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Organizational Decision-Making Through Employee Diversity, Kehinde Olayinka Taiwo
Organizational Decision-Making Through Employee Diversity, Kehinde Olayinka Taiwo
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The global nature of today's business environment, coupled with technological advances, compels managers to work with an increasingly diverse workforce worldwide. The purpose of this multiple-case study was to explore how bank managers used employee diversity effectively in the organizational decision-making process. Participants were 10 frontline management staff (middle and executive managers) with the required employee engagement skills involved in the decision-making process of a Nigerian bank. The conceptual framework for this study was rational choice theory, also called rational action theory or choice theory. Participants responded to 8 open-ended semistructured interview questions. The data collection process included validating and …
Use Of Social Media To Enhance Nonprofit Organizational Decision-Making, Lindsey Lowe Pena
Use Of Social Media To Enhance Nonprofit Organizational Decision-Making, Lindsey Lowe Pena
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
As a tool for rapid communication, social media (SM) have the potential to revolutionize the way in which nonprofit organizations and stakeholders communicate. Most nonprofit organizations in the United States use some form of SM to engage with stakeholders, however, there is an underutilization of SM used for board decision-making purposes. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine SM and its potential use for board decision-making in nonprofit organizations. The conceptual framework incorporated stakeholder theory, organizational ambidexterity, and an organizational media-user typology. The research question related to the experience of nonprofit board member use of SM for organizational …