher education, must be reorganized and strengthened so that it can meet the basic academic standards of a university. This reorganization must include the redesign of the curriculum and the retraining of current professors. It is urgent that the qualitative aspects of higher education be given attention. Higher education should also develop a working relationship with industry in order to prepare individuals who are qualified to fulfill the country's technical needs.

Masters in Public Administration - MPA / The historic social and economic inequalities had a negative impact on majority of young children in South Africa. This dates back to post-apartheid era where the development of young children. of some previously disadvantaged communities, has been weakened by inadequate access to health care, quality education, social service and quality nutrition. The present study evaluated the progress made on the implementation of the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 using a case study of Early Childhood Development (ECO) centres in Site-B Township based in Khayelitsha. To support the notion of "leaving no one behind and universal access to education", the study used a Humanistic Approach Theory Framework and Human Capital Approach to determine the current status of the formalisation of the ECD centres, infrastructure and equipment, basic service delivery as well as safety at the ECD centres in Site-B. The study adopted a qualitative research design using a semi structured face-to-face interview schedules with respondents. Purposive sampling was applied to select the critical case perceived useful for the study. It comprised of 20 respondents, all principals or owners of the selected ECD centres. ECD centres were selected from the database obtained from the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the Department of Basic Education (DBE). From the samples, the study revealed that even though a lot has been done by different stakeholders to support Early Childhood Development, learning centres located in historically disadvantaged areas such as Site-B still face a number of challenges. Key among them are: challenges to comply with the registration process and lack of trained and skilled teachers; inadequate funding to meet compliance standards; insufficient infrastructure and educational equipment and lack of support for ECO safety and security measures and health related emergencies.

O federalismo é elemento fundamental para a compreensão do desenvolvimento nacional e regional brasileiro. A federação no Brasil ainda está em construção, devendo ser aperfeiçoada, a fim de que possa se tornar um elemento de articulação entre o desenvolvimento nacional e regional. Para tal, é necessária uma adequação dos mecanismos tradicionais da federação, como a distribuição de competências e fundos constitucionais, a uma política nacional de desenvolvimento regional, que vise contribuir para uma mitigação das desigualdades regionais. Neste sentido, busca-se analisar as origens do federalismo brasileiro, bem como a estrutura dos mecanismos constitucionais relevantes aos temas essenciais deste Trabalho. / Federalism is fundamental to the understanding of national and regional development in Brazil. The federation in Brazil is still in an improvement process and shall be improved in order that it may become an element of coordination between the national and regional development. For this reason, an adaptation is needed in the traditional mechanisms of the federation, such as the distribution of competencies and constitutional fiscal funds in order to achieve national policy for regional development. This is an important contribution to a mitigation of regional disparities. In this sense, this dissertation seeks to analyze the origins of Brazilian federalism, and the structure of the relevant constitutional mechanisms to the essencial topics of the present work.

The junior high schools and primary schools which are numerous and located in the equal distribution are the largest public facility lands in Taiwan. Under the circumstances that the urban area not only has high density of population and spends expensive cost but also has not enough public facilities, the campus which has the green land as well as open space is becoming the only chance of the neighborhood accessing to nature. Proper adjustment of campus planning or architectural design of school buildings is to make the best use of the limited resource of public facilities in the city and to bear the duties and responsibilities of improving the community environmental needs. Regarding ¡§Challenge 2008: National Development Program¡ÐThe Community Landscape Construction of the New Hometown¡ÐCommunity Landscape Construction Program,¡¨ we expect to build up a living space of high quality and humanization to make the best of the characteristics of the local nature, history and cultural landscape. We aim to reconstruct urban and rural landscape to push forward the improvement and to stimulate the potentials of the development of the Taiwanese society step by step; and ¡§the commuting networks of community school children¡¨ is the most urgent item to subsidize. In Kaohsiung City, there are already 5 commuting networks of community school children completed at the first phase. This research proceed beneficial evaluation on the commuting networks of Ling-Jou Primary School after it is put in usage to collect the empirical data. Hence, a significant feedback and improvement in this program can be achieved. The researcher selects three dimensions including the dimension of ¡¥functions¡¦, ¡¥psychologies¡¦, and ¡¥policies¡¦ of the commuting networks in the community as the evaluation of effectiveness based on literature review, the researcher also interviews students, inhabitants and teachers to collect the data of their feedback of every specific item including the safety of school trip, the convenience of pick-up students, the facilities of the commuting networks, recreational function, beautiful natural scenery, the levels of satisfaction, the whole environmental image, identification with schools, the creative potential of the public to resolve problems, the experience and ability of participating in public affaires, the buildup of the multiple space aiming to satisfy the human needs, and the effect of publicizing the facilities of the primary schools.¡@ The results of the present study reveal that: (1) The planning and use of the commuting networks in the community which leads to the interaction between school and community is an efficient method to combine school and community so as to help community inhabitants to build up identification and participation with schools. (2) The case of the commuting networks in the community helps the public to perceive the questions, to estimate the reality, to stir up the imagination, to create community features, and to reveal the meaning of community participation. (3) The commuting networks provide the green land, barrier-free pathway so that the inhabitants enjoy doing exercise and taking a walk to achieve the recreational function. The dimensions such as the construction will begin upon the integration of the public ideas can meet the demand of human nature; according to all the interviewees, it is believed that the effect of publicizing the facilities of primary schools provides with a platform for the interaction between school and community, merging the ideas of the inhabitants into the facilities of schools, combine public art to uplift the quality of recreational life of the public, etc. However, the utilization of the inhabitants also increases the burden on the maintenance management of the school. In the other hand, the relevant suggestions to improve the publicizing the facilities of the primary schools as well as urban space planning are provided.

