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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Speaking up."”.
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Speaking Up For Generic Asians in Charles Yu’s <em>Interior Chinatown</em>
… Asian American community and the concern brought up by implications made within the novel. Scholars such as Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham and their book, Asian Americans and the Media, will be used as a primary source to introduce the problematic ways of the Hollywood establishment. Through the …
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The fragility of tolerance: rights, responsibilities, and the challenge of speaking up
The student, Tarah Williams, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-17 at 19:12.
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Speaking up! Adult ESL students' perceptions of native and non-native English speaking teachers.
… to the survey, 32 students volunteered for group interviews to further explain their preferences. Results indicated that adult ESL students have a general preference for NESTs over non-NESTs, but have stronger preferences for NESTs in teaching specific skill areas such as pronunciation and …
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Speaking Up is Hard to Do:What Can Management Do to Help When Patient Safety is on the Line?
… employees are often reluctant to speak up about errors and opportunities for improvement. This reluctance is a widely-recognized barrier to healthcare quality and a threat to patient safety. Although previous studies have identified factors that influence employees’ decisions to speak up …
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Speaking Up, Speaking Out, and Making Movements: How Employee Activists Raise Social, Political, and Moral Concerns at Work
This dissertation explores how employee activists raise social, political, and moral concerns at work. To do this, I draw on interviews with employee activists, an archival database of white-collar employee activism events between 2018-2022, a three-day participant observation in employee activism …
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Speaking up-speaking out: What does it take to prepare early childhood professionals to advocate for children and families?
… professionals who will have the ability to speak up and speak out for children and families.
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"Quiet as it's Kept": Secrecy and Silence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Jazz, and Paradise
… the silence in The Bluest Eye becomes a group of people sharing their secrets in Jazz, and finally an entire town coming to terms with the power of speaking up. This thesis looks at the secrets and their impact on characters in each novel and explores the progression of the power in refusing …
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A narrative inquiry into early pregnancy loss, subsequent pregnancy and maternal attachment
… surrounding this loss, often prevents women from speaking up and seeking help. This study explored the complexity of women’s experiences of an initial early pregnancy loss, followed by a subsequent pregnancy and the psychological impact of such loss on maternal attachment. Adopting a narrative …
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BULLYING AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN RETIREMENT HOMES AN UNKNOWN EPIDEMIC
… homes are being bullied and many of them are not speaking up and isolating themselves for the purpose of avoiding their bullies. Moreover, this study shows that staff members of the retirement communities are lacking the knowledge of the bullying problem in their community. The study suggests that …
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Acquiring Social Capital: the biographical trajectory of long-term surviving HIV/AIDS activist Faghmeda Miller
… face of a Muslim woman with HIV in society. In speaking up for the infected voiceless and taking a lead in creating awareness about a highly stigmatised disease, Miller shows how personal agency was used to change attitudes, save lives and offer support to the suffering. Mass media in the …
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Emotions as informative signals : a qualitative multiple case study exploring female employee perceptions of supervisor incivility within STEM professional roles.
Supervisor incivility is a pervasive issue within organizations. The lack of research on how female science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) employees experience supervisor incivility within male-dominant cultures creates a challenge in understanding how to support this underrepresented …
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Acts of Resistance: Nurses' Personal Narratives
… protest or non-cooperation by oppressed groups. Resistance is seen as always present in the face of domination. Acts of resistance can help us to understand how the powerless mediate power relations, and they can actually give hope to the powerless. This study looked at the issues of power …
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A qualitative single case study gathering the perceptions of emotional labor among Black male and female professionals in higher education in the Midwest.
Emotional labor is suppressed feelings in exchange for wages (Patahk & Singh, 2021). Managing emotional labor is the expectation of managing emotions in line with an organization’s culture. This qualitative case study examines the experiences of Black male and female professionals in the Midwest, …
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A quantitative examination of team leadership, team behavior, and patient outcomes at a Level I trauma center.
… and passive—team citizenship behaviors—speaking up, cooperation, and knowledge sharing—and patient outcomes, specifically 30-day mortality. I analyzed a de-identified dataset of 132 cases from a Level I trauma center in the Southwestern United States. Expert physician reviewers scored …
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Job Quality: The Perceptions and Strategies of New Zealand Workers
… with part-timers, a more vulnerable group of workers, focused on their strategies for improving the quality of their jobs. The results reveal modest changes regarding shifts in job values. Except for job security, employees place a higher priority on intrinsic job values. Only a few …
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Perioperative Nurses Perceptions of Moral Courage
… by Magnet® status, certification, peer support, institutional culture, fear, and previous operating room experience. Perioperative nurses from Magnet® hospitals were significantly more likely than nurses from non-Magnet® hospitals to stop a surgical procedure performed by a physician with …
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The role of the advocate for the detained patient: a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective of advocacy in psychosis
… is of particular interest to those charged with ‘speaking on behalf of one’ when, in psychosis, there is a withdrawal from shared language. This thesis argues that Lacan’s writings on psychosis provide a framework to discuss the relationship between advocacy and psychosis. In light of the Lacanian …
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Retaliation against whistleblowers and the role of restorative justice: a critical narrative
… and sociopolitical organizations that uplifts a moral reflection of ethical or nefarious operational practices. When ethics are violated, the employee that stands at the precipice of protecting others from harm risks their own physiological security and psychological safety. Retaliation …
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Giving Voice To The Values Of Nurses
… in core concepts. The program's intent was to support a moral culture and contribute to the retention of frontline nurses and improved safe patient care. Methods This project had three AIMS; (1) To develop a moral courage training program for nurses. (2) To implement and evaluate the program. …
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Silencing violence in the family: Making the victim the problem
… examine the consequences of being silenced or of speaking and writing of such injustices. With an emphasis on the importance of speaking up in order to influence changes in policies and practices that have had a damaging impact on the lives of women and children in particular, these essays take …
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