Essays about: "Methodological assumption"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the words Methodological assumption.

  1. 16. Visibility and tholos tombs in the Messenian landscape : a comparative case study of the Pylian hinterlands and the Soulima Valley

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Ola Svenson; [2013]
    Keywords : Messenia; Aegean Bronze Age; tholos tomb; Mycenaean; perception; viewshed; prominence; visibility; Archaeology; GIS; affordance; Earth and Environmental Sciences; History and Archaeology;

    Abstract : This master thesis aims to investigate the visual characteristics of Late Bronze Age tholos tombs in the region of Messenia, Greece by comparing tholos tombs from two study areas: the Pylian hinterlands and the Soulima Valley. The study utilises cost surfaces and viewsheds created in a GIS-environment as heuristic devices to do so. READ MORE

  3. 17. The Dissolution of the Family. A Consequence of Misinterpretation?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Theresa Veith; [2012]
    Keywords : family; individualization theory; relativist perspective; reflexive modernization; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Problem/Background: Even though individualizing tendencies can be dated back at least to the industrial revolution, the 1950s and 1960s are understood as a climax of the process due to the emergence of certain opportunities. Mainly because of individualization, characterized by the emphasis on self-fulfilment and impersonality for instance, a general apprehension towards a dissolving family has risen. READ MORE

  4. 18. How do Companies Reward their Employees

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Avd.)

    Author : Samuel Cudjoe; [2012]
    Keywords : Axiological; Extrinsic; Intrinsic; Methodology; Methodological assumption; Methodological triangulation; Ontological assumption; Paradigm; Positivism; Qualitative; Quantitative; Research design; Sampling frame; Sample size; Unit of analysis;

    Abstract : This study is unique considering the location (Africa) and the industrial setting (Gold Mining) from which the research was studied as reward systems had mostly been studied in the North-American and European settings. Thus, the study  considered  rewards from the perspective of the African and its natural resource industries such as the gold mining industry. READ MORE

  5. 19. How to determine fair value for life insurance policies in a secondary market

    University essay from Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Vasilis Dedes; [2011]
    Keywords : Life Settlement; Mortality; Stress Testing; Monte Carlo Simulation; Pricing; Life Insurance;

    Abstract : In this study a methodological approach is presented on how transactions in the secondary market for life insurance policies can be fairly priced for both policyholders and life settlement companies. Monte Carlo simulation of mortality on a pool constructed based on actual data of 85 life settlement transactions shows that a realistic assumption for the range of offered prices is limited to 15% and 20% of the face amount of the policy, given a required return of 7%. READ MORE

  6. 20. Induction and Commitment : A discursive psychological analysis of Nynas’ Induction Program and its influence on employee’s commitment

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Ville Björck; [2011]
    Keywords : induction program; Corporate Group Induction; social constructionism; discourse analysis; discursive psychology; discursively constructed; reflexivity; commitment; affective; continuance; normative; Likert scale; late modernity; strategic sampling.;

    Abstract : Abstract In accordance with several scholars in the field of human resource management, developing employee commitment towards the employing organization is valuable due to the assumption that it increases their satisfaction, productivity and adaptability. By taking a pedagogical perspective focusing on impact processes, the aim of this master thesis is primarily to identify the constructions and functions of interpretive repertoires, of a few employees, in their descriptions of how the experience of Nynas’ Corporate Group Induction has influenced their commitment to Nynas, but also to categorize the constructions and functions of interpretive repertoires in a booklet underlined during the Corporate Group Induction, which I refer to as “This is Nynas”. READ MORE