This research aims to study the effects of organization downsizing programs on the staff in the field of electronic media. There used to be only three television networks in Taiwan, which were TTV, CTV, and CTS. Followed by the approval of the Cable Television Law in 1993, cable TV providers began to enter the market and sprout like mushrooms. A point worth noting is that Taiwan's fourth terrestrial TV station, FTV, officially founded and joined the market in 1997. Significant changes were then brought to Taiwan¡¦s media landscape. The advantages of the three original TV networks were disappearing and taken by the newly emerged cable TV stations. Thanks to the free market mechanism, the competition among news media has become even more and more intense over the last three or four years. A medium which has strong constitution appears to have better performance and is able to maintain certain market share; while those have weak constitutions would often suffer losses in business, in which the most serious are the three original terrestrial TV stations. It makes no exception for cable TV networks, either. Deficit occurs in many cable TV stations, such as CTI, ERA, USTV, STV and Global TV, whereas SET, TVBS, ETTV, and GTV could still obtain profits. The above factors show that downsizing in the field of electronic media must be carried out. The subjects of this research were a group of TV news reporters who have gone through organization downsizing. Interviews were designed to discover the reporters¡¦ perception, involvement, organizational identity and intention to continue in office in search of the best downsizing model. The results are as follows: (1) Downsizing programs have certain impact on staff. Organizations which encourage voluntary demission or retirement might hardly achieve its goal of downsizing in a short while, but survivors would relatively tend to be less likely to resign from office. On the contrary, when compulsory or semi-compulsory methods are used, survivors would be devastated or even muddle along. Such situation might even cause lots of survivors to quit. (2) Thetrimming of personal in electronic media, areusually due to unbalance of information, causing current employee¡¦s varies in working behavior and attitude, cause by age, experience and rank difference. It means that because of freer flow of information, employees that are higher age, more experience, and higher rank, are less affected in behavior and attitude, and more stable. On the other hand, employees that are lower age, less experience and work in the basic level, because of the lack of information, when personal trimming begins, they become more anxious and start quitting. (3)Having a comprehensive scheme, informing and making the employees involved in the whole decision making process, as well as engaging in appropriate dialogue would all increase the willingness of survivors to continue in office and weaken their tendency to resign. (4)Employees who agree with their organization's values and feel a strong sense of connection with their organization tend to be less likely to quit; while others would have stronger inclination to resign.

The research was made in the year 2005 - 2006. It’s goal was to establish head’s of educational institutions used staff motivation means and ascertain if they satisfy personnel’s needs. The main tasks of this work are: to establish in which ways heads of educational institutions are achieving to improve teacher’s work quality; what are teacher’s needs; find out what defines the school as an attractive place to work; also establish which factors have influence to head’s of schools opinion building up the personnel’s motivation policy. These are the methods which were used for this research: 1) scientific psychological, pedagogical (educational) literature analysis; 2) interrogatory by questionnaires; 3) research data’s mathematical statistical analysis. There were 150 respondents who participated in this research, including 100 teachers from secondary schools of Lithuania and 50 heads of secondary schools of Lithuania (in town: Vilnius, Kaunas, Rokiškis, Alytus, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Utena, Molėtai, Anykščiai). The results showed that leaders give most importance for stimulation by praise, and less importance for promoting. The leaders often make conditions to raise qualification and give possibility to use the newest literature and supplies to achieve better teacher’s work quality. But pedagogues prefer higher payment and acknowledgement. Most teachers’ dissatisfaction because of work settles bad administrative work and low social status. The chosen employees’... [to full text]

The goal of the dissertation is to describe demands on position of router (both hard and soft skills) and his further education.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of an employee's duty of confidentiality in a basic labour relationship. It seeks to find an answer to the question of whether there is some kind of a "general" employee's duty of confidentiality of certain facts, to which all the employees must oblige. The Czech Labour Code does not explicitly define this duty. If a general duty does not exist, it would have to be stipulated contractually. This diploma thesis is divided into four parts. The first part pays attention to the duty of confidentiality as such. It focuses on its content because it is essential to clarify what the "duty of confidentiality" means. Definitions of the duty of confidentiality created by different expert literature authors are covered in this part including the definition created by the author of this thesis. The second part represents the core of this diploma thesis since it deals with an employee's duty of confidentiality as it is stipulated by the Labour Code. The author addresses the so-called "special" duties of confidentiality which are explicitly stated in the Labour Code for certain groups of employees. Moreover, this part examines the general duty of confidentiality applicable to all employees who carry out work based on a concluded basic labour relationship. An employee's...

