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The purpose of this study was to provide both businesses and institutions of higher education with a descriptive analysis of the programs of five companies that have utilized community colleges in their basic skills programs. The five companies represented included Texas Instruments Defense Systems Corporation and SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (electronics companies), Abbott Laboratories (a pharmaceutical company), J & E Die Casting (a small die casting firm), and Company X, a semiconductor company that requested anonymity. The community colleges included were Richland College, Brookhaven College, and North Lake College. Modified case studies were used to obtain data collected through individual interviews with representatives from the community colleges and the companies. The syntheses of documentaries provided details of how the five community college-directed workplace literacy programs met, or failed to meet, their literacy challenges. Descriptions of the curriculum and structure of each program were also included. Numerous factors contributed to the success or demise of the programs studied. Elements that served as powerful assets when adequately supported were detrimental when neglected. Factors common to all of the programs were financial support, management philosophical support, confidentiality, adequate testing instruments, class schedule flexibility, instructor capability, physical classroom facilities, and work-related documentation integrated into the curriculum. The findings of this study support previous research concerning successful and detrimental factors found in workplace literacy programs.

A formação em Administração vem sendo questionada por quase todos aqueles envolvidos com o campo, alimentando debates que apontam diferentes causas e múltiplas alternativas para a reformulação do processo, nos níveis de graduação, pós-graduação e extensão. Este texto busca assentar bases à formação em Administração, no nível de curso de graduação que se almeje competente e conseqüente, explorando, em perspectiva histórico-crítica o éthos da modernidade, cujo poderoso legado, vigente e ultrapassado, está, como uma peia, a prender os passos em direção à ousadia e à novidade. Valendo-se de abordagem interdisciplinar, a discussão toma como ponto focal os papéis da Administração e do administrador, procurando engendrar quadro de referências à construção de matriz epistêmica, ao mesmo tempo em que busca identificar um perfil universalista para o administrador, como uma possível identidade nacional, tomando contribuições provindas da Filosofia, História, Economia, Sociologia, Política, Educação e Administração. O trabalho conclui-se com a discussão da profissão de administrador e contempla nossas idiossincrasias, procurando indicar, dentro das perspectivas que se afiguram plausíveis à Administração, as alternativas de papéis disponíveis ao administrador, os quais podem vir a orientar projetos específicos para proporcionar formação na área. / Education in Business Administration has been subject to criticism by most professionals involved in the field. This has been nurturing debates that point out different reasons and multiple alternatives for remodeling the process at the undergraduate, graduate and extension levels. This text aims at setting bases for building a pedagogical project for undergraduate Business Administration courses that aims at the development of competencies and consciousness by exploiting, from a critical historic perspective, the ethos of modernity whose current and previous powerful legacy is like a harness, restricting the steps towards more daring and novel views. By means of an interdisciplinary approach, the present discussion has as its focal point the roles of Administration and the administrator. It looks for engendering reference tables and the building of epistemic roots. At the same time, it looks for identifying a universalistic profile of the administrator as a possible national identity, taking into account the contributions emanated from Philosophy, History, Economy, Sociology, Political Science, Education, and Business Administration. This thesis is partially concluded with a discussion about the job of an administrator contemplating the idiosyncrasies and seeking to indicate, within perspectives that are plausible to Administration, the range of possible roles available to the administrator, which can guide specific pedagogical projects to offer education in the area.

