This thesis analyzes the project management and its maturity at the company nkt cables Vrchlabi k.s., člen skupiny NKT, which is focused on the production of cables and wires. The thesis is divided into theoretical and analytical parts. The first part describes the theoretical approaches to project management, the second part analyzes the process of current condition in the company. In the following part are listed recommendations for the company based on the analysis, and summary of the results and conclusions of this thesis.

The aim of the thesis was to facilitate the implementation of process change in the company KS-Europe, s.r.o. For this purpose, I conducted a survey in that enterprise through which I examined the feelings and opinions of employees for future change. On the basis of the survey was identified risk areas in preparation for the change about which I informed the director of the company that he could possibly take appropriate measures to alleviate the course of change. Approximately two months after the introduction of the change I conducted structured interviews with the director of the company, the chief of Heftshop and two employees. These interviews were analyzed by comparison to assess the overall course changes.

Problemformulering: Självledarskap definieras som en individs förmåga att påverka sitt beteende för att uppnå sina mål. Detta koncept har blivit alltmer relevant i takt med att organisationer övergår från traditionella hierarkiska strukturer till mer flexibla och självstyrda arbetssätt. Syftet: Utifrån olika perspektiv (chef & medgrundares-, anställdas- och ledarskapscoachs perspektiv), öka förståelse för hur tillämpningen av självledarskap som ledningsstrategi uppfattas i en organisation. Metod: En kvalitativ forskningsansats användes, där fem semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes för att samla insikter från deltagare i kunskapsintensiva företag i Sverige. Denna metod gav en djup förståelse för individuella upplevelser och uppfattningar relaterade till självledarskap. Slutsats: Studien visar att självledarskap som ledningsstrategi erbjuder både möjligheter och hinder för organisationer. De viktigaste resultaten antyder att självledarskap främjar ökat ansvar och autonomi bland medarbetarna, vilket bidrar till ökad motivation och arbetstillfredsställelse. Samtidigt innebär självledarskap utmaningar som ökade krav på självdisciplin, risken för otydlighet i mål och riktning. Effektiva strategier för självledarskap inkluderar självmålsättning, självbelöning och att förstå arbetsuppgifternas syfte, medan självbestraffning är mindre populära. / Problem Statement: Self-leadership is defined as an individual's ability to influence their behavior and goals. This concept has become increasingly relevant as organizations transition from traditional hierarchical structures to more flexible and self-directed work environments. Purpose: From various perspectives (including those of managers and co-founders, employees, and leadership coaches), this study aims to enhance the understanding of how the applicationof self-leadership as a management strategy is perceived within an organization. Methodology: A qualitative research approach was employed, involving five semi-structured interviews to gather in-depth insights from participants in knowledge-intensive companies in Sweden. This method provided a deep understanding of individual experiences and perceptions related to self-leadership. Conclusion: The study demonstrates that self-leadership as a management strategy offers both opportunities and challenges for organizations. The key findings suggest that self-leadership fosters increased responsibility and autonomy among employees, contributing to enhanced motivation and job satisfaction. However, self-leadership also presents challenges such as increased demands for self-discipline and the risk of ambiguity in goals and direction. Effective self-leadership strategies include self-goal setting, self-reward, and understanding the purpose of tasks, while self-punishment is less favored.

The Housing Department of the eThekwini Municipality implemented a home-ownership programme in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province. The programme aimed at selling state-financed flats to tenants of the Municipality. The sale of these flats was in terms of the Sectional Title development scheme. The research study undertaken was to analyze and evaluate the implementation of this programme. In conducting the research study, a global perspective on the delivery of public housing was obtained. There are challenges globally; there is inadequate delivery of housing by governments both in developing and developed countries. Whilst there are new strategies being formulated by governments, for e.g. housing associations and social housing; there is lack of support by government to sustain these housing programmes. The research study was undertaken within a systems approach. The use of this approach enabled a holistic enquiry process into the study. Through the systems approach the researcher was able to look at not only the components in the system, but also the interaction and the connectedness between components. The Critical Systems Thinking as a meta-methodology allowed the use of more than one methodology for the research study, i.e. Critical Systems Heuristics and Quantitative Study. The Critical Systems Heuristics methodology was used to analyze and evaluate a policy decision made by Government to sell State-Financed flats to tenants. This research study focused on the officials of the eThekwini Municipality. The second research study was Quantitative and targeted trustees within bodies corporate. The analysis of the data that was collated highlighted the following: While the decision for the sale of flats to tenants in order to promote home ownership emerged as a good decision, there is never the less a need to include in the programme an extensive post sales programme that includes training, education and a support network for bodies corporate The communication between tenants and the Housing Department was extensive until the transfer of the flats to the tenants and thereafter communication was very limited One of the main challenge faced in this programme is the financial management of bodies corporate There appears to be challenges of promoting and maintaining social cohesion. Whilst the programme to promote home-ownership has been well-received by beneficiaries, the progamme lacked a supportive post-sales programme and hence viewed as incomplete. Two broad recommendations were: Ongoing programme with bodies corporate: There needs to be training and education programmes available for the post sales period. The programmes should be designed to benefit both newly appointed trustees and exiting ones Supportive Network: The Housing Department needs to initially provide funding and facilitate a process to for the creation and sustainability of network forums. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010.

