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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Demographic diversity"”.
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MANAGING PUBLIC SECTOR JOB SATISFACTION: THE INFLUENCE OF TEAM BOUNDARY SPANNING, DOWNWARD COMMUNICATION AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
… spanning, organizational communication and demographic diversity has a sizable influence on job satisfaction. These interactions are moderated by perceptions of managerial trust. This analysis of 2014 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) data suggests that managerial influence on job …
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Three Essays on the Role of Corporate Governance in Firms' Spending on R&D and Controlling Earnings-Management Practices: The Role of Independent Directors’ Tenure and Network in Controlling Earnings-Management Practices; The Impact of Board Diversity on the Corporate Propensity to R&D Spending; The Association between Directors’ Multiple-Board Sittings, Tenure, Financial Expertise, and R&D Spending
… second essay explores the role of board diversity in the firm’s R&D investment decisions. Additionally, building on a fault-line argument about a team's demographic attributes, the current research decomposes the impact of demographic and cognitive diversity on R&D spending. The research …
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The diversity of participants in clinical trials involving allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
<p>This thesis set out to examine whether the demographic diversity of participants in clinical trials involving allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients matched the diversity of the actual allogeneic recipient population overall. It is important that clinical trials study new therapies in a …
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“I turned out fine”: An examination of the influence of parental punishment on perceptions of adult mental wellness
… A limitation of this study was the lack of demographic diversity amongst participants. However, this limitation inadvertently furthered the body of evidence on generational and regional gaps in mental wellbeing. Future research should aim to broaden participant demographics, specifically …
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The effects of personality trait diversity of UK company directors on board governance processes and board task performance : an empirical study
… director behaviour. The influence of board demographic diversity on process and outcomes is then examined. Several authors have attempted to relate top management team and board output with the demographic diversity of input (Pfeffer and Salancik, 1978; Hambrick and Mason, 1984), but have …
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Describing Diversity of New Urban Developments in Austin, Texas
This applied research project describes the diversity of new urban developments in Austin, Texas. The project begins with an overview of the history, causes and negative effects of suburban sprawl. The idea of new urbanism is then presented as the antithesis of suburban sprawl. Additionally, the …
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The Strategic Fit Between Board of Directors Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation
… about how the human and social capital, and the demographic characteristics of the board affect corporate reputation. Second, I examine how fit with an ideal profile of board characteristics -- including board expertise, board social capital, and board demographic diversity -- impacts firm …
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The Role of Diversity on Team Effectiveness in a Multinational and Multicultural Military Environment
… in achieving their mission: managing the demographic, functional, and cultural diversity introduced by the individuals from various nations that compose the coalition/alliance.</p> <p>A large number of researchers have considered diversity a "double-edged sword" as they discovered that …
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Layer Cake: Post-Cinematic Aesthetics and the “Social Justice Impulse” in Kaneza Schaal's Jack &
… approach to performance making, privileging demographic diversity alongside formal diversity. Drawing on intermedial performance discourse, early television scholarship, and social practice theory, I argue that Schaal’s citation of 1950s sitcom aesthetics in her 2018 theatrical work <em>Jack …
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Demography and design in an R&D organization
… or unit organizations be organized in terms of demographic diversity? What are the key variables associated with better performance? More technically, should a functional team be formed by the people who have similar experience and tenure, or, alternatively, should it be composed of people with …
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Test optional admissions, student persistence, and equity in higher education
… test-optional adoption modestly expanded student demographic diversity, while persistence outcomes remained comparable for submitters and non-submitters (Belasco et al., 2015; Syverson et al., 2018). Equity-centered environments that paired test-optional policies with advising, mentoring, and …
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New Media, Multiliteracies, and the Globalized Classroom
… the Globalized Classroom contends that changing demographic diversity in American higher education and increasing globalization call for curricular and pedagogical transformation of writing courses. The writing curriculum for "globalized classrooms" should be responsive to the resources students …
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Essays on the Economics of Algorithms, Markets, and Organizations
… by eventual hiring rates), while also increasing demographic diversity, relative to the firm's existing practices. While the adoption of automated approaches to hiring is often associated with decreasing access to opportunity, we show the impact on efficiency and equity depends on algorithm design …
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Does one size fit all? exploring the effect of hearing aid impulse noise reduction on isiXhosa click sounds: a pilot study
Gender diversity remains a significant challenge in the Information Technology (IT) industry, particularly in South Africa, where the workforce composition does not reflect the nation's demographic diversity. This disparity results in the underrepresentation of women despite policies aimed at …
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Experiences of South African women in agile projects: an intersectional perspective
Gender diversity remains a significant challenge in the Information Technology (IT) industry, particularly in South Africa, where the workforce composition does not reflect the nation's demographic diversity. This disparity results in the underrepresentation of women despite policies aimed at …
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Following Ocular Changes in United States Optometry Students (FOCUS): Protocol Development and Baseline Data
… States to more accurately reflect the nation’s demographic diversity. Ultimately, findings will contribute to a better understanding of adult onset and progression of myopia and provide guidance in clinical decision-making regarding myopia interventions.
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Microfoundations of Strategy: Enriching the Psychological Underpinnings of Upper Echelons
… through which top management team (TMT) gender diversity lends strategic advantages to firms. The findings reveal a unique interpersonal mechanism (TMT psychological safety) that mediates the positive effect of TMT gender diversity on firm ambidexterity. This mechanism highlights the …
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The gerontic turn : re-imagining the metropolitan collective of the centennial generation
… infrastructural inadequacies, this magnitude of demographic shift only serves to exacerbate a much more fundamental problem with regards to how our institutions have socially constructed old age and death. While the institutionalization of retirement was legitimized in 1935 upon a meta-narrative …
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The career pursuits of engineering students : inquiries into options, informedness, and intentions at the education-careers interface
… The health of this workforce - including its demographic diversity and inflow of candidates with key skills - attracts substantial attention from employers, policymakers, and educators. Prior literature has identified patterns of systemic variation in career intentions among students in the …
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Stigma and Workplace Relationships: An Exploration across Individual and Structural Levels
… to be structurally racist when it has poor demographic diversity, when they find evidence of unequal treatment and when they perceive the organization to provide little support to minority employees. The professional relationships of these employees were complex and often involved mainly …
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