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Effects Of Goal Interdependence And Social Identity On Departments And Their Relationships In China, Liyan Wang

Lingnan Theses

Synergy among departments is increasingly considered vital for organizations to use their full resources to deal with threats and explore opportunities in the rapidly changing marketplace. Although valuable, developing synergy among departments is a difficult management challenge.

Departments within organizations often have their own business goals, yet the coordination of these goals is a precondition for overall organizational effectiveness. The need for goal coordination makes departments interdependent (Thompson, 1967), but this interdependence may become particularly problematic when the different departmental goals are incompatible (St. John & Hall, 1991).

Because of the value of cooperative goals for coordination, managers want to …

Rudolf Steiner And The Jewish Question, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Love, Change, Mari J. Matsuda

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This is morality: to include all as human and entitled to the deepest love and care. This is the distillation of everything the author fights for as a feminist, a critical race theorist, and a peace activist. Since we are at war, having sent to date 1,500 U.S. soldiers off to die, speaking against war and for peace is a current imperative. Then comes this invitation to speak as a critical race theorist on the subject of same-sex marriage.

Without marriage you can do everything that counts in marriage except that which requires the imprint of the state. What you …

Legal Revolutions: Six Mistakes About Discontinuity In The Legal Order, Michael S. Green

Faculty Publications

A legal revolution occurs when chains of legal dependence rupture-causing one legal system to be replaced by a different and incommensurable legal system. For example, before the French Revolution chains of legal dependence ultimately led to Louis XVI, but after this legal revolution they led to the National Assembly (or the people of France it represented). The very possibility of legal revolutions depends upon laws being structured into legal systems in this fashion. And yet, despite substantial academic interest in legal revolutions, there has been a reluctance to examine the structure that makes them possible. The goal of this Article …

Using Space To Describe Space: American Sign Language And The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Cindee Calton

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

My study sought to combine two topics that have recently generated much interest among anthropologists. One of these topics is American Sign Language, the other is linguistic relativity. Although both topics have been a part of the literature for some time, neither has been studied extensively until the recent past. Both present exciting new horizons for understanding culture, particularly language and culture.

The first of these two topics is the study of American Sign Language. The reason for its previous absence from the literature has to do with unfortunate prejudice which, for a long time, kept ASL from being recognized …

A Mighty Kauri Has Fallen: Hugh Winder Nibley (1910–2005), Louis Midgley

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

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A Brief Survey Of Deconstruction, Pierre Schlag

Publications

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National Identity And Liberalism In International Law: Three Models, Justin Deystone

Publications

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Unity And Pluralism In Contract Law, Nathan B. Oman

Faculty Publications

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Between Facts And Utopia: Habermas And Benhabib From Deliberative Democracy To Democratic Deficits, Drew Robert Du Bois

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Community-Campus Partnerships For Economic Development: Community Perspectives, Anna Afshar

Partnerships/Community

What are community representatives saying about the value of community-campus partnerships (CCPs) for promoting economic development? CCPs are playing an increasingly visible role in neighborhood revitalization. More and more, we in the Community Affairs Unit of the Federal Reserve System find ourselves reporting on the outcomes of these collaborations. While community-campus engagements offer potential benefits for both communities and academic institutions, it has become clear to us that there is a shortage of narrative and analytical work clarifying how well these partnerships operate from the community perspective. This paper aims to help fill that gap.

Partners In Community Service, William Lucci

Partnerships/Community

Making a community connection is part of "The Stafford Way" at Vermont's Stafford Technical Center.

The Definition Of Disability In The Americans With Disabilities Act: Its Successes And Shortcomings: Proceedings Of The 2005 Annual Meeting, Association Of American Law Schools Sections On Employment Discrimination Law; Labor Relations And Employment Law; And Law, Medicine And Health Care, Sharona Hoffman, Paul Steven Miller, Chai R. Feldblum, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Effects Of Education On Gender Income Inequality In The United States, Jiang Li

Masters Theses

This paper examines the relationship between gender income inequality and educational attainment level with reference to the United States (US). The population under consideration is divided into several groups based on their educational levels. Then gender income inequalities are calculated under each educational level. The total educational effect is shown to be composed of three effects. By measuring these effects, it is found that like past studies, more education reduces gender income inequality, but not in every case. Moreover, this paper explores the relative size of each of the component effects within the educational effect.

