The purpose of this research was to conduct an exploratory study of the information processing utilized by incubator-housed manufacturers during channel member selection. The study included the evaluation of the decision models used by the manufacturers as well as criteria used in the selection process. The study was specifically designed to achieve the following objectives. First, the research was to identify the evaluation modes used by the manufacturers as either compensatory or noncompensatory. Second, the study was to evaluate the effect of the task on the selection of the evaluation model(s) used during the channel member selection process. Third, the study was to evaluate the effect of the selected decision strategy on the amount of information used during the decision process. Finally, the study was to identify and examine the importance of the criteria used by the manufacturers in the selection process. The methodology in this study consisted of primary research using protocol analysis as the main data gathering technique. A ranking instrument was also mailed to the respondents prior to the protocol session. The population for the study was identified as all manufacturers located in publicly-sponsored business incubators. A total of 235 incubators were in existence with approximately 47 percent of them being publicly-sponsored. Approximately 42 percent of the incubators house at least one manufacturing firm. It was estimated that there were approximately 46 manufacturing firms located in public incubators. A sample of six was used in this study. The statistical analysis included frequencies, cross tabulations, correlations, paired comparisons, and measures of association. The findings of this study suggest that the incubator-housed manufacturers' choice of evaluation models was not affected by the task nor did the selected strategy influence the amount of information used by the manufacturers. The findings indicate a need for further research to evaluate the relationships brought forth in this study. Based on the conclusions and findings of this study, recommendations for further research were given.

This thesis is primarily focused on the field of evaluation of organizational training and its possible application on outdoor-teambuilding training activities. The goal of the paper is to critically analyze the current state of knowledge of training evaluation and, based on the discovered facts, to synthetize evaluation model, which could be used for evaluating outdoor- teambuilding programs. Firstly, the basic concepts of outdoor-training, teambuilding and evaluation are introduced. In the following chapters, there is the presentation and comparison of chosen evaluation models, which are used in the field of training. Above mentioned part provides a theoretical base for the thesis and based on this, there is a new model introduced, which is modified specifically for outdoor-teambuilding evaluation. In the conclusion, there are also recommendations for further studies and researches. Key Words: evaluation, training evaluation, evaluation models, applied evaluation, current trends in evaluation, outdoor training, teambuilding

The Model A and Model C Title I evaluation options were compared by using both options to measure the effectiveness of handicap intervention in a Head Start program. Two hundred three children in Jackson County (Oregon) were pretested with the Developmental Indicators of Learning Test (DIAL), the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), the Visual-Motor Integration Scale (VMI), and the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory (CELI). The 43 children who scored below the predetermined cut-off level were placed in a six-month intervention program. One hundred forty-nine children remaining in the Head Start program in May were posttested with the same tests. Model A analysis of mean scores of the intervention group indicated significant score change on all three testing instruments. Model C analysis indicated no positive score change. It was posited that the Model A effect in this project was large because it combined a positive intervention effect with a positive general program effect. The Model C option showed no effect because the estimated nonintervention scores were very large due to the large positive score change in the nonintervention group.