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O federalismo é elemento fundamental para a compreensão do desenvolvimento nacional e regional brasileiro. A federação no Brasil ainda está em construção, devendo ser aperfeiçoada, a fim de que possa se tornar um elemento de articulação entre o desenvolvimento nacional e regional. Para tal, é necessária uma adequação dos mecanismos tradicionais da federação, como a distribuição de competências e fundos constitucionais, a uma política nacional de desenvolvimento regional, que vise contribuir para uma mitigação das desigualdades regionais. Neste sentido, busca-se analisar as origens do federalismo brasileiro, bem como a estrutura dos mecanismos constitucionais relevantes aos temas essenciais deste Trabalho. / Federalism is fundamental to the understanding of national and regional development in Brazil. The federation in Brazil is still in an improvement process and shall be improved in order that it may become an element of coordination between the national and regional development. For this reason, an adaptation is needed in the traditional mechanisms of the federation, such as the distribution of competencies and constitutional fiscal funds in order to achieve national policy for regional development. This is an important contribution to a mitigation of regional disparities. In this sense, this dissertation seeks to analyze the origins of Brazilian federalism, and the structure of the relevant constitutional mechanisms to the essencial topics of the present work.

Orientador: Angelo Del Vecchio / Banca: José Antônio Segatto / Banca: Rogério Baptistini Mendes / Resumo: O presente trabalho estuda as transformações sofridas pelas elites econômicas e políticas paulistas durante o processo de reforma do Estado brasileiro ocorrido no período de 1990 a 2002. Busca-se entender a transformação sofrida pelo Estado Brasileiro desde 1980 até os dias atuais, a qual resultou na substituição do modelo desenvolvimentista para o liberalgerencial, as razões de sua crise e as conseqüências em relação aos atores sociais aqui estudados. Com base em um modelo que busca a intersecção entre os conceitos de classe dominante e elites, procura entender o comportamento dos dirigentes políticos no período e quais as razões que levaram às substituições ocorridas entre estas a partir de 1990, com a ascensão de um novo grupo político. Ainda, no que tange às elites econômicas, como a crise econômica dos anos 80 alterou a composição dessas elites, sendo os empresários ligados ao setor industrial substituídos por outros alinhados aos novos setores da economia que emergiram dos processos de reforma do Estado, entre os quais os de serviços, surgidos das privatizações e o financeiro. Apresenta ainda dados empíricos que apontam para a direção das hipóteses trabalhadas, auxiliando na visualização das transformações que se deseja demonstrar. Ao final, propõe a discussão acerca do modelo nacional-desenvolvimentista e de seu futuro enquanto ideologia na sociedade atual / Abstract: The present work studies the transformation occurred by the economic elite and São Paulo State politics during the process of the Brazilian state reformation occurred on 1990 to 2002. We look for to understand the transformation occurred by the Brazilian State since 1980 until now, which resulted on the substitution of the developmental model to the managementliberal model, the reasons of its crisis and the consequences toward the social actors studied here. With basis in a model that searches the meeting point between the concepts of dominant class and elites, looking for to understand the behavior of the politics chairperson on the period and what reasons took to the occurred substitution between them since 1990, with the rising of a new politic group. Still, about the economics elites, with de economics crisis in the 80's changed the composition of these elites, so the business men connected to the industrial housing substituted for others aligned to the new economy sectors that emerged from the process of the State reformation, between them there were the services, arise from the privatization, and the financial services. Still, this study presents empirical datum which point to the directions of the worked hypothesis, helping on the visualization of the transformation that is to be demonstrated. At last, it is proposed a discussion about the nationaldevelopmental model and its future as ideology in the present society / Mestre

