El presente proyecto se genera a partir de la preocupación que afecta a muchos estudiantes universitarios de los últimos ciclos que no cuentan con experiencia laboral, debido a los amplios requisitos que solicitan las empresas; la falta de capacitación previa en los procesos de reclutamiento y selección para obtener el puesto de practicante, así como la dificultad de conseguir cursos que se relacionen con su profesión y que sean económicamente accesibles. Es por eso que nuestro proyecto apuesta por la creación de una aplicación llamada My First Practice, en donde estudiantes de últimos ciclos podrán potenciar sus habilidades y especializarse más en el sector de su interés laboral, a través de la experiencia de estudiantes que ya se encuentran trabajando y, junto a la colaboración de pymes, puedan cumplir con el perfil que las empresas desean. Este proyecto consta de dos etapas; en la primera etapa se validó el problema mediante entrevistas a nuestro público objetivo y especialistas; la segunda etapa se realizó se validó la solución con la finalidad de conocer si nuestro proyecto resulta ser viable y escalable en su ejecución. El diferencial de la aplicación My First Practice está basada en su tecnología, una bolsa de trabajo solo con ofertas de pymes, cursos de especialización y el aprendizaje de la mano con estudiantes con experiencia laboral; el conjunto de todas estas características brinda un modelo de negocio que busca facilitar la obtención de las primeras prácticas preprofesionales. / This project is generated by the concern that affects many university students of the last cycles who do not have work experience, due to the extensive requirements requested by companies; the lack of prior training in the recruitment and selection processes to obtain the position of practitioner, as well as the difficulty of obtaining courses that are related to their profession and that are economically accessible. That is why our project supports the creation of an application called My First Practice, where final cycle students can enhance their skills and specialize more in the sector of their work interest, through the experience of students who are already working and, together with the collaboration of SMEs, can meet the profile that companies want. This project consists of two stages; in the first stage the problem was validated through interviews with our target audience and specialists; the second stage the solution was validated in order to know if our project turns out to be viable and scalable in its execution. The differential of the My First Practice application is based on its technology, a job board only with offers from SMEs, specialization courses and hand-in-hand learning with students with work experience; the set of all these characteristics provides a business model that seeks to facilitate the obtaining of the first pre-professional practices. / Trabajo de investigación

Объектом исследования явилось эмоциональное благополучие учителя. Предметом исследования стало выявление особенностей эмоционального благополучия учителей. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (138 источников) и приложения, включающего в себя бланки применявшихся методик, а также результаты статистического анализа данных. Объем магистерской диссертации 121 страница, на которых размещены 16 рисунков и 3 таблицы. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются гипотезы, указываются методы и методики исследования, а также научная новизна и практическая значимость работы. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме эмоционального благополучия. Представлены разделы, посвященные исследованию понятия «эмоционального благополучия», структуры, а также его роли в профессиональной деятельности учителя. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методов проведенного исследования и результатов, полученных по всем использованным методикам: 1. Шкала позитивного аффекта и негативного аффекта (ШПАНА) (адаптация Е.Н. Осина). 2. Методика «Шкала дифференциальных эмоций» К. Изарда. 3. Текст опросника профессионального «выгорания» (К. Маслач, С. Джексон, в адаптации Н. Е. Водопьяновой). 4. Методика определения удовлетворенности трудом А.В. Батрашева. 5. Методика диагностики субъективного благополучия личности Шамионова Р.М. и Бесковой Т.В. Также в главе представлен сравнительный и корреляционный анализ результатов исследования. Выводы по главе 2 включают в себя основные результаты эмпирического исследования. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам. / The object of the study was the emotional well-being of the teacher. The subject of the study was to identify the features of the emotional well-being of teachers. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, a conclusion, a list of literature (138 sources) and an appendix, which includes forms of the methods used, as well as the results of statistical data analysis. The volume of the master's thesis is 121 pages, on which are placed 16 figures and 3 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the purpose and objectives of the research are set, the object and the subject of research are determined, hypotheses are formulated, research methods and techniques are indicated, as well as the scientific novelty and practical significance of the work. The first chapter includes a review of foreign and domestic literature on the topic of emotional well-being. The sections devoted to the study of the concept of "emotional well-being", the structure, as well as its role in the professional activity of a teacher are presented. The conclusions of the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It provides a description of the organization and methods of the study and the results obtained by all the methods used: 1. The scale of positive affect and negative affect (PUNKS) (adaptation by E.N. Osin). 2. The method "Scale of differential emotions" by K. Izard. 3. The text of the questionnaire of professional "burnout" (K. Maslach, S. Jackson, adapted by N. E. Vodopyanova). 4. Methodology for determining satisfaction with the work of A.V. Batrashev. 5. Methods of diagnostics of subjective well-being of a person Shamionova R.M. and Beskova T.V. The chapter also presents a comparative and correlation analysis of the results of the study. The conclusions of Chapter 2 include the main results of an empirical study. In conclusion, brief results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work are presented, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses.

