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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"appreciative"”.
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Appreciative Democracy
… at the local government level using an Appreciative Inquiry approach to increase direct citizen participation. It is framed by the interpretive paradigm. Twenty city managers or their designees from cities of between 40,000 and 250,000 citizens were interviewed. Specifically, respondents …
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Storytelling in Appreciative Inquiry
… of the role of story and storytelling within Appreciative Inquiry, a method of organizational change that orients around a consensus model building on individual and collective strengths instead of focusing on overcoming problems. Interviews with 12 Appreciative Inquiry practitioners were …
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Countering Teacher Attrition with Appreciative Inquiry
… study was to explore the projected impact of Appreciative Inquiry practices on teacher retention as perceived by teachers who left the profession early. An interpretative phenomenological analysis design was used as the research method. Via purposeful sampling, six individuals who completed at …
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Eliciting User Requirements Using Appreciative Inquiry
… process was modified based on principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry, commonly used in organizational development, aims to build organizations, processes, or systems based on success stories using a hopeful vision for an ideal future. Spanning five studies, Appreciative …
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An Appreciative Inquiry into Employee Retention in Hospitality
… increase employee retention rates. Following the Appreciative Inquiry (AI) methodology, I conducted interviews with frontline hospitality employees and hosted a World Café with hospitality leaders and academics. Through my sub-questions, I identified nine themes that influence hospitality …
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Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Formation: A Grounded Theory Study
… Lundgren et al., 2017; Watkins & Marsick, 1993). Appreciative inquiry (AI) is a dialogue-based organizational intervention that generates new thinking and approaches to address organizational challenges (Cooperrider & Whitney, 2005; Watkins, Mohr, & Kelly, 2011). There is a need to gain an …
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Appreciative Inquiry: Transition Strategies for Students with Disabilities
… school has been completed. This qualitative appreciative inquiry study sought to understand commonalities in the policies and procedures of the implementation of transition strategies by school districts in central Kentucky. In this study, nine school districts with seventeen stakeholders …
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Appreciative Inquiry: A Path to Change in Education
<p>Appreciative Inquiry (AI) introduces a new approach to educational change. Most state and federal initiatives for educational change grow out of a deficit model of what is wrong with schools and what is needed to fix them. Implementation of new reforms has historically been mandated by …
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Project-Related Decision Making in Healthcare: An Appreciative Inquiry Research Project
Organizational project decision making has many far-reaching and lasting impacts. Understanding how decision-making environments can improve decision outcomes is beneficial, which led to the inquiry question: How might PHC decision makers improve upon current environments to assist decision makers …
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Evaluating a grief programme offered in primary schools: an appreciative inquiry
This dissertation aims to use Appreciative Inquiry to evaluate a grief programme offered in primary schools. A qualitative technique was used to gain information from three groups of stakeholders within the grief programme, namely educators, facilitators and children. Three open-ended questions …
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Exploring Pedagogy And Digital Technology In Physical Education Through Appreciative Inquiry
… technology in their practice. Guided by an appreciative inquiry (AI) philosophy, this thesis employs a case study methodology in order to explore how and why PE teachers use digital technology. This study pays particular attention to the teachers’ perspective and the previously …
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Appreciative Inquiry summits and organizational knowledge creation: A social systems perspective
… of a large group conference format called appreciative inquiry (AI) summits. I apply Luhmann’s social systems theory to the strategizing activities of AI summits to examine how this particular format is capable of generating organizational knowledge. An AI summit is a strategic planning …
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The experience of neurodivergent midwives in Aotearoa New Zealand: An appreciative inquiry
… and what supports could help them thrive. Using Appreciative Inquiry, a strengths-based methodology, data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 15 ND kahu pōkai, followed by a four-day asynchronous online focus group. Person-orientated research ethics were employed to minimise …
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Achievement of clinical learning objectives by midwifery nursing students : an appreciative inquiry
Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree in Masters in Health Sciences in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.
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Exploration of a new conceptualisation of leadership, utilising an appreciative inquiry approach
… of leadership and then, by utilising an Appreciative Inquiry methodology, explore the relevance of this approach to gain new insights into how leaders within health and social care communities consider that they will lead as they move into a difficult and uncertain future. The study …
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An appreciative enquiry into the life orientation program offered in high schools
… research design was qualitative in nature, and appreciative inquiry was used as an investigative tool. The study was conducted with the group of first year students that were registered for the academic year of 2009. Sampling was purposeful as the researcher’s specific criterion for participants …
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