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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"decision-making patterns"”.
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Hierarchical decision making patterns for the placement of physical supply chain entities
… of physical site placement, and managerial decision makers within an organization are identified as being key factors in the optimization of a supply chain. As such, a number of prior studies have investigated the drivers which influence physical location decisions, with the majority of …
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A Descriptive Correlational Study of the Decision-Making Patterns of Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care
… of this dissertation was to investigate the decision-making patterns of nurse practitioners and the relationship between this cognitive process and their personal characteristics and dimensions of employment. Since nurse practitioners are a major group of providers of primary care, they are …
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Familial and Self Systems as Contributors to Sexual Decision-making Patterns of Young African American Women
This study utilized a is a two-phase mixed methods design to examine partner-based expectations and perceptions of factors that affecting condom use among African American women recruited at a sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic. Phase One utilized qualitative methods to analyze interviews …
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Examining the Interactive Effects of Time Perspective and Life History on Decision-making Patterns among College Students: A Modified Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2011b)
… and colleagues (2011b) demonstrated decision-making patterns consistent with life history theory, called life history strategies, using an experimental design in which they randomly assigned college students to read one of two texts. The experimental condition was designed to trigger …
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Philosophical foundations, social power and social work practice
… visible through the use of ethically oriented decision making patterns; Ways that authority and discretion are used and abused, and abusive decision-making, are described making them easier to recognize and mitigate. Knowledge of current and potential ways that social power operates provides …
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Public relations ethics: a cross-cultural analysis
… the first cross-cultural analysis of the ethical decision-making patterns of public relations practitioners. The DIT is an instrument based on Kohlberg’s (1969) moral development theory, the TARES test composed of 14 self-enforced, ethical consideration statements derived from the research of …
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Negotiating the Gray Areas of Ethical Decision Making: Deaf Therapists Working in the Deaf Community
… study was conducted to explore the decision-making patterns that Deaf therapists have used in negotiating nonsexual, multiple relationships with clients. Ten taped interviews were conducted to collect preliminary data on the overlapping relationship dilemmas of participants who are …
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Unveiling the ESG Landscape: Exploring Revealed Preferences through Archetypal Analysis of Decision-Makers in Environmental, Social, and Governance Causes
This research investigates the motivations and decision-making patterns driving individuals' behavior when giving to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) causes. Through the concept of revealed preferences, this study offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate landscape of ESG …
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The HR Consulting Entrepreneur: Firm-Builder, Market-Maker and Diffuser of HR Management Knowledge in an Emergent Business System
… the lenses of two entrepreneurial theories of decision-making in early markets---the effectuation and the nexus of individual-opportunities approaches---to unravel how the building of HR consulting firms sets practice theorization and diffusion processes into motion in an emergent economy …
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit
… use in intensive care units (ICU) and clinical decision making patterns. AAC is use of any alternative method of communication when oral communication cannot be achieved (ASHA, 2013). Patients in the ICU may become nonverbal for many reasons including tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation …
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Software development performance in remote student teams in international computer science collaboration
… nature of communication for each team, and on decision-making patterns throughout the software development process. The research also looked at students' use of available communication technology.<br></br><br></br>Results indicate that both communication and the process and timing of specific …
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Apparel clothing reference points for important shopping occasions and decision-making styles of Greek college students
… the categories of shopping orientations (or decision-making styles) of Greek college students, as they better represent how consumers behave, act and make decisions. In the initial purification stage (i.e. pilot test, n=330), principal component analysis, with a varimax and oblique rotation …
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An Assessment of Household Purchasing Decisions in Kasulu Urban and Kasulu Rural Areas'
… with an assessment of household purchasing decisions in Kasulu Urban and Kasu1u rural areas for some selected product types. Data analysis shows that, there is no significant difference in household purchasing decision making patterns between Kasulu urban and Kasu1u rural areas. The same …
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Interactions between global and local performance incentives on decision-making and categorization
… and local mechanisms of goal pursuit influence decision-making and categorization. In Study 1 I examine how the interaction between global performance incentives and local goal pursuit mechanisms influences decision-making strategies in an experience-based decision-making paradigm. In this …
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Essays on the attitudes, behavior, and decision-making of income-constrained electricity consumers : implications for integrative grid and off-grid business model planning
… attention to consumer attitudes, behavior, and decision-making patterns perpetuates gridlocks in surpassing the final frontiers of global electrification. This overarching argument will be developed over a series of standalone, yet intellectually connected essays that derive from a mixture of …
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Athletes’ Post-transgression Csr Communication Strategy in Sport
… Lastly, this study found that consumers’ decision-making patterns when evaluating athlete endorsers’ post-transgression CSR activities differ based on the types of transgression. This study suggests that the most effective post-transgression CSR strategy for both athlete endorsers and …
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An ethnographic study of the implementation and development of nurse consultant roles
… that the factors which influenced the trust’s decision to develop nurse consultant posts were complex, with three strategic stakeholder decision making patterns emerging: realising, complying and resisting the opportunity. The interviews with strategic stakeholders also highlighted their …
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The Limits of Self-Control: Self-Control, Illusory Control, and Risky Financial Decision Making
… resulting impact of the relationship on risky decisions in the financial domain. In studies 1 and 2, high self-controllers consistently underperformed low self-controllers on two tasks of risk-taking, the Columbia Card Task and the Lottery Gambling Task. These effects persisted both under …
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The Disposition Effect, Trading Biases, and Cognitive Reappraisal
… decades behavioural economics has uncovered many patterns of trading behaviour which appear to work against the investors who display them, resulting in lower investment returns. For this reason, these patterns of behaviour are regarded as trading biases. This thesis investigates two main themes …