Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2017-01-18T12:43:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Aparecida Bucater.pdf: 578668 bytes, checksum: 587e88c920df9ade61c714d402ea5f34 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-18T12:43:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aparecida Bucater.pdf: 578668 bytes, checksum: 587e88c920df9ade61c714d402ea5f34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-23 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This study aimed to identify the factors that interfere in the e-Leadership process and to identify the challenges and skills demanded of e-Leader. Therefore the option was for a qualitative study and research was exploratory in nature. The tool used was the interview with the support of semi structured script. We interviewed six professionals with expertise in classroom leadership, working with remote teams in medium and large companies from various sectors. Data from the interviews were grouped, categorized and analyzed to facilitate the reading and understanding of the study. The research findings corroborate studies on the remote work environment that involves time, space and technology and is characterized by flexibility. They identified four factors that interfere as facilitators of e-Leader action: the technology, the team´s characteristics, infrastructure organizations offer and virtual meetings, the latter with an approach one differentiated both in relation to researchers considered for this study. The main challenges were identified control, team motivation and adaptation to the new model corroborating the studies considered for this job. Regarding skills were identified fiveteen that corroborated the studies on the subject, five appointed by the researchers and not cited by respondents and seven presented by the interviewees and were not found in the studies considered for this work. / Este estudo teve como objetivo identificar os fatores que interferem no processo de e-Liderança, bem como identificar os desafios e as competências demandadas do e-Líder. Para tanto a opção foi por um estudo de caráter qualitativo e a pesquisa foi de natureza exploratória. A ferramenta utilizada foi a entrevista com apoio de roteiro semiestruturado. Foram entrevistados seis profissionais com experiência em liderança presencial e atuando com equipes remotas em empresas de médio e grande porte, de segmentos diversos. Os dados das entrevistas foram agrupados, categorizados e analisados, para facilitar a leitura e compreensão do estudo. As conclusões da pesquisa corroboram os estudos sobre o contexto do trabalho remoto que envolve tempo, espaço e tecnologia e tem como característica a flexibilidade. Foram identificados quatro fatores que interferem como facilitadores da atuação do e-Líder: a tecnologia, as características da equipe, a infraestrutura que as organizações oferecem e as reuniões virtuais, estas últimas com uma abordagem um tanto diferenciada com relação aos pesquisadores considerados para este estudo. Como principais desafios foram identificados controle, motivação da equipe e adaptação ao novo modelo corroborando os estudos considerados para este trabalho. Com relação às competências foram identificadas quinze que corroboraram os estudos sobre o tema, cinco apontadas pelos pesquisadores e não citadas pelos entrevistados e sete apresentadas pelos entrevistados e que não foram localizadas nos estudos considerados para este trabalho.

The objective of this diploma thesis is to identify factors for improvement of effective implementation of public projects for upcoming programming period in LAG Rozvoj Krnovska o.p.s. with respect to its individual conditions. The theoretical part provides understanding with the most important concepts for this thesis as various methods of evaluation, local action groups and rural development under LEADER platform. Practical part of this thesis focuses on implementation of chosen evaluation methods at research sample composed of projects executed in chosen LAG during 2010-2013. It further evaluates their effectiveness under CUA and CEA conditions and from results it additionally analysis factors which were present at the best performing projects. Identification of these factors should become a recommendation for specific LAG in order to improve project selection criterion with aim to improve project effectiveness in programming period 2014-2020.

The aim of the presented diploma thesis is the evaluation of financial support of micro-regions Chelčicko - Lhenicko and Vlachovo Březí through Local Action Groups (LAG) "Rozkvět zahrady jižních Čech" and "Chance in nature" within the Rural Development Programme in the Czech Republic for the time period of 2007-2013. Special emphasis has been given to Osy IV. Leader. The theoretical part defines the basic concepts of rural development, such as defining the rural characteristics of the population and rural development players, Rural Development Programme 2007-2013, and the Leader method. The principles of the Leader method are used by local action groups in gaining support from EU funds. The practical part is focused on the evaluation of the existing support of both micro-regions under PRV Osy IV. Leader to assess the activities of both local action groups, and the contribution of the financial support and activities of LAG to the development of rural areas.

First part of this theses deals with theoretical knowledge about local action group (LAG), their way of functioning, strategical documents and project management within the life cycle of LAG projects. On the other hand it introduces a theory about monitoring project, monitoring indicators and setting their in and out values. Second, practical, part of two the theses has also two spectrums. First part alleges from data collected during monitoring projects in LAG Království Jestřebí hory o.p.s. Data are focused at most on fulfilling monitoring indicators during last program period in between 2007 and 2013 and they are summed up as a recommendation for the new programming period. Programming period 2014 and 2020 has so far introduced a new method of setting up indicators, which is also described in this theses, including the restrictions that LAG has to deal with. Practical part is ended by commentary on setted values and their actual possibility of fullfillment in real life. The entire theses ends the final summery in which the author states her own reccomendations and tips regarding the setting or evaluation of monitoring indicators.

