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Small Business Transformation: The Meds Approach, Ravi S. Behara, David E. Gundersen

Faculty Publications

In today's rapidly changing business environment, small businesses must gain a deeper understanding of the future to develop strategies that will provide them with sustainable competitive advantage. The traditional approaches to strategy formulation are inadequate in an environment that is complex and dynamic. This paper investigates a "new" approach that helps small businesses "see the future." It discusses an application of the multi­ equilibrium dissipative structures (MEDS) approach to strategy formulation within the context of a small business involved in medical management software development. The dissipative systems approach can be used to evaluate the critical discontinuities that a small business …

A Decision Making Environment The Healthcare Industry, Terry Ovenshire

Theses

This was a pilot study on the decision making environments in the health care industry. A critical incident questionnaire which was developed by Boone & Kilmann (1988) and later used by Janet Barnard (1992) in her research "Decision Environments of Small Firms" was adapted. The questionnaires were sent to 201 employees at the facility in the first sampling. A response of almost 50% was received, but the food service department was only represented by 3 respondents. It was decided that a second sampling would be sent to that department to assure a large enough set of respondents to use as …

An Investigation Into Job Redesign Factors For The Creation Of A Job Enrichment Plan, David Allen Whitmer

Graduate Research Papers

Often, as organizations deal with issues affecting motivation, productivity and the challenges faced by the changing work force, focus is directed at the worker and not the job. Too many managers and supervisors believe that the technology or the task to be accomplished mandates the design of a job, thus making the job design fixed. Job enrichment is a process that can provide an opportunity to empower employees in their work by providing them the opportunity to perform complete tasks, rather than oversimplified tasks developed through specialization of labor. Job enrichment is a specific form of job redesign and is …

Report To The Colorado Department Of Natural Resources And The State Board Of Land Commissioners, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, Colorado. Department Of Natural Resources, Colorado. State Board Of Land Commissioners

Books, Reports, and Studies

1 v. (various pagings) ; 28 cm

Himalayan Research Bulletin: Cumulative Contents: 1981-1994

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

No abstract provided.

Leadership Is Everyone's Business & Other Lessons From Over A Dozen Years Of Leadership Research, Barry Z. Posner, James M. Kouzes

Management & Entrepreneurship

In this article we discuss several lessons we've learned from thousands of venturers about what it takes to get extraordinary things done in organizations, and we examine some implications for the practice of organization development.

Implementing Total Quality Management In The Public Sector, Cynthia J. Lewis

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

A Center For Training And Development, Mendy L. Warman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Continuing Evolution Of Policing: Community Oriented Policing In The Civilian Sector And Its Applicability In The Military Environment, Ralph George Schindler

Theses Digitization Project

The history of urban policing paints an evolutionary picture describing the various forces that impinged on society's earliest efforts at public policing and led to numerous reforms culminating in what has been termed the professional model of policing. The dynamics of an ever-changing urban society continued to present new challenges to policing and have driven police administrators and politicians to seek new methods of responding to society's criminal element.

The Effects Of Gender Composition And Socio-Political Orientation On Group Satisfaction, Stacy Lynn Haase

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Theoretical Framework For A Comprehensive Model Of End User Acceptance, Friedrich Jacobi, Karen Forcht, Faye P. Teer

Journal of International Information Management

Numerous previous studies in the area of user acceptance have proposed several models of user acceptance. These studies have each investigated different components of the user acceptance model. No significant research has been accomplished to combine factors which influence user acceptance into one overall model, which then could be subject of further validation. The purpose of this paper is to provide the foundation for a comprehensive model of user acceptance by building a theoretical framework that brings together individual models of user acceptance.

The Impact Of New Communication Technologies On International Telecommunication Law And Policy: Cyberspace And The Restructuring Of The International Telecommunication Union, Harold M. White, Jr., Rita Lauria

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Temporal Variation Of Esterase Activity Associated With Three Amplified Esterase Genes In A Field Population Of Culex Quinquefasciatus, Janine Marie Milligan

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

1995 Agenda And Acts Of Synod, Crcna

Agendas and Acts of Synod

Grand Rapids, MI: Calvin H. Bolt, president; Jack B. Vos, vice-president; Howard D. Vanderwell, first clerk; William Robert Godfrey, second clerk

The Effect Of Leadership Style On Subordinates' Supervisory Satisfaction, Mazen Diab

