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11	Grow your business for God. : Exploring entrepreneuship in the Pentecostal churches in Uganda. Akuma, Tom January 2018 (has links) Pentecostalism has grown from its founding days in 1900 in Topeka, USA and has extended its reach to most parts the world including Africa where it took off in the 1970s and continues to grow with many mega churches being established. In addition to their main role of taking care of the spiritual development of their followers, many Pentecostal churches have begun to get involved in provision of social and economic goods and services. This has however attracted attention to the churches with some of them being labelled as businesses, their founders being considered as entrepreneurs hiding under the guise of churches and seen as exploiting their followers. The purpose of the thesis is to explore, through research questions, if entrepreneurial activities are carried out in the Pentecostal churches in Uganda and if so, whether such activities can be considered productive, unproductive or destructive entrepreneurship and what their implications are. This qualitative study employed qualitative methods of data collection and deductive approach with primary data collected through semi-structured interviews with 6 members of Pentecostal churches in Kampala and 1 non-member that regularly goes to Pentecostal churches to get a feel of their activities. The findings show that there the Pentecostal churches carryout a number of entrepreneurial activities that address spiritual, social and economic aspects of the church members and the community. The study further shows that some of these entrepreneurial activities have a positive impact on the church members and the community and by extension the state whereas some activities do not improve the church members and the community and others have a negative impact on the church members and the community. It is shown through this thesis that determining the implication of the entrepreneurial activities is complicated when such activities are lumped together and not considered individually since some of the activities in the Pentecostal may be productive while some may be unproductive or destructive. The contribution of this thesis is by proposing a matrix as an alternative tool for analysis of the various entrepreneurial activities in the Pentecostal churches by considering their effect on different stakeholders to determine if the activity achieved the reason for its establishment. Creative destruction Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship Productive unproductive destructive entrepreneurship Entrepreneurial orientation Stakeholder analysis Protestant work ethic Prosperity gospel Economics and Business Ekonomi och näringsliv
12	Sociabilidade capitalista, autovalorização do capital e produtividade do trabalho: subsídios teórico-metodológicos para análise do trabalho do assistente social Mauricio, Juliana Menezes Mendes 27 February 2014 (has links) Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-01T14:05:05Z No. of bitstreams: 1 julianamenezesmendesmauricio.pdf: 954533 bytes, checksum: ae7a46de702fa257145b7f6e9ee4f303 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-01T15:49:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 julianamenezesmendesmauricio.pdf: 954533 bytes, checksum: ae7a46de702fa257145b7f6e9ee4f303 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-01T15:49:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 julianamenezesmendesmauricio.pdf: 954533 bytes, checksum: ae7a46de702fa257145b7f6e9ee4f303 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-27 / A presente dissertação objetiva aprofundar a compreensão teórica das categorias analíticas de trabalho produtivo e improdutivo a fim de apreendê-las na relação com o trabalho do assistente social imerso no assalariamento na cena contemporânea. Visa também aprofundar o desvelamento das determinações da dimensão abstrata do trabalho, buscando traçar reflexões que caminhem no sentido de uma maior compreensão dos fundamentos do trabalho do assistente social posteriormente a uma maior compreensão das categorias supracitadas no pensamento marxiano e marxista. O caminho seguido para efetivação da proposta de estudo acima explicitada, que será desenvolvida através de uma pesquisa de natureza teórica, é composto por dois capítulos. O primeiro é constituído pela apreensão teórica e pela exposição de algumas das determinações da sociabilidade capitalista sob o ângulo analítico do trabalho e a produtividade do trabalho: trabalho produtivo e improdutivo. Também são analisadas suas dimensões constitutivas, sua inserção nas relações sociais e suas configurações contemporâneas. Já o segundo capítulo é constituído da apreensão e explicitação da inserção do assistente social nos marcos da divisão social e técnica do trabalho; e sua condição assalariada. Por fim, serão traçadas considerações finais acerca da compreensão do trabalho dos assistentes sociais nos marcos da produtividade, da necessidade no trato e apreensão da condição assalariada destes profissionais, bem como, acerca das condições contemporâneas de efetivação da atividade profissional destes trabalhadores especializados. / The present thesis aims to probe the theoretical comprehension on the analitical categories of the productive and unproductive work in order to understand them in the relation to the social worker job. It also intends to probe the disclosure of the abstract dimension of the job, trying to draw reflections which will lead towards a higher knowledge of the social worker job principles and later to a greater comprehension of the forementioned categories in the marxist and marxian thought. The pathway followed to implement the study proposal aforesaid, which will be developed through a theoretical research, is composed by two chapters. The first one is constituted by the theoretical understanding and exposition of some determinations of the capitalist socialibility from the work perspective and productivity: productive and unproductive work. Some other parameters will be analysed: its constitutive dimensions, its insertion in the social relationships and its contemporary settings; whereas the second chapter is constituted by the understanding and explicitness on how the social assistant falls within the social and technical work division; and its salaried condition. Ultimately, some final comments will be drawn on the apprehension of the social workers on the productivity, necessity of a better treatment and understanding of the salaried situation of these professionals, as well as, on the contemporary conditions on which these specialized works are being hired. Produtividade do trabalho Trabalho produtivo e improdutivo Work productivity Productive and unproductive work
13	TRABALHO INFANTIL DOMÉSTICO: perfil e vivência de meninas trabalhadoras em São Luís / DOMESTIC CHILD LABOR: profile and experience of working girls in São Luis Silva, Carla Cecília Serrão 03 August 2009 (has links) Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-18T18:55:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CARLA CECILIA SERRAO SILVA.pdf: 430912 bytes, checksum: 97dbfdfd303c9e7f30f41da83d7ee440 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-08-03 / In this dissertation the problem of child labored girls in São Luís is presented. Emphasizing aspects of Brazilian and international history that show the social path of the labored teenagers and children, its causes and consequences focusing child domestic labor. The child labor is studied from its complexity and historical, cultural and economic determinations. We made bibliographic researches in secondary fountains and gathered information about domestic labored young girls through a questionnaire realized in 2006 in São Luís s public schools. We wish to find important elements for the comprehension of child domestic labor, demystify the culturally established concept of help and, also, call attention of society for to the child domestic labor. / Este trabalho aborda o problema do trabalho infantil doméstico de meninas em São Luís. Enfatiza-se aspectos da história mundial e brasileira que retratam a trajetória social da criança e do adolescente trabalhadores, as causas e conseqüências do trabalho infantil para suas vidas, com foco específico no trabalho infantil doméstico. O trabalho infantil doméstico é estudado a partir de sua complexidade e das determinações históricas, culturais e econômicas que o envolvem. Para construção da dissertação realizou-se pesquisa bibliográfica em fontes secundárias, levantamento de dados acerca do perfil de meninas trabalhadoras domésticas através de questionário de pesquisa aplicado no ano de 2006 em escolas públicas municipais e estaduais de São Luís. Deseja-se, com este trabalho, resgatar elementos significativos para a compreensão do fenômeno do trabalho infantil, para desmistificação do mito da ajuda e, ainda, para a sensibilização da sociedade no tocante à situação das meninas trabalhadoras domésticas. Criança Adolescente Divisão sexual do trabalho Trabalho Improdutivo Trabalho Alienado Trabalho infantil Trabalho Doméstico Children Teenager Sexual division of work Unproductive labor Alienated work Child labored and domestic labor
14	La pensée de Georges Bataille peut-elle constituer un apport pour les sciences de gestion ? : l’exemple de la gestion des risques psycho-sociaux dans les organisations. / Can George Bataille’s thinking be a contribution to management sciences ? : the example of the management of psychosocial risks in organisations March, François de 10 December 2013 (has links) L’objectif de ce travail est de questionner l’œuvre de l’écrivain français Georges Bataille (1897-1962) pour déterminer si elle permet ou non d’apporter de nouveaux points de vue ou de nouvelles voies de résolution des problèmes posés en sciences de gestion. Les textes sollicités sont d’abord les essais théoriques, mais aussi certaines œuvres de fiction. Ceux qui sont à l’origine de la notion de « dépense », centrale pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre, les articles correspondant aux diverses activités groupales dans les années 1930, les essais de La Somme Athéologique pendant la guerre et ceux de La Part maudite après-guerre sont examinés. On montre alors que les « notions » que ces textes mettent en jeu, qui témoignent d’une anthropologie déchirée (dépense productive / dépense improductive, homogène / hétérogène, souveraineté, communication, interdit / transgression, possible / impossible…), peuvent ouvrir des pistes de recherche dans de nombreux thèmes de sciences de gestion : le pouvoir, la culture d’entreprise, la criminalité dans les organisations, le changement organisationnel, le sens du travail, l’éthique, l’épistémologie, les rapports entre le management et les sociétés, la sexualité dans les organisations…Trois notions de Bataille (dépense, souveraineté, communication) sont ensuite sollicitées pour analyser en détail les problèmes posés par la « gestion » des risques psychosociaux. Huit cas d’organisations servent de support à l’analyse.Au final, la thèse conclut à la pertinence du recours à la pensée de Bataille pour conduire des recherches en management. / The goal of this thesis is to question the work of the French author Georges Bataille (1897-1962) to determine whether it can bring new points of view or new attempts at solving the issues raised by management sciences. The texts which were studied are primarily theoretical essays, but also some works of fiction. Those which are at the origin of the notion of “expense”, a central notion in the entire work, the articles which correspond to various group activities in the 30’s, the essays of La Somme Athéologique during the war, as well as those of La Part maudite, after the war, were also examined. We then show that the “notions” these texts illustrate, which reflect a torn anthropology (productive/unproductive expense, homogenous/heterogenous, sovereignty, communication, interdiction/transgression, possible/impossible…), can open fields of research in numerous topics associated with management sciences: power, corporate culture, crime within organisations, organisational changes, the meaning of work, ethics, epistemology, the relationship between management and societies, sexuality in organisations…Three of Bataille’s notions (expense, sovereignty, communication) are then called upon to analyse in detail the problems raised when managing psychosocial risks. Eight case studies of organisations back up the demonstration.Finally, the thesis concludes that it is pertinent to refer to Bataille’s thinking when conducting management research. Georges Bataille Dépense improductive Epistémologie des sciences de gestion Philosophie du management Anthropologie de la gestion Sexualité dans les organisations Risques psychosociaux Suicide en entreprise Georges Bataille Unproductive expense Epistemology of management Management philosophy Anthropology of the management Sexuality in organisations Psychosocial risks Suicide in firms 650
15	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy
16	From the "rising tide" to solidarity: disrupting dominant crisis discourses in dementia social policy in neoliberal times MacLeod, Suzanne 26 March 2014 (has links) As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive. / Graduate / 0452 / 0680 / 0351 / macsuz@shaw.ca social determinants of health social exclusion crisis discourse Alzheimer's Alzheimer Society of Canada Suzanne MacLeod Susan Strega Donna Jeffery poststructural poststructuralism admission to long-term care funding for long-term care acute care aging demographic BC Psychogeriatric Association biomedical British Columbia Canada Health Act collective social responsibility competition corporate profit corporatization deresponsibilization elder friendly elderly citizens family caregivers Foucault found poetry genealogy of power knowledge incompetent Ministry of Health moral economics pharmaceutical bed blocker stigmatized tsunami absent-person action plan aging population alternative discourse apocalyptic demography appropriate archaeology archaeology of knowledge archaeological British Columbia burden Canada caregiver charity charitable collective collective car community community care condition of possibility conditions of possibility corporate counter-discourse dementia dementia care dementia policy dementia social policy dependent depoliticize discourse discourse analysis disruptive discourse economic burden economics economy elder emergency epidemic exclusion fear-monger Foucauldian found poem genealogy genealogical health authority health care health care staff health care system health policy document healthy lifestyle home and community care homogenization homogenize hospital imaginaries imaginary incapable individual responsibility individualism knowledge long-term care material effect materiality of discourse media moral panic national strategy neoliberal neoliberalism neoliberal rationality not prepared object objectification other person-centered people living with dementia person living with dementia persons living with dementia person with dementia poem poetic representation poetry policy policies political politics power power knowledge power relations private privatize privatization productivity of dominant discourse public health care residential care resistance responsibility responsibilization rising tide safety net shift costs to caregivers responsibility social policy imaginary social well-being social work social worker solidarity specialized stakeholder state stigma subject matter expert taxpayer threat unprepared unproductive voluntary volunteer wait time wave social policy

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