The presence of both narcissism and social capital in the digital social networking site Facebook is altering the dynamic of relationship development. Therefore, the central research question directing this study is as follows: What role do narcissistic personality traits play in bridging social capital on Facebook? From this, two sub-questions are raised: 1) What are the motives for users to express narcissistic traits through Facebook? 2) How is narcissistic-motivated activity influencing social capital development through Facebook? Guiding this thesis are concepts of social tie relationships (as they apply to narcissism), and digital social networks. An exploratory study of in-depth interviews was utilized to conduct such research. A key objective in this thesis is understanding motive and purpose for generating social capital in an online environment. The findings from this study suggest Facebook is a facilitator for the expression of narcissistic traits. As a result, this is influencing the disconnected and questionable value of digital social capital.

A l’heure de la globalisation des relations économiques, il est nécessaire que les décisions stratégiques soient prises au plus haut niveau, celui, dans un groupe, de la direction centrale. Or, construit autour du paradigme de la subordination juridique du salarié à l’égard de son employeur, le droit du travail néglige la dépendance économique, voire juridique, de ce dernier à l’égard d’entités juridiquement distinctes. L’employeur placé dans une telle situation peut voire ses choix stratégiques influencés ou commandés. S’esquisse alors l’image d’un « décisionnaire » étranger à la relation contractuelle nouée qui, néanmoins, influence l’exécution des relations de travail dans le groupe. Cette dichotomie dans l’adoption des décisions ne doit pas avoir pour corollaire l’oubli des responsabilités légitimes. Sans aller jusqu’à faire plier l’autonomie juridique des entités constituant le groupe, il convient d’en amender les effets pour que chacun assume les conséquences de ses décisions. Le droit ne peut rester indifférent au réel. / At a time of globalization of economic relations, strategic decisions have to be made on the highest level, that is, on the group's level. However, french employment law, which was built up around the paradigm of the employee's legal subordination to the employer, disregards the latter's economic or even legal dependence on other legal entities. Yet in such a situation, an employer's strategic choices may well be influenced or even dictated. Thus showing through are the outlines of an external decision-maker, third-party to the contractual relationship, who nonetheless influences the performance of the employment relationships within the group. This dichotomy in the decision-making process should not correlatively incur total oblivion as to the rightful responsibilities. Accordingly, without overriding the legal autonomy of corporate bodies, the legal consequences should be adapted so that everyone takes responsibility for their decisions.

Title: Management of Physical Education and Sport Field of Study - Students' Motivation and Studying Satisfaction. Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to identify current students and graduates ' main motives for initiating the study of Management of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague. The work maps whether the students are satisfied with their choice of study and detect whether the expectations they had before studying were met. Another aim of the thesis is to develop recommendations for increasing students' satisfaction with the field of study and to propose recommendations which may lead to the improvement of the current situation on the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport. Methods: The thesis uses the method of questioning and group discussion method. The questioning method was applied on a sample of respondents comprising of all the current students of Management of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague and the graduates in this field. Group discussion method was applied to a selected sample of eight students from the researched field of study. Results: Using the research methods motives that prompted students, respectively graduates to study a field Management of Physical Education and Sport on Charles University in Prague were identified....

The diploma thesis deals with analysis of Pavel Kohout's Novels, which were formed in the period of seventies to the nineties. This analysis is focused especially on observation of criminal and detective motifs in novels Katyně, Kde je zakopán pes, Hodina tance a lásky and Hvězdná hodina vrahů. Due to the close interconnection of works and their author, the first part deals with the life of the writer, and emphasis is put on the period after the year 1968. The thesis also deals with the topic of criminal literature, with its development and with definition of rules, which could be found out within this kind of literature. Our intention is to analyze individual works in the terms of particular motifs and methods, which appears in Pavel Kohout's novels. The roles of the main characters and their action in connection with crime are analyzed in particular works. We also observe to what extent are the works influenced by rules and principles of criminal literature. To the characteristic feature of selected novels belongs especially the work with suspense and with reader's expectation. Key words: detective story, criminal literature, investigator, victim, motive, rules, expectation, perspective, composition, versatility

