ABSTRACT Due to the combined factors of the declining of the birth rate year by year; the impact caused by the change of population structure and the incapability of the highway supervising authorities to thoroughly implement Clause 35 of ¡§The rules governing the private driving schools¡¨, the livelihood of the coaches and the staff are adversely hampered and it is also against the anticipation of the management. This research is purposed to study how the management, under the circumstances, to stimulate the sense of belonging amongst the staff and to boost their morale through the job involvement as well as job satisfaction so as to achieve the competitiveness and the efficiency of an organization. This study uses the personal variants as the independent variable ; the job satisfaction and the job involvement as the middle variable trying to probe the possible correlations between the two abovementioned factors and the job efficiency. This thesis¡¦ object is the staff of the driving schools nationwide. It uses questionnaires to collect deta. With regard to the deta analysis, the methods of description statistics analysis, factor analysis, credibility analysis, the T-survey of independent objects, the single factor variation analysis and the regression analysis etc. are used. Firstly, it describes how the objects get scores among the variants. Secondly, the single factor variation analysis is used to examine whether the personal variants show up apparent differences to the job satisfaction, involvement and efficiency. The multiple regression analysis is used to analyze the possible influence and the predictability of the personal variants towards the job satisfaction, involvement and efficiency. multiple regression analysis is used to probe whether the job satisfaction has any apparent impact on the job involvement and job efficiency. The outcome shows: (1). The gender factor among the personal variants has no apparent differences after one-by-one comparison whereas this research finds that the male has higher exterior work satisfaction than the female. (2). The variety of divisions has apparent difference towards interior job satisfaction, so is the characters of work towards the interior satisfaction. (3). Through the difference analysis, it is found that the personal traits have no apparent difference towards the job autonomy of the staff. (4). The characters of work have apparent difference towards the job development. (5). Age has apparent difference towards job efficiency. (6). The age of the staff has apparent difference towards the job involvement. (7).The interior satisfaction of a satisfactory work has apparent difference towards job involvement. (8). Job satisfaction has no influence on the job efficiency. (9).The job involvement has no apparent impact on job efficiency. According to the outcome of the research, this thesis suggests that: (1).The employment and assignment of the work must accord with the specialty of the employees. (2).The furtherance of training is needed to enhance the work ability. (3).It needs to improve the mechanism of the efficiency evaluation.

Taiwan Railway Administration Bureau (TRAB) is a public transportation service unit; it has obtained the monopoly of Taiwan railway transportation business. Recently because of the policy of going private for most of the national business, the employee turn over rate is high, new employees who intend to resign from the company is increasing. Many competent employees left and caused big damage to the company, and many works can not be accomplished smoothly, how to build up a pleasant atmosphere and inspire the employees potential, increase their job satisfaction, reduce the turnover rate, in order to bring the maximum benefits for the organization becomes the most critical issues. This research is focused on the employees at Taiwan Railway Administration Bureau, their work attitude and the overview of the resignation inclination. The target groups are the employees at the head office and the engineering department, and the researcher chose the random selected people to fill in the questionnaires and test there opinions. This research covers 400 copies of questions, through the process of going private, the researcher intends to see the result of different people¡¦s personal attributes toward job involvement, job satisfaction, resignation inclination, etc. and try to get the variables and the result of the research: 1.Different employees¡¦ attitudes in TRAB with different personal attributes variables, they have significant difference in each dimension of job involvement, job satisfaction, and resignation inclination. 2.TRAB employees¡¦ attitudes with different degree of job involvement have the significant influence to resignation inclination. 3.TRAB employees¡¦ attitudes with different degree of job satisfaction have the significant influence to resignation inclination. 4.TRAB employees¡¦ attitudes that have the interrelation between job involvement in each dimension and personal attributes variables have the significant influence to resignation inclination. 5.TRAB employees¡¦ attitudes that have the interrelation between job satisfaction in each dimension and personal attributes variables and have the significant influence to resignation inclination. 6.TRAB employees¡¦ attitudes toward job involvement have significant positive co-relation to job satisfaction. According to the result of the research, this research are covered with the following suggestions to TRAB : 1.Set up fair and reasonable diversified performance evaluation and promotion system. 2.Increase feedback programs to the best performed employees, give them the opportunities to think and decide. 3.Set up the retention plan. 4.For the employees that have higher education or have higher position, the company should design more challenging, diversified, self-controlled jobs, and they have more opportunities to use different skills to complete various jobs, in order to increase the sense of job satisfaction. 5.Reinforce the employees¡¦ cohesiveness, reduce the resignation inclination. The suggestions to the following researchers: There are many factors that influence an employee to resign; this research is only focused on job satisfaction, job involvement and personal attributes variables, other variables such as organization climate, culture, leadership behaviors etc. have not been researched. This research suggests that the following researchers can concentrate on the resignation inclination in many other cases, and analyze with multiple variables.

