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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"power bases"”.
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The Relationship between Supervisors' Power Bases and Supervisory Styles
… 2007). This is also applied to an area of power dynamics in supervision. This study tested the relationship between the two aspects of power dynamics; namely, supervisors' power bases (i.e., sources of influencing others) and supervisory styles (i.e., typical ways of shaping supervision), …
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The Effects of Social Power Bases Within Varying Organizational Cultures
<p>This study focuses on social power in the context of organizational culture and how this relationship impacts outcomes of follower compliance and trust. Power is the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or a course of events (Handgraaf, et al., 2008). There are six different …
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The Use of Social Power Bases by Southern Baptist Leaders: A Mixed Methods Study
Chapter 1 introduces the background of social power bases and explains the taxonomy introduced by John R. P. French, Jr. and Bertram H. Raven in 1959. A brief review of the literature on social power in the context of evangelical churches shows that little or no quantitative research has been …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… this paper examines how outsiders' and insiders' power bases relate to pay-for-performance by proposing and empirically examining a multi-dimensional model of board power bases: ownership, prestige, and structural. I argue that board structural and composition characteristics can be used as proxy …
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Egyptian nationalism, 1882-1919 : elite competition, transnational networks, empire, and independence
… to inter-and intra- elite rivalries between power bases within Egypt, including the office of the Khedive, the urban elite, landowners, European powers, and Ottoman representatives; and the way in which these vying groups affected the growth and composition of the Egyptian nationalist …
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Primary strategy learning networks: a local study of a national initiative
… focuses on a reliance on school networks as power bases for promoting a national standards agenda. It considers the impact of an imposed model of school collaboration on the fluid nature of networking. It also acknowledges the benefits of a ‘network balance’ between the positive and negative …
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A study of special education administrators' use of seven bases of social power to influence conflicts with parents
… problem this study investigated is whether the power base used by the special education administrator to influence conflicts with parents is affected by the socioeconomic status of the parents, the race of the child and the parents, and/or the handicapping condition of the child. In order to …
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District nursing in England and Wales c.1919-1979, in the context of the development of a Community Health Team
… and political professional issues and changing power bases, and the conflict between desire for recognised autonomy and for membership of a health care team. In addition, it has been possible to address issues of gender central to a profession largely composed of women throughout the period …
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Understanding conflicting rationalities in city planning: a case study of co-produced infrastructure in informal settlements in Kampala
… city planning under co-production are shaped by power and rationalities that occur at the interface between state and society. This study draws on key proponents of the case study method. Primary data and information were collected, using semi-structured interviews. Document analysis and …