MAYA is a prototype computerized population dynamics model designed to enhance decision making in wildlife management. Initially, the basis of scientific and philosophical design and implementation of enhanced computer modeling are discussed. This discussion forms the foundation for the development of the actual model. The model is a general population model, utilizing previously known data on seasonally migratory mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) as both an example and a test of the model's capabilities. By combining detailed sub-models at the single species level, the behavior of a larger system is mimicked. The mathematical parameters of this system are restricted to those which correspond to known biological processes. Feedback control is utilized to regulate the dynamic interplay of processes related to specific recognizable structures or physiological functions. The model maintains the identity of the individual organism as the mediator of all transactions within the system. The primary focus of these transactions is energy; specifically consumer energy budgets and their mechanisms of regulation. Equations are presented in finite difference form for digital computer implementation, utilizing a time step of unit length. The result is a Fortran program, MAYA, and a description and discussion of a number of simulation trials. This model was created with an eye not only for computer simulation, but also to raise issues, both philosophic and scientific, as to the reason for, and purpose of, computer management in our society. Thus, it is not until Chapter 4 that an actual discussion of MAYA is to be found. Logic dictates that one should understand the philosophic and theoretic approach of the person creating a model to best understand, question and, hopefully, improve upon the final product. These issues are discussed in Chapters 1 and 2. The greatest value of this model is to provide, based on the ensuing sets of assumptions in Chapter 3, the logical consequences that would otherwise take a great deal of tedious arithmetic--it is a tool to assist the imagination.

Lic.-avh. (sammanfattning) Umeå : Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2009. / Härtill 2 uppsatser.

Knowledge management (KM) is something that we as humans have practiced for generations by means of sharing stories around the fireplace, passing down recipe books, teaching trade crafts to children and showing young adults how to hunt. This primitive version of KM was not described as an area of development or expertise within organisations until 1995 when Nonaka and Takeuchi’s SECI model revolutionised the world of KM. Since then, many KM researchers have contributed to the field and tried to establish its true foundations. As a result, many KM models and frameworks have emerged leading to a call for the standardisation of KM terminology, and the harmonisation of about 160 existing KM models and frameworks. What has been strikingly overlooked in all these KM models and frameworks is the idea of knowledge seeking as a necessary theoretical component and as a key KM process. Only recently there have been a few attempts to integrate knowledge seeking into KM models and frameworks. With a view to taking this development further, this study achieves two things. First, the study assesses the theoretical status of knowledge seeking in some of the established KM models, frameworks and strategies, and reviews the work of KM researchers who have grappled with the idea of knowledge seeking. Second, the study describes some of the key features of knowledge seeking in a sample of companies. Four companies were selected according to their type and size. They included a small business intelligence consulting company, a branch office of a country-wide IT company, a department within a larger insurance company, and a company that deals with financial software. Using questionnaires and descriptive statistical methods to generate, analyse and interpret the data, the study delineates some of the key features of knowledge seeking in the workplace by asking where people seek knowledge to solve problems, where they seek knowledge under the pressure of time, and where they would prefer to seek knowledge in ideal circumstances. On the basis of the data, the study revises Han Lai and Margaret Graham’s KM life cycle model, which is the latest version of a KM model that integrates knowledge seeking. Additionally, the study adapts Hansen et al’s codification versus personalisation KM strategy. The study therefore contributes to the theoretical aspects of KM by showing that knowledge seeking deserves sustained analysis in KM models and frameworks as a KM process, and it contributes to KM practice by showing the implications of knowledge seeking for KM strategies. Copyright / Dissertation (MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Information Science / unrestricted