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This research examined the effect of leaders' style and its effect on supervisory satisfaction. The leadership styles that were examined were participative and nonparticipative. In addition, three work related activities of decision making, problem solving, and goal setting were studied under the two leadership styles and their effect on satisfaction with supervisor was examined . Three local companies participated in the research providing a total of 45 subjects. The rest of the sample was obtained from undergraduate students providing a total of 95 subjects. The results showed that participative leadership had a positive effect on supervisory satisfaction. In our sample, …

China's New Foreign Trade Law: Analysis And Implications For China's Gatt Bid, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 495 (1995), Bing Wang

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

Leading Change In The Healthcare Industry : Sentara Health Systems, Norfolk, Virginia, Heather S. Heitz

Honors Theses

After going through the steps of implementing a change in Sentara Health Systems, I learned that using my visionary and participatory leadership skills contributed to my success in leading a change in the organization. First, I used my visionary leadership skills to encourage each individual to envision processes, to support each other, and to use resources which would motivate the group to do something that they wanted to do. Also, I used a participatory leadership to ensure that the subordinates were involved in the group's goals throughout the change process. By empowering people to have responsibility when changes are made …

Easing The Regulation Of A Pan-European Securities Market: Applying The Recommendations Of The Rudman Report To Easdaq, Maria A. Volarich

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note argues that the EASD should implement suggestions offered in the Rudman Report for Nasdaq because the success of EASDAQ depends on maintaining the trust of all its constituencies in the fair operation of the market. Part I discusses the development of the current regulatory structures of the US and EU securities markets. Part II examines the Rudman Report and the arguments of those who criticize and praise it. Part III argues that the Rudman Report's recommendations should be adopted by EASDAQ, because EASDAQ models itself on Nasdaq, and therefore will encounter the same criticisms of self-dealing and conflicts …

An Analysis Of Organizational Concepts And Trends As Related To Team And Matrix Structures, Victor A. Finazzo

Theses

This thesis will focus on an analysis of organizational trends in the United States, and the move away from functionally based organizational structures toward team structures .

Increased domestic and international economic pressures have forced many U. S. companies to seek out new methods of operation in order to stay competitive and maintain market share . A major emphasis has been placed on organizational streamlining in an effort to become leaner and more productive . Many companies have taken the slow and cautious approach, carefully calculating the impact of organizational change, and others have leaped head first into new and …

Factors Perceived To Foster Or Impede The Implementation Of Site (School) Based Management: Principals' And Teachers' Perspectives, Myra C. Sanders

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Leadership And Organizational Change: An Examination Of Superintendents, Theresa M. Sak

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Quantum Leap In Faculty Development: Beyond Reflective Practice, Donna Qualters

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Quantum theory has introduced a new perspective of looking at reality. This article reviews current theories of reflective practice, discussion, and transformative learning as they apply to faculty development and explores dialogue and quantum theory as the next step in faculty transformation.

Improving Teaching Across The Academy: Gleanings From Research, Ben Ward

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The field of faculty development is at least thirty years old, and although we have learned many things about improving teaching skills during that time, we have not developed many definitive answers to the larger questions of our craft; e.g., how do we raise the status and quality of teaching across an entire institution? This article surveys the research literature to ascertain what we do know about these questions, with the hope that it will stimulate a dialogue among faculty developers that will yield a fuller understanding of these broad issues.

Preservation Eastern Newsletter, November-December 1995, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, January 31, 1995, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, May 23, 1995, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

What Tqm Has To Contribute To Change Management, Ladonna Mcmurray Geddes

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

The article discusses the principles of total quality management (TQM) and its application to organizational change management. TQM aims to continuously deliver customer satisfaction and improve products, processes and services. Identifying and developing methods of measuring organizational problems and progress and cultivating teamwork within the organization are also parts of the TQM agenda. TQM focuses on problem solving and emphasizes the role of business intelligence and employee participation in initiating meaningful organizational changes.

A Brief Discussion Of The History, Role, And Function Of The School Psychologist In The Former Soviet Union And Russia, Todd W. Knutson

Masters Theses

School psychology in the former Soviet Union and Russia had its beginnings as the field of Pedology which thrived in the early 1900s in Europe and in the former Soviet Union. School psychological services, in Western psychometric sense, have been virtually dormant since Pedology's downfall following ideological conflicts with Communist leaders in 1936 when standardized testing was banned in the U.S.S.R. This paper sketches a brief history of school psychology in the former Soviet Union and Russia, outlines the educational system, reviews the Soviet research on mental retardation, and calls for the sharing of general information related to international school …

Lawrence Today, Volume 76, Number 2, Winter 1995, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

This issue contains the President's Report 1994-1995.

Focus Emu, October 3, 1995, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.