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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Chief executive officers"”.
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Unlearning in founder chief executive officers : a critical competence for success
Founder-CEOÔs are highly influential in the growth of their businesses which operate in increasingly complex and turbulent environments. It is key for the businessesÔ survival that the Founder is adaptive and flexible in coping with changes in the external environment. Typically, Founder-CEOÔs …
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Leadership Effectiveness from the Perspective of Chief Executive Officers in Kuwait
… organisations in Kuwait from the perspective of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs). This is an area that has been neglected by the extant literature, and no integrated model for assessing CEO effectiveness exists for us to fully understand the phenomenon. Based on a positivist qualitative research …
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The strategic planning role perceptions of Virginia local government chief executive officers
Local government chief executives officers are presumed to play a meaningful role as their localities undertake the strategic planning process. However, the specifics of that role have not been tested or even well articulated. This research was an initial attempt at defining what role or roles are …
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How Spirituality Impacts Ethical Leadership: A Cross-Case Analysis of Eleven Corporate Chief Executive Officers
… greater understanding of what it is like to be a chief executive officer in the corporate arena who self-identifies as having a strong spiritual foundation. More specifically, this research investigated what 11 CEOs had to say about the impact of spirituality on their approach to leadership in …
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An analysis of the work roles of chief executive officers in small furniture manufacturing firms
… reports an analysis of the work roles of chief executive officers in small furniture manufacturing firms. Certain roles are operational - nature, while others are strategic in nature. The basic research question being addressed is: which work roles, if any, are perceived as more important …
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Chief executive officers in America--is there a relationship between their backgrounds and their company's performance?
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993
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An Assessment of Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Semantic Descriptors of Virginia Acute and Tertiary Care Hospitals' Chief Executive Officers
<p>The purpose of the study was to identify the determinants of job satisfaction of Virginia Hospital CEO's and to identify those descriptors that best characterize the role of the hospital CEO as defined by the CEO's themselves. The study sample consisted of all hospital CEO's in Virginia as …
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Understanding differential organizational responses to work/family issues: the role of beliefs, attitudes, and decision-making styles of chief executive officers
… programs by organizations by studying chief executive officers. Twenty-six CEOs of a major metropolitan area were interviewed in a grounded theory study. The result of the study was the following grounded theory. CEO life experiences with work/family balancing issues, in their own …
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An Analysis of Selected California Community College Chief Executive Officers' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of District Governing Board Evaluation Policies and Practices
… examine whether the California community college chief executive officers perceived their governing boards' evaluation policies and practices to be effective, and whether those evaluations contributed to their improved performance. Methodology. An ethnographic research design and interviewing …
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Leading Up: How Community College Chief Executive Officers with Politically Appointed Governance Boards Optimize Their Effectiveness When Leading from a Subordinate Position
… the sector have changed, and there is a large chief executive officer retirement bubble on the horizon. These chief executive officers, operating from a subordinate position, are required to provide leadership for a board of trustees, who operate as the chief executive officer’s supervisor. …
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Resolution of critical educational issues decision processes of selected superintendents and a descriptive decision support system
… the decision making procedures of the school's chief executive officer when dealing with critical issues. The study was conducted by interviewing ten chief executive officers of Indiana school corporations. The data generated was reported in narrative and table form. The data was used to assess …
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A Qualitative Study of the Use and Value of Financial Performance Indicators in Selected Community Colleges in the State of Texas as Perceived by their Chief Executive Officers
… This study determined if community college chief executive officers use financial performance indicators as provided by the State Auditor's Office and if the chief executive officers of the community colleges value the compilation and the distribution of the financial performance indicators. …
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Profiles, functions, and career experiences of selected hospital nurse executives in the United States (1988)
… and career experiences of hospital nurse executives in the United States. A descriptive survey method was used. Data were collected from a random sampling of hospital nurse executives and chief executive officers. A self-developed questionnaire was mailed to 400 nurse executives and 300 …
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The two-and four-year chief executive officer in public higher education: perceived sources of stress, degree of distress, and coping strategies
… selected two-year and four-year higher education chief executive officers as to the sources of stress associated with the presidency, and what, if any, coping strategies they have developed. This study was guided by the following research questions: 1. What perceptions do selected two-year and …
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The Study of Retention and Leadership: A Process Model of Turnover
… it contrasted the leadership behaviors of three chief executive officers of a medium sized electronics firm. Several conceptual models from the literature were compared and evaluated in order to construct a model of the turnover process with leadership as one of the contributory variable. …
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Corporate governance in Saudi Arabia: overview and empirical investigation
… four samples (board of directors' members, chief executive officers 'CEOs', audit committee members and shareholders) towards the four mechanisms of corporate governance investigated in this study, namely: shareholders' rights; board of directors; audit committees and internai audit; and …
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Corporate Governance, Ceo Compensation and total shareholder returns in South Africa
… relating to apparent excessive and unwarranted executive directors’ salaries, has increased since the financial turmoil experienced in 2008. The commentaries and reports suggest that corporate governance interventions are not strong enough to curb the excessive remuneration packages awarded to …
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Safety Net System: A Case Study of Primary and Specialty Care for Uninsured Residents in Cobb County, Georgia
… questions and 2 open-ended questions. All the executive administrative staff or chief executive officers from safety net facilities in Cobb County participated in the survey. First, the accessibility of providers and limited hours of operations compared to the number of uninsured residents in …
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Developing policy for staff training programs to meet ISO food factory standards in Thailand
… the draft policy against the perceptions of the Chief Executive Officers of two registered ISO certificated food factories.
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