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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Multi-Generational"”.
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Planning for a multi-generational future : policies, regulations, and designs for multi-generational housing in the United States
Multi-generational housing is a rising trend that is increasingly being considered as a viable housing option for the Boomerang generation, Baby Boomers and the aging population, and immigrant families. Cultural preferences, socio-economic factors, and the increasing availability of kin all …
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Multi-Generational Cycles of Poverty and Prosperity
… such starkly visible differences to persist for multiple generations. It also controls for routine rationalizations for these economic disparities--education and income levels--to dispel them as explanations. A more definite determinant of economic disparities in America is that of inherited …
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Behavior Based Safety and the Multi-Generational Workforce
<p>Generational differences of Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials regarding their acceptance of feedback and observations were studied in order to determine if different approaches to each were needed in order to effectively implement a Behavior Based Safety program within a specific …
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Entrepreneurial habitus and nudging at multi-generational family firms
… nature of my research, I adopted an abductive multiple case study method at five parent family firms with family ventures and two parent family firms with non-family ventures. At each parent family firm I created case histories, data tables and event histories while also performing open coding …
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Benefits of a Multi-Generational Workforce: Perceptions of Age-Friendly Work Environments
<p>Age-friendly workplaces (1) emphasize mutual respect and inclusion at work and (2) provide comprehensive support for employees of all ages by utilizing a combination of policies, procedures, settings, and/or structures to (3) remove the barriers that segregate by age group and (4) encourages …
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Exploring Recognition, Rewards, And The Multi-Generational Workforce During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… strategies to better meet the needs of multi-generational employees. One problem found in organizations was that many current multi-generational employees had low engagement due, in part, to outdated rewards and recognition programs (Agarwal et al., 2018; North, 2017; O.C. Tanner …
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A blueprint for building a multi-generational movement for social transformation in Boston
This action research thesis sought to develop recommendations for how to better connect young people to efforts that grassroots community-based organizations are taking to foster economic democracy and transform the political economy of society in Boston. Using a mixed methods approach of …
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The Impact of Generational Intelligence and Its Relationship With Team Cohesion and Team Performance in a Jamaican Multi-Generational Workforce
… (JAMU) currently faces a phenomenon of having a multi-generational workforce that includes four generations working alongside each other across its five fields for the first time in its history. This intersection of generations brings challenges concerning the adequacy of leaders’ generational …
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Ruins and Wrinkles: Revaluing Age through Architecture
… hypothesis in the context of an adaptive reuse, multi-generational, mixed use design for the Bailey Power Plant, Factory 60, and their surroundings: the former R.J. Reynolds tobacco district in my hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After a close study of the site's history and its urban …
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Nothing Free
<p>This is a multi-generational story of a family in a centuries-old New Mexico community undergoing wrenching change as it is forced into the modern world. The focus is on three sisters and how they and their loved ones reconcile their deep connections to the past as they embrace their futures.</p>
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Carryover parts and new product reliability
… common parts used in successive generations of multi-generational products, are a major source of quality problems, contrary to conventional wisdom. Moreover, the failure rate of carryover parts grows from one generation to the next, a phenomenon known as the carryover spike. Motivated by these …
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Te pā harakeke: Educational success and kōhanga reo
… the nature of educational success by examining multi-generational whānau (family) views of educational success in kōhanga reo. It also explores the contributions of kōhanga reo to the educational success of whānau. The study explored the lived experiences and views of educational success across …
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Cultivation for Generations: A Family Farm House in Blacksburg Virginia
… through the vessel of one design project; a multi-generational family farm house in Blacksburg, Virginia. The relationship between ideas of courtyard and farmyard, as joined and segregated spaces, is one level of exploration. Another is the relationship between such spaces, joined and …
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The impact of restricted ration and chemical stressors on Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and American flagfish (Jordanella floridae)
… to increase the understanding of the impact of multiple factors including both environmental and chemical stressors and their effects on fish survival, growth, and reproduction. Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were used to assess the impact of restricted feed on acute toxicity and it was …
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Household economies of low-income, African female-headed households in Khayelitsha: intergenerational support, negotiation and conflict
… is known about how these dynamics shape intergenerational relationships and positions of power within female-headed households. This thesis aims to contribute to a better understanding of these issues by examining how the household economies of fourteen low-income, African female-headed …
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Defining the cellular and molecular mechanism of maternally inherited hearing loss
… loss both in isolation and as a feature of multi-systemic mitochondrial disease. The m.1555A>G mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variant is associated with a predisposition to aminoglycoside ototoxicity and maternally inherited non-syndromic deafness. However, the reasons for the highly variable …
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The Ella Effect: An Activist's Journey Towards Mentoring Progressive Black Masculinities Into Motion
… developing a grassroots men's antiviolence and multi-generational mentoring group called the Progressive Masculinities Mentors. I draw upon Athena Mutua's intersectional vision of Progressive Black Masculinities into motion which reimagines traditional black masculinity in ways that move beyond …
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JAZZ’S HIDDEN TRANSCRIPTS: BETWEEN CALIBAN AND COLTRANE CRITICAL IMPROVISATIONAL PEDAGOGY AS PRAGMATIC POLITICS
… of political disengagement, social exclusion, multi-generational poverty, and social injustice in communities left behind by an incomplete democracy, now in acute crisis. Using jazz improvisation as a metaphor for Dewey’s ideals for a thriving and creative American democracy, this normative …
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Inheritances of Injustice/Transference of Freedom: An Intimate Project on Black Women's Intergenerational Relationships and the Consequences of the Punishment System
<p>This project centers the multi-generational familial relationships between system-impacted Black women, mapping and uncovering the ways in which incarceration and practices of punishment impact, shape, hurt, and displace Black femme lineages. Through a qualitative lens and a specific focus on …
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Prestige, manipulation, and coercion : elite power struggles and the fate of three revolutions
… and sociological ties, the manipulation of multiple decision-making bodies, and politicized militaries and secret police. Leaders with legacies as successful warfighters are especially capable of dominating such systems. Institutionalization can only explain why elites do not pointlessly and …
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