Объектом исследования явилось психологическое благополучие специалистов с разным стажем работы. Предметом исследования стали особенности взаимосвязи эмоционального интеллекта и оптимизма в контексте психологического благополучия специалистов с разным стажем работы. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка использованных источников (51 источник) и приложения, включающего в себя бланки применявшихся методик. Объем магистерской диссертации 109 страниц, на которых размещены 10 рисунков и 14 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются основная и дополнительные гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база, а также этапы проведения исследования, научная новизна, теоретическая и практическая значимость работы. Первая глава включает в себя обзор иностранной и отечественной литературы по теме эмоционального интеллекта, оптимизма и психологического благополучия. Представлены разделы, посвященные исследованию оптимизма, как феномена на современном этапе, а также связи эмоционального интеллекта и оптимизма в обеспечении психологического благополучия специалистов с разным стажем работы. Выводы по первой главе представляют собой итоги по изучению теоретического материала. Вторая глава посвящена эмпирической части исследования. В ней представлено описание организации и методов проведенного исследования и результатов, полученных по всем использованным методикам: опросник эмоционального интеллекта «ЭмИн» Д. В. Люсина; опросник «Диагностика эмоционального интеллекта» Н. Холла; «Тест диспозиционного оптимизма – LOT» (Шейер Ч., Карвер М.); Тест на оптимизм Л.М. Рудиной; Опросник «Шкалы психологического благополучия» К. Рифф (адаптация П. П. Фесенко и Т. Д. Шевеленковой). Также в главе представлен корреляционный и факторный анализ результатов исследования. Выводы по главе 2 включают в себя основные результаты эмпирического исследования. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам, обоснована практическая значимость исследования и описаны возможные перспективы дальнейшей разработки данной проблематики. / The object of the study was the psychological well-being of specialists with different work experience. The subject of the study was the features of the relationship between emotional intelligence and optimism in the context of psychological well-being of specialists with different work experience. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, a conclusion, a list of sources used (51 sources) and an appendix, which includes forms of the methods used. The volume of the master's thesis is 109 pages, which contain 10 figures and 14 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the elaboration of the problem, sets the purpose and objectives of the study, defines the object and subject of the study, formulates the main and additional hypotheses, specifies the methods and empirical base, as well as the stages of research, scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance of the work. The first chapter includes a review of foreign and domestic literature on the topic of emotional intelligence, optimism and psychological well-being. The sections devoted to the study of optimism as a phenomenon at the present stage, as well as the relationship of emotional intelligence and optimism in ensuring the psychological well-being of specialists with different work experience are presented. The conclusions of the first chapter are the results of the study of theoretical material. The second chapter is devoted to the empirical part of the study. It describes the organization and methods of the study and the results obtained by all the methods used: the emotional intelligence questionnaire "EmIn" by D. V. Lyusin; the questionnaire "Diagnostics of emotional intelligence" by N. Hall; "Test of dispositional optimism – LOT" (Scheyer Ch., Carver M.); The optimism test by L.M. Rudina; Questionnaire "Scales of psychological well-being" by K. Riff (adaptation by P. P. Fesenko and T. D. Shevelenkova). The chapter also presents a correlation and factor analysis of the results of the study. The conclusions of Chapter 2 include the main results of an empirical study. In conclusion, the results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work are summarized, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses put forward, the practical significance of the study is substantiated and possible prospects for further development of this problem are described.

