Relationships are so entrenched in the social interaction between individuals that most people do not pay attention to them until they experience trouble in their relationship. Humans create new relationships and end old ones all the time in conscious and unconscious processes. This thesis will give a theoretical and practical overview to reveal the process of social interaction which shapes relationships between a leader and a follower. We focus on the necessary components as well as on the process in which the relationship is built. We approach the process of social interaction from both the side of the leader and the side of the follower to create a balanced picture that will provide systematic explanation of this complicated and multidimensional phenomenon. The primary focus of this thesis will be on the origin and development of an authentic, healthy relationship between a leader and a follower.

La santé au travail a été reconnue comme un élément important du développement économique mondial à long terme. Cependant, les projections statistiques laissent poindre des préoccupations sur deux plans : la main d’œuvre vieillit et leur bien-être psychologique se détériore. Pour pallier ses problématiques, des leaders forts sont recherchés pour cultiver des climats de confiance de même que veiller au bien-être de leurs collaborateurs. Cette thèse a pour objet d’étudier les liens entre le leadership authentique (LA), le climat de travail et le bien-être des personnes. Pour y parvenir, deux recherches ont été réalisées. La première étude visait à se doter d’un instrument de mesure de LA en français. Le « Authentic Leadership Questionnaire » a été traduit et validé. Les résultats des analyses factorielles confirmatoires effectuées sur deux échantillons de travailleurs québécois (N = 365, N = 859) ont montré que c’est une structure de deuxième ordre avec les quatre facteurs associés au LA qui offre le meilleur ajustement aux données. Le LA a ensuite été mis en lien avec des corrélats (authenticité du leader, bien-être psychologique du leader, bien-être psychologique des subordonnés, confiance et justice interpersonnelle). Toutes les hypothèses ont été soutenues à l’exception d’une, soit celle liant le LA autorapporté par le leader et son bien-être psychologique. La deuxième étude a testé un modèle de médiation où le climat de travail a été postulé comme médiateur de la relation entre le LA et le bien-être des travailleurs. Un devis non expérimental avec six mois entre les passations a été utilisé. Quatre cent six (406) infirmières et infirmiers ont rempli des questionnaires mesurant le LA et le climat perçus au travail, et six mois plus tard, une mesure de bien-être psychologique au travail. Les résultats découlant d’une analyse de médiation par la technique de « boostrapping » ont révélé que le LA est associé au bien-être des subordonnés par l’entremise d’un climat de travail positif qu’il contribue à favoriser. Au terme de cette recherche doctorale, on commente les résultats, expose les principaux apports, présente des retombées pratiques, discute des limites et propose des pistes de recherche future. / Occupational health has been recognized as an important long-term element of global economic development. However, statistical projections suggest dawn concerns on two levels: workers are aging and psychological well-being is deteriorating. To overcome its problems, strong leaders are sought for growing climate of trust as well as the well-being of their employees. This thesis aims to study authentic leadership as a contributor to the work climate and well-being of employees. To this end, two studies were performed. The first study aimed to translate and validate the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire in French. Confirmatory factor analyzes were performed on two samples of Quebec workers (N = 365, N = 859). The results obtained with a shortened version of the instrument show that a second-order structure with four associated factors provides the best fit to the data. The validity of the measure was further supported with authentic leadership correlates. The results revealed that leader’s personal level of authenticity was positively related to the exercise of an authentic leadership, as well as with the leader’s psychological well-being. Furthermore, the expected links between authentic leadership and followers’ well-being, trust and interpersonal justice were supported. No support was found for the link between auto-reveled authentic leadership by the leader and his/her psychological well-being. The second study investigated a mediation model where authentic leadership has been purported to influence psychological well-being through its impact on work climate. Using a sample of 406 nurses, a time-lagged study design was employed to determine the mediational role of work climate in explaining the impact of authentic leadership. A mediation analysis with the use of a bootstrapping technique revealed that work climate mediated the relationship between authentic leadership and psychological well-being at work. These findings indicate that authentic leadership impacts the work climate in a positive manner; thereby, increasing levels of psychological well-being at work. Finally, in conclusion of this thesis endeavour, results are commented, contributions are presented, practical implications are suggested, limits are outlined, and future research are proposed.

