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Employee Engagement Model for the Multi-family Rental Housing Industry Deborah R. Phillips 238 Pages Directed by Dr. Roozbeh Kangari The multi-family rental housing industry has faced numerous challenges in the past decade. Increased competition, declining occupancy rates and higher operating expenses have forced management companies to re-examine their organizational strategies, particularly as it applies to its human capital. Employee engagement has become an emerging topic and shows that engaged employees perform better, put in extra effort to help get the job done, show a strong level of commitment to the organization, and are more motivated and optimistic about their work goals. Companies now recognize the value in fostering a climate in which engaged employees drive sales by creating loyal customers. However, despite documented support identifying the link between engaged employees and more impressive business outcomes, little research has concentrated on the special needs and challenges of the multi-family rental housing industry. Further, there are limited tools available to assist owners and managers with the task of identifying the drivers affecting employee engagement. An Employee Engagement Model (EEM) was developed to allow multi-family apartment rental property owners and managers to determine the percentage of satisfied residents for a given average level of engagement score. This research utilized statistical analysis, neural network techniques, and probabilistic modeling to develop the Employee Engagement Model. The Employee Engagement Model (EEM) offers new knowledge in the relationship between employee engagement and resident satisfaction in the multi-family rental housing industry. New knowledge may also be derived in correlations of certain aspects of employee engagement and the likelihood of residents extending their leases or referring others to his/her community, thus improving business performance. It is expected that the Employee Engagement Model (EEM) will provide useful feedback to multi-family professionals in their process of talent management. It is also expected that further discussions toward improvements in measuring employee engagement and its impact on satisfaction will be prompted by this research.

Thesis process of basic terms related to the real estate market and real estate sales. The study also addressed overview of our segments in the real estate market in Lipensko, their characteristics, construction, engineering, urban planning, and economic factors. It´s about the village of Horní Planá, Černá v Pošumaví, Frymburk and Lipno nad Vltavou. In Lipno nad Vltavou are always chosen for each segment three representatives who are investigated and subsequently compared. The work also points to the trends in the real estate market in this area.

O trabalho aqui apresentado tem o objetivo de analisar a espacialidade dos apartamentos produzidos pela iniciativa privada na cidade de São Paulo, entre os anos de 2000 e 2008, procurando entender fatores determinantes de seu desenho e relacionando-o aos modos de vida de moradores em potencial. Parte-se do estudo de aspectos históricos do desenvolvimento de uma estrutura espacial, caracterizada pela recorrência de seis pontos no desenho de suas plantas e que configuram um modelo amplamente difundido e consolidado na produção paulistana, da discussão de mecanismos do mercado imobiliário e de dados censitários. Todas essas questões são relacionadas e utilizadas como ferramentas de leitura das peças gráficas estudadas na pesquisa, verificando similaridades, potencialidades e limitações em sua organização espacial. / The work presented here aims to analyze the spatiality of the apartments built for the private initiative in the city of São Paulo between the years 2000 and 2008, looking for understanding determinative factors of its projects and relating it to potential inhabitants\' ways of living. The research studies historical aspects of the development of a spatial structure, characterized for the recurrence of six points in its plants drawing that configure a widely spread out and consolidated model in São Paulo\'s production, examines mechanisms of the real estate market and census data. All these questions are then related and used as tools for the reading of the graphic peaces studied in the research, verifying similarities, potentialities and limitations in its spatial organization.

Bruhat-Tits buildings are a fundamental concept in the study of linear algebraic groups over general fields. The general goal of this thesis is to introduce buildings in the basic case of SLd(Qp) and to explicitly describe some of their geometrical and combinatorial properties - building are abstract simplicial complexes. After the general construction (Chapter 1) we focus in detail to the case of SL2(Qp). We work with simplices using certain matrix representatives. We explicitly describe the building and give a formula for graph distance. In Chapter 3 we consider the general case SLd(Qp), d ≥ 2. There we introduce a new concept of distance formulas. In Chapter 4 we prove some theorems which are satisfied by buildings in general. Chapter 5 studies the problem of determining so-called gallery distance of two simplices. In the last Chapter 6 we generalize the distance formulas to the case of three vertices. 1

The objective of conducting primary research for the Summit Place Apartment Homes is to create a profile of people that are presently living in Summit Place. When dealing with apartment properties, marketing plans are definitely a necessity, as well as a good crisis plan. The residents' main concerns were safety and better customer service.

This diploma thesis presents processing of the design documentation for public service building. The scope of this work is in accordance with ordinance 499/2006 and latter amended 62/2013. There is a small brewery in the building, as well as a pub, tourist apartments and the owner's flat. Building is situated in Vranová, Blansko district. It is a three-story building without basement, roofed with flat and mono-pitched roofs. The ground floor consists of a pub, a brewery and a communication wing dividing the building in the middle. The second floor consists of hostel type tourist apartments with shared facilities. The third floor belongs exclusively to the owner of the building who has an apartment there. The building is bricked, complemented by an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS). Floor structure consists of SPIROLL panels. Design documentation was developed in AutoCAD software.

The diploma thesis Multifunctional Culture Centre ‘Creative City’ Brno deals with the architectural study of rebuilding and extension of the former prison building in Bratislavská and Soudní street in Brno for cultural, social and commercial purposes. The project includes a new use of the existing building for creative industries, commercial activities and services. There are apartments in the new extension. The parking places are situated below the ground level in the northern part of the complex. The building complex creates a pleasant environment contributing the creativity.

The purpose of the thesis is the processing of project documentation fot the construction design of the Mixed-use building in the city of Brno, a borough of Židenice. Underground and first floor are made of cast-in-place concrete. The vertical load-bearing structures of the second, third and fourth floor are designed from ceramic bricks of 300 mm thickness. Floor slabs in the whole building are made of cast-in-place concrete. The last floor has warm flat green roof. The building is designed so that the underground floor is largely made up of underground garages, oriented to the west. Basement of the building is used for technical background of the building too. The first and second above-ground floors are intended primarily fot trade and services, where the all kinds of the offices of the first two above-ground floors makes up to 75% of the floor area. The third and fourth floors are used for housing. The building is oriented from east to west.

The objective of the diploma thesis is to design project for the realisation of new a multifunctional building in city of Brno, Zábrdovice on the corner of Příkop and Bratislavská streets in the wider city center. The object with cellar contains a collective garage. On the ground floor there is a café, from the second to the fourth floor offers rentable office space, on the top floors, the fifth and receding sixth floors are situated apartments varying in size from studio to penthouse. The building is based on a white tub and piles of plain concrete. The supporting system consists of a plate skeleton with concealed heads with reinforcing reinforced concrete monolithic core and two gable reinforcing walls. The skeleton is filled with brickwork. Covered by a combined roof. The main entrance to the building is located on the eastern side along Příkop Street. The architectural expression of the building consists of ceramic cladding strips and rhythm of the hole fill pattern, which decrease with the rising floor.