Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur ledarskapet hos lärare ser ut i praktiken, detta med stort fokus på de tre ledarskapsstilar som baseras på bland annat Christer Stensmos teorier. Man kommer även genom intervjuer att få se vad lärare själva har för syn på ledarskap och vad ett gott ledarskap innebär för dem. Metoden som används för studien är kvalitativ och det har genomförts åtta observationer, två per lärare, och fyra intervjuer för att få svar på forskningsfrågorna som senare presenteras. Resultatet visade att alla fyra lärare som deltagit i studien lägger vikt vid struktur och tydlighet i sin undervisning, samt att de alla värdesätter ett gott ledarskap, vilket för dem till stor del innebär en demokratisk ledarstil. De slutsatser man kan dra är bland annat att dessa lärare inte tror på ett gott lärarskap utan ett gott ledarskap.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2009. / "A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Directed by Linda M. Arthur. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-145) and appendices.

The present master´s thesis deals with the topic of improving company processes. Within the framework of environmental management it focuses on the topic of company waste management. The goal of the thesis is to perform assessment of the waste management and to formulate recommendations. Theoretical part of the thesis provides interpretation of terms related to the process, process management and environmental management, focusing primarily on the area of waste management. Practical part then pursues to provide information on waste management process and to identify factors influencing the process. Final part comprises recommendations for the company management.

Since the concept of place management was first introduced to environmental criminology in 1994, much has been learned about its application and usefulness. Through the study of a wide variety of places, it is now recognized that how a place is managed can affect the type and amount of crime that occurs at that specific location. Madensen's (2007) recent work with bars in Cincinnati further enhanced our understanding of the place management concept by hypothesizing that effective place management could be a result of four operational elements: organization of the physical space, regulation of conduct, control of access, and acquisition of resources (ORCA). To date, the application of place management concepts as reflected in the theory has been limited to community-based settings and has not been applied to custodial or institutional settings such as jails. This study is intended to test the concepts of effective place management in a jail setting to determine whether or not the number of incidents of inmate misconduct and disorder can be reduced thereby. Using a mixed-method design, this study measured the impact place management interventions implemented in a county jail had on a number of outcome measures, including the number of written, major misconduct reports for both male and female inmates, and the perceptions of inmate behavior held by officers, supervisors, and administrators. An interrupted time series (ARIMA) analysis of written inmate misconduct reports was used to evaluate whether or not the implementation of place management interventions reduced the amount of reported inmate misconduct in both male and female housing units. Qualitative analysis of the themes presented during individual and focus group interviews was used to assess changes in perceptions of inmate behavior held by officers, supervisors, and administrators, and to enhance understanding of the factors that may be responsible for producing changes in behavior. The results provide evidence that the identified elements of effective place management have broader application than previously hypothesized. / Criminal Justice

This dissertation focuses on the discrepancy between consumers’ attitudes towards privacy and actual behavior. Although consumers increasingly protest against invasions of privacy, they routinely disclose more information than their disclosure intent. Firms make sizeable investments in acquiring consumer information because it helps them build and enhance customer relationships. However, some of the information acquisition occurs at the expense of consumers’ privacy. Against this backdrop, understanding and being responsive to consumers’ privacy concerns is critical. Essay 1 focuses on consumers’ thoughts and feelings underlying their intention to disclose or withhold information from firms. I use the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique (ZMET), a depth interviewing process that involves story-telling, sensory images, and vignettes based on psychodrama. The results reported are based on depth interviews of twenty consumers from a large city and mid-sized town in the U.S.A. Essay 2 focuses on consumers’ behavioral responses to an invasion of privacy from a social justice theory perspective. I use the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) in an online survey of 997 respondents to understand thoughts and feelings about privacy that drive the behavioral responses of consumers to an actual/potential invasion of privacy. I identify the antecedents and outcomes of consumers’ information experience with firms. Additionally, I examine vividness effects to understand the extent to which consumer perceptions of likely outcomes due to firms acquiring and using information about them are influenced by media coverage of the issue. Building on the findings of essays 1 and 2, I develop a model and working hypotheses for further empirical analysis. By examining the negative (i.e., violation of privacy) as well as positive experiences of consumers, I identify how consumers’ attitudes towards firms acquiring and using information about them are focused on risks, whereas their behavior takes into account risks as well as rewards. A better understanding of consumers’ privacy concerns can be valuable to firms in personalizing their data acquisition and use strategies, customer communications as well as their overall customer relationship management (CRM) strategy.