This research stems out of the desire to uncover and learn the impact and influence of internal communication as a strategic function that enhances productivity, organisational growth, employee engagements and above all organisational success 1 . Internal communications is a body of knowledge that is gaining momentum throughout the world. It is a global discipline that organisations have adopted as their instrument to measure the effectiveness of their communication campaigns, programmes and strategies both internal and external. Internal communication has been forced to adjust to numerous changes in the workplace. Macleod and Clarke (2009) argue that good quality internal communication enhances engagement and emphasise that employees need clear communication from senior management to understand how their own roles correspond with the leadership vision. The overarching aim of this investigative study was to examine the influence of internal communication as a key driver of employee engagement and organisational performance. In doing so, the research study employed qualitative approach method to investigate the extent in which internal communication as a strategic function enhances employee engagement and promotes organisational performance. This qualitative exploratory study relied on the experiences, thoughts, behaviours, and the understanding of the research respondents to articulate their knowledge about the phenomenon under investigation; therefore data was collected by means of various processes, including semi-structured interviews, and focus group discussions. The study was carried out amongst employees of LG Electronics2 , Seoul in South Korea to establish the extent to which internal communication influences or drives employee engagement3. The study adopted content analysis as a well-tested method of data analysis to better understand the data collected. Through content analysis, thematic connections were made and data was categorised in different themes that emerged systematically from similar characteristics mentioned in the conversations with the respondents. Inferences were drawn from the similar characteristics and presented in the data analysis and interpretations chapter of the research study. The results revealed that a deep awareness of internal communication existed among the respondents of the study. They also revealed high levels of consciousness of factors that contribute immensely to internal communication as a strategic function that enhance engagement, organisational culture, goals and values. The results revealed that a strong sense of identification and ownership was given to employees as part of programmes that intensified employee's contributions, level of engagement and understanding of goals and culture of the organisation. The empirical findings further postulated that employees were incorporated into the dominant coalition of the organisation and were also regarded as change agents, through which their inputs and suggestions were valued and recognised. The empirical study also revealed that employees were engaged because of the organisational culture shared by the strong leadership and management philosophy; LG-way was implemented as a framework to guide open and transparent communication. The results indicated that there was no salary gap between males and females, employees were rewarded according to their performance targets and capabilities and were also encouraged through coaching to improve their targets where necessary for the successful growth of the organisation. Through the empirical findings, the study recommended that a well coordinated internal communication function which is aligned and guided by the fundamental principles of the organisation will produce rewarding results for the organisation. There is a greater need for the organisation to conduct an intensified research on the impact and contributions of proactive internal communication strategies. Such research will guide and direct the coordination and implementation of proper and relevant programmes to assist the organisation to be more engaged and embedded among employees. LG Electronics must also come to terms with the fact that internal stakeholders make or break the organisation. The organisation needs to treat all employees equally and monitor the value of employees in the organisational growth and success. Management needs to know that the internal stakeholders are important as they provide the foundation of the organisation as well as acting as the liaison between the organisation and the external stakeholders. / Thesis (M.A (Communication) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2014

Anställda arbetstagare och arbetsgivare har sedan 1949 genom lag (1949:345) om rätt till arbetstagares uppfinningar haft rättigheter och skyldigheter avseende arbetstagares uppfinningar, men lagen har inte nyanserats i takt med att uppfinningar allt oftare tillkommer utanför traditionella anställningsförhållanden. Andra rättsområden som inte har till ursprungligt syfte att reglera uppfinnares ersättning tillämpas idag i tvister som rör utanförstående arbetstagare, eftersom patenträtten och uppfinnarrätten inte innefattar några regleringar som rör utanförstående arbetstagares uppfinningar. I uppsatsen utreds huruvida ytterligare reglering är motiverad. Uppsatsen inleds med att ge en inblick i tillvägagångssättet för hur ett patent söks som följs av en utredning av arbetstagarbegreppet för att sedan övergå till en utredning kring rättsläget. Vidare utreds vad ett förvärv egentligen avser och hur ersättningsnivåerna bestäms enligt lag och avtal. För att ge en större inblick i rättsläget ges exempel på domslut och skiljedomar. För det praktiska syfte som uppsatsen ska uppfylla, har olika tillvägagångssätt för att väcka talan i domstol angivits. Uppsatsen avslutas med en analys kring rättsläget, om lagen uppfyller propositionens syfte, om lagstiftningen är tillräcklig och om den behöver ändras. Analysen berör även ersättningen till uppfinnare, hur begreppet arbetstagare kan vara ett problem och varför sekretessen på skiljedomarna är ett problem för normbildningen och därav ett hinder för förutsägbarheten. Analysen utgår från uppställningen i problemformuleringen.