The thesis on The Importance of Coaching for Leadership consists of the theoretical and the practical parts. The first part contains the explanation of basic concepts of management, leadership and specifies leadership styles and the personality of a manager. Furthermore, this part deals with the motivation and its influence on the action of people. The important part of the thesis is the chapter about coaching, which is focused on the history of coaching. The part deals with the concept and key elements of coaching, the relationship between a coach and a person who is coached and it also mentiones what is not coaching. The practical part consists of the evaluation of the questionnaire survey, whose goal was to discover if the managers of the monitored organisation are aware of coaching and if they are able to use it while managing their subordinates. Suggestions and recommendations for the improvement of the use of coaching for the leaderships the monitored organization are based on these surveys conclusions.

The Diploma thesis deals with issues of the support of regional development through the Local Action Group Podchlumí, r.a. (LAG Podchlumí). The goal of this thesis was to explore the contribution of the LAG Podchlumí to quality of life of residents and business development. Assessment of the influence of LAG on regional development has been based on the existence and implementation of the Program of rural development program of the Czech Republic Axis IV. LEADER, which leads to an improvement of management and to mobilization of the natural inner potential of countryside. The Program of rural development represented the main financial source for fruition of LAG projects in the previous programming period. In this thesis, activities of the LAG Podchlumí and local subjects for support and development of partnership of residents and for public, business, and non-profit communities have been analysed. Implementation of own projects, through which the versatile development of the region, life improvement of residents, increase the attractiveness of the region has been evaluated. In order to get an independent and objective evaluation, an anonymous questionnaire has been conducted among residents of the region Podchlumí. Further, personal observation of the region Podchlumí, a study of professional literature as well as of internal materials of the LAG has been done. The hypothesis that the Local Action Group Podchlumí plays an important role in development of partnership of public administration of municipalities, agricultural subjects, independent agricultural as well as non-agricultural enterpreneurs, and non-profit organizations has been verified on the basis of analysis of realized activities. Support from the Program of countryside development to the region Podchlumí, Measure IV.1.2 Realization of local development strategy, contributed to achieving improvements in quality of life of residents. The greatest support was given to appearance of communities and quality of infrastructure, development of public facilities and services. Financial resources were spent also on modernization and development of agricultural as well as non-agricultural business. In comparison with other LAGs in the district Jičín, the LAG Podchlumí supported the greatest number of projects through the measure IV.1.2 of the Rural development program on realization of local developing strategy. It has been found by means of evaluation of the anonymous questionaire among residents of the region that residents perceive improvement of appearance and life of communities but they are not aware of the fact that many projects have been implemented with the contribution of activities of the LAG Podchlumí. For this reason, the LAG Podchlumí should focus more on propagation of its own activities. Residents of the region are interested in surrounding of their villages. It is possible to made conclusion that the results of analysis of activities of the LAG authenticated and confirmed correctness of the hypothesis that the Local Action Group Podchlumí plays an important role in development of partnership of public administration of municipalities, agricultural subjects, independent agricultural as well as non-agricultural enterpreneurs, and non-profit organizations.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os impactos das características estruturais, na participação em comunidades virtuais internacionais de especialistas brasileiros do processo de laminação, de uma empresa siderúrgica. A pesquisa foi realizada junto a oito profissionais de laminação de diferentes usinas siderúrgicas do Brasil inseridas em comunidades de laminação internacionais da Gerdau. Visou-se identificar e descrever o entendimento dos entrevistados sobre os conceitos de comunidades de prática virtuais, seu papel na comunidade e sua dinâmica de uso, de forma a entender como a demografia, o contexto organizacional, as características de associação e o ambiente tecnológico repercutem, facilitando ou dificultando sua participação. O método adotado foi o estudo de caso qualitativo; a principal técnica para coleta de dados foram as entrevistas; para a análise dos dados coletados foi empregada a técnica de análise de conteúdo. Como resultado, identificou-se que as características estruturais de orientação nas categorias: demografia; transposição de fronteiras; grau de formalismo institucionalizado; liderança e ambiente na categoria contexto organizacional, dispersão geográfica, envolvimento de membros; experiência comunitária prévia; alfabetização dos membros nas TIC; diversidade cultural; relevância do tópico para os membros, na categoria características de associação; grau de dependência nas TIC, na categoria ambiente tecnológico são percebidas pelos especialistas quer como facilitadoras, quer como barreiras, permitindo assim ações da empresa, a fim de incrementá-las ou mitigá-las. Outras características podem não ser percebidas e, no entanto, se constituírem como base para a ocorrência da participação. / This study aims to analyze the impacts of the structural characteristics in the participation of Brazilian rolling mill experts in international virtual communities of practice of steel company. The research was conducted among eight rolling mill professionals of different steel mills in Brazil that are embedded in international rolling mill communities of Gerdau. The objective was to identify and describe the understanding of the interviewees on the concepts of virtual communities of practice, its role in the community and its dynamic use in order to understand how the demographics, the organizational context, the characteristics of association and technological environment affect facilitating or hindering their participation. The method adopted was the qualitative case study and the main technique for collecting data was conducting interviews. The data analysis has used content analysis technique. As the results it was identified that the structural characteristics of orientation in the demographics category, boundary crossing, degree of institutionalized formalism, leadership and environment in the organizational context category, geographic dispersion, members’ enrollment, members’ prior community experience, members’ ICT literacy, Cultural diversity and topic’s relevance to members in the membership characteristics category and finally, the degree of reliance on ICT in the technological environment category are perceived by the experts as facilitators or barriers, thus allowing the company to adopt actions to enhance or mitigate them, while other characteristics may not be perceived and form themselves as the basis for the occurrence of participation.

