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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Follett"”.
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Mary Parker Follett: Toward Organizational Communication Ethics in a Flattening and Fearful World
… examines the life and work of Mary Parker Follett who offers meaningful insight for ethical practice in such a time as this within organizational communication.</p><p> Follett's life can be understood through both her experiences and her writing along with the frameworks and trajectory that …
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Corporate to management social responsibility : extending CSR to MSR guided by Mary Parker Follett
… scientist and management theorist, Mary Parker Follett (1868 – 1933). Secondly, Follett’s work is synthesised and offered as a starting point to deal with other management demands in theory and practice. The case for MSR invokes the same principles for the elimination of workplace …
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Governance, Citizenship, and the New Sciences: Lessons From Dewey and Follett on Realizing Democratic Administration
… from the life work of John Dewey and Mary Parker Follett - lessons clarified by the premises and assumptions of the new sciences and activities congruent with those lessons. This dissertation is comprised of four broad components: a history of administrative reform as told through the literatures …
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"Candles of the nation": community-based nonprofit human service institutions in the process of public governance
In the new State, Mary Parker Follett argues that the â neighborhood groupâ is the center of citizenship and democratic governance. In doing so, she takes us into territory that remains largely unexplored: social processes and how they can create an ideal democracy.
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Pragmatism and the intellectual development of American public administration
… disguised or silent pragmatism of Mary Parker Follett, the popularized, corrupted, and nominal pragmatisms of Charles A. Beard and Herbert Simon, and the implicit pragmatism of Dwight Waldo. The discovery of this heritage of “hidden” pragmatism Carries with it significant implications for the …
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Seeing through organization: the experience of social relations as constitutive
… study is grounded in the work of Mary Parker Follett and family systems theorists. While Follett’s ideas prove useful in elucidating the process of organization generally, family systems theory speaks to the psychology of that process. In this study, the two are theoretically integrated to …
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A Preliminary Investigation of the Effects of a Professional Development Training on Secondary Students' Reading Scores
<p>Much of the emphasis on interventions to improve literacy skills has been focused on the primary grade levels. Over the last decade, an increasing amount of research has stressed the need for effective reading interventions for adolescents. However, little research has evaluated effective …
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A computational model of learning in Go
This thesis presents a new computational learning algorithm that is capable of learning new concepts for the game of Go from both textual descriptions and pictorial examples. The 'GOaL' (GO and Learn) computational model uses this algorithm to learn descriptions of concepts that it studies. These …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Risk and Discrepancy in Major Depressive Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is one of the most prevalent health conditions in the world, characterised by persistent low mood and disruption to education, relationships, and employment. Disruption to social functioning is a core feature of MDD, and this dimension of the disorder may offer …
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Heterogeneous reservoirs in the marine carbon cycle
Understanding the fate of primary production in the ocean is a challenging task because once produced, organic material is oxidized over timescales which range from minutes, to millions of years. This timescale diversity is matched by an equal heterogeneity in both the local physical and chemical …
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The consumption of tattoos and tattooing : the body as permanent text
In this thesis, I investigate permanence through exploring tattoo consumption in terms of the social-historical context of being tattooed. The analysis is based on four years of data collection adopting a grounded theory approach. I present an analysis of how permanence occurs in terms of tattoo …
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Heterogeneous reservoirs in the marine carbon cycle
Understanding the fate of primary production in the ocean is a challenging task because once produced, organic material is oxidized over timescales which range from minutes, to millions of years. This timescale diversity is matched by an equal heterogeneity in both the local physical and chemical …
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Feedbacks between plants, flow, and particle fate
Environmental flows carry a wide variety of particles that interact with vegetation. Vegetated canopies are anchored by sediment, release pollen and seeds to colonize new ground, rely on nutrients carried by sediment, and may be killed by disease spores. While the influence of vegetation on flow …
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Investigation of polyethlyene passive samplers' efficacy in deducing sediment pore water concentrations of PCBs
Polychlorinated biphenyl compounds (PCBs) were manufactured between 1929 and 1977 as heat exchange fluids, flame retardants, and pesticide extenders, among other uses. About 450 million pounds of PCBs are estimated to have entered the environment since manufacture. Assessing the hazard posed by …
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Directing through Dialogue: A theatre director’s exploration of leadership
The esteemed position that a director holds in the creative process is a recent phenomenon. It emerged towards the end of the 19th century. Then, the role of a theatre director encompassed the idea of a single, creative force, coordinating and controlling the elements of a production. Not much has …