Delivering improved water services in small towns in low-income countries encompasses particular challenges. Often considered too large to be effectively community managed , small towns may also be too small, with too limited economies, to benefit from utility style professionalism and economies of scale. The most recent paradigm, that financially sustainable water services will be best achieved through the Demand Responsive Approach , has been complemented in Ghana, the focus of this study, through the development of a variety of management models, community, local government, national utility and private providers, to deliver DRA. Taking advantage of this unusual situation, in having a wide range of different functioning models in one country at the same time, this research has sought to investigate these management models with respect to effectiveness, equity, financial sustainability and efficiency of services delivery. However, the context in which all of these models operate relates to consumers effective demand, key to delivering a demand responsive approach. A second objective, necessary to validate any results relating to management models, has therefore been to investigate households actual demand for improved and alternative sources of water. Data for the research was gathered from examples of the four management models in use in Ghana, from eight small towns spread across the length and breadth of the country. The methodology incorporated key-informant interviews, user observations, household surveys and an analysis of relevant documents of operators and policy makers. The fieldwork was undertaken in two separate periods, designed to ensure that any effects of dry and wet season variations, which influence water supply delivery as well as demand, were adequately captured. The research found that none of the management models in use in small towns in Ghana could be considered to be significantly more effective than any other; overall, households demonstrated a limited demand for water supply with even this demand distributed among a number of sources, both formal, improved and alternative, traditional sources; this demand was not so much a function of affordability, rather a clear choice as to where to use limited resources mobile phone access absorbing three times the amount spent on water. Whilst certain management characteristics were found to make a difference, leadership in particular, no one model was able to influence the overarching water source effect, that is the cost of formal supply (surface water costing approximately three times more than ground water), relative to access to alternative, free supplies in the context of limited overall demand for water.

<p>Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur pedagoger förhåller sig till konflikter mellan elever och vilka modeller de använder sig av för att förebygga och lösa konflikter. Som bakgrund till studien har vi genomfört en litteraturstudie som behandlar ämnet konflikt och orsaker till varför de uppstår. Det är viktigt att som lärare ha grundläggande kunskaper inom konflikter och konfliktlösning, eftersom de dagligen uppstår tvister i skolan. Den undersökningsmetod vi använt oss av består av kvalitativa intervjuer. Vi intervjuade sju pedagoger på två olika grundskolor i mellersta Sverige. Resultatet visade att pedagogerna i stort hade samma synsätt på konflikter och konfliktlösning. Det visade likaså att de båda skolorna arbetar förebyggande mot konflikter.</p>

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur pedagoger förhåller sig till konflikter mellan elever och vilka modeller de använder sig av för att förebygga och lösa konflikter. Som bakgrund till studien har vi genomfört en litteraturstudie som behandlar ämnet konflikt och orsaker till varför de uppstår. Det är viktigt att som lärare ha grundläggande kunskaper inom konflikter och konfliktlösning, eftersom de dagligen uppstår tvister i skolan. Den undersökningsmetod vi använt oss av består av kvalitativa intervjuer. Vi intervjuade sju pedagoger på två olika grundskolor i mellersta Sverige. Resultatet visade att pedagogerna i stort hade samma synsätt på konflikter och konfliktlösning. Det visade likaså att de båda skolorna arbetar förebyggande mot konflikter.

The aim of the dissertation – to formulate and ground the integrated approach to management models in the context of economic transformation encompassing the cultural and institutional factors so that the obtained methodological synergy enables to assess the emerging management models and their characteristics.

SILVA, Denize de Melo. Avaliação da gestão em escolas da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza-CE. 2016. 133f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2016. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-23T11:49:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_dmsilva.pdf: 1479038 bytes, checksum: 9f49505226d3974e65cf38c7af4da3fc (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-08-23T12:10:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_dmsilva.pdf: 1479038 bytes, checksum: 9f49505226d3974e65cf38c7af4da3fc (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-23T12:10:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2016_dis_dmsilva.pdf: 1479038 bytes, checksum: 9f49505226d3974e65cf38c7af4da3fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This study aims to evaluate the management engaged in the municipal public schools of Fortaleza based on Public Management Model and Bureaucratization. The theoretical constructs that support institutional assessment will be source for the extraction of subsidies that promote a study on the practice of school management as well as improvement strategies adopted by schools in this type of system. The research is constituted of applied nature seated in qualitative and quantitative approaches, exploratory nature as the general objective and developed according to the proposal of Bruyne, Herman and Schoutheete (1977) one quadripolar methodological space. In center epistemological observed the necessary discussion grounded in philosophical assumptions that underlie the subject under review. We used to articulate the discussion of sedimentary basis of school management, the perspective of comprehensive sociology evidenced by Max Weber. However, the theoretical pole shows the construction of the concepts inherent to the functions of educational management and the organization of school space as an agent in promoting the learning of those involved in this process. It was adopted in morphological center an overview of educational evaluation models in order to understand the constructs that support the educational management. Was structured in that center the discussion about the Model of Public Management and Bureaucratization and sedimentation possibilities for a systematic management based on excellence. In order to aid this construction it was added to such study of propositions through the contributions of the structural-systemic model proposed by Lima (2008) to perform the mapping of structures present in management research process adopted in the municipal schools of Fortaleza, Ceará, based on Public Management Model and Bureaucratization criteria. On the technical center include the provisions related to the accuracy and the techniques used to investigate the object in question. The research locus constitutes a universe composed of six municipal public schools of Fortaleza-CE and the screening was based on the School Development Index Alpha (0-10) corresponding to the period 2012 to 2014. The comparative analysis from the corresponding Weber’s comprehensive sociology the specifics of the work of the manager and the practices developed in school. Data collection was performed by field research consisting of two steps. The first step corresponds to the questionnaire closed with 24 indicators linked to the functions of educational management and its correlation with the criteria of Public Management Model and Bureaucratization for the analysis: strategy and plans, processes and people destined to the core manager. The second stage includes the observation and contextualization of the variables analyzed through semi-structured application form with eight open assertions designed to 12 teachers and 12 students of the institutions surveyed. Analysis of data into quantitative aspect was carried out with the support of Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 21.0 for Windows. However, the qualitative analysis was supported in Atlas.ti 7 software for understanding speech from the teachers’ and students’ speech seeking to add essential aspects of the understanding of the work in schools. It is intended to articulate the knowledge acquired through theoretical base on the evaluation, together with its use to improve the management from the municipal public schools of Fortaleza. / O presente trabalho visou avaliar a gestão empreendida em escolas da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza, Ceará, com base no Modelo de Gestão Pública e Desburocratização. Os constructos teóricos que embasam a avaliação institucional foram fonte para a extração de subsídios que fomentassem um estudo acerca da prática da gestão escolar, bem como de estratégias de aprimoramento adotadas pelas escolas nessa construção. A pesquisa, de natureza aplicada assentada nas abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa, de cunho exploratório quanto ao objetivo geral, desenvolvida segundo a proposta de Bruyne, Herman e Schoutheete (1977), constituiu-se de um espaço metodológico quadripolar: epistemológico, teórico, morfológico e técnico. No polo epistemológico, observou-se a discussão necessária embasada nos pressupostos filosóficos que permeiam o objeto em análise. Para articular a discussão atinente às bases sedimentares da gestão escolar, utilizou-se a óptica da sociologia compreensiva evidenciada por Max Weber. No polo teórico, evidenciou-se a construção dos conceitos inerentes às funções da gestão educacional e à própria organização do espaço escolar como agente na promoção das aprendizagens dos envolvidos nesse processo. No polo morfológico, adotou-se uma síntese dos modelos de avaliação educacional com o intuito de compreender os constructos que embasam a gestão educacional. No referido polo, estruturaram-se a discussão sobre o Modelo de Gestão Pública e Desburocratização e as possibilidades de sedimentação para uma gestão sistematizada com base na excelência. Objetivando auxiliar essa construção, tais proposições de estudo foram complementadas pelas contribuições do modelo de avaliação estrutural-sistêmica proposto por Lima (2008), a fim de realizar o mapeamento das estruturas presentes no processo de investigação da gestão adotada nas escolas da rede municipal de Fortaleza com base nos critérios do Modelo de Gestão Pública e Desburocratização. No polo técnico, por fim, contemplaram-se as disposições vinculadas ao rigor e às técnicas adotadas para a investigação do objeto em análise. O lócus da pesquisa constituiu-se de um universo formado por seis escolas da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza, sendo a triagem realizada com base no Índice de Desempenho Escolar Alfa (0-10) correspondente ao período de 2012 a 2014. A análise foi de natureza comparativa, a partir da sociologia compreensiva de Weber, correspondente às especificidades do trabalho desenvolvido pelo gestor e às práticas desenvolvidas na escola. A coleta dos dados foi realizada por meio da pesquisa de campo, composta por duas etapas. A primeira etapa abrangeu a aplicação de questionário fechado com 24 indicadores atrelados às funções da gestão educacional e sua correlação com os critérios do Modelo de Gestão Pública e Desburocratização estabelecidos para a análise: estratégia e planos, processos e pessoas destinadas ao núcleo gestor. A segunda etapa compreendeu a observação e contextualização das variáveis analisadas por meio da aplicação de roteiro com oito assertivas abertas destinadas aos 12 docentes e aos 12 discentes das instituições pesquisadas. A análise de dados, quanto ao seu aspecto quantitativo, foi realizada com o apoio do software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, em sua versão 21.0 para Windows. A análise qualitativa, por seu turno, foi amparada no software Atlas.ti 7 (Computer Assisted Qualitive Data Analysis Software) para compreensão dos discursos provenientes da fala de professores e alunos, buscando agregar aspectos indispensáveis relativos à compreensão acerca do trabalho desenvolvido nas escolas. Pretendeu-se a articulação entre os conhecimentos adquiridos por intermédio da base teórica referente à avaliação, aliados à sua utilização para a melhoria na gestão das escolas provenientes da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza.

