Abstract This Concept of micro-entrepreneurship deriving from APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation), it is said that the best method to improve women¡¦s economy is to encourage them by involving into it. Traditionally, Taiwan indigenous peoples had always earned their living by farming, foresting, fishing, and herding as primary industries, which relatively caused tribal society an inferior situation and low income. With recent years of social, industrial, and educational change in structure, the development of knowledge economic gives indigenous peoples an option to start their own enterprise, or chances to serve in all walks of life. On the other hand, our government also makes every effort to popularize to start a enterprise and provides plural entrepreneurship loans. After effective guiding and assisting, a number of entrepreneurships grow by 3000 to 5000 cases per year and have higher portions for women. In 2006, entrepreneurship for women is up to 44.9% and not far from 55.1% for men. From 2002 to 2006, Council of Indigenous People, Executive Yuan had issued 822 loan cases in total from Indigenous People Developing Fund, whiled 346¡]40%¡^ were for women. Therefore, entrepreneurships for indigenous women are growing in market. In Taiwan, about one hundred thousand small and medium-sized enterprises establish every year, but only twenty thousand exist. Low capitalization and less-than-five-people micro enterprises turn over faster. Entrepreneurship is easy, but holding achievements is hard. Council of Indigenous People, Executive Yuan had selected 14 successful indigenous women in 2006. This study, thus, focuses onindigenous women who have their own business by using In-Depth Interviewing and ATLAS.ti software. And we get the result that the key factors for indigenous women in entrepreneurship are keeping practicing and possessing great sense of mission for indigenous culture. We have demonstrated with figures of network. This study finds that when surveying their experiences and progress, responders recalled the major problems were lack of entrepreneurship capitals (mainly), lack of turnover capitals, lack of managing experiences, and lack of adaptable talents. Some would think that government is not a helper but a barrier during entrepreneurship progress. In the future, government should let it as a mirror when driving indigenous policies.

River is an origion of lives. It seems there is a renowned river flowing through in all the metropolitan cities.Many rivers have been polluted due to economic development, which has brought destructive impact on the environment and the quality of life. People begin to realize that the aim is switiching from economic development to preservation of the environment. The government, public organizations, and the public are all interested in balancing economic development and environmental preservation. Kaohsiung city is municipal , comparing with Kaohsiung county; both are ruled by two different levels of administrations under differing budget. Due to jurisdictions overlapping, Kaohsiung city and county failed to manage the Love River together, which is in need of restructuring the Policy Network, New Managerial Regime, and Collaboration. The Policy Network is to be revised to increase efficiency on the policy community, issue network, professionalized network, intergovernmental network, territorial network, and product network. For effective management of the Love River, there are four areas including the driving force, the public opinion, the interests of the state, and the economical/environmental response. We wish to find out a solution on Love River management which benefits the economy, the society, the ecosystem, and the environment, by reconstructing the current system to build up a cooperative relation between the city and county of Kaohsiung, in order to improve the water quality of the Love River. By consecutive interviews and thorough research of using the quality analysis software, ATLAS.ti, we analyzed the data and set a coding system that ranks the importance of various factors involved in the Love River management, which improves management base on the new method of management more than just geography. We suggest that the state and local authorities stay neutral from own political goals, and seek for consensus in decision-making. This brings in a competitive atmosphere of cooperation, quality, and relationship development between the responsible authorities and the public. The successful system of cross-area management is to be well-organized, strategic, active ,leadership and management guidance effective,these five factors enable the long-term management mechanism of the Love River .

Abstract The Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants of the Sunshine Laws is the first legislation of a series of Sunshine Laws. In order to maintain an upright political atmosphere and ensure non-corruptive official conducts, an overall planning for the Sunshine Laws is imminent and inevitable. An entry level perspective is taken in this research to examine the opinions of the government employees and school staffs of Penghu County towards the property declaration system in Taiwan. The results are obtained through in-depth interviews and qualitative data analysis by the ATLAS.ti software and derived based on the grounded theory. The awareness, attitude, opinions and suggestions of the interviewees are collected and analyzed according to the aspects of regulation, system and implementation. Since the promulgation of the ¡§Act on Property-Declaration by Public Servants¡¨, one of the first legislations of the Sunshine Laws, it has experienced 15 years of challenges. Despite the likelihood that the enforcement may have achieved the intended political effects, generations of environmental changes have induced diverse problems which are observed in literature reviews and interviews conducted on public servants who have declared their properties. These problems may appear to be non-relevant; however, they impose great difficulty for achieving the vision of righteous and justice. It is expected that these problems will help encourage clean and upright official conducts and uphold a righteous political atmosphere. The existing problems may only be a corner of the iceberg; however, when the situation is extended to the overall system, a similar scenario may occur once a set of comprehensive Sunshine Laws are to be stipulated. As a result, strategies for amending the current or future regulation on the property declaration system should be developed. Based on the above analysis and discussion, the following conclusions are proposed: 1. Regulation aspect: (i) Reinforce a comprehensive property declaration. (ii) Establish a definitive declaration scope and content. (iii) It is imminent and inevitable that a comprehensive set of Sunshine Laws should be stipulated. (iv) Accentuate on the law-obeying attitude. 2. Institution aspect: (i) Reinforce an open and transparent processing procedure. (ii) Set a definitive deadline that all properties should be declared within one month of employment or taking office. (iii) Establish a property declaration system based on ¡§administrative penalty¡¨. (iv) Promote the legislation of ¡§Trust Law¡¨ and ¡§Trust Companies Law¡¨. 3. Implementation aspect: (i) Increase the percentage of sampling. (ii) Maintain the integrity of the ¡§Sunshine Laws¡¨, form an ¡§incorrupt and capable government¡¨. (iii) Ensure the function of examination and inspection. (iv) Reinforce the task of education and promotion.

