Personal trainers are paid fitness professionals who curate exercise programs for their clients, bridging the gaps between health, commerce, and fitness. This study seeks to identify specific attributes of personal trainers associated with success, using a crosssectional design. An online survey was used to evaluate career success and levels of emotional intelligence using a convenience sample of certified, working personal trainers (N = 225). Two instruments were developed to capture the concepts of emotional intelligence and career success. Characteristics thought to be most pertinent in the field of personal training are those associated with Emotional Intelligence, as measured by the Emotional Intelligence in Personal Trainers [EIPT] instrument, developed as part of the study. Career success is measured by evaluating career satisfaction, professional progression and professional development using the Success as a Personal Training [SAAPT] instrument, also developed as part of the study. Demographic and work-related items measured variables like weekly productivity, location of training session, type of education, and certification to capture additional characteristics of the sample. The validated Career Success Survey [CSS] was used alongside the EIPT and the SAAPT. It was hypothesized that there would be a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and success. In addition, it was hypothesized that weekly productivity and years of experience would be related to success. Regression analysis findings show that although work-related variables are significant predictors of success, accounting for 19% of the variance in success, Emotional Intelligence accounts for variance in success above and beyond work-related variables, accounting for nearly 49% of additional variance in total success scores (p < .001). This result supports the hypothesis that EI is a significant predictor of success in addition to those work related factors like how many sessions are performed and years of employment.

This research identifies the experiences, behaviours, attitudes, values and beliefs of Australia's most successful franchise owners in order to understand the reasons for their outstanding success in a business environment designed to encourage replication and uniformity. In this study, twelve of Australia's best franchisees have been interviewed to find out their personal qualities that have enabled them to succeed in the franchise business environment. A qualitative methodology within a constructivist ontology and interpretivist epistemology has been used. Interviews were conducted, coded, analysed and models developed using NVivo software. The coding and analysis led to the development of six key characteristics or behaviours of successful franchisees. Australia's best franchisees are successful because they are highly motivated, have outstanding business skills, are committed to franchising, demonstrate remarkable personal qualities reflected in highly ethical leadership with exceptional communication skills and create a business environment that has real customer focus. Human qualities are difficult to isolate and quantify. This research highlights those necessary to succeed in franchising and business generally. The findings from this research have been presented as a framework for franchisee success. The framework provides the basis of human characteristics and elements to consider in franchisee selection and business skill development. The title of this research is in many ways its conclusion. The contribution of franchising to Australia's entrepreneurial spirit is the growth and development of the business skills of franchisees, many of whom are entrepreneurs in the making.

The semiconductor equipment industry of Taiwan, through their constant efforts and continuously endeavor, hope with their ripe productivity that lead enterprises to sustainable business and development forever. Many equipment suppliers pursue advanced technology and develop new equipment in order to improve the competitiveness. Starting from developing the equipment for the back-end of production line, they finally reach 15% of self-production rate after years of effort. However, they only achieve 5% at the front-end; there is indeed a lot of space for growth. Through studying the development process of the equipment of M Company, we will find they become one of the most competitive companies in this industry by continuing to strengthen the ability of R&D and enhance service quality. This research explores the key successful factors of M company by focusing on interview, through SWOT analysis and Porter 5 force analysis, will conclude that indeed there is significant competitiveness. During researching and analyzing, we summarize the following points: 1. Correct orientation of products 2. Good expansion and adoption of R&D talent 3. Speed of new research and development meet customer¡¦s demand 4. Good ability of customer management 5. Advantage on competitive time and cost 6. Vertical integration capability 7. Flat organization Observe and track the improvement continuously, make M Company and semiconductor equipment companies obtain better achievement in the equipment industry of Taiwan. This research can be classified as key successful factors. Because the period of time and material still has space for improvement, we expect this is constructive to younger generation of R&D, and all the equipment suppliers.

