Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1992. / Vita.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of History, March 2003. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-124).

This research examines the financial assistance given by parents to their adult children and the extent to which it is influenced by social policy. In recent years these intergenerational financial transfers have been the subject of much research and a great deal has been learnt about when and why parents make the decision to provide financial assistance (Cox, 1987; Kohli, 1999; Albertini & Kohli, 2012). Furthermore, there has been considerable research on apparent differences in such financial assistance across countries and the extent to which this is attributable to differences in the social policies of these countries (Albertini, Kohli, & Vogel, 2007; Schenk, Dykstra, & Maas, 2010; Brandt & Deindl, 2013). The aim of this research is to further this understanding by considering transfers from different perspectives, first by considering the receipt of transfers rather than the giving of transfers and then by exploring the transfer decision in the context of multi-child families. Through these approaches and by using new data sources and analytical methods, the research estimates the association between social policy and intergenerational financial transfers. Furthermore, it was the specific aim of this research to consider whether such an association would explain cross-national variation in transfer behaviour and the importance of social policies relative to other determinants of transfer behaviour. To achieve these aims a variety of quantitative methods were used to model the giving and receiving of transfers using data from the Survey for Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the European Union’s Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The analysis of this latter dataset represents an important contribution in itself as it allows for the exploration of the receipt of transfers in a comparative perspective for the first time. To incorporate the complex and rich nature of these two datasets, multilevel models are used to model households over time and children within families. The results of these analyses suggest that there is a small association between certain policies and parents providing financial assistance to their adult children. Those in receipt of larger public pensions are marginally more likely to provide financial assistance to their adult children than those with smaller public pensions. As for adult children themselves, those receiving financial assistance from the state in the form of child benefit, housing benefits, social exclusion benefits and educational benefits are fractionally more likely to receive from their parents as well. The estimated coefficients and maximum effect size of such social policies are very small compared to time invariant factors which include the parent’s financial resources and the number of siblings the child has. In addition, the cross-national variation in transfer behaviour identified within the analyses is considerably smaller than in previous research. The research concludes that social policies are of less importance with regards to transfer behaviour than previous research has suggested. Whilst the research identifies a clear association between social policies and transfer behaviour, it is relatively weak compared to other factors. However the research stops short of concluding that social policies do not matter, instead suggesting that future research should critically assess the importance of intergenerational transfers in determining the adult child’s outcomes.

Les élèves éprouvent des difficultés dans l’utilisation de leurs acquis linguistiques pour l’apprentissage des mathématiques et cela se ressent sur leur motivation et leurs performances scolaires. Issu d’un environnement plurilingue, l’enfant burkinabè arrive à l’école avec son lot de connaissances, de représentations, somme de ses expériences. Fort de ce «déjà-là», il ne doit pas être une «tête à remplir», mais plutôt à «nourrir» et à soutenir pour qu’il construise lui-même ses connaissances. Ce qui implique pour l’élève d’être placé au centre des processus d’apprentissage. Tout apprentissage comporte des difficultés et nous avons opté pour étudier celles que rencontrent les apprenants en mathématiques pour in fine proposer des pistes de solutions pour l’enseignement/apprentissage des mathématiques en dioula et en français dans les écoles bilingues. Malgré des références aux théories des situations didactiques, notre thèse ne porte pas exclusivement sur la didactique des mathématiques. L’objectif est avant tout d’ordre linguistique car la description du corpus insiste sur l’analyse des échanges verbaux pendant des séquences de mathématiques dans des classes bilingues. En effet, notre travail a eu comme support des séquences de classe filmées et transcrites selon le logiciel CLAN dans l’école bilingue de Lafiabougou «B», au Burkina Faso.Au regard de l’analyse des séquences de classe, il se dégage la nécessité pour l’enseignant de se forger une représentation du fonctionnement de l’oral et de l’écrit en L1 d’une part et l’oral et l’écrit en L2, d’autre part, en accordant de l’importance à l’oral et à l’écrit. Il doit établir des ponts entre L1 et L2 aux différents niveaux d’organisation de la séquence de mathématiques et l’une des conditions est que l’enseignant mène son activité de sorte que l’élève, face aux savoirs, construise des métaconnaissances, aussi doit-il songer à établir un rapport entre transferts d’apprentissage et métacognition. L’apprentissage d’une langue nécessite une somme d’habiletés linguistiques ; aussi, est-il important de discerner les niveaux de compétences linguistiques et de se pencher sur leurs impacts sur les apprentissages. Ce qui demande de la part des acteurs des comportements métalinguistiques axés sur la comparaison L1-L2. Une des difficultés rencontrées par l’élève se situe dans le comportement langagier des enseignants, précisément leur