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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Organizational Mission"”.
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They Don't Think Like We Do: Factors Influencing Employees' Interpretations of Organizational Mission
Organizational mission is the purpose, strategy, values, and behavioral standards of an organization that may or may not be articulated in a formal statement. The influence of mission on employees who are not strategic managers has been largely neglected. Organizational members develop their own …
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The Sound of Silent Partners: A Study of Charitable Choice and the Perceptions of Nonprofit Leaders Regarding the Effects of Government Funding on Religiously-Based Nonprofit Organizational Mission
… government funding and faith-based nonprofit organizational development and professionalization. By conducting an online survey of 1,632 executive directors at Habitat for Humanity affiliates in the United States, followed by telephone and email interviews with selected leaders from the …
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Planning Practices of Administrators in Continuing Higher Education
… education administrators as a means of defining organizational mission and goals and achieving planned development. However, many strategic planning models involve the use of a highly structured, formal planning process. Little has been known about whether these models provide a realistic …
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What West Virginia? Conflict over West Virginia's State Identity: A Constitutive Approach to Activism and Public Relations
… West Virginian identities that accord with their organizational mission. Based on the constitutive concepts advanced by Edwin Black, Maurice Charland, and Michael McGee, this study has analyzed the ideological narratives, which underlie each argument, and which call into existence two antagonistic …
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Transnational NGOs: A US Perspective
… as exemplary. Leaders' perspectives on organizational mission, activities, autonomy, collaboration, effectiveness and obstacles reveal that the most numerous and resourceful TNGOs are technocratic agencies favoring a materialistic, ameliorative approach to transnational activism. …
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A grounded theory approach : inter-organizational relationships in community college fundraising
… to manage relationships and secure resources for organizational mission and vision fulfillment and sustainability. Community colleges provide a rich context for studying inter- organizational relationships (IORs) since fundraising professionals manage multi-layer relationships associated with …
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Bureaucratic access points
This paper studies how organizational mission influences policy implementation. Interagency conflicts and bureaucratic challenges affecting implementation are largely due to different missions and different assessment measures. The focus of this investigation is the relationship between …
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The clinic and the community: exploring the role of the designed environment in the creation of social value
… spatial navigation, theories on everydayness, organizational mission, and resource-based theories. Using pre-determined criteria from literature and preliminary research, two sets of social programs, actively supported by clinics, were chosen for a multiple case study methodology. The case …
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An Exploratory Study of Board Governance Structures and Practices of Education Foundations or Funds
… the structures, responsibilities, practices, and organizational traditions that the board of an organization uses to ensure accomplishment of the organizational mission (Plumptre & Graham, 1999). The governance characteristics of four national recognized and diverse EFs were compared. The findings …
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Institutional Resilience of Community-based Conservation to the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal
… I estimated capital stocks and assessed the organizational resilience of each CAMC during and following the Maoist insurgency. I used confirmatory factor analysis to develop scales for measuring the two theoretical constructs of legitimacy and institutional resilience, the latter of which …
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Strategic Conservation Planning for High Knob, Virginia: A GIS Decision Support Approach
… satisfaction with GIS analyses to meet their organizational mission. Sixty-one responses were collected and analyzed. The overwhelming majority of conservation organizations recognize the benefits that GIS bring and have already developed some level of internal expertise, though many barriers …
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The Design, Implementation, and Assessment of Initial Change and Growth in a Local Voluntary Organization and its Members
… the most effective methods of fulfilling their mission and simultaneously meeting members' changing needs. Participatory volunteer-run organizations, such as a local branch or chapter of a national organization, face many challenges, making it hard to establish and maintain there organizations. …
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Supporting people to live their best lives : an action research inquiry
… association could assist employees to enact this mission more fully. Employees were found to be dedicated, having important ideas about how the organization could assist them. This thesis reviews literature regarding the concept of best life as considered from a quality of life perspective, along …
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Green Employees: Organizational Identification in an Environmentally Friendly Company
… by employees through the use of a directed mission statement and organizational rhetoric. Utilizing individual interviews, the findings suggest that by building organizational identification, more environmentally-friendly practices amongst organizational members may be achieved.
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ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE OF A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: A STUDY OF LOCAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
This dissertation applies organizational culture, identification, commitment, and leadership theories to explain how United Methodist Church (UMC) congregations (members and pastors) view the work of the local church and how it differs from the recommendations of the denomination's top leadership. …