In recent years, modeling industry in Taiwan has taken a great leap in both participation and popularity. Models in Taiwan can be splited into two groups by the presence (or the lack of) of their contracts with a modeling agency. The two groups are hardly similar in market price and position within their industrial hierarchy. The purpose of this master paper is to present how, and why there are different sets of game rules for the two groups. Also, the 2009 Lin Chi-Lin tax case raised much concerns to the very murky employer-employee dynamics in the industry - what exactly is the relationship between a model and their modeling agency anyway? The study sets sight on local Taiwanese models. In an attempt to hopefully draw a better picture of the Taiwan modeling industry, interviews were conducted with sixteen different interviewees that includes models and industry insiders, along with further observation and field study. Models presents their productivity through bodily exhibition, and the purpose of this paper is to look into these physical skill set, which starts with an understanding between asthetic labor and emotional labor. In terms of bodily performance, models are required to maintain a high level of consistancy, through utilizing embodied emotion and emotional memory to fit the requiremet of different clients. Models in contractual relationship with their modeling agency are subjected to the following institutional arrangemets ¡V contract-signing, training-course and case-by-case wage system. Those in the collaberative relationships are bounded by the collaberative system and getting paid case-by-case. These arrangements work differently with the different groups in terms of ideaology, and causing voluntary servitude with the systems. Models with proper contracts tend to believe that they are bounded by the rules and regulation of modeling agency, while the collaberative models believe that the only relationship tie with their representatives is the collaberative element of the profession. They are also the ones that are more likely to become agents later on in their career. My study has shown that the body of models are essentially the products in play, and modeling agency are capable of obtaining product exclusivity by signing more newcomers to exclusive representative contracts.

This thesis aims at examining the class experiences of subcontracted cleaning workers who work in student dormitories on the METU campus. It focuses on the working conditions of workers and control mechanisms in the dormitories in terms of their effects on class consciousness and future dreams of the workers. In addition, the study examines how workers experience class as a matter of self- respect in their workplaces, how they cope with haughtiness of students, the managers and the regular employees, how they explain social inequalities and whether they accept them as legitimate. The role of gender in workers&rsquo / everyday lives is also mentioned. The study argues that university dormitories on the METU campus with their fragmented labor regime, and managerial tendencies, which treat the students as customers, are significant places for the observation of how class differences are experienced by the subcontracted workers. In regard to these issues, the field research of the study was conducted through semi-structured in-depth interviews with 23 subcontracted cleaning workers in 12 different dormitories on the METU campus.

This thesis aims at examining the class experiences of subcontracted cleaning workers who work in student dormitories on the METU campus. It focuses on the working conditions of workers and control mechanisms in the dormitories in terms of their effects on class consciousness and future dreams of the workers. In addition, the study examines how workers experience class as a matter of self-respect in their workplaces, how they cope with haughtiness of students, the managers and the regular employees, how they explain social inequalities and whether they accept them as legitimate. The role of gender in workers

Purpose: Leadership is one of the very important as well as decisive factors in business environment. Following the Blau’s social exchange theory, this study discussed to analyze the despotic leadership effect on employees' job satisfaction in the Pakistani context. This research also analyzes the indirect association of despotic leadership and job satisfaction through the third variable named, emotional exhaustion (as mediator).  Method: Data is collected through an online self-administrated survey from employees working in the hotel industry of Pakistan. Descriptive analysis and inferential statistics were used. Moreover, conditional process technique was used introduced by Preacher and Hayes. Results: In conclusion, this study illustrates that despotic leadership style of the employees in hotel industry is a main antecedent of poor job satisfaction of the employees and this low job satisfaction becomes More low when employee experience the feelings of emotional exhaustion. Importantly, in this study it is found that emotional exhaustion does not mediate the relationship between despotic leadership and job satisfaction.  Originality: This research had added value to the existing literature on negative supervision in the hospitality sector, specifically in Pakistan. This has suggested organizations to identify prevalent despotic leaders and establish accountability mechanisms within the organizations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:21:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Theo Darlington Mano de Oliveira.pdf: 847584 bytes, checksum: 322932db3db98517d4957dd97f8ad412 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-19 / The metalworker employed in the ABC Paulista vehicles automakers demonstrates, today, little interest in Trade Union and collective struggles and resistance in adherence to labor movements, except in occasional moments of mass layoffs and job loss. The objective of this research is to know the processes and forms used for dissemination and maintenance of fear as a means of coercion and subliminal cooptation, necessary for the construction of hegemonic management work in the productive processes of the current post-fordist context / O trabalhador metalúrgico empregado nas montadoras de veículos do ABC paulista demonstra, hoje em dia, pouco interesse pelas lutas sindicais e coletivas e uma resistência na adesão aos movimentos classistas, salvo em momentos pontuais de demissões em massa e perda de emprego. O objetivo deste trabalho de pesquisa é conhecer os processos e as formas utilizadas para a difusão e manutenção do medo como meio subliminar de coerção e de cooptação, necessários à construção da gestão hegemônica do trabalho nos processos produtivos do atual contexto pós-fordista

