Thesis (M.A.(Research Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliography: pages 140-155. / The research investigated Work Schedule Stress experienced by female air cabin attendants (CAs) employed by South African Airways and its relationship to health variables in CAs. Specifically, it was hypothesised that Work Schedule Stress is an important stressor for CAs and is inversely related to health variables. Furthermore, the variables of Potency, Trait Anxiety, Trait Anger, and Social Support were proposed to moderate the relationship between Work Schedule Stress and the health variables. Data were collected from a sample of 108 domestic crew and 43 international crew. The data collection was conducted in two phases, via interviews and self-report inventories. The interview data were used in a qualitative study but were also content-analysed in terms of a number of dimensions; the latter were included with the quantitative data obtained from the questionnaire. The qualitative analysis, based on the grounded theory approach, formed the backbone of the research. The quantitative data were subjected to correlational analysis, supplemented by subgroup analysis to assess moderator effects. Work Schedule Stress was demonstrated to represent a major stress for CAs with consequent adverse effects on health. The results did not provide support for the moderating effects. Conclusions were drawn, recommendations made to the SAA and CAs themselves of means to enhance wellness, and suggestions for future research proposed.

This thesis is based on an empirical investigation of women's work in the airline industry. It aims to build on previous research into women's work by focusing not on the commodification of women's perceived nature (James, 1989), on femininity (Davies, 1979) or on women's sexuality (Hochschild, 1983, Adkins, 1995), but on the commodification of sexual difference, based on an analytical account of empirical research into the flight attendant as the iconic sexually differentialized labourer. The two key findings which emerged from the research are, first, that as one respondent put it, the flight attendant is " part mother, part servant, part tart"; her work is essentialized, feminized and also sexualized. The research suggested that these three processes are so closely interrelated that they actually constitute analytically distinct elements of the same labour process through which not only se~ gender and sexuality but sexual difference - "the specific properties ... qualities ... or attributes that women have developed or have been bound to historically ... which make them women not men" (De Lauretis, 1989: 5-6) - is commodified. The second theme is that, as sexually differentialized labourers, women workers are managed through the manipulation and maintenance of their 'organisational bodies', through a range of managerial techniques which involve, at least in part, a process of instrumental aestheticization. The underlying aim of this thesis is to offer a theoretical account of the sexual differentialization of women's work in an attempt to contribute to the development of a criticaL feminist theory of the commodification of sexual difference.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-49).

Liu Kit Hang Katie. / Thesis submitted in: December 2003. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-117). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction: Flight attendants in Hong Kong --- p.1 / Research Objective --- p.1 / Flight Attendants of Samsara Airways --- p.2 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- "Literature Review: Identification, Socialization, Internalization" --- p.4 / Conceptualization Identity and Identification --- p.4 / Organizational Socialization --- p.8 / Internalization --- p.12 / Previous studies on flight attendants and a critique on emotional labor --- p.15 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Methodology --- p.29 / Conceptual Framework --- p.29 / Research Methods --- p.31 / Major Argument and Outline of Paper --- p.35 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- To Be the salient ONE: competition among identities --- p.37 / Discursive Resources prior to joining the company --- p.37 / Border Crossing: when an outsider becomes an insider --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Discursive Tactics in molding a ´بFlight Attendant´ة --- p.46 / Discourse of Capital --- p.47 / "Production of Knowledge: Rules, Classification System" --- p.47 / "Constructing Lifestyle: Cultural, Economic & Social Capital" --- p.53 / Discourse of Signs --- p.65 / Language: learning the new ´بSamsara´ةEnglish --- p.65 / "Body Management: uniform, body project, grooming, behavior" --- p.66 / Discourse of Space --- p.74 / "Samsara City: workplace, leisure place, consumption place" --- p.74 / Inflight: Mixing up the private and public life --- p.76 / Conformance vs Performance --- p.80 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Keeping it in shape: Maintenance of identity --- p.86 / "Reward and punishment: Simply the Best, Crew to Crew" --- p.86 / "More Training: ART, AEQ" --- p.88 / "Monitoring System: CPP, TIP" --- p.89 / "InHouse Publications: Samsara World, CCN，JetJet" --- p.90 / Intranet and Internet --- p.93 / Systemizing Identification --- p.96 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- "Conclusion & Discussion: Resistance, Consumerization, Internalization" --- p.99 / Resistance against private and company rules --- p.101 / Consumerization: reciprocal identification and consumerization --- p.105 / Rethinking ´بinternalization´ة --- p.106 / References --- p.111

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2009. / Title from title screen (viewed September 18, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Gender and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2009; thesis submitted 2008. Includes bibliographical references.

Magister Public Health - MPH / Although the Kenyan government implemented safe motherhood programme two decades ago, available data indicate that prevalence of home delivery is still high among women in Garissa District. The aim of this thesis was to investigate the factors influencing the choice of place of childbirth. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out among 224 women who delivered babies two years prior to December 2010. Using a statcalc program in Epi Info 3.3.2, with expected frequency of home delivery at 83% +5% and a 95% confidence level, the calculated sample size was 215. Furthermore, with a 95% response rate the adjusted minimum sample size was 226.There were two none-responses hence 224 women were interviewed. Stratified sampling was used. Data were collected using pre-tested structured questionnaires and analyzed using SPSS. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate analysis was performed. A binary logistic regression analysis using the Enter method was performed to determine independent predictors for use or non-use of healthcare services for childbirth. The threshold for statistical significance was set at 0.05. Results: The result was presented in text and tables. The study found 67% (n=224) women delivered at home and 33% delivered in hospital. The study found low level of education, poverty, none-attendance of ANC, distance, cost of services, poor quality services, negative attitude towards midwives, experience of previous obstetric complications and decision-making to be significant predictors in home delivery at the bivariate level (p<0.05). The study did not find relationship between age, marital status, religion and place of childbirth (p>0.05). At multivariate level, the following variables were still found to be significant predictors of home delivery: no education OR=8.36 (95% CI; 4.12-17.17), no occupation OR=1.43(95% CI; 1.08–5.49) experience of obstetric complications OR=1.38 (95% CI; 1.15-2.12), none-attendance of antenatal clinic OR=1.11 (95% CI; 1.03–1.51), Rude midwives OR=5.60 (95% CI; 2.66-11.96). Conclusions: high prevalence of home delivery was noted due to lack of education, poverty and inaccessible maternity services hence the need to empower women in education and economy to enhance hospital delivery.

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The aim of the study was to look at the differences in groups in Karlskrona Kommun in comparison to a larger population of work-groups in Sweden. The instrument used was the Team Diagnostic Survey developed by Ruth Wageman, J. Richard Hackman and Erin Lehman (2005) in order to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses in work-groups, as well as explore the group’s behaviours and effectiveness. The results show that there was a significant difference between the Karlskrona Kommun groups and the larger population of Swedish groups in the following areas: stable, clarity, challenge, diversity, whole task, resources and availability.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 135).