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Leadership Development Through Athletic Experience, Antoine Grace
Leadership Development Through Athletic Experience, Antoine Grace
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This qualitative research aims to find the relationship between athletics and leadership development by examining athletes' and nonathletes' students, life, leadership experiences, and learned behaviors. The research utilized a purposive sampling to recruit a diverse group of participants from the university that classify as either student-athletes or non-sport-playing students. The collection of data from participants has been conducted using semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis has been used to identify patterns and themes in the interview data, allowing for a meaningful understanding and interpretation based on aspects of athletes' and non-athletes' experiences. This study aims to contribute to the existing literature on …
Workplace Incivility: A Quantitative Study Of Public University Staff Member Experiences In The Northeast, Tracy M. St. Pierre Ma
Workplace Incivility: A Quantitative Study Of Public University Staff Member Experiences In The Northeast, Tracy M. St. Pierre Ma
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Workplace incivility is a construct similar to sexual harassment or bullying in that it is unwanted behavior and can cause negative emotions for those who experience it. However, it lacks the clear definition and legal repercussions that have been established for sexual harassment and bullying.
Post Millennial Generation In The Workforce, Tarynne N. Scott Ma
Post Millennial Generation In The Workforce, Tarynne N. Scott Ma
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The purpose of this study is to explore and gain a deeper understanding of what Post Millennials require for success in the workforce, and how they differ in their follower and cultural beliefs, as well as identify what specific leadership style(s) best fit this generation’s needs as followers.
Virtual International Leadership Within Organizations Overcoming Cultural, Language, And Physical Barriers, Jaye Mendros Goulet Ma
Virtual International Leadership Within Organizations Overcoming Cultural, Language, And Physical Barriers, Jaye Mendros Goulet Ma
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Advances in technology are allowing members of a team to collaborate while being geographically and spatially apart. These new teams, known as virtual teams, have benefits for both the organizations to which they belong and to the individual members.
Transformational Leadership: A Soldier's Need For Creativity In The Maine Army National Guard, Johnathon A. Mcgahey Ma
Transformational Leadership: A Soldier's Need For Creativity In The Maine Army National Guard, Johnathon A. Mcgahey Ma
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Leadership creativity can inspire organizations to innovate and to compete in the global marketplace. There are many forms of leadership that can produce such passion, but transformational leadership is well suited for today's corporations. Transformational leadership creates a vision and cohesion that drives organizational culture. This quantitative study of the Army National Guard examines leadership creativity within its corporate culture. The Army National Guard is not known for its leadership creativity and there are few studies examining this phenomenon. This study collects quantitative data from active duty personnel to gain direct insight into leadership creativity and its effects on innovation. …
Citizen Perceptions Of Minor Changes To The Police Patrol Uniform, Lucas J. Hallett Ma
Citizen Perceptions Of Minor Changes To The Police Patrol Uniform, Lucas J. Hallett Ma
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Trust and respect between law enforcement and the public has become a topic of increased controversy in the past few years. The rise of instantly available news, along with audio and video from a variety of modern sources, has brought new attention to every aspect of policing. This project was undertaken to study a ubiquitous portion of daily police life: the patrol uniform.
Communication Efficacy Using Technology Within Virtual Teams, Jeremy Daros Ma
Communication Efficacy Using Technology Within Virtual Teams, Jeremy Daros Ma
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Technology has given businesses the flexibility to allow employees to collaborate beyond the limitations of geography. Today’s businesses are taking advantage of collaborative teams that are separated by distance, but work together as if they are in the same room.
Effectiveness Of High-Fidelity Simulation In Changing Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Police, Jeffrey A. Pardue Ma
Effectiveness Of High-Fidelity Simulation In Changing Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Police, Jeffrey A. Pardue Ma
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The use of deadly force is the most serious decision a police officer has to make. Recent highly-publicized law enforcement lethal encounters have led to a growing need for police to proactively engage in educational discussions with community members in hopes of improving the perceptions of their work.
