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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Ethnic Diversity"”.
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The Relationship of Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: Finding the Missing Link
Nigeria is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with over 250 ethnic groups and over 150 million citizens. Scholars have claimed that ethnic identity plays a pivotal role in organisations, as it exerts influence across different organisational activities and situations, such as …
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Institutional recognition and accommodation of ethnic diversity: federalism in South Africa and Ethiopia
This thesis focuses on federalism and ethnic diversity. Using two case studies.
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Living together in diversity: Whether, why and where ethnic diversity affects social cohesion
Contains fulltext : 179281.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Educational attainment of Black children of immigrants in Canada: Evidence from the Ethnic Diversity Survey
… explored. The data are drawn from the 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey. The findings illustrate that the educational experience of black children of immigrants is heterogeneous. Depending on both socioeconomic and ethnic attachment factors, different educational outcomes for black children of …
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Emigrating to the good life: A qualitative study of gender and ethnic diversity of graduate women
This research addressed three major questions regarding the perceptions and interpretations of the lived experiences of 13 graduate women in master's and doctoral programs at a major midwestern research university: (a) How do these graduate women perceive and interpret their epiphanal experiences …
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The world of Kavanagh and Cottril: A portrait of Irish emigration, entrepreneurship, and ethnic diversity in mid-Maine, 1760-1820
… and documenting their efforts to establish an ethnic and religious identity on the Maine frontier.</p> <p>Their story parallels the lives of two immigrants, James Kavanagh and Matthew Cottril, who made a fortune in the Maine timber trade and encouraged kin and countrymen to settle in tne new …
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Faculty of Color at the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: A Survey of Ethnic Diversity, Geographic Location, and Personal Perspectives
… and colleges with traditionally homogeneous ethnic and cultural populations have to work especially hard to ensure faculty diversity. Despite efforts to increase the number of faculty of color in Kentucky's statewide system of community colleges, minority representation remains proportionally …
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Diversity in students' personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity's role in student thriving.
Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better understanding student success and wellbeing from a psychological perspective. …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… countries. That when comparing cross-nationally, ethnic diversity seems to foster the unevenness of subnational democracy. But the internal geographic distribution of demographic factors matter, which can only be studied through the subnational comparative approach. I contend that subnational …
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From here to diversity : ethnicity in the national health service
… the standard of health care provided to minority ethnic communities, there is continuing evidence of failure on the part of the National Health Service (NHS). One of the ways in which the New Labour government has sought to address such inadequacies in public services has been to increase the …
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Evaluating the Midwest Police Academy's ability to prepare recruits to police in a diverse multicultural society
… to prepare recruits to police in racially and ethnically diverse communities. In this study, I adopted a critical race theory lens, which considered White privilege, dominant White male ideology, and color-blind racial ideology, when examining the training and practices at the academy. This …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… on industrialization, class relations, and ethnic diversity in a rural context, this dissertation questions the holy triptych of modernization that links urbanization, immigration, and industrialization together as the measurement of progress and relegates rural America to the status of …
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Black Male Representations in Non-Urban Settings in The UK
… my own lived experience in a city with a low ethnic diversity in order to explore the ways in which Black masculinity can be thought/lived/acted upon differently to other urban and more ethnically diverse locations. Finally, this work also discusses the role that education has had in the …
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Meeting Graduate Student Needs through Alternative Programs: An Analysis of the Impact of Factors Related to Student Choice
… data and a focus group activity. Gender, age, ethnic diversity, work setting, job, and work level were used as the independent variables. Measures of satisfaction on the five identified themes and thirty individual factors were used to identify areas of agreement and disagreement. The five …
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Essays on Labour Market in Developing Countries
… an introduction in chapter 1, the key chapter 2, Ethnic Diversity and Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa joint with Sara Tonini, investigates how ethnic diversity amongst black South Africans affects their employment opportunities in the post-Apartheid era. We find …
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"Seeking 'Free Spaces Unbound': Six ""Mixed"" Female Adolescents Transact With Literature Depicting Biracial Characters"
… education, the role of multicultural and multiethnic literature in the lives of adolescents, and support the belief that teacher education programs should develop cultural critical consciousness about racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity for students in a diverse society.
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