Bakgrund. Högskolan i Gävle ska granska och utveckla utbildningen för byggnadsingenjörer. I dagsläget saknas underlag som beskriver vad arbetsgivare inom byggbranschen efterfrågar av en nyutexaminerad byggnadsingenjör. Arbetsgivare kan därför bidra med underlag till arbetet med att omforma byggnadsingenjörsprogrammet. Syfte. Syftet med studien är att ta fram underlag som kan användas vid utvecklingen och omformningen av byggnadsingenjörsprogrammet på Högskolan i Gävle. Metod. En fallstudie har genomförts där arbetsgivare inom byggbranschen intervjuats med en semistrukturerad intervju. En analysmetod har använts där samtliga intervjuerhar transkriberats för att senare analyserats utifrån huvudkategorier och underkategorier. Resultat. Resultatet av intervjuerna lyfter fram arbetsgivares upplevelser och erfarenheter av nyutexaminerade byggnadsingenjörer från Högskolan i Gävle. Resultatet är uppdelat i två delar. Den första delen redovisar en samlad bild av samtliga respondenters åsikter. Den andra delen av resultatet sammanfattar varje enskild intervju, där citat redovisas i sin ursprungliga kontext. Slutsats. Arbetsgivarna i studien anger att det är nöjda med byggnadsingenjörer de anställt från Högskolan i Gävle. Slutsatsen som kan dras utifrån genomförd studie är att Högskolan i Gävle bör prioritera ämnet konstruktion och tillföra praktik i byggnadsingenjörsprogrammet. / Background. University of Gävle’s study programme in building engineering is soon to be evaluated. Today, the university lack documentation of what employers in the building industry request from a newly graduated building engineer. In the evaluation of the study programme in building engineering, employers from the building industry can contribute with their knowledge and experience of newly graduated building engineers from University of Gävle. Purpose. The purpose of this degree project is to document how employers in the building industry view newly graduated buildings engineers from University of Gävle, to be used by the university in the evaluation process of the study programmein building engineering. Methods. A case study was conducted in which employers in the building industry were interviewed with the use of semi-structured interview. An method of analysis have been used where all interviews were transcribed and later analysed with theuse of main- and subcategories. Results. The results show the experiences of employers of the building industry of newly graduated buildings engineers from University of Gävle. The result is divided into two parts. The first part gives an overview of all the opinions from the respondents in the study. The second part of the result summarizes every single interview. The summarizes includes citations from the interviews. Conclusion. Employers in the building industry are satisfied with the building engineers they have hired that have newly graduated from University of Gävle. The conclusion from this degree project is that University of Gävle should prioritise the subject construction and add work experience, for example internship, in the studyprogramme of building engineering.

Studiens syfte var att undersöka socialsekreterares upplevda kunskap om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck samt deras upplevda trygghet i arbetet av sådana ärenden. Dessutom hade studien som mål att analysera eventuella samband mellan upplevd kunskap och arbetslivserfarenhet samt mellan upplevd kunskap och trygghet.  Inspirationen hämtades från SVT:s Uppdrag Granskning "Bortförd" (2023), där socialtjänstens hantering av hedersärenden kritiserades. Fokus i vår studie låg på bristen på kunskap och kopplingen mellan upplevd kunskap, trygghet och arbetslivserfarenhet. Genom att genomföra en enkät med 45 svar från socialsekreterare från 17 svenska kommuner och analysera svaren med statistikprogrammet SPSS, avsåg studien att belysa dessa aspekter. Resultatet indikerade att socialsekreterarnas upplevda kunskap om hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck låg på en medelnivå, medan känslan av trygghet i arbetet var relativt hög. Arbetslivserfarenhet visade en svag men signifikant koppling till upplevd kunskap. Dessutom observerades en stark positiv korrelation mellan upplevd kunskap och trygghet. Sammanfattningsvis bekräftar studien behovet av ökad kunskap om hedersrelaterat våld, då många upplever att de behöver mer kunskap i ämnet. Trots utmaningarna känner sig socialsekreterare relativt trygga när de arbetar med hedersrelaterade frågor. / The purpose of the study was to investigate social workers' knowledge of honour-related violence and oppression, as well as being comfortable working on such cases. Additionally, the aim of the study was to analyze possible connections between perceived knowledge and work experience, as well as between perceived knowledge and being comfortable dealing with such cases.  The inspiration was drawn from a Swedish television program "Uppdrag Granskning" ("Mission: Investigation") episode named "Bortförd" ("Abducted") (SVT 2023), where the social services dealing of honour cases were criticized. The focus of our study was on the lack of knowledge and the connection between knowledge, being comfortable dealing with such cases and work experience. By conducting a survey with 45 responses from social workers from 17 Swedish municipalities and analyzing the responses with the statistical program SPSS, the study intended to shed light on these aspects. The results indicated that social workers' perceived knowledge of honour-related violence and oppression was on average, while their sense of comfortability dealing with such cases was higher. Work experience showed a weak but significant connection to perceived knowledge. In addition, a strong positive correlation was observed between perceived knowledge and the feeling of being comfortable dealing with honour-related cases. In summary, the study confirms the need for increased knowledge about honour-related violence, as many believe they need more knowledge on the subject. Despite the challenges, social workers feel relatively confident when working with honor-related issues.

