The main purpose of this study is to understand work values, work pressure and organizational commitment on elementary school¡¦s directors of general affairs in Kaohsiung City and County, and to explore the correlation between these three. First of all, to collect information on the work values, work pressure and organizational commitment. Second, based on the literature review, to summarize the results of analysis for this study, and to construct the main and suitable dimensions for this study and the study will be the development of research tools as a reference and theoretical basis. Furthermore, to propose the research framework, research hypotheses and the pre-test questionnaire which the preparation of this study was developed research tools ¡§ A questionnaire on the study of the relationship among work values, work pressure, and organizational commitment on elementary school¡¦s directors of general affairs in Kaohsiung City and County.¡¨ The directors of general affairs totally have 237 people for the research object. The valid questionnaires are 230, and the response rate of valid questionnaires is 97.45%. After removing invalid questionnaires, the valid samples count 225 and the response rate of valid questionnaires is 95.34%. After collecting questionnaires, the researcher analyzes the data with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way MANOVA, K.Pearson¡¦s product-moment correlation, canonical correlation, and stepwise multiple regression and discusses the results of the research. The study is conducted the following suggestions. A. For education authorities a. Promoting directors¡¦ work values is to strengthen the directors¡¦ commitment to the organization. (a) Conducting various continuing curriculum, the directors¡¦ work values will be enhanced. (b) Providing a perfect system, the directors will obtain the opportunity of self-growth. (c) Encouraging directors to engage healthy leisure activities, the directors will obtain the physical and mental health. b. Reducing work pressure is to strengthen the directors¡¦ commitment to the organization. (a) Expanding the organization of the leaders of general affairs is to reduce directors¡¦ workload. (b) Commissioning others to conduct major projects is to reduce directors¡¦ workload. (c) Conducting professional curriculum is to enhance directors¡¦ professional ability. B. For principals a. Constructing a common prospect is to promote directors¡¦ work values. b. Molding the good interpersonal relationship and a sense of organization security is to increase directors' organizational commitment. c. Setting the reasonable goals is to reduce directors¡¦ work pressure. C. For directors of general affairs a. Actively participated in continuing education and promoting the self-work values are to reduce work pressure. b. Increasing good interpersonal relationships and promoting self-work values are to reduce work pressure. c. Establishing a good partnership is to reduce work pressure. d. Appropriate and adequate physical recreation is to have a physical and mental healthy. D. For the future study, the researcher makes recommendations to research objects, research variables, and research methods.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 710-758). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, August 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (M.R.E.)--Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary, 1962. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [64]-66).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62).

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 47-06, page: 3502. Adviser: James Langabeer II. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-75).

We find significant evidence that academic directors enhance firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance after examining a sample of S&P 1,500 firms for years 2002 to 2011. The presence of academic directors in corporate board increases firms’ CSR performance. Within academic directors, female academic directors have positive incremental effect on firm’s CSR performance. We also find that academic directors’ and female academic directors’ influence on CSR activity is not similar across CSR components. Among seven qualitative components of CSR, academic directors have significant positive effect on community, diversity, environment and product components. At the same time, female academic directors have positive effect on diversity and employee relations but negative effect on environment. Finally, we observe that the effect of academics on CSR is heterogeneous across their academic specialization and experience. In particular, we note that academics with administrative responsibility, business background and industry experience have significant positive effect on firms’ CSR performance.

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This study examines small business owners at small firms in Västerbotten’s perception on board composition, board diversity and the role of the board together with its impact on firm performance. We were interested in knowing what kind of characteristics these firms are looking for in their board composition and explore their attitudes towards their choice ofinside or outside directors, and also the impact of homogeneity and heterogeneity in theboard. Further, we wanted to examine the general role of the board in small firms and get insight on whether the small business owners believe this had any impact on firm performance or not. The subject of board of directors can be found within the field of corporate governance, in which it has a central role. Existing literature on the subject left a gap of knowledge on board of directors in small firms, from which the opportunity of research was found. Since a vast amount of firms on the Swedish market are small firms, this subject is of significant meaning for understanding and gaining insight into how small business owners in these firms view the board of directors. To get a deeper view into the subject we explored if any differences were detectable between three different industries, and the selected industries were; IT, transportation and construction. This qualitative study was conducted by using a semi-structured interview technique. The objectives of having a qualitative study was to obtain in-depth understandings and perceptions from the participants in order to answer our research questions; What kind of characteristics are small business owners looking for when selecting new board members, what type of different resources can different types of directors bring, and what impact do small business owners believe this has on firms’ performance? The findings from this study revealed that small business owners at small firms in Västerbotten did not value and use the board in the same extent as larger firms had been found to do in other empirical studies. However, indications were found among our sample that small firms in the IT industry uses their boards in another way than other firms do. Moreover, it was of common occurrence that small firms only have one singe director on their boards both due to that they have a board solely due to legal reasons and also due to that the owners, which is also the directors in these firms, does not want to reduce their level of control over the firm. Overall, the impression from the participants’ perceptions and views were that the board was not used in the way it could be and that for many small firms the costof recruiting more directors is too high.