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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Organisational structures"”.
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Accountability of public organisations : An evaluation of the impact of Information, organisational structures and markets.
… of performance information and changes to organisational structures. This research evaluates the impact of these reforms on accountability. In order to do this a model of effective accountability is developed from the existing literature. The criteria of effective accountability are the …
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Teacher Capital Unbound? The Role of Organisational Structures for Teacher Social Capital and Student Outcome
This thesis addresses the role of school organisational structures for teacher social capital and student outcome. The thesis is driven by a general concern over the widescale reforms Swedish schools have undergone in the last decades and particular concern over the so-called work unit reform. This …
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Unmanageable opera?: the artistic-economic dichotomy and its manifestations in the organisational structures of five opera organisations
… arts organisations: artistic aims and economic-organisational aims. In creating an analytical framework for this concept, theories by Jurgen Habermas, Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, and Henrik Kaare Nielsen are applied. The theoretical concepts employed include civil society, state and market …
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A case study investigation of teacher collaboration : conditions and the relationship between teacher collaboration and teachers' professional development and learning / Ah-Gek, Karen, Lee.
… teachers' collaboration can be fostered by the organisational structures and leadership practices through delegating decision making authority for teachers to take on leadership responsibility. Further, the study concludes that being involved in a variety of collaborative activities and …
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Intersectionality in Organisations: Exploring the Relationships between Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and Women’s Work in a Postcolonial African Space.
… study focuses on academic women’s perception of organisational structures involving recruitment, selection and promotion in the Nigerian higher education system, exploring how gender, ethnicity and religious identities, important factors in the Nigeria socio-economic context, can create …
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Creating business value through e-marketplace trading
… impact on organisations regardless of organisational size. However, despite the potential of the e-marketplace to deliver organisational benefits there have been limited studies which consider the strategic implementation of e-marketplace trading. Organisational strategy and the …
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Linked independent junior schools : an investigation into what head teachers perceive to be the influence of autonomy on school effectiveness, in terms of shared leadership and management
… of sharing power and leadership through their organisational structures, as they interpret their concepts of autonomy in a mutually dependent relationship, whilst seeking to understand and support each other's aims for improving the effectiveness of the junior school. The research used a …
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Structural Limitations of Data Protection Legislation for the Learning Health System: Proposing a Lex Specialis for Longitudinal Biomedical Data Use
… stewardship in reliance on appropriate organisational structures, expert oversight, and technical safeguards is proposed as an alternative to data protection law. Such a model should be enacted through special purpose health-sector legislation to align individual privacy and the …
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Early Years Professional Status: A Narrative Study of Leadership and Contradictory Professionalism
… of Bolman and Deal which offers insight into how organisational structures and practices shape participants’ experiences of becoming an EYP and their ability to lead practice, and bring about change. The findings suggest that the role of the professional in ECEC challenges traditional hierarchical …
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Location – Based Information for Sustainable Development of Forests
… suggest that human resource management, organisational structures, technological capacity, and coherent documentation are key areas which need attention for an effective and efficient sustainable location-based information system. Successful application of these research findings can not …
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Policing Gangs in London : Perceptions of the Process from Key Practitioners
… risks are perceived and policed within the organisational structure of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews with a variety of gang practitioners, it contrasts and critiques specialist, analytical and local police practice in …
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The Role of public television in social development communication in a post-colonial developing country: a case study of the public televison service in the Republic of Ghana.
… of role and job function, politics and organisational structures impact the role of Ghana Television and its contribution to contemporary Ghanaian society. Through a consideration of national post-colonial history and theories of media, communication, culture and development …
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The effect of organisational structure and managerial practices on the clinical behaviour and job satisfaction of primary health care doctors, as knowledge workers, in the managed health care industry in South Africa
… statistical models were used to evaluate the organisational structures and managerial practices associated with managed care, and to assess the impact of these on the clinical freedom and job satisfaction of the respondents.
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The Alignment of Information Management and Technology to future Service and Business Strategies of the NHS in Wales
… that in real life organisations with differing organisational structures and business processes which are operating in alternative environments are likely to require different approaches to alignment. There is not 'one design fits all contexts' in alignment and despite a broad range of practical …
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The challenges of evaluating business benefits of Information Systems Investments
… from the aggregation of business benefits at organisational level, making the correlation of business benefits and IS Investments challenging to ascertain. In an attempt to resolve these correlation challenges, Resource-based Theory was applied to distil drivers of business value of IS …
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Covert action and cyber offensive operations : revisiting traditional approaches in light of new technology
… concluded that there is a need to re-examine the organisational structures of covert action, including ethical dimensions, in relation to cyber operations.
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Propensity for participative decision making as an enabler of strategic agility
… change, which is best achieved through flexible organisational structures that promote, collaboration, decentralized decision making, and employee empowerment. The practical implications of strategic decisions and choices must be understood by managers as the decisions managers make can have …
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Fear, performance and power: a study of simulation learning in paramedic education.
… and hierarchy) within the educational and organisational structures are examined and offered as another possible explanation for the high levels of anxiety in simulation learning. The thesis ends with the question of whether simulation learning can be changed for the better and if so, how.
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Challenges and opportunities for implementing Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Policy in higher education
… level, in terms of policy development, organisational structures and philosophical approach. It also looks at academic staff perceptions of RPL policy and implementation and its successfulness in terms of the integration of RPL into the curriculum, the capacity of the curriculum to …
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Organisational democracy and economic viability in producer cooperatives in the Western Cape Region of South African and in Zimbabwe : case studies and comparative analysis
… development; (d) there is a relationship between organisational structures and viability as an economic unit and (e) members in different positions in the enterprise have different conceptions of cooperation. The study concludes that cooperative development is a process involving different stages …
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