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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"charisma"”.
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Charisma: A Component Architecture for Parallel Programming
… paradigm could be converted to use Charisma. Our efforts are based on AMPI, our implementation of the MPI library on top of Charm++.
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Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… revolutionary transformation as a result of charismatic leadership. This charisma is defined as "a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers …
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The Imam's charisma: an analysis of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed's leadership
This dissertation examines the concept of charismatic leadership and authority during Imam Warith Deen Mohammed’s leadership of the Nation of Islam, beginning in 1975. It focuses primarily on his interpretation of Islam, with considerable implications for his status as one of the first prominent …
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Charisma and Spirituality in the Early Church: A Study of Messalianism and Pseudo-Macarius
… thesis is an investigation into the concept of Charisma and Spirituality in the Early Church with particular emphasis upon the writings of Ps-Macarius, and of a group of ascetics known as the Messalians, evident in the late fourth / early fifth centuries. The Macarian writings are examined to …
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Charisma and controversy: Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) and the Baptist debate about congregational hymnody
… Keach sought to normalize the extraordinary and charismatic practices of singing that developed in the earlier stages of the baptistic movement. Therefore, the chapter argues that the hymn controversy of the 1690s was an extension of early disputes on singing. The polemic is analyzed over two …
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Causing no small stir : the power of charisma and the rise and expansion of the Way International
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Caging the Rainbow: The Effects of Center-Periphery Conflict on a Major Adult Education Program in India (Planning, Charisma, Bureaucracy)
… That goal grew out of the Janata Government's charismatic vision of a renewed, restructured, and revolutionized India. Local implementation of the program was to be through the colleges and through voluntary agencies involved in adult education.
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The international township of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India: the routinization of charisma in a context of an inner-worldly mystical orientation
… and. the consequences for routinization of charisma. Drawing on material collected during an exploratory five month residence in Auroville in 1986-87, I developed a theoretical framework as the context for carrying out a field study. Elements of Weber's theoretical work are used to postulate …
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Transformational leadership theory: creative advance or theoretical desperation
… is held by its theorists to consist of charisma (mission articulation, empowerment, and confidence in followers), intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration. lt is alleged to result from flexible structure, crisis, and high socio-economic status (except for charisma in …
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Transformational leadership amongst S.A. human resources specialists, and the effect thereof on subordinate performance and perceptions of the leader
… subordinate ratings. Transformational factors of charisma, inspiration, intellectual stimulation and individualised consideration were found to be significantly and positively correlated with the perceptual outcomes, as was the transactional factor of contingent reward. No similar relatedness was …
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Performance of selected different types of stone fruits in a summer rainfall area, South Africa
… randomly selected for each of the four species ('Charisma', 'Summersun', 'Pioneer 'and 'Mayglo'). Analysis of variance was performed on all variables accessed using GLM (General Linear Models) Procedure of SAS statistical software version 9.2 (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, USA, 2003). Shapiro-Wilk …
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Charismatic leadership of media businesses: a case study of leaders of two media businesses in the post-Soviet states of Russia and Kyrgyzstan (1991-2016)
… this research is focused on the concepts of charisma, media leadership and media entrepreneurship. The main argument is that Max Weber’s (1947) theory of charismatic authority is applicable to media business leaders in emerging economies. Charisma is a rare and transitory phenomenon (Yukl, …
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An evaluation of the orientation program for newly appointed Catholic primary principals
… religious character of the school reflected the charisma of the particular religious order that operated the school. In the Year 2000 most Catholic primary schools former part of a state-wide system in which the Catholic Education Office (CEO) plays a major administrative and co-ordinating role.
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With Strange Aeons
… Wome is nevertheless drawn by Shokare's charisma and eclecticism. Wome's eyes are opened to the energy and possibilities of life in 1990s NewYork and, despite his shyness he becomes involved with a Canadian woman, which further complicates his sense of belonging.
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Assessing the Leadership Potential of Applicants to CACREP Accredited Doctoral Programs
… focused on how leadership attributes (e.g., charisma) versus leadership processes (e.g., future-thinking orientation) factor into the way faculty members assess leadership potential. Participants were randomly assigned one of four study-created vignettes that described a hypothetical doctoral …
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When Dispute Threatens Harmony in the Public Sphere: Discerning the Dynamics of State-Religion Relation with Particular Reference to Singapore's Muslim Scholars
… leaders transmit the knowledge of Islam. Charisma, in Weber's sense, plays a destabilizing role in the religious sphere. In this study, religious leaders on all sides display charismatic qualities in attracting followers. Moreover, I show that charisma is created through what Whitehouse …
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Stratigraphic and structural interpretation of seismic reflection data across selected sections of the Kaapvaal Craton
… interior. The seismic data was interpreted using Charisma seismic interpretation software, Geoframe version 3.6 (developed by Geoquest, Schlumberger) on a UNIX, SUN workstation.
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Presidential Campaigns, White Evangelicals, and the New Republican Coalition
… and moral crisis, and the ministers' personal charisma which has allowed them to emerge as leaders to combat the perceived crisis.
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