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This investigation used data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2 (NLTS2) to investigate patterns among student, family, and school characteristics, school outreach programs, and school-based family involvement for families of 5,670 students with disabilities ages 13 to 17 in a nationally representative sample. Consistent with prior research, several variables were linked to higher levels of family involvement, including age, disability, ethnicity, living in the same neighborhood, household income, household structure, head of household?s education level, support group participation, time in community, and school outreach programs. Although these variables were statistically significant, model estimates were small. School outreach program predictors included school size, urbanicity, and a lower principal evaluation of outreach efforts. This study makes a unique contribution to the research base by extending Newman?s investigation to include school outreach programs offered by schools as a possible predictor of school-based family involvement.

Background: Strategic place branding has gained increased recognition lately, both scholarly and inpractice. Because of globalization, cities are today constantly competing with othercities all over the world. Therefore it is today important for a city to communicate animage that is distinguished from others. However, a city’s image is not communicatedby a single organization, but by a various number of stakeholders. A city consists ofmany different stakeholders, which can make it a complex process. Problem: Much of the existing research argues for the need to involve stakeholders in theprocess of branding cities. How to successfully do so is however still not clearlydefined. This is a complicated manner since every stakeholder is different and hasdifferent needs, priorities and perspectives. This means that stakeholders are also ableto contribute to a city and its brand in a unique way, which existing research lacks indefining. As of last year, Jönköping Municipality and Jönköping University officiallybecame partners in a project called Jönköping Science City. This is a strategiccollaboration between the two parties around a common future vision for Jönköping. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how the involvement of JönköpingUniversity, as a stakeholder, looks like in the process of branding Jönköping city.Meaning that this study will analyze the collaboration and the effects that theuniversity has as a major stakeholder and as an educational center in the city. Method:  Primary and secondary data have been used in order to fulfill the purpose of thisthesis. A case study, in-depth interviews and existing literature have provided atheoretical and empirical base to for the analysis and conclusion. Conclusion: Jönköping University is a unique stakeholder and has had considerable contributionfor the city and its brand. By an established cooperation with the university, Jönköpingcity are in turn able to utilize the positive / Bakgrund: Till följd av globaliseringen som idag är ett faktum finns numera en konstantkonkurrens städer emellan. Detta har lett till en allt större betydelse och intresse kringstrategisk platsmarknadsföring, både vetenskapligt och i praktiken. I praktiken betyderdetta att städer idag har ett behov av att kommunicera en unik varumärkesimage somskiljer sig från övriga städer. Däremot kommuniceras inte städers varumärkesimageenbart av en organisation, utan genom många olika aktörer aktiva i staden. Problem: En stor del av den befintliga forskningen betonar vikten av att involvera dessa aktöreri stadens marknadsföringsprocess. Det finns dock inget entydigt svar på hur detta skallgenomföras och oklarheter råder på området. Att involvera aktörer i en sådan processär ofta komplicerat då olika aktörer har skilda behov, prioriteringar och perspektiv. Nuvarande forskning saknar även fakta kring det faktum att olika aktörer kan bidra tillen stad på unika sätt. Detta har författarna valt att kolla vidare på genom att undersökadet nyligen startade samarbetet mellan Jönköpings kommun och Högskolan iJönköping, Jönköping Science City. Jönköping Science City är ett officiellt samarbetei syfte att skapa och jobba mot en gemensam framtidsvision parterna emellan. Syfte: Denna uppsats har till syfte att undersöka Högskolan i Jönköpings medverkan iJönköpings stads marknadsföringsprocess. Detta kommer att göras genom attanalysera samarbetet mellan de båda parterna och de bidragande effekter somsamarbetet medför. Metod: Både primär- och sekundär data har bildat grunden för denna uppsatts. Författarna haranvänt sig utav en fallstudie, djupintervjuer och befintlig litteratur. Slutsats: Högskolan i Jönköping är en unik aktör i sin roll som stadens lärosäte och har bidragittill en stor del av den utveckling som skett i staden. Genom ett samarbete meduniversitetet, har Jönköping stad bättre kunnat utnyttja den positiva

