This diploma thesis deals with the issue of a status of individual professional athlete. This issue seems to be easy to resolve as the legal doctrine unanimously classifies individual professional athletes as self-employed. However, further examination provides more detailed view and illustrates the issue is not as unambiguous as one might assume. Thus the aim of the thesis was to analyse the status and sports activity performance of individual professional athlete both theoretically and practically. The analysis of the sports activity performance of single individual professional athletes points out that their performances are different to a great extent. The sports activity performance of some athletes can be even without any doubt considered as a dependent work in terms of labour law. It results in fact that some of individual professional athletes conducts sports activity as self-employed, some of them are employees and some of them even professional soldiers. Every single legal status is connected with various benefits but also with some difficulties. In addition, according to predominant practice and regardless on the nature of their sports activity performance athletes are free to choose their legal status. The thesis also partly concentrates on complex issue of civil liability of athletes...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:24:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-12-21Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:51:48Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 franceschi_rb_me_bauru.pdf: 1110472 bytes, checksum: ed9ac8d50e06c35b64bad97c18a9691c (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Diante das transformações comportamentais e tecnológicas que afetam a sociedade e alteram os parâmetros de espaço e tempo, propomos aqui uma lente de aumento neste contexto. O foco são as relações entre a moradia, mobiliário e profissional autônomo - arquiteto, engenheiro e designer - que utilizam a casa como local de trabalho. Entender os ambientes de moradia e trabalho e a utilização do mobiliário nesses espaços tornou-se necessário para identificar semelhanças do passado com a atualidade. A análise de fatores que hoje contribuem para a consolidação do trabalho na residência, revela as perdas e os ganhos que o profissional sofre em seu cotidiano com a família, o trabalho e a qualidade de vida. O olhar do usuário para essas questões e para o objeto estudado, que é a estação de trabalho intelectual ligada a atividades de projeto nos revela o quão o objeto utilizado está distanciado das necessidades reais do usuário. Trata-se, portanto, de aproximar e esclarecer os pontos falhos dessa relação e propor reflexões, conceitos e diretrizes projetuais para estação de trabalho residencial, adequando-as às necessidades do usuário. / Facing the behavior and technological transformation which affect the society and change the parameters of space and time, this paper proposes to focus the relation among dwelling, furniture and self-employed - architects, engineers and designers - who use their houses as a place to work. Understanding the environment where one lives and works, as well as the use of furniture in these spaces, have become important to identify similarities between the past to the present. The analysis of factors that lead us today to the consolidated practice of working at home reveals the losses and gains faced by profissional in his family and work daily routine and life quality. The way the user sees such issues and the object of this study - that is, home office related to design activities - do not reveal how far home office is from the user's real necessities. Therefore, the aim is to approach to end clarify the failures in this relation and to raise reflection, concepts and design guidelines for home office, adjusting them into the user's real necessities.

The goal of this thesis is an analysis of situation between self - employed and employees with respect to tax duties and net profit. This topic is actual because constant changes tend to be miss-interpreted. Such interpretations often suites more political needs rather than truthfully reflect actual situation. Theoretical part will describe legal framework for self - employed and employees, explain major differences between two groups, describe over time evolution of private enterprise in our country. Pros and cons will be pointed out for each group. In case of self - employed, overall influence on the global economy will be described. The preface of analytical part will focus on construction and over time evolution of tax duties, namely income tax, health and social care. Following sections will list actual amounts of each tax duty collected, effectively evaluating situation of each group. The last section will focus on time evolution in number of self employed in an effort to point out actual impacts of measures taken in private enterprise environment.

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The evolvement of a knowledge-based economy and the internet has changed the pattern of occupation, shortening the career life cycle of various professions. For many people wanting to realize their dreams and continue their careers, the choice is to start their own enterprise. Women have been restricted for a long time owing to the binding traditional roles, expectations and the differing sexual values in society. When choosing an occupation, women were faced with more difficult considerations than men. Hence, recently both academics and industrialists have attached importance to the discussion of women entrepreneurs in Taiwan. According to statistics from various countries, one-person business, a part of micro-business, is proportionally high in each nation. This could be seen as a common commercial pattern as well as an entrepreneurial model and also as an individual¡¦s choice of lifestyle. Many of these self-employed businesses, ¡¥non-companies¡¦, are in existence because they don¡¦t have complex organizational regulations and working procedures. They are seen in society as a matter of course and are often ignored. The numbers of one-person businesses and the SOHO population have increased due to the knowledge-based economy and the internet. Many people choose self-employment as a means to gain freedom, flexibility and independence. One-person business can be regarded as the easiest type out of all business to set up. There are many reasons why women pursue one-person business as a career. This study is based on in-depth interviews which explore the reasons of contentment and motivation behind women entrepreneurs. It also sums up an evaluation of women prior to their own business and to understand women¡¦s ability to carry out business development opportunities. Finally, it concludes with an optimum model proposal for women¡¦s one-person business.

