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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Change Resistance"”.
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Change, resistance and coping: a study of first tier managers in further education
… the audience for a variety of forms of routine resistance by lecturers, from gossip and rumours to making out and withholding enthusiasm. However, as they were rarely the target of resistance, a number of FTMs colluded with their teams or turned a blind eye in the hope of continued cooperation; …
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nalysing Change Resistance to an Information Systems-Supported Process in a South African Public Hospital
Introducing technological change to an organization’s normal processes can potentially bring about positive or negative results, depending mostly on the manner in which the change was facilitated and integrated into the organization. However, very little research has been done on information …
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How Leaders Use the Construct of Culture to Influence Change Resistance: A Study of a Planned Change Initiative in a Combined Government and Military Organization
… organizational leadership and organizational change. The literature indicates that leaders can influence organizational change by attending to and modifying an organization's cultural dimensions. Much of this literature, however, is theoretical and speculative, and the empirical work that does …
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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and the Movement Persona
… movement persona of those fighting for social change in 1960s America. A textual analysis of three songs of Bob Dylan and three songs of Pete Seeger serve as the artifacts for this thesis. Themes of change, resistance, and rootlessness run throughout Bob Dylan’s songs while themes of community, …
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Use of Ion Implantation in the Construction of an Uncooled Microbolometer
… to corrosive materials, and therefore do not change resistance when exposed to solvents used in processing. This allows spin coating, exposure and patterning of photoresist, and etching of the separation layers beneath the polymer bridge with no significant change in resistance. In addition, …
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Electronic Health Record Utilization and Education: Improving Role-Specific Confidence and Competence in the Outpatient Setting
… benefits are well known. Despite mandates for change resistance to adoption of paper-less system remains problematic. Non-use of the EHR has persisted in the outpatient specialty care setting in spite of 4 all-staff trainings and stakeholder backing. This project suggests that implementing team …
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Probing quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires modified using high bias voltage pulses
… bias voltage pulses. Using these pulses, we can change resistance, critical temperature, critical current and morphology of the nanowire. We can also change the shunting capacitance of the nanowire by altering the photolithography step used to create the nanowires electrodes. The resulting …
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Veteran teacher voices: Relational accountability and ethical professionalism in second-level education in Ireland.
… is located against the backdrop of accelerating change in the context of second-level education in the Republic of Ireland. Through a theoretical framework based on the work of the philosophers Adriana Cavarero (2000) and Judith Butler (2012; 2010; 2004), the study examines the teacher identity …
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Effectiveness of a multicomponent intervention for modifying the nutritional practices of college students
… development of a variety of programs designed to change dietary habits. Most have been only marginally successful. One explanation for their failure is the lack of consideration given to the characteristics of the targeted population in the development of the programs. In this study, a five week …
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Organizational Change At The Service Delivery Level: An Investigation Into The Perceived Reaction To Change Initiatives In Moral
As the speed of change increases, federal agencies are challenged more often to develop and implement improvements to existing programs, new programs to meet new needs, or adjustments to programs based on changed circumstances of delivery. Built on the foundation of systems theory, expectancy …
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Maintaining employment in turbulent times: the bridging of resilience and resistance in hotel employees
… scholarship has studied resilience and resistance separately, but researchers had not often studied them in tandem, especially in the organizational change context. Specifically, this study uses Buzzanell's (2010, 2018a) five resilience processes and Mumby's (2005) dialectical approach …
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Re-Constructing Climate Change: Discourses of the Emerging Movement for Climate Justice
… discourses surrounding the subject of climate change, with particular emphasis on the discourse(s) of the emerging social movement for climate justice. Positioned within the social constructivist and critical research paradigms, the methodology involves a Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis …
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An Analysis of Employees’ Reactions to the Introduction of ERP Systems in Management Accounting: Case Studies from Saudi Arabia
… different factors and the acceptance of, or resistance to, an ERP system. Specifically, there is lack of literature on the individual factors that drive or delay the adoption of advanced technologies such as the Enterprise Resource Planning system ERP. It motivated me to carry out a study …