propension à ne pas reformuler ou faire reformuler (Noyau, 2010). Sur la base de ces analyses, nous finissons par un ensemble de préconisations sur les reformulations didactiques entre L1 et L2 pour la formation des enseignants des écoles bilingues. / Students have difficulties in using their language skills for learning mathematics and this has consequences on their motivation and academic performance. From his/her multilingual environment, the Burkinabe child comes to school with a lot of knowledge, representations, and the sum of his/her life experiences. With this " already there ", the child should not be a "head to fill," but rather a learner to "feed" and support, in order for him/her to build his/her own knowledge. This implies the need for the student to be placed at the center of the learning process. Every learning situation involves difficulties, and we opted for studying those faced by learners in mathematics, in order to finally propose possible solutions for teaching / learning mathematics in Jula and French in bilingual schools. Despite references to the theories of didactic situations, our research doesn’t relate exclusively to the teaching of mathematics. The objective is primarily linguistic, as our description of the corpus emphasizes the analysis of verbal exchanges during sequences of mathematics in bilingual classes.Our corpus included filming repeatedly a bilingual school (Lafiabougou "B" in Burkina Faso), and transcribing sequences according to the CLAN software.Given the analysis of class sequences, we conclude pointing at the need for teachers to form representations of how the oral and written L1 one hand, and oral and written L2, work. They should build bridges between L1 and L2 at different levels of organization of the sequence of mathematics. In addition, it is crucial that the teacher conducts its teaching so that the student faces knowledge and builds meta-knowledge, which means establishing relationships between learning transfer and metacognition. Learning a language requires a bulk of language skills. It is important too to distinguish the levels of development of language skills, and to consider their impact on learning. This requires to focus on metalinguistic behavior and comparing L1 and L2. The students also face difficulties related to the language behavior of teachers, particularly their tendency to repeat literally, not to restate or rephrase (Noyau, 2010). We suggest in our conclusions to focus on didactic reformulations between L1 and L2 in training teachers.

Submitted by Guilherme Augusto Glasser (guilherme.glasser@cshg-gauss.com) on 2016-01-13T20:06:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Augusto Glasser Dissertação.pdf: 565420 bytes, checksum: d7501768d648b1870e71810157afe2fe (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Renata de Souza Nascimento (renata.souza@fgv.br) on 2016-01-13T20:11:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Augusto Glasser Dissertação.pdf: 565420 bytes, checksum: d7501768d648b1870e71810157afe2fe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-14T10:54:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guilherme Augusto Glasser Dissertação.pdf: 565420 bytes, checksum: d7501768d648b1870e71810157afe2fe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-16 / This study sought to determine which features that can affect the decision of a municipality to become a tax haven. It seeks to go beyond just claim that much financial resource coming into the coffers of the municipalities from federal transfers would guide its to do that choice and there is other analyzes that could be influencing the decision of the mayors in setting up their tax policies. They are used some municipality geographic variables, political variables, social and demographic variables and even personal managers variables, and financial variables specific to management. The data are drawn from bases provided by the federal government of Brasil as IBGE, FINBRA, DATASUS, SNIS and in a IPEADATA from 2002 to 2013 time window. After analyzing the data, it observed that there are common features between the municipalities and the work previously carried out with countries. In these works, the tax haven nations are mostly small, near financial centers, well managed and with high per capita income (Dharmapala 2006). With municipalities, it appears to be small, metropolitan area, being close to the state capital, have a good Governance and good per capita income the positive influence to have fiscal policy with low rates. The incentives that best fit these characteristics relate to the ISS charges. / Neste estudo, busca-se verificar quais as características que poderiam afetar a decisão de um município em se tornar ou não um paraíso fiscal. Procura-se ir além de apenas alegar que muito recurso financeiro entrando nos cofres dos municípios via transferências federais os levariam a tal escolha e são feitas outras análises que poderiam estar influenciando na decisão dos prefeitos em montar suas políticas fiscais. São utilizadas algumas variáveis geográficas dos munícipios, variáveis políticas, sociais e demográficas e até variáveis pessoais dos gestores, além de variáveis financeiras específicas de gestão. Os dados são retirados de bases fornecidas pelo governo federal do Brasil como IBGE, FINBRA, DATASUS, SNIS E IPEADATA em uma janela de tempo de 2002 a 2013. Após a análise dos dados, foi possível observar que há características comuns entre os municípios que adotam a política de ser um paraíso fiscal e os trabalhos anteriormente realizados estudando países paraísos fiscais. Nesses trabalhos, as nações paraísos fiscais são em sua maioria pequenas, próximas a centros financeiros, são bem geridas e com renda percapita elevada (Dharmapala 2006). Com os municípios, verifica-se que ser pequeno, de região metropolitana, estar próximo à capital do estado, ter uma boa governaça e boa renda percapita os influencia positivamente a ter políticas fiscais com taxas baixas. Os incentivos que mais se ajustam a essas características são relativos às cobranças de ISS.

