This dissertation focuses on the transfer of training at Standard Executors and Trustees. Studies indicate that too often managers in organisations get involved in what they call training, which they carry out as a matter of routine (Erasmus and Van Dyk,1999:10). This form of training, which is done merely for the sake of training, does not add any tangible benefits for the employee or the organisation. Chapter one of this study presents a background to the company and the issues surrounding the transfer of training as well as some of the benefits that may be achieved by positive transfer of training within an organisation. The chapter also contains a statement of the objectives and hypotheses of the study. Chapters two, three and four present the literature, which was reviewed for the study. In Chapter two various definitions of training, development, learning and transfer of training are explored. Chapter three looks at a systematic approach to transfer of training and Chapter four looks at the transfer process model, which focuses on work Environment Factors that influence transfer of training in organisations. Chapter five outlines the research methodology that was followed in this study. Chapter six presents the field study, which involved the following: • The design of a research questionnaire to investigate the perceptions held by employees in relation to the factors they believe influence transfer of training at Standard Executors and Trustees. • The development of a research model. • The presentation of the research findings. The study ends with Chapter seven which provides a conclusion, discussion and recommendations in respect of the research findings. The key research findings are that Transfer of Training within Standard Executors and Trustees is greatly influenced by: • The assessment of training needs. • The employee's motivation to learn. • The employee's ability to learn. The research also indicates that the while the under-mentioned variables have an influence on Transfer of Training at Standard Executors and Trustees, their influence is not significant: • The design of training. • The selection of an appropriate training venue. • The evaluation of employee performance during and after attending a training course. • The use of goal setting and relapse prevention techniques. • The issue of organisational support was also investigated, however the statements investigating this aspect of the study had very low reliability values and in the final analysis this area will need further research. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.

This qualitative multi case research asks how the needs of caregivers of primary malignant brain tumour (PMBT) patients are met through structured neuro-oncology programs in Canadian centres. Utilizing telephone interviews with eleven social workers and one psychologist the study analyses their perspectives on the scope and nature of services to brain tumour patients and their caregivers. PMBT is a rare and palliative disease often with neurocognitive and neurobehavioral effects posing special challenges for caregivers. Health care system reliance on family caregivers has resulted in significant implications for their emotional and physical risk. Findings show exclusive patient focused health care in ambulatory programs with fragmented care resulting in marginalization and invisibility of caregivers. This approach is inconsistent with current literature promoting collaborative family centered care, recommended for continuity of care throughout the illness trajectory. Recommendations focus on systemic caregiver service improvements.

Darbe nagrinėjama darbuotojų profesinio tęstinio mokymo (si) galimybės, poreikis ir poveikis skirtingo tipo įmonėse. Tyrimo objektas – darbuotojų profesinis tęstinis mokymas (sis). Tikslas – atskleisti darbuotojų poreikį tęstiniam profesiniam mokymui(si) skirtingo tipo įmonėse. Tikslui atskleisti suformuluoti šie uždaviniai: 1. Išanalizuoti darbuotojų tęstinio profesinio mokymo teorinius ir metodologinius aspektus. 2. Išanalizuoti darbuotojų tęstinio profesinio mokymo(si) galimybes skirtingo tipo įmonėse. 3. Išnagrinėti darbuotojų tęstinio profesinio mokymo(si) poreikius skirtingo tipo įmonėse. 4. Atskleisti darbuotojų tęstinio profesinio mokymo(si) poveikį įmonei ir darbuotojams skirtingo tipo įmonėse. 5. Įvertinti taikomus darbuotojų profesinio tęstinio mokymo būdus ir formas. Darbe keltos šios hipotezės: 1. Užsienio ir lietuviško kapitalo įmonių darbuotojai turi skirtingus mokymosi poreikius: pirmosiose dėmesys kreipiamas į asmeninį tobulėjimą; antrosiose dominuoja profesinių žinių poreikis. 2. Skirtingo tipo įmonių darbuotojai naudingais laiko skirtingus profesinio tęstinio mokymo formas ir metodus: užsienio kapitalo įmonės išorinius mokymus; lietuviško kapitalo įmonės vidinius mokymus. 3. Užsienio kapitalo įmonėse darbuotojų profesinis tęstinis mokymas organizuojamas dažniau, nei lietuviško kapitalo įmonėse. Darbuotojų profesinio tęstinio mokymo (si) poreikiui skirtingo tipo įmonėse nustatyti buvo atliekamas pusiau struktūruotas interviu su įmonių vadovais ir įmonių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the following thesis there are analyzed continuing professional education opportunities of staff, its needs and impact on different types of companies. The research object is based on continuing professional education of staff. The goal is to reveal the staff need for continuing professional education in different types of companies. In order to disclose the goal there have been formed the following tasks: 1. To analyze theoretical and methodological aspects in the continuing professional education of the staff. 2. To analyze the opportunities related to the continuing professional education of the staff in different types of companies. 3. To analyze the needs related to the continuing professional education of the staff in different types of companies. 4. To reveal the impact related to the continuing professional education of the staff in different types of companies. 5. To evaluate methods and techniques applied in the continuing professional education of the staff. There are provided the following hypotheses: 1. The staffs of foreign and Lithuanian capital companies have different learning needs: the first ones focus on personal development, in the second ones there is a need for professional awareness. 2. The staffs in different types of companies consider being valuable different forms and methods of continuing professional education: the foreign capital companies appreciate external trainings and Lithuanian capital companies prefer local or internal trainings. 3... [to full text]

