Search results for "AAT"

Toward an understanding of a healthy organizational change process : A three-wave longitudinal study among university employees

2019

This study aimed to improve our understanding of what constitutes a healthy organizational change process among university employees. Positive attitudes and proactive participation toward organizational change were presumed to affect and be affected by personality resources measured via core self-evaluations and work-related motivational well-being (vigor). The study used 3-wave longitudinal data collected in 2 large Finnish universities during their recent process of organizational change (N = 926). Structural equation modeling was used to establish the direction of the relationships between the variables. The results showed that high levels of both core self-evaluations and vigor were ass…

Työyhteisö viestintäteknologian käyttäjänä : miten ymmärtää yhteistoiminnan mahdollistavan teknologian käyttöönottoa ja käyttöä suomalaisen monitoimi…

2001

Banks’ unfairness and the vulnerability of low-income unbanked consumers

2018

This paper’s objective was to explore low-income unbanked consumers’ perceptions of bank fairness and the way these perceptions were linked to consumer experiences of vulnerability. Qualitative data were used to analyse low-income consumers’ perceptions about banks’ services and communications. The study finds that although consumers’ financial inclusion is partially hindered by their personal circumstances, the perceived unfair treatment by banks has an even more negative impact on their financial inclusion. Low-income unbanked individuals report banks avoiding them, discriminating against them and impeding their financial inclusion. Banks’ perceived unfairness towards low-income consumers…

Material, mental, and moral progress : American conceptions of civilization in late 19th century studies on "things Chinese and Japanese"

2015

The contribution of public relations to organisational decision making and autopoiesis of organisations : the perspective of the Luhmannian social sy…

2018

This doctoral dissertation investigates the contribution of public relations professionals to organisational decision-making processes and autopoiesis of organisations. The research approach utilises Niklas Luhmann’s functional method approach, regarded as an observational tool to create a distinction between problems and solutions. The research progresses through three parts: Part 1, the preliminary empirical work; Part 2, insights gained from academic articles and reports, and Part 3, empirical work on the perceptions of professionals. This qualitative, content-oriented, interpretive research approach concludes that public relations (PR) is a responsive, managing and adapting function in …

Sappihappopohjaiset polymeerit biolääketieteellisissä sovelluksissa

2014

Effects of activated carbon ageing in three PCB contaminated sediments: Sorption efficiency and secondary effects on Lumbriculus variegatus.

2015

The sorption efficiency and possible secondary effects of activated carbon (AC) (o 63-200 μm) was studied with Lumbriculus variegatus in three PCB contaminated sediments applying long AC-sediment contact time (3 years). AC amendment efficiently reduced PCB bioavailability as determined with both, L. variegatus bioaccumulation test and passive samplers. However, dose related secondary effects of AC on egestion rate and biomass were observed (applied doses 0.25% and 2.5% sediment dry weight). The sorption capacity and secondary effects remained similar when the experiments were repeated after three years of AC-sediment contact time. Further, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples reve…

Elonkirjo ehtyy : suosituksia luonnon monimuotoisuuden turvaamiseksi

2019

Martti Luther taloudellisena ajattelijana

2018

Protestanttisen kristillisyyden reformaattori Martti Luther (1483–1546) oli teologian professori, mutta hänen ajattelullaan on ollut merkittäviä yhteiskunnallisia vaikutuksia, ja hän käytti säännöllisesti taloudellisia esimerkkejä havainnollistamaan eettisiä opetuksiaan. Luther ymmärsi hintamekanismin toiminnan markkinoiden kysynnän ja tarjonnan tasapainottajana ja puolusti vapaata elinkeinoelämää. Lähimmäisenrakkauden tuli kuitenkin toteutua kaikessa taloudellisessa vaihdannassa, eikä hän hyväksynyt pidäkkeetöntä voiton maksimointia tai ostajan hädänalaisen tilan hyväksikäyttöä. Hän kritisoi voimakkaasti katolisen uskon köyhyysideaalia, luostarilaitosta, koronkiskontaa ja monopolivoimien h…

Cycles in continuous and discrete dynamical systems : computations, computer-assisted proofs, and computer experiments

2009

The present work is devoted to calculation of periodic solutions and bifurcation research in quadratic systems, Lienard system, and non-unimodal one-dimensional discrete maps using modern computational capabilities and symbolic computing packages.In the first chapter the problem of Academician A.N. Kolmogorov on localization and modeling of cycles of quadratic systems is considered. For the investigation of small limit cycles (so-called local 16th Hilbert’s problem) the method of calculation of Lyapunov quantities (or Poincaré-Lyapunov constants) is used. To calculate symbolic expressions for the Lyapunov quantities the Lyapunov method to the case of non-analytical systems was generalized. …