O presente estudo de caso aborda temas como a Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho (QVT) intrinsecamente ligada à movimentação de militares. O propósito desta dissertação é analisar a QVT dos militares pertencentes ao Comando da 3ª Região Militar (Cmdo da 3ª RM), com o intuito de identificar e, consequentemente, minimizar os aspectos negativos, e maximizar a QVT neste ambiente. O segmento inicial situa o estudo e a formação do profissional militar na atualidade. Posteriormente, segue o referencial teórico, dissertando sobre QVT, sua origem e sua evolução conceitual na abordagem organizacional, tendo como ponto de partida a adaptação do modelo de Walton (1973) para critérios de avaliação da qualidade de vida, contendo questões ligadas às competências e atribuições do militar, distribuído em 25 categorias, na tentativa de análise da QVT, em que o maior destaque se apresenta na forma de dois aspectos importantes: o relacionamento e o trabalho. A análise contempla também a integração social no trabalho, e juntamente com a gestão formam os fatores mais críticos para a amostra em estudo, de 38 (trinta e oito) respondentes. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que o Cmdo da 3ª RM apresenta aspectos de QVT a serem melhorados. Combinações importantes derivadas da análise do conjunto dos achados deste estudo destacam a relevância do ferramental da qualidade de vida no trabalho, como instrumento de apoio à gestão de recursos humanos, sobretudo na medida em que potencializam canais de diálogo, entre comando e comandados. O trabalho justifica-se pela importância deste tema e pela carência de trabalhos técnicos nesta área, e aplica-se não somente a Organizações Militares como a qualquer organização, por incluir uma metodologia baseada em conceitos gerais de QVT. / This case study discusses topics such as the Quality of Life at Work (QLW) intrinsically related to military personnel transfers. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the QLW of the military personnel of the Command of the 3rd Military Region (CMD 3rd MR), in order to identify and consequently minimize the negative aspects and maximize QLW in that environment. Initially, the current educational background and training of military personnel are discussed. Later, the theoretical framework on QLW, its origin and its conceptual evolution in the organizational approach is presented, taking as a starting point the adaptation of Walton's model (1973) for criteria for assessing the quality of life, with questions related to skills and tasks of the military personnel, categorized in twenty-five areas in an attempt to analyze the QLW; in that model two important aspects are highlighted: relationship and work. The analysis also considers the social interactions at work and the management, which are the most critical factors for the sample being studied ‒ 38 (thirty-eight) participants. The results indicated that the CMD 3rd MR presents aspects of QLW that should be improved. Based on important combinations found in the analysis of this study, we can notice that it is very important to use tools to measure the quality of life at work to support the management of human resources, especially in order to improve the communication in the chain of command. The work is justified by the importance of this matter and by the lack of studies in this area and it also applies not only to military organizations, but to any organization, since it uses a methodology based on general concepts of QLW.

