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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"company culture"”.
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS
… between founder personality and organizational culture in founder-led entrepreneurial companies. With a focus on how founder personality affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… in the 1990s, it traces the efforts of company managers to modernize the German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse political regimes---democratic, fascist, and communist---shaped both modernization drives …
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A major turnaround from massive lay-offs to hiring employees : a company culture proved more accurate than management's predictions
… in-depth study looked at a major manufacturing company during a year when management projected contract losses and massive lay-offs and terminations. The company's hourly employee culture indicated that the major automotive customers of the company were influential driving forces and would …
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The influence of company culture on employee engagement, employee commitment and organisational effectiveness in a selected manufacturing company in South Africa
The impact of company culture on employee engagement, employee commitment and organisational effectiveness has been a consistent topic across many organisations worldwide. This study explores the relationships between company culture, employee engagement, employee commitment and organisational …
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The Walton Way: A Tradition of Excellence
<p>A book describing the history and company culture of Walton Communities, a property management company based out of Marietta, Georgia.</p>
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Analysis of engineering management characteristics employed in the defense industry
… and procedures, as well as various features of company culture. This study revealed that the companies that make up most of the defense industry, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman, have very similar organization characteristics. They mostly use a matrix structure to run …
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Domesticated Office: Designing to Foster Culture in Virtual Workplaces
… on how digital experience can help build company culture in a virtual environment, but also challenge the conventional workplace norms in a domestic space. I wish to open up the discussion of how telecommunication tools change workgroup relationships, and what unconventional workplace …
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Digital transformation : The case of Cape Town based SMEs in the manufacturing sector
… the SME business level such as, among many, company culture and strategy, business processes, financial resources, and government support continue to hinder the way manufacturing SMEs adopt digital transformation. The underpinning research problem is the understanding of how these challenges …
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Organizational Culture, Class Values, and Subordination at Work
… workers’ evaluations of organizational culture and assess the role of two competing explanations. Worker values– or shared beliefs about what workplace culture should beare commonly thought to influence evaluations o f culture, encouraging organizations to recruit workers based upon …
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The making of biotechnology: a case study of radical innovation
… included economic and political evaluations, company culture, organization, and in large firms, previous areas of corporate activity. A scarcity of appropriate knowledge relating to technical and non-technical aspects of innovation acted as severe restraints to Dedicated Biotechnology Firms …
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Assessing awareness and innovation challenges in SMEs: a case study in the Geoscience Sector
… challenges such as time allocation and company culture. The obtained information reflects what is typically reported in the literature as the main challenges SMEs face when implementing innovation. The results suggest that the company is heading in the right direction and could …
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The Glass Ceiling: Exploring the Leadership Journey of Men and Women in High-Tech
… and professional support, an encouraging company culture, and personal characteristics that appear to contribute to a woman’s ascension to high-level leadership positions in high tech companies. Perceived challenges to leadership ascension included negative company cultures; a lack of …
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Entrepreneurial Leadership in a Midwestern Mission-driven Company: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case Study
… was utilized in a midwestern mission-driven company that has been in existence for ten years. Company documents and 27 participant interviews were reviewed during the four data analysis phases. The preparation step prepared the data for analysis, while the exploration step included three open …
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Improving quality through partnerships : development of a raw material supplier relationship management program in the biotech industry
… part of the supply chain for a biotechnology company. To be successful and competitive, biotechnology companies must work effectively with suppliers to understand raw material origins, compositions, interactions with processes and machinery, and to understand the causes of variability and …
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Working Tourists: Identity Formation in a Leisure Space
… in which to construct identity. Furthermore, company culture and ideas of adventure continuously complicate how these young people utilise their working and travelling experiences and so, how they (re)define their sense of self. Finally, the relationship between identity and place will be …
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Teaching in a new setting: adult basic educators in a national workplace literacy project, a qualitative case study of a national workplace literacy project
… of workplace literacy; (b) awareness of company culture; (c) company involvement; (d) the workplace literacy student; (e) the workplace literacy classroom; and (f) the role of the teacher. From these findings, conclusions were drawn about teacher training materials for individuals in …
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An Ethnographic Look at Inclusive Dance and Dancers with Intellectual Disabilities
… with ID contribute in many ways to disability culture and disability aesthetics in their dance companies. This dissertation is a critical performance ethnography about two inclusive dance companies, South Africa’s FLATFOOT Downie Dance Company, and Finland’s Kaaos Dance Company. In-person …
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A descriptive single case study of the female field regional manager experience in automotive aftermarket retail.
… history reviews to explore the organizational culture, psychological safety, and the regional managers' actions to improve their performance. Thematic analysis was used to identify commonalities across the data. As part of this research, I also performed an in-depth literature review revealing …
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A descriptive single case study of the female field regional manager experience in automotive aftermarket retail.
… history reviews to explore the organizational culture, psychological safety, and the regional managers' actions to improve their performance. Thematic analysis was used to identify commonalities across the data. As part of this research, I also performed an in-depth literature review revealing …
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