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Planejamento estratégico como prática: um estudo de caso em uma empresa organizada por projetosSouza, Caio Motta Luiz de 01 April 2009 (has links)
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Previous issue date: 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z / O distanciamento identificado entre as teorias do campo de estratégia e organização e a prática das empresas motivou o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem de pesquisa comumente denominada 'estratégia como prática'. Neste trabalho buscamos contribuir com essa nova abordagem explorando a prática de planejamento estratégico. A pesquisa se baseou num estudo de caso único exploratório em uma empresa organizada por projetos que identificou os processos de mudança na prática de planejamento estratégico do caso. Esses processos foram analisados por meio uma abordagem inspirada na teoria da estruturação de Giddens (1984), indicando que o nível adequado de formalização da prática de planejamento estratégico deve ser dado por sua estruturação na dinâmica social da organização que, por sua vez, é permeada por 'lutas' entre indivíduos pela definição da noção de planejamento estratégico na empresa e, no caso estudado, sofreu a influência de dois fatores principais: (i) adoção de um discurso da 'excelência', e (ii) o papel de práticas e procedimentos de planejamento em uso. / A gap identified between the theories created in field of strategy and organization and the practice of the enterprises motivated the development of a research approach commonly called 'strategy-as-practice'. The present work seeks to contribute with this new approach exploring the practice of strategic planning. Our research is based on an exploratory single case study in a project-based organization in which we identified the change processes in the practice of strategic planning. These processes were analyzed through an approach inspired by structuration theory (GIDDENS, 1984) which indicated that the adequate level of strategic planning formalization is given by the organizational social dynamics which is permeated by 'struggles' between the individuals for the organizational definition of strategic planning and was influenced in our case by two key factors: (i) the adoption of a discourse of 'excellence', and (ii) the role of planning practices and procedures in use.
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Processer och motorer i lokalt skolförbättringsarbete / Processes and motors in local school improvement workJacobsson, Katharina January 2017 (has links)
In the last decades there has been a growing interest in studying processes in improvement work. A particular interest has been the improvement process that the organisation undergoes and why events evolve in the way they do. By better understanding improvement processes and identifying supporting and hindering forces, the possibilities successfully to plan and implement improvement work in a systematic way increases. The focus of this thesis is organisation processes in schools and the relations that hold between planned and emergent improvement, when using a research-based strategy. The aim of the study is to describe and understand how processes are initiated, developed and completed when using a strategy called ‘Scope for Action Model’(frirumsstrategin). The empirical material of the study was organised and analysed according to Van de Ven’s and Poole’s four ideal types for process studies. Within each type, motors have been identified, which contain generative mechanisms that are a key to how actions, events and activities emerge and are driven forward. The results of the study show that the emergent initiatives are more frequent than the planned ones and that they are more likely to generate an improvement – in the study defined as something new in the organisation. However, on several occasions the planned improvement work inspires emergent initiatives for improvement and in some cases seems to be a fundamental condition for their existence. The different motors, which in the analysis are seen as driving forces, support or challenge each other, making the process develop and produce a result. The study shows that the participants reshape the strategy to make it fit into the organisation of the school. The results also show that teachers and principals have to be well-informed of how to work with a strategy in a practical and constructive way. They have to be able to translate crucial moments in the strategy to stimulate the participants to creative actions. The strategy for school improvement is not shown to be a solution which itself can create improvement, but in combination with the participant’s creative goal settings it can be a contributory factor. / Denna avhandling riktar intresset mot skolförbättring och de processer som uppstår när en planerad förändring genomförs på skolor med stöd av en forskningsbaserad strategi. Syftet med avhandlingen är att beskriva och förstå hur dessa processer - i arbetet med frirumsstrategin - initieras, fortlöper och avslutas. Studien visar att det finns relationer mellan planerade och framväxande processer. De framväxande processerna är mest frekventa och har sin grund i deltagarnas egna målformuleringar. De förmår skapa utveckling i skolverksamheterna, något de planerade processerna inte lyckas med. Det planerade förbättringsarbetet tycks bidra genom att vara en inspirationskälla eller i vissa fall en förutsättning för de framväxande initiativ som tas av deltagare från olika delar av organisationen. Studien pekar på att en strategi kan vara igångsättare av förbättringsarbete och utgöra en grund för skolor att utgå från. Av resultatet framgår att det är viktigt att rektorer och lärare har goda kunskaper om förbättringsarbetets processer för att kunna använda strategin på ett konstruktivt sätt. Genom att ha insikt i vilka mekanismer som påverkar processer kan ett förbättringsarbete ledas medvetet samt tillåtas innehålla både de konflikter och den samstämmighet som kan bidra till att utveckling sker.
