This study is focused on how characters of management control system affect organizational climate and the how the relation between those two factors guide performance in different organizations. With four diffent case studies in Taiwan, this study found three types of reaction in management control system, organizational climate and organizational performance: mediator model, moderating model and interactive model. This study showed that the relationship among management control system, organizational climate and performance are not in a given type; there would be various possible mixes in their relationship. In mediator model, management control system is an important factor to improve performance and the awareness of organizational climate in employee directly affected the guiding effects of management control system to organizational performance. According to the previous finding, an environment makes the employee have better awareness about organizational climate will help managers to reach the performance goals with management control systems. In moderating model, organizational climate moderate the linkeage between managemeant control system and the awareness of performance in employee. It is not ony the factor to adjust effects of management control system but also change managers¡¦ designs of management control system and moderate the relationsip on management control system and performance. Organizational performance could be improved when managers design indicators and controlling mechanism with considered interactive effects in organizational climate. This study also found that industrial characters will affect operational process of management control system and awareness of organizational climate in employee. Due to professional knowledge is an important factor for employee in service industry to provide servive to their customers, attendance rate and safety of customers are two important indicators to management control system in such industry. According to this reaesch, the case in service industry put more focus on this performance item than the cases in manufacturing industry, so the study found the characters of industrial technology will also a factor to affect the design of management control system

In recent years, the global mergers and acquisitions (M&As) boom surging, especially after the financial tsunami. The enterprise mentality ¡§the big get bigger¡¨, for the rapid expansion and market share. Breaking the previous mode of operation alone, corporate mergers and acquisitions have become an important strategy for the rapid growing and maintain competitive advantage. There are many factors that impact mergers and acquisitions integration. The real test is just beginning after mergers and acquisitions transaction is completed. Mergers and acquisitions integration management can help companies to play the synergies of mergers and acquisitions. It¡¦s an important key to determine the success of mergers and acquisitions. Information systems (IS) integration is among the most challenging tasks in corporate mergers and acquisitions (Alaranta and Henningsson, 2008). Corporate mergers and acquisitions generate the integration and remodeling of the corporate culture, business and organizational overlap. The relative makes the complexity of information systems integration becomes higher, and more difficult in the integration. At the same time, considering how to achieve the synergies, through integration of information systems and overcoming the uncertain changes. This study adopts the case study approach to a large panel manufacturer. Summarized the primary and secondary data and actually involved in the observed induction, related aspects of the system functionality, business process, organizational and external supply chain, to find the factors of information systems integration. And then explore the process of information systems integration in corporate mergers and acquisitions in order to establish the mode of information system integration. Finally also provide reference for large-scale merger and acquisitions.

Taiwanese Languages Curriculum in a Third Grade Class of Elementary school Li-Shu Huang Abstract This is a case study on a grade three class in Kaohsiung municipal Da-Ai (A pseudonym) elementary school. The core issue was to teach Taiwanese proverbs with the integration of gender equity ideas, including topics of based on ¡§gender equity in a multi-culture society¡¨ and ¡§related issues in gender rights and interests¡¨ in the Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum Guidelines. The purposes of the study was to discuss the development process of gender concepts of grade three students in elementary school before and after taking the integrated course instruction, to know the academic achievements and the predicaments of students¡¦ learning. This research adopted qualitative research methods for collecting data by observations, interviews, worksheets and reflection checklists; to analyze data with frequency & T-test statistics, and then to make conclusions and suggestions wishing to be a reference in future integrated instruction. According to the above research purposes, the conclusions were as follows¡G A. Students¡¦ gender equity awareness¡G 1. Before instructions, students have their own gender stereotypes. 2. The students¡¦ stereotypes can be clarified and the viewpoints of gender equity can be built through instructions. 3. Through learning and sharing, the students can learn how to protect their body, deal with the crises and estblish the human relations. B. Integrated curriculum instruction¡G 1. The use of multiple instructions can stimulate reflections on gender concepts from both teachers and students. 2. The students admired the attempts of integrating gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language instruction. 3. The instruction can raise parents¡¦ attention toward children¡¦s gender attitude. 4. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language curriculum ¡® instruction can have positive inpact on boys and girls¡¦ gender awareness, particularly in the case of girls. 5. Multiple instruction models of Taiwanese language curriculum can raise the interests on students¡¦ learning. 6. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese language curriculum ¡® instruction can help students use Taiwanese in their daily lives. Based on the findings, the researcher provided several suggestions as follows¡G A. We should implement gender equity education with the help of household education. B. We should create an envivonment with non-sexual discrimination and stereotype learning in order to support the teachers implementing multiple instructions. C. The teachers should develop reflecting abilities on gender concepts. D. The integration of gender equity ideas into Taiwanese should be diversified. E. The teacher self-made inventory on gender equity attitude should be further revised. F. The number of research class and samples should be increased.

