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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Organizational practices"”.
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Ethical issues in organizational practices: individuals, organizations and partnerships
This thesis examines issues regarding ethics in organizational practices. It explores ethics-related inquiries from the influences of an individual’s moral character and conduct, to an organization’s pursuit of a higher value system, and to organizations’ social and ethical practices in the broader …
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Institutional hearings as symbolic process: The re-legitimation of organizational practices
… can make real changes in their structures and practices to reestablish legitimacy. In contrast to this substantive re-legitimation, symbolic legitimation refers to reframing the meaning of the actions to create the perception of legitimacy.
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Unlocking the insights: data-analytic examinations of social signals in organizational practices
… to develop decision-aiding frameworks and extend organizational boundaries by designing novel artifacts; the behavioral focus develops and tests theories that elucidate behaviors at the individual or organizational levels. This thesis comprises three essays aiming to contribute to IS research by …
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Cultural Transposition: Exploring Meanings of and Strategies for Cross-Cultural Transfer of Organizational Practices
… is to study the phenomenon of transferring organizational practices which are conceptualized in one culture to another different culture. The purpose of the study is (1) to understand how cultural values and beliefs are manifested in behavior; (2) to explore how the Western organizational …
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Environments, Transactions, and Organizational Practices: The Management and Performance of Real Estate Brokerage Firms
A reconceptualization of the environment-organizational structure relationship is at the heart of this study. The poverty of the theoretical language used to articulate this relationship which has made it difficult for organization theorists to relate organizational practices to external factors. …
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Empowered work groups: Conceptual framework and empirical assessment of empowerment processes and outcomes in organizations
… hypothesized that the effects of empowering organizational practices on work-related outcomes are mediated by the dimensions of empowerment. A survey questionnaire was developed and administered to employees of two organizations. Structural equations modeling was used to assess the fit of the …
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Just say no to 'just say no' : tensions in organizational approaches to youth and online privacy in the Americas
This thesis examines organizational practices in the field of youth online privacy in the Americas. I describe harms created by protective, universalist, individualistic approaches that pose youth as conditional citizens, and make a case for approaches based instead on youth agency, intersectional …
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Essays on the role of location in strategy
… laboratories' adoption of "science-oriented" organizational practices. The results in the second essay demonstrate that organizational practices are more similar among laboratories within firms and within geographic regions than across these domains. The findings imply that while organizations …
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Lessons Learned From the Narratives of Two Employees Returning to Work While Actively Grieving
… a narrative lens this project will examine how organizational practices influenced the experience of grieving for two individuals. As the literature review will show, most grieving adults return to the workplace while still actively grieving. Returning to work while grieving is not only …
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Always for the animals : findings and recommendations for organizational governance and regenerative practices in the animal advocacy movement as informed by the stories of women vocational animal activists
… means to deepen the understanding of the FAAM’s organizational practices, and suggest tools for sustainability. A reflexive thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with 33 FAAM vocational activists was conducted. Ubiquitously, the interviews revealed a pervasive culture of oppressive ‘isms’, …
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
… that examine the range of informal interpersonal practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, and the production and consumption of discourses while contributing to …
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Sexual Orientation In The Workplace: Examining Human Resources Conceptions Of Diversity
… sought to determine the differences in corporate practices of Cox's three organizational types in addressing the issue of diversity in the workplace and to compare the outcomes each has experienced as a result of their diversity efforts. Ten Human Resource professionals representing a variety of …
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A methodology for planning sustainable supply chain initiatives
… theory. The first one “Acting In” structures organizational practices in a “Framework for Managing Sustainable Supply Chain Practices”. The second scope “Acting Out” compares practices from 32 recognized sustainability leaders from five different industries through a “Benchmarks Practices …
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Livelihood strategies and its impact on women in northern Thailand
… natal household and their acquiescence to the organizational practices of industrial workplaces, which fail to accommodate womena??s responsibilities in the domestic sphere.
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Shaping Tomorrow's Leaders: Exploring the Moose Jaw Police Service Promotional Process to Address the Leadership Needs and Challenges within Modern Policing
… and offers actionable insights for enhancing organizational practices.
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Understanding the effect of perceived supervisor unavailability on job satisfaction, counterproductive work behaviors, and intent to quit
… Theory, we looked at personal (role clarity) and organizational resources (perceived supervisor or PSS and organizational support or POS) as mediators of the PSU-work outcomes relationship. Data were collected from on-site and hybrid/remote employees. Perceived supervisor unavailability was …
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Crossroads: Exploring how micro organizations that leverage design shape urbanism practice
… future. In understanding each group’s internal organizational practices, we begin to uncover the possibilities and challenges of practicing at this scale. At large, the findings lead me to believe that such organizations serve as the instigators and experimenters within the greater urbanism …
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Interrogating Whiteness in Graduate Education Culture: A Phenomenological Exploration of Southeast Asian American Graduate Student Experiences
… but are not limited to: culturally conscious organizational practices to promote inclusion; culturally conscious trainings for faculty and staff; an expansion in research pertaining to Southeast Asian American graduate education experiences and the interrogation of whiteness within …
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Exploring culturally responsive teaching and environmental education
… approach that incorporates EE content, educator practices, organizational practices, and a critically reflexive mindset. In Chapter 3, my personal reflection considers themes that were woven throughout the work, time, and thought spent on this project and as a master's student at Virginia Tech. …
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Intercultural leadership : variations in Chinese Canadian perspectives of career mobility into senior leadership roles
… equity to explore bicultural identity within an organizational context and to critically investigate power structures that determine senior leadership roles. The study relied on a blended methodology of social scientific quantitative measures and phenomenography. The process included the use of …
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