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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"competing demands"”.
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Processing Novel and Competing Demands: Essays on Managerial Approaches to Change
… to explore managerial responses to novel and competing demands. The dissertation is structured around three chapters, each exploring the mechanisms through which managers understand, make sense of, and process competing demands1. Each chapter focuses on a context in which competing demands …
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Assessment in Secondary Environments: How Co-Teachers Navigate the Competing Demands of Theory, Policy, and Practice
<p>The purpose of the current study was to examine how co-teachers in an inclusive environment perceive assessment as well as how they navigate and balance the challenges of a co-taught secondary classroom with assessment mandates from local and state levels. In this current era of accountability …
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Preschoolers' endogenously triggered self-regulation
… actions, and cognitions in the presence of two competing demands is vital to adaptive and autonomous functioning throughout the life course. The competing demands that make up a regulatory dilemma can be generated internally, from within the individual, or externally, from environmental factors. …
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Utilization of the family medical leave act: A case study
… policies that enable them to meet the often competing demands of job and home. In 1993, Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA of the Act) to provide a national policy that supports families in their efforts to strike a workable balance between the competing demands of the …
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Effects of Risk and Ambiguity on Behavioral Choice and Resource Allocation Decisions
… of resources across continuously distributed competing demands. Scholars of organizational behavior have suggested that individuals form a perception of the form of the contingency functions that relate acts to outcomes. They assume that individuals then behave with respect to those perceived …
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Work and Family Conflict: Expectations and Planning Among Female College Students
… involvement in both career and family. The competing demands of family and work often result in work-family conflict. A survey was administered to 124 female college students exploring the importance they place on work and family roles, the expectations they have for combining these roles, …
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Psychosocial influences on total pain management by informal hospice caregivers
… personalities, support from others, and competing demands. Findings support the inclusion of informal caregivers in thorough psychosocial assessments conducted by hospice social workers in an effort to maximize the potential for effective pain and symptom management.
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Does the sum of the parts equal the whole: relationships between executive function, visual attention and heart rate variability in ROTC cadets
… cortex of the brain filters a variety of competing demands in order to appropriately execute goals and intentions (Cooper & Shallice, 2000). This region is also critical for controlling visual attention (Stuss, Shallice, Alexander, & Picton, 1995) and regulating the autonomic nervous …
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The effects of external controls on teachers' development of technology competencies in an economically disadvantaged district
… human capital within public schools to meet the demands of a new knowledge-based economy (Martens, Rusconi, & Leuze, 2007; Sahlberg, 2006). This study will explore the effects of external controls on education as they affect reform policies, the technical core of teaching and learning, and …
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Sustainable procurement in a pandemic: A case study in pragmatic research
… procurement a priority as they balanced competing demands for commercial and operational deliverables. Through this research, I sought to influence sustainable procurement attitudes and behaviours to create improved outcomes. This research used a blended model of appreciative inquiry and …
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Feedback in Higher Education: Chinese Undergraduate Students’ Understandings and Experiences of Feedback
… these students were able to reconcile the competing demands of Confucian societal expectations and those prescribed in Chinese higher education teaching and learning policies that articulate an active role for students in the learning process. Seemingly these students were able to navigate …
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The Future of Direct Potable Reuse in California: Overcoming Public Acceptance Barriers
… to the water shortages, population growth, and competing demands for water in California, the possibility of incorporating direct potable reuse technology in the state’s water supply portfolio is being considered by various water resource providers. This paper focuses on public acceptance …
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A Carrier-Pigeon UAS for South Pole Data Transfer
… of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station and competing demands from other governmental agencies, satellite connectivity requirements for data transfers cannot be met at the South Pole. In the recent decades, the advancement in UAS capabilities have overwhelming extended their operational reach …
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Principals & professional learning : a catalyst for transformational change
… the rubric provided clarity and focus amidst competing demands, aligning with Fullan and Quinn's (2016) concept of coherence. Beyond this overarching theme, five sub-themes emerged: resource allocation, feedback processes to support professional educator practice, instructional design for …
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Ethnographies of Contentious Criminalization: Expansion, Ambivalence, Marginalization
… justice arena when actors fail to deal with competing demands in the political arena. In an exploration of tensions between law and justice, and the competing conceptions of "crime" and "harm," this work analyzes criminalization processes in three contentious episodes: the Chilean-Mapuche …
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Ethnographic Narrative Project
… in Teacher Performance Expectation (TPE) 6 demands continual introspection and proactive adjustments to our practice. The first year of teaching – a stage of initial and potentially immense growth – is especially critical as it sets the tone for the next and many years after. This …
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Drinking from an Empty Glass: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Stress and Self-Care in Counselling Psychology Trainees
… differences, Training structure,</i> and <i>Competing demands</i>.<br/><br/><b>Findings and conclusions:<br/></b>The results showed 17.8% of participants scored low on the PSS-10 indicating no or low levels of overall stress at the time the questionnaire was completed. Meanwhile, 71.1% of the …
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The Realities of Fatigue for Pediatric Residents: A Qualitative Study
… susceptible to fatigue due to the rigorous demands of their training, which requires them to balance patient care, on-call responsibilities, and educational obligations. Resident fatigue is a complex issue in healthcare, one that previous quantitative studies have often overlooked in terms …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… and cultural and national traditions making competing demands. Cultural and media theorists like John Tomlinson, Anthony Giddens, Arjun Appadurai, Lev Manovich, and Ian Bogost have demonstrated the overwhelming complexity of life in an age of accelerating globalization. Building on their work …
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Dual Physician Couples: An Exploration of Family Stressors and Coping
… to struggle for what was important regarding the competing demands they faced yet, felt that their relationships were favorable when compared with their peers. Also it was found that couples tended to provide each other with empathy and that this resulted in their giving each other license to work …
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