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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"Work processes"”.
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Teamwork in the Workplace: A Discovery of the Work Processes One Team Used to Meet Its Goals
… whether individuals acting alone accomplish all work or whether workers can truly act in concert to meet management's production requirements. Total Quality Management (TQM) is a powerful force today in the industrial world, and the formation of teams to solve short-term problems is one of its …
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Professional Immigrant Women's Experiences of Managing Work and Family Conflicts: The Case of Chinese and Taiwanese Faculty in Research Intensive Universities
… Chinese and Taiwanese immigrant women faculty's workplace experiences and their strategies for managing work and family demands. By looking at how immigration, ethnicity, gender, and work processes shape these women's ideology and practices, this study addresses the following questions: How do …
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Model for a teaching practice : development of a prototype through design inquiry
… The primary goal of the project is to design a workplace that fosters communication and learning through interior architecture, work processes and organizational structure. In the study presented here, the architect becomes a researcher and explores a multiplicity of tools and techniques from …
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Analysis and utilization of operating experience for organizational learning
… by identifying and detailing its important work processes. These work processes are: the Work Request Work Process; the Condition Reporting Work Process; the External Operating Experience Work Process; the Design Change Process; and the Procedure Change Work Process. Using this information, …
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Technology-driven change management: motivation and stakeholder acceptance in virtual supply chains
… that change involves a re-engineering of basic work processes. Research suggests that employee motivation and morale in the face of major change initiatives can be impacted by leadership style"--Abstract, page iii.
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Network Effect on Teams, Team Processes, and Performance
… the emergence and development of important team processes. This research focuses on indicators of a team’s transactive memory processes. Through the use of text analysis and natural language processing (NLP) techniques, we illustrate how teams become more efficient in their work processes and …
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Digital Organisational Storytellers: Online Marketing as Identity Work
… I focus on illuminating their marketing processes and self-understanding when undertaking online marketing work, a practice I describe as bringing the organisation into being online. My research questions examine what the online marketing work processes the DOS undertake tell us about …
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Tasks, stratification and occupational change : evidence from the legal profession
The organization of professional work-that of lawyers, doctors, and accountants, among others-is undergoing change. One of the most notable changes is the disaggregation of work processes, or the unbundling of work into component tasks and their allocation to different sources of labor. The legal …
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Improvement of Work Process Performance with Task Assignments and Mental Workload Balancing
<p>The outcome of a work process depends heavily on which tasks assigned to which employees. However, sometimes-optimized assignments based on employees’ qualifications may result in an uneven and ineffective workload distribution among them. Likewise, an even workload distribution without …
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Computational Workspace Coordination: Design-in-Use of Collaborative Publishing Services for Computer-Mediated Collaborative Publishing
… prototype to manage the articulation of work practices in publishing in the Flora of North America (FNA). The FNA project gathers and makes available scientifically authoritative and current synoptic information on the approximately 20,000 species of vascular plants and bryophytes of …
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How Technological Advancements and Digitalization Impact Both Organizational Behavior and Work Structures
… transformations can affect day-to-day work and impact working practices (Orlikowski, 2002; Watson-Manheim et al., 2002, 2012). On the one hand, this enables more flexible working conditions through the introduction of hybrid work, for instance (Halford, 2005). On the other hand, new …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… changed their framings and frame alignment processes, how they changed their emotions work and rhetoric, and how these changes were evidence of organizations' identity work processes during the interim between cases. Next, I assess changes in framings and frame alignment processes and …
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Information technology and business transformation : work location and the allocation of decision rights
… (for instance, tacit knowledge and specialized work processes). Many of these additional investments are intangible and highly dependent on the local expertise and the knowledge of the branch or division. When local knowledge is important, the uninformed headquarters have an incentive to …
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Improving maintenance work flow processes in a volatile assembly factory environment : maintenance people and processes, spares inventory, and equipment reliability
… marketing, sales, and assembly company that this work is based on) is no exception. The factory maintenance organization at CEI, similar to many other companies, had been relegated to the status of necessary evil, a cost center that was necessary but not always effective or efficient. …
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MÉTODO GERIR: Gerenciamento Integrado e Rápido. Modelo de gestão da clínica de alto desempenho
… of bureaucracy, the lack of standardization of processes and the unavailability of practices that promote the quality of care efficiency. There is an opportunity to create value for patient care during hospitalization, impacting performance indicators in healthcare, especially during …
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The Internet and professional journalism: content, practice and values in Irish online news
… forces driving the development of digital networked media, but also because the univocal nature of older media, with its enclosed culture, is considered at odds with the potential of a reconstituted public sphere founded in the open, interactive system of emerging spaces. This study, related …
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Disciplined agility for process control & automation
… segment expects greater automation of larger processes, increased capability of process automation systems, and higher quality of those systems. At the same time, business requirements for process automation vendors demand shorter time to market, and greater market return for each dollar …
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How end-user participation in Financial Management Information Systems development engenders a sense of system ownership in municipalities: A case in South Africa
… concerned that FMIS are not aligned with their work processes. Lack of sense of ownership towards FMIS is the contributing factor to end-users being reluctant to use FMIS. It was noted that end-users of FMIS were not given a chance to take control and contribute to the development of FMIS for …
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