Orientador: Aparecida Neri de Souza / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T14:11:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza_LilianeBordignonde_M.pdf: 2409030 bytes, checksum: c91771e3b718ee394a4ccec866cac117 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / Résumé: Ce travail analyse l¿expansion de l¿enseignement technique au lycée sur le campus central de l¿Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (I.F.S.P. - Institut fédéral d¿éducation, de science et de technologie de Sao Paulo), entre 2003 et 2010, pour la rapprocher du problème concret que représentent les transformations des politiques d¿éducation professionnelle dans le cadre du projet « néo-développementiste », au Brésil, ces dix dernières années. Cette dernière y est donc analysée comme partie du développement particulier du capitalisme au Brésil. En ce sens, l¿auteur cherche à comprendre comment, historiquement, l¿articulation entre la dépendance externe et la surexploitation du travail a borné, dans ce pays, la résolution des problèmes fondamentaux de la population, dont la démocratisation de l¿accès à l¿enseignement et à la formation professionnelle. Elle examine comment les limites dues à la dépendance ont orienté le développement de l¿éducation professionnelle entre les années 1990 et 2000. Elle part des changements engendrés dans l¿enseignement professionnel par la nouvelle Lei de Diretrizes e Bases (nº. 9.394/1996 - Loi fondamentale sur l¿enseignement) de l¿Éducation brésilienne pour aborder l¿ample processus d¿expansion d¿établissements et de places dans cette forme d¿enseignement entre 2003 et 2010. Les transformations dans l¿éducation professionnelle sont étudiées de sorte à démontrer comment s¿imbriquent ce processus d¿expansion d¿établissements, de cours et de places et le projet social et économique de développement du pays. Ce travail se fonde sur des analyses non seulement de documents et de statistiques pour comprendre les intentionnalités et la portée du projet d¿expansion en cours ces dix dernières années, mais encore d¿études et de recherches sur les relations entre éducation, travail et développement national et de témoignages avec des cadres dirigeants, professeurs et syndicalistes, du campus Sao Paulo de l¿I.F.S.P. et de la SETEC/MEC. Il tente de saisir comment l¿éducation professionnelle s¿est modifiée pour s¿harmoniser (ou non) avec les évolutions du monde du travail et les projets de développement du capitalisme au Brésil / Resumo: Este trabalho analisa a expansão do ensino técnico de nível médio no campus central do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP), no período 2003-2010; por meio do qual se procura uma aproximação do problema concreto que envolve as transformações nas políticas de educação profissional em face do projeto "neodesenvolvimentista" para o Brasil na última década. A educação profissional é analisada como parte do desenvolvimento particular do capitalismo no Brasil. Neste sentido, procurou-se compreender como, historicamente, a articulação entre dependência externa e superexploração do trabalho no país limitam a resolução dos problemas fundamentais da população, dentre eles a democratização do acesso à educação e à formação profissional. Procurou-se analisar como os limites da dependência orientaram o desenvolvimento da educação profissional entre as décadas de 1990 e 2000. O ponto de partida da análise são as mudanças decorrentes da Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (nº. 9.394/1996) no que tange à educação profissional, até o amplo processo de expansão de instituições e vagas nessa modalidade de ensino ocorrido no período 2003-2010. As mudanças na educação profissional são analisadas buscando demonstrar como se articula o processo de expansão de instituições, cursos e vagas e o projeto social e econômico de desenvolvimento do país. A pesquisa foi realizada por meio de análise documental e estatística com o objetivo de compreender as intencionalidades e o alcance do projeto de expansão em curso na última década; pela análise de estudos e pesquisas sobre as relações entre educação, trabalho e desenvolvimento nacional; e, por fim, mediante análise de depoimentos com quadros dirigentes do campus São Paulo do IFSP e da SETEC/MEC, professores e sindicalista. Procurou-se apreender como a educação profissional se modifica para estar em consonância (ou não) com as transformações no mundo do trabalho e com os projetos de desenvolvimento do capitalismo no Brasil / Mestrado / Ciencias Sociais na Educação / Mestra em Educação