Cette thèse, dont l’objet est l’étude des émotions d’un point de vue linguistique, se positionne dans le cadre théorique de la linguistique cognitive. Son objectif principal est d’étudier le processus de lexicalisation et de conceptualisation des émotions, représentées par des mots-clés, dans le contexte littéraire de ce qu’on pourrait appeler « fiction juridique ». La première partie du travail examine les relations interdisciplinaires en jeu dans l’interconnexion entre le langage, la cognition et les émotions. La second partie est consacrée à l’étude lexicographique complexe des mots-clés exprimant des émotions dans le contexte littéraire de quatre romans mettant en scène la justice. Dans une troisième partie, sont mis au jour les « patrons » métaphoriques sous-jacents à la lexicalisation et à la conceptualisation en discours des différentes catégories d’émotions, ce qui permet d’illustrer la dépendance entre le lexique des émotions et ses conceptualisations les plus fortes. Enfin, cette thèse utilise une méthodologie dérivée du logiciel ATLAS.ti qui permet une approche qualitative de l’étude des émotions telles qu’elles sont exprimées en discours. / This thesis is written within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and focuses on the ways emotion keywords lexicalize and conceptualize in the language of legal fiction. The first part of the work provides an interdisciplinary discussion about the interconnection between language, cognition, and emotion. This is followed, in a second part, by the complex lexicographical study of five emotion keywords in legal fiction, a genre of texts which has remained overlooked by researchers in the field. The third part brings to light the metaphorical patterns of different types of emotion keywords in order to show how they lexicalize and conceptualize in language, and demonstrate the dependency between the types of emotion keywords and their strongest and weakest conceptualizations. In addition, this thesis offers an application of the software ATLAS.ti, which allows a qualitative approach to the study of emotions as expressed in language.

The Local Education Development Fund was established by the Kaohsiung City Government according to the Compilation and Administration of Education Expenditures Act in 2003 and was operated as affiliated unit budget. Affiliated unit budget, which has the autonomy of distribution and flexibility of the execution, tallying with school-based management which are influenced by the educational reform trend, therefore was generally approved by educational administrators. However, according to the research¡¦s analysis, there was no significance on the encouragement of raising funds and there was difference between deposition of the accumulated surplus into the normal cost and the general financial concept. What kind of system on earth is the implementation of Kaohsiung Local Education Development Fund at the school managers, the principals¡¦ points of view? Furthermore, are their opinions changing with time? Has the affiliated unit budget exerted any influence on school management¡HHow can the merits of the affiliated unit budget be used to coping with the shortening of educational budgets after the combining of Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County and to exalt the spirit of school-based management and to promote civils¡¦ education. These are issues worth those people¡¦s discussion who care about civils¡¦ education and these are also the concerns of the research. The research adopted nature research and grounded theory to interview seven principals in primary schools and junior high schools in Kaohsiung City. The research explored interviewees¡¦ cognitions and opinions on Local Education Development Fund and their strategies and measures based on their experiences, and inquired the influence of Local Education Development Fund (which is based on affiliated unit budget), on school managements by means of Atlas.ti techniques. According to the research¡¦ analysis, though Kaohsiung Local Education Development Fund possesses the meaning of school-based budgeting. The practice can help the municipal avoid invest excessive capital in schools which has surplus of budget with the aid of controlling the cumulation on surplus budgets. Furthermore, in the interaction of administrative departments, there are strategic changes in financial execution which are less related to the types of budgeting, but more related to School Budget Evaluation implemented by the Educational Bureau. Besides, the budgeting has little effect on encouragements to increasing income and decreasing expenditure but enlarges gaps among schools and causes disadvantages to remote small schools. To sum up, the distribution of educational budget is more important than budgeting.

