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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"competing values"”.
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Social Work Values And Hospital Culture: An Examination From A Competing Values Framework
… in Florida hospitals in relation to the core values of their profession and the alignment of those values within the culture of their current work setting. The conceptual framework for the study was from organizational behavior theory specific to culture, values, and trust. The Competing …
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Intelligent mapping : a competing values explanatory case study to optimize mapping operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
… (TGD) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. A competing values framework analyzed data collected through semi-structured interviews with crucial NGA leaders and cartographers working in NGA's Office of Geography TGD program.The competing values framework shaped the research around three central …
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Intelligent mapping : a competing values explanatory case study to optimize mapping operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
… (TGD) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. A competing values framework analyzed data collected through semi-structured interviews with crucial NGA leaders and cartographers working in NGA's Office of Geography TGD program.The competing values framework shaped the research around three central …
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A Comparative Study of the Constitutional Jurisprudences of Information Privacy in Germany, the United States, and Taiwan
… in personal matters but alsoadvances public values essential to a democratic society. On the one hand, information privacy is a crucial aspect of autonomy, especially when considered as one's control over personal information. Moreover, in some situations, information privacy is a …
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Theory and Practice of Distance Education
… theory, the dilemma can be explored and the competing values of learning versus technology can be reframed. What was once a paradox can be better understood in terms of an emerging value for distance education. This emerging value is characterized by a consideration of risk, situated …
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The influence of organisational culture on job satisfaction, organisational commitment and turnover intention : a study on the banking sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… the applicability of Quinn and Rohrbaugh's Competing Values Framework of organisational culture to a Saudi Arabian context; (2) to plot the cultural profile of Saudi banks by identifying their dominant organisational culture types; (3) to determine the extent to which organisational culture …
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Organizational Strategies of Influence on American Environmental Policy, 1976-2006: A Network Exploration of Power Elitism versus Pluralism
… resources in a system that provides an arena for competing values and goals. Implications for understanding the organizational strategies towards congressional testimony as well as directions for future research are discussed based on these findings.</p>
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Organizational culture and the achievement of ERP strategic advantages and BPR performance improvements
… BPR were used to test a number of hypotheses. A competing values approach to measuring organizational culture was used to quantitatively measure an organizations culture profile, and a modified version of the measurement instrument was used to measure the change in that profile due to ERP and/or …
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Turning the page setting the stage : school culture's profound impact on school turnaround initiatives.
… culture theory and Quinn & Cameron’s competing values framework (CVF), this study explores how the alignment or misalignment of values, beliefs, and assumptions among teachers and principals influences the type of organizational culture and school improvement efforts. By gathering …
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ANALYZING CULTURE AND READINESS: A MARINE CORPS RESERVE DILEMMA
… (MARFORRES) activation readiness. Using the Competing Values Framework’s Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument, I identify metrics of unit culture among data currently collected by MARFORRES and test their ability to predict activation readiness. Further, I examine whether the relation …
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Influence of organisational culture on strategic collaborations amongst the supply chain partners
… found that the adhocracy culture, based on the competing values framework (CVF), is more influential towards a successful outcome of the collaboration. Furthermore, the chances of supply chain collaboration success increase with the more experienced participants being part of the collaboration …
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The perennial problem: a critical analysis of the income versus capital distinction in respect of share transactions in the new "Digital" economy
… contended will depend on the weighing up of the competing values of certainty versus equity in the South African tax environment at any given time.
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Relevanz soziokultureller Faktoren für die Strategieumsetzung in Familienunternehmen – eine empirische Untersuchung anhand von Conrad Electronic
… investigates the relevance and impact of the Competing Values Framework and selected social cultural factors of Edgar Schein regarding the implementation of strategies in family owned businesses. The qualitative research project is conducted as an empirical case study. Guided interviews with …
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Managing value conflicts : an examination of values and value conflicts in third sector organisations in Scotland
… literature acknowledging the importance of ‘values’ for third sector organisations and their employees and an external environment which increasingly puts pressures on third sector organisations to adopt characteristics and values associated with the public and private sectors (organisational …
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The ways in which new public management ideas impact upon the administrative culture of 'street-level' bureaucrats and professionals working within Irish social policy
… of culture is ‘widely shared and strongly held values’ of a particular group or society (Bradley and Parker, 2006: 89). Culture is not a rigid concept; it can be influenced or altered by new ideas or forces. This research examines the ways in which one set of ideas in particular, that is, those …
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Judicial regulation of administrative policies that influence the exercise of statutory discretions
… would strike an appropriate balance between the competing values at play so as to foster good governance. First, the nature2of administrative policies, their rise as a regulatory tool of government and the growing administrative preference for policy over delegated legislation are explored. It is …
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The Office of Personnel Management: a study in the politics and administration of American governance
… American governance. OPM has been infused with values of political responsiveness to the detriment of competing values of merit, competence, and technical effectiveness. The study creates an analytical framework which reveals a fundamental realignment of the relationships of political …
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Spiritual Care as Creative Interruption: Exploring a Generative Metaphor for Intercultural Healthcare Chaplaincy
… challenges that arise from the complexities of competing values and beliefs. The ethical responsibility of chaplains to provide spiritual care in diverse healthcare contexts necessitates a re-visioning of deeply held beliefs and practices that prioritize togetherness and mutual understanding …
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Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School Of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, And Identity
… of classification and framing revealed competing values about what counts as legitimate and ‘excellent’ music education and who is seen as legitimate or excellent within this social arena. This research implemented a qualitative, single case study design (Yin, 2014) focused upon the …
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