This study investigated the relationship between individual knowledge transfer methods, self-study and work experience and behaviour patterns, facilitation, conduct and ability in the development of SMEs. This study further sought to find out if gender had an effect on the behaviour patterns. The study is empirical and cross sectional in nature. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 employees of selected SMEs in Durban-South Africa. Findings show that there is a positive, significant relationship between the knowledge transfer method self-study and behavioural aspects, facilitation, conduct and ability. In addition, this study found that work experience had an insignificant correlation with facilitation, conduct and ability. Finally, the study found that there are no gender differences in terms of facilitation, conduct and ability. It is recommended that all the stakeholders in the SME sector continuously analyse the internal organisational environment to ensure that knowledge resources are effectively used for productive employees’ behaviour. / Business Management / M. Tech. (Business Administration)

Heat stress (HS) induced changes in energy metabolism, proteolysis, lipogenesis, and oxidative balance have meat quality ramifications for livestock. However, several knowledge gaps exist in understanding heat stressed finishing pig physiology and pork quality characteristics and how dietary zinc may ameliorate undesirable outcomes. Research was completed to determine zinc supplementation effects on carcass composition, meat quality, and oxidative stability of fresh and processed pork from pigs subjected to a chronic, cyclic heat stress using a 2×2×2 factorial arrangement of treatments with main effects of environment (HS vs. thermoneutral; TN), added zinc level (50 vs. 130 mg kg^-1 available zinc), and zinc source (inorganic vs. organic). Commercial crossbred mixed-sex pigs (initially 72.0 kg) were group-housed under either TN (18.9-16.7°C) or cycling HS conditions with chronic diurnal heat (30-29°C/26-27°C for 12h:12h) on days 24-71 with acute heat waves (32-33°C/29-30°C for 12h:12h) on days 21-24, 42-45, and 63-65. One representative pig (<i>n</i>=80) per pen was slaughtered on day 64. The HS pigs were lighter bodyweight (<i>P</i>=0.039), yielded lighter carcasses (<i>P</i>=0.011), less last rib backfat (<i>P</i>=0.032), tended to have smaller loin eye area (<i>P</i>=0.062) but similar percent lean in belly center slices (<i>P</i>>0.10). Compared to TN, HS carcasses had higher 24-h pH (<i>P</i>=0.001) and decreased drip loss (<i>P</i>=0.034). Shifts in individual fatty acid profile of sausage product derived from HS carcasses were observed but were of insufficient magnitude to affect iodine value. Initially, sausage from HS carcasses tended (day 0, <i>P</i>=0.071) to have less thiobarbituric acid reactive substances than TN but over a 10-day simulated retail display, no treatment induced lipid oxidation differences (<i>P</i>>0.05) were observed in either sausage or displayed loin chops. Consistent treatment differences in CIE L*a*b* of products throughout the 10-day display were not observed. The relationships between physiological changes in pigs receiving supplemental zinc and their body and ambient temperatures were also investigated. A representative gilt (<i>n</i>=96) was selected for thermal monitoring from each pen of the 2×2×2 treatments plus 4 additional treatments representing 2 intermediate levels of Zn in both environments. Core body temperatures (T_core) during the day 42-45 acute heat wave were continuously recorded via indwelling vaginal thermometers and infrared thermal imaging was used to measure skin temperatures at 12-hour intervals. From a 64-gilt subset of the 2×2×2 treatments, jejunum and ileum samples were collected on day 64 for analysis of villus height, crypt depth, and jejunal gene expression of heat shock proteins (27, 70, 90), occludin, and mucin (MUC2). The HS model induced thermoregulatory changes and increases in T_core (<i>P</i><0.05). Day 42-45 ambient temperature was negatively correlated with expression of HSP-27 (r=-0.42, <i>P</i>=0.047), HSP-90 (r=-0.49, <i>P</i>=0.014), and occludin (r=-0.69, <i>P</i><0.001) in HS pigs. For the organic Zn supplemented pigs, ambient temperature was positively correlated with expression of HSP-27 (r=0.42, <i>P</i>=0.034) and MUC2 (r=0.45, <i>P</i>=0.017) and negatively correlated with villus height in jejunum (r=-0.42, <i>P</i>=0.027) and ileum (r=-0.38, <i>P</i>=0.048). Thermal Circulation Index (measure of heat dissipation) of HS pigs was negatively correlated with their ileum villus height (r=-0.51, <i>P</i>=0.015) and positively correlated with HSP-70 expression (r=0.46, <i>P</i>=0.041). The T_core lacked correlation with most variables. This research demonstrates cyclic HS affects carcass composition and quality but does not appear to reduce display shelf-life of pork as indicated by lack of differences in lipid oxidation and color stability. In this HS model, zinc level or source imparted negligible benefits and thermal correlations with gut integrity characteristics existed for organic zinc supplemented and HS pigs. The degree of heat dissipation by heat stressed pigs appeared to be associated with classic HS damage and intestinal responses which may be useful indicators of HS in the grow-finish pig. Another agricultural challenge is maintaining higher education programming which establishes a successful career trajectory for