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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"shared goals"”.
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The Concept of Community and the Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication of the Internet
… proximity, regular interactions, and shared goals. These definitions, and any consensus, are again being challenged by the creation of new communicative technologies. In particular, with the creation of new social spaces by computer technologies such as the Internet, the potential …
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Drama Education Curriculum by Drama Specialist in Early Childhood Education
… about each one's teaching values and shared goals, and undefined responsibilities for the program between the teachers. The drama specialist's perception as an outsider of the early childhood field also did not bring her to have a strong leadership in her drama sessions. I conclude …
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A pilot fidelity study of Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner (LEAP) with Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) mental health clinicians
… Listening, Delaying and Opining," "Partnering on Shared Goals," and "Client-Centered Listening and Empathizing." Multivariate Analyses of Variance indicated that clinicians who were trained in LEAP had significantly higher levels of fidelity to the "Reflective Listening, Delaying and Opining" and …
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Configuration, Coordination, Learning And Foreign Market Entry: A Study Of Canadian Software Companies Entering The United States
… and American operations using cooperatively shared goals reinforced using control systems and interaction patterns had higher performance. Companies that used more mechanisms to acquire information about the United States, and perceived the United States as a less uncertain business …
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Outcomes and Prospects for Collaboration in Two Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Forest Management Negotiations in Ontario
… recognizing their interdependence, focusing on shared goals and undertaking joint action. This research demonstrates that the development of shared goals and acknowledgement of divergent problem definitions are more important to intercultural collaboration success than the development of …
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How high-achieving African American undergraduate men negotiate cultural challenges at a predominantly White institution
… and its impact on diverse members are to support shared goals as opposed to identifying conflicts between individual groups (Tierney, 1998). By assuming responsibility (an unanticipated finding in this study) for effecting positive multicultural and multiracial interactions across sectors of the …
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Communication and Trust in Virtual and Face-to-Face Teams
<p>Virtual teams (VTs) accomplish shared goals by relying on technology-mediated communication to counteract geographic disparities. Rapid advances in technology have led to the near-ubiquity of VTs within modern organizations, but gaps in existing research designs afflict extant empirical VT …
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The role of employee motivation and reward structures as drivers of organisational commitment
… basis to achieve a common goal or set of goals.” Since an organisation’s effectiveness is the result of the level of individual and collective employee performance (i.e. teams and organisational units) and their success in attaining these shared goals, organisations have realised the …
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Complexity of Women's Liberation in the Era of Westernization: Egyptian Islamic and Secular Feminists in Their Own Context
… feminism in Egypt but it also illustrates their shared goals and common rejection of the Western discourse on women’s rights.</p>
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Whose city? Whose schools? : a case study of civic engagement and planning "from below" to promote education equity in New Orleans public schools
… their different needs while meeting their shared goals. Second, after a disaster residents may find their very survival intrinsically connected to, and indeed dependent on, how public institutions and infrastructure are rebuilt.
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Memorable, Legible, and Accessible Cities: Co-Stewarding Historic Preservation and Public Transportation Agendas in Boston and Hong Kong
… and policymakers can identify and leverage shared goals between historic preservation and public transit planning to support a memorable, legible, and accessible public realm. Preservation and transportation agendas are often described as inherently opposed to one another, and are generally …
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The Africa command: how the Department of Defense has continued America’s ad-hoc foreign policies in Africa through neo-orientalism
… of Defense (DOD) and African militaries in which shared goals were to be pursued and each side was to learn from the other. However, no African counterparts were consulted during the processes leading up to the establishment of the Command. Notwithstanding the oft-repeated rhetoric of …
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More than communities: organizing in online interaction spaces
… that describes how larger communities of shared interest can organize within online interaction spaces to accomplish members' shared goals. A theoretical model was also developed to situate all online interaction spaces relative to one another according to the prevalence of organizational …
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The road to development is paved with good intentions : inter-organizational dysfunction in the UN development system
… to effectively collaborate in pursuit of shared goals is important across many fields, but perhaps nowhere more so than in sustainable development. Advancing sustainable development requires addressing numerous highly interconnected issues across multiple sectors. The interconnections …
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The role of human resource management in fostering knowledge sharing behaviour : Thai Boutique Hotels
… role in establishing a sense of belonging with shared goals and vision, and this promotes departmental knowledge sharing behaviour. Lastly, a soft HRM approach combined with Face-To-Face-Communication (FTFC) facilitates knowledge sharing behaviour across entire organizations, and this may …
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Strengthening Effective ENL & Mainstream Teacher Collaboration to Benefit English Language Learners & Their Success in the Classroom
… roles, digitally co-planning, and developing shared goals. Recommendations for further research include longer-term studies, consulting and including ELL students in these research studies, and launching regular meetings and professional developments for continued, strengthened collaborative …
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A rational choice framework for collective behavior
… form groups, teams, and communities around shared interests and goals. Yet there is a constant struggle across forms of social organization to maintain stability and coherency in the face of disparate individual experiences and agendas. When are collectives able to function and thrive …
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Inside The Lines: Essays on the Performance of Whole Organizational Networks
… the concerted efforts of organizations towards shared goals, which may not always coincide with local (organization level) incentives. As such, I use the context of healthcare reform in the United States to examine how analyzing the complex patterns of interorganizational patient care may help …
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University of South Carolina'S Elementary Professional Development School Partnerships: Conditions Influencing Professional Development of Teachers
… where risk taking is encouraged, learning is shared and freedom is promoted. In the midst of this atmosphere is a collaboration of people who have shared goals, beliefs and commitments. These people are supportive, engaging and nurturing.</p>
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Three Essays on Economic Value Creation through Decisions and Cooperation
… and loan repayment. The results show that shared goals significantly increase borrowers' willingness to contribute toward group loan repayment. Collectively, these studies deepen the field’s understanding of cooperation, as manifested through interorganizational trust, advice-taking and …
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