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Abstract Human resource is the most valuable and prominent property to a company. No matter in what aspect, human resource is fundamental to the development and implementation of programs and plans to support the overall growth of the company. Hence, how to find the most competent employees through proper sources is what the business entity needs to consider about. The sources to find qualified employees include human resource website, newspapers, schools, governmental agencies for employment services, employment exhibition, referral, and transition. Reviewing the past researchs of human resource, most of them focus on recruitment and staffing, but few to deal with referral employment. However, in Taiwan where interpersonal relationship is highly valued and recommended, the recruitment of employees through referral is very common. Therefore, this research aimed at the referral. Furthermore, the research also aimed to find out in what kind of relationship between the referral and introducer, the referral would have a preferable and better performance. Would the same working experience with the present job that referrals had serve as a critical variable affecting the performance? The results reveal that the turnover rate of referral is much lower than those hired personnel through other sources. Referrals generally have better performances at work when they were co-workers with the introducers in their former jobs. The finding also shows that referrals also have better performance when they came from the related industries related to the present jobs. Key words : performance , recruiting sources, referral, turnover rate

Thesis (M.S. in Management)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): Mark J. Eitelberg, Gail Fann Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-94). Also available online.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of History, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1980. / Typescript.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1983. / Typescript.

published_or_final_version / Politics and Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

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The thesis suggests a way in which the peace movement can make itself attractive to citizens. It begins with the assumption that the movement should satisfy some of their personal needs. One such need is that of relief from the pains of anxiety. Drawing upon Heidegger, the thesis outlines two of these pains--impotence and unheimlichkeit--and shows why we experience them. Then, using Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, it explains why true friendship is a positive response to the pains. True friends further each other's courage, a virtue whose possession helps them to weather impotence. True friends are, in fundamental ways, the same as one another: Their partial identity counters the effects of non-humans whose radical otherness makes the partners feel unheimlich. / A movement which promotes true friendship within its ranks--and publicizes this fact--will likely attract new members and have success in retaining old ones. The last chapter discusses, in concrete terms, how friendship among movement members can be fostered.

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