Kiekvieno banko viena iš pagrindinių veiklos sričių – paskolų išdavimas. Su kiekviena išduodama paskola bankas prisiima vieną svarbiausių savo veikloje rizikų – kredito riziką, kurios nuostoliai bankui gali būti labai dideli. To geriausias įrodymas – 2007 metais JAV ištikusi kredito rizikos krizė, nusidriekusi per visą pasaulį ir atnešusi milžiniškus nuostolius. Todėl kredito rizikos tikslus įvertinimas ir tinkamas valdymas yra ypatingai svarbus tiek komerciniams bankams, tiek bankus prižiūrinčioms institucijoms, kurios privalo užtikrinti stabilų finansinio sektoriaus vystymąsi. Tinkamų kredito rizikos vertinimo modelių naudojimas bankuose leidžia sumažinti kredito riziką, padidinti banko veiklos stabilumą ir patikimumą. Todėl yra aktualu išanalizuoti kredito rizikos vertinimo ir reitingavimo metodus, ir atlikus atitinkamas korekcijas pritaikyti juos Lietuvos įmonių kredito rizikai vertinti. Darbo objektas – kredito rizikos vertinimo ir kredito reitingų nustatymo modeliai. Mokslinė problema: nors kredito rizikos vertinimo ir kredito reitingų nustatymo modeliai ir metodai yra plačiai išanalizuoti ir taikomi praktikoje, tačiau visi jie yra labiau pritaikyti stambioms užsienio rinkoms, kurios reikšmingai skiriasi nuo Lietuvos rinkos, todėl egzistuoja modelio, pritaikyto konkrečiai Lietuvos rinkai, problema. Darbo tikslas – įmonių kredito rizikos vertinimo modelio, pritaikyto Lietuvos rinkai, suformulavimas. Darbą sudaro trys skyriai: teorinė, analitinė ir rezultatų. Teorinėje... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Issuing credits is one of the main bank’s activities. Each bank takes a credit risk by giving the credits. Credit risk is the most important risk of all and requires exceptional consideration, because potential losses caused by credit risk can be huge. If correct and accurate credit risk evaluation models are used to evaluate the credit risk, it helps to reduce the credit risk and increase the stability and reliability of the bank. That is why it is so important and topical to perform the analysis of the credit risk evaluation and credit ratings models and to make corrections for adoption these models for credit risk evaluation of Lithuanian companies. The object of this working paper – credit risk evaluation and assigning credit ratings models. The scientific problem: although credit risk evaluation and credit ratings methods and models are broadly analyzed and applied in practice, but these models are more designed for large foreign markets, which significantly differs from Lithuania’s market and because of that the problem of an adopted credit risk evaluation model for Lithuanian companies exists. The purpose of this working paper – to formulate the credit risk evaluation model adopted for Lithuanian companies. This working paper consists of three chapters: theoretical, analytical and results. In theoretical chapter risk, risk kinds, risk measurement models allowing to measure creditworthiness and assigning credit ratings models are analyzed. In analytical chapter the... [to full text]

This thesis deals with the practical aspects of corporate training with the main focus on assessment and measurement of its outputs and effectiveness. The theoretical part introduces to the reader the concepts of corporate education and professional development as well as with their current trends. Next chapters describe the methods of analyzing educational needs and defining development goals. Moreover, various models of assessing the training effectiveness are presented. The application part of this thesis consists of empirical research conducted in the FOXCONN corporation. The purpose of this research was to evaluate training effectiveness of two types of trainings, using Kirkpatrick and Brinkerhoff models, and to address current issues of corporate education and propose solutions to them.

The main goal of the Master's thesis is to create complex economic analysis of company Mlýn Havlíčkův Brod, Ltd. for period from 2007 to 2013. This economic analysis will consist of evaluation of economic and financial situation of chosen company, of analysis of its competitive position, its strengths and weaknesses and also of its comparison with few competitors. There will also be analysis of industry, where chosen company operates. The reader of this thesis should gain knowledge about mill products market in Czech Republic as well as about way of working and about results of company Mlýn Havlíčkův Brod. The thesis itself is then divided into two parts, theoretical part, which will summarize all models, methods and indexes used and practical part, which will be focused on economic analysis itself and on interpretation of its results.

