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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Systems theories"”.
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Control mechanisms for risk-taking: evidence from the UK financial services industry
… risk metrics into performance management systems (PMSs) in the financial services sector have been under investigated in the management accounting literature. This thesis explores attempts by UK and European regulators to impose controls on the PMSs of a number of regulated employees …
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Parent Structure and Support and Adolescent Problems: Delinquency, Substance Abuse, and Peer and Self-Esteem Deficits
Attachment and family systems theories provided a framework for examining parental structure and support and adolescent delinquency, substance abuse, peer relations, and self-esteem. Three parent scales: support, watchfulness and decidedness, and eight adolescent outcome variables assessing …
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Quality Improvement Project on Patient Falls in a Medical-Telemetry Unit
… address the root cause of falls on the unit. The systems theories used in this quality improvement project are Chaos Theory and Kotter’s Eight Step Change Model.</p>
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Illinois Learning Standards Implementation and a Systems Perspective on Four High-Implementation Elementary Schools: A Multiple-Case Study
… Award, implemented the ILS. The existence of a systems perspective at each school based on the Baldrige criteria was examined; the Baldrige criteria were used in judging the quality improvement award. This study provided a rich description of ILS implementation at four schools, including …
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How Can Impact Investors Enable Systems Change? Exploring the Theory and Practice of an Emerging Field
… There has been an increasing awareness of “systems change” in the impact investing community, recognizing the limitation of the traditional approach (investing in a single company or technology) to create meaningful impact in entrenched socio-technical systems. However, a big gap between …
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The development and evaluation of software to foster professional development in educational assessment
… of health-related behaviors, and the information systems theories of captology and structuration theory were synthesized to develop a general model for designing systems to foster teacher professional development. This model was then applied to design and build a tool, QuesGen a web-based system …
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A dual constitutive communication-based model for managerial practice diffusion
… by drawing on institutional, rhetorical and systems theories for the reason that each of them seems to suggest a “mechanism” for diffusion. For instance, institutional theory suggests that diffusion is a changing process during which an organisation will continuously adapt itself to the …
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Eco-praxis: the story of environmental and sustainability connections as a wider theory base in social work education
… theoretical framework, and a variety of systems models is explored and repurposed to promote critical reflection and ethical dialogue about social work education and the environment. Narrative approach grounds the method of interview and observation to gather the participants experiences …
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Performance evaluation in the National Health Service - a systems approach
This research explores the contribution which systems theories, methodologies and models can make in the design and application of effective performance-evaluation processes. Approaches to performance assessment of organisations are reviewed, and the history and structure of the NHS, its …
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A Systems Methodology for Measuring Operational Organization Effectiveness: A Study of the Original Equipment Computer Manufacturing Industry, 1948 to 2001
… unstated, goal of engineering management and systems engineering research and applications. Two fundamental problems remain to be addressed in pursuit of this goal. First, despite over fifty years of research in various disciplines, there is still no universally accepted definition of …
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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students' Standardized English Literacy Achievement and Language Redesignation Status: A Multiple Regression Analysis
… This dissertation utilizes asset-based and systems theories to refute current language redesignation policies employed for CLDs. Additionally, Cummins' (1979, 1981) developmental interdependence hypothesis serves as a theoretical framework. Multiple and hierarchical regression analyses are …
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Study of management decision making by ward sisters in a hospital and the effects on decision making after the implementation of a decision support sytem
… of a decision support system. Nursing practice theories were related to organisation and management theories in order to conceptualise a decision making framework for nurse manpower planning and deployment at the ward level. Decision and systems theories were explored to understand the concepts …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
Dual land administration systems operate in many peri-urban customary areas in subSaharan Africa (Burns, 2007), yet the rationality behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration …
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Learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making
… learning for EDM. <br></br><br></br> <i>Learning systems and communities of practice (CoPs)</i> are the two main concepts used to frame and interpret the research. The empirical focus is on the experiences of practitioners involved in a UKbased Masters level course and a European research project, …
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Great Conversations: Systems, Complexity, and Epic Encyclopedic Narratives in Contemporary American Fiction 1960-2007
… these new dynamic perspectives. By applying systems paradigms to works by John Barth, Richard Powers, Annie Proulx, and Junot Díaz, the emergence of the epic encyclopedic narrative as a distinct form signifies the necessity of diversity, ambiguity, and noise in the operation of systems and …
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Learning new words: effects of meaning, memory consolidation, and sleep
… interpreted in light of complementary learning systems theories.
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Das Problem der Motivations- und Leistungssteigerung in multinationalen Industrieunternehmen
… to the universalist claim of many motivation theories. Although cultural theories have criticized this aspiration, they have not provided an alternative approach for multinational companies on the operations management level. Instead, recent organizations research has criticized both …
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A critical systems thinking approach for the planning of information technology in the information society
… Planning (ICTP) from the perspective of Critical Systems Thinking (CST). Nowadays with the increasing use of information and communications technologies and the possibilities of management of information, organisations and people in general focus attention on the planning of these technologies. …
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An assessment of customer retention with self-service technology: a comparative study between internet banking and mobile banking in Saudi Arabia
… the main body of SST literature and information systems theories, the conceptual model proposed was based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and expectation confirmation theory (ECT). This was also extended by adding perceived risk and culture as external factors. The positivist …
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“Sanctioned by the legal system”: Women’s experiences of child contact in the context of intimate partner violence and abuse
… adopts a feminist methodology and draws on systems theories to place survivor experiences in context to examine structural and system inequalities. Background: Child contact where IPVA has occurred is both complicated and distressing, and professionals working within the courts often believe …
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