Thesis (M.S.)--Northern Michigan University, 2009. / Bibliography: leaves 51-55.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-259).

Perception of fairness is a key construct affecting job performance, and perceptions of promotional processes are related to employees' sense of justice in private organizations. In police departments, negative perceptions of procedures can be detrimental to departmental effectiveness. The purpose of this quantitative quasiexperimental study was to compare Louisiana officers' perceptions of fairness of a seniority-based promotion system in relation to Louisiana deputies' perceptions of fairness of a merit-based promotion system. Organizational justice theory, including procedural justice, was the theoretical foundation. The research questions were designed to examine whether seniority, transparency, knowledge of the promotion systems, gender, and race predicted levels of perceived fairness. Data were analyzed using an independent samples t test, a MANOVA, and a multiple linear regression. Participants in the seniority-based system perceived it as being fairer than participants in the merit-based system viewed their merit-based system. There were significant differences in knowledge of promotion systems and perceived fairness for rank and system type, but not race and gender. Collectively, predictor variables correlated with perceived fairness. Type of promotion system was not significant when examined with other variables suggesting confounding of predictor variables. Human resources should make employees aware of promotion procedures. Hybrid systems might help address both employee fairness and the promotion of qualified individuals. Officers viewing promotion as fair could lead to positive social change by motivating officers and positively influencing how they serve the public.

This dissertation explores the role of the regulations regarding seniority with respect to employee layoffs. The main focus of this inquiry is to explore the degree to which the regulations protect the groups of employees for which it is intended. The main area of interest is § 22 of the law regarding employment protection concerning protections for employees with long periods of employment and older workers. It contains an examination of the regulatory framework and an empirical survey of how these regulations were applied at a number of workplaces. The survey consists of thirty workplaces and illustrates how the protectionist purpose of the legislation can be minimized or enhanced as a result of the different decisions made by employers or labor unions and the deliberations behind the decisions. The empirical survey also roughly shows the outcome of the application of these regulations with respect to the surveyed groups at the workplaces. / digitalisering@umu

After the financial tsunami in 2008, banking businesses took advantage in the economic recovery to attract investors back. For the past two or three years, financial institutions have generated considerable revenue from wealth management businesses, which was growing at a two-digit rate. Since financial consultants determine the success of customer relation management, which is the key factor to wealth management business, it has become essential for human resource research in banks to investigate the characteristics of financial consultants. This study investigates whether there exists a positive correlation between key factors, such as the financial consultants¡¦ seniority in banking business, developing expertise, work attitude, and organizational climate, and their performance achievement. It is hoped that financial consultants, whether recruited from local branches or from outside of the bank, when equipped with related banking experience, developed expertise, better work attitude and supporting organizational climate can achieve their performance goals. This study is based on questionnaire results from the 172 financial consultants in Bank S. A total of 114 valid questionnaires were returned, yielding a return rate of 66.28%. Statistical analysis shows the following results: 1. There is a significant positive correlation between seniority in banking business, developing expertise, and performance achievement. 2. Higher levels of seniority in banking business and developing expertise, lead to higher levels of performance. Based on the results, this study suggests that for future human resource recruiting and training, the wealth management division should strengthen trainings in financial services provided especially for high net worth clients, in addition to the recruitment of experienced employees from local branches. Competent financial consultants, with required certifications, should provide timely suggestions on stop-loss and stop-gain to clients to secure their trust and recognition. Only when the clients become stable assets of the bank can wealth management business be sustainable.

No / This article critically explores the working lives and views of disabled senior staff working in UK organisations. The qualitative research at the core of the article establishes that some disabled people are confounding established notions of disabled people only working in peripheral employment roles by exploring the working lives and perceptions of disabled managers. The findings do, however, point to continued barriers to what disabled staff in senior positions can be seen to do and be organisationally. Here both practical and ontological risk inheres in organisationally induced change, openness about impairment and risky identities. Such ideas, it is argued, present limits to further promotion and workplace inclusion for some disabled managers.

