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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"gurus"”.
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions: A Dramatistic Inquiry.
… popular management thinkers, or management gurus, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs or management fashions that have greatly influenced both the pre-occupations of academic researchers and the everyday conduct of organizational life. This thesis provides a rhetorical …
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An Analysis of the Pedagogical Methods of Hindu Gurus
… was to explore the pedagogical methods of Hindu gurus that could be applicable to elementary school teaching for the inner development of students. With severe cutbacks to classroom instruction and demands by economic, political, and educational leaders for education to produce a highly skilled …
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Definitions of quality: a study of quality systems and their relevance to academic libraries
… back to the teachings of the so-called "Quality Gurus" in the period immediately following the Second World War. Although initially most successful in Japan, and credited with much of that country's industrial success, the theories and techniques put forward by the Gurus were eventually also …
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Behavioral Evidence for "Contextual Decision Hierarchies" In the Hermit Crab, Pagurus samuelis
… experiment, I tested whether the hermit crab, Pa gurus samuelis, deprived of food, shells, or both will respond differently from control hermit crabs when presented with food and shells concurrently. Differences in the number of contacts with each resource and the time elapsed before choosing a …
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"She's an All-in-One Guru": Devotion to a 21st century Mystic
… the cultural context of globetrotting Indian gurus and examine issues of tradition and innovation in her mission. Through ethnographic writing, I specifically turn to examples of Gurumaa's pluralism, gender activism and embrace of new media to discuss continuity and change within the tradition …
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Sikh Groups in Britain and Their Implications for Criteria Related to Sikh Identity
… Nanak, and during the time of the successive Gurus. Political and social issues related to the development of Sikhism and emerging Sikh identity are examined also at the outset.<br/><br/>Each group has its own unique contribution to make towards highlighting certain indicators and inhibitors …
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Walking the tightrope: a case study of a consultancy.
… that one group of consultants, the management gurus, might be unable to bring lasting and beneficial change to an organization at all. Indeed, they might not even be able to bring about the kind of change that the client had in mind, even in the short term. I shall explain why and, in so doing, …
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Abhinavagupta's Portrait of a Guru: Revelation and Religious Authority in Kashmir
… that placed great importance upon individual gurus who were seen to be indispensable to the process of revelation. This person-centered style of religious authority is implicit in the teachings and identity of the scriptural sources of the Kulamārga, a complex of traditions that developed out …
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Creating Intellectual Properties : A Sensemaking Study.
… property developers were differentiated from gurus and researchers, and the steps in coming to descriptions of the three types are revealed. A model that describes the processes by which the intellectual property developers saw themselves as creating their properties is evolved, and a …
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The New Economy of the United States: A New Mode of Production?
… journalists, federal regulators and business gurus have been writing about the development of a New Economy in the United States. According to New Economy supporters, the recent technological developments in information technology and the expansion of globalization are changing the economy, …
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Farmer, miner, builder, trader : re-humanizing the distributed infrastructures of Bitcoin
… is powerful and charming. Social scientist gurus, transnational corporations' CEOs, and mass media journalists all emphasize that cryptocurrency will lead humanity to a future of increasing extraordinary financial and spatial decentralization. However, although bitcoin has been around for 10 …
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Music of living: an autoethnographic study of Sikhi through Gurbani Kirtan
… playing kirtan) and gurbani (wisdom of the Sikh Gurus) to create rich and deliberately partial narratives. The research contributes multiple perspectives on the subject of kirtan by an exploration of the places where gurbani kirtan is passively encountered, actively engaged, and uniquely lived …
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Who do you think you are? A hermeneutic study of leaders' identities.
… drawing on the formulas and ideas of 'management gurus'.In the thesis both the role and the social meaning of 'leadership' was dynamic and changed over time through experience, with the actors embodied practices contributing to their social identities. The neglect of the body in the leadership …
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Global nomadism: a discursive and narratological analysis of identity concepts in the 'mobile professional'.
… texts that comprises books by management gurus and popular writers on globalization and corporate websites by consultancy firms, and collected personal narratives or life stories from a sample of professionals who in the pursuit of work have relocated internationally more than once. These …
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The Sikhs and caste : a study of the Sikh community in Leeds and Bradford
… Sikh migrants despite its rejection by the Sikh gurus. The Sikh community in Leeds and Bradford is found to be comprised of several caste groups such as Jats, Ramgarhias, Bhatras, Jhirs, Julahas and others. The significance of the arrival of Sikh families and children from India and East Africa …
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Investigation of the failure of statistical process control in manufacturing industries in South Africa : case study - Atlantis Diesel Engines
… and tools, which were introduced by quality gurus such as Deming, Juran, Crosby and many others. This gave the incentive for organisations that wanted to be world class players in their respective sectors to reconsider exhaustively the use of SPC and its tools. In South Africa, predominantly …
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Development of Total Quality Management framework for Libyan health care organisations
… in the field of TQM. However, the quality gurus have never agreed about a specific fiamework or implementation procedure. In addition, there is lack of a general model in health care, and there is no clear agreement as to the way in which TQM should be implemented in a health care sector. …
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The feasibility of introducing the concepts of TQM into the Saudi Arabian public sector.
… approaches and concepts of quality management "gurus"; the differences between the public and private sectors; and the barriers to TQM implementation, with a particular reference to the public sector. Along with the secondary data, a generic model for TQM implementation in the Saudi public …
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An analysis of TQM and organisational learning processes using modelling and simulation.
… of TQM. A comparative study of ten quality Gurus is conducted to establish a link between TQM and organisational learning. This has resulted in the development of a conceptual framework for the learning organisation, using TQM as the baseline. The learning organisation conceptual framework …
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Transformative facilitation: the never-ending path in the act of becoming
… (Budō); my influential spiritual teachers, or gurus; the beautiful revelations of working in 48 countries; and the alchemy of integrating Western methodological theories, including applied psychology, with Eastern philosophies. The critical lenses I move between are phenomenological …
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