The traditional manufacturing industry in Taiwan in these few years have been severely challenged by the changing business environment. Under the public opinions that how the traditional industry gets rid of the fate of becoming the declining industry, there are still some companies achieving their success implicitly. To accompany with human resource practices, they create unique competitive advantages and values to overcome the threat by the economic depression and globalization competitiveness. A case study method is used in this thesis. Ten companies in traditional manufacturing industry with superior organizational performance and histories of transformation or related actions for business growth are targeted to explore how the traditional manufacturing industry strengthens or develops different human resource abilities according to different transformation strategies while facing different evolutional opportunities. In this thesis, internal fit of universalistic perspective and external fit of contingent perspective are used to investigate the internal mutual fitness among the human resource practices within the organization respectively. A set of core human resource practices which fit the characteristics of traditional manufacturing industry in Taiwan will be proposed as the core of integrated human resource practices. In addition, from the point of external fit, this thesis also explores the fitness of human resource practices and organizational strategies. To the companies with different transformation strategies, including changing strategic frame, investing resources, changing processes, and solidifying relationships, appropriate human resource practices should also be addressed to strengthen and develop the correspondent dynamic human resource abilities as needed. Therefore, the following propositions are proposed in terms of the inductive inference of interviewing with the ten cases and reviewing the related literature extensively. Propositions 1: The core human resource practices for traditional manufacturing industry in Taiwan are: Focus on employees¡¦ steadiness, hard-working spirits, and employee disciplines while recruiting, high wages, extensive benefits, incentives with cash payment, behavior-oriented and results-oriented performance appraisal, on-the-job training and skill development, promotion from within, harmonious employer-employee relationship, and long-term job security. The more the organization implements those practices, the more the organization could attain competitive advantages and receive superior organizational performance. Propositions 2: In accordance with different transformation and growth anchors, the human resource practices are also different. There are four anchors of transformation strategies including strategic frames, resources, processes, and relationships. Proposition 3: In terms of reengineering strategic frames as the transformation strategy, the organization should emphasize innovative ability while implementing human resource practices. To reverse employees¡¦ value by hard-culture reengineering, the organization could receive knowledge and ability which is different from the one supporting the old strategic frames. Proposition 4: In terms of investing resources as the transformation strategy, the organization should emphasize intensive ability while implementing human resource practices. To intensify and retain the original core techniques, the organization could upgrade the core techniques to the advanced level in order to expand the potential markets. Proposition 5: In terms of changing processes as the transformation strategy, the organization should emphasize participative ability while implementing human resource practices. The organization could accentuate operation efficiency in order to attain the main purposes of reducing cost and improve quality. Proposition 6: In terms of solidifying relationships as the transformation strategy, the organization should emphasize service ability while implementing human resource practices. The organization could draw on the strength of each to offset the weakness of the other among the stakeholders in order to develop competitive advantages.

Traditional villages and vestiges have become important tourist resources in every country. Kinmen has been delayed its development due to the wartime establishment restriction. Since the Kinmen National Park is established, the small islet, being famous for its battlefield remnants, has planned enthusiastically to reserve these cultural assets-- Traditional vestiges. Thus, this would be an interesting issue. According to the National Park Law, the national park is set to protect those specified natural and cultural assets of the country, and to provide citizens entertainment and research. These 5 national parks established are focused on environmental protection. However, Kinmen National Park, being the first one to focus on ancient--monuments and culture preservation, makes the establishment of national park more complete. The research method includes data survey and review. By the strategic planning of public affairs management and VCS system, we discussed the issues as follows: 1. The public value of traditional vestiges preservation from the strategic planning view in Kinmen National Park. 2. The strategic management and application of the resource in Kinmen National Park. 3. The management and related issues of enhancing Kinmen tourism by traditional vestiges and resources preservation. 4. The value, energy and supporting dimension of Kinmen tourism created by traditional vestiges preservation. The research schedule: The research focuses on the traced-back case study between 1995 to 2005. We take partial depth interviews by the¡¨ public affairs management integrated structure¡¨, and the questionnaire system is composed of hardware, social and natural terms. The government takes advantage of the tax revenue as the subsidy to carry out the traditional vestiges preservation policy. The policy has implemented effectively for a decade and thus achieve positive performance. The traditional vestiges preservation and tourism development are the final result of the government¡¦s strategic arrangement and management. The policy validity depends on whether the public value fits people¡¦s needs or not. Since the working experiences molds the organizational culture and capability, the government should keep the public-value vision in the process of policy planning and management strategy.