This Diploma thesis is focuses on a problem of waste manegament of South Bohemia. It analyses present problems and situation. The aim of this work is to introduce basic principles of handling the waste and waste managament to the readers. It also provide information on financial possibilities, interventions of the public and private sectors and legislative criteria connected with the duties of the waste management.

Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les concepts de durabilité et de responsabilité à l’ère de la numérisation, époque marquée par l’émergence de nouvelles technologies numériques de rupture. Nous cherchons à identifier dans quelle mesure les technologies numériques peuvent contribuer aux objectifs de durabilité et de responsabilité et comment une technologie numérique spécifique peut faciliter l’atteinte de ces objectifs.Ces critères nous ont conduits au choix de la fabrication additive, plus communément connue sous le nom de « technologie d'impression 3D » (3DP). Observée à travers du prisme conceptuel de l'innovation responsable, notre étude dévoile au travers de ses principaux résultats certains des mystères que revêtent les 3DP auprès du grand public. En combinant le concept d'innovation responsable avec une technologie numérique spécifique, nous avons adopté une approche de recherche utilisant la théorie enracinée pour suivre les processus d'adoption/diffusion actuels à partir du terrain, et identifier les utilisateurs précurseurs et influents du domaine des 3DP. Ainsi, les principaux résultats peuvent être divisés en deux thèmes, dans un premier temps pour expliquer les caractéristiques des systèmes sociotechniques dans lequel la 3DP est située et, dans un deuxième temps, discuter des avantages et des défis sociaux, économiques et environnementaux de 3DP pour le grand public. Dans la seconde partie, la première section, consacrée aux caractéristiques du système sociotechnique, se concentre sur le processus d'adoption actuel, l'identification des utilisateurs influents prenant forme dans la culture ‘Maker’ et dans les espaces de coworking. Cette section présente également les caractéristiques actuelles de ces primo utilisateurs et les particularités de 3DP pour le grand public, telles que le déséquilibre hommes-femmes pour les utilisateurs actuels, et la manière dont contribueront la 3DP au développement de nouveaux produits. La seconde section de nos principaux résultats offre une analyse détaillée des avantages et des défis sociaux, économiques et environnementaux spécifiques de 3DP au niveau consommateur.Ces résultats indiquent qu'il existe une attente sociétale croissante auprès des 3DP pour adoucir les systèmes de production actuels et aboutir à des logiques de production plus durables. Par conséquent, les opportunités économiques offrent la possibilité de développer de nouveaux services et produits dans le marché des 3DP, caractérisé par une forte expansion et de faibles barrières à l'entrée, qui séduisent une grande variété de petites et moyennes entreprises (PME). Enfin, la nature environnementale des 3DP au niveau consommateur, même si elle offre des possibilités prometteuses pour préserver les ressources, optimiser la production, maîtriser l’obsolescence planifiée et recycler et réutiliser les matériaux, fait toujours face à un certain nombre de problèmes, qui limitent les apports environnementaux dans le cas d’une adoption de masse. Les contributions théoriques correspondent principalement aux spécificités du processus d'adoption des 3DP au niveau consommateur, à l’identification des caractéristiques des primo utilisateurs et des utilisateurs influents, mais aussi aux implications en termes de développement durable, sujets rarement traités dans la littérature en gestion. Nos principales conclusions apportent également des informations détaillées aux praticiens qui peuvent mener leurs activités entrepreneuriales, en mobilisant ces technologies pour améliorer les modèles d’affaires existants ou en développant des produits et services entièrement nouveaux. Les législateurs peuvent tirer parti des informations sur les pratiques 3DP actuelles et élaborer des politiques pour soutenir la recherche et l'innovation dans le domaine des 3DP ou pour identifier les menaces potentielles pour le public, telles que les risques liés à la propriété intellectuelle ou les problématiques de standard. / This study investigates the concepts of sustainability and responsibility in innovation through the processes of digitalization, marked by the emergence of new disruptive digital technologies. We observe the link between the digitalization and sustainability to understand how a specific digital technology can lead to sustainable and responsible outcomes. These criteria led us to additive manufacturing, or more commonly known, 3D Printing (3DP) technology.We adopted a responsible innovation concept as a set of principles to guide our study on 3DP. Moreover, this study design enabled us to align responsible innovation with existing research methods such as grounded theory. Through a bottom-up research approach, we observed trajectories of the current 3DP adoption/diffusion process and identified early users within their sociotechnical environment where 3DP is currently available. This constituted a solid ground to discuss 3DP sustainable and responsible nature and related implications. Responsible innovation concept, 3DP technology and our research methods are described in the Part I of this document.Part II elaborates main findings that can be divided into two sections. In the first section, we present characteristics of the sociotechnical system, current adoption process, 3DP innovation characteristics, and identify lead users. Current lead users of consumer-level 3DP are seen in the form of Maker culture and the coworking spaces. We present the insights on this specific interaction between the 3DP and Maker culture, whilst also discussing characteristic gender imbalance and new product development.The second section offers detailed analysis of consumer-level 3DP social, economic and environmental implications. Social implications indicate that there is an increasing societal expectation where 3DP is expected to lead a transformation towards more sustainable means of production. Economic implications are concentrated on the business opportunities relying on the growing 3DP market. As an evolving and niche market, current expansion and low-entry barriers are attracting interest of Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (SMEs) who develop new 3DP services and products. Lastly, even though with a promising potential to preserve raw resources, optimize production, tackle planned obsolescence, ensure recycling and reuse of materials, consumer-level 3DP still faces several environmental challenges. Possible rebound effect in energy and resources could lead to consequences that undermine its additive nature, where ecology is not a central topic for 3DP further development.Theoretical contributions of our study can be summarized in the specificities of consumer-level 3DP adoption process, characteristics of the early adopters and sustainability implications. These topics are scarcely covered in management research. Moreover, our key findings also provide detailed managerial contributions for the practitioners and the policy-makers. These can contribute to entrepreneurial activities that demand 3DP alignment with existing business models or development of new products and services based on this technology. Policy-makers can obtain insights on the current 3DP practices that can help guide policies to support research and innovation linked to 3DP technology. Our study insights can assist their understanding of possible threats hidden in Intellectual Property (IP), security and standardization issues related to 3DP technology.Finally, our main intention was to contribute to the ongoing scholar debate about the 3DP technology, digitalization and sustainability. For these purposes, we have developed a detailed thesis monograph offering a broad range of findings, whilst two fully published peer-reviewed publications, alongside several conference papers, ensure public visibility of our work. The published peer-reviewed articles are available in the Appendices section of this document.

