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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"organizational power"”.
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Organizational Power and Politics: More Than Meets the Eye in Program Planning
Organizational power and politics influence corporate training in ways not often discussed. This study explores the effects of organizational power and politics on program planning and how planning, with its inherent power and politics (see Cervero & Wilson, 1994a), influences the daily practices …
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Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Organizational Power and Its Relationship to Perception of Physician-Perpetrated Verbal Abuse, Stress, and Coping
… conducted to determine the relationships among organizational power, Registered Nurses (RN) perceptions of physician-perpetrated verbal abuse, and stress/coping behavior by exploring the following research questions: 1) What relationships exist between RNs’ perceptions of physician-perpetrated …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… relations (between particular kinds of organizational power and involvement) over different ranks of a variety of organizations whose members were relatively free to stay or leave. A secondary aim was to compare organizational power to other predictors of involvement suggested in the …
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Predictors of organizational involvement : a test of the generality of Etzioni's (1961) compliance relations
… relations (between particular kinds of organizational power and involvement) over different ranks of a variety of organizations whose members were relatively free to stay or leave. A secondary aim was to compare organizational power to other predictors of involvement suggested in the …
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Efficacy of organisational power in the management of primary schools in Lusaka district, Lusaka province, Zambia.
The study explored the efficacy of organizational power in the management of primary schools in Lusaka District. The study was conducted in Lusaka District at two primary schools. Both schools are situated in the peripheral of the District, here by stated as A Primary School while the other school …
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Efficacy of organisational power in the management of primary schools in Lusaka district, Lusaka province, Zambia.
The study explored the efficacy of organizational power in the management of primary schools in Lusaka District. The study was conducted in Lusaka District at two primary schools. Both schools are situated in the peripheral of the District, here by stated as A Primary School while the other school …
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Graduate students' perceptions of contrapower sexual harassment.
… only a small number of studies examining contrapower sexual harassment. Contrapower sexual harassment can be defined as the sexual harassment of individuals (usually women) with more organizational power by others (usually men) with less organizational power. This study examined attitudes toward …
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An Empirical Investigation of Management Accounting and Control Systems Change in Two Libyan State-owned Manufacturing Companies: An Institutional Perspective
… institutional forces, market forces and intra - organizational power relationships. This analysis is essential to overcome the criticism of NIS that it downplays the role of market forces and intra - organizational power relations. The findings of the study have implications for understanding the …
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Supply Chain Relationships and Refurbishing in the Healthcare Supply Chain
… dissertation the role of dependence and inter-organizational power and the effect of supply chain relationships in the healthcare supply chain are investigated. Survey data from 276 procurement professionals from US HCOs are analyzed using factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The …
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Power Relationships in Information Systems Security Policy Formulation and Implementation
This thesis argues that organizational power impacts the development and implementation of Information Systems (IS) Security policy. The motivation for this research stems from the continuing concern of ineffective security in organizations, leading to significant monetary losses. IS researchers …
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Explaining the Job-Related and Psychological Consequences of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Contextual Model
… on appraisal. Contrary to expectations, the organizational power of the perpetrator had no effect on appraisal of the harassment. Appraisal of the harassment as more stressful and upsetting led as expected to greater levels of both indirect coping (i.e., avoiding or appeasing the harasser) …
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Conditions of interpersonal trust reported by two year college student affairs professionals of their performance evaluators
… their performance evaluators? 2. How are certain organizational power/status variables, such as professional status differences or demographic characteristics (e.g., gender or ethnicity), related to those trust conditions. 3. Do conditions leading to interpersonal trust differ based on differences …
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"A Raisin in a Box": The Experiences of Racialized Black Males in Leadership Roles in the Non-Profit Sector in Toronto, Canada
… evidence that it is White bodies that dominate organizational power structures (Block & Galabuzi, 2011; Johnson, 2012; Knight et al., 2003; Mills et al., 2010). As Hepburn (2015) states, "let's be blunt: Greater Toronto [Ontario, Canada] is one of most diverse-rich areas in the world, yet it …
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Beyond the Grant: Multidimensional Power in Foundation-Nonprofit Relationships
Power is a central yet often underexamined dimension of philanthropic relationships. In foundation-nonprofit grantmaking, foundations control financial resources and are therefore widely assumed to dominate the relationship. While existing scholarship documents this structural asymmetry, less …
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A critical analysis of the law on sexual harassment in the workplace in South Africa in a comparative perspective
… access to employment opportunities and abuse of organizational power by supervisors. The multiple facets of the harm of sexual harassment such as treating women as sub-human, un-equal and as sub-citizens in total disregard of their constitutional rights, self-autonomy and ubuntu is highlighted in …
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Presidential Security: Bodies, Bubbles, & Bunkers
… in the American context due to shifting power relations, new practices of presidential security, and the constant re-formulation of the friend/enemy distinction. The United States Service has had to continually think and re-think the concept of presidential security in order to provide …