La thèse étudie les relations entre science et politique à travers l’émergence d’un nouveau concept, celui de « soft skills ». Examinant comment ce motif cognitif se construit et se diffuse à l’échelle internationale en l’espace d’une décennie, elle met en évidence le rôle essentiel d’experts et d’organisations internationales, mais aussi d’entrepreneurs et de réseaux privés. Ces circulations mènent à la convergence progressive des acteurs sociaux autour d’un même raisonnement qui se décline au sein du monde de l’éducation et du monde de l’emploi. Menée en France, la seconde partie de la recherche replace ces évolutions dans une dynamique de recomposition de l’action publique et d’émergence de nouveaux cadres, intimement liés à l’implication croissante de nouveaux acteurs issus de la philanthropie et de l’entrepreneuriat social. Articulée à la promotion du capital humain et de l’économie de la connaissance, justifiée par la stratégie européenne d’éducation tout au long de la vie et d’investissement social, soutenue par la responsabilité sociale revendiquée par certaines entreprises, la valorisation des compétences sociales mène à l’hybridation progressive des politiques et de leurs acteurs. Ces arrangements sont étudiés dans la troisième partie de la thèse, consacrée à l’étude de plusieurs dispositifs éducatifs. / This doctoral thesis studies the relationships between science and policy through the emergence of the new concept of “soft skills”. Examining how this cognitive motive is built and disseminated at a global level over the last decade, this research shows the essential roles played by experts and international organizations, as well as by entrepreneurs and private networks. These circulations lead to a gradual convergence of actors upon a shared reasoning in the field of education and employment policies. Conducted in France, the second part of the research shows how these dynamics fit in the context of public policies’ reconfigurations. New frames emerge, tightly linked to the growing influence of new actors coming from the fields of philanthropy and social entrepreneurship. Nested in the promotion of human capital and the knowledge economy, justified by the European strategy of lifelong learning and social investment, and by corporate social responsibility claimed by companies, soft skills are growingly promoted. This leads to a gradual hybridization of policies and their actors, studied in the last part of the research which based upon study cases of educational programs.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Alberto Rodrigues Messias.pdf: 290391 bytes, checksum: 2234a20f8a7899e4d307dde9ca1fc334 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-31 / Discusses the concepts of allegory, satire, parody, orality and mimesis in Literature, focusing on three short-stories of the compilation Guerra Conjugal ( Conjugal Warfare , 1969), by Dalton Trevisan. The corpus is: O Senhor Meu Marido, Trinta e Sete Noites de Paixão and Este Leito que É o Meu que É o Teu. The object is the representation of the conjugal conflict, ignited by sex, as a microform of the state of isolation and alienation of contemporary western society. The family home is set as a battle arena of the man-woman relationship and allegory takes form by literary resources that aim for a verisimilar display of the characters s drama. That s where it resides its mimetic power. The analysis of allegory and satire, by the deductive and comparative method, is based on the theoretical body of João Adolfo Hansen, as the assessing concerning the mimetic aspect of the stories are grounded on Erich Auerbach and Luiz Costa Lima. Appreciations of the orality in phrasal construction borrow notions of Paul Zumthor. The interpretations of the characters as living forms of allegory are based on works of Fernando Segolin, Gerard Genétte and Vladmir Propp. With the objective of comprehension of the stories s logical structure, the concept of motive in Tzvetan Todorov is also quoted / Discute os conceitos de alegoria, sátira, paródia, oralidade e mimese em Literatura, enfocando três contos da coletânea Guerra Conjugal (1969), de Dalton Trevisan. O corpus é constituído por: O Senhor Meu Marido, Trinta e Sete Noites de Paixão e Este Leito que É o Meu que É o Teu. O objeto é a representação do conflito conjugal, desencadeado pelo sexo, como micro-forma do estado de isolamento e alienação da sociedade ocidental contemporânea. O lar familiar é colocado como uma arena de embate da relação homem-mulher e a alegoria toma forma por meio de recursos literários que visam uma encenação verossímil do drama das personagens. Daí advém o poder mimético da obra. A análise de alegoria e sátira, pelo método dedutivo e comparativo, está embasada no corpo teórico de João Adolfo Hansen, enquanto as aferições referentes ao teor mimético dos contos são amparadas em Erich Auerbach e Luiz Costa Lima. Apreciações quanto à oralidade dos enunciados tomam emprestadas noções de Paul Zumthor. As interpretações das personagens como manifestações vivas da alegoria estão amparadas em trabalhos de Fernando Segolin, Gerard Genétte e Vladmir Propp. Com o intuito de entendimento da lógica estrutural dos contos, também é citado o conceito de motivo em Tzvetan Todorov

