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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"goal achievement"”.
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Stakeholder goal achievement in Australian business incubators
… identify an essential dichotomy concerning the goals of incubator sponsors. Business incubators depend upon a range of stakeholders (including board members, managers and tenants) for their initial establishment, and subsequently, in their ongoing operation. A review of the extant literature …
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Training Paraprofessionals for Enhanced IEP Goal Achievement in Special Education
… for students not achieving a higher rate of IEP goal success, and if the implementation of a new pilot program helped students become more successful in achieving their IEP goals and benchmarks during a nine-week research period. Through research conducted on the history of paraprofessionals in …
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Comparison of Participatively-set and Assigned Goals in the Reduction of Alcohol Use
The effects of setting goals on goal commitment and goal achievement in the context of an alcohol use intervention were examined using an experimental design in which participants were randomly assigned to participatively-set goals, assigned goals, and no goal conditions. The current study provides …
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Life goals in elderly women: A phenomenological study
… structure of the lived experience of personal goals in elderly females? Eleven women between the ages of 71 and 83 years were interviewed and constituted a purposive sample. The interviews were tape-recorded and transcribed by the researcher. The descriptions of personal goals were analyzed …
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Levels of resourcefulness and motivation as they relate to sales force success: An examination of correlates using the hope theory.
… between individual salesperson's levels of goal-directed cognition and motivation and their professional success as determined by the percentage of sales goals achieved. Salespersons represented two companies with national sales forces: one from the financial services industry and one from …
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Predicting Goal Choice and Goal Commitment Within a Control Systems Framework
… specific links in a control systems model of goal choice and goal commitment. Male and female subjects performed five trials on either a paper and pencil text editing task (Study 1) or a text transfer task on a microcomputer (Study 2). The results demonstrated that both performance …
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Towards an evolutionary perspective of bipolar disorders: Is there a genetic link between bipolar disorders and non-pathological (adaptive) hyperactivity?
… Questionnaire for Adaptive Hyperactivity and Goal Achievement (AHGA), represents an innovative approach to hyperthymic features by embracing a broader concept of spectrum, which conceptualizes as a continuum the potential transition between pathological and adaptive aspects. The two basic …
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Pain and Hospital Patients Perception of Quality
… stated relief of pain as one of their three goals for hospitalization, and included the nursing diagnosis, "Alteration in Comfort, Pain; Actual" in the plan of care. This study tested the relationships among patient quality, value, and beneficence; and between patient quality, nurse quality, …
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Incentives to Improve Economic Conditions: A Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… structured around setting life-improving goals, mutual support groups, and small monetary incentives to achieve results. As the popularity of this program continues to gain momentum in the United States, we designed a field experiment to measure the impact of incentives on goal achievement …
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What Contributes to Well-Being in Later Life? How Two Life-Span Perspectives Explain the Process
<p>Goals influence the direction of life. Because of this, goals play major roles in our motivations, behaviors, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2015). Thus, it has been one of the important topics in developmental psychology to study how goals are formed and …
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Šeimos verslų aspektai globalios verslo plėtros kontekste /
… of global business development. To achieve this goal, four tasks have been formulated: 1. To single out the theoretical aspects of family business. 2. To discuss family business opportunities in Lithuania. 3. To describe the possibilities of family business development in a global context. 4. To …
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An investigation of the potential of branding a city through culture: A case of Thohoyandou town in Thulamela Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
… recognition and pattern matching; and the Goal Achievement Matrix (GAM) technic. Quantitative data analysis tools include Pearson correlation-coefficient, multiple regression analysis, proportions and analysis of mean score values. Collected data was analyzed using Statistical Package for …
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Toward a Layout-Based Predictor of User Effort Required to Achieve Software System Usability Goals
… of effort needed by users to achieve operability goals is intrinsic to aspects of system interface layout. To test this hypothesis, two experiments are conducted wherein effort expenditure by users is measured during interaction with varying software systems with differing interface layout …
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Hospital Patients' and Nurses' Perceptions of Quality
… (PQUALT). Patient value was measured as patient goal achievement (PGOAL), the average of <strong>three</strong><strong> </strong>VAS scores for patient defined goals of hospitalization. Nurse quality (NQUAL) was measured as percent agreement between process standards selected for each patient and …
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Measuring and Evaluating Efficiency and Effectiveness Using Goal Programming and Data Envelopment Analysis in a Fuzzy Environment
… when used for measuring and evaluating achievement of organizational goals in a decision-making environment. Generally, in most real-life situations optimal achievement of multiple goals is rarely possible. In such cases, a compromise achievement of goals that leads to a satisfycing …
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The salesperson-manager exchange relationship: the impact of competence, latitude and loyalty
… levels. It was less effective in predicting the goal achievement levels of the field sales force. Finally, the results of this study indicate the amount of uncertainty in the environment may have a direct effect on goal achievement levels of the salespeople, but lacks a moderating influence over …
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The Effect of Goal Setting on Marijuana Treatment Outcomes: the Role of Self-Efficacy
… was to investigate the role of self-efficacy in goal setting and treatment outcomes based on self-stated goals (abstinence or moderation) for marijuana use. Measures of marijuana use, treatment goal, and self-efficacy for achieving one's goal were used. Goal choice was shown to influence …
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Inentives and Education: Experimental Evidence from Medellin, Colombia
… investigate how incentive structure influences goal achievement among disadvantaged high school students in Medellin, Colombia. Of particular interest is how treatment effects influence school performance as well as how this may vary with differing key characteristics of the participants. …
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Do Self-Help Groups Work on Achieving Economic Goals? New Evidence from a Field Experiment in Medellin, Colombia
… It promotes self-improvement through setting goals, incentive schemes, and self-help groups (SHGs). The results suggest that the FII model can be successfully implemented as a poverty alleviation policy in a developing country. The model does have a positive and significant effect on debt …
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COMMUNICATING PERSONAL GOALS - THE EFFECTS OF COMMUNICATION MOTIVES ON GOAL PURSUIT
The communication of personal goals to others is pervasive and spontaneous. Research suggests that goal communication may have implications for goal pursuit outcomes, depending on the motives driving such communication. However, there has yet to be any systematic study on the effects of goal …
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