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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Secretaries"”.
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Aren't Only Girls Secretaries…?”: Leadership Lessons From Women U.S. Secretaries of State
<p>American political systems, predominantly steered by White males, often conform to masculine leadership paradigms derived from traditionally male-dominated domains like the U.S. government. Thus, it is vital to explore women’s roles in political leadership to foster a more comprehensive …
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Secretaries as catalysts : a comparative study of the influence of global environmental treaty secretaries on treaty implementation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1998.
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NVQ's in administration: the deskilling of secretaries
… has been positive nor beneficial in terms of secretaries findingemployment. Employers were found to expect prospective secretarial employees to have Touch Typing skills, especially for senior positions. Data collected from Secretarial Recruitment Agencies indicate that the average touch typing …
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Predictors of performance on the Certified Professional Secretaries Examination
… to which scores on the Certified Professional Secretaries® Examination could be predicted by selected education, work experience, test preparation, and demographic variables. A secondary purpose was to develop descriptive profiles of candidates who passed and who failed to pass on their first …
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Image is Everything: An Assessment of Texas House Press Secretaries
… related to professionalism of Texas House press secretaries and compare those findings with findings of the study conducted by Edward J. Downes (1998)^1 of United States congressional press secretaries. Five indexes of understanding and four models of public relations were derived from Downes’ …
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Importance of dress and sleepwear attributes to female secretaries and custodians
… of 133 respondents was divided into two groups: secretaries and custodians. When dress and sleepwear attribute importance scores were compared significant differences were found. Secretaries considered style more important for a dress; fabric was of greater concern in sleepwear selection. Fabric …
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The state of performance - based contracts in the public service: a case for permanent secretaries in Zambia.
… performance-based contract system for Permanent Secretaries since 2016 that could be used as evidence for improvements in performance appraisal practice. A mixed methods study approach was used. Correlational analysis was done using SPSS version 20 and qualitative data was analysed using …
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The state of performance - based contracts in the public service: a case for permanent secretaries in Zambia.
… performance-based contract system for Permanent Secretaries since 2016 that could be used as evidence for improvements in performance appraisal practice. A mixed methods study approach was used. Correlational analysis was done using SPSS version 20 and qualitative data was analysed using …
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Future competencies needed in the preparation of secretaries in the state of Illinois using the Delphi technique
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The office secretary a study of an occupational group of women office workers
… of employers in central London and all the secretaries they employed, using As a sample frame Thomson's London Yellow 4 Pages Classified telephone directory, and, b) the nationwide membership of two organisations of secretaries, the Institute of Qualified Private Secretaries and the National …
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A cognitive task approach on the influence of office automation software in secretarial practice
… software has been of great concern to both secretaries and their employers. This inefficiency causes unnecessary delays in information processing and dissemination in the organization. The problem is rooted from the secretaries’ lacking in appropriate application of cognitive skills, …
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A compliance study of secretarial roles in organizations
… units. The majority of Certified Professional Secretaries reported their involvement as moral and the power exerted by their supervisors as normative. Moral involvement and normative power are congruent, and thus effectiveness is assumed. Most of the correlates of the compliance theory further …
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'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': the global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939
… Argentina, the Philippines, and Nigeria. USYWCA Secretaries aspired to create an apolitical and non-governmental space, which I have labeled “Y-space.” According to its proponents, Y-space would not only be located in physical places and programs, but would also extend to create a global …
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A survey of word processing centers in the urban corridor of Virginia
… centers. Nineteen supervisors, 17 correspondence secretaries, and 2 administrative secretaries were interviewed. To obtain the needed data, the Word Processing Interview Guide was developed by the investigator and validated by a jury panel. In the analysis of the data, frequency distributions and …
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The applicability of performance measurement indicators in Maltese local government : an assessment
… state of knowledge and capabilities of Executive Secretaries on performance measurement together with the residents' viewpoint on the priorities and quality of Local Councils' services are also evaluated. Design: A mixed method approach was chosen to deal with the research objectives. In-depth, …
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The role of the coordinating secretary in organizations affiliated with the Association of School Business Officials of the United States and Canada
… responsibilities provided by Coordinating Secretaries in state, provincial and regional organizations affiliated with the Association of School Business Officials of the United States and Canada. A second purpose of the study was to identify and describe significant historical antecedents …
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Knowledge and Social Order in Early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE)
… framework of knowledge is associated with the secretaries, as state bureaucrats, who helped transfer ancient administrative methods and practices to the emerging Islamic polity. Their immense assistance in tackling manifold problems of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates consisted not only in …
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Human Resources Programming and its Impact on Leadership within Governing Boards of Ontario Community Colleges
… community college board members and board secretaries to determine how specific programming related to governor recruitment, selection, training and performance evaluation assisted, or may contribute to, governance and leadership experiences during their term in office. These experiences …
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Female consumers' awareness of and preference for brand name apparel
… demographic variables. Women professors and secretaries employed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU) were chosen as the sample for this study. A questionnaire was developed to ascertain the needed information and was distributed to 471 women by the intercampus mail …
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The development of secretarial and administrative support staff: influential factors in the identification of need
… of organisational structures, thereby exposing secretaries to new opportunities as they asserted control over the new communications. Companies subsequently perceived the benefits of horizontally enlarging secretarial roles to encompass paraprofessional activities such as personnel, finance, …
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