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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"work habits"”.
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The impact of child care on the work habits of parents in the Las Vegas hospitality industry: The need for employer-supported day-care centers
An analysis of a survey on the perception/work attitude of parents was conducted with the participation of working parents of Citibank, Nevada and The Palace Station Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas. An evaluation of the results was used to determine if a positive relationship exists between the …
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The role of mobile smartphones manifested in the job crafting behaviors of millennial generation professionals working in a public sector agency
… role in the way we manage and organize our work-life activities and responsibilities. Likewise, significant shifts in workforce demographics are prompting greater attention to the workplace needs of a new, dominant generation: Millennials. Yet, there appears to be a disparity in our …
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A Study Conducted among Selected Yakima Business Offices to Give Direction to Future Curriculum Planning in the Secretarial Training Department at Yakima Valley College
… (2) the degree of importance they attach to work habits and related educational knowledges and skills; and (3) the personal characteristics and traits they find most desirable in office personnel.
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Encouraging A Positive Self-Image
<p>This project was designed as a workshop to teach a method of encouraging better self-images in students. A series of self-improvement imagery exercises are outlined. Steps include choosing goals; writing them in behavioral terms and specific measurable outcomes; and using self-recording, …
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Race, class and marginality : a Métis settlement in the Manitoba Interlake, 1850-1914
… affected the residents' culture, world view, and work habits. The specific community examined is a Métis settlement on the southern shores of Lake Manitoba.
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Employers' perceptions of mentally handicapped employees in the horticulture industry
… employers' perceptions of mentally handicapped workers. A response rate of 60% was obtained. Forty-two percent of the respondents reported employing mentally, physically or emotionally handicapped persons. Primary businesses which have employed mentally handicapped workers were associated with …
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Aligning Practice with Vision: Leadership for Developing Character and Employability Attributes
… attributes in secondary school students. The work habit mark was the means of assessing the degree of success to which a student demonstrated the attributes. The research questions under investigation were: (1) Is there a change in the demonstration of work habits marks after the intervention, …
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The constitution of the colonial labor subject: Labor law in colonial India, 1881 to 1936
… oppositional discourse was extended to factory workers whose pre-capitalist work habits and attitudes were read as the 'traditionalism' of Indian 'agriculturalists'. In the early decades of factory production this construction justified the existing despotic production regime. However, by the …
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Architecture and optimization for a peer-to-peer content management system
… the design and optimization of a peer-to-peer network application as a solution to complex content management problems. Currently, most content management systems are expensive, cumbersome and inflexible custom solutions that require knowledge workers to change their work habits. Peer-to-peer …
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A gestural human computer interface for Smart Health
… a higher level of physical activity into the workday. The objective of this thesis is to design a low cost gestural human computer interface for the recognition of vigorous gestures. We demonstrate that an action vocabulary of eight intuitive gestures can be recognized by the use of …
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Understanding and Predicting Sit-Stand Desk Usage Patterns and Willingness among Knowledge Workers: A Data-Driven Approach
… forecast sit-stand desk usage among knowledge workers. In Phase 1, we performed an observation study to collect desk height and contextual data from the workers and analyzed the primary factors influencing a worker's willingness to switch postures. Our analysis revealed key contextual features …
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Supervisors' perceptions of productivity of employees with preschool children in workplace on-site child care
… to determine the factors they believed affected worker productivity and their perceptions of how employees' work habits had changed as a result of the opening of the child care center. A description of the demographic characteristics of persons who supervise employees who use Dominion Bank's …
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Using an Internet Learning Profile to create customized plans
… are immersed in the use of online social networking, role play/interactive gaming online, blogs, discussion boards, online classes, video websites, search engines, paint or animation applications, etc. I used a Multiple Intelligences Scale (Chislett & Chapman, 2005) in order to determine the …
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Changes in Academic Performance of Students Through a Homework Support System
Homework is a major part of a student’s educational program. Failure to keep up on homework can make it difficult for a student to succeed in school. This study evaluates the effectiveness of a Homework Support System developed to improve the academic progress of all students who have ineffective …
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The effects of the connect to success academy on adolescents' career decision self-efficacy and achievement motivation
… Inner Resources, Interpersonal Strengths, and Work Habits subscales on the Achievement Motivation Profile and increased positive significant differences in the Planning subscale of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale. No gender differences were ascertained for the Achievement Motivation …
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Cross-race student-teacher relationships and the transition to kindergarten
… positive cross-race relations showed better work habits in the classroom. Unexpectedly, the experimental manipulation was ineffective at countering children’s explicit beliefs about others’ racial biases. Potential implicit mechanisms of change in perceptions of the student-teacher …
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El tratamiento intrapenitenciario y extrapenitenciario: elemento motivador de cambio en la conducta delictiva en una muestra de reclusos drogodependientes
… and re-elaborating "the speech that nothing works" in relation to rehabilitation programs for drug dependent prisoners. The most relevant results of this study for the crime prevention lead us to conclude that having no work habits, being expelled or leaving the treatment and remaining in …
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Organizational Change At The Service Delivery Level: An Investigation Into The Perceived Reaction To Change Initiatives In Moral
… to any change with even minimal impact on their work habits and conditions. Based on a survey of 201 managers of Army morale, welfare and recreation activities worldwide, this research views the climate for change from the perspective of the activity manager. There are general findings, along …
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Graduate and Employer Perceptions Regarding Job Preparedness Skills of Design Technology Graduates
… in five skill category areas: (a) general work habits and skills, (b) communication skills, (c) technical skills, (d) graphic communication skills, and (e) project management skills. </p><p>This study was conducted as evaluation research and implemented an internal formative evaluation …
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The design of a protocol for collaboration in a distributed repository - Nomad
Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) is the study of how people use technology, with relation to hardware and software, to work together in shared time and space. Mobile office environments are becoming commonplace. Workers form virtual online communities on a global scale and use groupware …
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