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The Santa Clara, 2014-01-16, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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"Preventive Leadership Program" At The Salesian University: An Exploratory Case Study, Alejandro Rodriguez

Doctoral Dissertations

Leadership is a key factor in the quality of personal life, organizational culture, and social projection of each member in any organization. Bringing out the best of each person involved in any decision is a must for a Preventive Leader. This kind of leadership opens the possibility to develop, adapt, change and modify the theoretical construct of the definition of a leader from the Preventive horizon, the practical implications of Preventive Leadership development, and the learning and practice of Preventive leadership in a contextualized environment, creating interactions and interdependencies in a net-like pattern of relationships situated in one specific context: …

2013-August-29-Balanced Man, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Value Shifts: Redefining “Leadership” A Narrative, Joseph Hester

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This article provides a historical narrative documenting the major rifts and shifts in the concept of “value” in the 20th and 21st centuries. It is the author’s contention that these shifts have confused the conceptualization of value, making it a rather broad and meaningless term. Thus, to define “leadership” as “values- or ethically-based,” one must first provide a substantial defense of a particular moral view upon which leadership is want to be situated. This task is made arduous because “value” and “morals” have become confused in the morass of postmodernism and its political correlate, political correctness.

Listening To Organizational Change: Exploring Dialogue During Sensemaking, Dianna L. Stratton

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This qualitative study explored the role of dialogue during sensemaking and how that affects receptivity to organizational change. The philosophical framework for this study comes from Buber’s (1958) I and Thou dialogue theories concerning the value of existential acknowledgement. Both communication and organizational study theories grounded this research. Bohm (1996) and Isaacs’ (1999) dialogue theories converge with Weick’s (1995) sensemaking theories as a means to explore the role of listening during organizational change. Data was obtained through ethnographic observation and interview. A cultural research framework provided the means to explore the relationships between dialogue, sensemaking and organizational change. The results …

Nova Southeastern University 2012 Annual Report, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Annual Reports

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Warming Up A Community, Ashleigh Jardine

Lake Union Herald

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Marketing Seventh-Day Adventist Higher Education : College-Choice Motivators And Barriers, Vinita Sauder

Dissertations

Purpose. Approximately 75% of Seventh-day Adventist college-bound youth do not attend the church's 15 colleges in North America. This study explored the views of Adventist college-bound participants regarding the factors (motivators and barriers) that influence college choice.

Method. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, qualitative and quantitative data were collected in a sequential two-phase design. Insights from focus groups conducted in Los Angeles and Nashville guided the development of a nationwide telephone survey of college-bound Adventists. Three groups sorted by type of high school were identified from a sample size of 226 and compared in terms of awareness and college-choice motivators …

August 2007, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Want to Motivate Employees? 10

Make the Most of Your White Space 11

Palm Springs Art Museum --Cultural Icon of the Desert 18

School's in Session: A Lesson on Hiring Recent Graduates 25

Economic Outlook 39

Lu To Begin Discipleship Institute, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Faith Umc Pastor To Teach At Lu This Fall, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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Christian Ministry Studies Program Introduced, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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A Marketing-Communications Plan For An Innovative Teleservice For A Nonprofit Religious Organization, Allan Howard Beeber

Theses Digitization Project

Telemarketing -- Marketing - Communications strategy.

Nonbusiness Organizations: Church Accounting: Is There Only One Way?, Daryl V. Burckel, Bruce Swindle, Yvonne O. Braune

Woman C.P.A.

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