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:16:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rachel Zuanon.pdf: 107140590 bytes, checksum: f4a3bd0edcd05405d38c11a03e8d45a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-07-04 / That theory has for objective to present to discuss of and a proposal makes vestível of co-evolutionary computer."" A practical application of this machine is to make possible processes of sensorial-motive communication enter in man-man man-machine of and, specifically a creation and execution of involuntary voluntary movements of and. A research of of that of importance they live in promoting other communication channel that transposes the extents and verbal visual. That process understands as operations of following: movements of the one of acquisition (or they make thought of a movement) they make user do computer; code of those movements in incentives sensorial-motors and transmission of those incentives for body of the they do do or of another interator. 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One classifies theoretical interdisciplinary it was adopted for a course of that of accomplishment: studies affectionate computation developed by saber Rosalind Picard; concepts and applications in it connects brain-computer and researches in stimulation electric neuromuscular accomplished by Alberto Cliquet Jr / Essa tese tem por objetivo apresentar e discutir a proposta do "computador vestível co-evolutivo". A aplicação prática desta máquina é possibilitar processos de comunicação sensório-motora entre homem-homem e homem-máquina, especificamente a criação e execução de movimentos voluntários e involuntários.A importância dessa pesquisa reside em promover outro canal de comunicação que transpõe os âmbitos verbal e visual. Esse processo compreende as seguintes operações: aquisição dos movimentos (ou do pensamento de um movimento) do usuário do computador; codificação desses movimentos em estímulos sensório-motores e transmissão desses estímulos para o corpo do mesmo ou de outro interator. Para isso, esse computador é constituído por uma superfície inteligente que envolve: eletrodos para a captura de sinais mioelétricos e de sinais cerebrais do usuário; eletrodos para a estimulação elétrica neuromuscular do interator e dois sistemas tecnológicos de comunicação - um associativo e outro evolutivo. Tal superfície muda de cor e de forma, co-evoluíndo com quem a veste durante o processo de interação entre ambos. Projetado para o uso de um ou dois indivíduos, o computador opera esse processo de comunicação entre pessoas próximas ou fisicamente distantes. Em ambos casos os movimentos (ou pensamentos) são enviados de um corpo a outro por rede. Quando o sistema tecnológico operante é associativo, o pensamento ou o próprio movimento realizado pelo usuário do computador é transmitido para que o mesmo interator ou outro conectado à rede sinta-o como estímulos sensório-motores e execute-o integralmente. Ou seja, nessa instância esse computador atua como um dispositivo de comunicação sensório-motora projetado especialmente para a troca de afeto entre indivíduos geograficamente separados. Já na instância evolutiva, a informação (movimento ou pensamento) realizada pelo usuário do computador é codificada, aprendida e evoluída no sistema tecnológico. Assim, os estímulos a serem recebidos e executados como movimentos diferem da informação inicial introduzida no sistema, pois passa a exibir novos padrões que caracterizam o processo co-autoral entre homem-máquina. Nesse modo, o computador atua como um dispositivo para a comunicação de movimentos através de um processo criativo e colaborativo entre a inteligência do homem e da máquina. Uma grade teórica interdisciplinar foi adotada para a realização desse percurso: estudos sobre computação afetiva desenvolvidos por Rosalind Picard; conceitos e aplicações em interfaces cérebro-computador e pesquisas em estimulação elétrica neuromuscular realizadas por Alberto Cliquet Jr

The issue of successful implementation of strategic organizational change is not sufficiently addressed in the literature of organizational change even though there is unanimity in reporting a high rate of failure. Moreover, attempts to provide supportive guidelines that enhance implementation success are meager and their validity in nonwestern contexts is disputed. Thus, the present study tried to address the question of how a strategic organizational change can be successfully implemented by developing an implementation model within the context of Ethiopian commercial banks. In Ethiopia, commercial banking is exclusively reserved for nationals. This makes the setting a typical national context from where two commercial banks were included in the present study through maintaining maximum variation in ownership structure. Embedded in each bank, cases of teams which were established to redesign a specific type of business process were identified to theoretically sample participants for the indepth interviews. Applying an inductive multiple case study strategy, a combination of within-case and cross-case analyses were employed with the support of the ATLAS.ti software. As a result, theoretical propositions were made and an implementation model for strategic organizational change was developed by taking the context of commercial banks in Ethiopia into consideration. The findings indicate that national and organizational contexts demand contextualized approaches to implement strategic organizational change. Although several concepts which are documented in the extant literature were confirmed, original propositions are also made by the present study. A triple helix of initiating, designing, and implementing were emerged as inseparable components of the proposed implementation model for strategic organizational change in a context where cognitive and technical readiness is ensured. / Business Management / DBL

