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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Group Goals"”.
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Modeling Group Communication in a Complex System for Achieving Group Goals
… utilizing reinforcement learning for a group of agents. The original contribution to knowledge is a new model of cooperative learning developed as an enhanced Q-learning update function which also includes learning events communicated by other agents. Further contributions lie in the …
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Two paths to nationhood : explaining the goals of ethnic rebellions
… for why ethnic rebellions take on different goals. The theory posits that popular grievances against the state concerning the legitimate relationship between the ethnic group and the government are crucial for understanding the objectives rebel groups seek. These grievances are shaped by …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… Four hundred and sixty-six members of 85 groups were solicited from 27 local business, health, welfare, and educational organizations. In addition, for each group, to provide a check on members' replies to some questions, the researcher and (most often) two administrators and two outsiders …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… Four hundred and sixty-six members of 85 groups were solicited from 27 local business, health, welfare, and educational organizations. In addition, for each group, to provide a check on members' replies to some questions, the researcher and (most often) two administrators and two outsiders …
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A Functional Analysis Of Leader Behavior In A Behavioral Health Setting
… as follower behavior changed to manage the group and meet group goals. The conclusion of the study showed that evaluation tools found in the applied behavior analysis field can be effective in evaluating leader behavior in a behavioral health setting.</p>
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Individual and Group Goal Setting for Individual Task Performance
… to explore the comparison of individual and group goal setting for the task performance of individuals. In the first experiment, goal setting occurred for a problem-solving task and an error-checking task. For both tasks, two versions were constructed to reflect low and high task difficulty. …
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The relationship of human resource development manager empowerment to organizational conditions
… system for facilitation of company and HRD group goals, and (f) high organizational self-esteem.
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Informal Accountability: Individual Actions and Organizational Consequences
… model for how individuals within collaborative groups use facilitative behaviors, reinforced by exchanging informal rewards and sanctions, to hold members accountable for group goals. These actions are exchanged between individuals who come to the group with a wide range of knowledge and …
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Mobile Devices for Facilitating Group Fitness and Visualization of Fitness Data
… behavioral strategies, such as team rank. And group-based strategies are very important in aspects such as peer recognition and can facilitate more physical activity. This research explores the design strategies of group-based dynamic approaches for encouraging physical activity in small-size …
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Group Analysis of Collaborative Conservation Partnerships
… examples exist in the United States. These groups seek to address land stewardship through cooperative, communicative, bottom-up approaches that engage local stakeholders. A better understanding of member characteristics and successful group characteristics may enhance collaborative …
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Establishing a community of professional learners: leadership strategies that promote teacher efficacy
… toward the achievement of individual and group goals in a given job situation. When a healthy school environment exists and teacher morale is high, teachers feel good about each other and feel a sense of accomplishment from their jobs (Hoy & Miskel, 1987). Through personal and professional …
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Warriors versus experts : managing conflict between professional groups for US Army mental healthcare
Organizational life is rife with conflict between groups with different interests who pursue different goals. Integrative mechanisms to promote goal alignment do not always work, particularly when conflicts involve professional groups with strong commitments to their professional identities and …
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The institutional forces that impact on the understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the form of social partnerships in the Peruvian Mining industry
… the best outcome for their own community; and group ambition, on which comuneros pursue economic group goals. Finally, in respect of the cultural-cognitive elements, this study found that comuneros demand CSR to have both components: compulsory CSR on which its initiatives attend their urgent …
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Analysis of the Relationships between Changes in Distributed System Behavior and Group Dynamics
… pervasive forms of distributed cooperation. A group could perform a task using a heterogeneous set of the devices (desktop, mobile), connections (wireless, wired, 3G) and software clients. We call this form of systems Distributed Dynamic Cooperative Environments (DDCEs). Content in DDCEs is …
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Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
… can lead to increased risks, missed process goals, increased waste leading to lost revenue, and other unforeseeable outcomes. However, the adoption of proposed processes by individuals only is less desirable, because the collective nature of processes requires choreographed group action to …
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The Induction Process of Newly Hired Teachers into the Existing School Culture of Niles Community Schools
… social interdependence that a dynamic quality in groups was the development of an interdependence that influenced roles, learning and action and created positive interaction, individual accountability, appropriate use of social skills, and group processing for learning. Practice and research on …