The diploma thesis deals with the evaluation of the performance of a selected company using one of the evaluation models, namely the Start Plus model. Based on this model, an analysis of the company was performed, the output of which was the identification of the company's strengths and areas for improvement. In selected areas changes have been propesed aiming to reduce costs and streamline processes of the company.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:57:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hugo.pdf: 1071426 bytes, checksum: c17a4300846414d5eb331657dd088ae1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The conceptions and practices of teachers regarding educational assessment or educational evaluation of their pupils have been object of critical concerns for many years, on the part of innumerable educational researchers. However, looking at the conditions that are offered to the teachers for learning the complex procedure of evaluation, it can be observed that its pre-service training does not contemplate it, that there are few consistent chances of in-service training on the theme, that the critics generally have been writing more about the difficulties than have offered realistic solutions, and that the available models or approaches on what must be the process of evaluation are not concordant between them nor are they completely structured for the immediate application in classroom. Considering this picture, this study has the purpose of investigating what the difficulties are in the formation of the teacher for the evaluation of his pupils (also known as classroom assessment, pedagogical assessment classroom evaluation). To analyze the mentioned situation, we consider in the study a great amount of evaluation approaches, taken from the Brazilian, American or European academic discourses, as well as research on the formation of teachers regarding the difficulties faced for them in their education, continued or initial (in-service or pre-service training). We have interviewed 12 private school teachers of the city of São Paulo, from different subjects; they were considered as very involved in the process of learning on evaluation, by directors and/or coordinators of their schools. Based on the analysis of the teachers speech and in the presented theories, it was verified that the difficulties are of different orders: the lack of pre-service training for the evaluation process, inadequate pre-service training for teaching, the dispersion of evaluative approaches, the lack of material adjusted for the study of the different evaluative approaches, and questions related to the structure of the teaching work - number of pupils, the role of the institution where the teacher works and the relationship between the group of teachers / As concepções e as práticas dos professores do Ensino Básico, referentes à avaliação de sala de aula, têm sido objeto de crítica há muitos anos, por parte de inúmeros pesquisadores educacionais. Ao serem observadas, porém, as condições que são oferecidas aos professores para a aprendizagem do complexo procedimento da avaliação, vê-se que sua formação inicial não a contempla, que há poucas oportunidades consistentes de formação continuada sobre a temática, que os críticos que vêm escrevendo sobre ela mais têm denunciado seus problemas do que têm oferecido soluções realistas, e que as abordagens disponíveis aos professores sobre o que deva ser a avaliação não são concordes entre si nem estão completamente estruturadas para a imediata aplicação em sala de aula. Diante desse quadro, este estudo teve por finalidade investigar quais as dificuldades na formação do professor para a avaliação que realiza de seus alunos (também conhecida como avaliação de sala de aula, pedagógica ou do rendimento do aluno). Tendo por base um amplo panorama das abordagens avaliativas, presentes no discurso educacional brasileiro, norte-americano e europeu, bem como pesquisas sobre a formação de professores que tratam das dificuldades enfrentadas pelo professor para sua formação, inicial ou continuada, foram realizadas entrevistas com 12 professores de escolas particulares da cidade de São Paulo, de diferentes áreas disciplinares, considerados pelos diretores e/ou coordenadores de suas escolas como muito envolvidos no processo de aprendizagem sobre avaliação.Com base na análise das falas dos sujeitos e nas teorias apresentadas, verificou-se que as dificuldades são de várias ordens: a falta de formação inicial para as questões avaliativas, a formação inicial inadequada para o exercício da docência, a dispersão de abordagens avaliativas para consumo do professor, a falta de material adequado para o estudo das diferentes abordagens, e questões ligadas à estruturação do trabalho docente número de alunos, o papel da instituição escolar, o grupo de professores em suas interrelações