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In other words, this dissertation aims at discussing school inclusion as it has been practiced throughout history, and, more precisely, in the last few years, when the term has been defined and implemented, so as to verify if, by what means and in which instances the project of school inclusion has led to social inclusion especially of educators and students. Theoretically speaking the text is base don the dialogical understanding of language (Bakhtin/Volochinov, 1929), the theory of communicative action (Habermas, 1985), the historical constructs of social and school organization (Schwarcz, 1993; Patto, 1999; Hobsbawn, 1995), developmental constructs (Vygotsky, 1930, 1934; Leontiev, 1959), a collaborative perspective of teacher education (Magalhães, 2005) so as to strengthen the understanding of what might be an inclusive practice. In order to discuss a possible inclusive practice, one would evidently have to discuss issues that historically have been the chore of exclusion, since inclusion would never have become an issue for laws and discourses if not for the predominance of exclusion in our society. In methodological terms, this dissertation is based on a critical perspective as well, i.e., it is a piece of work that aims at contributing to the transformation of the status quo. Its methodology is then partially defined by the Critical Hermeneutic concepts (Ricouer, 1986) and, partially, by a Critical-Collaborative perspective (Magalhães, 2002a, 2002b, 2005) the former as a means to understanding data generation and treatment and the latter relating to the means by which the project was re-designed several times by the joint action of participants. The data reveals that school inclusion, in Sao Paulo, is not leading to the social inclusion of children. Besides it has been leading to the exclusion of teachers who are not being educated to work within the current school diversity / Inserido na intersecção da Lingüística Aplicada Crítica (Rajagopalan, 2003), da Teoria Crítica da produção do conhecimento (Habermas, 1985, Heller, 1970) e da Pedagogia Crítica (Freire, 1970), este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar a linguagem inclusiva ou excludente que permeia a formação de nossa escola, as leis e políticas públicas que prescrevem o trabalho educacional e as práticas escolares propriamente ditas. Em outras palavras, busca discutir a inclusão escolar ao longo da história da formação da escola brasileira e, nos últimos tempos, o percurso da educação inclusiva, suas definições e implementações, para verificar como e em que instâncias a proposta possibilitaria a inclusão social dos agentes envolvidos principalmente alunos e educadores. Teoricamente, o texto discute a compreensão dialógica da linguagem (Bakhtin/Volochinov, 1929), a teoria da ação comunicativa (Habermas, 1985), concepções históricas de formação social e escolar (Schwarcz, 1993; Patto, 1999; Hobsbawn, 1995), concepções acerca do desenvolvimento (Vygotsky, 1930, 1934; Leontiev, 1959), a formação do educador por uma perspectiva colaborativa (Magalhães, 2005) para fortalecer a compreensão do que seria uma prática inclusiva. É evidente que para chegar a uma prática inclusiva, o trabalho aborda questões excludentes historicamente marcadas já que a inclusão não seria necessariamente assinalada em leis e em discursos se a exclusão não estivesse tão presente em nossa sociedade. Em termos metodológicos, este trabalho se pauta em uma perspectiva crítica o fazer pesquisa, ou seja, é um trabalho que visa contribuir para a transformação do estado da arte. No entanto, sua metodologia se define, parcialmente, pela hermenêutica crítica (Ricouer, 1986) e, parcialmente, por uma perspectiva colaborativo-crítica (Magalhães, 2002a, 2002b, 2005) a primeira dizendo respeito à forma como as entrevistas foram conduzidas e analisadas (ao tratamento dos dados, propriamente) e a segunda, à forma como o projeto foi re-elaborado pela ação conjunta dos participantes. Os dados revelam que a inclusão escolar (1) não tem levado a uma inclusão social e (2) tem causado a exclusão de muitos educadores por não estarem sendo formados para trabalhar com a diversidade que ora têm em suas salas de aula

Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This report is an exploratory study assessing the life stages of South African women entrepreneurs. The purpose is to share significant learnings, experiences and challenges from an entrepreneurial perspective. The study followed a phenomenological approach; the findings have been formed based on the lived experiences of the women without imposing bias or existing knowledge frameworks. The study aims to share meaningful experiences from their situational contexts. The sample consisted of ten South African women entrepreneurs in various industries. The industries range from packaging, clothing, fast moving consumer goods (food), communications, accommodation, and asset management. Important findings of the study are that having relevant work experience, expertise in their fields, and established reputations within their respective industries assisted the participating women in establishing their businesses. However, the younger entrepreneurs with limited work experience were also able to establish successful enterprises owing to being highly skilled in their areas of expertise. They had chosen to study courses, after identifying their passions. They had specifically chosen courses directly related to the businesses they created in order to improve their expertise further. One participant was an exception to the women entrepreneurs participating. She had started her business with no related work experience and no expertise with regards to her product offering. In her case, passion for her product, upskilling herself, having a support structure, and having access to mentorship, assisted her in overcoming challenges.