The purpose of this enquiry is to challenge and add a further dimension to cultural management, through an empirical exploration of what cultural managers do in a particular domain (theatre) and scale of organisation (micro-) within the (subsidised) cultural sector, in South West England. Working from a sensemaking perspective (Weick, 1979, 1995a, 2009), it focuses attention on what these practitioners do, rather than what they could, should or do not do. It draws on literature from cultural management, theatre and performance studies and organisation and management studies to help address the following questions: • What do cultural managers do in micro-scale theatre organisations (in South West England)? • Why do they do what they do? • How do they do what they do? • In what ways might an analysis of what they do inform talk in and about cultural management? • To what other theoretical conversations might such an analysis contribute? The subjects are three cultural managers running micro-scale contemporary theatre organisations in Bristol, Plymouth and Redruth. The study adopts a qualitative, ethnographic, multi-case study approach, with data collected through non-participant observation, informal interviews and documentary sources. Analysis is inductive, deductive and abductive. The thesis concludes with a conceptual and epistemological re-framing of cultural management as cultural managing, suggesting that what the cultural managers studied do is not only vocationally dedicated to the purpose, values and work of their organisation, but is also isomorphically inflected by them in the doing. Furthermore, it offers (a) an adjusted perspective on “high reliability organising” (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2007) orientated more towards making the best than mitigating the worst; (b) a focus on organising in theatre to colleagues pursuing the relationship between management and the arts; and (c) a challenge to traditional notions of divide between theatre managing and theatre making, particularly at the micro-scale. This is an interdisciplinary study with cross-disciplinary implications.

This study draws on theories of punishment (Cavadino and Dignan 2007), leadership (West-Burnham 2013), social rules, (Burns and Machado 2014) and resilience (Fredrikson and Branigan 2005) to develop an understanding of Pupil Referral Units (PRUs). PRUs came into being through statute in 1993. They were set up to provide formal educational settings for young people who had been excluded from school. LEAs have responsibility for the education and welfare of all children in their catchment areas, irrespective of which school they attend. If an exclusion occurs, the LEA is obliged to assume responsibility, under section 19(1) of the 1996 Education Act, for the child's education by whatever means seems appropriate to its designated officers. Placement in a Pupil Referral Unit is a course of action they may pursue. This study sets out to discover through a series of narrative interviews conducted within a Key Stage 4 PRU, whether the multiple purposes of the PRU can be achieved, given the issues that present themselves in the isolated setting of the Unit, the resources available and the complex needs of the young people concerned. Fifteen interviews were conducted within a PRU in the academic year 2011-2012. Four were held with the Head; 11 further interviews involved 12 people; 8 members of staff and 4 pupils. A study of the evidence they provided led to a qualified positive response to the research question; i.e. that PRUs can' work' given a number of factors that are listed in the conclusion.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2004.

This study sought to investigate the role of church leaders in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS in the Sweetwaters community. In terms of HIV and AIDS South Africa is the most affected country in sub-Saharan Africa with KwaZulu-Natal as the epicenter of the pandemic. Therefore it is against this backdrop that the researcher articulates the management and leadership roles of church leaders in the prevention of HIV and AIDS as the center of this study. It is imperative that church pastors equip among themselves in order for them to have a significant effect in addressing HIV and AIDS issues in a context like the Sweetwaters community, for example. Church leaders are strategically positioned to play a central role in the combat against the pandemic within their churches and communities. This study has been undertaken using questionnaires and focus group studies with ten church leaders from Sweetwaters the community. The research seeks to: (a) gain a understanding of challenges confronting church leaders; (b) understand how they can tackle this challenge effectively as regards their leadership role. The above mentioned is summed up in the main research question of the study, which is formulated as follows: How do the church leaders understand and respond to their leadership role within their churches and the community in the supervision of a diversity of issues arising from the pandemic. The study pointed out that the involvement of church leaders in the prevention of HIV and AIDS is generally limited to spiritual and relief work. The only structured program available to the particular local churches, and which has been implemented, is to care for orphans. The position taken in this study is that there is a need for church leaders to develop modern realistic HIV and AIDS educational programs and to train their church members to engage in HIV and AIDS issue. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, 2010.

This dissertation presents three separate studies designed to provide systematic and evidence-based insight into how servant leadership could be a crucial success factor in helping non-profit organizations (NPOs) hosting cause-related sporting events achieve their missions. Thus, the purpose of my dissertation was to advance the literature and the practice of servant leadership. In Study one, I conducted a systematic literature review of studies that explored an application of servant leadership. A disciplined screening process resulted in a sample population of 39 studies. The synthesis of these applied studies revealed: a) there is no consensus on the definition of servant leadership; b) servant leadership is being applied across a variety of contexts, cultures, and themes; c) researchers are using multiple measures to explore servant leadership; and d) these studies provide strong evidence that servant leadership helps organizations and improves the well-being of followers. In Study two, I explored the leadership style of the founder of a cause-related sporting event to understand how this leadership style motivated volunteers. This was achieved through semi-structured personal interviews, document analysis, and personal observations of the 25th National Kidney Foundation (NKF) Surf Festival. Results indicated that the founder was a servant leader who influenced volunteer motivation by generating a shared vision dedicated to helping others, building a caring and loving community, and creating the freedom and resources for followers to become servants themselves. In Study three, using a longitudinal case study, I qualitatively explored if a cause-related sporting event could inspire participants to become servant leaders, and if so, how does the event achieve this? Data collection methods included focus groups, open-ended qualitative questionnaires, direct observations, document analysis, and semi-structured personal interviews with participants of the U.S. NKF Transplant Games, specifically Team Florida. Analyses revealed the event inspired participants to serve others and helped to build a community of servant leaders. It was found that three specific mechanisms of the Games generated community-level outcomes, which led to impacts on participants and helped them develop servant leadership. I then developed a model to describe a cause-related sporting event's ability to inspire participants to become servant leaders.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia International University, 2004. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-137).