La ricerca considera il tema della valutazione del risultato delle imprese - in termini di impatto economico-sociale dell’attività svolta - e il settore delle imprese sociali di inserimento lavorativo (WISE), analizzandolo dal punto di vista degli strumenti di valutazione e rendicontazione. Obiettivo del lavoro è presentare la realtà delle WISE, per proporre un modello di valutazione che consenta di misurare il valore creato e distribuito alla Pubblica Amministrazione e quindi, indirettamente, alla collettività. Questo valore deriva dall’inserimento di soggetti che sono normalmente esclusi dal mercato del lavoro e che sarebbero supportati da interventi pubblici di tipo oneroso. Il lavoro offerto diventa quindi un mezzo di integrazione sociale e di riduzione delle diversità, ma anche una garanzia di risparmio per la Pubblica Amministrazione, che riduce gli interventi di tipo socio-assistenziale e sanitario. Una volta definiti gli obiettivi di valutazione e i metodi utilizzabili, è stato sviluppato uno strumento che consente una migliore accountability esterna. Per giungere a questo risultato, sono state coinvolte alcune cooperative sociali e soggetti impegnati nell’inserimento lavorativo. È stato creato uno strumento che permette alle imprese di mostrare in maniera completa il valore economico creato e distribuito sul territorio, e lo si è fatto in maniera condivisa e partecipata. / Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are very well known in Europe and they are recognized as important actors to promote the active inclusion of disadvantaged people, disabled, homeless, migrants, unemployed, people with disadvantages and minorities, to avoid their discrimination both in work labour and in the society. Work Integration issue is nowadays a relevant theme that considers social matters together with human rights’ respect, equality, freedom and self-determination. There is the lack of a complete evaluation scheme that could give a whole perspective of WISEs' results. For them there are features and management ties that require methods wider than the economic ones disclosed in the financial report, in order to measure the created value for the Public Administration and community. The PhD work focuses on the creation of a possible evaluation model to apply to WISE. A WISEs’ sample has been selected to understand which elements were difficult to measure and, after the definition of the model it has been directly tested. Local WISEs and institutions have been actively involved in the executions. The main result is the participative creation process of an instrument that evaluates WISEs’ value for the community, through the analysis of their external effect on public budget.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:50:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseCRNS.pdf: 1772351 bytes, checksum: 17b2dc82dae0e985204bfa2fd68f873b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-04-29 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The management of manufacturing systems have become more complex, once that new products are arising, product demands are uncertain, life cycles get shorter, and a wide variety of products compete for common resources. This thesis deals with the design and planning of discrete manufacturing systems, based on open queueing network models to support the decision making of capacity allocation. As manufacturing systems may be represented by generalized queueing networks, and there are no exact solution methods, here is employed the decomposition approximate method to evaluate the performance of systems under different configurations. It is shown in the thesis how these approximations are suitable and effective to estimate the work-in-process (WIP) and the production leadtime of an actual metallurgical industry queueing network. It is also shown that discrete capacity allocation models, based on the approximations, are effective to evaluate and optimize the performance of the case study under different configurations. Trade-off curves between capacity investment and WIP are generated and are useful not only to support a manager to estimate how much capacity he/she should allocate, but also to decide where it should be allocated in the queueing network. These curves also support the decision making in terms of capacity, if the variability of the external arrivals, the product mix and/or the throughput for the network change. Besides adding capacity, partitioning the facility is another alternative to reduce the system complexity. This thesis also approaches the focused factory design problem, involving the partition of the facility into smaller shops and the capacity allocation in each shop. Again, the decomposition approximations were employed to evaluate the system performance. Despite its importance, this problem has rarely been reported in the literature. In this thesis, the goal is to reduce the system complexity either from the product management point of view or from the workstation management point of view. From the product management point of view, a model whose complexity constraint is na upper limit on the production leadtime variance of the products passing through the network was studied. From the workstation management point of view, the complexity constraint of the model keeps constant the expected waiting time of a product at a workstation, once it waits for being served. It is shown through these models for some instances that the partition of the facility into smaller shops decreases the complexity system without necessary capacity additional investments. Futhermore, sometimes it is possible to keep the network performance (or even to improve it), partitioning the network into smaller shops which need less capacity than the original configuration with a single shop. / A gestão de sistemas de manufatura tem se tornado mais complexa na medida em que novos produtos estão surgindo, a demanda de produtos é incerta, os ciclos de vida são mais curtos e uma grande variedade de produtos competem pelos mesmos recursos. Esta tese trata o projeto e planejamento de sistemas discretos de manufatura, baseados em modelos de redes de filas abertas, para auxiliar no processo de tomada de decisões. Porque sistemas de manufatura podem ser representados por redes de filas genéricas, e não existem métodos exatos de solução, aqui é empregado o método aproximado de decomposição para avaliar o desempenho dos sistemas em diferentes configurações. Mostra-se nesta tese que estas aproximações são adequadas e efetivas para estimar os estoques em processo (WIP) e o leadtime de produção de uma rede de manufatura real de uma indústria metal-mecânica. Mostra-se ainda que os modelos de alocação de capacidade discreta, baseados nestas aproximações, também são efetivos para avaliar e otimizar o desempenho da rede do estudo de caso em diferentes configurações. Curvas de trade-off entre investimento em capacidade e WIP são geradas e são úteis não somente para auxiliar um gerente a estimar quanto alocar de capacidade, mas também para decidir onde alocá-la na rede de filas. As curvas também auxiliam a tomada de decisões em termos de capacidade, se a variabilidade das chegadas externas, o mix de produtos e/ou a taxa de produção da rede mudam. Além de adicionar capacidade, a partição da instalação é outra alternativa para reduzir a complexidade do sistema. Esta tese também aborda o problema de projeto de fábrica focalizada, envolvendo a partição da instalação em subplantas e a alocação de capacidade em cada estação das subplantas. Novamente, as aproximações por decomposição foram utilizadas para avaliar e otimizar o desempenho do sistema. Apesar de sua importância, este problema tem sido muito pouco reportado em literatura. Nesta tese, o objetivo é reduzir a complexidade do sistema do ponto de vista da gestão do produto, ou do ponto de vista da gestão da estação. Do ponto de vista da gestão do produto, é apresentado um modelo cuja restrição de complexidade é um limitante superior para a variância do leadtime dos produtos na rede. Do ponto de vista da gestão da estação, a restrição de complexidade do modelo fixa o tempo médio de espera de um produto na estação, quando há espera. Mostra-se, por meio destes modelos para alguns casos que, a partição da instalação em subplantas reduz a complexidade do sistema, sem necessidade de investimentos adicionais em capacidade. Além disso, algumas vezes, é possível manter (ou até melhorar) o desempenho da rede, particionando-a em subplantas que necessitam de menos capacidade do que a configuração original com uma planta única.