Engagement, Gamification, And Workplace Satisfaction: A Convergent Study Of User Indicators, Josiah J. Eikelboom Ma
Engagement, Gamification, And Workplace Satisfaction: A Convergent Study Of User Indicators, Josiah J. Eikelboom Ma
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The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a correlation between the personal indicators of gamification users, game preferences, and workplace engagement. A three-part survey was deployed through an online, opt-in gamification platform in order to gauge individual user preferences.
Leadership Within Collegiate Student Organizations: Does Membership Contribute To Leadership Development?, Shawn Plante Ma
Leadership Within Collegiate Student Organizations: Does Membership Contribute To Leadership Development?, Shawn Plante Ma
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Student organizations vary in membership size, values, mission, and organizational structure, which can create a variety of leadership opportunities for students. However, there is an unclear understanding regarding the association between student organizational leadership, career preparation, and leadership development.
Where Did All The Young People Go? Can The Organizations Of The State Of Maine Re-Enlist Its Native Youth?, Tyler Norman Mcpherson Ma
Where Did All The Young People Go? Can The Organizations Of The State Of Maine Re-Enlist Its Native Youth?, Tyler Norman Mcpherson Ma
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As Maine and other New England states continue to be amongst the oldest in the United States, organizations in these states continue to struggle to find and retain suitable younger replacements for their retiring leadership. As the millennia! generation continues to become a significant portion of the American workforce, learning how to connect with, recruit, and retain this generation will prove useful when leadership succession is required. By exploring how this generation was nurtured and educated, we can begin to understand ways, such as non-traditional or reverse mentoring relationships, that New England's organizations can begin to recruit and retain their …
Motivating The Generations: Implications For The Higher Education Workplace, Jennifer Smith Ma
Motivating The Generations: Implications For The Higher Education Workplace, Jennifer Smith Ma
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Motivated employees are an organization’s most valuable asset. Motivation boosts better performance and productivity on the part of workers, so determining the best ways to encourage employee motivation is significant. This thesis examines the ranked importance of motivational factors of salaried/professional and hourly/classified, full-time employees at the University of Southern Maine.
4-H Leadership Development In Southern Maine: Community Clubs Vs. School/Afterschool Clubs, Laura Personette Ma
4-H Leadership Development In Southern Maine: Community Clubs Vs. School/Afterschool Clubs, Laura Personette Ma
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In Maine and across the United States, the 4-H Youth Development Program places great importance on youth’s self-discovery, experiential learning, and development of leadership skills. Founded in 1902, the 4-H program was created through A.B. Graham’s starting of rural “out-of-school” clubs.
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
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A lack of trust, communication breakdowns, or badly integrated team members are a few of the reasons why a team can fail. To address whether leader and team member perceptions of communication within the team are similar, this study explores interpersonal communications among leadership and team members and considers whether today’s technology helps or hinders successful knowledge sharing and relationship building within virtual teams.
Succession Planning In Family-Owned Businesses, Alexandra Burns Ma
Succession Planning In Family-Owned Businesses, Alexandra Burns Ma
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This study seeks to gain a better understanding of what the challenges are that family-owned businesses face as they attempt to transfer their business from one generation down to the next. The fact that family-owned businesses contribute significantly to the U. S. economy as well as the fact that they do not typically survive a generational transition make understanding what contributes to a successful transition important.
An Examination Of Support Structures To Encourage Persistence Through Graduation At Central Maine Community College, Sonya G. Sampson Ma
An Examination Of Support Structures To Encourage Persistence Through Graduation At Central Maine Community College, Sonya G. Sampson Ma
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Central Maine Community College (CMCC) services Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. Enrollment for CMCC has grown impressively over the last eleven years, since transitioning from a Technical College. While enrollment has increased, retaining students through graduation (persistence) is still an area of concern, particularly because its service area still has some of the lowest percentages of adults with college credentials in Maine.
Shared Leadership In Higher Education: A Phenomenological Case-Study Of The Impact Of Shared Leadership On The Admission And Transfer Staff At A Regional Comprehensive State University, Christopher William Fox Ma
Shared Leadership In Higher Education: A Phenomenological Case-Study Of The Impact Of Shared Leadership On The Admission And Transfer Staff At A Regional Comprehensive State University, Christopher William Fox Ma
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This exploratory research project was structured as a case study which sought to analyze the impact on relevant staff members of a comprehensive public university of a shared leadership model being applied to a transfer student recruitment program.
