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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"organisational theory"”.
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A szervezeti tudás feltérképezése = Mapping organisational knowledge
… Researchers investigating management, organisational theory, psychology, sociology, information systems and cognitive sciences are among those affected. There are at least three different fields which provide background for the topic: the resource-based approach of corporate …
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Critical infrastructure organisation management - An analysis of the transition to the Industry 4.0 era
… to operate. Through sociotechnical systems theory, we can model CISs through the interactions between social and technical factors that influence organisational performance, which is directly linked to the quality of the infrastructure services provided. The task of managing CISs involves …
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Career psychology factors as antecedents of career success of women academics in South Africa
… in South Africa. This research employed organisational theory to explain career success. The impact of work centrality, motivation, career anchors and self-efficacy on career success was examined. Care-giving responsibility was included as a moderating variable on work centrality. The …
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Punishment and Violence in Organisation Studies
This thesis explores the understudied theme of violence and punishment within organization studies. It takes the form of three journal style papers that draw on ethnographic data from two different settings. The first paper explores the use of extreme practices by vigilantes through an empirical …
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Organisational evaluation : a complementarist approach
… thesis is about a complementarist approach to organisational evaluation. It is argued that as each of the popular models in organisational evaluation theory have different strengths and weaknesses, they all have some validity and, taken together, represent a complementary set.The thesis will be …
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Army in the 21st Century and Restructuring the Army: A Retrospective Appraisal of Australian Military Change Management in the 1990s
… and political leaders of this era; and applies organisational theory to interpret internal/external dynamics. A21/RTA faced formidable strategy, resourcing and cultural challenges. However A21/RTA failed to achieve critical elements of successful change management, including: a clear, shared, …
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Army in the 21st Century and Restructuring the Army: A Retrospective Appraisal of Australian Military Change Management in the 1990s
… and political leaders of this era; and applies organisational theory to interpret internal/external dynamics. A21/RTA faced formidable strategy, resourcing and cultural challenges. However A21/RTA failed to achieve critical elements of successful change management, including: a clear, shared, …
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Appraisal in the Gendered Organisation: The Experience of Women Academics
… the gendered nature of organisations and organisational theory.
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Some issues arising from the role relationships of the non-executive director
… The answer to this, in effect, constitutes a theory of the work and role relationships of the non-executive director. Inherent in this is the perception of the non-executive director, by himself and by others, as an essentially marginal figure occupying what is frequently seen as a rather …
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Complaints procedures in local government.
… study within local government, and the impact of organisational theory in this area is explored. Other methods of dealing with consumer complaints are examined, and it is concluded that, although councillors, the courts and the Local Ombudsman all have a role to play in this area, there is still a …
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The transformation of Mangere Hospital: A case study in deinstitutionalisation
… The process has been viewed as an example of organisational change and the focus is on the relationship between formal and informal caregivers and the notion of care. Three key groups were included in the study, families of residents, the residents and staff. A qualitative approach was taken. …
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Strategic Renewal, Unlearning, and Forgetting: Understanding Post-Campaign Organisational Knowledge Loss in the British Army After Afghanistan and Northern Ireland
… the critical role of knowledge loss in organisational change. This thesis investigates post-campaign knowledge loss, employing a longitudinal process-tracing methodology and leveraging the author’s military insider status. Document analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews …
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Strategic Renewal, Unlearning, and Forgetting: Understanding Post-Campaign Organisational Knowledge Loss in the British Army After Afghanistan and Northern Ireland
… the critical role of knowledge loss in organisational change. This thesis investigates post-campaign knowledge loss, employing a longitudinal process-tracing methodology and leveraging the author’s military insider status. Document analysis, questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews …
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Successful technology management : cultural and organisational dimensions of MIS implementation in SMEs
… the research is two-fold: firstly, to examine organisational culture and, secondly, its relationship with IT implementations, specifically computer-based Management Information Systems (MIS). An extensive literature review has revealed a lack of synthesis between organisational culture and …
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Organisational adaptation or environmental selection? An enhancement of the evolutionary change theory based on a study of the New Zealand electricity industry
… survive under new settings. Hence, the study of organisational change is an important topic within organisational studies as theorists continue to examine "how" and "why" organisations change. The Evolutionary Change Theory proposed by Van de Ven and Poole (1995) represents a model of …
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Political Civil Servants and the Practice of Administration under National Socialism
… political and administrative science, systems theory, organisational theory and sociology, it will thus offer a structural understanding of bureaucratic conduct under Nazism, albeit one that places agents at the very centre of the analysis. The dissertation is broken into three sections. The …
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Essays on Craft and Communities
While previous research has often explored questions surrounding disruption or change, recent crises, and ongoing societal disruptions direct our attention to the challenges surrounding resilience, stability, and the continuity of cherished societal structures, organizations, and institutions. This …
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OPTIMISING FACILITY MANAGEMENT (FM) COMMUNICATION IN SWISS HOSPITALS: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FM COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK
… the non-medical processes in hospitals, organisational theory and organisational com-munication in light of FM communication in hospitals. It addresses the research gap of non-existing evidence-based research focusing on FM communication in Swiss hospitals for the benefit of FM …
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A conceptual diagnostic learning styles questionnaire framework
… to be one of the key factors forleveraging organisational success. In the specific context of education andtraining perse, 'traditional' education and training delivery approaches are nowgoing through a paradigm shift in order to provide learners with a better overalllearning experience. In …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
… frameworks is a historical, interpretative<br/>theory acknowledging the distinctive influence of Pragmatism, Scottish Common Sense<br/>Realism, the Protestant Work Ethic and neo-Gnosticism that are an explanation of the<br/>roots and the continuing development of this way of thinking in American …
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