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Contextualizing Performance Of Coordinated Care Network Of Veteran Services In Virginia, Marina Saitgalina, Donta Council

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

Coordinated care network is an approach to human service delivery that is recognized to improve client outcomes at a reduced cost. However, general mixed findings on the effectiveness of coordinated care networks warrant research contextualization. This article seeks to discover factors influencing the performance of a coordinated care network delivering social services to veterans and their families. The study provides a contextual analysis of a coordinated care network launched in 2016 in southeastern Virginia for two samples of 1,512 and 375 veterans and their families. Results of the regression analyses indicate that initial progress has been made both in efficiency …

Rhetorical Analysis Of Statements Of Purpose (Sps) For Admission To Graduate School: A Shared-Understanding Perspective Of The Sp Genre, Priyanka Ganguly

Masters Theses

"In this study, I analyzed twenty-four statements of purpose (SPs) submitted to the Department of English and Technical Communication at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) by current and former students. My goal was to determine the applicants' shared understanding of the SP genre. I analyzed the SPs from three dimensions: rhetorical moves, rhetorical appeals (pisteis), and rhetorical style (elocutio).

To understand the rhetorical moves used by the applicants, I analyzed the content of their SPs according to the categories (moves) and codes (steps) validated in my pilot study. To understand the arguments used by the …

Talent Investment And Nonprofit Pay: A Study In The Arts Community, Sally E. Loftis

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore employee perceptions of pay as part of a talent investment strategy at Penland School of Craft, the largest non-academic craft school in the United States. The study outlines action research completed when funds from a transformational endowment gift were used for employee needs. Study data reflected that structural and pay changes increased employee engagement. Study findings also informed recommendations for a nonprofit strategy to pay living wages connected to costs of living and a pay raise framework that supports different levels of employee development.

A Supply Chain Equilibrium Model With General Price-Dependent Demand, Younes Hamdouch, Kilani Ghoudi

All Works

The concept of supply chain equilibrium has been widely employed to solve real-life cases. Under this concept, decisions makers move simultaneously and compete in a noncooperative manner to achieve a supply chain network equilibrium. This paper proposes a supply chain network equilibrium model consisting of multiple raw material suppliers, manufacturers and retailers. Unlike previous studies, we assume that the demand for the product at each retail outlet is modeled as general stochastic functions of price that encompass additive-multiplicative demand models used in previous studies. Under general price-dependent demand functions, we derive the optimality conditions of suppliers, manufacturers and retailers, and …

The Allied Health Work Readiness Study: Identifying Personal Characteristics Signalling Work Readiness In Allied Health Students, Maxine O'Brien, Kelli Troy, Jayne Kirkpatrick

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: Clinical placements associated with university degrees for the allied health professions aim to support the preparation of students for post graduate employment through the practical application of theoretical constructs. However, employers recognise that a range of generic skills and attributes outside of technical and academic achievement impact of work readiness. Allied health clinical educators within Darling Downs Health (DDH) sought to identify these generic characteristics, and their relative importance, with a view to further supporting the work readiness of students completing placements in the district. Method: The study utilised the knowledge and experience of allied health clinical educators, experienced …

Women Leaders In Social Entrepreneurship: Leadership Perception, And Barriers, Almas Aldawood

Educational and Organizational Learning and Leadership Dissertations

Social entrepreneurship increases women’s social inclusion and empowerment by providing self-employment opportunities (Datta & Gailey, 2012). There is growing attention, locally and globally, to social entrepreneurship from economic, social, environmental, and industrial lenses (Cornforth, 2014.) Grounded by feminist and empowerment theories, this phenomenological case study investigated the perceptions of women social entrepreneurs about leadership. In addition, the study explored the barriers to effective leadership in social entrepreneurship.

A total of five participants participated in this study. The participants were five women leaders in social enterprise with experience in the field ranged from 3-40 years. Data was collected through multiple avenues …

Professional Self-Care Practices, Emotional Work And Burnout In Australian Psychology Academics, Claudia Yael Hoenig

Theses : Honours

This study examined whether professional self-care practices (PSCP) had a moderating effect on the relationship between emotional work (EW) performed and burnout symptoms experienced among Australian academics teaching psychology. Seventy-seven Australian psychology academics ranging from 27 to 64 years, with an average of 13.34 years of academic experience, and representing the full range of academic levels from Associate Lecturer to Professor, and predominantly females, participated in the study. Participants completed an online survey comprising three questionnaires: the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), Intensive Emotion Work Inventory (IEW) and Professional Self-Care Scale (PSCS), addressing levels of PSCP, EW performed and frequency and …

บริบทและเงื่อนไขการยุติการเป็นขอทาน: กรณีศึกษาในกรุงเทพมหานคร, วัฒนา ธรรมลังกา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ปัญหาขอทานเป็นปัญหาสังคมมายาวนานทั้งในแง่เศรษฐกิจและสังคม และส่งผลไปยังปัญหาอื่น ๆ ที่เกี่ยวข้อง เช่น การค้ามนุษย์ การป้องกันและแก้ปัญหาให้ขอทานหลุดพ้นจากสภาวะการเป็นขอทานจึงเป็นประเด็นสำคัญ การศึกษาครั้งนี้เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาถึงเงื่อนไขของการเข้าสู่การเป็นคนขอทาน 2) ศึกษาถึงเงื่อนไขที่ส่งผลต่อการยุติการเป็นคนขอทาน 3) ศึกษาถึงรูปแบบและวิธีการที่คนขอทานไทยยุติการเป็นคนขอทาน และ 4) เสนอแนะแนวทางการป้องกันและการให้ความช่วยเหลือแก่คนขอทานไทย ผ่านการศึกษาเชิงคุณภาพแบบประวัติศาสตร์ชีวิต (Life History) ของกรณีศึกษา โดยเลือกกลุ่มเป้าหมายในการศึกษาแบบเฉพาะเจาะจงเป็นบุคคลที่หลุดพ้นสถานะของคนขอทานในสองสถานะคือบุคคลที่ประกอบอาชีพอยู่แล้ว และบุคคลอยู่ในระหว่างการพักฟื้นภายในสถานคุ้มครองคนไร้ที่พึ่ง จำนวน 6 คน จากผลการศึกษาพบว่า เงื่อนไขที่ส่งผลให้กลายเป็นคนขอทานเมื่อพิจารณาจากแนวคิดนิเวศวิทยาเชิงสังคม ได้แก่ 1) เงื่อนไขระดับบุคคล (Individual Level) ประกอบด้วย ปัจจัยทางเศรษฐกิจ และปัญหาความยากจน ปัจจัยด้านความพร้อมของสภาพร่างกายและจิตใจ และเงื่อนไขปัจจัยด้านระดับการศึกษา 2) เงื่อนไขระดับระหว่างบุคคล (Interpersonal Level) หรือปัจจัยด้านครอบครัวเป็นเงื่อนไขหลักที่ผลักดันให้กรณีศึกษาแทบทุกกรณีกลายเป็นคนขอทาน 3) เงื่อนไขระดับสถาบัน (Organizational / Institutional Level) ประกอบด้วยปัจจัยด้านทุนทางสังคมและการเข้าถึงทุนทางสังคม ที่คอยให้การสนับสนุน เงื่อนไขในระดับ ที่ 4) เงื่อนไขระดับชุมชน (Community Level) และ 5) เงื่อนไขระดับสังคม (Social Level) เป็นเงื่อนไขที่ไม่ส่งอิทธิพลต่อการกลายเป็นขอทาน อย่างไรก็ตามเพื่อให้หลุดพ้นจากการเป็นขอทานพบว่าประกอบด้วยสามระยะ คือ 1) ช่วงระยะตั้งต้น 2) ช่วงเปลี่ยนผ่านมาเป็นคนทั่วไปและพร้อมที่จะเริ่มต้นทำงาน และ 3) ช่วงสร้างความมั่นคงในงานหรืออาชีพ ซึ่งเป็นปัจจัยที่ช่วยสนับสนุนให้ชีวิตของอดีตคนขอทานสามารถทะยานพ้นจากการเป็นขอทานซึ่งอยู่ในเงื่อนไขระดับสถาบันและเงื่อนไขระดับสังคมมากกว่าเงื่อนไขระดับที่ใกล้ตัวขอทาน คือ ปัจจัยจากภาครัฐ และภาคส่วนต่าง ๆ ในสังคมอย่าง สถาบันทางศาสนาเป็นต้น อย่างไรก็ตาม ปรากฏการณ์การเปลี่ยนผ่านมาเป็นขอทานและการกลับไปเป็นคนปกติมีปัจจัยที่แยกขาดออกจากกันไม่ได้อย่างชัดเจน เพราะแต่ละปัจจัยมีความซับซ้อนและเชื่อมโยงซึ่งกันและกัน ดังนั้นขอทานแต่ละคนจะมีเงื่อนไขของการกลับไปสู่คนปกติที่แตกต่างกัน และการแก้ไขเป็นกระบวนการที่สิ้นเปลืองทรัพยากรมากกว่าการป้องกันไม่ให้กลายมาเป็นขอทาน ข้อเสนอแนะในการศึกษาครั้งนี้ คือ การกำหนดนโยบายในการป้องกันเพื่อไม่ให้บุคคลในสังคมต้องเปลี่ยนสถานะเป็นคนขอทาน และนโยบายที่ให้ความช่วยเหลือแก่บุคคลที่มีสถานะเป็นคนขอทานให้สอดคล้องกับบริบทของปัญหาในสถานการณ์ปัจจุบันอย่างเหมาะสม ในกลุ่มคนที่สามารถหลุดพ้นสถานะจากการเป็นคนขอทานและเปลี่ยนสถานะมาเป็นคนที่เริ่มต้นจะเป็นคนทำงาน และมีสถานะเป็นคนทำงานแล้ว รัฐและสถาบันอื่น ๆ ในสังคมก็ควรที่จะหยิบยื่นโอกาสและมอบความช่วยเหลือในด้านต่าง ๆ ประกอบกับทัศนคติที่ผู้คนในสังคมมีต่อกลุ่มเป้าหมายในครั้งนี้

Perspectives From The Pew: A Phenomenological Exploration Of Congregants' Experiences Of Change In Their Churches, Courtny Davis Olds

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Christian churches in the United States are notoriously resistant to change, whether in regard to leadership, worship style, church governance, positions on social issues, or myriad other aspects of congregational life. Yet the ability to navigate change successfully is vitally important to churches’ continued survival and renewed relevance. A particular body of literature, consisting of both scholarly and practitioner-oriented works, has attempted to address the necessity and the challenges of change in a church context. However, the literature is largely silent when it comes to the perspectives of those who are most impacted by congregational change: namely, the congregants themselves. …

The Experience Of Children's Mental Health Leaders During Times Of Constraint: A Narrative Study, Jody Levison-Johnson

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Across the United States, each state has a public mental health system that is designed to support children and youth with emotional and behavioral challenges. This is critically important as recent estimates show that one in six children in the United States has a diagnosed mental health condition (Whitney & Peterson, 2019). The design and structure of these systems vary by state, but consistent across them is the presence of a state-designated leader who is faced with an array of constraining factors that influence their behavior and shape the resulting system. This study describes the experience of leaders in children’s …

2020 Annual Reports And Resolutions, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Annual Reports and Resolutions subtitle of the ADA Transactions, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT) made up of three separate subtitles: Annual Reports and Resolutions, Supplements, and Transactions. Generally, the ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. Older versions include reports from all departments as subsections, while more recent versions include only those of councils, commissions, and committees.

Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs’ Strategies For Financial Inclusion: A Generic Qualitative Inquiry, Oluwatoyin Madein

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Women in Nigeria are approximately 50% of the population and operate significantly in the micro, small, and medium enterprises. Women entrepreneurs in Nigeria are experiencing business failure, early exit, stagnant growth, and low return on investment due to inadequate finance. This study’s specific management problem is that many women entrepreneurs in Nigeria lack strategies to develop financial literacy and access to external loans for business sustainability. Using the concepts of financial inclusion and financial exclusion, the purpose of this qualitative inquiry was to explore the strategies women entrepreneurs use and whether they have the required experience and knowledge of financial …

High-Performance Organizational Culture And Corporate Success, Alexander Lapshun

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some Singapore global corporation business leaders experience difficulties building a high-performance culture. Building a high-performance culture encourages high performance, promotes excellence, and nurtures a continuous improvement climate. Grounded in Gilbert's behavioral engineering model, the purpose of this qualitative mini ethnography single case study was to explore strategies midlevel managers in Singapore use to create a high-performance organizational culture. Six midlevel managers representing a Fortune 500 information technology firm in Singapore participated in the study. Data collection included semistructured interviews followed by member checking, direct observations, and a review of the company's documents. Marshall and Rossman's 5-step data analysis process identified …

Strategies To Reduce Voluntary Employee Turnover, Ieshia Renee Bradley

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The cost of voluntary employee turnover is extremely high for organizations in the United States. In 2017, organizations lost over 114 million dollars in profits due to voluntary employee turnover. Business leaders who do not implement the retention strategies to prepare and maintain talent are at risk of losing employee productivity, translating into the organization's profitability. Grounded in Herzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies 6 managers from Tallahassee, Florida used to reduce voluntary employee turnover. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and company archival documents. Data were analyzed using …

Strategies To Sustain Funding In The Nonprofit Sector, Mark Sami

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Nonprofits provide much needed services to communities, especially to the poor and

vulnerable population, but the majority are operating in an environment of uncertainty

because of scarcity of resources. It is imperative that nonprofit managers implement

strategies to ensure the sustainability of their organizations. Grounded in the general

systems theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore

strategies that nonprofit managers use to sustain funding in the nonprofit sector. The

study participants were 3 nonprofit managers, including 2 from the Caribbean, and 1

from the United States. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and a review …

Locus Of Control And Mindfulness As Moderators Of The Job Demand-Control Model: Effects On Burnout, Basia Andrejko-Gworek

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractBurnout is considered a health hazard of contemporary workplaces and additional research is needed to identify protective factors against this phenomenon. The job demand-control model specifies job control as the key buffer against strains, but empirical support for its buffer hypothesis is limited. The present study accounted for both structural and person factors and tested a revised hindrance job demand-control model in prediction of burnout. By incorporating the challenge-hindrance stress framework with tenets of the transactional stress framework and the differential reactivity of personality theory, it was proposed that inclusion of hindrance stressors (i.e., interpersonal conflict, role conflict and organizational …

Antecedents Of Tendency To Help The Victims Of Human Trafficking From The Perspective Of High-Contact Service Employees In The Lodging Industry, Melissa Farboudi Jahromi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

International Labor Organization estimated that 40.3 million people were victims of human trafficking in 2016. The high rate of human trafficking has drawn policymakers' attention to this issue and made them enforce anti-trafficking laws and regulations. However, their legal measures have not been based on solid empirical evidence due to the lack of academic research on human trafficking. The scant research available on human trafficking has been mainly descriptive or an investigation of sex trafficking cases to provide help to survivors. Thus, there is a need for research to explore human trafficking as a human rights issue through various perspectives …

Volunteer Motivations, Satisfaction, And Future Intent: A Comparative Analysis Between Student-Athletes And Service-Learning Students, Tiesha R. Martin, Mark Slavich, Jennifer L. Gellock

Journal of Athlete Development and Experience

Developing socially responsible and civically engaged citizens has been a priority of higher education in the United States since its conception. As an extension of higher education, intercollegiate athletics has been tasked with the same objective. One method to accomplish this objective is student-athletes’ engagement in community service. With the growing amount of attention placed on community service, it is becoming increasingly important to understand student-athletes’ volunteer experiences, in order to help administrators better coordinate impactful service opportunities for student-athletes. Using functionalist theory as a framework, the purpose of this study was to assess student-athletes’ motivations to volunteer, satisfaction with …

From Muhammed To The Jobup: Engaging Malemployed Immigrants Through Journalism, Tiziana Rinaldi

Capstones

I focused my graduate work on the local community of malemployed immigrants. They are foreign-educated newcomers — medical doctors, pharmacists, teachers, lawyers and engineers, to name a few of their professions — who lack the resources to find skill- appropriate work in the U.S. They end up either unemployed or working at "jobs for which they’re overqualified or overeducated or both,” I wrote for NJSpotlight in 20171.

Using the social journalism method2 of engaging members of a chosen group to fill important if not crucial information gaps, I developed The JobUp, a series of free, offline educational events, as my …

2019-12-11 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes for December 11, 2019.

2019-12-10 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

University Graduate Committee meeting minutes for December 10, 2019.

2019-12-05 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents for December 5, 2019. Included in the booklet are the approved meeting minutes from August 8, 2019, September 16, 2019 and October 18, 2019.

Recent Research To Build Knowledge Of The Child Welfare Workforce, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

Child welfare worker turnover is costly and can negatively affect the relationship between families and the child welfare agency. The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) aims to build the body of evidence in the child welfare field to better understand worker turnover and strategies to address it. Although turnover is a widely acknowledged problem, there has not been reliable data to calculate staff turnover, caseloads, and workforce capacity. A recent study and article, Characteristics of the Front-line Child Welfare Workforce (Edwards & Wildeman, 2018), makes available a new data source and provides an analysis of workforce data from …

When Stealing Time At Work Seems Justified: The Influence Of Organizational Justice On Time Banditry, Jamey Halleck

PhD in Business Administration Dissertations

Interest in the study of time banditry at work is relatively new to researchers. Existing research on this phenomenon has focused primarily on antecedents to the time banditry relationship, such as personality and organizational justice (Brock, Martin, & Buckley, 2013). This study further explored one of those antecedent relationships, the organizational justice to time banditry relationship. Currently absent from the literature is the potential influence each individual factor of organization justice (distributive, procedural, interpersonal, and informational) may have on engagement in time banditry. The focus of the current study was to investigate the following research question: How will engagement in …

As The Hourly Minimum Wage Moves Toward $15 Across New York State, Some Say The Fight For A Decent Living Is Far From Over., Barbara Prempeh

Capstones

This capstone projects examines the coming of the fight for a $15 minimum wage across New York State and beyond its borders. In 2012, the Fight for $15 organization took the streets of NYC to begin their fight only raising the wages for low income earners who work in different industries such fast- fast, hospitality, and even retail. For years now, the government has yet raise the minimum wage for all Americans which has caused several families to feel a crunch in affording a normal lifestyle. Since the start of this fueled fight, New York City is one of the …

Using Behavior Economic Nudges To Facilitate Client Follow-Through In Financial Coaching, Charlene Hurst

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

While benevolence-based programs have been a large part of meeting immediate financial needs of the poor, they lack the relational aspect needed to facilitate long-term behavior change. Recently many social service organizations have adopted financial coaching as a promising replacement for benevolence programming. The field of coaching has dealt with its own challenges. Most coaching practitioners surveyed in 2016 and 2019 acknowledged lack of client follow-through as their number one challenge. Behavior economics offered nudges as a solution. Nudges are cues placed within the physical environment to prod clients toward behavior change. A quantitative field study was conducted to evaluate …

2019-November-19-Etsu Elevates Pitch Competition Winners, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019-November-15-Etsu Elevates Pitch Competition, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

2019 Asia Insights: Building A Great Place To Work For All: The Untapped Power Of Gender Diversity In Asia, Richard Raymond Smith, Evelyn Kwek, Tyler Thorpe

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Through this study, we hope to increase understanding of the context, considerations and practices to leverage the amazing diversity of our region. We hope to learn more about what makes a strong workplace culture, particularly in Asia. We turn our attention to the topic of diversity and inclusion, with a focus on gender diversity in the Asian workplace. This is one of the largest studies in Asia to highlight gender differences and evaluate how psychological safety, inclusion and belonging result in strong teamwork which in turn contributes to building high performing great workplaces.

2019-11-04-Retirement, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

Accent [newsletter]

No abstract provided.