This thesis examines the relationship between organizations structure, culture and leadership. The specific organization that has been studied is Swedish secondary schools. The Swedish schools have a divided task, first to develop the students academic skills and secondly to develop the students socially and civically. This thesis has its interest on the schools social environment with special interest focused on questions regarding bullying and insulting behaviour. The data that has been used consists of interviews and questionnaires with students, teachers and principals in 24 Swedish schools that have been studied in a larger study. This work is a part of a project called Structure, Culture and Leadership – prerequisites for successful schools?.  The 24 schools that took part in the SCL study were divided in to four different groups depending on how well they are succeeding in reaching the social and academic objectives formulated in the steering documents. The main result show that principals that succeed to align structure and culture in relation to both the social and academic objectives are the ones that can be perceived as successful. It is these schools that have the lowest level of bullying and the highest grades. The principal takes social responsibility and takes questions in relation to bullying and insulting behaviour seriously. By doing that the principal can communicate the seriousness of the topic in order to develop awareness within the organization and a preventive work can therefore be possible. In schools that work with the students’ ability to be participative seems to develop the students both socially and academically. / Structure, Culture and Leadership - Prerequisites for Successful Schools?

The purpose of this study was to investigate what distinguishes psychopaths who commit crimes ("unsuccessful"), and psychopaths who do not commit crimes ("successful"). Most previous research has focused on neurobiological risk factors, while social and psychosocial factors have been studied to a lesser extent. Participants were drawn from the Swedish population-based RESUMÉ-study (Retrospective Study of Young People's Experiences). In total, 2500 individuals between the ages 20-24 (mean age=22.15, SD=1.38, 52.6% female and 47.4% male) participated in the study. Results showed that the “unsuccessful” psychopathy group was consuming larger amounts of alcohol and substances as well as scoring higher on the psychopathy dimension behavior (irresponsible/impulsive) than the "successful" group. In conclusion, these differences might partly explain why “unsuccessful” psychopaths commit crimes while “successful” psychopaths do not. / Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vad som skiljer mellan psykopater som begår brott ("misslyckade"), och psykopater som inte begår brott ("lyckade"). Större delen av den tidigare forskningen har fokuserat på neurobiologiska riskfaktorer, medan sociala och psykosociala faktorer har studerats i mindre utsträckning. Deltagarna kom från den svenska populationsbaserade RESUMÉ-studien (REtrospektiv Studie av Unga Människors Erfarenheter). Totalt deltog 2500 individer i åldrarna 20-24 år (medelålder=22.15, SD=1.38, 52.6% kvinnor och 47.4% män) i studien. Resultaten visade att den "misslyckade" psykopatigruppen konsumerar större mängder alkohol och substanser samt uppvisar högre nivåer av psykopatidimensionen beteende (oansvarig/impulsiv) än den "lyckade" psykopatigruppen. Sammanfattningsvis kan dessa skillnader delvis förklara varför "misslyckade" psykopater begår brott medan "lyckade" psykopater inte gör det.

Years since the outbreak of the mainland in 2008, melamine incident, public concern and requirement about food safety are increasing. In fact, the industry, government and academia also initiated many research plans and policy measures for the issue. Currently, the government has begun construct food traceability system plaforms layer by layer, including Taiwan agriculture and food traceability system, Taiwan processed food traceability system and food distribution traceability system. However, since the implement costs are considerable and the benefits of food traceability are unknown, to enhance the willingness to implementation food traceability, it must be attractive enough to let the market value widely recognized and accepted. Accordingly, the key factors in promoting food traceability and assessment criteria of each factor would be the issues that the government and the food industry are eager to figure out. Based on literature and traceability current developments, this study sort out the hierarchy factors of implementation of food traceability system, including government policy side, third-party certification unit, traceability information system, production and management side, supply chain collaboration, consumers cognitive, then design the qualitative and quantitative questionnaires by Analytic Hierarchy Process. Interview with nine experts (3 industrial, 3 government unit and 3 academic) and conduct in-depth discussion to reach key factors in the weight and priority of promoting food traceability system in Taiwan. In conclusion, our three major conclusions and recommendations, as follows: 1."Production and management side," "government policy side", "consumer awareness and acceptance" are driving foctors of the development of food traceability. "Supply chain collaboration", "traceability information system" and "third-party certification body" are complementary elements, which still needs proper planning and construction. 2. From the perspective of business, prior assessment of the food traceability will maximum effectiveness. It helpbusiness to improve the internal processes, risk management, in addition to protect consumer health and safety, enhance corporate reputation. 3. The Government should refer to the development of food traceability leading countries develop food safety regulations, orderly planning of food traceability systems. Also promote to food industry, and consumer.

