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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"understanding change"”.
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Understanding change in the public sector:a local authority case study
… the public sector are being required to manage change, but many of the models of change which are available to them have been developed from private sector experience. There is a need to understand more about how the change process unfolds in the public sector. A case study of change in one …
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Finding and Losing Meaning: Understanding Change in Employee Meaning of Work
… empirically verify a theoretical framework for understanding meaning of work and to build theory concerning meaning of work change. The results of a longitudinal qualitative case study of 31 employees of a large architecture firm support a self-concept based framework for understanding meaning …
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Understanding change : public space constructin in Bogota, Colombia, the Plaza de San Victorino
Bogotá is a city that has seen rapid change in the recent years. By the 1990’s the city’s public space was in crisis and its elements were being used in inappropriate ways; some were even been illegally privatized. Inside the city’s multiple ills, a politically driven set of changes began to …
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Houses in Heaven are made of steel : understanding change in Ecuadorian amazon Secoya structures
This thesis explores the change in the building structures of a Northeastern Ecuadorian group, the Secoya of the Aguarico River. In the context of environmental activism and cultural survival there are many reasons to lament major alterations in the Secoya's lifestyle in recent years. One of the …
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The art of change leadership and the science of implementation.
… Implementation Science is a framework for understanding change which values the perspective, expertise, and involvement of everyone within the organization. Teachers from two school districts, both of which undergoing change, were surveyed. The survey instrument used an Implementation …
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Exploring the Discourse Attributes of Referential Process in Emotion Focused and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies for Depression
… – have been presented as a general framework for understanding change (Bucci, 2013). However, most of the studies on RP has been conducted in the context of psychodynamic treatment and in single case designs. Thus, the current study examined the discourse attributes of RP using session transcripts …
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CodeSkimmer: a novel visualization tool for capturing, replaying, and understanding fine-grained change in software
Understanding change in software development is a time-intensive yet essential task. Developers must understand the evolution of code in order to properly write, revise, and refactor their own additions. Historically, version control systems were the central method for interpreting how a software …
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Evaluating Geomorphic Change in Little Creek Using Repeated Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Profile Surveys
… was burned in the Lockheed Fire. Channel change was evaluated by measuring ground profiles using traditional survey methods. Cross section and longitudinal profiles are surveyed annually every summer in the six study reaches. Change is assessed through evaluation of cross sections and …
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Ontological Understanding And The State Model Of Processes
… of finding a theory or conceptual scheme for understanding change, four constraints on the study's scope are adopted: the traditional ontological concepts mentioned above are the study's starting points; a realist orientation, interpreting the goal of ontology as giving a literal description …
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Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Barbados
… which potentially represents anthropogenic changes to the island’s epikarst aquifer caused by European settlement and sugar cane cultivation on Barbados. Electron imaging revealed chemically distinct layers of detritus within the stalagmite sample, facilitating precise sampling for U-series …
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A Pattern-Based Approach to Changing Software Requirements in Brown-Field Business Contexts
… is exacerbated by the speed of technological change and its relationship with organisation growth. This complexity is further aggravated in a number of ways. Organisations and/or parts of organisations are structured differently and have different approaches to change. These differences impact …
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Walking with change: a first-person inquiry into the development of a post-human “frilufts”-life
… explores how walking in nature can support change in people and organisations. Being a pragmatic, action-oriented person, I experience that my walking practice was valuable in the change processes that I facilitate. Wondering why these walks in the ‘friluft’ were so valuable, I engaged in a …
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Principal factors affecting senior management culture change for total quality metamorphosis
… as "whats") that are necessary to bring about change in the senior Management culture towards leadership in Quality, and in addition, the factors (assigned as "hows") affecting the implementation of the key success factors in enterprises. In parallel to "whats" and "hows", identification was …
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The use of education for sustainability websites for community education in Chile
… those communities need to engage in action and change towards sustainability. In relation to this, current evidence indicates that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Internet have the potential not only to promote teaching and learning for EfS, but also to increase knowledge, …