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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"personal initiative"”.
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The effects of uncompensated-telework on work withdrawal and personal initiative via energy: the moderating role of fairness
… negative work behaviors – work withdrawal and personal initiative; and whether human energy mediates these linkages. I argue that when employees perceive uncompensated-telework is unfair, they will subsequently report losing energy when using ICTs to work outside of the work domain. …
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The efficacy of personal initiative training for academic and career success as a stress management intervention for university students
… stress due to academic, financial, and personal pressures, particularly in South Africa, where socioeconomic instability and limited mental health resources exacerbate these challenges. While wellness programs exist, they often fail to equip students with proactive coping strategies for …
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The Association of Microbreaks with Work Performance: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
… that higher work engagement covaried with higher personal initiative. Using multilevel structural equation modeling and focusing on between-person relationships, I found that autonomy need satisfaction during microbreaks covaried with increased intrinsic work motivation, while relatedness covaried …
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“Did you have a good weekend?” A week-level diary study examining the relationship between weekend recovery and weekday performance
… indicators (i.e., task performance and personal initiative) was investigated. Data was collected over three consecutive weeks from a cohort of first-year university students (N = 106) using a quantitative diary study design. This study administered seven surveys (i.e., a personal data …
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Examination of Small Business Administration Minority Enterprise Development
… opportunities for the expression and growth of personal initiative and individual judgment.
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Disaster Communication Networks: A Case Study of the Thai Red Cross and Their Disaster Communication Response to the Asian Tsunami
… application and also reveals the value of personal initiative. A proposed model of disaster communication is offered. Significantly more research is needed in the area of disaster communications.
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The Effects of Proactive Personality, Collectivism, and Conscientiousness on Training Motivation
Given the growing value placed on personal initiative at work, increasingly diverse workforce, and mixed conclusions about trainee conscientiousness, it is imperative to examine how trainee proactive personality, collectivism, and conscientiousness influence motivation to learn and subsequent …
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Becoming and Thriving as an EFL Instructor: Exploring Key Factors Contributing to Positive Identity Construction
… the statistical findings. Teacher Training and Personal Initiative emerged as supporting factors contributing to identity construction; Academic Pressure and Education Reform were identified as hindering factors. A comprehensive overview of the identity construction of EFL instructors was drawn …
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NI teachers’ views of their roles, knowledge and training in supporting student mental health: a mixed-methods study
… [2] Teachers gained mental health knowledge from personal initiative and experience in the absence of training [3] Teachers felt they required: more training at preparatory and professional level; mental health leads and teams; mental health provision for teachers; supervision for mental health …
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Ambiguity in Leadership: Perceptions of the Instructional Leadership Role of the Assistant Principal
… efficacy and confidence issues, insufficient personal initiative); and opportunities for instructional leaders (i.e., personal growth and learning, professional learning opportunities, and career advancement). The research reveals that assistant principals support high-quality teaching and …
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The Social and Political Philosophy of Justice Pierce Butler
… obscure poverty to wealth and influence through personal initiative and hard work should seem to uphold a political and economic tradition that would deny the same privileges to the vast majority. His apparent championship of capitalistic interests granted his sincerity and integrity, seemed to …
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Integrating cognitive, motivational, and emotional self-regulation in early stage entrepreneurs
… variables included entrepreneurial orientations, personal initiative, domain specific efficacy, and work engagement. Cognitive variables included goal orientations, goal-setting, planning and taking goal-directed action. Emotional variables included emotion regulation, anticipatory emotions and …
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Teaching Principled negotiation skills to parents and their children : the impact of parental involvement /
… in each of the key elements of negotiation, personal initiative, collaboration, communication, conflict based perspective taking, and conflict resolution approach (Nakkula & Nikitopoulos, unpublished). This measure has a coefficient alpha of .75 which is acceptable for this type of affective …
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The factors affecting the inherited retinal disease project in South Africa - Including insights from Genetic Counsellors
… be the case since the result delivery hinged on personal initiative and the perceived value of the result by the patient. Genetic counsellors also thought that lower socioeconomic background may have contributed to a reduced delivery of results. Conclusion Result delivery in the IRD project was …
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The unpaved road: examining the rural student experience and overcoming college access barriers
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms