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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Culture dimensions"”.
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Self-Other Differences And Perceived Effectiveness: A Look Across Culture Dimensions
… Several studies have in-vestigated the impact of culture on different aspects of 360-degree feedback, such as self-other agreement, but very few have studied how ratings on these instruments predict perceptions of leadership effectiveness, and whether this relationship is the same across different …
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Culture Dimensions of Information Systems Security in Saudi Arabia National Health Services
The study of organisations’ information security cultures has attracted scholars as well as healthcare services industry to research the topic and find appropriate tools and approaches to develop a positive culture. The vast majority of studies in Saudi national health services are on the use of …
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The Influence of national culture dimensions on agile implementations in the South African software development context
Culture plays a role in how Agile frameworks are utilised and implemented. Agility requires the active involvement of team members and is said to be suitable in contexts where there is a horizontal hierarchy (low power distance) and where flexibility and spontaneity (low uncertainty avoidance) are …
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The influence of culture and lifestyles on receptivity to direct mail
… demographic data, lifestyle preferences and culture dimensions (Acculturation and Culture Identity). Due to the exploratory nature of the study, conclusions are formulated in terms of further work to be accomplished to better understand the situation.
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Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture amongst Health Care Workers in the Hospitals of Northeast Libya
… To examine the perception of patient safety culture amongst health care workers in Libyan Hospitals. Study Design: The study adopted a mixed methods approach with 2 phases. Phase 1 was conducted prior to the Libyan revolution. This was a quantitative research study, which used the Survey of …
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Exploring the Impact of National Culture on Logistics Performance
… countries through focusing on their national culture dimensions. Using secondary data from the international Logistics Performance Index (LPI) report as well as the scores from Hofstede’s national culture dimension surveys, the impact of national culture on logistics performance was explored. …
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A Gap Analysis of Nursing Systems and Practices in Malaysia: Culturally Appropriate Interventions to Advance Nursing
… project. Using Hofstede’s national culture dimensions as the foundation, the main intervention focuses on cross-cultural training with the use of simulation to create cultural awareness. </p>
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Extraversion and Positive Affect
… is a cross-cultural universal, and how cultural dimensions (individualism versus collectivism, and power distance) influence the size of the extraversion-happiness relation. It was found that the relation between extraversion and pleasant affect replicated across diverse cultures, and one of …
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Investigating the impact of organisational culture on employee productivity at the Namibian Ports Authority
… is to investigate the impact of organisational culture on employee productivity in Namport. The study was primarily anchored on the Denison Model. The hypothesised relationship between organisational culture and employee productivity was tested by adopting an explanatory survey design that …
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Characterization of the cardiogenesis of embryonic stem cells
… to study the individual and combined effects of culture dimensions and uniaxial cyclic stretch on the differentiation process. A smaller culture dimension, with a characteristic length scale of hundreds of micrometers, dramatically enhanced differentiation partly due to an accumulation of …
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Identifying organizational learning dimensions that promote patient safety culture: A study of hospital pharmacies in Kuwait
The need for a positive safety culture in healthcare is essential. It not only advances the prevention and reduction of possible medical errors and threats to patient safety, but also enhances the overall quality of healthcare services provided, especially in respect of medication safety. While the …
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The happiness of students and staff at two public universities respectively in Hong Kong and London: A comparative analysis from the Confucian perspective
… is one of the important components in life and culture is considered having impact on happiness. Different cultures may define and perceive happiness dissimilarly. In particular, the collectivistic Confucian happiness is notably distinct from the individualist conceptions of happiness often seen …
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Policy and pedagogy in the further education sector: an emerging professional identity
… social constructivist, stressing the social and culture dimensions of learning; my pedagogical approach as a facilitator of adult learning coupled with my constant enquiry into the nature of learning and teaching, especially within the twenty- first century; my belief in the centrality of …
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La cultura organizacional en la frontera en la institucionalización: estudio de caso en escuelas rurales pequeñas de la Patagonia Occidental
Estudio fenomenológico, cualitativo y descriptivo de los factores culturales que dificultan la gestión de escuelas rurales aisladas. La información se recogió, primeramente, con entrevistas en profundidad a una muestra selectiva de maestros que ejercen en la Patagonia occidental, como escenario …