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:55:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Theo Darlington Mano de Oliveira.pdf: 847584 bytes, checksum: 322932db3db98517d4957dd97f8ad412 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-19 / The metalworker employed in the ABC Paulista vehicles automakers demonstrates, today, little interest in Trade Union and collective struggles and resistance in adherence to labor movements, except in occasional moments of mass layoffs and job loss. The objective of this research is to know the processes and forms used for dissemination and maintenance of fear as a means of coercion and subliminal cooptation, necessary for the construction of hegemonic management work in the productive processes of the current post-fordist context / O trabalhador metalúrgico empregado nas montadoras de veículos do ABC paulista demonstra, hoje em dia, pouco interesse pelas lutas sindicais e coletivas e uma resistência na adesão aos movimentos classistas, salvo em momentos pontuais de demissões em massa e perda de emprego. O objetivo deste trabalho de pesquisa é conhecer os processos e as formas utilizadas para a difusão e manutenção do medo como meio subliminar de coerção e de cooptação, necessários à construção da gestão hegemônica do trabalho nos processos produtivos do atual contexto pós-fordista

I conducted demographic and behavioral studies of Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri) breeding on the Yukon-Kuskokwim River Delta, Alaska (1998-2005). In chapter one, I estimated apparent annual survival (product of true survival and site fidelity) while correcting for the probability of encounter for 237 males and 296 females. Overall return rates (individual returned to the site in a subsequent season) were lower for females (40%) than males (65%), as was apparent annual survival (± SE, females = 0.65 ± 0.05, males = 0.78 ± 0.03), and encounter rate (females = 0.51 ± 0.07, males = 0.74 ± 0.04). In chapter two, I examined the effects of mate and site fidelity on nesting success (N = 430 nests). Annual divorce rate ranged between 37-83%, with 17-63% of pairs reuniting annually. Reuniting pairs initiated clutches earlier than newly formed pairs, and clutches that were initiated early in the season had higher nest success rates compared to late-season nests. When I controlled for clutch-initiation date, nests tended by individuals with prior breeding-site experience had higher daily survival rates compared to birds breeding at the site for the first time. The effect of site experience was greater for males than females. In chapter 3, I reported that Western Sandpipers exhibited aggregated breeding behavior on a 36 ha plot. Breeding aggregations occurred when dominant and/or older individuals excluded younger, subordinate individuals from preferred habitat. The pattern of habitat occupancy conformed to an ideal despotic distribution with aggregated nesting birds in less preferred habitat experiencing lower reproductive success. In chapter 4, I described and demonstrated the form and function of parent-chick communication in the Western Sandpiper. Through experimental playback of adult vocalizations to chicks in the field, I demonstrated: (1) chicks respond to the alarm call by vocalizing relatively less often and moving away from the signal source, (2) chicks respond to the gather call by vocalizing relatively more often and moving toward the signal source, (3) and chicks respond to the freeze call by vocalizing relatively less often and crouching motionless on the substrate for extended periods of time. I also describe two distinct chick vocalizations (chick-contact and chick-alarm calls). / Ph. D.

從台灣違規高爾夫球場就地合法化：觀察國民黨政府國家力量的轉型，研究是研究高爾夫球球經營合法性的轉變，探討國民黨政府國家力量的轉型。而國家力量觀點是由英國歷史社會學者Michael Mann所提出，國家力量觀點由專制控制權力及基礎行政能力所建構而成。Michael Mann進一步指出，西方民主社會之國家機器，具有專制控制權力相對低弱 ，基礎行政能力相對強大的特性。 國家專制控制權力最簡單的定義是，國家統治菁英運用政治權力時 不受市民社會監督的程度。而本研究進一步把專制控制權力細分為統治者與被統治者的政治統治權力關係;與國家制訂政策的自主性兩個層次。國家基礎行政能力的定義則是，國家機器以其基礎結構、動員國家社會 資源貫穿市民社會的程度。本研究觀察國民黨政府的基礎行政能力，則是以國民黨政府制訂山坡地/高爾夫球場管制政策的設計;以及國民黨政府貫穿管制法令於社會的程度，當作探討的指標。 從違規高爾夫球場就地合法化的經驗研究中，本研究指出國民黨政府專制控制權力由強轉弱的證據;也指出國民黨政府的基礎行政能力一向不及其專制控制權力強大。而且隨著台灣民主化的發展，國民黨政權已由專制控制權力高、自主性高的威權體制，轉型為受市民社會監督且自主性低的民主化國家。但是，國民黨政府一向處於弱勢的基礎行政能力，仍然沒有隨著民主化而增強，如同西方民主國家一樣。