Motivation in working life can be meaningful to work with. If the organization conducts stable motivational work, it can affect employees' motivation, development, and productivity. The steel industry that this study intended to examine, showed us that production managers were invested in working with motivation toward employees. The steel company that’s examined is a large organization with several thousand employees, and it is important to take care of their workers, which can be important for organizations' visions and goals. By conducting an adequate motivation work and development of employees, it can generate that existing staff with the right skills remain but also that the steel industry becomes an attractive workplace to apply to if there are development opportunities and a great commitment of managers and management. The purpose of this study was to examine how the production managers work to motivate and develop their employees in steel production. To make it possible and answer the study's purpose and research questions, seven semi-structured interviews were made with production managers who work at the steel industry company. The empirical data did analyze using the theoretical frameworks to reach a result. The results show that production managers use the education that the organization offers to motivate the employees. Production managers also work a lot with social appreciation, support, and feedback to motivate employees. Furthermore, the results show that the opportunities that production managers see with their motivational work toward employees are that they can spend time together in the production, which makes it easier to support them, give them information and resources, motivate, give feedback, and praise. Motivational work allows employees to become more independent and confident in their work roles. In conclusion, it turned out that the challenges with the motivational work in the steel industry are that time is not enough and that feedback from senior management in connection with the development of production managers was insufficient. It is important as an organization to provide all employees with development areas and motivational work, which can have a great impact on job satisfaction but also an important part for everyone to feel good in the workplace.

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This thesis describes the introduction into Canada, from the United States, of the Cooperative Wage Study (CWS) - a scheme of joint union-management job evaluation for the removal of wage rate inequities in the steel industry. it is especially concerned with the impact of the CWS programme upon the structure of industrial relations in this industry, and with the aims and objectives of both the union and management regarding it. A comparison of the origins of the plan in both the U.S.A. and Canada is made and a survey of the development of the programme carried out in two basic steel plants in Ontario. An evaluation of the results is attempted in the light of the original objectives, together with an assessment of the importance of CWS as an industrial relations technique. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

This empirical study uses stochastic coefficients econometric modeling to forecast real exchange rate volatility and examine how expected and unexpected volatility affect bilateral trade flows of certain steel products between Canada, Mexico and the United States using monthly data for the seven-year period 1996-2002. The results of the model indicate that the effects of exchange rate volatility on bilateral trade flows for this sector are relatively minor, where sustained changes in the spot exchange rate, sectoral economic growth, and the price of goods being traded all exert more significant influence on trade levels than exchange rate volatility. However, the model results also tend to indicate that as exchange rate volatility increases, the well-developed U.S.-Canadian forward currency exchange market may present economic agents with profit opportunities through risk-portfolio diversification, resulting in a positive correlation between volatility and trade. For the less-developed U.S.-Mexican forward currency market, the model results indicate that the relationship between trade and volatility, both expected and unexpected, is weak and predominantly negative. / Master of Arts

This investigation is being made in an effort to determine the probable effects on the Southwest of the basing-point changes recently instigated as a result of the Federal Trade Commission rulings.

關怡淸. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院歷史學部. / Reprint of manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 341-499). / Zhou Yiqing. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan li shi xue bu. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 東周兩漢鐵器出土遺址與冶鐵遺址之地理分佈 --- p.7 / Chapter 一 --- 東周兩漢鐵器出土遺址之地理分佈 --- p.7 / Chapter 二 --- 戰國兩漢冶鐵遺址之地理分佈 --- p.13 / Chapter 第三章 --- 東周兩漢鐵器應用之演變 --- p.33 / Chapter 一 --- 東周兩漢鐵器種類與形制之演變 --- p.34 / Chapter (一) --- 農具 --- p.37 / Chapter (二) --- 其他工具 --- p.67 / Chapter (三) --- 武器 --- p.92 / Chapter (四) --- 生活用器 --- p.132 / Chapter (五) --- 車馬器 --- p.157 / Chapter (六) --- 機械構件 --- p.161 / Chapter (七) --- 刑具 --- p.164 / Chapter (八) --- 雜具 --- p.167 / Chapter 二 --- 東周兩漢銅鐵器消長之概況 --- p.184 / Chapter (一) --- 東周 --- p.185 / Chapter (二) --- 兩漢 --- p.194 / Chapter 三 --- 小結 --- p.209 / Chapter 第四章 --- 東周兩漢鋼鐵冶煉技術之發展 --- p.224 / Chapter 一 --- 冶鐵遺址、遺物所見東周兩漢冶鐵技術水平 --- p.233 / Chapter 二 --- 東周兩漢鐵器之科學考查 --- p.272 / Chapter 三 --- 東周兩漢鋼鐵冶煉技術綜論 --- p.283 / Chapter (一) --- 中國古代鍛鐵、鑄鐵技術出現先後之探討 --- p.283 / Chapter (二) --- 鑄鐵技術之發展 --- p.289 / Chapter (三) --- 鍛鐵技術之發展 --- p.308 / Chapter (四) --- 鋼鐵熱處理工藝之發展 --- p.311 / Chapter 四 --- 小結 --- p.320 / Chapter 第五章 --- 結語 --- p.327 / 引徵及參考書目 --- p.341 / 地圖一至五 / 圖1至160 / 表一至九 / (以上見附錄)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1987. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 142-157).