The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure K-12 teacher demoralization. An increasing body of literature has labeled modern education policies as having a demoralizing effect on teachers (Darling-Hammond & Rustique-Forrester, 2002; Noddings, 2004; Ryan & Brown, 2005; Nichols & Berliner, 2007; Santoro, 2011; Hargreaves, Braun, & Gebhardt, 2013). Teacher demoralization has been defined as a teacher’s “inability to access the moral rewards of teaching” (Santoro, 2011, p. 3). Data was collected from a population of K-12 educators through cognitive interviews (n=6) and a large scale data collection analyzed with a principal component analysis (n=430) in an effort to determine which constructs should be included in the measurement of teacher demoralization. Feedback on the survey instrument was incorporated in an iterative process at each stage of data collection. Results revealed that the theory of teacher demoralization should include two factors: teacher dispositions and feelings of demoralization. The current study failed to find strong evidence of convergent validity with teacher burnout and self-determination need thwarting; however, results suggest that emotional exhaustion and autonomy need thwarting are moderately related to teacher demoralization. Evidence of discriminant validity in relation to teacher self-efficacy was found; however, other discriminant validity evidence was inconclusive. This study extends the literature by providing the first attempt to measure the phenomenon of teacher demoralization. Future studies should continue to refine the instrument of teacher demoralization, and can use this instrument as one way to examine the impact of policy on teachers.

The diploma thesis characterizes the institutions dealing with children with social and cultural disadvantages. Methods that have been used are structured interviews and data analysis. Implemented in four institutions dealing with children with social and cultural disadvantages and four teachers in kindergarten, where the children of the orphanage. Aim of this work was to determine, which institutions for children in distress occur preschool children, what reasons most often comes to the institution and the institution where most leaves. Detects changes, relating to the psychosocial needs of children, that occurred in a children's home in Dolních Pocernicích after 2002. Furthermore compares the differences between children from ordinary families and children from the orphanage attending the same kindergarten. Finally, work is understanding the institutions, that help children who have no such luck in life, such as children with loving parents.