A formação em Administração vem sendo questionada por quase todos aqueles envolvidos com o campo, alimentando debates que apontam diferentes causas e múltiplas alternativas para a reformulação do processo, nos níveis de graduação, pós-graduação e extensão. Este texto busca assentar bases à formação em Administração, no nível de curso de graduação que se almeje competente e conseqüente, explorando, em perspectiva histórico-crítica o éthos da modernidade, cujo poderoso legado, vigente e ultrapassado, está, como uma peia, a prender os passos em direção à ousadia e à novidade. Valendo-se de abordagem interdisciplinar, a discussão toma como ponto focal os papéis da Administração e do administrador, procurando engendrar quadro de referências à construção de matriz epistêmica, ao mesmo tempo em que busca identificar um perfil universalista para o administrador, como uma possível identidade nacional, tomando contribuições provindas da Filosofia, História, Economia, Sociologia, Política, Educação e Administração. O trabalho conclui-se com a discussão da profissão de administrador e contempla nossas idiossincrasias, procurando indicar, dentro das perspectivas que se afiguram plausíveis à Administração, as alternativas de papéis disponíveis ao administrador, os quais podem vir a orientar projetos específicos para proporcionar formação na área. / Education in Business Administration has been subject to criticism by most professionals involved in the field. This has been nurturing debates that point out different reasons and multiple alternatives for remodeling the process at the undergraduate, graduate and extension levels. This text aims at setting bases for building a pedagogical project for undergraduate Business Administration courses that aims at the development of competencies and consciousness by exploiting, from a critical historic perspective, the ethos of modernity whose current and previous powerful legacy is like a harness, restricting the steps towards more daring and novel views. By means of an interdisciplinary approach, the present discussion has as its focal point the roles of Administration and the administrator. It looks for engendering reference tables and the building of epistemic roots. At the same time, it looks for identifying a universalistic profile of the administrator as a possible national identity, taking into account the contributions emanated from Philosophy, History, Economy, Sociology, Political Science, Education, and Business Administration. This thesis is partially concluded with a discussion about the job of an administrator contemplating the idiosyncrasies and seeking to indicate, within perspectives that are plausible to Administration, the range of possible roles available to the administrator, which can guide specific pedagogical projects to offer education in the area.

The thesis focuses on the creation of Nature consult Inc. aimed at providing advice to municipalities in comprehensive land consolidation. The intention of creating this com-pany comes out of the growing need to improve the effectiveness of prevention of negative impacts of climate change, and from the findings of the project Čistá voda pro Plzeň, which was realized largely at the expense of investigators (volunteers). The goal of the thesis is to create a business that is based on the use of community work which will help municipalities with the realisation of purposefully conducted comprehensive land consolidation. The expected activity of the company is education, facilitation, help with preparing applications for the realisation of comprehensive land consolidation and su-pervising the final solutions. The benefit of the company will be restoration of the main functions of the cultural landscape and enhancement of the quality of rural life.

The aim of Masters Thesis Business plan, Afterschool Activities for Kids is to create a business plan for the new organization providing school activities for children. The first part will introduce the theory for a business plan. In practical part concrete plan will be settled which shows up every necessary steps to needed to get through while realization and outlines the various ideas and solutions to achieve good economic results of the organization. The author of this Masters Thesis deepens the knowledge of the preparation of business plans and complex view of critical sections of the analysis and indicators of project that will be implemented in the future.

This project addresses the need for effective English training for speakers of other languages who are engaged in professional careers.

The purpose of this project was to develop a curriculum that will help integrate Academic, Career, and Technical Education. The basic purpose of curriculum integration is to help student make connections between academic and technical information, to help them discover the answer to "Why do I have to learn this?" In 1990, the federal government mandated the "integration" of Academic and Career and Technical Education through amendments to the Carl D. Perkins Vocation Education Act of 1984.

This study, largely based on literature review supplemented with information from lectures and interviews, attempts to give guidelines and make recommendations on how the gap between the school and the working world can be narrowed in South Africa to improve the employability of school-leavers. Chapter One involves the identification of the problem to be investigated. Chapter Two defines the economic role and function of the school in society in the light of different theories and practices. The present state of education in South Africa, with specific focus on how it relates to the working world, is examined in Chapter Three. Chapter Four examines the relationship between schooling and the working world in selected countries. Chapter Five proposes some guidelines and recommendations for the closer integration of the school with the world of work in South Africa. Chapter Six deals with final conclusions, new perspectives and guidelines for future research. / Educational Studies / M. Ed.