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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"change agent"”.
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Conversations: the socially engaged artist as environmental change agent
… The socially engaged artist as environmental change agent Janey Hunt - University of Plymouth 2005- 2011 I use my art practice in conjunction with environmental behaviour research and Michel de Certeau’s practice of the everyday, to enable a re-examination of socially engaged art and through …
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Intra-personal variables and characteristics of interactions between change agent and client: their predictive relationship to attitudes toward change and toward the change agent
… innovations in accounting for attitudes toward change and toward the change agent; and, (2) the characteristics of diffusion strategies associated with modifications in attitudes toward change and toward the change agent. Administrators and teaching faculty (N = 624) from 103 secondary level …
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The Reluctant Change Agent : Change, Chance and Choice among Teachers, Educational Change in the City
… critically analyses the discourse on educational change. By placing educational change in the context of globalisation and innovation the author argues that the current discourse on educational change is un-nuanced and omits the important perspectives on change. The author has analysed an …
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And Everything's the Same: Transformation of a Campus Through the Eyes of an Intended Change Agent
… of 1968 to 2001 through the eyes of an intended change agent. Following the April 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign decided to admit 500 ""talented"" minority students for the fall 1968 semester and to create a Special Educational …
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The Healing Station: The Role of the African American Church as a Change Agent for Health
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Intercultural factors in the Peace Corps' role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women
… Municipal Development Program in its role as a change agent in the empowerment of rural Guatemalan women, and includes an exploration into the intercultural factors that may have affected the outcomes. I used my Peace Corps site of Santa Cruz El Chol, Guatemala as the case study for this …
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The organisational change agent as an appreciative system : increasing effectiveness in business process reengineering through the systems approach
… thesis is concerned with the effectiveness of change agents within organisations. The argument presented is that the effectiveness of change agents depends on their ability to develop an understanding of the complex situations they are faced with. This includes a rich understanding of their own …
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Sex educator or change agent? Experiences of a sex(uality) peer education programme in an era of HIV and AIDS
… that knowledge leads to sexual behaviour change. This study explores peer facilitators, peer educators, and NGO staff experiences of a sex(uality) peer education programme in Cape Town, South Africa to understand meaning-making around sex(uality) peer education within the complex power …
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Change agent or neutral bystander? : an exploration of how the coaching practices of internal coaches in higher education institutions support organisational change
… and are affected by the same organisational changes. Their insight into the organisational context, and into the challenge of aligning individual goals with organisational goals, means that internal coaches are uniquely placed to support their coachees to make sense of these changes. …
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Replacing the Handshake with Automated Rules. An exploration of the effects of multi-role performativity during organizational change on the change agent
… a process of IT driven planned organizational change. The purpose of the study is to explain how the change agent is affected by the experience of leading change. Using actor-network theory and a polyphonic approach, I present a multi-voiced, multi-actor account of the social network in situ …
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Evaluating the Impact of Training on the Effectiveness of Peer Change Agents: A Campus-wide Intervention
… evaluated by the number of interactions a peer change agent--an individual who attempts to make a positive change in another person's behavior, had with bicyclists. The results suggest the training program may be effective in increasing change agent interactions for change agents who are already …
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Leaders for Manufacturing Program : breaking throught the quality ceiling
This thesis analyzes the challenges of change management in a US auto plant. The change initiative used as an example is the launch and implementation of quality recording and reporting software in a body assembly area. A more complete examination of this change initiative using the three lenses of …
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Implementing strategic change of downsizing as an investment strategy: A study of UK based firms
… project treats downsizing as a form of strategic change and focuses on how integrated human resource practices and role of change agent can contribute to the success of downsizing strategy. By success, it is meant here the level of return earned by investing in downsizing strategy. This study …
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Exploring Personality Traits and Susceptibility to Social Influence in Student Change-Agents: Implications for Participation in a Campus-Wide Safety Initiative
… and individual differences in personality on change-agent participation in a peer-to-peer intervention. The intervention involved approaching bicyclists on campus, discussing the importance of helmet use, and rewarding them with a coupon for a discounted helmet if they signed a promise to wear …
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Machiavellianism, social insight, and power of department heads
… viewed in this study as potential administrative agents of change for innovation in higher educational organizations. Due, however, to the low role power attributed to them by faculty, it was hypothesized that department heads’ manipulative orientation and social insight would be positively …
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Culture Change In A Rural High School
… was founded in the conceptual framework about change and culture in schools. A grounded theory approach was used in the methodology to examine the role collaboration and leadership play in establishing culture. Research questions addressed the role of collaboration in school culture change …
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Learning to be an Insider Agent of Change in a Brazilian Rural University
… tried, without success, to promote institutional change. Confronted by this situation a process initiated by an internal change agent and based upon the introduction of Action Research was itself the subject of this AR Study by the change agent. This thesis draws upon the findings of that AR and …
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Theme & Variations: a content analysis of syllabi in introduction to urban education courses
… pedagogy and research persona; and 5) teacher as change agent. Shared organizing features of all syllabi included references to education inequity, social stratification, structural racism, poverty, and social justice; however, the degree of topic emphasis varied substantially. Closer alignment …
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Promoting the Adoption of Pollution Prevention Innovations With the Assistance of Publicly Owned Treatment Works
… Additionally, the efforts of the State P2 change agents to promote the technology are evaluated along with the impacts of involving change agent aides (publicly owned treatment works). The thesis also provides a model of how this concept could be applied to other planning disciplines and …
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How intermediaries build social capital for transformative social innovation
… urgent need for such transformative innovative change that can alleviate some of the suffering in South African base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) communities, yet the inclusive, collaborative efforts that support transformative innovation are very challenging in these contexts. Scholars have emphasised …
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