Interaction is very important to all kind of education, including traditional face-to-face classroom lecture and e-Learning. Numerous attempts have been made by researchers to propose some asynchronous interaction methods. Only few studies have so far been made at synchronous ones. Synchronous Office Hour has recently brought to light by some researches. But so far the study of the know-how to conduct it effectively for teachers and students has never been examined. The aim of this paper is to explore the know-how. This research adopts Case Study to collect and analyze representative unique case from NSYSU Cyber University. The case is representative because of the sophisticated teacher, diverse interaction model and enthusiastic discussion. Data collection includes participant observation, deep open interviews, text records, video records, asynchronous board and electronic documents. Data analysis is based on three steps, including pick up key words from different data sources, reorganize the relation of key words and coding. We not only build initial Office Hour framework but also formula the environment setting, execution procedure and interaction model for conducting effective online Office Hour. The most important addition to be made is the value of Synchronous Office Hour to teachers and students.

Apply Internet technology to online live videoconferencing activities will overcome the restriction in face-to-face meeting. By using this way not only can help us to meet with one another in any time, but also saves us large amount of cost on communication and transportation. However, this is not easy for many users of virtual community to use it as an innate instinct, it still have many perplexitys for users to use of online live videoconferencing activities through Internet. The study of this thesis will pick five discrete organizations from the NSYSU Cyber University, and use questionnaire, focusing group interviewing and studying audio-video files as combined data. Then, researcher will use Qualitative Research method to analyse those data to extract all the situations including the phenomena, processes, and events which our subjects have experienced during the internet online live videoconferencing activities. We wanted to discover the sequences and relations among them and to reconstruct the online activity processes and find out the possible solutions. Finally, we proposed the Concrete processes, and feasible recommendations about guidelines and management of online live videoconferencing activities in this thesis. We hope these outcomes will be helpful to those people that will participate in online live videoconferencing activities.

This study explores the moods and behavior of an emotionally impaired child before and after therapeutically oriented painting activities and assesses the effectiveness of this assistance method. The study employs qualitative research methods. The subject of this study is a fourth-grade emotionally impaired student who participated in painting activities twice each week, for a total of 16 sessions. Data was collected throughout the sessions via photography, audio and video recordings and analyzed for verbal descriptions, non-verbal expression, and interaction with the researchers. In addition, assessment, observation, and interviews of the student's mother and school personnel (administrators, guidance personnel, resource class teachers, guidance teachers, and class mothers) were used to gain an understanding of how effective therapeutically oriented painting activities are as a means of helping emotionally impaired children. This study reached the following conclusions from the research findings: (1) There was a significant improvement in the child¡¦s interpersonal relationships following the painting activities. (2) The child participated actively in family activities, and displayed positive interaction with his mother and older brother. (3) The child displayed significant positive changes in terms of innate abilities, learning motivation, self-affirmation, and personal growth. (4) The child's in-school performance displayed significant progress. (5) The child's communication abilities increased dramatically.

Abstract Under the trends of the globalization and symbol consumption, the creative industries from kownledge economy become the opportunity of Taiwan development in the future. Take a broad view of the evolution of Taiwan creative industries in recent years, although the name ' cultural industry ' based on the community build is close for 'creative industries' from Britain, these are two different development concept. Because of some misunderstands, it reduce effect of the industry popularize to cause, this becomes the proposition cared about most in this research too. The purpose of research is probes into Taiwan regional ' cultural industry ' and difference of ' creative industries '¡Bprobes into the characteristic of creative industries, and get the strategy of the new product development in the creativity industries. This research choose the craft industry, and the method is case study research , with the analysis of secondary data and the interview. The conclusion part, There are eight items in analysis including ' the industries with high risk '¡B' possess the plural skill group ', ' create the goods which accord with the market ', ' with high regular costs and low costs with making again ', ' people create for means getting scarce ', ' manage risk by means of the enterprise ', ' diversifying profit ', 'technology is key '.and the new product in development is ¡uMr. Bliss¡v.