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This study was an investigation of the relationship between subordinates' perceptions of the quality of the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship and their willingness to engage in organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and organizational commitment (OC). Differences in subordinates' perceptions of the quality of the LMX with their supervisor according to the gender of the supervisor compared to the employee (same sex vs. different sex) and dyadic duration of the LMX were also investigated. The possible moderation of dyadic duration on the relationship between subordinates' perception of the quality of the LMX and their willingness to engage in OCB and OC were also investigated. Lastly, the possible moderation of gender on the relationship between subordinates' perception of the quality of the LMX and their willingness to engage in OCB and OC were also investigated. This study surveyed direct service subordinate staff currently employed at a large rehabilitation organization in the Midwest. Results of research questions (RQ) one through eight are as follows: No significant correlation, r = .15, p = .35 for RQ1, significant correlation for RQ2, r = .38, p =.01, no significant correlation, r = .14, p = .38, for RQ3, no significant correlation, r = .30, p = .05 for RQ4, RQ5 model one was not significant, R2 = .10, F (2,38) = 2.21, p = .12, model two was significant, R2 = .19, F (3, 37) = 2.86, p = .05, RQ6 model one was significant, R2 = .26, F (2, 38) = 7.59, p = .002, model two was significant, R2 = .34, F (3, 37) = 6.34, p = .001, RQ7 model one was not significant, R2 = .10, F (2, 38) = 2.21, p = .12, model two was not significant, R2= .16, F (3, 37) = 2.31, p = .09, and RQ8 model one was significant, R2 = .26, F (2, 38) = 7.59, p = .002, model two was significant, R2 = .32, F (3, 37) = 5.98, p = .002. A summary of results and limitations and delimitations of the study are discussed, as well as implications and directions for future research.

abstract: Object manipulation is a common sensorimotor task that humans perform to interact with the physical world. The first aim of this dissertation was to characterize and identify the role of feedback and feedforward mechanisms for force control in object manipulation by introducing a new feature based on force trajectories to quantify the interaction between feedback- and feedforward control. This feature was applied on two grasp contexts: grasping the object at either (1) predetermined or (2) self-selected grasp locations (“constrained” and “unconstrained”, respectively), where unconstrained grasping is thought to involve feedback-driven force corrections to a greater extent than constrained grasping. This proposition was confirmed by force feature analysis. The second aim of this dissertation was to quantify whether force control mechanisms differ between dominant and non-dominant hands. The force feature analysis demonstrated that manipulation by the dominant hand relies on feedforward control more than the non-dominant hand. The third aim was to quantify coordination mechanisms underlying physical interaction by dyads in object manipulation. The results revealed that only individuals with worse solo performance benefit from interpersonal coordination through physical couplings, whereas the better individuals do not. This work showed that naturally emerging leader-follower roles, whereby the leader in dyadic manipulation exhibits significant greater force changes than the follower. Furthermore, brain activity measured through electroencephalography (EEG) could discriminate leader and follower roles as indicated power modulation in the alpha frequency band over centro-parietal areas. Lastly, this dissertation suggested that the relation between force and motion (arm impedance) could be an important means for communicating intended movement direction between biological agents. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Biomedical Engineering 2017