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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1928. / Published also as Catholic University of America, Educational research bulletins, v. 8, no. 3-4. Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1919. / Vita. Published also as Teachers college, Columbia university, Contributions to education, no. 204.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1928. / Published also as Catholic University of America, Educational research bulletins, v. 8, no. 3-4. Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-99).

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Cette thèse aborde la gestion des ressources humaines dans un centre d'appels. Plus spécifiquement, nous nous intéressons aux problèmes de dimensionnement et de planification. L'objectif sous-jacent est d'assurer la meilleure qualité de service au client (par exemple minimiser le délai d'attente) avec un coût salarial minimum pour l'entreprise. Ces problématiques sont généralement modélisées dans la littérature par le problème de construction de vacation (shift-scheduling problem). Pour appréhender ce problème, nous introduisons le paradigme de chaîne d'activités. Ce paradigme nous permet de représenter la grande diversité des environnements et des contraintes de gestion des ressources humaines dans un centre d'appels. Nous traduisons ensuite ce paradigme en programme linéaire en nombres entiers pour résoudre les problèmes de dimensionnement et de planification. Nous proposons enfin une méthode pour intégrer au programme linéaire en nombres entiers un objectif de qualité de service non linéaire.

The goals of this research study were to determine if clergy members were prone to experiencing compassion fatigue and to identify the self-care methods they currently employ. Compassion fatigue can affect anyone in a helping profession and is considered to be a component of burnout. With the use of qualitative interviews, the views of pastors will be used to explain their understanding of compassion fatigue and their implementation of self-care. Data will also be collected to describe the methods of self-care the clergy members utilize when their levels of compassion fatigue presentation are prominent. Audio information gathered from the interviews, and demographic, compassion satisfaction and self-care surveys will be used, and a thematic and phenomena analysis will be created to analyze the data collected. This research will contribute to the collaborative efforts of churches and social workers to increase public awareness of compassion fatigue and self-care deficits that pastors are experiencing and that churches are observing within their faith communities. This can be beneficial in helping communities to effect positive change within the community.

One major policy of the Tourism Authority of Thailand is to promote domestic tourism. In Thailand, the family is considered to be the main social group, and as such is the main target for domestic tourism marketers. However, relatively little is known about family decision making, especially in Thailand. This thesis addresses this gap in knowledge by employing a two-staged conjoint study to examine the preferences and the influence of family members in a destination choice decision. At the first stage (an in-home interview), family members were asked to provide their holiday destination preferences and their estimation of the other family members' preferences. At the second stage (an in-home interview two weeks later), they are asked to provide their estimation of the joint family preferences, after being provided with a table listing the individual family members' preferences. Finally, they were asked to make the holiday destination decision as a family. This design allowed three thesis aims to be addressed: 1) to examine individual family members and the family group preferences; 2) to examine the ability of family members to predict other family members' preferences and their influence on the family decision; and 3) to examine family members actual influence of family members on the family decision. The findings revealed considerable similarities in the importance of attributes, with price and destination being more important, as well as the levels, with the majority preferring a lower rather than higher price and a beach rather than mountain destination. Further, there was reasonable accuracy in the prediction of each others' preferences, although parents were more accurate than children. However, there was a considerable amount of inaccuracy in the prediction of each others' influence. Family members systematically overestimated their own influence, and underestimated the influence of other family members.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references.