The master’s thesis deals with organizational culture and its influence on the motivation of employees in the company Foreigners.cz, s.r.o. The aim of this thesis is to identify the organizational culture of the chosen company and its influence on employee motivation. On the basis of the data obtained, solutions are proposed to enhance the employee motivation.

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Thesis (M.M.S.)--University of Waikato, 2007. / Title from PDF cover (viewed February 27, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192)

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:53:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PauloRCB.pdf: 649782 bytes, checksum: 7b869bb155abf3578ea09e633db4f807 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-05-19 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The knowledge management has received major attention from product designers because many of the activities within this process have to be creative and, therefore, they depend basically on the knowledge of the people who are involved in the process. Moreover, Product Development Process (PDP) is one of the activities in which knowledge management manifests in the most critical form once it had the intense application of the knowledge. As a consequence, this thesis analyzes the knowledge management aiming to improve the PDP and it also proposes a theoretical model of knowledge management. This model uses five steps (creation, maintenance, dissemination, utilization and discard) through the verification of the occurrence of four types of knowledge conversion (socialization, externalization, combination and internalization) that it will improve the knowledge management in this process. The intellectual capital in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) managed efficiently and with the participation of all employees has become the mechanism of the creation and transference processes of knowledge, supporting and, consequently, improving the PDP. The expected results are an effective and efficient application of the proposed model for the creation of the knowledge base within an organization (organizational memory) aiming a better performance of the PDP. In this way, it was carried out an extensive analysis of the knowledge management (instrument of qualitative and subjective evaluation) within the Design department of a Brazilian company (SEBRAE/RN). This analysis aimed to know the state-of-the-art of the Design department regarding the use of knowledge management. This step was important in order to evaluate in the level of the evolution of the department related to the practical use of knowledge management before implementing the proposed theoretical model and its methodology. At the end of this work, based on the results of the diagnosis, a knowledge management system is suggested to facilitate the knowledge sharing within the organization, in order words, the Design department / A gest?o do conhecimento tem recebido grande aten??o dos profissionais que atuam no Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos (PDP), pois muitas das atividades deste processo t?m um car?ter criativo e, portanto, dependem fundamentalmente do conhecimento das pessoas que o realizam. Al?m disso, o PDP ? um dos processos onde a necessidade da gest?o do conhecimento se manifesta de forma mais cr?tica devido a intensa aplica??o do conhecimento. Assim, esta disserta??o analisa a gest?o do conhecimento com o objetivo da melhoria do PDP e prop?e um modelo te?rico de gest?o do conhecimento. Este modelo utiliza-se de cinco passos (cria??o, manuten??o, dissemina??o, utiliza??o e exclus?o) atrav?s da verifica??o da ocorr?ncia de quatro tipos de convers?es do conhecimento (socializa??o, externaliza??o, combina??o e internaliza??o) que poder? potencializar a gest?o do conhecimento nesse processo. O capital intelectual nas pequenas e m?dias empresas gerenciado eficientemente e com a participa??o de todos que a comp?e vem se tornando o mecanismo fomentador dos processos de cria??o e transfer?ncia de conhecimento, auxiliando e, conseq?entemente, melhorando o PDP. Os resultados esperados s?o uma efetiva e eficaz aplica??o do modelo proposto para a cria??o da base de conhecimento numa organiza??o (mem?ria organizacional) atingindo, assim, um desempenho no PDP superior ao diagnosticado anteriormente. Desse modo, foi realizado um diagn?stico de gest?o do conhecimento (instrumento de avalia??o qualitativa e subjetiva) no setor de Design do SEBRAE/RN na tentativa de saber o estado da arte do setor com rela??o ? gest?o do conhecimento. Esta etapa ? imprescind?vel para avaliar em que n?vel o setor se encontra com rela??o ?s pr?ticas de gest?o do conhecimento antes de implementar o modelo e sua metodologia. Ao final do trabalho, mediante os resultados do diagn?stico, sugere-se uma ferramenta de gest?o do conhecimento para facilitar o compartilhamento do conhecimento dentro da organiza??o, no caso, do setor

Organizational culture is very important determinant of every organization. This diploma thesis deals with the specific aspects of organizational culture. It consists of four main parts. In the first chapter the theoretical basis regarding organizational culture, organizational commitment and experiential education is described. The second part consists of the deep analyses of hotel Adria Prague. It provides the information regarding its employees, clients, competition and specific events the management organizes on regular basis. The next part is dedicated to the empirical research the aim of which was to identify organizational strategy and values as well as the extent to which employees identify with these values. It also focuses on factors fostering organizational commitment. In the final part of the thesis the practical recommendations for the management of the hotel are mentioned.

This thesis summarizes theoretical knowledge about organizational culture, and analyzes the doctrinal department of the Czech Army. Based on analytical part doctrine centre cultural deficiencies were identified. Last part of the dissertation is oriented to proposals that should eliminate problems found. In order to improve current conditions and status of doctrine centre dissertation offers possible ways and methods. Klíčová slova

The master´s thesis deals with organizational culture and its effect on efficiency of HVM Plasma, s.r.o. Written inquiry, interview and documents kontent analysis were used to determine the present state of organization culture. The target was to design necessary steps which should provide areas of organizational culture.

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One of the key features of the 2002 United States National Security Strategy was an abrupt shift from the traditional U.S. approach to proliferation threats that prioritized deterrence and promotion of nondiscriminatory nonproliferation norms, to an approach called counterproliferation that emphasized military preemption and direct challenges to adversarial state identity. This thesis asks the question, what caused counterproliferation to largely replace deterrence and nonproliferation as the central national security policies of the U.S. concerning unconventional weapons? The thesis argues that to understand this policy change requires not merely an appreciation of changes in the post-Cold War international security environment, but also an examination of how culturally shaped threat conceptions among American policymakers interacted with capabilities development and policy institutionalization within the U.S. military. As no current theory adequately addresses those dynamics, complimentary strategic culture and organizational theory models are presented as the framework for analysis. This thesis will contend that policy shift from NP to CP resulted from the merging of strategic cultural efforts aimed at legitimizing conceptions of proliferation threats as originating from state identity, with a military organizational drive to avoid uncertainty through the development of counterproliferation capabilities. Together these strategic cultural and organizational responses to shifting proliferation threats altered the menu of choice for policymakers by institutionalizing and legitimizing a policy response that directly challenged existing nonproliferation norms and practices. This thesis relies on a detailed case study of the evolution of counterproliferation policy from 1993 to 2002, with particular focus on the analysis of public discourse, declassified policy planning and Department of Defense documents, and participant interviews.