A graduate Loreta Klokmaniene wrote this final paper under supervision of a docent Dr. Valdone Indrasiene. The subject of the final paper is ,, The Attitude of Parents Who Grow up Children with Special Needs towards Integrated Education at Schools of General Education“. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the attitude of parents who grow up children with special needs towards integrated education at schools of general education. The research provides the analysis of scientific literature, discusses conditions and peculiarities of education of children with special needs and ascertains the attitude of parents who grow of those children to integrated education. The analysis of literature showed that the problem of integration of children with special needs to school and social institutions of different levels. After the research it was determined that a lot of problems appear because parents are insufficiently interested in them, because of lack of teachers competence and negative attitude to a child with special needs in school of general education.

ABSTRACT What is the situation for disabled children in the Greek educational system today, in the aftermath of the deep-seated socio-economic crisis? The present study is going to give an insight in children disability and how this is handled by the Greek educational system. To specify and illustrate the need for a qualitative perspective, it is necessary to take into consideration not only the exact numbers of disabled students and schools existing for them, along with the usefulness and functionality of their facilities, but also different qualitative aspects and intersecting parameters determining the attitude towards those children, such as gender, sexuality, age and bodily ability; all of them contributing to a specific collective mind-set that has arisen from a nexus of economical, educational, European and local structures, and their upheaval. This is such a study, providing a limited, but qualitative picture of the situation from an intersectional Gender Studies perspective onto legislative documents, the experiences of a few current educational practitioners (herein interviewed), and onto the state of the art of existing research on the topic which is mostly quantitative and statistics-based.  The over-arching question, guiding this investigation, is how the educational rights and well-fare of children with special educational needs, are practiced, cared for and discussed in the present Greek educational system with regard to intersectional gender concerns of inclusion and/or integration. This study hopes thus to provide an interdisciplinary snap-shot of the educational situation for disabled children in a disabled societal context.

