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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Organizational hierarchy"”.
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The influence of organizational hierarchy and departmental structure on communication : the case of Kaplan and Norton's Balanced scorecard in a matrix organization
… business by examining the relative influences of organizational structure, message volatility, and task decomposability on the probability of successful message transmission, but there is no research available that examines this or similar models in the context of a real business. The model …
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How Leaders Use the Construct of Culture to Influence Change Resistance: A Study of a Planned Change Initiative in a Combined Government and Military Organization
The construct of organizational culture has been used to interpret various aspects of organizational life, including organizational leadership and organizational change. The literature indicates that leaders can influence organizational change by attending to and modifying an organization's …
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Sensemaking and identity : traditional narratives of university roles and recognition of faculty expertise.
… should consider understanding the effects that organizational hierarchy and physical distance have on improving collaboration between faculty and administration for public-facing communication opportunities.
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From top to bottom: rhetoric in the hierarchy of focused deterrence stakeholders
… Missouri (KC-NoVA). By focusing on a single organizational component of the initiative--probation and parole--this research examines the extent to which policy rhetoric is both reflected in implementation and transmitted accurately through the organizational hierarchy. Because NoVA involves …
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Faith capital: a persistence study of two student learning communities at a northeastern community college
… capital, social justice education, and emergent organizational strategies are aligned with practitioner perspectives in an examination of two student learning community initiatives at the college. Faith capital (Hanson, 2001) is a secular notion aligned with the principles of social capital as an …
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Trickle-In Effects: How Customer Deviance Behavior Influences Employee Deviance Behavior
… from an individual at a higher level of the organizational hierarchy (e.g., a supervisor) to another individual at a lower hierarchical level (e.g., a frontline employee), or from a frontline employee to an external member (e.g., a customer). Complementing the extant literature, this …
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Gender differences in self-assessments at the application interface
… jobs in gender neutral departments. Across the organizational hierarchy, the extent of self-assessment bias favoring males increases as you move up levels of the hierarchy. However, I find no gender self-assessment bias among applicants to departments with female competence associations. This …
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Factors Affecting the Implementation of Policy 2450, Distance Education and the West Virginia Virtual School, as Perceived by Principals/Assistant Principals, Counselors, and Distance Learning Contacts and/or Course Facilitators
… (3) the structure category, including the organizational hierarchy, policies, and procedures of a school, ranked second among the factor categories; (4) there were more differences in perceptions about resources, especially time, than any other category of factors; and (5) all five …
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Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion
… frameworks of principle-agent relations and organizational hierarchy, my thesis examines post-Soviet military reforms to contextualize the Kremlin's rationale for utilizing militia groups as well as analyzing the costs and benefits Moscow ultimately incurs when it leverages militias as force …
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A case study: the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards in a secondary school setting
… originally intended outcomes occur across the organizational hierarchy and between policy actors (Anderson, 2011; Fullan, 2007; Sabatier & Mazmanian, 1980). The utilization of an embedded case study design provides an examination of the perceptions and beliefs of those individuals who operate …
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Essays on banking in developing countries
… the impact of foreign bank ownership and bank organizational structure on the cost of financial intermediation and terms of loan contracts. The last essay focuses on Kenya which is home to M-Pesa the mobile-phone based money trans-fer and financing service initially launched in Kenya in 2007 …
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College graduates’ perceptions of their use of teamwork skills: soft skill development in Fort Hays State University Leadership Education
… 2000). As a result of the ‘flattening’ of the organizational hierarchy, it is critical that employees at all levels are proficient in soft skills. Recent studies indicate that employers consistently rate these skills as deficient in their incoming hires. Skills such as communication, teamwork, …
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Culture, Power, Difference: Managing Ambivalence and Producing Identity in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia
… these spaces through an investigation into the organizational structures and administrative practices surrounding foreign capital in the islands of Indonesia since Dutch colonialism. I demonstrate a continued reliance on colonial practices in the exercise of power on the global stage (as well as …
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Identifying career orientations of female, non-managerial employees at Virginia Tech
… of women employed at lower levels of an organizational hierarchy in occupations not usually considered professions. Career orientations are constructs for those values, attitudes and motivations inside the person which develop through accumulated work experience, and which serve to guide, …
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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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Going Backstage: Examining Justice Perceptions of Electronic Performance Monitoring
… levels within their organizations. An organizational justice perspective is used to examine how a company’s decision to grant employees the ability to turn off EPM or “go backstage” is likely to be viewed differently by those who are at higher levels of a hierarchy in comparison to …