En dépit de la ré-oligotrophisation de nombreux lacs d'Europe du nord au cours des deux dernières décennies, les développements massifs de cyanobactéries toxiques, telle que Planktothrix rubescens, adaptée aux écosystèmes mésotrophes, sont encore largement observés. Parmi les cyanotoxines produites par cette espèce, les microcystines (MCs) sont les toxines les plus fréquemment rencontrées et sont reconnues comme des molécules perturbatrices de tous les compartiments trophiques des écosystèmes lacustres. Ces blooms toxiques affectent notamment les lacs péri-alpins pour lesquels des risques de contaminations des populations piscicoles exploitées ont été démontrés. Cependant, il existe encore un manque de connaissances important tant concernant les voies de transfert de ces toxines au sein des réseaux trophiques limniques, que leurs effets physiologiques sur les populations de poisson. Dans le cadre de ce travail de thèse, deux modèles de poissons, dont les répartitions spatiales verticales diffèrent (juvéniles de perche et corégones), ont été considérés. Les objectifs principaux ont été traités d'une part au travers d'une approche expérimentale (par gavage) visant à analyser les processus d'accumulation et de détoxification, ainsi que les effets génotoxiques des MCs sur ces deux espèces modèles. Les réponses physiologiques ainsi étudiées ont permis de mettre en évidence que les juvéniles de perche et les corégones sont capables de détoxifier une partie des MCs ingérées, mais cependant des effets génotoxiques sont observés suite à l'exposition des poissons aux MCs. D'autre part, des approches écosystémiques ont permis (1) d'explorer les effets potentiels de la présence du bloom sur la répartition spatiale des poissons (2) d'évaluer les niveaux de contaminations par les MCs pour les deux espèces de poisson en tenant compte de la variabilité saisonnière (3) d'identifier les principaux vecteurs zooplanctoniques de MCs jusqu'aux poissons. Les résultats acquis montrent que les filaments de P. rubescens constituent une ressource alimentaire en période de bloom pour les organismes zooplanctoniques brouteurs et qu'un transfert de MCs est possible jusqu'aux espèces zooplanctoniques prédatrices et in fine jusqu'aux poissons. Nos résultats mettent également en avant que les voies de contaminations ainsi que les intensités de contamination des poissons peuvent varier aussi bien à l'échelle saisonnière que journalière. Ces variations sont expliquées à la fois par les changements de régime alimentaire des poissons, les variations journalières de la production de MCs par P. rubescens, et les abondances et distributions verticales des différentes proies zooplanctoniques. A l'issue de ce travail, la part importante du transfert trophique des MCs jusqu'aux poissons a été vérifiée dans les cas des contaminations chroniques qui caractérisent les conditions de blooms des lacs péri-alpins (concentrations en cyanobactéries et en toxines modérées à fortes au cours de plusieurs mois). / Many deep peri-alpine lakes which are currently under re-oligotrophication are impacted by Planktothrix rubescens blooms. Among cyanotoxins produced by P. rubescens, microcystins (MCs) are the most commonly studied and are involved in many ecological disturbances. In peri-alpine lakes, these blooms might affect exploited fish species due to toxin contaminations. However, there is still a lack of knowledge regarding both transfer pathways of the toxin and their physiological effects on fish populations. In this work, two models of fish populations were considered (Young-Of-Year (YOY) perch and whitefish which exhibit distinct vertical distributions). The main objectives were on the one hand investigated through an experimental approach to analyze on the two model species, accumulation and detoxification processes as well as genotoxic effects of MCs. From these experiments, we showed that YOY perch and whitefish were able to detoxify part of the MCs but that genotoxic effects were still observed. On the other hand, ecosystemic approaches allowed (1) to explore the potential effects of the presence of bloom on the spatial distribution of fish, (2) to assess the levels of contamination by MCs for both fish species taking into account the seasonal variability, (3) to identify the main zooplanktonic vectors of MCs to fish. Our results revealed that the filaments of P. rubescens are a food resource for zooplankton grazers, and that a trophic transfer of MCs exists from herbivorous to their zooplanktonic predators and in fine to fish. Our results also highlight that the contamination pathways and their intensities could vary both at seasonal and daily scales. These variations are explained by both changes in fish diet, daily variations in the production of MCs by P. rubescens, and abundances and vertical distributions of zooplanktonic preys. Overall, we highlighted the importance of MCs trophic transfer in fish intoxication in the case of chronic contaminations observed in peri-alpine lakes (moderate to severe cyanobacteria/toxins concentrations over several months).

