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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"work context"”.
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Alcohol and social work: Context and meanings
… available about alcohol use among social workers in Canada. This mixedmethodology study seeks to address gaps in research regarding alcohol use among social workers in Saskatchewan. Social workers in Saskatchewan were invited to participate in an online survey that collected quantitative …
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The relationships between authentic leadership, organisational identification, work engagement and turnover intention within the South African work context
… and how organisations can maintain their workforce and capitalise on them to become more profitable and build a sustainable future. With an increasing problem in leadership within South Africa, where inconsistency tends to exist between a leader's words and actions, this study aimed to …
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Anger at Work: The Influence of Contextual and Intrapersonal Factors on the Evaluation of the Expression of Anger in a Work Context
"The experience and expression of emotions at work has been the subject of much research in recent decades. Much of the literature has focused on examining ""rules"" for expressing emotions at work and the construct of job satisfaction. The current study focused on exploring the relationship …
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Leadership, control at work, supervisor-subordinate guanxi and psychological ownership: A longitudinal study in China
… guanxi, and psychological ownership in Chinese work contexts. SPSS and structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to conduct the correlation and mediation analyses, respectively. Findings from this study indicated that perceived control was related to supervisor-subordinate guanxi in the …
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Network Effect on Teams, Team Processes, and Performance
… how teams become more efficient in their work processes and develop a shared problem-solving framework, which in turn are beneficial for team performance. These computational tools allow us to measure and assess the influence of established team processes in an online and distributed work …
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A qualitative investigation into the relationship between the early career expectations, and experiences, of graduate engineers in a South African utility organisation
… research examines the relationship between the work expectations, and experiences, of graduate engineers during their early career period. The theories of organisational socialisation, reality shock and work adjustment define the context in which this research is located. Qualitative data were …
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Exploring minority stress processes and social supports in the workplace: how individuals in same-sex relationships manage the work/family border
… minority stress processes (Meyer, 2003) in the workplace have focused on individual level outcomes, such as individual mental health (Velez, Moradi, & Brewster, 2013), or outcomes within the work context, such as job satisfaction or productivity (Button, 2001; Ragins Singh, & Cornwall, 2007). …
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The role that courage plays in an experiential learning process
… was conducted to develop the conceptual framework for the research. This pilot study included approximately 240 research participants from within the classrooms in my work context. The conceptual framework facilitated the development of the key research question: How do engaged, learning ready …
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A resource management perspective on work design
… uninterrupted stress, specifically in the workplace, can lead to a variety of health issues as well as decreased job satisfaction and increased intentions to turnover within an organization. An important part of managing this negative stress is identifying the specific factors that …
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The Architecture of Personality in the Context of Work
… Cervone's (2004) study, specifically for a work context. By focusing on the context of work, I believe that a "situationally-sensitive" nomothetic measure of personality for predicting job performance can be developed. My findings indicate that participants were able to identify …
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Remote Usability Evaluation Tool
… traditional usability laboratories. Since the network itself and the remote work setting have become parts of usage patterns, evaluators do not have unlimited access to representative users for user interface evaluation. Reproducing the user's work context in a laboratory setting is also …
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From the Mouths of Men: A Model of Men's Perception of Social Identity Threat Toward Women in the Workplace and Endorsement of Identity Safety Behaviors
… identity threat for women in a male-dominated work context. Male awareness of systemic social identity threats for women was examined as a potential mediator of the proposed relationship between social identity complexity and identity safety endorsement. Finally, psychosocial safety climate was …
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Job Demands and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Roles of Organizational Commitment and Social Interaction
… investigates the impact of three job demands (work overload, interpersonal conflict, and dissatisfaction with the organization’s current situation) on employees’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), the hitherto unexplored mediating role of organizational commitment in the link between …
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The User-Reported Critical Incident Method for Remote Usability Evaluation
… by trained evaluators. However, as the network itself and the remote work setting have become intrinsic parts of usage patterns, evaluators often have limited access to representative users for usability evaluation in the laboratory and the users' work context is difficult or impossible to …
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Pervasive Personal Information Spaces
… their information behaviour, activities and work context. In the ubiquitous computing environment, this information-interaction and the underlying personal information is distributed across multiple personal devices. This thesis investigates the idea of Pervasive Personal Information Spaces …
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Supporting adults with intellectual disabilities who present with challenging behaviours: a cross-case analysis of staff perceptions of work and training
… is not integrated easily or transposed into work settings. Instead, management of issues is often haphazard and based on what works for a specific situation at the given moment. Although an abundance of research has been conducted on knowledge uptake, direct support staff that are integral to …
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The relationship between locus of control and the big five personality dimensions among black managers in Namibia
… organizations in Namibia. Spector’s (1988) work locus of control scale and the Revised NEO Personality Inventory were used to assess locus of control and the big five factors, respectively. It was hypothesized that external locus of control would correlate with low scores on Neuroticism and …
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Time zone effects : the impact of human resource practices and cultural intelligence on global team outcomes
… MisraInspite of the rapidly growing global workforce, human resource practices have not been developed to address the challenges of working in the global context. Research on virtual teams has long highlighted both physical as well as temporal distance as unique aspects of geographically …
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