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QUANTIFYING CARBON FLUXES AND ISOTOPIC SIGNATURE CHANGES ACROSS GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMSYoumi Oh (9179345) 29 July 2020 (has links)
<p>This thesis is a collection of three research
articles to quantify carbon fluxes and isotopic signature changes across global
terrestrial ecosystems. Chapter 2, the first article of this thesis, focuses on
the importance of an under-estimated methane soil sink for contemporary and
future methane budgets in the pan-Arctic region. Methane emissions from
organic-rich soils in the Arctic have been extensively studied due to their
potential to increase the atmospheric methane burden as permafrost thaws.
However, this methane source might have been overestimated without considering
high affinity methanotrophs (HAM, methane oxidizing bacteria) recently identified
in Arctic mineral soils. From this study, we find that HAM dynamics double the
upland methane sink (~5.5 TgCH<sub>4</sub>yr<sup>-1</sup>) north of 50°N in
simulations from 2000 to 2016 by integrating the dynamics of HAM and
methanogens into a biogeochemistry model that includes permafrost soil organic
carbon (SOC) dynamics. The increase is equivalent to at least half of the
difference in net methane emissions estimated between process-based models and
observation-based inversions, and the revised estimates better match site-level
and regional observations. The new model projects double wetland methane
emissions between 2017-2100 due to more accessible permafrost carbon. However,
most of the increase in wetland emissions is offset by a concordant increase in
the upland sink, leading to only an 18% increase in net methane emission (from
29 to 35 TgCH<sub>4</sub>yr<sup>-1</sup>). The projected net methane emissions
may decrease further due to different physiological responses between HAM and
methanogens in response to increasing temperature. This article was published
in <i>Nature Climate Change</i> in March
2020.</p>
<p>In Chapter 3, the second article of this
thesis, I develop and validate the first biogeochemistry model to simulate
carbon isotopic signatures (δ<sup>13</sup>C)
of methane emitted from global wetlands, and examined the importance of the wetland
carbon isotope map for studying the global methane cycle. I incorporated a carbon isotope-enabled module into an
extant biogeochemistry model to mechanistically simulate the spatial and
temporal variability of global wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub>. The new
model explicitly considers isotopic fractionation during methane production,
oxidation, and transport processes. I estimate a mean global wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub> of
-60.78‰ with its seasonal and inter-annual variability. I find that the new
model matches field chamber observations 35% better in terms of root mean
square estimates compared to an empirical static wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub> map.
The model also reasonably reproduces the regional heterogeneity of wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub> in
Alaska, consistent with vertical profiles of δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub>
from NOAA aircraft measurements. Furthermore, I show that the latitudinal
gradient of atmospheric δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub> simulated by a chemical
transport model using the new wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub> map
reproduces the observed latitudinal gradient based on NOAA/INSTAAR global
flask-air measurements. I believe this study is the first process-based
biogeochemistry model to map the global distribution of wetland δ<sup>13</sup>C-CH<sub>4</sub>,
which will significantly help atmospheric chemistry transport models partition
global methane emissions. This article is in preparation for submission
to <i>Nature Geoscience</i>.</p>
<p>Chapter 4 of this thesis, the third
article, investigates the importance of leaf carbon allocation for seasonal
leaf carbon isotopic signature changes and water use efficiency in temperate
forests. Temperate deciduous trees remobilize stored carbon early in the
growing season to produce new leaves and xylem vessels. The use of remobilized
carbon for building leaf tissue dampens the link between environmental stomatal
response and inferred intrinsic water use efficiency (iWUE) using leaf carbon
isotopic signatures (δ<sup>13</sup>C). So far, few studies consider carbon
allocation processes in interpreting leaf δ<sup>13</sup>C signals. To
understand effects of carbon allocation on δ<sup>13</sup>C and iWUE estimates,
we analyzed and modeled the seasonal leaf δ<sup>13</sup>C of four temperate
deciduous species (<i>Acer saccharum, Liriodendron tulipifera, Sassafras
albidum, </i>and <i>Quercus alba</i>)
and compared the iWUE estimates from different methods, species, and drought
conditions. At the start of the growing season, leaf δ<sup>13</sup>C values
were more enriched, due to remobilized carbon during leaf-out. The bias towards
enriched leaf δ<sup>13</sup>C values explains the higher iWUE from leaf
isotopic methods compared with iWUE from leaf gas exchange measurements. I
further showed that the discrepancy of iWUE estimates between methods may be
species-specific and drought sensitive. The use of δ<sup>13</sup>C of plant
tissues as a proxy for stomatal response to
environmental processes, through iWUE, is complicated due to carbon
allocation and care must be taken when interpreting estimates to avoid proxy
bias. This
article is in review for publication in <i>New
Phytologist</i>.</p>
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EFFECTS OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACES ON OVERWINTERING SURVIVAL OF EVERGREEN BAGWORM AND ABUNDANCE OF SCALE INSECT PESTS IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTSujan Dawadi (12218648) 18 April 2022 (has links)
<p>Urban areas are warmer than
surrounding rural areas. During the cold of winter, warming increases
surrounding host temperature and may improve the overwintering survival of marginally
hardy insects like evergreen bagworms. Similarly, during the summer, it has the
potential to increase the fecundity and abundance of sap feeding insect pests
such as scale insects in ways that change the capacity of their natural enemies
to regulate their populations. </p>
<p>Although in parts of Indiana
winters can be cold enough to kill bagworm eggs, they thrive in cities. I
conducted field experiments to determine the extent to which impervious surface
near an infestation could keep temperatures warm enough to affect bagworm survival
during cold of winter. My results suggest that the percentage of live eggs
inside overwintering pupae decreased as ambient temperature drops. This
response was moderated by the presence of impervious surface around an infested
plant. Eggs found in bagworms collected from host trees surrounded by more
impervious surface had a higher chance of survival than those collected from
trees with low levels of hardscape. However, impervious surface has its limit
such that egg mortality was not buffered by impervious surfaces at temperatures
at or below -21.67°C. Similarly, I also conducted field experiments with sap
feeding insects on honeylocust trees, a commonly planted tree in cities. Hot
sites had a mean daily temperature more than 1.5 °C warmer than cool sites and
scale insects were more abundant and fecund on trees in the hottest part of
Indianapolis compared to cooler areas. No differences were observed in rates of
parasitism on the scale insect. However, I found strong density dependence
relation between parasitoids and scales abundance at scale density at or below
the levels present in cool sites. The top-down regulation was prevalent at or
below a critical density of scale hosts. Conversely, bottom-up regulation was
prevalent above this host density as pests benefit from bottom-up factors. This