By grounding my work in this series of four essays in literary theory, but telling stories to which almost anyone can relate I hope to begin making the connection between sometimes heady academics and everyday working-class Americans. Only when learners understand their circumstances and the need for education, can they begin to take control of what they learn and how they employ that knowledge.

TITLE: Multimedia applications in French language teaching SUMMARY: This thesis describes the possibilities of using tablets as educational devices within learning French as a foreign language. The work has a theoretical part and a practical part. In the theoretical part the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the educational process is defined. Tablet is characterized and classified in the system of didactic tools. Studies that have dealt with the teaching and learning via tablets are presented and programmes that enable equipping schools with these devices are mentioned. The way of teaching is transforming due to the upcoming educational technology and also the teacher's role in the process of education is changing. The practical part provides a critical review of the applications available in the App Store, which can be used for the development of different language skills in French class and beyond. Furthermore the thesis offers methodological instructions as a teacher's support. Through these materials, lessons containing work with authentic French applications could be introduced in class. The contribution of this thesis is thus both a critical review of selected educational applications that can serve as basic information for newcomers to the environment of multimedia...

Master of Arts / Department of Modern Languages / Douglas Benson / The principal objective of this paper is to provide a thematic teaching unit that explores the Aztec, Incan and Mayan cultures of Latin America, designed for a level II Spanish course. It contains theoretical underpinnings for teaching language, culture and literature while incorporating concepts related to the development of communicative competence; processing instruction; the use of scaffolding in the zone of proximal development; target language instruction; and the inclusion of authentic materials and language in the classroom. The classroom management strategies explained and used throughout the unit include pre, during and post-reading activities; small group activities that help to develop communicative competence through negotiation of meaning and interactional feedback; focused tasks and collaborative output tasks; the use of structured input, structured output and information exchange; the PACE approach to grammar teaching; and the incorporation of authentic aural and written texts. Lesson plans for an eighteen day unit consisting of 40 minute classes are outlined; the lesson objective, necessary materials, time needed for each activity, and expected results of each lesson are included. Each lesson activity is made clear through a description of the activity and instructions for the teacher. The daily lesson plans contain authentic and teacher-created materials that can be found in the appendices section. At the end of the thematic unit, students complete cumulative activities that relate indigenous cultures to present-day life in Latin America through investigating the influence of Aztec words on the Spanish and English languages, analyzing a poem about Peru, and reading an article about discrimination against Mayan descendants in Central America, Mexico and the U.S.

This thesis discusses the recent construction and anthropological collaboration of the Paris museum: Musée du quai Branly (MQB), an art museum dedicated to showcasing art collections specific to aboriginal and indigenous cultures in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. The opening of MQB in June 2006 raised a plethora of controversial questions concerning the museum’s methods of curatorial display of the art it has made its primary focus. One of the major issues discussed examines the Quai Branly’s authentic, or inauthentic, representation of certain artworks displayed throughout the museum. Thus, the essay raises the questions: does a non-Western object remain authentic once it is exhibited in a Western society’s art museum? To answer this question, the essay explores the various explanations of art and authenticity in order to reach an understandable conclusion of what constitutes an authentic display of non-Western objects in a Western art museum.

Med ett mål att förbättra ledarskapet använder ett stort antal verksamheter diverse ledarskapsutbildningar. Målet med ledarskapsutbildningarna var att förbättra chefers hälsofrämjande ledarskap. Kan chefer verka hälsofrämjande och då skapa en bättre arbetsmiljö kan detta bland annat ge gynnsamma effekter på minskat behov av nyrekrytering. Autentiskt ledarskap har tidigare visat sig ha positiva effekter på medarbetares hälsa och kan ses som en typ av hälsofrämjande ledarskap. Syftet med denna interventionsstudie är att studera om det hälsofrämjande ledarskapsprogrammet främjar ett autentiskt ledarskap. Metoden har varit att analysera en interventionsgrupps självskattade effekter på sitt autentiska ledarskap i förhållande till en kontrollgrupp. Detta har skett i områdena självmedvetenhet, relationell transparens, balanserad processhantering och internaliserat moraliskt perspektiv med det beprövade instrumentet Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ). Analysen har genomförts med den statistiska metoden ANCOVA. Studiens deltagare var chefer inom vård och omsorg som studerat vid en hälsofrämjande ledarskapsutbildning. Av de 86 deltagarna ingick 42 i interventionsgruppen och 44 i icke-lika kontrollgruppen. Inget av de analyserade områdena visade på någon signifikant förbättring efter genomgången intervention även om resultatet får relateras till problemet med reliabiliteten. En bidragande orsak till avsaknaden av ett signifikant resultat kan vara bristande reliabilitet i instrumentet som användes. Slutsatsen är att det inte har kunnat identifierats någon signifikant inverkan på deltagarnas förmåga att utöva ett autentiskt ledarskap.

