Thesis (M.A.)--City University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title from title screen (viewed on 27 Mar. 2006) "MA in arbitration and disputes resolution." Includes bibliographical references.

In the Czech Republic all activities of individual groups of health care workers are defined by various regulations and laws. All nurses' competences are stipulated by 424/2004 Decree of Coll. of Laws and that defines activities and responsibilities for health care workers as well as other professionals and experts in the medical field. In my thesis three goals and hypotheses were set. The first goal of my thesis was to find out what level of awareness of the existence and of the content of the 424/2004 Decree doctors and nurses was. For that purpose the hypothesis Hl was set. It was worded as the following: ,Doctors are aware of the existence and the content of the 424/2004 Decree. The second goal was to find out what doctors' opinoions on the relevant competences were. To reach this goal hypotheses H2 were set. They were worded as the following:" Doctors have not become familiar with the importance of a qualification study that is backed up with having the relevant competences stipulated in 424/2004 Decree. H3 was worded as the following : "Activities required by doctors for nurses to be carried out go over their competences stipulated in 424/2004 Decree. H4: Activities going beyond nurses' competences do not enable the nurses providing relevant nursing care which should be focused on saturation and meeting patients' needs. The third goal was to find out what doctors think of the Decree's implementation in everyday life. I set a hypothesis that doctors do not feel any need to change nurses competences.

Persistent differences in corporate commitments to sustainability have led to an increasing debate. However, reasons behind such differences still lack a generic theorization. To address this research gap, the purpose of this study is to: 1) explicate key organizational functions and process underpinning dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability; 2) explore the relationship between supply chain knowledge transfer and the development of dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability. For such a purpose a theoretical framework is established with proposed hypotheses deriving from existing literature. Then a two-stage, mixed method is designed to test the model. In Stage One, a case study and a large-scale archival analysis are performed to elaborate the microfoundations, i.e. key organizational functions and process underpinning dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability. In Stage Two, a largescale survey is conducted among about 2,500 CILT members. The validity and reliability of the collected data are then verified through a series of tests. Finally the empirical data are fitted into a Structural Equation Model (SEM) to test proposed hypotheses. The findings of the research are twofold. The result of Stage One study suggests that three types of dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability, namely scanning, sensing, and reconfiguration capabilities, underpin a firm’s competence to successfully respond to the environmental and social concerns of various stakeholders and mobilize internal resources to make strategic change towards sustainability. Moreover, key organizational functions and process underpinning dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability show commonalities among firms across various industrial sectors and geographic regions. In Stage Two study, the empirical finding is that supply chain knowledge transfer positively impacts the development of firm's scanning capability and sensing capability. However, the impact patterns vary significantly between focal firms' upstream and downstream supply chain partnerships. The research contributes to knowledge from three perspectives. To theory, as an early attempt to extend Dynamic Capabilities View (DCV) to the area of corporate sustainability, the research not only introduces the concept of dynamic capabilities for corporate sustainability to the literature, but also examines how these capabilities can be developed through supply chain knowledge transfer. It thus contributes to the theories of both DCV and corporate sustainability. To research, the empirical findings of the research indicate that the effect of inter-firm knowledge transfer on capabilities development of supply chain customers tends to be underestimated by previous studies, thus providing a new potential research direction. To practice, professionals could possibly use the theoretical framework developed in the study to better understand what types of dynamic capabilities should be developed to more effectively overcome emerging sustainability challenges, and how to further develop these capabilities through supply chain knowledge transfer.

Social science research on third sector organisations in the last two decades has emphasised their growing presence and importance in healthcare. This has occurred alongside significant reorganisation of health systems in the UK, including a continued policy emphasis on partnership-working between the public sector and the third sector. However, unanswered questions in the literature remain with regard to the specific roles that these organisations fulfil within partnership arrangements. This thesis examines the role of third sector organisations within Scottish services for the chronic, neurodegenerative condition Huntington’s disease (HD). The closely connected nature of Scottish healthcare and the multitude of professionals involved in HD mean these services are an important, but currently understudied, example of professional interaction around complexity. A multi-methods qualitative research framework was used to gather perspectives of key individuals working in the Scottish HD and wider health scene. Making use of the key concepts of expertise and boundary work, this thesis argues that third sector organisations have an extensive shaping role in 1) the positioning of healthcare organisations, 2) the identities of healthcare professionals, and 3) the meanings around illness and the remit of support. The research findings revealed that organisations and professionals in HD partnership arrangements engaged in processes of boundary work in the negotiation of the roles of themselves and others. Third sector professionals occupied many positions within services, as both experts and supporters of patients. In the process they and other professionals often took on identities as ‘key, committed professionals’. Understanding around HD was also shaped by these professionals as the wider aspects of illness and its support were brought into focus. Building on these findings, it is argued that third sector professionals in coordination roles are well placed to develop a type of expertise that I term ‘aggregate know-how’ (Pols 2014), based around both their professional skills and their extensive contact with patient experiential knowledge. The research builds on and extends influential previous models of third sector ‘partnership’ in healthcare (Rabeharisoa 2003), emphasising the key role of third sector organisations in knowledge production. It also offers insights of both theoretical and practical use with regard to service delivery in healthcare, showing the potential for genuine third sector/public sector partnership around expertise when there is adequate cultural support and resources.