By using the E.B.M model, this research sets the traditional tea consumer behavior for dependent variable, demographics and life style variables for independent variable to form the research structure. We ran a statistic analysis for the data that is proceeding purposive sampling to the traditional tea drinkers and examed it. The research mainly discusses the concern with the life style and tea consumer behavior in Kaohsiung area. The results show that the life style factors of Kaohsiung tea drinkers consist of ¡§strict budgeting¡¨¡B¡§traditional home¡¨¡B¡§fashion & extrovert¡¨¡B¡§health & leisure¡¨. By the result of factor analysis, we devided the Kaohsiung tea drinkers to four groups: ¡§canny & balance ¡¨¡B¡§conservative & traditional¡¨¡B¡§sensitive ¡¨¡B¡§casual ¡¨. Each cluster has a significant difference between marriage status¡Bsex¡Bage¡Baveragely monthly income¡Beducation and occupation. According to those five parts of consumer behavior, the business can adjust its marketing strategies by aiming at what the consumers are most interested in. For example, the business can supply different tastes of tea for different groups and satisfy a large number of consumers to increase the sales volume. The promotion of ¡§ tea art¡¨ attracts consumers and creates higher consumer demand. Business can take advantage of mass media to reinforce marketing channel and make the business go up. According to the analysis result, there are some suggestions for different groups. Consumers who are married, over 30 years old, income of 10 to 50 thousand dollars, education under collage, most of them belong to a group which has more sensitive and higher willing for bargaining and the firm should always focus on the pricing strategy. Consumers who are unmarried, under 30 years old, income under 10 thousand dollars, education of collage and above, belong to the group which named casual. Consumers of this group care about to have good interpersonal relationship and healthy lives more than other groups. Consumers who are 21 to 30 years old, income over 80 thousand dollars, education of collage, occupation of self-employment, sex of male, belong to the group which named ¡§canny & balance ¡¨. Consumers of this group care about all the items equally. Consumers who are unmarried, 21 to 30 years old, income of 30 to 50 thousand dollars or under 10 thousand dollars, education of collage, sex of female, belong to the group which named ¡§conservative & traditional¡¨. Consumers of this group are used to go to the same store for purchasing and they have higher brand loyalty than other groups. To sum up, the business should make different marketing strategies for different clusters.

The subject of this thesis is House No: 1 in Zenginler District B&uuml / y&uuml / k &Ccedil / ikmaz in Antakya. It is a remarkable example of traditional houses dating back to 19th century in Antakya. The aim of this study is to prepare the restoration project of the building which is far too important for the city with its location, richness of its spatial and architectural elements, interventions have been done and provide to maintain its role in the city by re-functioning it. The thesis includes the detailed description of the present state of the site and the selected building, historical background of Antakya, comparative study and restitution scheme. Finally, the restoration project including the intervention decisions and a proposal for a new function are prepared according to the evaluation of the information gathered throughout the study. There are several steps to prepare the restoration project of a traditional building. The first step is the historical research of both the selected building and the city where it is located. It is important, as it constitutes a background for the study. In the second step of the project, the preparation of the complete graphical and verbal information of the building to the document the present conditions of it. Site survey is the base for this step. After all the information is gathered at the site, they are presented by graphical and verbal ways. Documentation includes the analyses of the building in various aspects like materials, construction technique and deformations. The third step is the comparative study of the building between the same period traditional Antakya houses. These analyses are not only important for the position of the building in Antakya but also form a base for the restitution project. The fourth step restitution consists of evaluation of traces to grasp the alterations done on the original building and thus it can be possible to establish the original scheme of the building. In the last step, the restoration project is prepared. It covers the interventions that should be applied to the building and the proposal for the new function.