suggests that urban habitats helped the scales to escape biological control by
resident natural enemies above critical density of scale hosts. </p>
<p>My findings can be useful to
landscape designers to design landscapes that are less prone to insect pests. My
finding adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests that planting urban
trees with lesser amount of impervious surface can help reducing the urban
warming effect and increase the regulation from natural enemies. </p>
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Ledarskapet – Nyckeln till hållbara förändringar och medarbetares välbefinnande? : En enkätbaserad studie om sambanden mellan ledarskap, förändringsprocesser och psykosocial arbetsmiljö / The leadership – The key to sustainable changes and employee well-being? : A survey-based study on the relationships between leadership, change processes, and psychosocial work environmentPernilla Sunström och Ulrika TigerhielmSjälvständigt arbeteSunström, Pernilla, Tigerhielm, Ulrika January 2023 (has links)
Bakgrund: Organisationer står ständigt inför nya utmaningar där anpassning är absolut nödvändig för att inte bli föråldrade eller slås ut på marknaden. I denna dynamiska process spelar både ledarskapet och medarbetarna en avgörande roll, det är dock en utmaning att genomföra hållbara förändringar. Därför är det relevant att studera ledarskapets roll för både förändringsprocesser samt ur ett psykosocialt arbetsmiljö-perspektiv. Detta eftersom ledarskapet ses spela en avgörande roll för organisationens framgång, men också dess misslyckanden. Studier av detta slag är därför viktiga för en ökad förståelse samt bidra till samhällets utveckling och välfärd. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att bidra med ökad förståelse för hur chefers ledarskap kan främja hållbara förändringar samtidigt som hänsyn tas till medarbetarnas välbefinnande. Fokus låg på att undersöka samband mellan ledarskapets roll, förändringsprocesser och medarbetarnas psykosociala arbetsmiljö utifrån medarbetarnas perspektiv. Studien tog även sikte på att utforska hur förändringar och chefers ledarskap kan relateras till transformativt ledarskap och Kotters 8-stegsmodell.Metod: Studien använde en mixed method-ansats (QUAN + qual) där data samlades in via en webbaserad enkät. Deltagarna valdes ut genom bekvämlighetsurval och riktades mot medarbetarna inom en socialförvaltning. Studien antar en socialkonstruktivistisk ståndpunkt då den betraktar sociala fenomen som skapas och återskapas i den dynamiska processen mellan chefer och medarbetare. För dataanalys användes Cronbachs alfa (α), Spearmans rho (ρ), Pearsons r, determinationskoefficienten r² samt tematisk analys.Resultat och slutsats: Studien visade att det fanns starka signifikanta positiva samband mellan ledarskap, inflytande i förändringsprocesser och psykosocial arbetsmiljö (p <0,001). Ledarskap förklarade en betydande del av variabiliteten i inflytande över förändringsprocesser och psykosocial arbetsmiljö. Resultaten visade särskild tyngdpunkt på kommunikation, delaktighet och stöd som betydande aspekter för ett väl fungerande ledarskap. Detta främjar medarbetarnas engagemang, hållbara förändringar, den psykosociala arbetsmiljön samt medarbetarnas välbefinnande positivt. Studien stödjer därmed tidigare forskning och understryker vikten av ett väl fungerande ledarskap. Begränsningar och implikation: Studiens begränsningar inkluderade ett smalare fokus på teorier och medarbetarnas perspektiv inom en specifik kontext, vilket kan påverka generaliserbarheten. Studien syftar till att bidra till förståelsen inom det arbets-pedagogiska fältet i relation till det viktiga samspelet som sker mellan medarbetare och chefer. / Background: Organizations constantly face new challenges where adaptation is absolutely necessary to avoid becoming outdated or eliminated. In this dynamic process, both leadership and employees play a crucial role, but implementing sustainable changes can be difficult. Therefore, it is relevant to study the role of leadership in both change processes and from a psychosocial work environment perspective. This is because leadership is seen as playing a crucial role in an organization's success, but also its failures. Studies of this kind are therefore important for increasing understanding and contributing to society's development and welfare. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to contribute to an increased understanding of how leadership can promote sustainable changes while considering employee well-being. The focus was on examining the relationships between the role of leadership, change processes, and employees' psychosocial work environment from the perspective of the employees. The study also aimed to explore how changes and leaders' leadership can be related to transformative leadership and Kotter's 8-step model.Method: The study used a mixed method approach (QUAN + qual) where data was collected through a web-based survey. The participants were selected through convenience sampling and targeted towards employees within a social welfare department. The study assumes a social constructivist standpoint as it considers social phenomena created and recreated in the dynamic process between managers and employees. For data analysis, Cronbach's alpha (α), Spearman's rho (ρ), Pearson's r, and determination coefficient r² were used, as well as thematic analysis.Results and conclusion: The study showed that there were strong significant positive correlations between leadership, influence in change processes, and psychosocial work environment (p <0.001). Leadership explained a significant part of the variability in influence over change processes and psychosocial work environment. The results showed a particular emphasis on communication, participation, and support as significant aspects of effective leadership. This promotes employee engagement, sustainable changes, psychosocial work environment, and employees' well-being positively. The study supports previous research and emphasizes the importance of effective leadership.Limitations and implications: The limitations of the study included a narrower focus on theories and employee perspectives within a specific context, which may affect generalizability. The study aims to contribute to understanding within the field of work pedagogy in relation to the important interaction that occurs between employees and managers. / <p>PE207G. Examinationsdatum 2023-06-08.</p>
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Gastfreundschaft als Dimension missionaler Gemeinden : eine missionstheologische Untersuchung / Hospitality as a dimension of the missional church : a theological study in missiologyJotter, Christian Johannes 10 1900 (has links)
Das Thema „Gastfreundschaft“ hat in den vergangenen Jahren neu das Interesse der Missionstheologie geweckt. Diese Masterarbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, herauszufinden, ob und inwieweit Gastfreundschaft eine Dimension für den missionalen Gemeindebau sein kann. Sie untersucht dazu biblisch-exegetische, missionstheologische, systematisch-theologische und Gemeindebauliteratur, ob sie in ihren Konzepten explizite oder implizite Merkmale oder Begriffe der Gastfreundschaft gebrauchen. Aus der Literaturanalyse werden Wortfelder ermittelt, wie beispielsweise Gottesbezug, Auftragsorien-tierung, Bedürfnisorientierung, Lern- und Veränderungsprozesse, Räume, Miteinander und auch Gren-zen, die Gastfreundschaft in ihrer Wesensart ausmachen. In einem zweiten Untersuchungsdurchgang wird aus diesen Zwischenerträgen eine Gastfreundschaftskultur entwickelt, die entlang des Kulturmo-dells von Geert Hofstede in vier Kategorien angelegt ist: Werte, Rituale, Symbole und Helden der Gastfreundschaft. Demnach legt Gastfreundschaft in ihrer Art u.a. viel Wert auf Großzügigkeit, Be-dürfnisorientierung, Integration und Gottesbezug. Daraus resultieren Rituale, wie z.B. das Einladen, die hohe Bedeutung, die Freundschaften und Beziehungen beigemessen wird, wie gefeiert wird, meist in Verbindung mit einer gemeinsamen Mahlzeit, bei der Dankbarkeit, Gotteslob und die Lebensfreude nicht zu kurz kommen. Die Kultur der Gastfreundschaft drückt sich insbesondere in Symbolen aus, wie beispielsweise in der Raumgestaltung, in Umarmung, im Essen und Trinken, dem Begriff Heimat oder Zuhause und durch praktische Hilfen u.a.. Helden der Gastfreundschaft sind Modelle, die zum Nachahmen einladen, wie z.B. Gott der Ursprung aller Gastfreundschaft selbst, Jesus Christus, bibli-sche Personen und Beispiele unserer Zeit, die im Kontext von Gemeindebau das Leitmotiv der Gast-freundschaft verfolgen. Diese Gastfreundschaftskultur wird der Qualität und Zielsetzung des „Missio-nalseins“ von Gemeinde gegenübergestellt, um zu erkunden, wie sich diese Lebenskultur dazu eignet, eine im missionalen Sinne einladende, gastfreundliche Gemeinde zu entwickeln. Die vorliegende Stu-die will am Ende nicht bei der theoretischen Ermittlung des Themas stehen bleiben. Dazu setzt sie ihre Ergebnisse an einem Beispiel in Bezug zur systemischen Organisationsentwicklung für die Gestaltung von Lern- und Veränderungsprozessen bei der Transformation einer Gemeindekultur hin zur Gast-freundschaft / In recent years, researchers in the field of missiology have re-discovered hospitality as a topic of inter-est. It is the purpose of this master thesis to ascertain if and to what extent hospitality can be a dimen-sion of missional church planting. This is achieved by examining literature on biblical exegesis, mis-sional theology, systematic theology and church planting for its explicit or implicit use of concepts and/or terminology related to hospitality. Literary analysis is used to identify word fields that define the nature of hospitality such as God focus, mission focus, focus on