Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis equivalent (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1945.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 126-132).

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-132). Also available in print.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Martha J. Buell, Dept. of Individual & Family Studies. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 16, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis investigates how street performers entertain passers-by and audience members in exchange for money. Specifically, it investigates how this exchange relationship is accomplished in light of exchange happening outside the routine context of “the market”, where payment for goods and services is ordinarily enforceable. In this regard, this thesis seeks to uncover the ways that exchange in street performance is alternatively organised through donations, and how giving donations are produced and recognised as interactionally relevant and morally accountable actions. To that end, this thesis employs the allied approaches of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. It empirically examines video recordings of street performances, mostly collected at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Three kinds of street performance encounter are considered: these are musical busking, living statue performing, and circle show performing. The order of the discussions of these performances reflects the extent to which the performers explicitly recruit interactional resources —including talk, gesture and material objects—to morally obligate audience members and passers-by to give donations. The main thrust of this thesis is that street performers, passers-by and audience members collaboratively produce and recognise street performances as gifts that should be reciprocated. The street performances are initially freely given, but participation entails indebtedness that in various ways make remuneration interactionally relevant. In this regard, this thesis also explores how money, value and materiality feature in the giving and receiving of donations. This thesis provides new knowledge about how street performance encounters are ordered, how moral obligation is interactionally worked up through the sequential organisation of social actions, and how money donations are exchanged in return for entertainment. It also provides new understanding about how different kinds of street performance encounters share organisationally similar properties for solving the “payment problem”, but at the same time possess properties that are distinct.

The important role played by tertiary institutions in South Africa with regard to the general development of the country, cannot be disputed. To ensure that tertiary institutions provide education of high quality, competent employees are needed. These employees however have to be paid competitive salary packages. Employee benefits, which form 40 percent of an employer's payroll costs, constitute an important cost component and need to be scrutinised more closely with the aim of managing it as efficiently and effectively as possible. To achieve this goal the primary purpose of this research is thus to determine to what extent the present employee benefits provided by tertiary institutions in South Africa, address the diverse needs of employees. From the empirical study it is clear that employees' awareness of benefits offered and their divergent preferences, necessitates a more flexible approach to the management of benefits. A flexible benefit system would thus be an option. / Human Resource Management / M. Comm. (Business Management)

Orientador: Antônio Donizeti Pires / Banca: Paulo César Andrade da Silva / Banca: Fabiane Renata Borsato / Resumo: O objetivo desta dissertação é ressaltar de que forma o poeta mineiro Antônio Carlos de Brito, o Cacaso (1944-1987), pertencente à geração da década de setenta que ficou conhecida como marginal do mimeógrafo, explora os recursos estéticos proporcionados pela movimentação cultural anterior, intitulada Tropicalismo. Assim, o choque ocasionado pelos tropicalistas que proporcionou uma ruptura aos valores estabelecidos de uma sociedade mascarada pela repressão político-ideológica - fruto do golpe militar ocorrido em 1964 - é reavivado pelo escritor marginal de modo notável. A desconfiança frente ao discurso mítico-nacionalista advindo dos militares, a urgência de se criar uma identidade cultural nacional através da instauração antropofágica que visa o rompimento de hierarquias nas mais diferentes manifestações artísticas e a necessidade de dar prosseguimento à crítica de um país em cacos, propondo sua atualização, ecoa nos versos do poeta. A poesia do autor mineiro também reflete temática e esteticamente uma sociedade incapaz de compreender as mudanças do seu próprio sistema; sociedade esta que necessitava urgentemente abrir diálogos mundiais, admitir sua condição de diversidade cultural e questionar a técnica e o progresso como valores fundamentais para o desenvolvimento de uma nação. Dessa maneira, propõe-se, através da apresentação crítica da poética cacaseana, sobretudo de alguns poemas do seu segundo livro intitulado Grupo Escolar (1974), revelar os ingredientes de reconstrução e desmistificação da realidade brasileira de que Cacaso se apropria, bem como destacar a reviravolta em parâmetros até então hegemônicos de avaliação cultural. Intimamente conectados com as propostas dos tropicalistas, esses parâmetros vão, a partir dos poetas marginais, exigir um novo posicionamento frente aos conceitos de modernidade, inovação e ruptura... (resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to highlight the way the Mineiro poet Antônio Carlos de Brito, known as Cacaso (1944-1987), who belongs to the generation from the seventies which came to be known as marginal mimeograph, explores the aesthetic tools provided by the Tropicalism, the previous cultural movement. The shock caused by the tropicalists which provided a rupture in the established values of a society masqueraded by a political-ideological repression - a 1964 consequence of the military overthrow - is notably renewed by the marginal writer. The suspicion facing the mythic-nationalist discourse of the military, the necessity of having a national cultural identity through the anthropophagic establishment which aims the hierarchic bursting of diverse artistic manifestations and the urgency of continuing the critique of a country shattered into pieces aiming its actualization at the same time, echoes in the poet's verses. The Mineiro writer's poetry also mirrors thematically and aesthetically a society unable to understand its own system changes. A society that immediately needed to have world-wide dialogues, admit its own condition of being culturally diversified and question the technique and the progress as crucial values to develop a nation. Thus, through a critical introduction of some of his poems, especially from his second book - Grupo Escolar (1974) - we intend to disclose some ingredients that were suitable for Cacaso to reconstruct and demystify the Brazilian reality, as well as emphasize the upheaval in the cultural evaluation parameters that were hegemonic at that time. By being closely-related to the tropicalists' attempts, those parameters demanded a new position concerning the concepts about modernity, innovation and rupture for the fringe poets. The new effort required the election of plurality, median quality and tolerance... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre