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College Enrollment Decision For Nontraditional Female Students, Cindy Lorentzen
College Enrollment Decision For Nontraditional Female Students, Cindy Lorentzen
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Increasingly, more women are attending college and earning their degrees than men. This qualitative case study examined the reasons why adult females decide to enroll in college to earn their bachelor’s degree. With multiple roles and responsibilities creating time constraints that stack the odds against the completion of their degree, many women experience delays as well as starts and stops in their educational journey over many years. The findings of this qualitative research study aligned with a review of the literature. With a sense of hopefulness and determination, adult females are resilient and have a strong desire to achieve their …
A Need For A Sales Course In Academia, Kevin H. Scholz
A Need For A Sales Course In Academia, Kevin H. Scholz
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Nearly 50% of all college graduates entering the workforce, after earning a business related degree, find themselves initially in a sales role. With only 4.8% of colleges and universities offering a sales course, are the vast majority of recent graduates entering the workforce prepared for a sales role? This exploratory study seeks the feedback of hiring managers in the field to bring awareness to faculty members involved with course selection and academic curriculum design for the purpose of encouraging colleges and universities to consider a sales course. The study provides learning objectives and competencies for a sales course based on …
Innovation And Self-Leadership: The Effects Of Self-Leadership Knowledge On The Innovation Landscape, Lynn Eliason
Innovation And Self-Leadership: The Effects Of Self-Leadership Knowledge On The Innovation Landscape, Lynn Eliason
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The open innovation landscape of today allows any individual the ability to work, use their creative ideas, and receive external ideas for innovation. Innovators are no longer the chosen few behind closed doors who are at the right level in an organization, at the right place, and at the right time. The open innovation environment requires individuals who are self-leaders with the skills and abilities to lead innovation projects. This study explores how the organizational position of individuals can affect how they feel about innovation and their perception of their innovative abilities. This information can help to guide organizations on …
Understanding Volunteerism In An Animal Shelter Environment: Improving Volunteer Retention, Rebecca Davis
Understanding Volunteerism In An Animal Shelter Environment: Improving Volunteer Retention, Rebecca Davis
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Volunteers are an essential part of any nonprofit organization. In many cases, volunteers play a vital role in the success of the organization in which they serve. Specifically, this paper focuses on the volunteers serving animal shelters: a place that does not always have a positive outcome for the animals. This research serves as a vehicle to determine what encourages people to begin volunteering in such an emotional setting and what motivates them to continue to share their time in the facility. The study serves to aid in the development of a volunteer program at the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal …
An Investigation Of Key Factors Impacting Front-Line Service Providers' Efforts To Deliver A Quality Customer Experience, Donna Wells
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The relevance of competitive differentiation for any business that strives to achieve success is undeniable. An awareness of how to best satisfy the customer is instrumental in helping a company to distinguish itself from the competition. Service firms in particular realize that the customer’s perception of service quality can prove to be a valuable asset in the quest for customer satisfaction and retention. In the customer’s eyes, evaluation of the service experience as satisfying or less than satisfying is largely dependent upon the treatment extended by frontline employees during the face-to-face service encounter. The aim of this qualitative study was …
Rural Catholic Schools: Can They Be Saved?, Chad Abler
Rural Catholic Schools: Can They Be Saved?, Chad Abler
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This research project examined the numerous factors affecting rural Catholic grade schools in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and their ability to remain a viable educational option for families of rural communities in Southeastern Wisconsin. The literature review provides the history of Catholic education in the United States and details how changing demographics over the past 40 to 50 years within the Catholic population provides significant challenges for this educational model to continue in any geographic setting--inner city, urban, suburban, or rural. The use of interviews assisted with gathering qualitative data to understand the challenges facing the four rural Catholic …
Social Media Marketing: How Social Media Has Impacted The Gender Differences That Exist Amongst Sports Fans, And Its Effect Of Marketers, Timothy French
Social Media Marketing: How Social Media Has Impacted The Gender Differences That Exist Amongst Sports Fans, And Its Effect Of Marketers, Timothy French
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This professional research study accessed the current relationship between season ticket holders of Marquette University men’s college basketball team and usage of social media. A survey was created based on a modification of the Sport Spectator Identification Scale (or SSIS) as well as the Sport Fandom Questionnaire (or SFQ), and included specific questions related to the individual’s demographics, social media usage, and experience attending collegiate basketball games. Despite the fact that females are continuing to have an increasing presence in the vast world of sports, marketers and organizations continue to place a strong focus on the needs, interests, and desires …
Influences Of Instructionally Planned Experiential Learning Strategies On Student Perceptions Of Learning, Katherine L. Friesen
Influences Of Instructionally Planned Experiential Learning Strategies On Student Perceptions Of Learning, Katherine L. Friesen
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Research in leadership and education reveals consensus among educators that leadership can be taught. Educators are exploring how leadership should be taught believing that students learn best from personal experiences. Experiential learning provides an instructional framework for student centered learning grounded in student experiences and course content. The purpose of the study is to qualitatively assess the degree to which experiential learning in undergraduate leadership courses, facilitated by faculty planning, influences the perception of student learning. Using a phenomenological research method, one interview with the instructor of an undergraduate leadership course at a private, Midwestern four-year university was conducted about …
The Dual Basis For Subordinate's Perception Of Change, Anthony Senger
The Dual Basis For Subordinate's Perception Of Change, Anthony Senger
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Psychological research has shown that perception often works in a dual-basis in which a person examines a subject and weighs the subject against an ideal and non-ideal scale, independently. There have been few studies though, that have tried to apply this mechanism as a component of the dynamics involved in Leadership Studies, Organizational Behavior, or Change Management. If the mechanism is active in subordinates, then leaders can make better-informed decisions regarding their organizations, based on an understanding that reaction to both their actions and to changes that they enact are based not only on perceived ideal characteristics, but also non-ideal …