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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Dysfunctional behaviour"”.
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Pressure on Auditors and Dysfunctional Behaviour as Institutional Work
… from the institutional environment and auditor behaviour in the context of Indonesia. Auditors play an important role in the economy of a country by providing credible information for various users of audited financial statements for decision-making. However, auditors often show inappropriate …
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Causes of dysfunctional behaviour within self-directed work teams : a case study
… and work planning can lead to added stress and behaviour not anticipated from employees. This behaviour, if not addressed, may have a debilitating effect on the team's performance and therefore on the organisations' bottom line. To address this behaviour, the specific causes must first be …
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An analysis of insider dysfunctional behavours in an accounting information system environment
Insider deviant behaviour in Accounting Information Systems (AIS) has long been recognised as a threat to organisational AIS assets. The literature abounds with a plethora of perspectives in attempts to better understand the phenomenon, however, practitioners and researchers have traditionally …
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An empirical examination of ethical decision making by corporate accountants in Taiwan
… embracing Taiwan. Most of them have involved dysfunctional behaviour incorporating earnings management. The factors which encourage earnings management decisions and the subsequent outcomes provide the motivation for this study. The study examines accountants’ earnings management behaviour in …
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The Use & Consequences of Performance Management & Control Systems : A Study of a Professional Services Firm.
… efficiency and effectiveness by affecting the behaviour of organizational participants. However, PMCSs also create tensions between achieving shortterm and long-term objectives which often times lead to unintended negative consequences. These effects of PMCSs are much more attributed to their …
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Experiments in inhumanity
… as to how influential pop culture may be on teen behaviour, such as violence within relationships and peer groups. It throws elements like morose suburban existence, family dynamics and dysfunctional behaviour (specifically of a sexual nature) into the melting pot and attempts thereby to …
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Madness as the Foundation of Non-Culpability
… diagnostics and (iii) treatment of persons with dysfunctional behaviour patterns will most certainly benefit from a paradigm shift, in which unconscious consensus and self-evident artefacts are replaced by first person experiences and skilled professional responsiveness.
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Young Women's Experiences of Self-Harm: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
… where self-harm can be located at one pole as a dysfunctional behaviour, across to the middle range, where self-harm may be conceived of as a functional response or a coping mechanism. At the other extreme of the continuum, self-harm that is experienced as a positive, exciting or euphoric …
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Codependent concerns among nurses
Codependency is a complex dysfunctional behaviour pattern characterised by a dependence upon external reference points for ways of being. An abundance of nursing literature claims that codependency is (a) a problem among nurses, (b) related to the demands of the profession, and that (c) codependent …
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Psychosocial Interventions for the Prevention of Injury in Dance
… and emotional strategies, avoidance strategies), behavioural strategies (i.e., dysfunctional behaviour, hobby activities, social interaction, dance related behaviour), and physical relaxation. The coping strategies mentioned most frequently in this study belonged to the behavioural strategies …
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Overcoming wound healing complications following radiotherapy in human breast dermal fibroblasts, through the influence of preadipocytes from the stromal vascular fraction
… of these cells may explain their dysfunctional behaviour, and lead to therapies to reverse or reduce this deleterious side-effect and significantly improve treatments facilitating wound healing following radiation injury.
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The evaluation of information technology projects : a study of effective practices
… were too formal were ineffective, resulting in dysfunctional behaviour. Whilst regular evaluation across the project lifecycle the goal of most companies, the key issue was one of implementation of that intention. Many companies had well-documented processes and methods, but they were not …
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Frontal lobe dysfunction, as measured by the frontal systems behavioural scale, in the context of HIV infection and heavy episodic drinking
… of the human brain is integral in regulating behaviour. Behavioural disturbances such as apathy, disinhibition, and dysexecutive function are well-known consequences of frontal lobe pathology, leading to significant impairment. Heavy episodic drinking (HED) and HIV are common conditions that …