agricultural students amid generational shifts in attitudes and background experiences. Undergraduates studying Animal Science and/or Agricultural Economics were surveyed to understand their perception of how collegiate curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular experiences (coursework, club participation, relevant work experience, international experience, advising/mentoring, college life, and professional networking) contribute to their anticipated career success. A best-worst scaling experiment was used to force respondents (<i>n</i>=487) to make unbiased tradeoffs between the collegiate experience attributes. Responses were then related back to additional demographical and experience/perception characteristics of respondents. Students indicated relevant work experience was overwhelmingly the most critical of the 7 factors (57% preference share), followed by professional networking (19%), and coursework (14%). Students solely in a pre-veterinary Animal Science curriculum represented a distinct category of students regarding their beliefs and experiences. Further research is needed to investigate possible disconnects between student perceptions and reality in higher education and agricultural careers.

In the shift to a globalised creative economy where innovation and creativity are increasingly prized, many studies have documented direct and indirect social and economic benefits of the arts. In addition, arts workers have been argued to possess capabilities which are of great benefit both within and outside the arts, including (in addition to creativity) problem solving abilities, emotional intelligence, and team working skills (ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, 2007). However, the labour force characteristics of professional artists in Australia and elsewhere belie their importance. The average earnings of workers in the arts sector are consistently less than other workers with similar educational backgrounds, and their rates of unemployment and underemployment are much higher (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2005; Caves, 2000; Throsby & Hollister, 2003). Graduating students in the arts appear to experience similar employment challenges and exhibit similar patterns of work to artists in general. Many eventually obtain work unrelated to the arts or go back to university to complete further tertiary study in fields unrelated to arts (Graduate Careers Council of Australia, 2005a). Recent developments in career development theory have involved discussion of the rise of boundaryless careers amongst knowledge workers. Boundaryless careers are characterised by non-linear career progression occurring outside the bounds of a single organisation or field (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996a, 1996b). The protean career is an extreme form of the boundaryless career, where the careerist also possesses strong internal career motivations and criteria for success (Baruch, 2004; Hall, 2004; Hall & Mirvis, 1996). It involves a psychological contract with one's self rather than an organisation or organisations. The boundaryless and protean career literature suggests competencies and dispositions for career self-management and career success, but to date there has been minimal empirical work investigating the predictive value of these competencies and dispositions to career success in the boundaryless or protean career. This program of research employed competencies and dispositions from boundaryless and protean career theory to predict career success in professional artists and tertiary arts graduates. These competencies and dispositions were placed into context using individual and contextual career development influences suggested by the Systems Theory Framework of career development (McMahon & Patton, 1995; Patton & McMahon, 1999, 2006a). Four substantive studies were conducted, using online surveys with professional artists and tertiary arts students / graduates, which were preceded by a pilot study for measure development. A largely quantitative approach to the program of research was preferred, in the interests of generalisability of findings. However, at the time of data collection, there were no quantitative measures available which addressed the constructs of interest. Brief scales of Career Management Competence based on the Australian Blueprint for Career Development (Haines, Scott, & Lincoln, 2003), Protean Career Success Orientation based on the underlying dispositions for career success suggested by protean career theory, and Career Development Influences based on the Systems Theory Framework of career development (McMahon & Patton, 1995; Patton & McMahon, 1999, 2006a) were constructed and validated via a process of pilot testing and exploratory factor analyses. This process was followed by confirmatory factor analyses with data collected from two samples: 310 professional artists, and 218 graduating arts students who participated at time 1 (i.e., at the point of undergraduate course completion in October, 2005). Confirmatory factor analyses via Structural Equation Modelling conducted in Study 1 revealed that the scales would benefit from some respecification, and so modifications were made to the measures to enhance their validity and reliability. The three scales modified and validated in Study 1 were then used in Studies 3 and 4 as potential predictors of career success for the two groups of artists under investigation, along with relevant sociodemographic variables. The aim of the Study 2 was to explore the construct of career success in the two groups of artists studied. Each participant responded to an open-ended question asking them to define career success. The responses for professional artists were content analysed using emergent coding with two coders. The codebook was later applied to the arts students' definitions. The majority of the themes could be grouped into four main categories: internal definitions; financial recognition definitions; contribution definitions; and non-financial recognition definitions. Only one third of the definition themes in the professional artists' and arts graduates' definitions of career success were categorised as relating to financial recognition. Responses within the financial recognition category also indicated that many of the artists aspired only to a regular subsistence level of arts income (although a small number of the arts graduates did aspire to fame and fortune). The second section of the study investigated the statistical relationships between the five different measures of career success for each career success definitional category and overall. The professional artists' and arts graduates' surveys contained several measures of career success, including total earnings over the previous 12 months, arts earnings over the previous 12 months, 1-6 self-rated total employability, 1-6 self-rated arts employability, and 1-6 self-rated self-defined career success. All of the measures were found to be statistically related to one another, but a very strong statistical relationship was identified between each employability measure and its corresponding earnings measure for both of the samples. Consequently, it was decided to include only the earnings measures (earnings from arts, and earnings overall) and the self-defined career success rating measure in the later studies. Study 3 used the career development constructs validated in Study 1, sociodemographic variables, and the career success measures explored in Study 2 via Classification and Regression Tree (CART - Breiman, Friedman, Olshen, & Stone, 1984) style decision trees with v-fold crossvalidation pruning using the 1 SE rule. CART decision trees are a nonparametric analysis technique which can be used as an alternative to OLS or hierarchical regression in the case of data which violates parametric statistical assumptions. The three optimal decision trees for total earnings, arts earnings and self defined career success ratings explained a large proportion of the variance in their respective target variables (R2 between 0.49 and 0.68). The Career building subscale of the Career Management Competence scale, pertaining to the ability to manage the external aspects of a career, was the most consistent predictor of all three career success measures (and was the strongest predictor for two of the three trees), indicating the importance of the artists' abilities to secure work and build the external aspects of a career. Other important predictors included the Self management subscale of the Career Management Competence scale, Protean Career Success Orientation, length of time working in the arts, and the positive role of interpersonal influences, skills and abilities, and interests and beliefs from the Career Development Influences scale. Slightly different patterns of predictors were found for the three different career success measures. Study 4 also involved the career development constructs validated in Study 1, sociodemographic variables, and the career success measures explored in Study 2 via CART style decision trees. This study used a prospective repeated measures design where the data for the attribute variables were gathered at the point of undergraduate course completion, and the target variables were measured one year later. Data from a total of 122 arts students were used, as 122 of the 218 students who responded to the survey at time 1 (October 2005) also responded at time 2 (October 2006). The resulting optimal decision trees had R2 values of between 0.33 and 0.46. The values were lower than those for the professional artists' decision trees, and the trees themselves were smaller, but the R2 values nonetheless indicated that the arts students' trees possessed satisfactory explanatory power. The arts graduates' Career building scores at time 1 were strongly predictive of all three career success measures at time 2, a similar finding to the professional artists' trees. A further similarity between the trees for the two samples was the strong statistical relationship between Career building, Self management, and Protean Career Success Orientation. However, the most important variable in the total earnings tree was arts discipline category. Technical / design arts graduates consistently earned more overall than arts graduates from other disciplines. Other key predictors in the arts graduates' trees were work experience in arts prior to course completion, positive interpersonal influences, and the positive influence of skills and abilities and interests and beliefs on career development. The research program findings represent significant contributions to existing knowledge about artists' career development and success, and also the transition from higher education to the world of work, with specific reference to arts and creative industries programs. It also has implications for theory relating to career success and protean / boundaryless careers.

