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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Organizational improvement"”.
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Promoting Continuous Learning and Organizational Improvement Through Role Based Evaluation Capacity Building
<p>Nonprofit organizations, like expanded learning programs, are hungry to engage in evaluation to improve their services to make the greatest impact. To bring this dream to life, individuals in the organization must develop the skills necessary to engage in evaluation and use findings as part of …
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Stimulating healthcare organizational improvement through public reporting of smoking cessation advice rates
… evaluate a novel method of instituting quality improvement among hospitals in the area of smoking cessation through publicizing poor performance. Smoking cessation was used as an indicator due to its impact on the health of our population, evidence base and also because of availability of data. …
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Organizational Communication and Change: A Case Study on the Implementation of an Innovation at a Florida Medical Facility
… and helping employees view the change as an organizational improvement. The results indicated that the training program marginally reduced anxiety, but did not significantly increase user confidence or understanding of the need for the change. While participants viewed the change as an …
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Building Teacher Self-Efficacy to Improve Student Literacy
… which I work also suffers from this issue. This organizational improvement plan has a problem of practice at its core that probes how current research can assist me, as principal, in supporting teachers to more effectively implement a balanced literacy program throughout my school for the purpose …
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Navigating the changing landscape of early education within a preschool setting
… been affected by Full-Day Kindergarten, this Organizational Improvement Plan explores a significant problem of practice: how can key stakeholders within a child care organization successfully navigate this changing landscape and implement a long-term plan for continued sustainability. This …
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Process improvement and inventory management using value stream mapping in a biopharmaceutical environment
… because of their significant financial or organizational impacts. These underlying issues indicate organizational improvement projects are necessary in the short term to create an environment conducive to sustaining results stemming from projects addressing the surface issues. One example …
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Increasing Success: Strategies to Address Factors Affecting Student Retention from First to Second Year at a Canadian, Undergraduate, Liberal Arts University
… longevity of post-secondary institutions. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) examines some of the challenges faced by a small, liberal arts, faith-based university in southern Ontario which, in recent years, have impacted its enrolment and retention from first to second year. With some …
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Building Global Skills: Broader Concepts of Internationalization in an Ontario College
… global skills during their time in college. This organizational improvement plan (OIP) addresses the need for broader concepts of internationalization that include global engagement opportunities for at-home students. Using distributed and transformative leadership approaches and the change path …
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Teacher Leadership to Enhance Day Treatment Services
… through Nadler-Tushman’s Congruence Model. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) utilizes Appreciative Inquiry (AI) as its guiding organizational change framework to communicate the need for change and implement the change plan to enhance networking, collaboration, and communication with …
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Shifting Directions: Conceiving, Implementing, and Navigating the Inherent Complexities of Student Recruitment Customer/Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Systems within Higher Education
… development and service. A CRM is both an organizational approach involving significant human and system processes, as well as a technological intervention. Typically, CRMs have been implemented within commercial enterprises, specifically those operations with direct contact with customers …
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Building Capacity in K-12 Educational Leaders to Address the Opportunity Gap
… 2020; Spencer-Iiams & Flosi, 2021). This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP), rooted in social justice and equity, investigates how to build educational leaders’ capacity to proactively address the opportunity gap for students considered marginalized and eliminate exclusionary practices …
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Performance measurement system design for supply chain organizations
… creates accountability, and fosters continuous organizational improvement. The proposed methodology has been demonstrated by its application to a supply planning organization within a major technology manufacturing company. Specifically, the performance measurement system of this supply planning …
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The Value of Cooperative Extension's Public Benefit Explored through Enhancements to Forest Ecosystem Services Provision
… is re-framed as one aspect of overall continuous organizational improvement.
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Transforming School-Based Mental Health to Heal the Collective Soul Wound
… and generally follow historical practice. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) problematizes PPSD’s lack of system-wide approaches to mental health interventions that can provide assurance of improved efficacy and equity in meeting student mental health needs. Transformative leadership …
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Cultivating Compassion: School Discipline Through a Lens of Equity, Wellbeing, and Decolonization
… who demonstrate challenging behaviour. This organizational improvement plan provides a framework to reimagine school discipline through a lens of equity, wellbeing, and decolonization. It is an invitation to look under the surface to better understand students who struggle with behaviour in …
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The Role of Supervisory Officers in Building School Administrator Leadership Capacity
This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) is based on a problem of practice (PoP) in Red Maple District School Board (RMDSB), a mid-sized Ontario school board that identifies cultivating leadership in staff as a priority. The limited leadership development opportunities for school administrators …
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Maladaptive Coping Habits Amongst Student Leaders in Peer Support Roles: Reframing Exposure to Vicarious Trauma
… effective critical incident support. This Organizational Improvement Plan examines the use of maladaptive coping habits by student leaders when supporting peers in distress and discusses strategies to help these leaders develop heathy attitudes towards coping to overcome the negative …
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Changing School Culture to Engage Disengaged Students
This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) examines how formal leaders (including principals and vice principals) and informal school leaders (such as influential teachers) can provide opportunities for greater engagement in the learning process for all students by changing the culture (Schein, …
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Enhancing Academic Preparedness of International Students Coming to X University for Post-Secondary Education
… academic and socio-cultural levels. Thus, this organizational improvement plan (OIP) discusses the contextual factors influencing the institution’s problem of practice (PoP), potential solutions, the preferred solution of an academic bridging program for international students and the …
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TOWARD A MORE JUST AND TRULY INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
… to promote exclusion and privilege. This organizational improvement plan proposes (a) creating an admissions policy and structure that ensures that the school can include and equitably serve neurodiverse learners; (b) developing an antiracist curriculum that calls on students (and …
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