This study evaluated a model of parent involvement in secondary special education and transition planning and identified motivators affecting a parent’s decision to become involved. Survey data were collected from a national sample of 300 parents of transition-age youth with disabilities. Results of a confirmatory factor analysis indicated the model fit the data for this sample. Four motivators were associated with parental decisions to become involved: Child invitations for involvement were associated with home, school/agency and future planning involvement. Teacher invitations and time and energy were associated with school/agency involvement, and role construction was associated with home involvement. Age, disability type, and SES impacted motivators of involvement. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

abstract: ABSTRACT Parental involvement is vital to student success academically as well as socially (Jeynes, 2007; Kim & Hill, 2015). The purpose of this mixed-methods action research study was to examine the perceptions of parental involvement of parents and teachers in a Title I school. A training session intervention, Social Hour, was designed using the Heath and Heath change model (2010) to create an opportunity to learn about parental involvement and educate the school community on the Epstein’s six-types of parental involvement (Epstein, 1987). The goal of the Social Hour workshop was to address the challenges and barriers to parental involvement, previously listed in the literature. Using the lens of Critical Race theory (Blalock, 1967) ensured that the research gives a voice to those who are often marginalized while also helping parents and teachers build a relationship of trust and understanding using principles of Community of Practice (Wenger, 2009). The results of this study indicate that Social Hour-type learning events are significant in the change to perceptions of parental involvement. The participants had a lower level of confidence at the beginning of the session than at the end. Additional qualitative results also suggest a change in attitude after attending the Social Hour. Participants noted they had more energy about parental involvement and were encouraged that parental involvement does not require them to volunteer more; that it is more about being engaged in their child’s education. Overall, participants reported an increase in confidence and had a positive view of parental involvement based on attending the Social Hour workshop. Keywords: Parental involvement, Critical Race theory, Epstein Six Types of Parental involvement / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Leadership and Innovation 2020

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Parental involvement in children's education has been found to have a positive impact on academic achievement. Because the state has mandated that academic achievement in the study district needs to increase, identifying means of increasing parental involvement is important. Guided by the work of Epstein, this quantitative study was conducted to explore demographic factors related to parents' involvement in the education of their children. Specifically, research questions examined differences in parental involvement by socioeconomic status (SES), barriers to involvement for parents, and school strategies to improve parental involvement. Parents of all 5th grade students (n = 935) from a large East Coast urban district were surveyed using the Scale of Parental Involvement to address the research questions. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as an independent-samples t test to determine the differences in involvement by SES. A significant difference in parental involvement between low- and high-SES parents was not obtained. Parents reported that barriers such as work hours, lack of feeling appreciated, culture, transportation, and child care prevented full participation in the education of their children. The findings also suggested that districts might increase parental involvement through engaging in more frequent communication with parents; providing more activities to do at home; and providing more time for training, teaching, and meeting. Implications for positive social change include providing research findings to the local district on how to increase the involvement of parents in their children's education.