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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Decision Style"”.
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Examining the Relationship Between Leadership Decision Making Styles and Personality Type Within the Department of Defense
… are key. Under the umbrella of leadership is decision making. What leadership is to an organization, decision making is to leadership. Yet, despite this knowledge, unsound decisions are readily conducted. There are various theories as to why this holds true, one of which is personality type. …
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A Descriptive Correlational Study of the Decision-Making Patterns of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care
… of this dissertation was to investigate the decision-making patterns of nurse practitioners and the relationship between this cognitive process and their personal characteristics and dimensions of employment. Since nurse practitioners are a major group of providers of primary care, they are …
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Navy SEALS - Crossing Cultures: Cross-Cultural Competence and Decision Styles
… study uses these attributes to explore whether decision styles and demographics correlate with cross-cultural competence. Building on existing work on the attributes of military cross-cultural competence (defined in this study as the ability to quickly and accurately assess, then effectively …
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An internal auditing innovation decision: statistical sampling
… reports the results of an innovation decision study in internal auditing. Hypotheses of associations between the internal auditor’s decision to use statistical sampling and the perceived characteristics of statistical sampling are derived from Rogers’ <i>Innovation Diffusion</i> model …
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Applying the management system model to a federal government organization
… portrayal formats, organization-compatible decision styles, and data capture. Balance should be measured, over time, to see if the management system analysis led to improvement. Various instruments were used to assess these balance conditions, including the MyersBriggs Type Indicator and the …
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The Information Environment of Academic Library Directors: Use of Information Resources and Communication Technologies
… use and communication within the context of decision-making styles, managerial roles, organizational environments, and professional communities. This qualitative study uses interviews, observations, questionnaires, and documents. Library directors participating in the study are from …
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Adolescents' and young adults' moral thinking in typical everyday-life moral dilemmas
… the participants provided 1) their spontaneous decisions and its reasoning from perspectives of imagined moral agents and 2) their choices from nine fixed reasoning alternatives. The different types of moral dilemmas and the differently framed questions elicited age- and/or gender-related trends …
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Gamification risks in collaborative information systems: identification and management method.
… A notable recommendation is to use participatory decision style for the method that enables for the analysis of gamification risks and their resolution. Moreover, this thesis recommends studying how to integrate the risk identification processes, which should take an iterative participatory style …
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Enterprise architecture driven design of an artefact to support strategic Information Technology decision-making of Small Enterprises in Nigeria and South Africa
… are often the managers who make the strategic decisions in order to solve specific problems. The decision style of small enterprise owner-managers limits the leveraging of IT. To ensure the sustainability of small enterprises in a contemporary business ecosystem, it is pertinent to strategise …
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Age-related changes in memory for object locations across different perspectives.
… older adults displayed a more conservative decision style and relied more on encoding object positions using room-based cues compared to young adults, who focused on the spatial relations among the to-be remembered objects during encoding. In Chapter 3, age-related differences in encoding …
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EXAMINING THE CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES ENGAGED IN DEVELOPING INDIGENOUS LEADERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
… explored the demographic and cognition style factors that might explain variation in the distribution of these attributes. Additionally, qualitative interviews were conducted with a handful of indigenous leaders who worked with the missionaries that participated in the survey. Results …