NASCIMENTO, Paulo Henrique Albuquerque do. A escola é a segunda família e a família é a primeira escola:uma arqueogenealogia da parceria entre família e escola. 2017. 158f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-08T11:10:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_phanascimento.pdf: 1418055 bytes, checksum: 1ee215422c3c04f80c3c992aea5a69da (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-09-08T11:45:01Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_phanascimento.pdf: 1418055 bytes, checksum: 1ee215422c3c04f80c3c992aea5a69da (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-08T11:45:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_phanascimento.pdf: 1418055 bytes, checksum: 1ee215422c3c04f80c3c992aea5a69da (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This research takes as object of investigation the functioning of a partnership between family and school. To this end, it chooses as a research focus the scenario of public education policy in Brazil, taking as limit some reference documents issued by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and its ways of designating and establishing functions for the school and the family regarding their roles in the field of formal education, but also in their relations with the social environment in a broader way. In addition, it also draws attention to the discursive regimes about the partnership between family and school driven by the academic-scientific scenario, analyzing particularities of dissertations and doctoral theses that touch on this object investigated and problematized, in the most diverse research programs of the country . In fact, this work enables the understanding of the partnership between family and school in the encounter between philosophy and education, in order to produce new effects of meaning for the relationship between these institutions - traditionally allocated as a way of making viable projects of nation -, demarcating also an insertion with the field of the Foucaultian studies. To this end, the conceptual tools of archeology and genealogy, in their couplings in the form of archeogenealogy, work as analytical operators to forge the concept of partnership as a device that encompasses several, sometimes differing, forms and conceptions of the role assigned to the school and the family in our social environment. In order to do so, it also points out that the field of education seems to be a vector through which the partnership between family and school takes on a larger form, but that it also connects and disregards other registers of knowledge as a way of moving its gears, producing changes to, also, what would be the function of the school or the family. Such changes allow, therefore, the production of new fields of knowledge and power relations in their mode of functioning. In this sense, this partnership, through its diffuse, multiple and heterogeneous field of functioning, connects with the strategies of governing the conduct of individuals, in an art of governing, with neoliberal rationality being one of them. In this way, the concept of governmentality will be an ammunition of analysis to examine the ways in which the functioning of this partnership engenders a production of subjectivities and enables a way of maximizing the life and bodies of the subjects. Finally, it points out some discontinuities with regard to the supposedly hegemonic forms of thinking about the relation between family and school, problematizing the ideals of complicity, complementarity and continuity between family and school that are put to this relation in the form of partnership. / Esta pesquisa toma como objeto de investigação o funcionamento de uma parceria entre família e escola. Para tanto, elege como foco de investigação o cenário da política pública de educação no Brasil, tomando como recorte alguns documentos de referência veiculados pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC) em seus modos de designar e estabelecer funções à escola e à família no que diz respeito aos seus papeis no campo da educação formal, como também nas suas relações com o meio social de modo mais amplo. Além disso, também lança atenção para os regimes discursivos acerca da parceria entre família e escola acionados pelo cenário acadêmico-científico, utilizando análises particularidades de dissertações e teses de doutoramento que tangenciam esse objeto aqui investigado e problematizado, nos mais diversos programas de pesquisa do país. Com efeito, este trabalho positiva o entendimento da parceria entre família e escola no encontro entre a filosofia e a educação, no intuito de produzir novos efeitos de sentido para a relação entre essas instituições - tradicionalmente alocados como forma de viabilizar projetos de nação -, demarcando também uma inserção com o campo dos estudos foucaultianos. Para tanto, as ferramentas conceituais da arqueologia e da genealogia, em seus acoplamentos sob a forma da arqueogenealogia, funcionam como operadores analíticos para forjar o conceito de “parceria” como um dispositivo que abrange diversas formas e concepções, às vezes díspares, acerca do papel atribuído à escola e à família em nosso meio social. Para isso, aponta ainda que o campo da educação parece ser um vetor por onde a parceria entre família e escola ganha maior forma, mas que ela também passa a se conectar e prescindir de outros registros de saber como forma de movimentar suas engrenagens, produzindo mudanças também ao que seria função da escola ou da família. Tais mudanças permitem, pois, a produção de novos campos de saber e relações de poder no seu modo de funcionar. Nesse sentido, essa parceria, por meio de seu campo difuso, múltiplo e heterogêneo de funcionamento, conecta-se às estratégias de governo da conduta dos indivíduos, a uma arte de governar, sendo a racionalidade neoliberal, uma delas. Desse modo, o conceito de governamentalidade será mais uma munição de análise para atentar aos modos pelos quais o funcionamento dessa parceria engendra uma produção de subjetividades e positiva uma forma de maximizar a vida e os corpos dos sujeitos. Por fim, aponta algumas descontinuidades no que diz respeito às formas pretensamente hegemônicas de se pensar a relação entre família e escola, problematizando os ideais de cumplicidade, complementaridade e continuidade entre família e escola que são postas para essa relação sob a forma de parceria.

