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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"operational definition"”.
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The operational definition of managerial roles
This study aims for the first time to operationalise managerial behaviour and to produce a set of empirically-based statements of the differences in behaviour which determine managerial effectiveness or failure.
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An Operational Definition of Spiritual Leadership
This is the report of a Delphi study designed to identify the characteristics, behaviors, and work environments of spiritual leaders. A panel of philosophers, writers, business leaders, non-profit leaders, religious leaders, educators, and politicians was purposefully recruited to participate in …
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Campus community: students' search for an operational definition
… achieve their educational goals. Historical definitions of campus community often are vague in their characterizations and difficult to use to structure learning experiences. This study was concerned with creating definitions of campus community with greater specificity and utility than has …
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Support for Gestalt Versus Business-As-Usual Theories of Insight Depends on Operational Definition of Insight
… theories by comparing different methodology and operational definitions that have been used in previous research to investigate the nature of “Aha!” experiences and impasse in insightful problem solving. One hundred two undergraduate psychology students from Old Dominion University completed …
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Defining Twice Exceptional Learners: A Study of Self-Concept
<p>In 2014, the first operational definition of twice exceptional (2e) learners was published in Gifted Child Quarterly to provide a clear and identifiable profile of the population (Reis, Baum, & Burke, 2014). The article defines 2e learners as, “students who demonstrate the potential for high …
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A Scientific Characterization of Trumpet Mouthpiece Forces in the Context of Pedagogical Brass Literature
… study was to investigate, develop and propose an operational definition of mouthpiece forces applicable to trumpet pedagogy. The methodology for this study included an analysis of writings by selected brass pedagogues regarding mouthpiece force. Finding were extracted, compared, and contrasted …
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Educators' Views of Professional Learning to Promote Use of Applied Behavior Analytic Principles in Tiered Systems
… of module concepts (Three-term contingency, Operational Definition of Behavior, and Principles to Shape Behavior), and we compared perceived and actual knowledge of key principles of behavior science after educators had accessed module materials. Results evidenced consistent positive ratings …
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Managerial self-awareness and its impact on leadership in high-performing managers.
… direct reports were calculated and used as the operational definition of managerial self-awareness. T-tests were run to examine the difference between high performers and average performers. No significant differences were found. Additionally, correlational measures between the five leadership …
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A comparison of perceived social responsibility standards with perceived social responsibility performance in the Australian banking industry : A stakeholder analysis
… (CSR) in particular. In view of the multiple definitions of the concept of ‘social responsibility’ offered by various authors Such.1 Boatright (1993), Freeman (1994), Walters (1977), and Wheeler (1998), the views of power dependent Australian bank stakeholders were solicited to form an …
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Collegiate Equity Mentoring Matrix: A Culturally Relevant Framework for the Meaningful Mentoring of Black Male Students
… mentoring conceptualization helps to exact an operational definition for mentoring for the analysis. Theories describing the competition between the political interests which shape educational environments (Labaree, 1997) and student motivations to persist to graduation (Tinto, 2016) help to …
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Adult Postoperative Open-Heart Patients: Anemia and 30-Day Hospital Readmission
… dissertation:</p> <ul> <li>Aim 1. To develop an operational definition of the term <em>condition-based maintenance</em> as applied to health care and discuss the applicability and effectiveness of condition-based maintenance within health care.</li> <li>Aim 2. To identify the number of adult …
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YOU'RE THERE IN THE TIME SLIP: A HERMENEUTIC EXPLORATION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN MUSICKING THROUGH THE LENS OF MIHALYI CSIKZENTMIHALYI'S FLOW STATE THEORY
… in music, and, in so doing, to develop an operational definition of aesthetic experience as it is understood and experienced by practitioners in relation to the phenomenon as it is found in the canon of literature. The following specific questions are addressed: first, how do philosophers …
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Why and how teachers transform their instruction
… teachers. In order to move toward an operational definition of teacher quality, Kennedy, in her 2008 journal article entitled “Contributions of qualitative research to research on teacher qualifications” suggests that the causal mechanisms of the development of teachers who are …
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An early childhood study of the water cycle
… confused about the water cycle, according to my operational definition. Further explanations of their understanding are given. Other misconceptions are also found among the children. However, the findings support the hypothesis is that the children who live in the mountains better understand the …
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The relationship of human resource development manager empowerment to organizational conditions
… (a) what was a viable starting point for an operational definition of HRD manager empowerment, (b) what was the dimensional nature of HRD manager empowerment, and (c) what was the relationship between HRD manager empowerment and organizational support, trust, communication, and collaboration? …
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United States Intervention in Vietnam: A Critical Evaluation of Policy and Decisionmaking
… of Bernard Fall were used to evaluate them. An operational definition of intervention proposed by James N. Rosenau was a framework for discussion. Rosenau defined intervention as an action that breaks sharply with the past and is directed at a nation's authority structure. The intervention was …
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Sustainable urban mobility : exploring the role of the built environment
… To answer this question, I first derive an operational definition of sustainable mobility: maintaining the capability to provide non-declining accessibility in time. Providing non-declining accessibility depends on our ability to maintain net capital (natural, human-made, social) stocks, or, …
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Experimental evaluation of subjective ratings of drowsiness and development of drowsiness definitions
… with the problem of obtaining an "accurate" operational definition of drowsiness. Drowsiness is difficult to define because it may involve many different indicators, such as different physiological measures. This thesis consists of two separate, but related, experiments to determine an …
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Making Sense of Community Informatics: The Development and Application of the Community Event Research Method
… ICT into another community event. (c) An operational definition for community ethos is developed as: Community ethos is the set of collective belief systems that influence community actions and relationships. (d) The thesis notes that finding the right members to work on a design project …
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The perceived dimensions of jobs: a multidimensional scaling approach
… scaling. The present study examined such an operational definition. The present study also examined the perceptual dimensions that underlie individuals' perceptions of jobs. Three hundred and five subjects rated the similarity of pairs of job titles, completed the Role Construct Repertory …
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