Bakgrund och problem: Självbestämmanderätt är en grundprincip i socialtjänstlagen och ska genomsyra allt socialt arbete. Socialtjänstlagen gör ingen skillnad på friska eller sjuka människor, vilket kan skapa dilemman för biståndshandläggare vid behovsbedömning. Syfte och frågeställningar: Studiens syfte är att uppnå en förståelse kring hur bistånds-handläggare arbetar med självbestämmanderätt och inflytande vid behovsbedömning. Studiens frågeställningar är följande: Hur ser biståndshandläggare på äldres självbestämmanderätt när det finns en bristande insikt i de egna behoven? Hur hanterar biståndshandläggare anhörigas inflytande? Metod: Studien är influerad av en kvalitativ och kvantitativ metodblandning och består av en vinjett besvarad av 24 biståndshandläggare, samtliga arbetande utifrån socialtjänstlagen inriktat mot äldreomsorg. Det insamlade empirimaterialet från biståndshandläggarna har bearbetats genom en tematisk analys. Resultat och slutsatser: Resultatet visar att biståndshandläggare menar att den äldre har självbestämmanderätt trots bristande insikt i sina egna behov. Biståndshandläggarnas utsagor visar att den moraliska aspekten att göra gott för den äldre väger tyngre än dennes självbestämmanderätt. Resultatet visar att anhöriga har ett stort inflytande och spelar en viktig roll vid behovsbedömning.

Konkurrensen inom detaljhandeln blir allt hårdare, både från andra butiker men även från e-handeln, vilket sätter press på fysiska butiker att ha nöjda kunder som fortsätter handla i butiken. Ett tillvägagångssätt för att möta den hårdnande konkurrensen är att ha en butiksmiljö s.k. servicescape som är utformad efter kundernas behov, vilket dock förutsätter att handlarna vet vilka behov sina kunder har. Har handlarna en felaktig uppfattning om kundernas behov föreligger det ett gap som minskar chansen att kunderna blir nöjda och därmed butikens konkurrenskraft. En avgränsning gjordes till klädbutiker, då klädbutiker är bland de butikstyper som är mest konkurrensutsatt. Syftet med uppsatsen var att kartlägga hur kundernas behov överensstämmer eller skiljer sig från handlarnas uppfattning om deras behov. För att uppfylla syftet tillämpades en kvalitativ metod men med en statistisk bearbetning dvs. en kvantitativ bearbetning då resultatet redovisades med hjälp av frekvenser och värden på en skala. Datainsamlingsverktyget som användes var enkäter och utformades efter de tio faktorerna som sammanställdes i den teoretiska referensramen. Enkäterna delades ut till både kunder och handlare i Borlänges stadskärna och Faluns stadskärna. Resultatet av uppsatsen visade att det för faktorerna ljus (4,2), trängsel (4.5) (4.6), Ljud (4.7), toaletter (4.9), (4.10) finns en skillnad ett s.k. gap mellan handlarnas uppfattning om kundernas behov och vad kundernas behov egentligen är. Det framkom även att handlarna ansåg att kunderna har större behov av att faktorerna rent & städat (4.3), (4.4) in & utgångar (4.8) är tillfredsställande än vad kunderna egentligen har. Det framkom precis som behandlades i den teoretiska referensramen att kundernas behov tenderar att variera utifrån deras demografiska faktorer ålder och kön. Om handlarna har en låg, medel eller hög prisnivå påverkade även det hur viktigt det är för kunderna att faktorerna är tillfredsställande. Slutsatsen som författarna identifierade var att det föreligger ett gap mellan handlarnas uppfattning om kundernas behov och vad kunderna anser att deras behov är gällande flera av faktorerna. Detta är dock något som kunderna säger vilket inte behöver stämma överrens med hur de verkligen tycker. Det är dock svårt att urskilja något mönster gällande gapen utan det är nästan enbart tendenser man kan urskilja, vilket gör att varje faktor bör analyseras individuellt. / The competition within the retail market is increasing, both from other retail stores but even from the fast growing internet trade, which puts pressure on the physical stores to have satisfied customers that continues to shop in the store. An approach to face the increasing competition is to have a servicescape that is designed to face the customers’ needs, which assume that the traders knows what their customers’ needs are. If the traders have wrong perception about the needs of their customers there might be a gap that decreases the chance the customers will be satisfied and with it the competitiveness of the stores. A definition has been made to clothing stores, because those are among the stores that are the most exposed to competition. The purpose of this paper have been to map how the customers’ needs agree with or differentiate from what the traders thinks theirs customers needs are. In order to fulfill the purpose a qualitative method with a statistic adaptation i.e. a quantitative adaptation were the results are shown with the help of frequencies and value on a scale was applied. Data was collected with questioners which were designed based on the ten factors that were put together in the theoretical framework. The questioners were shared to both customers and traders in the center of Borlänge and the center of Falun. The result analysis shows that for the factors light (4.2), press (4.5), (4.6), sound (4.7), toilets (4.9), (4.10) a gap existed between the traders perception about the customers’ needs and the reality of those needs. It was also shown that the traders perception for the factors cleaned (4.3), (4.4), entrance & exits (4.8) were even higher than what the customer’s needs really are. The result analysis also shows that the customers’ needs are affected by the customers’ demographic factors age and gender just as it had been discussed in the theoretical framework. The price level of the clothing stores also affected the customers’ expectations of to what degree they could expect to get their needs satisfied as also discussed in the theoretical framework. The conclusion that the authors identified were that there is a gap for the majority of the identified factors between traders’ perception of their customers’ needs and what the customers says that those needs are. Even though the customers say they have those needs it doesn’t mean it agrees with the reality. It´s hard to distinguish any pattern in terms of the gaps, but there is tendencies that can be seen, which results in that each factor should be analyzed individually.