This study investigated the relationship between individual knowledge transfer methods, self-study and work experience and behaviour patterns, facilitation, conduct and ability in the development of SMEs. This study further sought to find out if gender had an effect on the behaviour patterns. The study is empirical and cross sectional in nature. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 employees of selected SMEs in Durban-South Africa. Findings show that there is a positive, significant relationship between the knowledge transfer method self-study and behavioural aspects, facilitation, conduct and ability. In addition, this study found that work experience had an insignificant correlation with facilitation, conduct and ability. Finally, the study found that there are no gender differences in terms of facilitation, conduct and ability. It is recommended that all the stakeholders in the SME sector continuously analyse the internal organisational environment to ensure that knowledge resources are effectively used for productive employees’ behaviour. / Business Management / M. Tech. (Business Administration)

In diesem Bericht werden die zentralen Ergebnisse der Nachbefragungen der sächsischen Hochschulabsolventinnen und -absolventen der Prüfungsjahrgänge 2006/07 sowie 2011/12 dokumentiert. Die Prüfungsjahrgänge entsprechen also den Studienjahren an den Hochschulen. Die Prüfungsjahrgänge 2006/07 umfassen die Absolventinnen und Absolventen, die in der Zeitspanne des Wintersemesters 2005/06 bis zum Ende des Sommersemester 2007 ihr Studium erfolgreich abgeschlossen haben. Analog erstrecken sich die Prüfungsjahrgänge 2010/11 auf die Abschlüsse im Zeitraum des Wintersemesters 2009/10 bis zum Sommersemster 2011. In der aktuellen Befragung wurde die Abschlusskohorte 2006/07 zum dritten Mal (nach 2008 und 2013) zum Berufsverlauf und Berufserfolg befragt, die Kohorte 2010/11 zum zweiten Mal (nach 2013).:Zusammenfassung III 1 Einleitung 1 2 Profil der Absolvent/innen 5 2.1 Fächergruppen und Studienbereiche 5 2.2 Hochschultyp 9 2.3 Abschlussart 9 2.4 Alter und Geschlecht 12 2.5 Bildungsherkunft 14 2.6 Staatsangehörigkeit und Migrationshintergrund 15 3 Berufsverlauf 17 3.1 Tätigkeitsverlauf im Überblick 17 3.2 Erwerbstätigkeit und Arbeitslosigkeit im Zeitverlauf 25 3.3 Elternzeit im Zeitverlauf 38 3.4 Tätigkeitsverläufe von Bacheloralumni 41 4 Berufserfolg 47 4.1 Berufsstatus und Einkommen 47 4.1.1 Berufstatus 48 4.1.2 Einkommen 54 4.2 Berufliche Adäquanz und Zufriedenheit 60 4.2.1 Adäquanz der Beschäftigung 60 4.2.2 Berufliche Zufriedenheit 67 4.3 Rahmenbedingungen der Beschäftigungssituation 77 5 Akademischer Karriereverlauf 85 5.1 Stand und Dauer des Promotionsvorhabens 85 5.2 Motive für eine Promotion 97 5.3 Wege zur Professur 102 6 Mobilität 105 6.1 Regionen der Erwerbstätigkeit 105 6.2 Regionale Herkunft und Mobilitätstypen 110 7 Zufriedenheit, Pläne und Zukunftspläne 121 7.1 Gesamtzufriedenheit mit der Berufs- und Lebenssituation 121 7.2 Berufs- und Lebensziele 126 7.3 Einschätzung der Zukunftsperspektiven im Beruf 134 7.4 Angestrebte berufliche Veränderungen 142 8 Literaturverzeichnis 151 A Methodische Anmerkungen und Datengrundlage 155 A.1 Grundgesamtheit und Stichprobe 155 A.2 Erstellung des Fragebogens und Durchführung der Befragung 156 A.3 Rücklauf und Datenqualität 160 B Tabellen und Grafiken 167 C Fragebogen 215