In Sweden, turnover among healthcare professionals is a significant problem in hospital settings. Efficient leadership of healthcare professionals is vital for enhancing the quality and integration of healthcare. Authentic leadership (AL) is a relational leadership style instigated from the field of positive organizational conduct and is asserted to advocate healthy work environments that impact healthcare professional’s efficiency and positive organizational outcomes. This master’s thesis aims to describe the impact of AL on the work environment and patient outcomes in hospital settings. The method is a literature study. Peer-reviewed English or Swedish articles that examined the impact of AL on the work environment and patient outcomes in hospital settings were selected from seven databases. Quality appraisal, data extraction, and analysis were accomplished on the included studies. A total of 26 articles (n=24 quantitative, n=1 qualitative and n=1 mixed method) satisfied the inclusion criteria. Results were evaluated according to the literature review content analysis. Findings support positive relationships between AL and increased optimism and trust among healthcare professionals, job satisfaction and turnover, patient care quality, structural empowerment, and work engagement. Findings were, therefore, consistent with AL theory. Future studies using more diversity in research themes, settings, study populations, organizations, job areas, geographic origins, and theory context are merited. People in positions of influence in healthcare settings and healthcare practitioners can use the findings of this study as a guide to increase awareness of the processes by which AL promotes positive outcomes in the workplace.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:36:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NAIARA DENICOLO.pdf: 8583581 bytes, checksum: aacb5bc8a7d16ff3a9b1ccedee714f65 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-20 / This study is aimed at analyzing, in a comparative perspective, the hosting in a tourist city Pirenópolis and in the capital city of Goiás Goiânia, trying to contextualize the authenticity or the simulacrum of these spaces. The methodological procedures employed for such analysis were bibliographical research and field research, with interviews with the owners of different enterprises, which were three inns in Pirenópolis and a hotel in Goiânia. We proceeded to the analysis of the history of Goiás s culture formation, with the evolution of the various types of hotels, and we also attempted to understand the motivational factors, such as leisure or business, that attract tourists to different spaces spaces that are authentic and, therefore, guardians of an identity, or spaces that simulate some sort of cultural rescue. Such spaces represent either cordiality and hospitality or standardized places that follow international laws or suggest a simulacrum. In this last case, the cultural legacy needf reconstruction. We concluded that the tourism in Pirenópolis is representative of a historic and cultural legacy, whereas in Goiânia the metropolis tourism takes place with the same dynamics as the city, in a frantic way, without giving room to contemplations, meeting the needs of another tourist segment. In sum, the present research does not aim at exhausting the subject; on the contrary, we believe that the study of hosting means reflecting on one of the physiological needs that are innate in human beings. / Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar, numa perspectiva comparativa, a hospedagem em uma cidade turística Pirenópolis e na capital do estado de Goiás Goiânia, procurando contextualizar a autenticidade ou o simulacro desses espaços. Os procedimentos metodológicos por nós utilizados foram a pesquisa bibliográfica e a pesquisa de campo, com entrevistas aos proprietários dos diferentes empreendimentos, sendo três pousadas em Pirenópolis e um hotel em Goiânia. Percorremos uma análise histórica sobre a formação da cultura goiana, com a evolução dos diferentes meios de hospedagem, bem como buscamos entender os fatores motivacionais, tais como o lazer ou os negócios, que atraem os turistas aos diferentes espaços locais que são autênticos e, portanto, guardiões de uma identidade, ou que simulam um resgate cultural. Tais espaços representam a cordialidade e a hospitalidade, ou, ainda, espaços padronizados que seguem uma normatização internacional ou que sugerem um simulacro, necessitando, de uma reconstrução. Concluímos que o turismo em Pirenópolis se faz guardião de um legado históricocultural, ao passo que, em Goiânia, a metrópole, o turismo acontece com a mesma dinâmica da cidade, de forma frenética , sem muito tempo para contemplações, atendendo a outro segmento de turista. Em suma, a pretensão deste trabalho não é esgotar o assunto, ao contrário, acreditamos que estudar a hospedagem significa refletir sobre uma das necessidades fisiológicas inerentes ao ser humano.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:44:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SIMONE MARIA MOURA MESQUITA.pdf: 3998015 bytes, checksum: c39af7540739b042a02937beec1e99d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-20 / Tourism is an important economic activity in many countries, including Brazil, and has many types. The tourism of nature is widely spread in Brazil and is found in the municipality of Pirenópolis, State of Goias, which has a great potential for this kind of tourism. The objectives of this dissertation were to determine the evolution and marketing of the tourism of nature in Pirenopolis from the point of view of the tourists. To carry out this study, data on infrastructure and facilities of the tourism spots, tourist s social profile, degree of tourist s satisfaction with they found in the municipality, and tourism marketing were gathered. The data were collected in hotels, called pousadas , and from interviews with tourists and with guides. The results showed that the tourists are satisfied with the tourism of nature found in Pirenópolis, the infrastructure and facilities in Pirenópolis are enough to support this kind of tourism, and the marketing does not bother the tourists. However, care should be taken to not over cloudy the tourism spots and for not using the tourism marketing excessively in order to preserve the spots from environmental degradation. / O turismo vem se destacando como uma das mais importantes atividades econômicas de vários paises. Dentre as várias tipologias de turismo existentes está o turismo na natureza que pode ser praticado em vários locais do Brasil entre eles encontra-se o município de Pirenópolis, estado de Goiás, que oferece um grande potencial para a prática deste. No presente trabalho analisou-se o desenvolvimento e o marketing do turismo na natureza em Pirenópolis adotando como base a visão do turista. Para tanto, levantou-se informações sobre a infra-estrutura dos atrativos mais procurados do turismo na natureza em Pirenópolis, caracterizou-se o perfil do turista que freqüenta este, averiguou-se o grau de satisfação deste e por fim verificou-se como está sendo realizado o marketing, por meio de levantamento de dados primários nos atrativos mais procurados e pousadas e também entrevistas com os guias e com turistas praticantes do turismo na natureza. Constatou-se que os turistas estão satisfeitos com a forma de desenvolvimento do turismo na natureza, a infra-estrutura não tem sido fator de impedimento de visitas aos atrativos e o marketing não é agressivo. Porém se faz necessário impor capacidade de carga para os atrativos e cuidados devem ser tomados para não realizar divulgação em massa a fim de não causar degradação nas áreas onde o turismo é praticado.