Cette recherche se place dans le domaine de l’ingénierie industrielle, plus exactement aux premières étapes du processus d´innovation (Fuzzy Front-End). Aujourd´hui dans un monde globalisé, où la technologie est à la portée de tous, les entreprises cherchent de nouvelles techniques permettant de se distinguer de la concurrence, et offrent de nouveaux et meilleurs produits ou services ; une manière de conserver leurs avantages comparatifs ou d’en acquérir de nouveaux, pour des clients toujours plus exigeants, et dont les besoins changent constamment. Partant de ce constat, l’innovation se définit comme un processus long et continu, au sein duquel s’utilisent différents modèles. Du fait de la complexité du processus, il n’existe pas de modèle unique réunissant tous les besoins des clients. C’est pourquoi le processus d’innovation, implique différents acteurs de l’entreprise et de son environnement. Ces acteurs, dont l’importance varie, sont souvent d’origines diverses et possèdent des compétences variées. Ils ont des besoins différents, et sont soumis à des contraintes de travail différentes (ressources technologiques et financières, réglementations, etc...). Il paraît ainsi essentiel pour l’entreprise de créer un modèle unique, capable d’identifier les besoins de toutes les parties prenantes, avant d’entamer le processus de développement de nouveaux produits. C’est pour l’entreprise une manière de renforcer le processus d’innovation, et de réduire le taux d´échec lors du lancement de nouveaux produits. Ainsi l’objectif de cette étude est de proposer une nouvelle méthode d’analyse des impacts de l’innovation (A.I), afin de permettre aux entreprises d’identifier les besoins dynamiques des acteurs. Celles-ci pourront ainsi mieux définir leurs nouveaux produits et s’adapter plus facilement aux évolutions du marché. Cet outil fait partie d´une méthodologie de gestion des projets innovants, et doit être utilisé avant la définition des caractéristiques fonctionnelles du nouveau produit. Ceci nous ramène aux premières phases du développement, avant la conception du produit, qui comprennent toutes les étapes depuis la définition des besoins et opportunités pour l´innovation, jusqu’à la prise de décision pour le développement du nouveau produit, appelée Fuzzy Front-End. L’apport théorique de notre travail : Il n´existe pas de définition des impacts de l’innovation (I_n), nous avons donc fait un travail bibliographique sur le concept d’impact. Celui-ci a permis d’explorer les différentes définitions d´impact au sein de différentes disciplines (ingénierie, écologie, psychologie, etc.). Nous avons proposé de cette manière, notre propre définition de l’impact adaptée au contexte de l´innovation. Cette recherche bibliographique, nous a aussi permis d’identifier les différents types d´impacts et de justifier l´utilisation de différentes méthodologies. La contribution méthodologique : l’approche proposée pour l´analyse des impacts de l´innovation (A.I) se décompose en deux étapes. La première vise à modéliser l’« écosystème d´innovation », sur la base des relations, de l´importance et des besoins individuels de chacun des acteurs face au nouveau produit. Ceci grâce à une Analyse des Besoins Dynamiques (A.B.D), qui permettra d´obtenir les besoins agrégés permettant de représenter le système complet, sans considérer les possibles perturbations du milieu extérieur ou les impacts de la même innovation. Pour bien identifier et décrire les besoins des acteurs, nous avons basé la méthodologie sur l´observation de leurs activités. Ainsi, nous avons pu identifier les différents besoins des acteurs de l´innovation sur la base de l’analyse RAR (Ressources, Activités, Résultat), ensuite nous avons classifié les besoins grâce au modèle de KANO et ses améliorations réalisées par Tontini. Une méthode originale d’agrégation des besoins de tous les acteurs est proposée.[...] / This research belongs to the industrial engineering field, focusing on the first stages of the innovation process (Fuzzy Front-End). In a globalized world, where the technology is near to everyone, enterprises are looking for new technologies to be different from their competitors, offering new and better products / services as a strategy to keep or acquire new competitive advantages. Moreover, innovation is a large and continuous process, where different management models are used. But, because of the complexity of the process, no general model is suitable for situations and projects. Thus, the innovation process involves different stakeholders from the company and its environment. These individuals come from different origins (field of knowledge), have different needs, abilities, importance and work under different restrictions (technological or financial resources, work rules, etc.). Consequently, it is essential for the enterprise to identify all the needs of the parts involved in the products. And, a model is required in order to identify the stakeholder’s needs before starting design tasks. This model aims at more robustness in the new product development process and at the reduction of the failure rate when launching new products. Thus, the objective of this PhD thesis is to propose a new method to analyze the impact of the innovation, allowing companies to identify the dynamic actors' needs, to improve the definition of their new products and to adapt to the possible changes of the market. This tool is part of an innovative projects management methodology, used before the elaboration of the functional specifications of a new product. This locates the research in the first stages of development called Fuzzy Front-End: before the genesis of the product. Fuzzy front ends integrate among others the opportunity / needs identification for innovation to the development of the new product decision taking. The proposed approach for the innovation impact analysis (A.I) consists of two stages: the first one intends to model an innovation ecosystem, integrating the relations, the importance of each stakeholder and their individual necessities in regard to the new product. Through a Dynamic Needs Analysis (A.B.D) it will be possible to get the global needs, which represent the whole system, without considering the disturbances of the environment or the impact of the same innovation. Thus, the second stage of the model, through the generation of innovation impact scenarios (S.I.I), evaluates the impact of the innovation the new product may face at its market launching. Due to a new product emergence changes emerge: actors’ performance, their interrelations, the importance and their own needs about the product [...]

