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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"organizational studies"”.
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Online Knowledge Sharing in a Multinational Corporation: Chinese and *American Practices
… from separate fields including national culture, organizational studies and online communities of practice. Another accomplishment of this study is expanding the UTAUT for future research in cross-cultural knowledge sharing through online media.
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Accountability in human resources systems: The impression management and performance-directed functions of goal-setting in the performance evaluation process
… is a common but seldom researched topic in organizational studies. This study purports to investigate the effects of accountability in human resources systems, using the evaluation of performance as a context. Performance evaluation is the fundamental accountability mechanism in …
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An Investigation of Individual Reactions to Quality Circles: Findings From Two Firms
… of reasons. First, there have been no cross-organizational studies, and very few studies by third parties, of Quality Circle effects and effectiveness. The importance of knowing what one may reasonably expect from a Quality Circle program seems undeniable, particularly given their popularity. …
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Creating high performance enterprises
… to this challenge. Enterprises are interorganizational networks with distributed leadership and stakeholders with both common and diverse interests. They are unique from traditional levels of analysis in organizational studies, and in general their behavior is not well understood. They …
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Finding and Losing Meaning: Understanding Change in Employee Meaning of Work
Meaning of work is an important topic in organizational studies because how people relate to their work can influence workplace attitudes and behaviors. However, despite a long history of research on meaning of work, an agreed-upon theoretical framework of meaning is yet to emerge. Further, while …
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Organizational sense making : responsibilities to the MCAS reform in the Massachusetts public schools
… addresses this question through a study of the organizational responses of two public high schools to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) a system of standards and accountability passed by the Massachusetts state legislature as part of the Education Reform Act, 1993. …
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Leading for learning : behavioral, educational, and methodological perspectives on multicultural team learning processes
… to make methodological contributions to organizational studies, leadership education, and management practices. 1) The central research question is what behavioral factors affect team learning when the team faces both internal and external unfamiliarity - which stems from diversity and …
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The Institutional Environment for B2B E-commerce Adoption
Grounding on institutional theory in organizational studies and e-commerce adoption literatures, this dissertation discusses the impact and effect of institutional environment on B2B e-commerce adoption. The institutional environment in question includes industrial, governmental, legal and national …
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Organization theory : historical-theoretical development and the implications of technology
… theoretical threads which have contributed to organizational studies. The path followed moves through the following stages : (1) classical theory, (2) scientific management, (3) human factor industrial psychology, (4) the human relations movement, and (5) organizational psychology or "nee-human …
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Essays on Spatial Constraints and Gender Equality: the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on Work-from-Anywhere Dynamics and Gender Equality in Job Searches
… these changes within the labor market. Keywords: organizational studies, gender inequality, flexible working arrangements, hiring, applications processes, decision making, digital platforms.
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Emergence of strategic direction, organizational structure and employee integration : a framework for the Dialectic Organization
… thesis is to develop a system dynamics model of organizational change. The Organizational Studies, Strategic Management and System Dynamic fields will be reviewed, concluding that there are gaps in the extant literature: none of them has been successful in defining the minimum set of processes …
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Examining employees level of happiness in relation to productivity in oil and gas industry Abu Dhabi, UAE
… gained much attention due to its importance on organizational studies and the effect it has on overall performance of the employee, but in oil and gas industry, it is still not fully explored. This research aims to investigate and critically assess domain factors that affects happiness of …
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Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation
… success in the marketplace. Benchmarking and organizational studies specific to the industry and the company were conducted to identify best practices to provide a basis for the development of the AMDC. This project uses academic research to identify existing theories on manufacturing …
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Fairness in Dispute: Understanding the Principles of Equity, Equality, and Reciprocity in Federal Procurement Contracting
… and disciplines such as public administration, organizational studies, empirical legal research, and relational contracting. It also contributes to developing theories regarding complexity in procurement and existing contracting studies from both sociological and economic perspectives.
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION, COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT, AND DECISION LEGITIMACY: A CASE IN CHINA
… the literature on deliberative democracy, and organizational studies, the project intends to observe how the communication environment or speech conditions (in Habermasian terms) may affect the legitimacy of a decision outcome, and at the same time may influence the relationship between the …
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The process and dimensions of family member marginalization: A mixed-method construct explication
… dissertation builds upon social psychology, organizational studies (i.e., social identity theory, social network theory), family studies, and interpersonal communication (i.e., hurt, confirmation theory) literature to understand how marginalized family members, or "black sheep," come to live …
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The evolution of Eastern Michigan University: The politics of change and persistence
… contribute knowledge to comprehensive university organizational studies.</p> <p>Research Design: An interpretive longitudal historical case study design was pursed for this research. This case study reviewed the political cultural environment that occurred prior to the organization’s formation and …
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Case Study of the Structures of Criminal and Drug Courts
… Recent reforms to trial courts indicate that the organizational structure of a typical trial court has changed in many states. Separately, specialty courts which help coordinate treatment for offenders like drug users and mental patients in many jurisdictions have changed the structure, process, …
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Exploring stakeholder participation in nonprofit collaboration
… this framework is popular in management and in organizational studies, a lack of empirical work, an overemphasis on singular corporations as focal organizations, and an overreliance on internal stakeholder perspectives have stalled theoretical development. A nonprofit collaborative network …
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The impact of open-plan office spatial components on the perceived human behaviour and level of collaboration: The United Arab Emirates
… as the topic's basis. The majority of these studies ignored the office layout environment in favour of focusing on job satisfaction. In contrast, studies that analysed the indoor office environment only considered thermal and acoustic comfort, lighting, and indoor air quality in relation to …
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