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Showing 1 to 20 of 147 for “"Change-agents"”.
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Youths as behavior change agents in an institution
… settings can function effectively as behavior change agents. This study used five 15 to 18 year old male youths in a closed institutional setting as behavior change agents for five male Youth Counselors. Youths specified staff behaviors they wanted to change, collected frequency data on each …
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Protecting Investment, Profit, and Personnel: Corporations as Social Change Agents
… paper makes the case for corporations as social change agents, for preceding violence, and for including a strategy, and a framework, as well as <em>targeted</em> initiatives to increase the success and efficacy of this segment of CSR.</p>
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
… individuals or dominant actors become change agents, it is less clear what motivates privileged insiders - those who have reaped advantages from existing institutional arrangements because of their education, their socio-economic background, their citizenship, their gender, or their …
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Utilizing students as behavior change agents : an example using check-in/check-out
While there is no shortage of evidence-based interventions designed to address the academic and behavioral difficulties of students in schools, it can be difficult to find adults that are available to implement them consistently. To remedy this problem, students’ peers have often been utilized …
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Building Level Principals as Change Agents in a Response to Intervention Reform Initiative
… examine the role of the principal in a systems change effort. Utilizing Response to Intervention (RtI) as a means of studying principals as change agents, this researcher examined the principals' ability to implement and sustain a reform effort such as RtI as perceived by the principal, problem …
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Change agents : who leads and why in the execution of US national security policy
… focuses on cases in which military or civilian agents are selected in lieu of the other. Six factors are identified for testing as possible contributors to agency selection. These factors are drawn from the existing academic literature in the fields of civil-military relations, presidential and …
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Evaluating the Impact of Training on the Effectiveness of Peer Change Agents: A Campus-wide Intervention
… evaluated by the number of interactions a peer change agent--an individual who attempts to make a positive change in another person's behavior, had with bicyclists. The results suggest the training program may be effective in increasing change agent interactions for change agents who are already …
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Traditional Institutions as Change Agents: Understanding Cultural Norms and Practices Promoting Gender-Based Violence in Nigerian Communities
… traditional institutions could become key agents of change, promoting meaningful social transformations. This study explores the dynamics cultural norms and practices play in community safety, emphasizing the potential for traditional institutions to contribute fresh perspectives and …
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An examination of the relationship between characteristics of Expanded Food and Nutrition Program paraprofessionals and their effectiveness as change agents
… indigenous target population and an example of a change agency. Diffusion and change literature offer many models and possible personality characteristics that may be associated with effective change agents. The purpose of the study was to examine characteristics of paraprofessionals employed in …
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Exploring Personality Traits and Susceptibility to Social Influence in Student Change-Agents: Implications for Participation in a Campus-Wide Safety Initiative
… and individual differences in personality on change-agent participation in a peer-to-peer intervention. The intervention involved approaching bicyclists on campus, discussing the importance of helmet use, and rewarding them with a coupon for a discounted helmet if they signed a promise to wear …
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Shifting the frame: how internal change agents contextualize and co-construct strategic responses to grand challenge issues within and beyond the firm
… question is therefore: how do firm-internal agents interpret, signify and mobilize organizational responses to grand challenges? In an effort to address these lacunae, this study explores the proactive efforts of three firms to interpret the complexity of social-ecological grand challenges …
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Urban change agents: citizen-based projects in Cape Town as drivers of transformative pathways towards a climate-friendly, socially just, economically viable and ressource-efficient urban future
… system of civil actors, defined as “Urban Change Agents” (short: UCAs). The research findings deliver insights into the motivation, goals, resources and tools required to perform within their transformative action fields (e.g. reuse and recycle, low-carbon mobility, urban agriculture, and …
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The organisational change agent as an appreciative system : increasing effectiveness in business process reengineering through the systems approach
… thesis is concerned with the effectiveness of change agents within organisations. The argument presented is that the effectiveness of change agents depends on their ability to develop an understanding of the complex situations they are faced with. This includes a rich understanding of their own …
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Co-creating an art-based livelihood development in West Bengal: an actor-oriented ethnographic approach
… around cultural and creative industries as agents of dynamic change, a tool for innovation, wealth creation, and poverty alleviation, few studies have investigated the role of social enterprises in developing tourism. Social enterprises are relatively new actors in the tourism sector, …
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Proactive Environmental Strategies: Managing a Corporate Culture Shift toward Sustainability
… of EHS professionals from "compliance cops" to "change agents." EHS professionals can drive the cultural shift towards corporate sustainability and perception towards "change agents" when they are able to employ proactive environmental strategies as opportunities to improve a firm's competitive …
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The impact of intercultural differences in change agentry interventions in technology transfer
… was on key differences between the worldviews of change agents and clients that impact such change agentry attempts. Utilizing frameworks taken from intercultural relations, change agentry, and diffusion of innovations research, the study examined a single case of change agentry-the distribution …
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Preparing Those with Developmental Disabilities for Adulthood and Work: Parent Perspectives on Support Services Available in Washington State
… and promoting the will to work. The use of change agents as described in the Diffusion of Innovation theory is explored, which discovers that parents view other parents of children with special needs as their most trusted source of information. This implies that the strongest change agents …
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Promoting the Adoption of Pollution Prevention Innovations With the Assistance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works
… Additionally, the efforts of the State P2 change agents to promote the technology are evaluated along with the impacts of involving change agent aides (publicly owned treatment works). The thesis also provides a model of how this concept could be applied to other planning disciplines and …
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