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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"organizational systems"”.
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Urban organizational systems
General systems theory provides a conceptual framework for the integration of knowledge from a wide variety of specialized fields. Systems theory serves to synthesize, reconcile, and integrate knowledge making it possible to unify analytical data into broader based theories. By examining various …
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Assessing Organizational Systems Redesign In Improving Management and Patient Care: An Implementation Study
… and affecting a need to optimize care to meet systems and individual care needs, while operating under ever increasingly limited resources. Prior to 2015, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a Level 1 Trauma Center, Safety Net, and Academic Hospital held no explicit strategic plan, no …
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Transfer of the development process and project organizational systems between Japan and the U.S.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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The Norwegian success story : narrative applications of interpretation, understanding, & communication in complex organizational systems
… can communicate nuanced meanings in complex systems of organization. Therefore, this research explores the connections between narrative and complexity, as well as the communicative applications of narrative for understanding and organizational decision-making. Overall, conceptualizing this …
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Organizational Decision-Making in Information Technology Choice: A Case Study and Investigative Approach
… in this research is how social and technical systems of an organization interact and influence one another. Previous work in both Management of Information Systems and Computer Supported Cooperative Work show how the interaction between the social and technical systems of a workplace can lead …
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An Analysis of Expectation for Principal Behavior in the United States Virgin Islands Educational Documents and the Relationship of Document Importance to Perception of Role Conflict and Ambiguity
… ambiguity--conditions that are dysfunctional to organizational systems and principals' effectiveness.
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Determinants of Diffusion and Infusion of a Web-Based Knowledge Management Technology Adopted Under Contingency Authority Decisions
In this study, conclusions were reached from an organizational development perspective about the determinant factors to be attended to in order to achieve an effective transfer of complex technologies adopted under contingent authority decisions in organizations. Two processes, diffusion and …
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Content Based Integration of *Construction Site Images in AEC/FM Model Based Systems
… of construction images in AEC/FM model based systems will be presented. Specifically, a combination of techniques from the areas of image processing, computer vision, and content-based image retrieval have been deployed to develop a method that can retrieve related construction site image data …
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Contract closeout pathologies and recovery strategies
… closeout process all within the context of the Organizational Systems Framework Model. Critical pathologies identified include process friction, inadequate information technology, contract complexity, personnel skill level, contract financial issues, management concern, perceptions, timeliness, …
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A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Interprofessional Healthcare Education: Communication Ethics in Action
… working in teams within complex political and organizational systems. This teamwork is crucial to quality patient outcomes; however, incivility threatens to derail necessary and effective collaboration towards the common organizational good. Necessarily, interprofessional healthcare education …
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Carinus Nursing College : an historical study of nursing education and management using the general systems approach, 1947-1987
… Research has been done by applying the general systems theory and by using the standard methods of historical analysis. Data has been collected by means of oral history, literature search and documentation. The variables isolated are the College as a system; the government or influential super …
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Entrepreneurial transformation of the School of Education at one Midwestern public university: A case study
… Individuals, Environmental Factors, Organizational Behaviors, Organizational Outcomes, and Organizational Systems. The following four core themes were found to be more profound among the others: Diversity of Personal and Professional Expertise and Experiences, Teamwork and Internal …
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Constructing a Politics of Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
… theories operate across academic disciplines and organizational systems, new formulations of knowledge production arise such as transdisciplinary research. Transdisciplinary research can be considered as a model for knowledge production that is still capable of recognizing the shared and …
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21st Century Stewardship: The Role of Educational Equity in School Sustainability Programs
… programs through a lens of equity and organizational systems. This research utilizes a mixed methods approach, including open-ended interviews and non-experimental survey data, to provide a multi-dimensional view of the state of sustainability programs from a site, district and county …
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An institutional perspective on management accounting change in the public sector : a case study from Canada
… conflicting institutional forces at the organizational level. An existing Old Institutional Economics-based conceptual framework for management accounting change is advanced and improved upon through the development of a new conceptual framework that incorporates the influence of wider …
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Work Pressure and Types of Stress Coping among Preceptor Nurse
… nurses, it would be necessary to improve organizational systems and develop education programs that advances their capacity. Additionally it would be needed to seek effective stress management program for work stress reduction.
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Finding Meaning by Participating in Decisions Affecting Us, Our Work and Our Lives: Lessons Learned at Mondragón
… a growing interest in exploring participatory organizational models for the last fifty years, accentuated by the recent corporate scandals that revealed the inadequacies of non-participatory organizational systems. Research studies have focused on organizational structures, policies and …
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A study of the functions of school boards in the educational system of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States
… receives its authority from the people, the organizational systems including boards of education for Catholic and public schools must reflect these different authority sources. This dissertation studies the authority structure of the Roman Catholic church, the reasons for the development of a …
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Regulación y organización de servicios de atención de emergencia y protección civil: diseño de un sistema asimétrico, multifuncional y multifactorial
… The second, which discusses the sociological, organizational, legal, educational and operational framework. In the third, is made an analysis of organizational systems existing in the State's emergency services. To do so, it has been designed a system of qualitative evaluation and analyzed more …
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From Warriors to Wingtips: The Leadership Transition of Retired Officers into the Public Sector
… organization, and encountering a very different organizational culture. This study used grounded theory methodology to identify the key military leadership strategies and behaviors learned by military officers and to examine their applicability to local government. It focused on eleven retired …
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