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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"late career"”.
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The personal and organizational environmental factors influencing late career teacher success
… environmental factors that influence late career teacher success. Eighteen teachers participated in this study. The teachers were selected for this study by their building principals. Six teachers were selected from each of three high schools in DuPage County, Illinois. Each teacher …
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The factors that influence the state of readiness for entrepreneurial opportunities: a case study of late-career professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) in Singapore
… socially and economically. Older workers like late-career PMETs are recognised to have possessed the necessary entrepreneurial competencies. These managers are presumed to have the proper personal dispositions and might have acquired a high level of technical and organisational skills, vast …
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Psychologist Self-Care, Perceived Stress, Psychological Distress, and Coping Self-Efficacy Across the Career-Span
… to properly promote self-care across the career-span (2005). There is a need for research in this area to establish evidence-based self-care practices. This study lends empirical support for an increased focus on psychologist self-care with specific attention to the relationships between …
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Critical Soft Skills And The Stem Professional
… as defined by promotability and long-term career trajectory, of STEM professionals from the perspective of STEM professionals and those with whom they work closely. Participants for the study represented two professional categories, (a) late-career STEM professionals and (b) human resources …
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Rose Piper: New Discoveries
… to transcend medium in a multidisciplinary career. Although Piper is not a widely known artist, her ability and skill make her deserving of a place in the art historical narrative. I have organized her career into three distinct time phases: 1) early career (1940s-1950s), 2) middle career …
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Competence development through the lens of structuration - Does age matter in Finnish IT workplaces?
… with a particular focus on middle-aged and late-career employees in the Finnish information technology field. Research on adult education, workforce development and workplace learning has traditionally relied on economic, psychosocial and learning theories. The lower participation rate of …
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Hannah Arendt’s Vision of Politics: Exemplary Negativities and the Ostjuden
… Although it has been observed that Arendt’s late-career theory of the political owes a debt to her earlier writings on Jewish history, including her Kantian-influenced theory of political judgment and storytelling, in this thesis I would like to narrow down this debt to a specific trope: …
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The career plateau among professional/technical specialists in the federal government
… of this study was to examine the phenomenon of career plateauing from the point of view of professional/technical specialists employed by the federal government. Answers were sought to the following questions: What effect, if any, does plateauing have on those experiencing it? Does plateauing …
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Job dissatisfaction among therapeutic recreation specialists
… ranking of job security and persons in the late career stage's lower than expected ranking of job security. The conclusion drawn from this study is that therapeutic recreation specialists in the Southwest experience job dissatisfaction primarily due to a perceived lack of respect and …
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Teachers' Experiences with the Implementation of the Common Core State Standards
… sample included a novice teacher, two mid-career teachers, and three late-career teachers. The findings of this study indicate that teachers are struggling with trust throughout the educational system. The facets of trust emerged in this study as teachers shared their experiences as well as …
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Apparatus Poetica: The Question Of Technology In Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry
… Poetica" considers how four poets in the late modernist tradition reconceive the potentials of poetic language in order to address the question of advanced technology. Outlining challenges posed to language by communications industries, information theory, computation, and the threat of …
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Picturing the American story: John Steuart Curry’s limited editions club illustrations and the Regionalist vision in American literature
This dissertation examines the late-career illustrative works of American Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry (1897–1946), focusing specifically on his commissions for the Limited Editions Club, a subscription book company, between 1940 and 1946. While Curry is most often celebrated for his …
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
… global community. F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose career successes and failures mirrored the parabolic national pattern of Boom and Bust, was one such author. Though his works have seldom been interpreted through a regionalist lens, Fitzgerald lived in and wrote about every major American section, …
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Older Workers and Bridge Employment: An Exploratory Study
… older workers who retired from their long-term careers and who were working in bridge jobs. After interviewing 24 participants, a theory emerged that describes the decision to seek a bridge job, the strategies used, the problems faced, and the benefits received. The decision to retire is …
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An Investigation Of Performance And Participation In Employee Resource Groups At A Global Technology Company
… Then, the sum of the four dimensions was calculated. These dimensions were used in a correlation analysis to determine whether there was a positive relationship between participation in an employee resource group and self-reported job performance. The study found that there was a positive and …