Standard indicators of slow growth among small businesses are negative job creation and lower tax revenue. Small business success and growth is necessary for increasing productivity, profitability, and job creation. The purpose of this single case study was to explore growth strategies leaders of a mature small information technology (IT) business in the midwestern United States used to grow their organization beyond existing capacity. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and review of organizational documentation. The conceptual framework for the study was general systems theory. The study included a purposeful sample of 2 senior leaders of a mature small IT business. Data gathered from interviews were manually coded and thematically organized. Through thematic analysis that included color coding themes from document review and interview responses, a storyline was developed showing 4 themes: Leadership development, standard operating procedures, succession planning, and long-term growth strategy. Identifying growth strategies may assist leaders of mature small IT businesses to grow beyond existing capacity. The findings of this study have implications for positive social change for leaders of mature small IT businesses and the local community because the information may help leaders of such businesses influence growth and expansion, decrease unemployment, and increase local tax revenue.

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Marine recreational fishing is a highly developed activity and has an increasingly global following. In New Zealand, over 30 % of the population participate in recreational fishing and the annual harvest of some species is larger than the commercial catch. It is therefore vital for resource management to include data on recreational take. Since marine recreational fishing and charter boat fisheries in New Zealand are managed outside the Quota Management System (QMS), Area Management Tools (AMT) such as taiapure (local fishery), mataitai (reserves) rahui (temporary closures) can be used to ensure sustainability of certain coastal areas affected by fishing and other activity. The Akaroa Harbour Taiapure was established in 2006 and is currently the only taiapure in Canterbury. The main objective with this study was to characterise the recreational fishery in the Akaroa Harbour Taiapure in order to provide management solutions for this area. Three surveys were set up whereby two were specifically designed to record the recreational take landed on the four most frequently used slipways in Akaroa Harbour. A third survey was to gauge local resident‟s perception on recreational fisheries over time. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used and appropriate statistical analysis applied. Over 451 intercept interviews were conducted on slipways on Banks Peninsula and 138 trip records were returned. Main findings include significant differences in target and landed species, also a shift in areas mostly fished since the previous survey in 1997 by the Ministry of Fisheries. The most frequently landed fish in this study included blue cod, flounder, rock lobster and perch. The perception survey revealed a strong community bond to recreational fishing and a need for increased local input in the management of the Akaroa Harbour Taiapure. The three surveys are recommended to be continued over time in order to create a data base on recreational fishing and also to document local and indigenous knowledge on marine conservation.