The Primary purpose of this paper is to examine the role and importance of Senior Senators in the US Senate. Many states rely on Senators to bring in federal spending in the form of pork. When states lose their Senior Senator and the power they accumulated through increased tenure, they risk losing certain benefits in terms of pork. We use federal expenditures per dollar of tax and analyze how it is affected by Seniority in the Senate. Population, Income, and unemployment rates in each state were controlled for in our regression analysis. It is concluded that increased tenure significantly increases federal spending to Senators’ states. Though this is statistically significant, we find the effects of losing a Senior Senator to be insignificant in the overall welfare of a state.

Šiame magistro darbe išanalizuotos ir palygintos Bendrijos, nacionalinė ir tarptautinė prekių ženklo registravimo sistemos bei šių sistemų tarpusavio sąveika, atskleista tai, kokias esmines galimybes jos suteikia įregistruoto prekių ženklo savininkams. Pirmiausia darbe nagrinėjama istoriškai pirmoji atsiradusi nacionalinė prekių ženklų registravimo sistema, kuri analizuojama remiantis Lietuvos Respublikos teisės aktais, atskirai išskiriant tuos aspektus, kurių reguliavimas kitose Europos Sąjungos valstybėse iš esmės skiriasi, pavyzdžiui, pareikšto registruoti žymens ekspertizės atlikimo procedūra. Toliau analizuojama tarptautinė prekių ženklų registravimo sistema (Madrido sistema), atskleidžiami šią sistemą reglamentuojančių sutarčių skirtumai bei jų santykis, aptariami esminiai registravimo procedūros ir jos pasekmių bruožai, atskleidžiama tarptautinės prekių ženklų registracijos priklausomybė nuo nacionalinės bei galimybė pereiti iš vienos sistemos į kitą. Darbe tiriami Bendrijos prekių ženklo sistemos veikimo esminiai bruožai, jos santykis su nacionaline bei Madrido sistema, ypatingą dėmesį skiriant pavertimo (angl. – conversion) ir pirmenybės (angl. – seniority) institutų analizei bei su Europos Sąjungos plėtra susijusių nacionalinių ir Bendrijos prekių ženklų konfliktų sprendimo klausimams. Paskutinėje darbo dalyje apibendrinami ir koncentruotai pateikiami registravimo sistemos pasirinkimą lemiantys veiksniai – registravimo kaštai, teritorija, kurioje siekiama ir įmanoma... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / This master thesis is devoted to analyzing and comparing Community, national and international systems of trade mark registration and their interrelation, revealing the substantial opportunities they provide for the proprietors of registered trade marks. First of all, historically the earliest national trade mark registration system is being studied in the thesis following the law of the Republic of Lithuania, distinguishing those issues, regulation of which is substantially different in the other EU member states, e. g. the examination procedure of the applied mark. Further the international system of trade mark registration (the Madrid system) is being analyzed: the distinctions and relation of the treaties regulating this system, the features of registration procedure and its consequences, the international registration dependency on the national one and the possibility of converting and transforming the registration are analyzed. Essential features of the operation of the Community trade mark system, its relation with national and international systems are being analyzed in the thesis; special attention has been paid to conversion and seniority analysis as well as the matters of solving national and Community trade mark conflicts related to the enlargement of European Union. In the last part of the thesis the factors which can determine the choice of a registration system (registration costs, territory in which protection is sought and may be obtained, other important... [to full text]