The thesis focuses on the evaluation of changes in the provision of social benefits for the unemployed, which occurred in the past few years. Specifically, it is mainly changes in the provision of unemployment which have occurred since 2009, and changes in the provision of benefits in material need, effective from 2007. Act No. 111/2006 Coll. providing for the payment of benefits in material joined together with Act No. 110/2006 Coll. the Subsistence Minimum in force from 1.1.2007. Their main task was to motivate the unemployed to actively search for work, and contrary to penalize those who are not interested in finding a job and prefer living on welfare benefits and reduce unemployment. The thesis aims to analyze the impact of these changes on the development of unemployment in the district of Kladno and development spending on social benefits.

Práce ověřuje pracovní hypotézy: (i) finanční řízení zahraniční mise nestátní neziskové organizace je specifickou oblastí, která si zaslouží vlastní metodologický přístup a (ii) požadavky na finančního manažera zahraniční mise jsou odlišné od běžného finančního manažera nestátní neziskové organizace Popisuje poslání, hodnoty a vize nestátních neziskových organizací, strategické řízení, finanční plánování, project cycle management, rizika v neziskovém sektoru a finanční zdroje. Praktická část definuje humanitární a rozvojovou pomoc, vysvětluje pozici organizace v tomto kontextu a vymezuje charakteristiky zahraničních misí, dále popisuje finance v organizační struktuře, vysvětluje finanční plánování, ekonomiku misí na Kavkaze a ukázkový rozpočet projektu, nakonec popisuje pracovní náplň finančního manažera mise a specifika života a práce v rozvojovém světě.

The movement towards developing existing education systems to be more inclusive can be seen worldwide. However, even in a country such as Finland where inclusive ideology has been promoted in national policies for a considerable time, there are existing needs for development that need to be examined. The aim of this systematic review was to examine these existing needs for development in primary schools in Finland. Inclusive education means the inclusion of all children. In this systematic review, the focus was on those children in risk of exclusion with special educational needs due to a disability. The results are analyzed by utilizing a framework inspired by the framework developed by Ainscow and Miles (2009). The results show that there are several needs for development especially related to systems and structures, and practice. Furthermore, more systematic actions are needed moving from policies to effective implementation of inclusive practices. Overall, inclusion is a complex concept and future research conducted with diverse groups of children of all ages is greatly needed.

For all but thirteen years of the decades from 1952 to 2017, British Columbia was electorally dominated by the Social Credit Party and its ideological successor, the BC Liberal Party. These organizations represented the interests of business in opposition to the social democratic NDP, which has drawn a core support base from organized labour and the public sector middle class. This thesis frames the Social Credit-BC Liberal political formation as a ruling class bloc that maintained hegemony by switching between distinct rhetorical modes as the political situation required or allowed, with economic austerity, framed as objective necessity, on one hand, and populism, employing overt moralism and down-to-earth posturing, on the other. I posit that both modes operated to mask the class conflict at the heart of the neoliberal project of free markets, public sector reduction, and social atomization that has attained the status of political and economic “common sense” since its policies began to be widely adopted around the world in the late 1970s. After providing a background for the rise of Social Credit in British Columbia under W.A.C. Bennett (premier from 1952-1972), this thesis tracks the continuities and changes of the province’s hegemonic bloc, using welfare policies and poverty discourses as a focus. I consider the party’s transition from a populist one that appealed to the province’s evangelical Christian population to a modernized, neoliberal party under Bill Bennett’s leadership (1975-1986). Exploring the rationales surrounding the cuts to welfare funding enacted under the Social Credit governments of Bill Bennett and Bill Vander Zalm and the BC Liberal government of Gordon Campbell (2001-2011), I analyze how neoliberal and populist styles were employed, what the relationship between the two was, and the extent to which moralism was part of both styles/discourses regarding poverty. I also look at the extent to which the collective solidarity of anti-poverty activists and progressive religious groups was able to push back against neoliberal and populist policies, resisting the individualism that neoliberalism attempts to enforce. In these ways, this thesis seeks to contribute to making neoliberalism a topic of critical political analysis and deliberation at a time when its policies are often framed as non-ideological. / Graduate

