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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"professional commitment."”.
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The professional commitment of actuaries
… study examines the nature and outcomes of the professional commitment of actuaries. The affective and continuance levels of professional commitment among actuaries are high. Overall, actuaries are more committed to their profession than to their employing organisations. Actuaries who have a …
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Measurement of Chinese student teachers' professional commitment
… produced a three-factor model of the Chinese Professional Commitment Scale (PCS). The alpha reliability coefficients for the three scales (Dedication, Valuing Teaching, and Career Continuance) and total scale are high.
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A study of organizational and professional commitment among nurses in Singapore
Issues on commitment have captured the great interest of organizations and research scholars. The health-service organizations in Singapore are anxious to develop appropriate organizational strategies to enhance their nursing personnel's levels of commitment to the organization and profession, and …
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Professional Commitment and Change Orientation of Coordinators of Home Economics in High Schools in Victoria, Australia
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820988.pdf: 7731259 bytes, checksum: 7f66317cdf92fbd5dfa95c8072fea49d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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A Model of Registered Nurse Intent to Stay in Southern California Childrens' Hospitals
… study was to examine the interrelationships of professional image, organizational climate or domains thereof, professional commitment, organizational commitment, position satisfaction, and the influence of these variables on intent to stay employed. The path analytic model of intent to stay was …
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Teacher attrition and mentoring: an examination of teacher attrition and first year experiences: implications for policy
… is the relationship between reported levels of commitment and new teacher experiences with induction or mentoring? (3) What is the relationship between perceived effectiveness of mentor programs and characteristics of the program? (4) What is the relationship between attrition and the …
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White Collar Read: The American Public Library and the Left-Led CIO: A Case Study of the Chicago Public Library, 1929--1952
… social issues. The result was not only the professional commitment to intellectual freedom, codified within library policies, but a stronger identification with the diverse service populations of the American public library.
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The Effects of Selected Personal and Professional Factors on Nurses' Perceptions of Self-health
… determine the affects of selected personal and professional factors on nurses' perceptions of self-health as evaluated by responses to a questionnaire designed for this study. A modification of the Health Belief Model, titled the Health Perception Model, served as the conceptual model for the …
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Work Demands, Work-Family Conflict, And Commitment Amongst Nurses In Eswatini
… to the organisation, such as impacting the commitment to stay with an organisation. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between work-family conflict and job demands. The study also investigated the relationship between work-family conflict and the two organisational commitment …
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A qualitative study investigating the sources of teacher efficacy beliefs
… beliefs have been found to influence their professional commitment (Coladarci, 1992; Ware and Kitsantas, 2007, 2011; Klassen et al., 2013), their job satisfaction (Caprara et al., 2006, Hoigaard et al., 2012) and how resilient they are in difficult situations (Ashton and Webb, 1986), as well …
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Teachers with a capital 'T' : exploring the professionalism of experienced teachers in Kyrgyzstan
This thesis explores three aspects of teacher professionalism in Kyrgyzstan through the lives and practice of eight experienced and exemplary teachers in four schools in Chui province. Highly experienced and exemplary teachers have been called Teachers with a capital 'T' since Soviet times because …
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Institutional perspective of digital open government implementation : a case study from Kuwaiti Ministry of Home Security
… using semi-structured data collection tools from professionals and citizens. It has been found that there is uncertainty in policies, lack of professional commitment, and extra-political pressure that negatively impact the overall institutional efforts to generate public and institutional values …
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An investigation of organizational-professional conflict in management accounting
… of behavioral studies have suggested that, where professionals are employed in bureaucratic organizations, there can be serious conflicts between the norms of one’s profession and those of one’s employing organization. Known as organizational-professional conflict (OPC), this conflict has been …
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An Interactional Analysis of Adult Cognitive Assessment
… and allowing the clinician to make public their professional commitment to administering the tests in a standardized fashion. Based on these findings, I concluded that adherence to standardized protocol should be thought of as a spectrum, with different degrees of adherence being appropriate at …
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Crossing borders: Teacher/principals' understandings of their teaching and principal roles in a cross-cultural context
… world view, temperament, and personal and professional commitment when considering school appointments. The study increases the understanding of the role and the effects of a non-Hutterite teacher and principal on Hutterite students. Ideas for further research generated from this study …
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Nurses’ views on compassionate care: a study using Q methodology
… highlighted inherent tensions between competing professional and organisational demands in a rapidly changing workplace. This research investigated nurses’ views of the promoters and inhibitors of provision and maintenance of compassionate care. Participants were third year student nurses and …
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Managing for quality in clinical microbiology services.
… important in the work place, Job Satisfaction, Commitment and Climate, were measured among microbiology biomedical scientists (BMSs) in the United Kingdom A self-report questionnaire was developed through preliminary interviews and two pilot studies. The perceptions of Job Satisfaction, …
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Cultivating Professional Meaning and Commitment: Frontline Nurses' Narratives about Peer Support
… of peer support in fostering emotional, professional, and organizational support and commitment in different contexts. This study draws together scholarship on street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) and formal and informal training in nursing to build on research demonstrating that internal …