Em Moçambique, as discussões sobre equidade de gênero e inserção das mulheres no espaço público têm ocupado cada vez mais lugar de destaque na sociedade. Motivados pela democracia (realidade recente) e pelos acordos ratificados pelo governo do país, homens e mulheres de diferentes quadrantes da sociedade desenvolvem estudos de natureza diversa, mostrando que apesar de existir um esforço por parte do governo e seus parceiros, agências multilaterais de desenvolvimento, ONGs e outras instituições da sociedade civil, a emancipação da mulher em diferentes áreas continua aquém das expectativas e dos investimentos empreendidos por estes. Amiudadas vezes os discursos que sustentam tais estudos acabam atribuindo aos preceitos e às práticas culturais “nativas” a responsabilidade pelo insucesso do governo e seus parceiros no combate à desigualdade de gênero, afirmando que tais preceitos e práticas nativas, reproduzem velhas estruturas de poder patriarcal. Esta pesquisa, sobre os ritos de iniciação feminina na região matrilinear do Norte de Moçambique, problematiza e torna complexa a visão que reduz as relações de gênero à dominação masculina. Através de processos endógenos de corporificação da memória e saberes comunitários por parte de mulheres nos ritos de iniciação feminina, a pesquisa mostra como essas mulheres estruturam o seu cosmo circundante, definem papéis sociais, constroem noções sobre corpo e sexualidade, colocando-se, através de saberes e experiências disseminadas nos ritos de iniciação, numa posição onde se afirmam como sujeitos sócio-históricos nas suas comunidades. / In Mozambique, discussions on gender equity and participation of women in public space have occupied an increasingly prominent place in society. Motivated by democracy (recent reality) and the agreements ratified by the government of the country, men and women from different parts of society develop studies of various kinds, showing that, despite an effort by the government and its partners, multilateral development agencies, NGOs and other institutions of civil society, the emancipation of women in different areas remains below expectations and investments undertaken by them. Too often, the discourses that underpin such studies end up by assigning the precepts and the “native “cultural practices, alleging that such precepts and native practices reproduced old power patriarchal structures. This research on female initiation rites in the matrilineal region of northern Mozambique problematizes the view that reduces gender relations to male denomination, also aiming at looking at in a complex manner. Through endogenous processes of embodiment of community memory and knowledge from the woman side in" female initiation rites”, this research shows how this women structure their surrounding cosmos, define social role, and build notions about their bodies and sexuality, putting themselves, through knowledge and experiences spread in initiation rites, in a position where they stand up for their rights of being as social-historical subjects (individuals) in their communities.

Em Moçambique, as discussões sobre equidade de gênero e inserção das mulheres no espaço público têm ocupado cada vez mais lugar de destaque na sociedade. Motivados pela democracia (realidade recente) e pelos acordos ratificados pelo governo do país, homens e mulheres de diferentes quadrantes da sociedade desenvolvem estudos de natureza diversa, mostrando que apesar de existir um esforço por parte do governo e seus parceiros, agências multilaterais de desenvolvimento, ONGs e outras instituições da sociedade civil, a emancipação da mulher em diferentes áreas continua aquém das expectativas e dos investimentos empreendidos por estes. Amiudadas vezes os discursos que sustentam tais estudos acabam atribuindo aos preceitos e às práticas culturais “nativas” a responsabilidade pelo insucesso do governo e seus parceiros no combate à desigualdade de gênero, afirmando que tais preceitos e práticas nativas, reproduzem velhas estruturas de poder patriarcal. Esta pesquisa, sobre os ritos de iniciação feminina na região matrilinear do Norte de Moçambique, problematiza e torna complexa a visão que reduz as relações de gênero à dominação masculina. Através de processos endógenos de corporificação da memória e saberes comunitários por parte de mulheres nos ritos de iniciação feminina, a pesquisa mostra como essas mulheres estruturam o seu cosmo circundante, definem papéis sociais, constroem noções sobre corpo e sexualidade, colocando-se, através de saberes e experiências disseminadas nos ritos de iniciação, numa posição onde se afirmam como sujeitos sócio-históricos nas suas comunidades. / In Mozambique, discussions on gender equity and participation of women in public space have occupied an increasingly prominent place in society. Motivated by democracy (recent reality) and the agreements ratified by the government of the country, men and women from different parts of society develop studies of various kinds, showing that, despite an effort by the government and its partners, multilateral development agencies, NGOs and other institutions of civil society, the emancipation of women in different areas remains below expectations and investments undertaken by them. Too often, the discourses that underpin such studies end up by assigning the precepts and the “native “cultural practices, alleging that such precepts and native practices reproduced old power patriarchal structures. This research on female initiation rites in the matrilineal region of northern Mozambique problematizes the view that reduces gender relations to male denomination, also aiming at looking at in a complex manner. Through endogenous processes of embodiment of community memory and knowledge from the woman side in" female initiation rites”, this research shows how this women structure their surrounding cosmos, define social role, and build notions about their bodies and sexuality, putting themselves, through knowledge and experiences spread in initiation rites, in a position where they stand up for their rights of being as social-historical subjects (individuals) in their communities.