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo central investigar fatores que moderam a relação entre satisfação pós-recuperação e intenção de recompra no varejo online. Mais especificamente, esta pesquisa visa analisar se os construtos qualidade do relacionamento, resistência à mudança e motivo inferido moderam a relação entre satisfação com o gerenciamento de reclamações e intenção de recompra no varejo online. Para verificar tais moderações, inicialmente foi realizada a etapa exploratória de pesquisa, na qual, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade, evidenciou-se que as variáveis propostas poderiam moderar a relação entre a variável independente e dependente desta dissertação, bem como foi adicionado o construto valor econômico como possível moderador da relação entre satisfação pós-reclamação e intenção de recompra. Em seguida, para testar as hipóteses propostas foi aplicada uma survey junto a consumidores norte-americanos (N=500), operacionalizada com auxílio do Qualtrics, via Mechanical Turk. Como resultado dos testes, tem-se que a qualidade do relacionamento, o motivo inferido e a percepção de valor econômico moderam a relação entre satisfação pós-recuperação e intenção de recompra no varejo online, ou seja, podem explicar, em partes, a não linearidade da relação entre a variável independente e dependente desta pesquisa. Destaca-se ainda que as dimensões da qualidade do relacionamento (a saber: satisfação, confiança e comprometimento) sugeridas neste estudo também moderaram, individualmente, a relação entre a variável independente e dependente desta pesquisa. Sendo assim, esta dissertação contribuiu para a literatura de Marketing e comércio eletrônico ao evidenciar que tanto a qualidade do relacionamento, bem como as dimensões de satisfação, confiança e comprometimento moderam a relação entre satisfação com o gerenciamento de reclamações e intenção de recompra. Além disso, evidencia-se que a elevada percepção de valor econômico, e os motivos inferidos pelos clientes (se positivos), diante da falha inicial ocorrida, também podem sinalizar intenções de recompra dos consumidores junto a sites varejistas. / This dissertation aims to investigate factors that moderate the relationship between satisfaction with complaint handling and repurchase intention in online retail. More specifically, this research aims to examine whether the quality of the relationship constructs, resistance to change and inferred motive moderate the relationship between satisfaction with complaint handling and repurchase intention in online retail. To test such moderations, was taken an exploratory research stage through in-depth interviews in which it became clear that the proposed constructs could moderate the relationship between the independent and dependent variables of this dissertation, as well as the variable economic value was added as a possible moderator of the relationships between satisfaction with complaint handling and repurchase intention. Then, to test the hypotheses was applied a survey with online consumers (N=500) from United States, through Qualtrics and Mechanical Turk. The results indicate that the relationship quality, the inferred motive and the perceived economic value moderated the relationship between satisfaction with complaint handling and repurchase intention in online retail. It is emphasized that the dimensions of relationship quality (satisfaction, trust and commitment) suggested in this study also moderated, in an individual way, the relationship between the independent and dependent variables of this study. Thus, this dissertation has contributed to the literature of marketing and e-commerce by showing that both the relationship quality as well as the dimensions (satisfaction, trust and commitment) moderate the relationship between satisfaction with complaint handling and repurchase intention. Furthermore, it is evident that the high perceived economic value, and the motive inferred by customers (if positive), facing the initial failure occurred, can also indicate repurchase intentions of consumers with online retailers.

This research applies C. Wright Mills’ theory of vocabularies of motive to reveal the collective narratives, which were used to justify the atypical founding of an urban Jewish congregation in the 1970s. Prior to and during this period, US Jewish communities were migrating out of city centers into their surrounding suburbs. Most Jewish congregations followed their congregants and moved into the suburbs. This study identifies the collective justifications within the Hatchala Chadasha community, which are the accepted reasons for the organization’s atypical urban location and organizational structure. The findings of this research are based in the examination of interviews with individuals who were community members during the earliest years of Hatchala Chadasha’s existence. Patterns of similar accounts across the interviews revealed the collective narratives that defended four of the congregation’s fundamental decisions: why the congregation was founded, where the congregation chose to locate, how the congregation acted politically, and what organizational structure the congregation employed. These justifications are further examined, in relation to the behavior and values common within the broader Jewish community and other contextual components, to theorize why certain accounts became the accepted narrative within Hatchala Chadasha. Fundamentally, this research examines informants’ motive statements to discern and analyze the collective narratives formed in a community, which justify the community’s atypical behavior in the context of a predominant, external culture.