ABSTRACT In recent years, the iPhone and iPad enter to the market; lead the rapid growth of the touch panel. Taiwan is the largest 3C products OEM base in the world. Therefore, many foundries have invested in the production technology and process development of touch panel, but there are too many competitiors so that the average price will be dropped in the future and the profit willdecline too. Hence, the touch panel foundries should try to face the problems of increase yields, reduce costs and robust profits. In this study, the author selected the ¡§Taiwan Touch Panel Industry¡¨ as the research object. Then, collect, collate, generalization and analysis the literature of¡§Key Successful Factors¡¨, combined with interviews of experts and AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) questionnaire. The AHP questionnaire is designed by selection of assessment criteria, and filled by the manufactures. According to the summarization of AHP method to make a comparative and sort weights. And base on the results to give the conclusuins and recommendations. The study proposes five dimensions and 28 key success factors and future development trends. The author finds that the importantance of each aspect as fllows: the production capacity (38.9%), innovation capability (22.2%), financial planning ability (16.4%), marketing planning capacity (11.9%), human resource management (10.6%). By analysis results, the study gives the recommendations as below: 1. The cost and experience is the motive of technology innovation and development of touch panel industry. 2. Equally emphasize of materials and technology development trends.

This research is to adopt the quality quest research method, interviewing through the depth and the sorting and researches of the pet industry related development process, regard core resource theories as the foundation, look for to be subjected to the management key of visiting the individual cases to succeed factor, to understand its competitive advantage to produce. In addition, also consult and deliberate now before pet industry characteristic and actual situation condition, try to induce and identify the key succeeds factor of the relation between control and management results performance. This research is final to acquire as follows what time conclusion: (1) Pet already camp key success the characteristic of the factor is affected by the core resource (2) The key that this research have to pay success the factor account six, including:" Block advantage"," management type"," store atmosphere"," sell the thoroughfare choice"," enter the goods mode" and" executive profession degree". (3) When various keys succeed the factor can reach the certain level, to conduct the good and bad of the results to have the influence of absolute, and the management results of the pet industry then expresses in four factors in" finance results"," earning satisfaction"," customer satisfaction" and" technique satisfaction".

The study aims to find key factors of information system success in a non-profit education and training institute. The institute under study has five centers providing on-job training and long-term cultivation in the area of information technology. Facing the pressure of continuing growth and increasing competition, the institute has begun the e-projects since many years ago. After several years of system development and implementation, a survey of users¡¦ satisfaction showed that only part of the systems was acceptable. This study adopts the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as the primary research framework along with the service quality model and comes up with five success factors including perceived usefulness, perceived ease-of-use, system quality, information quality and service quality. Moreover, user satisfaction is taken as dependent variable of the framework. In order to differentiate the successful system from the unsuccessful system, a curriculum management system and a knowledge management system was selected to represent the successful and unsuccessful systems respectively. The case study method and questionnaire survey wre both used as research method. In the case study, the development and implementation background, process and results were investigated. The survey method was used to verify the differences between the two systems using the five factors mentioned previously. The results of questionnaire survey and statistical test clearly distinguish the two systems and support case study findings. The results of this study can serve as guideline to improve the users¡¦ satisfaction as well as to improve the information system success.

Abstract Mergers and Acquisitions often happen in America and Europe, but in Taiwan they are just on the start stage. In the end of 1999, two of top ten securities firms-- Yuanta Securities Firm and Core Pacific Securities Firm merged. This M&A case triggered a series of M&A actions in the securities industry, and the rank and ecology of the industry changed a lot. My thesis focuses on the effects of industry structure and key success factors due to the series of M&A actions in securities industry. My four research objectives are : 1. to find out the motives of securities firms¡¦ M&A 2. to find out what happened to industry structure after the several M&A actions 3. If the industry structure changed, to find out the influences of key success factors of industry 4. Facing the changed industry environment, to give securities firms some suggestions The analysis methods of my thesis are literature reviewing and interviewing the securities firms. Porter¡¦s ¡§Five Forces Model¡¨ is the main analyzing theory. The research results find that the main motive of the securities firms¡¦ M&A is to expand the scale, in order to globalize and develop to be an investment bank. After several M&A actions, the most obvious changes are the decrease of securities firm numbers and the change of rank. The intensity of industry competition alleviates and the threat of substitute and potential entrant diminishes. The bargaining power of customers doesn¡¦t change. As to key successful factors, the importance of securities firms¡¦ size increases. Globalization, training of professional employees, innovation of products and information technology are required resources and capacities of securities firms.