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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"span of control"”.
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF SPAN OF CONTROL TO NURSE MANAGER SATISFACTION
<p>Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between span of control (SOC) and nurse manager job satisfaction for nurse managers working in a hospital system. The study may help administrators identify how wide and narrow SOC correlates to the overall job satisfaction of …
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Modeling and Analysis in Supply Chain Design: Span of Control, Stochastic Dissimilarities, and Fuzzy Optimization
… sequential analysis, performance increased with span of control. (B) Sequential results outperformed the simultaneous results at all performance measures. (C) Production level profit is highest under exponential membership function, storage level under linear membership function, and processing …
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Organization Features and School Performance
The purpose of this study was to determine the odds of school organization features predicting schools meeting district or state performance goals. The school organization features were organizational complexity, shared decision making, and leadership behavior. The dependent variable was school …
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Leader-Member Relationships and Patient Safety Culture
… interventions have been explored in hopes of improvement, but reported statistics suggest that this issue has yet to be solved. The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between nurse leaders and their nursing staff, and how these relationships influence patient safety culture. …
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The Firm Size Effect: An Application of Hierarchy Theories
… wages is investigated through the application of hierarchy theories. Many different explanations have been proposed for this relationship, but have met only limited success at best. The strongest finding to date is that unobserved ability is a significant factor. The question of interest here …
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Mosby's Rangers: the 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, C.S.A.
… narrative is an attempt to record the service of the 43rd Battalion, Virginia Partisan Rangers, C. S. A. Initially, the unit was composed of nine volunteers from Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's 1st Regiment Virginia Cavalry. By March, 1863, Mosby's rangers had won the hearts of the Confederacy in the …
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Pembangunan kerangka strategi dalam penyelesaian harta tanah Al-Mafqud di Malaysia
Orang hilang atau istilah dalam bahasa arab dikenali sebagai al-Mafqud merupakan golongan yang tidak pasti keadaan sama ada masih hidup atau telah meninggal dunia. Isu al-Mafqud menjadi perhatian semenjak tragedi MH 370 yang dilaporkan hilang sejak 8 Mac 2014. Namun, isu al-Mafqud ini sebenarnya …
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Analysis of engineering management characteristics employed in the defense industry
An analysis of the engineering management characteristics present in companies in the defense industry was performed. These aspects include the organization characteristics of structure, hierarchy, and standards and procedures, as well as various features of company culture. This study revealed …
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A Structural Analysis of Nursing Continuing Education Organizations and Programs
Purpose of the study. This study was conducted to determine the components of organizations whose mission is nursing continuing education. Method. The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase I, 1,134 currently registered nurses were randomly selected and asked by questionnaire which was the …
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Relationships among Span, Time Allocation, and Leadership of First-line Managers and Nurse and Team Outcomes
Comparisons of raw span (i.e., number of staff who report directly to a manager) within and across organizations can misrepresent managerial capacity to support staff because managers may not allocate the same amount of time to staff contact. The purpose was to examine the influence of alternative …
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Creating a Measure of Dysfunctional Office and Organizational Politics: The DOOP Scale
… to create and validate a perceptual measure of Dysfunctional Office and Organizational Politics (DOOPs). Statements for the measure were derived from office and organizational politics definitions implied or stated in the non-professional literature. Subsequently, two scales were created, one …
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An analysis of relationships among size, technology and structure in a contextually limited setting
… theorists have debated the magnitude of the impact of size and technology on dimensions of organization structure. Also, management theorists have shown the importance of structure on organization goal attainment. However, no consensus has been reached concerning the interrelationship …
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Three essays on inequality
… educational policies that determine the level of education and human capital accumulation. The first essay presents an overlapping generations model with three different occupational choices: full-time manager, self-employed or worker, and frictions in the labor market due to labor protection …
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Conditions of interpersonal trust reported by two year college student affairs professionals of their performance evaluators
The goal of this investigation is to provide answers to the following three questions: 1. For the two year college student affairs professional, what are the interpersonal relationship conditions leading to trust of their performance evaluators? 2. How are certain organizational power/status …
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Management styles and managers attitudes towards IT: A developing country context.
… Diffusion (ITD) requires a clear understanding of the organizational context including human and technological dimensions. Towards the establishment of this understanding, this research explores the management styles within a developing country context and the managers' attitudes towards IT. In …
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Public sector corporate governance revisited: the ROI's non-commercial semi-state sector
In May 2009, the Republic of Ireland’s (ROI) Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies came into effect. In addition to imposing further compliance and reporting obligations on the boards of the ROI’s statutory agencies, the Code more ciearly defined the role and responsibilities of board …
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The COMPASS Paradigm For The Systematic Evaluation Of U.S. Army Command And Control Systems Using Neural Network And Discrete Event Computer Simulation
… technology based society the rapid proliferation of new machines and systems that would have been undreamed of only a few short years ago has become a way of life. Developments and advances especially in the areas of digital electronics and micro-circuitry have spawned subsequent technology based …