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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"responses to performance"”.
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Influencing institutional change through state policy: rural community college responses to performance-based funding models
… the design and implementation of state-level performance-based funding (PBF) models can be found in more states than not; indeed, twenty-five states had PBF models in place as of December, 2013, with another fifteen states transitioning to or in formal discussions of this funding phenomenon …
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Implications of Chinese and American mothers’ goals for children’s emotional distress: Investigation of a cultural transmission model
… in children’s emotional distress via parents’ responses to children’s performance. 397 Chinese and American mothers and their children (mean age = 13.19 years) participated in a 2-wave study spanning a year. Mothers reported on their self-improvement (i.e., children striving to improve) and …
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Organizational Performance Relative to Aspirations: Exogenous Roots of Performance Feedback
… on organizational decision making with respect to performance relative to aspirations and the role of external coalition members and reciprocal internal organizational responses. In doing so, it contributes to the behavioral theory of the firm literature. While most behavioral theory of the firm …
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History, Ethics, and Emotion in Ndau Performance in Zimbabwe: Local Theoretical Knowledge and Ethnomusicological Perspectives
… Zimbabwe along the Mozambique border. I attend to the specific drumming practices of the spirit possession ceremonies central to local cosmological understanding, as well as the secular muchongoyo drumming that has become an important marker of Ndau identity and community. More than an …
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"Combining Multiple Justice Mechanisms in a Single Context: ""All Is Fair"" or ""Too Much of a Good Thing"""
Performance evaluation has received much research attention due to its importance for administrative decisions and subordinate outcomes. Organizational justice has been shown to be an important element in human resource decisions. Despite the potential for interpersonal conflict during performance …
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Designing Machine Learning Models to Predict Financial Distress in NYSE and NASDAQ Companies
… learning models can be theoretically grounded to improve the early identification of financial distress and manipulation risk among firms listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ. Drawing on Merton’s strain theory as an integrative framework, the research conceptualizes financial distress not merely as an …
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Country-level Mechanisms and Subsidiary Performance and Functioning
… country-level mechanisms and their impact on the performance and functioning of subsidiaries in host countries through three interrelated studies, integrating different theoretical frameworks. The first study investigates how the colocation of multiple subsidiaries within the same MNE, (i.e., …
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Exploring Youth Athletes Preferred Leadership Styles and Behaviours of Sport Coaches
… Heritage, 2013). This research was designed to address this gap. One hundred and sixteen (86 female, 49 male) youth sport athletes (age range 10-14 years) across 19 different sports completed a modified Leadership for Sports Scale (LSS) questionnaire. The LSS assesses five factors of …
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Intuition and emotion: examining two non-rational approaches in complex decision making
This thesis was designed to examine two non-rational decision approaches in individual and team decision making. In Chapter 2 (Paper 1), a normative theory about how people should use intuition in making complex decisions is proposed. I draw from extant literature to derive why allowing intuition …