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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"occupational culture"”.
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GHOSTS BEYOND OUR REALM A neo-abolitionist analvsis of prisoner human rights and prison officer occupational culture
… between penology, law, penal policy, and occupational culture. Utilising a neoabolitionist normative framework, the legitimacy of the current meanings of prisoner human rights are scrutinised, and an alternative promoted. It is argued that in the five year period under review, the HRA has …
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Ethical decision-making: a treatise into the role of ethics in 21st century policing
… situated; It is strongly influenced by police occupational culture; The existing model of police training does not adequately prepare officers for ethical decision-making. This study further identifies that police decision-making, particularly the police use of discretion, is affected by …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
… to previous gendered studies of prison occupational culture. Staff-prisoner relationships are central to the running of prisons (Sparks et al, 1996) and this thesis argues these relationships are becoming less robust due to the lack of face-to-face contact, reducing personal interactions …
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Probation, Politics, Policy and Practice: From New Labour to the Coalition government
… of the impact of these developments on the occupational culture and working practices of probation work.
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Professionalization of physical therapists: Relationships between individual professionalization and selected factors
… professionalization: (a) involvement in the occupational culture, (b) autonomy of professional judgment, and (c) participation in continuing education.
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The Construction of Domestic Violence Among Police Officers
… by their personal lived experiences, prejudices, occupational culture, training and department policies. These interpretations, in turn, influence their responses to victims and offenders. Since the individual officer is one point where intervention with victims and offenders begins, individual …
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The Embodied Work of Professional Dancers: Understandings of Pain, Injury and Health
… managed and negotiated within its specific occupational culture. These embodied workers are at risk of pain, injury and other body-related issues, including image and eating issues, in the pursuit of career goals. In-depth interviews with professional theatrical dancers employed in company …
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Relaciones humanas the potential for public relations practitioners as cultural intermediaries in Mexico City.
… understand the make-up of public relations as an occupational culture. It explores the values and experiences relevant to practitioners and emphasises the need to recognise the role of practitioners as intermediaries in the development of society. In contrast to the prevalence of …
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Emotional Labor and Care Delivery: Interviews with Obstetrical Nurses
… open-ended question guide to investigate occupational culture, the impact of societal forces on work, and the role of emotion in nursing. Audio-recordings of the interviews were analyzed for themes, using grounded theory. Within the culture of OB RNs, the duty of providing safe care was …
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Understanding Support Workers’ Experiences of their Roles in Health and Social Care in Great Britain and Ireland: A Systematic Literature Review
… clarity, training, support and oversight, and occupational culture. It is important to address the challenges faced by support workers through collaborative development of the role structure. This review demonstrated a need for further research into the experiences of support workers of their …
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A Quantitative Investigation of Law Enforcement Officers' Self-Reported Leadership Practices, Trust, and Personality Traits
… that source from their organizational and occupational culture. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the self-reported leadership practices and trust of law enforcement officers grouped according to selected demographic characteristics and personality traits in three …
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The African communities' experiences of policing in the Netherlands
… critically evaluates the relevance of police occupational culture to Dutch contexts. This research represents the first study to date of Dutch-African experiences of policing in the Netherlands, incorporating interviews and focused observations of Dutch-Africans and police officers on patrol. …
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Choosing your engagements: tenure and work life at state comprehensive universities
… and survey the evolution of studies on the occupational culture of academe. Findings are presented in two chapters, with the first exploring institutional considerations, including how tenure is conceptualized and how the expectations for tenure were understood and negotiated, and the second …
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It’s like being on a tight-rope : an ethnography of the working lives of professional stand-up comedians in the UK
… the working lives of stand-up comedians – an occupational group that has previously received limited attention in sociological work examining professional lives. Analysis of the rich observational data collected enables this thesis to present a dramaturgical account (Goffman, 1959) of …
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The marginalisation of racism : a study of a local education authority project on multicultural education
… Variables are also identified, in particular the occupational culture of teachers, which might have restricted the team's access to departments, the facilitation of collaborative teaching strategies and the implementation of whole-school policy. It is suggested that a team approach needs to be …
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Die Auswirkungen von Stress auf die Gesundheit der Mitarbeiter –stressbezogene Arbeitsanalyse für Klinikärzte
Based on a stress model from occupational psychology, the stressors and ressources present in the daily work routine of surgeons at a university hospital in german-speaking countries were recorded. Interventions were designed and applied, and followed up by a second interview, using the same …
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An Examination of the Experiences and Perceptions of Dyslexic Police Officers in England and Wales
… together with negative aspects of police ‘occupational’ culture, were identified as key factors in the participants’ decision making processes. This research concludes that institutional disablism in terms of dyslexia is widespread across some police services in England and Wales despite …
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The Experiences of Expatriate Teachers in International Schools: Five Ethnographic Case Studies
… ethnographic generalizations about the culture of international school teachers. While only a small group of participating teachers was used for this research, rich qualitative data emerged that suggest the following: (a) The teachers in this study care deeply about how they are treated …
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Exploring the trust relationship between police incident commanders and their tactical advisors: a qualitative study relative to crisis and hostage negotiators coordinators
… is tested, being placed under scrutiny by occupational culture and bias. Thereby impacting on the <i>working relationship</i> of both actors and the advice offered seemingly being discounted for more direct coercive action. <br/><br/>Overall, the research findings strongly suggest that …
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Policing Partnerships: An Investigation into the Police Response to Partnership Working in the Wake of the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act
… features of the police organisational and occupational culture, which serve to Undermine partnership working by treating it more as a symbolic, legitimacy building function and by regarding it as out-of-place within a largely 'detectionist', 'here and now', dominant construction of …
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