Leadership Development For Pro-Environmental Behavior Utilizing Peer To Peer Communication And Learning: An Academic Pilot Project, Mark Wayne Carrera Ma
Leadership Development For Pro-Environmental Behavior Utilizing Peer To Peer Communication And Learning: An Academic Pilot Project, Mark Wayne Carrera Ma
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There is a cultural perception that the onus of responsibility for shark conservation falls on the shoulders of environmental and scientific communities’ leaders. Given the diminutive size of these two communities when compared to the vastness of American society, responsibilities should be shared by leaders of educational organizations who can communicate with greater populations. The general public must be encouraged to act pro-environmentally for effective shark conservation to ever take place in the world.
Can Curriculum Changes Improve The Deliverables The Business Studies Departments Of Maine’S Community Colleges Provide Its Stakeholders?, Jack Buckley Ma
Can Curriculum Changes Improve The Deliverables The Business Studies Departments Of Maine’S Community Colleges Provide Its Stakeholders?, Jack Buckley Ma
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Recent seminars and meetings between state officials and business leaders have established that a perceived disconnect exists between the skill's, knowledge, and abilities needed by their enterprises and the skill's, knowledge, and abilities being taught by the state’s educational systems. The Maine Community College System's vision states that the system answers to a number of stakeholders by providing a two year comprehensive, affordable, and accessible college education..." dedicated to building a quality workforce for Maine” (Maine Community College, n.d.). While the MCCS is a relatively new institution, this suggests that the community college arena is the most logical starting place …
Design From Within: A Resident-Based Approach To Nursing Home Design, Maureen D. Carland Ma
Design From Within: A Resident-Based Approach To Nursing Home Design, Maureen D. Carland Ma
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This paper examined the value and impact of obtaining stakeholder input in the design of long-term care facilities. Most previous literature focused on obtaining input from an architect’s or nurse’s perspective, and very few studies have analyzed input from the residents—the primary stakeholder (Woo, Mak, Cheng & Choy, 2011). Specifically, this paper identifies and examines stakeholder input at The Maine Veterans’ Home in Scarborough, Maine.
The Need For Effective Leadership Training Programs In Maine’S Volunteer Fire Services, Daniel Philbrick Ma
The Need For Effective Leadership Training Programs In Maine’S Volunteer Fire Services, Daniel Philbrick Ma
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This study focuses on the need for effective leadership in a rural all-volunteer fire department. The need for effective leadership is critical with today’s volunteer service organizations. This study surveyed the viewpoints of current members of volunteer fire organizations in Maine.
A Passion For Peace: An Examination Of Prudential Leadership Applied To Jimmy Carter's Middle East Peace Accomplishments, Lynelle Philbrick Ma
A Passion For Peace: An Examination Of Prudential Leadership Applied To Jimmy Carter's Middle East Peace Accomplishments, Lynelle Philbrick Ma
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Jimmy Carter demonstrated prudential leadership during his presidency. Although Carter did not achieve all he hoped to in his quest for Middle East peace, he did meet great success with his negotiations of the Camp David Accords. Carter’s success in establishing peace between Israel and Egypt is an excellent example of prudential leadership in practice. This is important because prudential leadership is very rare and it is often difficult to identify.
Positive Connection Leads To Student Success, Diane C. Leavitt Ma
Positive Connection Leads To Student Success, Diane C. Leavitt Ma
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This study focuses on the impact of positive adult connections on high school students’ success. The data is from of one southern Maine high school with a population of 1,050 students. The data includes overall school-wide results of student connectedness, as well as in-depth results from nine student interviews. The researcher’s intent was to demonstrate the need for continued mentoring efforts for high school students. It does appear from this study that adult mentoring programs have a positive effect on student success. The study also indicates that further research regarding the impact of student mentoring programs in high schools is …
Constraints To Exercising Leadership In The Call Center Environment, Karen M. Chouinard Ma
Constraints To Exercising Leadership In The Call Center Environment, Karen M. Chouinard Ma
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This paper addresses the constraints to exercising leadership in the call center environment. It combines a review of existing research on leadership, research on call centers as organizations, and a case study with call center team leaders.