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Darbo tikslas – atskleisti mokytojų požiūrį neįgalumo situacijoje esančių mokinių ugdymą bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje. Darbo objektas – mokytojų požiūris į integruotą ugdymą bendrojo lavinio mokykloje. Darbo uždaviniai: pristatyti Lietuvos švietimo sistemos kaitą sociologinės žiūros ir sociologinių teorijų kontekste; apžvelgti švietimo reformos etapus ir integruotą ugdymą reglamentuojančius dokumentus; atskleisti mokytojų požiūrį į neįgalumo situacijoje esančių mokinių ugdymą bendrojo lavinimo mokykloje. Hipotezės: tikėtina, kad pedagogo prestižą sąlygoja atlyginimo dydis ir specialybės paklausa darbo rinkoje; tikėtina, kad neefektyvus specialiųjų poreikių vaikų integracijos į bendrojo lavinimo mokyklą priežastis – pedagogų specialiųjų žinių stoka, kaip dirbti su specialiųjų poreikių vaikais. Sociologinių teorijų kontekste - ugdymas ir saviugda tampa visuomenės (sociumo) pertvarkos iniciatoriumi, siekiant žmonių gerovės. Kiekvieno individo gyvenimo kokybė ir galimybės tiesiogiai priklauso nuo to, kaip visuomenėje yra organizuojamas švietimas ir kaip tinkamai švietimo dalyviai atlieka jiems priskirtas funkcijas. Vykstant švietimo sistemos kaitai atsiveria naujos erdvės ir linkmės, kurių viena integruotas ugdymas. Parengta įstatyminė norminė bazė neįgalumo situacijoje esančių mokinių integracijai į bendrojo lavinimo mokyklą, tačiau iki šiol visi dalyviai susiduria su didesniais r mažesniais sunkumais. Tyrimo analizė atskleidė, kad išsiskiria požiūris, kur tūrėtų būti ugdomi... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The purpose of this thesis is to reveal the teachers‘ approach to education of students with special needs in a secondary school. The object of study: Teachers‘ approach to intergrated education in a secondary school. The objectives are: To present the changes in Lithuanian education in the context of sociological theories; review the stages of educational reform and the regulations of intergrated education; introduce teachers‘ attitude towards education of students with special needs in a secondary school. Hypotheses: it is likely that the status of a teacher is determined by the salary and the demand of specialty in a labour market; it is likely that the main reason of ineffective intergration of students with special needs is insufficient knowledge of how to work with them. In the context of sociological theories, education and self-education becomes an initiator of the changes in the society pursuing human well-being. The quality of life and possibilities of every individual directly depend on how education is organized in a society and how education participants perform their functions. Changes in educational system have an impact on appearing new subjects, one of which is intergrated education. Even though legislative framework for intergrating students with special needs in a secondary school has been developed, participants face smaller or bigger problems. The study revealed that there is disagreement in where handicapped children should get their education... [to full text]

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