needs, learning and change pro-cesses, spaces, fellowship and limits. In a second step the results of the literary analysis are used for developing a culture of hospitality based on the four categories of Geert Hofstede's cultural model: values, rituals, symbols, and heroes of hospitality. According to this model, the key elements of hospi-tality are generosity, the focus on needs, integration, and God focus. These lead to rituals such as invi-tations, the high value placed on friendship and relationships, but also the way people celebrate, most-ly with a shared meal expressing gratitude, praise to God and the joy of living. Above all, the culture of hospitality is expressed through symbols such as decoration, embracing each other, sharing food and drink, the concept of home, practical help, etc. Heroes of hospitality are role models who inspire to be emulated such as God, the source of all hospitality, Jesus Christ, biblical characters, and those of our contemporaries who follow the leitmotif of hospitality in the church planting context. This culture of hospitality is compared to the quality and the purpose of the missional church in order to determine how this core culture can be useful for developing a missionally inviting and hospitable church. Final-ly, this thesis aims to go beyond the purely theoretical research into the topic. In order to achieve this, its results are applied to an example of the systemic organisational development to transform the cul-ture of a church for hospitality by shaping learning and change processes / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)
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Gastfreundschaft als Dimension missionaler Gemeinden : eine missionstheologische Untersuchung / Hospitality as a dimension of the missional church : a theological study in missiologyJotter, Christian Johannes 10 1900 (has links)
Das Thema „Gastfreundschaft“ hat in den vergangenen Jahren neu das Interesse der Missionstheologie geweckt. Diese Masterarbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, herauszufinden, ob und inwieweit Gastfreundschaft eine Dimension für den missionalen Gemeindebau sein kann. Sie untersucht dazu biblisch-exegetische, missionstheologische, systematisch-theologische und Gemeindebauliteratur, ob sie in ihren Konzepten explizite oder implizite Merkmale oder Begriffe der Gastfreundschaft gebrauchen. Aus der Literaturanalyse werden Wortfelder ermittelt, wie beispielsweise Gottesbezug, Auftragsorien-tierung, Bedürfnisorientierung, Lern- und Veränderungsprozesse, Räume, Miteinander und auch Gren-zen, die Gastfreundschaft in ihrer Wesensart ausmachen. In einem zweiten Untersuchungsdurchgang wird aus diesen Zwischenerträgen eine Gastfreundschaftskultur entwickelt, die entlang des Kulturmo-dells von Geert Hofstede in vier Kategorien angelegt ist: Werte, Rituale, Symbole und Helden der Gastfreundschaft. Demnach legt Gastfreundschaft in ihrer Art u.a. viel Wert auf Großzügigkeit, Be-dürfnisorientierung, Integration und Gottesbezug. Daraus resultieren Rituale, wie z.B. das Einladen, die hohe Bedeutung, die Freundschaften und Beziehungen beigemessen wird, wie gefeiert wird, meist in Verbindung mit einer gemeinsamen Mahlzeit, bei der Dankbarkeit, Gotteslob und die Lebensfreude nicht zu kurz kommen. Die Kultur der Gastfreundschaft drückt sich insbesondere in Symbolen aus, wie beispielsweise in der Raumgestaltung, in Umarmung, im Essen und Trinken, dem Begriff Heimat oder Zuhause und durch praktische Hilfen u.a.. Helden der Gastfreundschaft sind Modelle, die zum Nachahmen einladen, wie z.B. Gott der Ursprung aller Gastfreundschaft selbst, Jesus Christus, bibli-sche Personen und Beispiele unserer Zeit, die im Kontext von Gemeindebau das Leitmotiv der Gast-freundschaft verfolgen. Diese Gastfreundschaftskultur wird der Qualität und Zielsetzung des „Missio-nalseins“ von Gemeinde gegenübergestellt, um zu erkunden, wie sich diese Lebenskultur dazu eignet, eine im missionalen Sinne einladende, gastfreundliche Gemeinde zu entwickeln. Die vorliegende Stu-die will am Ende nicht bei der theoretischen Ermittlung des Themas stehen bleiben. Dazu setzt sie ihre Ergebnisse an einem Beispiel in Bezug zur systemischen Organisationsentwicklung für die Gestaltung von Lern- und Veränderungsprozessen bei der Transformation einer Gemeindekultur hin zur Gast-freundschaft / In recent years, researchers in the field of missiology have re-discovered hospitality as a topic of inter-est. It is the purpose of this master thesis to ascertain if and to what extent hospitality can be a dimen-sion of missional church planting. This is achieved by examining literature on biblical exegesis, mis-sional theology, systematic theology and church planting for its explicit or implicit use of concepts and/or terminology related to hospitality. Literary analysis is used to identify word fields that define the nature of hospitality such as God focus, mission