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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"public recognition"”.
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A longitudinal examination of public recognition and employee absenteeism: an exploratory study
… (1985) research by examining the influence of public recognition on employees' attitudes and perceptions toward absenteeism. The main focus was on why the public recognition program was effective in reducing employee absenteeism. To better understand the effectiveness of recognition in reducing …
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The role of social bonds in understanding the pre- and post-recognition effects of recognition visibility
Although firms extensively use public recognition for high-performing employees, prior academic studies do not find beneficial effects of public recognition (versus private) on employee behavior. I utilize a laboratory experiment to investigate this apparent disconnect by investigating the strength …
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Optimal participation in the Conservation Reserve Program: Land enrollment decisions in a stochastic, dynamic framework
Growing public recognition of a soil erosion problem on agricultural lands culminated in the establishment of a Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) through the 1985 Food Security Act. The Act authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into ten-year contracts with farmers, paying them an annual …
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The Effects of Cooperative Learning on Self-Esteem: A Literature Review
… teams, individual assessment of mastery, and public recognition of team success. By their structure and individual assignments, cooperative learning avoids the problem of letting the smart student in the group do the work while the other students get a free ride.</p> <p>The purpose of this …
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Playground for the Imagination
… all people about nature. I am encouraged by public recognition of the need to protect and sustain the scope of nature necessary for earth's survival. We have the power to save nature through regulation if we only use that power. The planet does not belong to humans; humans depend on and …
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From Manchester to Burnley: sir James kay-Shuttleworth and his contribution to the moral and physical welfare of the poor in the periods 1828-1835 and 1842-1877
… at social investigation that resulted in the publication of the pamphlet, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester, with evidence from his activities in Burnley and Padiham, Lancashire, where he became a member of the landed elite …
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The perils of workplace recognition: antecedents and consequences of discomfort associated with being the target of threatening upward comparison
… underachievement, and decreased preference for public recognition. Additionally, direct linkages between the antecedents and consequences were expected, as well as post-hoc hypotheses predicting these direct relationships would actually be moderated by STTUC. Results suggested empathic concern, …
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Thatcherism and the restoration of governability
… effectiveness had been diluted, the hold of public expectations, symbolic of "consensus" or "Butskellite'' politics, showed no sign of loosening; despite the fact that welfare statism retained it's grip over the British public, years of economic decline and governmental ineffectiveness …
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Politics of religious diversity: toleration, religious freedom and visibility of religion in public space
… of religion and religious diversity in public space. Visibility in public space is a measure of sociability: expressions of identity in public space attest to a public recognition as well as integration of this identity into cultural transcendences. This visibility is historically …
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Morality In Action: Risking Death And Caring For Life In American Food Allergy Worlds
… States, a state of affairs which activists publicize in highly moral terms, based on multi-sited ethnographic research conducted from 2013 to 2016. I argue that the moral framing of this apparent threat to health by mothers, sufferers, and activists is strategic, leveraging gendered …
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A greenways approach to resource management: the process of environmental corridor design
… of the nation’s rivers and streams. This growing public recognition that rivers have many other values besides simply traditional economic uses has resulted in the multi-objective river corridor management activities which are occurring in numerous cities and countryside’s across the country. …
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Creating Cold War Role Models: The AFT's and NEA's Use of Cold War Discourses to represent K-12 Teachers as Professionals during the Baby Boom Era, 1946-1965
… as worthy professionals. In an effort to gain public recognition for teachers as professionals, the AFT and NEA attached each of these discourses to specific elements of professionalism in American culture, including occupational autonomy, middle class compensation, public service, and …
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"Literary Incest": Intertextuality and Writing the Last Taboo in the Novels of Iris Murdoch
… of the incest taboo. Incest was brought to the public forum partly by the second wave of feminism and the revelation of incest abuse coincided with the public recognition of child abuse more generally and thereby occasioned concern over the rights of children. Accordingly, therefore, this thesis …
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Using incentives and rewards in worksite smoking interventions
… programs. The incentives included money and public recognition based on individual performance, and dinners based on group performance. After 12 months, 48% of participants remained smoke-free. This result is significantly different [x2(1)= 3.910, p<.05]. from the results of a smoking …
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Sporting Bodies: The Rhetorics of Professional Female Athletes
… and/or to gain visibility, economic security, public recognition, and the power to speak. Ultimately, I argue that their collective rhetorical activity demonstrates how athletes use the Body Issues as a vehicle to work within and against the male-dominated sporting world and propel themselves, …
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Politicizing a film practice
… not rely on sporadic funding and vacillating public recognition but rather an ongoing, organic and sustainable film practice that arises from and is nourished by the contexts it seeks to critically engage in. This translates formally into two DVDs and 39,153 words. There are four chapters or …
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Living with a transvestite : A phenomenological study of wives and committed partners of transvestites
… The tradition of comic drag has dominated public recognition of cross-dressing. Hence transvestites are perceived to be freakish or funny. Transvestites often marry, or form a committed heterosexual relationship without telling their partner of their cross-dressing. Because the public …
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A struggle for recognition: the War Widows' Guild in Western Australia 1946-1975 ; and, Exegesis: Researching and writing an organisational history
… of this organisation. These women fought for public recognition and expression of their loss. They fought to have war widows' pensions seen as compensation for their husband's lives rather a government handout. They persevered when the organisation faced hurdles, and fought for their rights at …
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Teachers’ Engagement in Continuing Professional Development: Exploring Profiles and Factors
… the Self-Actualizing Factors: peer feedback and public recognition. In order to better understand the internal relationship between these factors, I propose a factor-based model of teachers’ engagement in professional development. Moreover, I have investigated the variation in the perceived …
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