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKMVolume 2, 2017, Pages 730-74118th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2017; International University of CataloniaBarcelona; Spain; 7 September 2017 through 8 September 2017. / Universities' knowledge management processes are critical to accomplishing their role of integrating individuals and countries in the competitive global knowledge economy through teaching, research and technology transfer (Sam and Van der Sijde, 2014; Welch, 2011). This role is particularly critical for universities in emerging economies, like Peru, that seek to integrate into this knowledge economy by diversifying their economies and reducing dependence on raw materials exports (Ministerio de la Producción del Perú, 2014). To do so, the article proposes an academic knowledge management model for Peruvian universities that integrates their processes and key actors. The authors analyzed current academic knowledge management models at five Peruvian universities using multiple case study methodology. The universities are among the highest ranked Peruvian universities in the QS University Rankings: Latin America (2016), such that the resulting model is applicable to universities in Peru and other emerging economies. The data collection protocol was validated by experts using the Delphi method and pilot tested at a sixth university. The results indicate that knowledge at these universities is managed intuitively or by tradition, not in a way that systematically integrates processes and participants. The critical success factors to managing academic knowledge effectively were identified as qualified staff, responsible and committed to research; engagement and commitment from senior management; an organizational culture that encourages knowledge creation, sharing and use; and staff attitude and learning ability. The research also identified criteria that measure the model impact in terms of its stages (creation, exchange and use) and university processes (teaching and learning, research, and transfer of services to society). The article concludes that the model is applicable to the current knowledge management practices identified in the case study and includes basic components (planning, management processes, principles, methods, technologies, etc.) in a system whose indicators fulfill the university mission and goals.

<p>Strategijski model upravljanja savremenim marketing koncepcijama<br />povezuje upravljanje razvojem novih proizvoda, upravljanje brendom i<br />upravljanje odnosima sa potrošačima na platformi upravljanja<br />ukupnim kvalitetom. U model je ugrađen i merni sistem na osnovu<br />uravnoteženog pristupa merenju performansi preduzeća. Istaživanje<br />je pokazalo da su nabrojani elementi kompatibilni i da imaju<br />potencijal za stvaranje sinergije, što model čini efektivnijim i<br />univerzalnijim. Rezultati merenja u trogodišnjem periodu<br />nedvosmisleno su potvrdila funkcionalnost modela, odnosno njegovu<br />sposobnost da pozitivno utiče na performanse preduzeća.</p> / <p>The strategic model for managing modern marketing concepts connects<br />management of developing new product, brand management and customer<br />ralationship management on the total quality management platform. A<br />measuring system based on a balanced scorecard is built in this model.<br />Research has shown that previously mentioned elements are compatible and<br />have the potential to create synergies, making this model more effective and<br />more universal. Measurement results obtained over a three-year period<br />unambigously confirm the functionality of the model, i.e. its ability to positively<br />affect company performance.</p>