focus, focus on needs, learning and change pro-cesses, spaces, fellowship and limits. In a second step the results of the literary analysis are used for developing a culture of hospitality based on the four categories of Geert Hofstede's cultural model: values, rituals, symbols, and heroes of hospitality. According to this model, the key elements of hospi-tality are generosity, the focus on needs, integration, and God focus. These lead to rituals such as invi-tations, the high value placed on friendship and relationships, but also the way people celebrate, most-ly with a shared meal expressing gratitude, praise to God and the joy of living. Above all, the culture of hospitality is expressed through symbols such as decoration, embracing each other, sharing food and drink, the concept of home, practical help, etc. Heroes of hospitality are role models who inspire to be emulated such as God, the source of all hospitality, Jesus Christ, biblical characters, and those of our contemporaries who follow the leitmotif of hospitality in the church planting context. This culture of hospitality is compared to the quality and the purpose of the missional church in order to determine how this core culture can be useful for developing a missionally inviting and hospitable church. Final-ly, this thesis aims to go beyond the purely theoretical research into the topic. In order to achieve this, its results are applied to an example of the systemic organisational development to transform the cul-ture of a church for hospitality by shaping learning and change processes / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Missiology)
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Nota editorialKaulicke, Peter 10 April 2018 (has links)
EditorialThe text doesn´t have an abstract / El texto no presenta resumen
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System Trust through Stable-Flexible System Standards and ParticipationKunze, Matthias, Seeling, Thomas 22 February 2012 (has links) (PDF)
In today´s flexible working sphere trust takes a central place in relations to customer, supplier and institutions as well as between coworkers and executives. Therefore, co-operation is not thinkable at all without a certain amount of trust. A low amount of trust is not an adequate basis for obtaining quality of living or realization of business success. In the everyday life it is to be also experienced that the structure of trust requires very much time, power, money and patience. The effects, on which an employer has to count with loss of trust by unmotivated and unproductive coworkers, can mean enormous economic damage for the enterprise and entail the loss of a market projection. So trust was determined by means of a quantitative questionnaire. The aim was to investigate the existence of trust promoting and trust inhibiting factors and to generate rankings in regard to their importance.
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Flexibility and TrustHöhnel, Anne 02 July 2012 (has links) (PDF)
Fundamental economic and social changes have strongly influenced the conditions under which companies have to operate during the last couple of years. The dynamics of the business environment, which are among other things increasingly forced by the globalization of markets, development of new technologies and subsequently growing competitive pressure, requires that companies adapt to their environment not only reactive, but rather act proactively to exist on the market permanently. This means, that in companies radical change processes are not even uncommon in addition to permanent changes.
Regarding the success of any change process it is of vital importance that the concerned employees and departments are involved in the success of the project and cooperate closely.
For this reason trust is becoming more and more important in business environment, especially against the backdrop of economic crisis, of mergers, outsourcing, short-time work and job loss. The setup and permanent care of a trustworthy corporate culture, the content of which includes the constructive handling through management of the anxieties and emotions of the employees concerning upcoming changes, finally provides the basis for successful cooperation.
Currently there is no scientific consensus about what trust is, how it can be measured, evaluated and influenced. These issues are now being investigated by empirical studies. Thus, the meaning of "professional" trust was determined by means of a quantitative questionnaire. One aim of the empirical study was to investigate the existence of trust-promoting and trust-inhibitory factors in companies and to generate rankings regarding their importance for the employees. The perceptions should be the basis to build and maintain a reliable culture of trust in companies, especially during the implementation of change processes.
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