Denna kandidatuppsats syftar till att undersöka hur småföretags strategiorientering påverkar det val av alternativa finansiella bootstrappingmetoder, som småföretag väljer att tillämpa. Småföretagare motsvarar 96 procent av samtliga svenska verksamma företag och utgör därmed en betydande roll i samhället. Detta för att de ses som samhällsbärare, då fyra av fem arbetstillfällen skapas av svenska småföretag och bidrar vidare till välfärd. Trots deras betydande roll i samhället möts de av finansiella barriärer som leder till att småföretag hamnar i ett så kallat finansiellt gap. För att ta sig ur det finansiella gapet, tvingas småföretagare finna alternativa finansieringsmetoder. De alternativa finansieringsmetoderna benämns finansiella bootstrappingmetoder, vilka har kommit att bli avgörande för småföretags överlevnad. Småföretags strategiorientering anses påverka valet av finansiella boostrappingmetoder. Således omfattas studien av småföretags strategiorientering, vilka har identifierats utifrån Miles och Snows typologi. En kvantitativ forskningsansats med en positivistisk forskningsfilosofi har legat till grund för studien vilket möjliggör att resultatet ska kunna generaliseras. Studiens enkätundersökning omfattar 84 svenska småföretag som bidragit till studiens resultat. Slutligen är studiens resultat att prospektörer är positivt relaterade till användningen av de ägarrelaterade- och minimerande bootstrappingmetoderna. Medan försvarare är positivt relaterade till användningen av den relationsorienterade bootstrappingmetoden. / This bachelor thesis aims to explore how strategy orientations influence the choice of financial bootstrapping methods among small firms. Small firms represent 96 percent of all Swedish operating companies and thus represent a significant role in the society. This because they contribute to welfare, since four out of five jobs are created by Swedish small firms. Despite their significant role in the society, they are faced with financial barriers that lead to small firms ending up in a so called financial gap. To get out of the financial gap, small firms are forced to find alternative financing methods. The alternative financing methods are called financial bootstrapping methods, which have become crucial for the survival of small firms. The strategy orientation in small firms is considered to affect the choise of financial bootstrapping methods. Thus, the study covers small business strategy orientation which has been identified based on Miles and Snow’s typology. A quantitative research approach with a positivist research philosophy has been the bases of the study which enables the result to be generalized. The survey included 84 Swedish small firms that contributed to the results of this study. Finally, the results of this study are that prospectors are positively related to the use of the owner-related and minimizing bootstrapping methods. While defenders are positively related to the use of the relationship-oriented bootstrapping method.

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / The purpose of this research is to study the effect of different demographic and socio economic factors on the contraceptive use among currently married women of age 15-49 in the two regions of Ethiopia, Amhara (17,214,056) and Oromiya (27,158,471). Data are obtained from the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). Information on contraceptive use was provided by current use 1334 (14.7), future use 4017 (52.0), unmet need for spacing 1817 (20.0) and limiting 1249 (13.3) currently married women aged 15-49 interviewed in the 2005 Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). / South Africa

Research in inclusive education lacks studies in examining how teachers experience their work. The aim of the study was to contribute knowledge regarding teachers’ own perspective on the work with additional adaptations and the prerequisites to meet students’ different needs from classes year 7-9. The data collection method was semi structured interviews and nine interviews were conducted with teachers. The interviews were transcribed in full and empirical evidence condensed by qualitative content analysis. The result showed that teachers describe their work based on different themes; complexity, tacit knowledge and relational skills. The result also showed that the prerequisites that teachers receive in their work with additional adaptations are different types of support structures and that the organization around this work is different in different schools. We found that categorical, relational and the dilemma perspective were represented in teachers descriptions of their work with additional adaptations and that none of the perspectives dominated the empirical evidence. In organization with clear structure and procedures, principal prioritises collegial learning, competence development and support as conditions for the work the relational perspective dominated. Conversely, in organisation lacking support from principal and student health and teachers lack of knowledge in their work with additional adaptions, the categorical perspective dominated.