Educational polices have been changing ever since 1993. With low birth rate and more and more cram schools, the competition in the field of cram school business has become even more intense. Hence, how to elevate the management and efficiency of operating a cram school so as to maintain its competitiveness and sustainability is the top priority for cram school runners. In this study, I adopted case study method, by studying the Ping-tong branch of Tung-hsin educational enterprise alliance. I observed and probed into the current status of its operation, analyzed the conditions of its location with SWOT, examined its marketing strategies tactically, and assayed each of the four divisions in AHP while adopting the case into balance scorecard. The result was as follows: through the analysis of SWOT, the studied case is in an advantageous position for having operated for years; however, now it is also threatened by ever-changing educational policies and low birth rate. After interviewing and discussing with the management as well as the staff, I set a goal for each division in the balance scorecard --- financial affairs, customers, interior procedures, and growth. Afterwards, the ¡§Strategy Map¡¨ of the studied case was drawn by connecting the strategy goals with potential causes and efficiency. Eventually, through the introduction of questionnaires that involve Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), five conclusions were made: I.Under the consideration of the balance scorecard and working capital, the financial division of using valid estate and monitoring cost strictly is the top priority to attend to. II.Under the consideration of financial affairs, the first priority to attend to is capital. While increasing market share and elevating profits, operators pay a lot more attention to controlling the capital. III.Under the consideration of customers, the first priority to attend to is outstanding counseling efficiency. Distinguished counseling efficiency can help cram schools obtain trust from parents and public praises. IV.Under the consideration of interior procedures, the first priority to attend to is great teaching materials. Teaching material is not only a tool but also the image of a cram school. Great teaching material can help boost competitiveness. V.Finally, under the consideration of growth, the first priority to attend to is enthusiastic staff. The most significant things are allowing lecturers and staff to learn and interact with one another, encouraging the staff to participate in the operation, and giving them sufficient space to express their ideas.

This study aimed to investigate how teachers integrated the development of students&#039 / critical thinking skills into their teaching during the three major phases of their teaching, namely, their planning practices, interactive practices, and reflective practices and to evaluate the influence of their instruction as felt by students in fourth grade Turkish course. The study was conducted as a comparative case study in which three teachers from three different primary schools participated. Data were collected through classroom observations, interviews with teachers and their students, logs written by students and documents. The findings of the study indicated that, in the planning stage, factors such as autonomy, methodological stance and relevance played a role on the level of teachers&#039 / incorporation of critical thinking into the process. In the lessons, their classroom climate and management, perception of their realm of influence, their approach to challenge and tendency to create a common frame of reference were found to have an effect on the ways their students were involved in critical thinking processes. Furthermore, metacognitive skills and critical reading skills, together with others, were addressed by teachers in different ways. In their reflection, the way they referred to the strengths and weaknesses of their lessons and the way they evaluated their students&#039 / learning as well as their discrimination of thinking concepts and the ways they dealt with assumptions underlying students&#039 / reasoning involved elements revealing their approach to critical thinking. Among students, some interactive patterns, curiosity and interest constituted the factors that motivated students to think critically.

This study has the main objective of evaluating the effectiveness of the writing component of the program applied at the Department of Basic English (DBE) and the Department of Modern Languages (DML) at Middle East Technical University (METU) in the 2010-2011 academic year in terms of program objectives, materials and content, teaching-learning process and the assessment of the writing skills. The opinions of the DBE and DML instructors, program coordinators and students as well as the content course instructors at different departments at METU were mainly obtained via questionnaires and interviews. The data collected via the questionnaires were analyzed using SPSS 15 while the analysis of all the qualitative data was done though content analysis. The results of the questionnaires indicated that the writing components of the program at the DBE and the DML were generally effective as for the dimensions of the programs as specified in the research questions from the perspective of instructors and students. However, the qualitative data revealed participants&rsquo / suggestions for the improvement of the existing writing programs at both departments. Some of the major conclusions that can be drawn from DBE students&rsquo / and instructors&rsquo / suggestions are as follows: There is a need to switch the focus from discourse-level writing to more freewriting practices through more student-centered activities / the materials should be more visually attractive / the assessment procedure applied to test students&rsquo / writing ability in the mid-terms should be standardized and the writing tasks as tested in the English Proficiency Exam (EPE) should be focused on in writing classes. On the other hand, as for the writing program at the DML, the need for the diversification of the writing genres, topics and the citation rules covered in the ENG 101 and ENG 102 courses depending on students&rsquo / departments was emphasized by the DML participants. Similarly, DBE participants underlined the need for departmentrelated content in writing materials. Also, the content course instructors agreed that the writing program applied at the DBE and the DML should be department-specific. In other words, this study displayed the necessity to conduct a needs analysis aiming to reveal DBE and DML students&rsquo / writing needs for their departments.