<p>The issue of unemployment among immigrants in Sweden started from 1980s when a large amount of immigrants had no access to the labour market (Sördersten, 2004). Many foreign born citizens who could not find any jobs have to live on social welfare. Some of them have found a way to solve their unemployment by becoming self-employed. In 2003, Swedish Integration Board reported that the proportion of self-employment in Sweden was 7.4 percent. This proportion was higher among foreign-born (8.8 percent) compared to native Swedes (7.3 percent).</p><p>It is of great academic interest for our group to conduct research on immigrant’s business entry decisions. This thesis specifically focuses on identifying and understanding the factors that influence immigrants’ decision to start up their business. This research was conducted in Jönköping municipality by doing a case study on nine ethnic entrepreneurs who come from Non-EU countries, namely: China, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Uganda and Vietnam.</p><p>Many studies have been carried out on the topic of ethnic entrepreneurship by researchers such as Waldinger et al. (1990), Basu (1998), Curran and Blackburn (1993), Najib (1999) and Ram (1994). Previous studies will be treated in this thesis as a source of evidence and theoretical framework.</p><p>Qualitative method was used in this thesis. Case study is particularly chosen as the most appropriate tool in qualitative method to conduct this specific research. In order to obtain information for this case study, semi-structured interview with guideline questions was used. Nine cases including: five restaurants, one clothing store, one cosmetic shop, one assembling company and one carpet shop were selected in this study.</p><p>The results of this study showed that, the factors that motivated ethnic entrepreneurs’ decision to start their own business were: selective immigration, entrepreneurial traits, blocked mobility, opportunity recognition, level of education, desire for independence and autonomy, financial betterment, business background and previous business experience, business culture values, interests and hobbies.</p><p>However, opportunity recognition, level of education, desire for independence and autonomy and financial betterment were the factors that played a significant role in immigrant business decision making process.</p><p>The result also shows that positive (pull) factors outweighed negative (push) factors in immigrants’ decision to enter self-employment.</p><p>One alternative to unemployment is to become self-employed. It is highly possible that self-employment will lead to lower unemployment among immigrants (Hammarstedt, 2001). It should be in interest of the Swedish government to support self-employment since it will contribute to the growth of the Swedish economy.</p><p>This thesis may be of interest to Jönköping municipality and other governmental organizations as well as policy makers. It might help them to improve the integration level of immigrants into Swedish society, unemployment level or encourage self-employment by understanding the factors affecting immigrants to start up their own businesses.</p>

In the last few years, many more women than before have entered the labour force. Consequently, employed women are confronted with demanding aspects at work and at home and experience difficulty in combining obligations in both of these domains. The pressure of the demands in their work place and family lives combined with managing the responsibilities from their work and personal lives can have a negative impact on the health of employed females. The objective of this research was to investigate the effects of work characteristics, borne characteristics and negative work-home interaction on the ill-health of employed females in South Africa. An availability sample (N = 500) was taken from six provinces of South Africa, including the Eastern Cape, the Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu Natal, the North West and Western Cape. A job characteristics questionnaire, a home characteristics questionnaire, the 'Survey Work-Home Interaction Nijmegen' (SWING), and an ill health questionnaire were administered. Exploratory factor analyses were used to determine the construct validity of the questionnaires, Cronbach alpha coefficients were used to determine the reliability, while multiple regression analyses were used to identify significant predictors of ill-health. The results indicated that physical ill health could be predicted by a lack of role clarity and pressures at home. Predictors of anxiety were work overload, a lack of support from colleagues, uncertain roles in the workplace, home pressure as well as negative Work-home interaction (WHI) and negative Home-work interaction (HWI). Fatigue was predicted by work pressure, work overload, a lack of autonomy at work, a lack of instrumental support at work, a lack of role clarity, pressure at home and negative WHI. Predicting factors of depression were found to be job insecurity, a lack of autonomy and clearly defined roles at work, pressure at home, a lack of autonomy at home as well as negative HWI. / Mini-dissertation (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.