To advance social work practice and decrease the research practice gap, this dissertation followed a model development paradigm consisting of several phases. Based on the task-centered model of social work practice and motivational interviewing, a new combined model was construed. The two underlying models were analyzed and synthesized, using technical eclecticism as the integrative approach. The resulting combined model was described by guidelines and manualized. To test the combined model in an applied setting, a study was designed in collaboration with social workers at a substance abuse counseling center. There, the combined model intervention was implemented in an outpatient medication assisted treatment program dispensing methadone and buprenorphine to a mainly African-American population. The agency program aimed at detoxification, but also provided methadone maintenance. It offered additional groups and acupuncture. Ten clients and four social work practitioners participated in the intervention study. The study used a mixed-method approach in data collection and analysis. Client practitioner verbal interaction was recorded using digital audio recording. The digital audio files were loaded directly into Atlas.ti software to be used for analysis. Qualitative data analysis with Atlas.ti was performed for two research tasks, a) assessing implementation fidelity of the manual based intervention and b) exploring model development aspects to improve model guidelines. Treatment fidelity was analyzed through deductive coding and frequency counts. Model development analysis was performed similar to a grounded theory model and used content analysis and constant comparison methodologies. Addiction Severity Index and Readiness Ruler, urine drug screens, problem change, and task accomplishment ratings were used as quantitative outcome measures to produce time series data in order to chart individual case progress in a single system design. After testing the intervention, a focus group with participating practitioners was conducted. Overall beneficence with clients improving and progressing successfully in the program was found. The integration of the underlying models was deemed successful. Their elements were found to be complementary and intricately linked. Crucial for successful implementation is that the program environment supports and accepts client choices. Model guidelines were reviewed and improved for further field testing.

This study unveils the perceptions, real-life experiences and thought-processes of contract workers who dedicate their lives to the Christian faith, values and belief-system, but simultaneously endeavour to establish and follow a successful career in the volatile, cut-throat, non-Christian-based (“hedonistic”) occupational entertainment commerce. The researcher embarked on this study with a qualitative, interpretivist research approach. Data was gathered through in-depth, unstructured, face-to-face interviews with a sample of nine research participants. The sample consists of student entertainers; entertainers in the public eye, but not yet established; as well as entertainers who have successful established careers with loyal national and international audiences in the Entertainment Industry. The researcher explores and seeks to understand the core values and belief systems of the research participants with regards to their Christian religious orientation, which is statistically verified to be the most prevalent religious practise in South Africa (Nation Master, 2013; Religious affiliation by country, 2010). Hence, the research findings with regards to Christians’ approach and attitude towards their careers will contribute to a better understanding and management of the majority of the workforce in South Africa. Moreover, the expected norms, values and work ethic of the Entertainment Industry in South Africa are exposed in this study. Although existing literature upholds that the Entertainment Industry is an exceptionally unstable work environment compared to other corporate industries, this research study adds significantly to current literature as viable causes for the unstable occupational environment are also investigated and presented. Previous research only addressed several aspects of the effect on one’s career advancement if an individual’s core value system differs from the accepted norms in an organisation or industry in general. This study subsequently reveals the personal- and occupational challenges that Christian entertainers encounter in an Entertainment Industry in South Africa and how they subsequently aim to decrease the cognitive dissonance that they experience due to continuous role conflict between moral obligation and the vital necessity for employment and career advancement. The findings of this study correlate with previous research as it indicates that the research participants will generally choose and prioritise their personal core values- and moral belief system above contradictory social and professional career demands and expectations. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

Diplomová práce zkoumá roli žen v historii českého punku. V úvodní části práce je popsána historie a vývoj punku ve světě. V této části jsou vysvětleny významy pojmu punk jako subkultura (v terminologii pozdějších výzkumů scéna) a punk jako hudební žánr. Popsána jsou specifika ženské punkové módy a stylu. Jsou uvedeny role, ve kterých se ženy v punkové scéně realizují a typické ženské role v hudebních skupinách. Součástí teoretické části práce je stručný popis historie punku na území České republiky a zapojení žen v české punkové scéně. Jako jeden z hlavních zdrojů při vypracování diplomové práce byly využity rozhovory vedené metodou odvozenou od metodologie orální historie. Dílčím cílem práce bylo ověření použitelnosti analytického programu Atlas.ti pro analýzu orálně-historických interview. Tento software byl využit pro analýzu výzkumných rozhovorů. Druhá polovina práce se zabývá interpretací témat obsažených v rozhovorech. Věnuje se specifickým oblastem života v souvislosti s punkovou subkulturou jako jsou důvody, které přivedly ženy k punku, role přátel a vztahů, setkání punkového myšlení s autoritou v podobě rodičů a školy. Dále se práce zabývá transformací punkových názorů v dospělosti ve vztahu k zaměstnání a vlastní rodině. Poslední část interpretace se věnuje ženským rolím, které byly v...

The medical scheme industry in South Africa is competitive in relation to international standards. The medical scheme sector, as part of the healthcare industry, is negatively affected by the high rate of fraud perpetrated by providers, members and syndicates, which results in medical schemes funding fraudulent claims. The purpose of the study was to explore strategies to mitigate fraud in medical scheme claims. A qualitative research methodology was followed in this study, which adopted a case study approach. Empirical data was analysed through thematic analysis, with the aid of ATLAS.ti software. The study found that healthcare service providers mainly defraud medical schemes by submitting false claims. A holistic approach should be followed to mitigate fraud in medical scheme claims. This approach should encompass regularly identifying trends in fraudulent claims and implementing appropriate control strategies. Collaboration within the medical scheme industry and with other stakeholders would also help to elevate the fight against medical scheme fraud to a new level. Implementing the recommendations from the study will assist medical schemes to reduce the funds expended on fraudulent claims, thereby improving their financial viability and decreasing the rate of increase in medical scheme contributions for members. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)