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Showing 1 to 20 of 4198 for “"Organisations"”.
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Self-adapting agent organisations
… the decentralised structural adaptation of agent organisations.<br/><br/>In more detail, self-organisation has been generated in agent systems using various approaches like stigmergy, reinforcement mechanisms, cooperative actions of agents and reward based mechanisms for selfish agents. However, …
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Information systems in organisations
… systems have immense potential to change organisations. The conventional view focuses on the value that organisations can obtain through greater efficiency or new activities made possible by specific applications. But experience suggests that many organisations fail to gain the value …
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Managing Development Organisations: A Process-Based Assessment of Australian Based Non Governmental Development Organisations
… on Australian-based non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) (also referred to as non-governmental aid agencies). The study used a telephone survey of eleven agencies and a mail survey of forty-five agencies to make inferences about organisational processes of delivering development …
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Consumer perceptions and experiences of relationships with service organisations: financial, travel and tourism organisations.
… to do so in the future. In the last two decades organisations have increasingly been focussing on how to relate to their markets. One response to this complexity of the marketing environment has been Relationship Marketing (RM). While the benefits of long-term and trusting relationships with …
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TAFE Institutes as learning organisations
This thesis investigated TAFE Institutes to explore progression towards being learning organizations. The general aim of this research was to investigate the extent to which, and the ways in which, TAFE Institutes have adopted the concept of the learning organization.
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Strategy formulation in community organisations
… process of formulating strategy within community organisations. The alignment of strategy and mission is of central concern. Without this alignment, government funded growth threatens to turn community organisations into agents of the state. This development would mean the loss of the mediating …
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Promotion Systems In Public Work Organisations
Several studies have shown that effectiveness in promotion system practices can be viewed when staff are aware of the promotion policy and practice through good communication between organization management and employees, stipulated promotion policy of the organization and entitled benefits. This …
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Information technology outsourcing by large Australian organisations
… other nations’ economies. In Australia, national organisations such as the National Australia Bank (NAB) and Australia’s largest telecommunication company, Telstra, continue to outsource work to outsourcing vendors – that is, obtaining goods and services from outside suppliers. It has long been …
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Leadership in organisations for innovation and intrapreneurship
… their ideas to become innovation in the organisations. The aims of the research are to be able to use the identification to help leaders and organisations develop the characteristics that benefit a given situation, and in this case to benefit innovation and intrapreneurship. The research …
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Thriving on sustainable development: sustainable autopoietic organisations
This doctoral thesis theorises on how business organisations have reacted to the legal principle of Sustainable Development. The proposition is that Sustainable Development is an event-driven principle of becoming where the present depends both on the organisation’s environment and its internal …
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What Inhibits Teamworking in Safety Critical Organisations?
… fashions (Hayes, 2008), with most if not all organisations now operating some form of teamworking (Morgeson, DeRue and Karam, 2010).<br/><br/>Due to their popularity teams, it seems are here to stay (Van Hootegem et al., 2005), they are considered by some to be the building blocks of …
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Refugee community organisations: a social capital analysis
This thesis considers how refugee-led community organisations generate social capital for their service users. The concept of social capital has become popular in policy debates in recent years, and previous research has attributed social capital creation for their service users to refugee …
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The dynamics of upward communication in organisations.
… the dynamics of upward communication within organisations through the rubric of ingratiation theory (Jones, 1964) and impression management (Goffman, 1955). Upward communication was explored via in-depth case studies, in a hundred and five semi-structured interviews across four organisations …
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Emotion in organisations: working in British pubs
Research into emotions in organisations has grown considerably in recent years, inspiring both academic and practitioner interest. This thesis reviews the growing literature on the subject, especially considering Hochschild's (1983) concept of emotional labour and the possible emotional demands and …
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Women’s organisations and feminism in interwar Scotland
… It highlights that a diverse range of women’s organisations were thriving in interwar Scotland. This includes the outwardly feminist Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship (GSEC) and Edinburgh Women Citizens Association (EWCA); the Scottish Cooperative Women’s Guild (the Guild), which was a …
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Distributed leadership: lessons from destination management organisations.
… financially-constrained Destination Management Organisations (DMOs), which face challenges to deliver value to their destinations and member organisations. Leadership and its distributed dimension, namely Distributed Leadership (DL) is a recent paradigm, which is gaining momentum in the domain …
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Teleology in the Law of International Organisations
… role it plays in the law of international organisations (IOs). I begin by examining the concept of purpose, the multiple levels of abstraction at which it is identifiable, and the different ways it is operationalised in international legal argument. I demonstrate that in addition to its …
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The education of deaf children in Zimbabwe: the changing roles of non governmental organisations, the government and international organisations
… policies and provision of non governmental organisations, the government and international organisations. The thesis is divided into three sections. The first section examines the literature relating to deaf education in Zimbabwe. the role of international organisations and the changes from …
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Third sector organisations and social welfare : a study of the role of social service and charitable organisations in Taiwan
… about the role and operation of ‘third sector’ organisations (TSOs) within the Taiwanese social welfare context. TSOs have increased dramatically and become actively involved in social service provision. This phenomenon has not only had significant impact on the development and operation of TSOs …
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