The subject of the thesis is construction techniques of four traditional Ormana Houses within the wider context of Akseki Region vernacular architecture. The thesis analyses the appropriate methodology and approach for a documentation of construction techniques and details of the traditional houses. As such, it includes the necessary research and analysis that would provide the base for coherent restoration principles and decisions. The thesis includes the historical background of Ormana, detailed description of the present state details of the houses supported by survey drawings, photographs and visual analysis of the traditional Ormana Houses.

ABSTRACT RESTORATION PROJECT OF IBRAHIM SAHIN HOUSE IN SOGUKPINAR DISTRICT, BEYHAMAM STREET, NO 41, TOKAT &Ouml / nal, Ilgin M.S. in Restoration, Department of Architecture Supervisor: Prof. Dr. N. G&uuml / l Asatekin July 2010, 329 pages The subject of thesis is to prepare the restoration project of a traditional Anatolian dwelling in Tokat. As being a representative of traditional historic background of Tokat, Ibrahim Sahin Dwelling is aimed to be rehabilitated at first and revitalized then by refunctioning. Within the context of the study, existing situation of the dwelling and its nearby environment is documented in detail. Graphical presentation of the dwelling is supported by verbal descriptions and analysis of the existing situation. The dwelling is then compared with other examples found at nearby site within its historical background. This information provided a basis for restitution stage and evaluated in restoration chapter then. The study is ended up with a restoration project including intervention decisions aiming both conservation of physical existence, revealing out of the authentic features of the dwelling and the sustainability of it within traditional historic framework by an assigned function.

The subject of this thesis study is &Ccedil / ukur Hamam, one of the remarkable edifices in Birgi town in &Ouml / demis district of Izmir. The aim of the study is to create a restoration project for &Ccedil / ukur Hamam to provide its survival by integrating its neighbourhood to the social life of the city. During the study the edifice and its periphery was documented carefully by using 3D Laser Scanner. In the historical and comparative study the original status of the edifice was researched. With respect to the data gathered from the studies, a restoration project which includes the intervention decisions for the conservation of the physical condition and authentic elements of the edifice.

This study is more or less of an exploratory research style. It is aimed to find out what the impact of the travel information appearing on a company web site that is run by a travel agent, upon traditional customers in a sense of interactive marketing. It is hoped that through the subject study we can much understand traditional customer expectations and perceptions in using of the internet. It would also equip the agents in a better position to fulfill the customer requirements when they map out the content of the travel company web site and implement the information communication. And finally it will lead to the best marketing strategy planning.

The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of the online instruction versus the effects of traditional face-to-face instruction assisted with online learning system. Specifically, the learning process is investigated. The observation groups of this study are two class students. One class is online class and the other class studies in a traditional class assisted with online learning system. The variables of personalities are also taken into discussion to explore whether the personalities of learners moderate the learning process and the learning effects. Moreover, whether the learning processes between two different instruction methods affect learning effects are explored. Based on the data analysis, the findings of this study are summarized as follows: 1. The learning achievements of online instruction learners are significantly better than those of learners who studied in a traditional class assisted with online learning system. However, the differences of learning satisfactions from learns are not significant. 2. Learners in the online instruction post more articles than those who study in traditional instruction assisted with online learning system. But the other subjects in the learning process between the two instruction methods don¡¦t have significant differences. 3. Gender and the cognitive style separately affect the average numbers of post words and ineffective learning characteristics. 4. The learning process affects significantly the achievements of learners in both instruction methods, but the learning process doesn¡¦t always affect the learning satisfactions of learners.

Abstract This study is an exploratory study. It discusses the comparison of pet dog business sales paths about web-store and traditional store sale path. This study tries to find the suitable sales path of pet dog business.Through this study, we could find the pet dog business is thrived by the web-store in Internet. Due to some problems of safety trade and order in Internet, we suggest the pet dog business must combine the traditional store sales path and web-store to get more performance. In the conclusion, if we can handle and control the following key successful factors, we will get more competition in the pet dog business: 1. The key successful factors of traditional store sales path: the price of the product (the price of dog), pre and after service, the dog health. 2. The key successful factors of web-store: the friendly website design and safety trade.