BACKGROUND. The need for public sector agencies to work together to deal with complex issues which overlap agencies spheres of work has been well established. Cases such as the Soham murders in 2002 (BBC News, 2003), the Climbie child abuse case in 2003 (Health Committee, 2003) and the Pilkington Anti-social Behaviour case in 2007 (Telegraph, 2009) each highlighted the need for public sector agencies to work more closely and share information with each other to more effectively serve their public. METHODOLOGY. A three year period of participant observation in the implementation of a real time information sharing system used by multiple agencies to jointly manage anti-social behaviour was undertaken. An information sharing framework was produced detailing the factors which impact an information sharing project, classified into six categories; External Environment, Organisation, Process, Project, Technology and Individual. FINDINGS. Firstly bureaucracy is not always a barrier to information sharing. At times bureaucracy was found to enable information sharing by providing documentary evidence to decisions made throughout the system implementation. Secondly an agency's level of buy in and involvement with the information sharing project was shown to be a key indicator of their motivation to share information, correlating with the level of case recording on the system. Thirdly whilst technology enables the process of information sharing the research showed people had a much greater impact on whether information sharing took place. Finally whilst the UK public sector encourages public sector agencies to share information a wide scale review and approach to IT infrastructure would better enable future information sharing projects. CONCLUSIONS. The research identified there are many factors which impact an agency's ability/motivation to share information. It is the level of motivation an agency has minus the cost of sharing which ultimately determines whether information sharing occurs. In order to further encourage information sharing there is a recommendation that the UK government look at ways to make integrating the disparate data sources easier to decrease the cost of sharing and thus improve the likelihood information sharing will occur.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF LORI A. BARROW, for the Master of Science degree in FORESTRY, presented on October 18, 2012 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT FOR USDA FOREST SERVICE PARTNERSHIPS MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Erin Seekamp and Dr. Andrew Carver In an era of constrained appropriations and increasingly complex social and environmental challenges, partnerships have become an essential tool for public land management agencies, such as the USDA Forest Service (USFS), to accomplish critical tasks, meet management goals, and enhance service delivery. Despite the growing practice and reliance on partnerships as an alternative management strategy, few empirical assessments of this management approach have been conducted, and knowledge is limited regarding the structure and function of these relationships. Therefore, the goals of this study were to expand the established partnership knowledge base by systematically examining the institutional characteristics necessary to foster a vibrant partnership culture, uncovering and documenting the various partnership structural types being utilized, and determining whether or not institutional characteristics or external environment characteristics are related to the partnership approach utilized by USFS personnel. To explore these partnership characteristics, and assess whether differences existed between administrative levels and between national forest, an online questionnaire was administered to agency personnel on 13 randomly selected forests during the fall of 2011. Forests were randomly selected from three stratum of internal commitment from all 155 national forests' "Working Together" webpage. Of the 1584 respondent sample, 611 completed the questionnaire (40% response rate). Data collected clearly document a steady increase in the reliance of partnerships as a management strategy in recreation and resource service delivery. While the findings reveal diverse partnership support networks, respondents reported few incentives to cultivate partnerships and limited recognition for their partnership work. Furthermore, this study confirms that agency personnel work with multiple types of volunteer or partnering groups on a fairly regular basis, and make strategic choices when selecting and cultivating partnerships based on the types of work typically performed and their access and proximity to different partnering groups. Moreover, a mixed-method cluster analysis provided further insight into agency-partner interactions by identifying and defining partnership structural types and exposing variation in personnel's capacity to engage partners based on the level of internal support received, the extent of the national forest's partnership dependency, and type of external environment that categorizes the communities adjacent to the national forest (i.e., urban or rural). As the partnership phenomenon continues to be espoused by the USFS as an innovative and alternative management strategy, this thesis provides agency personnels' depiction of the agency's capacity to engage and support partnerships at multiple administrative levels and on different national forests, and helps build the foundation for managing national forests through partnerships.

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abstract: This article can be divided into six parts. The first chapter analyzes the background, theatrical and particle reasons of this research. The author argues that the management of law firm needs a set of good system. The first one is operating the law firm in scale, and the other on is corporate management model, which shall be constructed in detail in the paper and will be put into practice by the law firm in which the author is worked. The second chapter will introduce modern management theory, combining the situation of management in our law firm to analyze, raising some reasonable suggestions and instructions to promote our law firm to achieve the corporate management. In the third chapter, the first chapter, starting with the review of the development process of foreign and our law firms, listing the organizational forms and the characteristics of our law firm, analyzing the situation and the drawbacks of the law firm management. The fourth and fifth chapter introduce he background, the connotation of the corporate management model, listing the development and successful experience of some typical cases in respect of corporate management. In the last chapter, the construction of corporate management model will be introduced in terms of organization form, human resource management and informationizing development. The corporate management model is not mature in china. Though it is not easy to reform the existing model, but it should be believed that the development benefiting the legal industry will be achieved. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Business Administration 2017