Dans la lignée des travaux de l'historien allemand Peter Reichel sur la notion de fascination totalitaire et du mouvement historique initié en France par Fred Kupferman, François Hourmant ou encore Sophie Cœuré autour du voyage des intellectuels en Union soviétique dans les années 1930, cette thèse a pour objectif de dénouer les rouages du voyage en terre nazie, de l'accession d'Adolf Hitler à la chancellerie jusqu'à la déclaration du second conflit mondial. Thématique délaissée par l'historiographie du national-socialisme préférant voir dans le voyage une évidence anecdotique relevant des nécessités diplomatiques, elle s'impose cependant à l'historien devant la masse d'archives léguées. Engluée et limitée jusque-là dans la représentation classique d'un Brasillach devant la « cathédrale de lumière » de Nuremberg ou du sort des délégations étrangères aux Jeux olympiques de Berlin 1936, la pratique du voyage ne peut se résumer à une vision archétypale voulant que seul le « fasciste en formation » ne parcoure un IIIème Reich réduit à quelques points névralgiques. A partir de sources issues du Ministère des Affaires étrangères, de périodiques, de récits de voyages et d'ouvrages rétrospectifs (mémoires, correspondances, écrits privés), ce travail s'articule autour de trois axes allant de l'intérêt de l'étude du déplacement dans la compréhension d'un phénomène totalitaire, aux temps du voyage (accueil, séjour sur place, réception du voyage) tout en analysant le rôle du voyage et son degré d'implication dans la formation d'une bienveillance personnelle ou d'un rejet du totalitarisme. Un des intérêts fondamentaux de l'étude du voyage en Allemagne hitlérienne réside dans les motivations préalables conduisant au déplacement. Le voyage est avant tout objet d'histoire vécu et perçu par ceux qui l'entreprennent. Cette conscience du « moment d'histoire » entrepris amène à étudier les motivations structurelles du voyage (intérêt pour la modernité politique, déconstruction de son propre modèle national, naissance d'une diplomatie parallèle) comme existentielles (inspiration morale, dépassement de la frontière de la germanité), tout en mettant en avant l'étonnante diversité des voyageurs (origine géographique, culturelle et sociale), signe de l'attraction magnétique du national-socialisme au-delà des frontières (insertion dans le débat de la place de la spécificité nationale dans le cadre d'un minimum fasciste). Préalable indispensable à toute compréhension du phénomène, les temps du voyage permettent d'éclairer la construction d'une véritable politique nazie à l'égard du voyageur étranger d'une part, de souligner la prégnance des réseaux et contacts d'autre part. L'étude du temps sur place sera orientée autour de l'impression de l'accessible rencontrée par les voyageurs. Le temps du retour d' « Hitlérie », fait d'une variété de la forme et de l'usage, permettra de mettre en avant l'obligation naturelle, morale - voire politique - de relayer les impressions de la « chose vue ». Enfin, le voyage comme maçon d'une nouvelle image de l'Allemagne dans les mentalités collectives étrangères viendra clore ce travail. La construction de l'image totalitaire semble aller de pair avec une tentative de rationalisation de l'aveuglement rencontré quand, pour d'autres, le voyage est un mécanisme de résistance. La place du voyageur face à la question juive devient également nécessité. D'une tribune offerte à l'antisémitisme aux premiers actes de dénonciation, le voyage devient un outil de la pensée intellectuelle. La conscience d'un totalitarisme naissant fait du voyageur un homme éclairé, noyé dans la masse de la dérive fasciste transnationale ayant fait ses armes idéologiques dans le Reich. / In line with the studies by German historian Peter Reichel concerning the fascination of totalitarianism and the historical movement initiated in France by Fred Kupferman, along with the studies by François Hourmant and Sophie Coeuré regarding intellectuals traveling in Soviet union in the 1930's, the objective of this thesis is to describe the experience of the voyage on Nazi territory, from Hitler's accession to power to the beginning of World War II. This theme has been disregarded in the national-socialism historiography, due to the fact that they viewed the voyage as an anecdotic evidence of diplomatic duty. However, the amount of archives bequeathed on this topic led historians to believe that it is more relevant than previously thought. Limited to the classical image of Brasillach in front of the “Cathedral of Light” of Nuremberg as well as the image of foreign delegations during the Olympic Games of Berlin in 1936, the act of traveling shouldn't be reduced to this archetypal vision implying that only the “future fascists” would travel and discover the IIIrd Reich. Using sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, newspapers, travel logs, essays, and letters, this work hinges on three parts covering the significance to study the voyage with the goal to understand the totalitarianism phenomenon, the different stages of the voyage (the reception, their stay, the return to their countries of origin), and to analyze the role and the importance of the voyage in the development of either an acceptance or a rejection towards the totalitarianism. One of the main interests in studying the voyage in Hitler's Germany is the reasoning behind