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Organisations managing recreational sites commonly need to understand the factors influencing visitation choices made by the public and the impact they have on the value of their sites. This need is particularly pertinent with an increasing societal reliance on cost benefit analysis for project appraisal. Whilst on-site visitor surveys can provide information on preferences and values, the potential to transfer findings to predict visitor numbers and values at unsurveyed sites provides an attractive policy option. Indeed, the demand for these benefit transfer methodologies is increasing as more Government emphasis is placed on evaluating the economic potential of rural outdoor recreation. This research concerns the development of benefit transfer models to estimate visitor numbers from outset zones to British Waterways and Forestry Commission sites. Employing a GIS, the research uses multilevel statistical modelling techniques to quantify the impacts of the proximity to competing recreation sites, resource accessibility and quality, and the characteristics of visiting populations. The models are constructed using visitor survey data and applied to unsurveyed sites, testing their use in benefit transfer. Methods are also developed that allow their output to be used to estimate the non-market value of the recreational opportunities afforded by the resources. The findings show some robust relationships determined visit patterns, with travel times from outset zones being a consistent predictor of visitor numbers. A range of other indicators were also significant including socio-demographic measures, site characteristics and substitute availability values. Nevertheless, when individual sites were compared, considerable variability was detected in the strength and direction of these relationships. The methodology developed explicitly addresses the frequently ignored spatial dimension of benefit transfer. Here the GIS provides the functionality to produce a range of measures of the underlying determinants of recreational visits. Although further refinements are needed, the future for spatial benefit transfer models appears promising.

While working as an intern in the corporate pensions department of Rudd and Wisdom, Inc., Consulting Actuaries, I learned about the different kinds of pension plans available to businesses and became familiar with the process of benefit calculation. I performed several benefit calculations for clients under different scenarios and plan specifications. When a participant of a pension plan retires, terminates employment, dies, or becomes disabled, the participant (or his or her beneficiary) may request a calculation to illustrate benefit options. In each case, the methods used to perform such a calculation and the benefit options available to the participant or beneficiary are different. In this report, I will demonstrate a number of scenarios illustrating plan provisions and methods of calculation. / text

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Among the age competition, more and more companies know how to provide fine, humane benefit cares, in order to obtain satisfactory outcome and secure good employees. Therefore, companies should know employees¡¦ diverse needs in being cared. The purposes of the employees¡¦ benefit committee devoting to promote benefit cares are to lift working spirits, to raise working efficiency, and to increase the enterprise overall profits. The best method to evaluate employees¡¦ feelings toward the benefit of cares is to measure their satisfaction. At the customer-oriented new economy age, most companies realize that having satisfied employees can eventually bring in customer satisfaction. The main purposes of this study are to explore the degrees of satisfaction and importance, respectively, of the employees toward the care items proposed by the Taiwan Sugar Corporation Employee¡¦s Benefit Committee and to provide suggestions and ways of improving. We randomly draw 5¢H employees from the Taiwan Sugar Corporation and they are the subjects of this study. Totally 210 copies of questionnaires are given away and 188 copies deemed effective are retrieved. There are 34 survey questions in the questionnaire. The Likert scale is adopted and SPSS for Windows is used as the tool for statistical analysis. This paper tries to figure out the top five satisfactory/unsatisfactory, important/unimportant benefit care items. The benefit care items are categorized into four groups. They are the group with balanced demand and supply, the group with excess demand, the group with excess supply, and the group with wasted resources. The result can be a reference for Taiwan Sugar Corporation Employee¡¦s Benefit Committee to improve their benefit care items. This study finds that there is a difference between the degrees of satisfaction and the degrees of the importance and employees with different personal backgrounds are different toward the perception of satisfaction and importance.

Since CITI Bank sponsored New York Philharmonic Orchestra to perform in Taiwan in 1984, it began the interactions between enterprises and concerts. Comparing with other performing arts, people are more willing to pay for music performances. Benefit concert also has a better fundraising record than other art activities. The purposes of this research are: 1) to find the motivations, internal and external influence factors, execution modes, scales, and input routes of enterprises holding benefit concerts; 2) to understand the collaborative models among enterprises, sponsored non-profit organizations, and performing arts promoters; 3) to compare the different behavior modes among four cases and to provide some suggestions for enterprises, non-profit organizations and performing arts promoters. This research uses case study methodology. After the literature review, the researcher chose four domestic enterprises who have splendid records for holding benefit concerts and did a semi-structural interview with each of them. The study came up six findings: 1) These enterprises¡¦ motivations of supporting benefit concerts was to raise up media exposure, to increase a impression on their customers, and to play role models as corporate citizens in the society. 2) The corporate philanthropy and enterprises¡¦ cultures integrated to create their strategies. The major internal influence factor was the companies images. The external influence factors included: the type of the non-profit organizations and its future, the attraction of the proposals, and the relations in the past. 3) The budget of benefit concerts was arranged with a special percentage of the enterprises¡¦ total income or a fix amount. 4) The enterprises mainly sponsored the fund for the activities through their subsidiary foundations or the company themselves. 5) The enterprises¡¦ relationships to the not-profit organizations were different, but they valued the proposals raised by performing arts promoters. 6) The activities were judged by their ticket revenue, the number of audience, the amount of media exposure and the budget. The benefit concerts not only increased the coherence of the employees, but also improved the corporate images.

Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögsk.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Univ., 2001. / Härtill 5 uppsatser.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Bern.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Greifswald, 1902. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [5]-6).