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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Organizational behaviour"”.
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Banking on Empowerment: The Why, What and How of a Strategy for High Performance
… research from Positive Psychology, Positive Organizational Scholarship, and Positive Organizational Behaviour about empowerment. It explores the veritable benefits a financial institution can achieve by engaging in an empowerment strategy, what psychological empowerment is, and how to build …
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The Effect of Performance Management on Perceived Justice in Family Businesses in Hungary
… main disciplines: Family Business Management, Organizational Behaviour Management, and Human Resource Management. Specifically, in my thesis proposal, I study the Performance Management System and its effects on perceived justice at family businesses. For identifying the research focus and …
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The influence of transformational leadership and organisational climate on organisational citizenship behaviour among support staff at a selected university in the Western Cape province
… of the organization. Therefore, discretionary behaviours such as OCB among employees in such organizations like any other organizations are crucial for organizational effectiveness and performance. Thus, improving the organizational citizenship behaviours of employees in such organizations in …
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Tools in the Toolbox: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Police Officers, mHealth Mobile Application Engagement and Associated Systems of Coping Mechanisms
… stigma, and Foucauldian frameworks. Drawing from organizational behaviour, police culture, mental health, addiction, and mobile applications research, the study consisted of 23 phenomenological-focused interviews with police officers, supplemented by the researcher's self-examination. The findings …
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Volunteer recruitment and retention: a case study of the Vancouver Planned Parenthood Clinic
… sociological analysis stemming from an organizational behaviour framework is used as an alternative approach to broaden the scope of this case study. The five levels of analysis used to examine the volunteer program in this study are: 1) individual level of analysis, 2) group behaviour, …
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Developing a framework to facilitate employee engagement culture: a case of Saudi Arabia Banks.
… their employee productiveness, fulfil their organizational objectives, and enhance their employee retention rate (Kim et al. 2013; Kuntz and Roberts 2014). However, the fundamental issues revolving surrounding the meaning and key antecedents of employee engagement nevertheless demand similar …
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THE IMPACT OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPACITIES AND POSITIVE EMOTIONS OF FRONTLINE EMPLOYEES ON CUSTOMER PERCEPTIONS OF SERVICE RECOVERY
… recovery. Interestingly, while management and organizational behaviour literatures have looked at the favorable influence positive psychological capacities (optimism, hope, self-efficacy, and resilience) have on employee performance, this literature has not yet been used to shed light on how …
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From compliance to coping: Experiences of Chief Risk Officers in UK banks 2007-2009
… and had limited influence over bankers’ behaviour. Within a bank the CRO, though formally identified with risk governance, was informally pressed by powerful sales-side groups to report optimistically. Seeking senior management support to resist this pressure, many CROs instead found …
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Integrative Executive Leadership: Towards a General Theory of Positive Business Leadership
… addresses the individual, pairs/groups/teams, organizational, and societal levels of business. Within these contexts, IEL exercises positive integrative agency through multi-stakeholder professional stewardship, integrated performance management, and living codes of ethics. This requires the …
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The changing background and attitudes of engineers and administrators in welsh local government engineering departments
… changes in their technical, social and organizational environments. These changes affected the relationships within such organizations particularly between professional engineers who have traditionally assumed a leading organizational identity and generalist administrators whose …
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Understanding Applications of Project Planning and Scheduling in Construction Projects
… new management strategies or tools to improve organizational learning and integration in the context of project planning and scheduling. This implies a need to assess project stakeholders’ understanding on the application of project planning and scheduling theories to practice. The main aim was …
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Gauging the horizontality of community philanthropy organizations: The development and validity testing of an instrument
… sets out to develop an instrument to gauge the behaviour of a community philanthropy organization (CPO) and then to test its validity. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, the Horizontality Gauge (HG) offers a process by which organizations can assess the extent to which their …
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Stepping in, aside or away? A micro-level study of commitment in cross sector partnerships
… and recommends drawing from the fields of organizational behaviour and organizational psychology. Meanwhile, the commitment literature calls for examination of workplace commitment within cross boundary settings and in relation to higher purpose causes. My interpretive, micro-level study …
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Psicologia della sicurezza e nuovi codici del lavoro: un'indagine sui fattori di rischio della salute nelle organizzazioni
Il presente contributo ha ad oggetto una ricerca sulla percezione della sicurezza nei luoghi di lavoro. L'ipotesi di partenza è quella che vede i profondi cambiamenti sia strutturali che regolamentari presenti nel panorama organizzativo italiano ancora non perfettamente allineati con una …
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Employee engagement: extension of the job demands resource (JD-R) model with the ubuntu construct
… and employee engagement are linked with desired organizational behavioural outcomes [intention to turnover (IT) and affective commitment (AC)]. The study extends the JD-R model with a typical culturally specific African construct, Ubuntu, in order to increase its relevance to the African context. …
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Facilitating self-organization in non-hierarchical communities: a methodology for regeneration programs
… organisational structures and to support such organizational behaviour. This topic becomes more relevant in the present times when the community development is more locally oriented and the communities are being empowered to become more autonomous in the definition of the means and results they …
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Understanding value congruence : a sport organization case study
… playa significant role in influencing individual behaviours. It is therefore necessary to assess the qualities of employee value systems and directly link them to the values of the organization. The importance of values and value congruence has been emphasized by many organizational behaviour …
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Value for diversity: an investigation of diversity climate, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to leave
… the relationships of diversity climate via organizational fairness and organizational inclusion (Mor Barak et al., 1998) and job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to leave. Further, personal value for diversity was investigated as a moderator of those relationships. The …
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Successfully implementing strategic decisions: The implementation of top level decisions in organizations.
… building programmes and the re-organization of organizational structures The organizations comprise a university, a water authority, two mail order companies and two chemical firms. The objective is to describe and explain implementation processes and outcomes. To this end, eleven independent …
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The impact on organizational performance of contextual factors, strategy and management control systems
… association between variables across the four organizational areas of context, strategy, control and performance and attempted to bridge existing gaps in the body of knowledge in relation to the nature of the relationship between variables in these areas. Contributions of this study to existing …
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