The changes in the political landscape in South Africa have exacerbated major transformation of the society and all other aspects of life, including education. It is in this view that transformation of the education sector resulted in the changes within the employment relationship, as well as the psychological contract between educators and the Department of Education. This is further explained by the changes experienced in both the employer and employee's obligations. Furthermore, these changes have a tremendous influence on the degree of job satisfaction, organisational commitment, as well as an intention to quit among educators. The primary objective of this research is to investigate the employment-and psychological contract of educators in the Sedibeng West District of the Gauteng Department of Education. The measuring instruments, i.e. employer's obligations, employee's obligations, job satisfaction, organisational commitment, as well as intention to quit questionnaires, were used in the empirical study. A cross -sectional survey design was conducted among 298 educators (including school managers) in the Sedibeng West District. A response rate of 75% (224 respondents) was obtained. The results indicate a practically significant correlation coefficient of a medium effect between the employer and the employee's obligations, a negative correlation of medium effect between the employer's obligations and an employee's intention to quit, and no significant relationship between the employee's obligations and an employee's intention to quit. Furthermore, a practically significant correlation coefficient of medium effect was obtained between job satisfaction and an employee's intention to quit, and no significant relationship could be found between job satisfaction and organisational commitment. Lastly, a practically significant negative correlation of a medium effect was obtained between organisational commitment and an intention to quit. A multiple regression analysis indicates that 21% of the variance in the employee's intention to quit was predicted by both the employer and employee's obligations. Organisational commitment and job satisfaction predicted 33% of the total variance. Recommendations for the Department of Education, as well as future research were also made. / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Sociology))--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2008.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of overtime work and consequent entitlements for employees. It also focuses on the working hours institute in general, as the basis for determining overtime. It deals not only with the limits and conditions of overtime work, but also with overtime in different working hours regimes as well as overtime work of specific groups of employees. The aim of the thesis is to summarize the Czech legislation of the overtime institute, while evaluating the jurisprudence dealing with this issue. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter outlines the historical development not only of overtime work itself, but also of working hours as an institute directly related to overtime. In view of the Czech Republic's membership in the European Union, there can not be omitted the view of overtime work in terms of EU legislation, where Directive 2003/88 / EC is the key rule governing working hours and overtime. The second chapter deals with the working hours institute and describes the different ways of its layout. It also summarizes night work and on-call time, the legal regulations of which make it problematic, and employees often come to a dispute with employer about the uncertainty of remuneration. The third chapter deals with the overtime work itself as the...

In the times of globalization, informationization, rapid changing knowledge economy, corporate are facing intensive challenges. Management team knows that they should not only focus on competitive landscape but also enhance human capital in order to strengthen competitiveness and rejuvenate the organization. Accordingly, employees are motivated by every kind of intentions. They regard the degree of support of their work in the organization, the more they satisfy, the more they feel interested with the job, which might commit themselves to meet the organization¡¦s goal and be proud to be one of the whole team. This research is to test if employee perceived organizational support has an mediating effect to high performance work systems and employee¡¦s job change intention. This study collects data along with a 2- phase questionnaire, which were filled out by first-line servicing employee, with a total of 260 valid samples. In phase I analyzed high performance work system measurement result, phase II started 2 weeks after phase I questionnaire in order to prevent common method variance, which collected perceived organizational support and employee¡¦s job change intention. In this study, the result shows that high performance work systems have a significant impact on employee perceived organizational support, and have the negative impact on employee¡¦s job change intention. Moreover, employee perceived organizational support has a negative impact on employee¡¦s job change intention while it has the mediating effect between high performance work systems and job change intention. Keywords¡GHigh Performance Work Systems, Employee Perceived Organizational Support, Employee's Job change intention

Customers are aware of the service quality which has a close relationship with front-line service providers. High quality of human resources, like the good attitude and behavior of front-line service providers, becomes one of the key sources of business success and competitive advantages. Therefore, more and more companies pay attention to the concept of ¡§internal marketing¡¨, and before they sell the product or service to external customers, they should sell them to internal customer. Because the service industry plays an important role in this era, this study focuses on real estate agencies. The purposes of this study are: (1) To understand internal marketing influences employee¡¦s customer orientation. (2) The relationship between behavior-based evaluation, internal marketing and employee¡¦s customer orientation. (3) The relationship between empowerment, internal marketing and employee¡¦s customer orientation. (4) The relationship between organizational customer orientation, internal marketing and employee¡¦s customer orientation. The study adopts questionnaire investigating. Besides, this study modifies the questionnaire of customer orientation, let the questionnaire can be used in Taiwan. The analysis approaches are reliability analysis, factor analysis, regression analysis, cluster analysis, one-way and two-way ANOVA. This study provides support for four hypotheses that internal marketing will influence employee¡¦s customer orientation. And behavior-based evaluation, empowerment and customer orientation of organization are the moderate variables between internal marketing and employee¡¦s customer orientation. Therefore, the manager should regards internal marketing, empowerment, behavior-based evaluation and organizational customer orientation as the most vital and important components in the company.