Studying The Historical Jesus Through Service, Alicia Batten

Service Learning, General

Service learning pedagogy often assumes a variety of forms when connected with classroom teaching. Through a creative use of service learning pedagogy, the author constructs learning designs that foster student engagement with course content and prompts interrelated connections between the subjects and their own service learning experiences. The author highlights the importance of setting a context for service learning through creating activities linked to learning goals, integrating service learning components with classroom teaching methods, and proactively engaging student apathy, resistance, and faith perspectives through specific assignments that combine experience, analysis, and subject matter. The course described in this essay directly …

Sharing Your National Service Story: A Guide To Working With The Media, Corporation For National And Community Service

Service Learning, General

Running a national service program is more than a full-time job. Between developing projects, recruiting volunteers, managing finances, seeking resources, and filling out paperwork, it may feel like there’s no time to do anything else. With all the things a busy program manager has to do, you may wonder: “Why should I care about media coverage, and can it really help me?”

The Granite, 2005, University Of New Hampshire

The Granite – Yearbook

The yearbook of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, 1909-1922, the University of New Hampshire, 1923-

Justice And Gender In Ministry: Debating Women's Ordination, Maura A. Ryan

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

Much has been written on the question of ordaining women in the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic scholars of all stripes have debated issues such as the biblical sources for a theology of ordination; the relationship between sacramental and non-sacramental ministries; the limits of papal authority and the development of doctrine; and, more recently, the relationship between the elevation of an all-male, celibate clergy and the failure of Catholic bishops to address reported sexual abuse by priests. This essay focuses on the ethical implications of barring women from the priesthood. Although my references are to Catholic or Christian practices primarily, I …

Value [Encyclopedia Entry], John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Response To StéPhane Luchini And Miriam Teschl, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Religious Affiliation And Individual International-Policy Preferences In The United States, Joseph P. Daniels

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Empirical examination of individual-level survey data on national identity, in general, reveals a significant relationship between religious affiliation and an individual’s international-policy preferences and that this relationship varies across Protestant denominations. Specifically, we test attitudes toward import and immigration policies, the role of international institutions, and unilateral policy actions. The empirical results indicate that individuals affiliated with conservative Protestant denominations are more likely to support positions on international issues that can be regarded as consistent with the anti-globalist right. We also find evidence of a reinforcing regional effect among conservatives in the south, and differences in the preferences of Baptist …

Witnessing Interparental Violence As A Child And Adulthood Attitudes Toward Aggression And Violence, Diana E. Marchetti

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Emotion Regulation And The Quality Of Romantic Relationship, Makon Fardis

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Community Characteristics And Special Education Enrollment Rates In Montana, Klarissa L. Jensen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Role Of Recreancy In Predicting Risk Perception: Analysis Of A Conceptual And Operational Discrepancy., Darby A. Kaikkonen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Ethnographic Survey Of Contemporary Concepts Of Health And Illness Among Individual Chippewas And Crees, Eli S. Suzukovich

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Faith Communities And End-Of-Life Care : Members' Perceptions Of Current Care Practices And Desires For Care, Lindsay A. Iudicello

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Perceived Experience Of Abuse And Shelter Stay : Battered Women And Their Children, Delia C. Campfield

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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From Theory To Practice: A Multiple Case Study On Novice Administrators, David T. Hobbs

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Public Policy Implications Of Audit Regulation: Three Studies Related To The Passage Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002, Steven Thornburg

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation documents and evaluates certain financial and non-financial strategies used by the public accounting profession to influence audit regulation during the policy formation period of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). The dissertation is comprised of three separate, but related studies. Each study uses prior research in accounting and related disciplines to investigate significant aspects the profession's strategies. The first study evaluates the rationality and effectiveness of political action committee (PAC) contributions paid by the accounting profession to members of Congress. The study finds that the accounting profession rationally allocated more PAC contributions to top congressional leaders and to …