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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"large-scale change"”.
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Three Papers on Beliefs: on their Measurement, their Transmission, and its Implications for Large-scale Change.
… across the life-course have implications for large-scale patterns of cultural change. To examine the first element, I collect survey and reaction time data about moral judgments through Prolific. Using sociological approaches to measuring cultural meaning, I show support for the idea that …
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Evaluating the Hiring Practices of a Small Suburban Chicago School District
… in the area and is not in desperate need for large-scale change, but does have visionary leadership and is always striving for improvement. After extensive conversations with those who do the hiring in the school district, there were items uncovered that could use some attention. The plan to …
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Systems level approach to process improvement initiatives in a semiconductor manufacturing environment
… companies have difficulty implementing large-scale change initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma, outsourcing or Advanced Process Control. This can often be due to the fact that they treat large-scale improvement efforts in the same way that they handle smaller improvement efforts. Instead …
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An investigation of strategic planning implementation and deployment efforts
… of their strategic planning, TQM, or other large-scale change efforts. Some have even abandoned their efforts all together. According to the literature, the major problem seems to be with implementation and deployment. One of the major obstacles that organizations face in the implementation …
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A study of staff satisfaction in two call centres
… industry has undergone significant changes during the 1990's. In Australia, deregulation has strongly impacted upon organisations competing within the industry. Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunication company has been challenged to improve its organisational performance, …
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Health Systems Integration: Competing or Shared Mental Models?
For over two decades, health services researchers and managers have focused on improving integration between organizations and levels of care. Yet, healthcare systems capable of delivering integrated care have not developed widely. This dissertation argues that structural and process strategies for …
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A systems-based approach to the design, management and integration of enterprise-level change in defense shipbuilding
… industrial base are forcing fundamental changes in the defense shipbuilding market. Shipbuilding in the United States is a mature industry that requires an experienced workforce and a predictable workload to design and construct an extremely complex product. However, naval planning and …
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The Effectiveness of Large Scale Transformational Change Across a School District
This research describes characteristics of large-scale organizational change in one mid-sized school district in Alberta, Canada. The period of the case study was from 2007–2011 within a district that was showing signs of significant change in operations. A review of two public large sets of data, …
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Impacto ambiental de la energía geotérmica en aplicaciones residenciales mediante análisis de ciclo de vida
… the energy sources that have been used on a large scale have been fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas). However, these fossil fuels are gradually being replaced by renewable energy. The use of fossil fuels has an important limitation since its use is finite. This fact can create …
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Literacyscape: The History, Politics and Practice of Basic Writing
… reform, and certainly before we should instigate large-scale change at the institutional level that greatly influences the lives of tens of thousands of students.</p>
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How Leaders Use the Construct of Culture to Influence Change Resistance: A Study of a Planned Change Initiative in a Combined Government and Military Organization
… organizational leadership and organizational change. The literature indicates that leaders can influence organizational change by attending to and modifying an organization's cultural dimensions. Much of this literature, however, is theoretical and speculative, and the empirical work that does …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… compelling schools and districts to undergo change. Schools are complex organizations and there are a number of interrelated factors that contribute to the success or failure of change into a new model. In Alberta, organizational change was mandated in 2003 through government acceptance of a …
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Change, Principal Trust and Enabling School Structures: An Analysis of Relationships in Southern Alberta Schools
… compelling schools and districts to undergo change. Schools are complex organizations and there are a number of interrelated factors that contribute to the success or failure of change into a new model. In Alberta, organizational change was mandated in 2003 through government acceptance of a …
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Transformational change in the NHS: using action research to improve the way change leadership skills are developed
This practice-based project explores the change leadership capabilities required in the English National Health Service (NHS) to undertake large scale change across complex environments. Due to a plurality of perspectives in the academic literature and limited empirical evidence about the …
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From micro to macro: the benefits and pitfalls of environmental generalism on coral reefs in the Anthropocene
As warming ocean temperatures culminate in large-scale mortality events across tropical, temperate, and deep-water reefs, a shift in environmental norms across marine ecosystems is causing species to expand into otherwise marginal environments. This widespread ecosystem restructuring raises the …
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Risk Managed Demand: Proof of Concept for an Evidence-Based Framework, Operationalized to meet the Demand for Order in a Civil Society
… a multi-level reflection on the struggles of large-scale change in a modern police service. Despite the apparent opportunity for alternatives to police, this reflection finds implementing a diversified response to be deceptively challenging. Effective change requires more than an unequivocal …
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Combatting Intimate Partner Violence Modelling Scalable Pathways for Sustainable Interventions in South Africa: The private sector as a critical ally to promote women's well-being, economic empowerment, and inclusion in the advancement of gender equity
… (a subset of violence against women) is a large-scale and complex social, public health, and economic problem that has existed for many decades, primarily enabled by systemic gender inequality and rooted in patriarchal gender norms. This study focuses on the design and scalability of …
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Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses
… to observe the relationship between waves of changes in Vietnam’s social, cultural, and economic background and gender issues. Drawing on multiple feminist lenses will help to identify and critically analyse the historic processes, economic practices and social structures that maintain gender …