the motivation for the voyage to take place. Traveling is at first a moment in history lived and perceived by those who experience it. This awareness of the experienced moment in history leads us to study the structural motivations of this voyage (interest for modern politics, deconstruction of our own national model, beginning of a parallel diplomacy) and also the existential motivations (moral inspiration, surpassing the line of “germanity”) while underlining the surprising diversity of the travelers (geographical, cultural and social origin), which shows the power of attraction of the national-socialism far across the borders. Prior to understanding this phenomenon, the different phases of the voyage help to enlighten the construction of a specific Nazi policy towards the foreign traveler on one hand, and to underline the existence and development of a real network of contacts on the other. This component will examine how the model of national-socialism seemed attainable for the travelers. The return from Germany will bring to the forefront the feeling of obligation for the travelers to explain and describe what had been experienced during the travel. Finally, the voyage as propagator of a new image of Germany in foreigner's minds will complete this study. The shaping of the totalitarian image seems to go hand in hand with an attempt to rationalize the obliviousness of a part of the population, while for others the voyage is a mechanism of resistance. The standpoint of the travelers towards the Jew's situation is also necessary to broach. Like a window that offers a view on anti-Semitism and the first acts of denunciation, the voyage becomes a tool of intellectual thinking. The awareness of this rising totalitarianism makes the traveler a knowledgeable man, lost in the masses, sliding in this transnational fascism first learned in the Reich.

O presente estudo de caso aborda temas como a Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho (QVT) intrinsecamente ligada à movimentação de militares. O propósito desta dissertação é analisar a QVT dos militares pertencentes ao Comando da 3ª Região Militar (Cmdo da 3ª RM), com o intuito de identificar e, consequentemente, minimizar os aspectos negativos, e maximizar a QVT neste ambiente. O segmento inicial situa o estudo e a formação do profissional militar na atualidade. Posteriormente, segue o referencial teórico, dissertando sobre QVT, sua origem e sua evolução conceitual na abordagem organizacional, tendo como ponto de partida a adaptação do modelo de Walton (1973) para critérios de avaliação da qualidade de vida, contendo questões ligadas às competências e atribuições do militar, distribuído em 25 categorias, na tentativa de análise da QVT, em que o maior destaque se apresenta na forma de dois aspectos importantes: o relacionamento e o trabalho. A análise contempla também a integração social no trabalho, e juntamente com a gestão formam os fatores mais críticos para a amostra em estudo, de 38 (trinta e oito) respondentes. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que o Cmdo da 3ª RM apresenta aspectos de QVT a serem melhorados. Combinações importantes derivadas da análise do conjunto dos achados deste estudo destacam a relevância do ferramental da qualidade de vida no trabalho, como instrumento de apoio à gestão de recursos humanos, sobretudo na medida em que potencializam canais de diálogo, entre comando e comandados. O trabalho justifica-se pela importância deste tema e pela carência de trabalhos técnicos nesta área, e aplica-se não somente a Organizações Militares como a qualquer organização, por incluir uma metodologia baseada em conceitos gerais de QVT. / This case study discusses topics such as the Quality of Life at Work (QLW) intrinsically related to military personnel transfers. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the QLW of the military personnel of the Command of the 3rd Military Region (CMD 3rd MR), in order to identify and consequently minimize the negative aspects and maximize QLW in that environment. Initially, the current educational background and training of military personnel are discussed. Later, the theoretical framework on QLW, its origin and its conceptual evolution in the organizational approach is presented, taking as a starting point the adaptation of Walton's model (1973) for criteria for assessing the quality of life, with questions related to skills and tasks of the military personnel, categorized in twenty-five areas in an attempt to analyze the QLW; in that model two important aspects are highlighted: relationship and work. The analysis also considers the social interactions at work and the management, which are the most critical factors for the sample being studied ‒ 38 (thirty-eight) participants. The results indicated that the CMD 3rd MR presents aspects of QLW that should be improved. Based on important combinations found in the analysis of this study, we can notice that it is very important to use tools to measure the quality of life at work to support the management of human resources, especially in order to improve the communication in the chain of command. The work is justified by the importance of this matter and by the lack of studies in this area and it also applies not only to military organizations, but to any organization, since it uses a methodology based on general concepts of QLW.