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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"groupthink"”.
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The Iranian hostage crisis decision-makers : victims of groupthink?
… L. Janis of Yale University, who developed the "groupthink" hypothesis of small-group decision-making. For the first time, this research project tests Janis' groupthink theory against the insights, thoughts, and recollections of the crisis decision-makers, themselves. While this study lends some …
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Decision Making of Building Level Administrators and Their Perceptions on Groupthink
<p>This research study examined how groupthink affects educational decision making for building level administrators by identifying the most prominent symptoms of groupthink and by exposing the characteristics that create an increase of vulnerability to groupthink.</p><p>Participants for this study …
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Was the Decision to Invade Iraq and the Failure of Occupation Planning a Case of Groupthink?
… the occupation of Iraq. Since Janis introduced groupthink in 1972, the groupthink perspective has been used to explain foreign policy disasters such as the failure to anticipate the Pearl Harbor attack and the Bay of Pigs. However, the groupthink perspective is not universally useful for …
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Decision Making During National Security Crisis: The Case of the JFK Administration
… is examined for the presence of indicators of groupthink. I hypothesize that the relative absence of groupthink is related to a positive outcome. That hypothesis is examined by reviewing each case; the cases that contained higher levels of the indicators of groupthink tended to have a poorer …
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Strategic Consequences: How Executive and Organizational Decision-Making Impacts the Outcome of Unconventional Warfare
… index scoring, key aspects of Lay Epistemic and Groupthink Theory, and contextual deconstruction in the spirit of critical hermeneutics, provided the intellectual rigor to substantiate the findings.</p> <p>Ultimately, the evidence demonstrates that Intent Coherence is a necessary condition for a …
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OVERCOMING IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS WITHIN THE FIRE SERVICE TO REDUCE FIREFIGHTER CANCER RATES
… with national and departmental policies, groupthink, and motivation. To explain how fire departments can overcome these barriers, this thesis examines the health and safety efforts that two departments have taken and reviews literature from other fire departments, national fire service …
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Foreign Policy Mismanagement During American Presidential Transitions
… which are magnified by other issues including groupthink, bureaucratic politics, and Congressional advocacy. The Transitional Limitations Model is introduced to explain the role of transitional limitations and multiple intervening variables in causing American foreign policy miscalculations …
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CAESAR8: an agile enterprise architecture approach to managing information security risks in business change projects
… business change, whilst avoiding the dangers of groupthink. CAESAR8’s presentation of the results provides an impactive and easy-to-interpret metric that is designed to be shared with senior business executives to improve intervention decisions. This thesis demonstrates how CAESAR8 has been …
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Critical Mass of Women on Biotech Corporate Boards and Its Implication For Firm Performance: A Mixed Method Explanatory Sequential Study
… of members while avoiding the trap of “groupthink.” Further, the board selection process varies according to the board size and is generally through a professional network with the CEO or a board member and in some cases search firms.</p> <p>The supply deficit of underrepresented groups …
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Investigating the Impact of Enterprise Social Media on Job Satisfaction of Chinese Employees in Public Sector: Empirical Study on DingTalk
… many concerns such as technostress, overload, groupthink, and privacy invasion deserve more attention from scholars. Thus, this study investigates on the essence of the DingTalk phenomenon and how it influences people in terms of constructive impacts and destructive issues within various public …
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Social capital, board behaviour and governance: evidence from Ugandan banking
… in decision-making processes and development of groupthink tendencies. Aligned with the cognitive dimension, a lack of shared understanding of the banking business, corporate governance guidelines, short-term focus and unclear individual roles and organisational goals are seen as barriers to …
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A darker shade of blue: From public servant to professional deviant; Law enforcement's special operations culture
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p><strong> </strong>The culture of law enforcement is an all or nothing proposition with no gray area where membership into this society is concerned. You are either “on the job” or you are not. Even references among officers to “the job” indicate there is only one …