Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Shared values"”.
-
Shared values as organising principles in complexity
… seeks to understand the role of organisational values as an apt candidate for organising principles to manage and adapt effectively in complexity. A starting interest of this research was the reflection that a strong set of shared values has the potential to enables a range of positive outcomes, …
-
Common Ground, Contested Futures: Shared Values and Divided Attitudes Toward LNG in Squamish
… liquefaction facility, and explore the beliefs, values and attitudes that shape local responses. I argue that beliefs related to energy development extend beyond perceived benefits and risks of different technologies; they are about how people make sense of social change, identity, and their …
-
Transforming A School's Culture Through Collaboration, Relationships, And Shared Values: A Change Leadership Plan
… focus being on collaboration, relationships, and shared values among its stakeholders.Building trust among staff and administration while making daily decisions based on the same value system is necessary to enact an effective transformation. Tools used to collect data included the School Culture …
-
The influence of shared values in the management of project-based B2B professional relationships
In this doctoral study I conceptualise shared values in order to explore a management problem from my work place environment. I observe that business-to-business (B2B) relationships between project managers and self-employed consulting engineers terminate; project managers switching to other …
-
A mediated model of trust and its antecedents in the client-consultant relationship
… variables - perceived level of expertise, shared values, and sharing of meaningful information - on trust as a mediator to relationship commitment. The ability to trust, the comparison level of the alternative, and dependence were measured as control variables. Both structural equation …
-
The Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions Of Professional Learning Communities And Shared And Supportive Leadership
… of leadership practices as they relate to shared and supportive leadership, shared values and vision, collective learning, supportive conditions, and shared personal practice. This study utilized the five Madison County (KY) middle schools to assess the relationship between teachers’ …
-
A Study to Identify the Components of Professional Learning Communities that Correlate with Teacher Efficacy, Satisfaction, and Morale
… communities, i.e. supportive leadership, shared values and vision, collective learning and application, supportive conditions-relational, supportive conditions-structural, and shared personal practice and their correlation with teacher efficacy, satisfaction, and morale. These six …
-
Antecedents of trust in corporate bankingin the United Arab Emirates
… reference to Emirati religion, culture and shared values. Thematic qualitative analysis was deployed here through the use of semi-structured interviews with 170 respondents. Key informants in the Central Bank of Abu Dhabi and in a multi-national oil company provided triangulation. The …
-
Understanding drivers of deforestation using socio‐psychological behavioural theory and the capability approach
… discussions. I then explored the links between shared values and DD behavior, and found that different cultural groups (Q'eqchi Maya and Ladinos) act differently depending on how they relate to their shared values. The results also indicated the presence of value orientations as a mediating …
-
The community of intimacy: The spiritual beliefs and religious practices of adolescent quakers
… It examines and analyses their beliefs and values; individual and group practice and how the group functions. The research demonstrates that for the adolescent Quaker group belief is unimportant and non-definitional; values are broad and open to individual interpretation, although key shared …
-
The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
… those from common intelligibility and from shared values. I propose that the former argument alone is sufficient to refute relativism, whilst the latter argument leads not to pluralism but to a broad or narrow monism, depending on the number of shared values, since it fatally undermines the …
-
Educational attainment of Black children of immigrants in Canada: Evidence from the Ethnic Diversity Survey
… and the Caribbean. The influence of common shared values on the educational attainment of a segment of the new second generation---Black children of immigrants---is explored. The data are drawn from the 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey. The findings illustrate that the educational experience of …
-
Reciprocity in middle aged women's same-sex close friendships: a qualitative study
… point for coding the interview responses. Shared values, acceptance and trust, feedback, and similarity/mutuality over time were additional themes that emerged from the data. The women in this study expected reciprocity from close friends. Tangible assistance and social initiatives did not …
-
No longer a myth: A study of the happy and healthy marriages of African American male professional athletes
… strength of their marriages. Open communication, shared values, religion/faith, and trust were consistently found to be important components contributing to the strength of these marriages. This study adds to the limited literature available discussing the positive aspects of professional athlete …
-
Creativity is king: an exploration of the role of brand orientation in the collaborative strategies of UK broadcast media organisations.
… to explore the role of brand orientation and shared values in collaborations. The findings suggest that organisations in the UK broadcast media industry increasingly employed a form of collaboration that nurtured creative relationships and recognised the importance of creative individuals in …
-
The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States
… modernism in terms of metaphors that reflect shared values of being autonomous, creative, and a form of self-expression.
-
Individual-organizational Value Congruence: Operationalization And Consequents
… dissertation is that employees whose personal values are congruent with the cultural values of the organization will be more committed to the organization, experience higher satisfaction, have lower turnover intent, behave in a more prosocial manner, and be less absent, than those employees …
-
Distribution loyalty: Towards a conceptual model
… a) three antecedents (trust, satisfaction and shared values); b) a moderating variable (contractual obligations); and c) a two-part dependent variable, where the behavioural component (repeat purchase behaviour [RPB]) mediates the relationship between the antecedents and the attitudinal …
-
An Ethnographic Study of Women Using HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Methodg
… purpose of this ethnography was to explore the values, beliefs and perinatal practices of women, who utilized HypnoBirthing. The aim was to explain the culture of HypnoBirthing through women’s perceptions of their experiences of choosing, attending, and using HypnoBirthing. HypnoBirthing is a …
-
Relationships and Sports: Mechanisms in Relational Motivation and Its Impact on Athletic Performance
… that closeness, support, accountability, and shared values predicted relational motivation in student-athletes, while coaching relationship and sport type did not predict RARs. In addition the findings showed effort is driven by RARs and coaching relationship but that effort did not predict …
Page 1 of 5