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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Weick"”.
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Volatile congregations : crisis sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church
… components of enaction, selection and retention (Weick, 1995). The 11 themes that were drawn from theory were the basis for research questions as well as for the four-step method of collecting, describing and analyzing the data. The extent to which the themes were applicable was the determining …
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Mindfully Organizing Collective Teacher Efficacy: A Case Study Of Efficacious Educator Teams
… 2020) and the five mindful organizing behaviors (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015) was developed. Additionally, heedful interrelating (Weick & Roberts, 1993) was found to have a potential mediating role between the EC-CTE and mindful organizing behaviors, while psychological safety (Edmondson, 1999) was …
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Seeing through organization: the experience of social relations as constitutive
… of social relations. While agreeing with Karl Weick that organization emerges in the process of interaction, the study goes beyond Weick to examine in greater depth the quality of that interaction. A systemic perspective is adopted, according to which people exist in relationship to one another …
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A comparative study of business ethics and entrepreneurship in the UK and China
… (1967), and applies the sense-making theory of Weick (1979, 1995, 2001) and discourse analysis in developing an original conceptual framework. Grounded in the qualitative methodology, this study employs unstructured interview methods and also incorporated the elements of reflexivity and …
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Caregivers' choice against : a case study of caregivers' denial of language services in Central Texas.
… Data analysis resulted in emergent themes from Weick's sensemaking theory: extracted cues, social environments, retrospective, and identity construction. The findings in this research could provide leaders across the nation with information on how to increase parent recruitment/enrollment for …
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La contribution du leadership à la construction de l'intelligence collective dans la production d'un bulletin de nouvelles télévisé
… théories du sensemaking et de l’organizing de Weick et avons étudié les interactions entre les acteurs de l’organisation en contexte. L’analyse a montré comment un leadership distribué parmi les membres a contribué à l’émergence des mécanismes de l’intelligence collective. L’originalité de ce …
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A Temporal Model of Mindful Interactions Around New Service Conception
… of individual mindfulness as developed by Weick and Sutcliffe (2006) and Weick and Putnam (2006). In short, it proposes that an individual can concurrently maintain two modes of mindfulness - cognitive-flow mindfulness and content mindfulness - in order to facilitate knowledge creation in …
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Making sense of student learning objectives within teacher evaluations: A case study of Illinois principals as implementing agents
… Reiser, & Reimer, 2002), sensemaking theory (Weick, 1995; Weick et al., 2005), and the distributive cognition theory (Halverson & Clifford, 2006). Interviews, observations, and an artifact analysis generated the main forms of data for the study. Across all grade levels, multiple …
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The implementation of a new teacher evaluation model: a qualitative case study of how teachers make sense of the Marzano Evaluation Model
… played in the implementation of the MTEM (Weick, 1995, Gioia & Chittipeddi, 1991). Data was collected in the form of archival documents, participant interviews and field notes from observations which produced clear and coherent themes around the implementation of the MTEM.</p> <p>The …
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FACTORS AFFECTING CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONAL GOAL STATEMENTS
… behavior (Thompson and Mc-Ewen, 1958). Weick (1969:1), for example, proposes that goals, as part of the "rationality" of organizations, involve "post hoc dissonance reduction." The several issues can be summarized by the question: Are goals the initial stimuli and persisting forces that …
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A sensemaking perspective on the psycological contract formations during organisational socialisation.
… from the employer`s perspective. It utilises Weick`s (1995) sensemaking properties as a methodological framework to better understand these processes. Consistent with the research aim and objectives and social constructionism, a qualitative methodology was adopted. The research used in-depth …
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A hermeneutic study investigating the relationship between coaching and adult learning.
… coachee. I drew on sensemaking as described by Weick (1995) as a methodological framework which I go on to argue is also a key component in the coaching process. The influence of sensemaking as a methodology led me to adopt a storytelling approach in making sense of the data I collected as being …
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Musicians at the Margins: A Case Study of the Role of Instrumental Music Teachers in a University Music Department.
… not form a convenient organisational sub-unit (Weick and Orton, 1990) or a community of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991) that would respond in a uniform fashion. Instead, they experience their engagement with the university in an individual manner framed by their personal and professional …
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The dynamics of upward communication in organisations.
… (Gabriel, 200) and sense making approaches (Weick, 1995) employed by interviewees. The data was then tabulated on Excel sheets, using the Framework Analysis (Swallow et al., 2002), thus establishing an easily referenced, perfectly structured database. Finally, the data was sifted, perused, …
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The Impact of Environmental Factors on Business Strategies in Selected Major U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Companies 1970-2005
… interpretation process (e.g., Daft & Weick, 1984; Milliken, 1990) and organizational adaptation theory (e.g., Miles & Snow, 1978; Zeithaml & Zeithaml, 1984). Qualitative analysis was conducted for data analysis. Part 1 of data analysis was the in-depth exploration of the business …
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Effects of fiber type on the tribological behavior of polyamide composites
An experimental and analytical study of the tribological behavior of polymer composites is presented. Glass, aramid, and carbon fiber-filled polyamide (Nylon 6,6) composites serve as models for understanding friction and wear processes encountered when polymer composites are used in tribological …
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Infrared measurements of surface temperatures during oscillating/fretting contact with ceramics
Surface temperatures generated by friction during osculating/fretting contact were measured using an infrared microscope coupled to a digital data acquisition system developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The contact geometry consisted of a stationary test specimen loaded …
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An investigation of swift trust formation in disaster management teams
… challenge, this thesis mobilises Meyerson, Weick and Kramer’s (1996) theory of Swift Trust in Temporary Systems to investigate the process of trust formation between disaster management personnel working in an Emergency Operations Centre. The research employs a single case study approach, …
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Contemporary Patient Safety and the Challenges for New Zealand
… normal accidents (Perrow 1984), sensemaking (Weick and Sutcliffe 2007), and the empirical literature about in-hospital risks, are reviewed. The review follows Vaughan’s (1999) discussion of organisational failure as emergent from the complex interconnection of organisational environments, …
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An investigation into the treatment of uncertainty and risk in roadmapping: a framework and a practical process
… of organisational sensemaking as theorised by Weick (1995) are explored in the light of the findings and challenged. Aspects of early-stage innovation including the generation and selection of innovation ideas are explored in the context of uncertainty and risk and important paradoxes and …
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