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The Impact Of Appreciative Inquiry On Developing Interpersonal Competencies In Nonprofit Boards, Using The Case Of The San Benito Time Exchange, Alison Vallenari

Theses and Dissertations

This study researched the impact of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) on the development of interpersonal competencies in nonprofit boards, examining the case of the San Benito Time Exchange (SBTE), in Hollister, California. The study assessed five interpersonal competencies tied to organizational effectiveness, including: knowledge of one another, communication style, decision-making, conflict resolution, and ability to influence one another. All SBTE board members participated in pre-interviews, board retreat, and post-interviews, each using AI. Study findings indicated positive changes in four out of five measures. The SBTE case illustrated the positive impact of AI on the board's interpersonal competencies and indicated that AI …

Comparative Analysis Of Corporate Culture In A Multinational Organization, Don G. Gilman

Theses and Dissertations

This study built upon the Project GLOBE (House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004) analysis by using a Web-based version of the GLOBE Questionnaire in order to examine the extent to which the cultural values and practices of middle managers in a multinational organization vary depending on (a) their cultural background and the region in which they work, (b) whether they were a member of a recently acquired company, and (c) the number of years employed by the multinational organization. Multinational organizations face the unique challenge of operating in societies that have different sets of cultural norms, expectations, beliefs, and …

Community Opinion And Satisfaction With The Leadership At An Urban Community Educational Learning Center During An Organizational Transformational Process: A Frontline Perspective From Community Stakeholders, Joseph Lee Lewis

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined selected community stakeholders' perception of the current leadership at their local community educational learning center during an organizational transformation and cultural change process. The transition from a community college to an educational learning center, mandated in 2006 by the Accredition Commission and agreed on by the Chancellor's office, was facilitated by a community college of another district. This process appeared to produce mixed reactions from various educational learning center constituency groups. During the transformational process, opinions how the institutional leadership addressed the task of developing a trusting and meaningful relationship with community stakeholders surfaced. Based on the …

The Effects Of Public School Music Education Programs On Leadership In The Workplace, Lawrence Michael Jacobson

Theses and Dissertations

Throughout history, music has consistently played a large role in helping to define the social, historical, and cultural awareness in human society. For children and young adults who have actively studied music in public school music education programs, music has enhanced their self-discipline, self-esteem, and creativity. Over the past 20 years, there have been several examples of how the business world has been turning to the music world for leadership and inspiration. There are, however, few studies that compare the effects of public school music education programs on leadership in the workplace. Researchers have primarily focused their studies on the …

Strategic Planning In Nonprofit Organizations: Its Role, Significance And Determining Effectiveness, Janelle Darst

Graduate Research Papers

The purpose of this study is three-fold: (1) to understand the process of strategic planning in nonprofit organizations, (2) the role and significance it plays, and (3) if there is measureable effectiveness in those nonprofit organizations that have a successful strategic planning process.

In the paper, Best Practices Strategic Planning, it says for any organization strategic planning is a valuable tool for ensuring success. It is a process of devising a series of attainable steps that will both propel the nonprofit toward a more accomplished future, and help it to focus on successfully fulfilling its mission (2001).

Strategic planning is …

Engaging Students In The Classroom: How Can I Know What I Think Until I See What I Draw?, Paul Donnelly, John Hogan

Articles

Recognising that the world into which students emerge upon graduation is characterised by constant change, we embrace a critical pedagogy that can be implemented in the classroom through the use of freehand drawing. Freehand drawing is a technique that can stimulate a critical stance, as visual representations allow us to comprehend the world differently, while permitting us see how others understand the world. First year students, in their first lecture, were asked to draw their interpretations of Irish politics and to explain in writing what they had drawn. The students were then placed in groups and asked to note what …

Uf Law Fall 2013, University Of Florida Levin College Of Law

UF Law Magazine

Charting What's Next for Legal Practice; The Maestro of UF Law; Special Tax Section: A Better Corporate Code; Bitcoin: The New Switzerland?; Grad Tax Tour de Force

Bank Recapitalizations: A Comparative Perspective, Da Lin

Law Faculty Publications

We have been here before. No matter how different the latest financial frenzy or crisis always appears, there are usually remarkable similarities with past experience from other countries and from history.

Saga And Socialization In Jesuit Institutions, Charles Wilder Puls

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

The 28 institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities share a strong heritage dating back to the founding of the first Jesuit institution in Messina, Sicily, in 1548, by Ignatius of Loyola and the newly founded Society of Jesus. Though formally independent of the Catholic Church, this Jesuit tradition is a core value of these institutions, and their presidents came together to articulate this value through The Jesuit, Catholic Mission of U.S. Jesuit Colleges and Universities. In this consensus statement, there is a rich sense of saga and socialization. The consensus statement is used to demonstrate elements of …

Michigan Academician, Volume 41, Issue 2

Michigan Academician

No abstract provided.

Developing A National Perspective Of Interrelated Preparation: Educational Administration Leading Teacher Leadership Programs, Caryn M. Wells, Marc Shelton, Ralph L. Marshall

Faculty Publications - College of Education

This NCPEA Position Paper articulates a national perspective for the development of teacher leadership programs with leadership from educational administration professors. The National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA), as the professional organization that provides direction and leadership for its members, presents a vision for dialogue and action to collaboratively develop teacher leadership programs among professors of educational administration and teacher education faculty. We believe that leadership matters and thus we submit there is a sense of urgency for professors to collaboratively develop teacher leadership programs embedded within educational administration programs. It is crucial that these programs articulate knowledge …

An Exploratory Study Of The State Of United States Women In Leadership, D. N. Smith, D. Roebuck, M. Maendler

Faculty Articles

The overarching goals of this study were to explore the views of women in leadership and their opinions as to who and what strategies have most helped them develop as leaders. To explore these topics, the authors admistered a survey and used NVivo 9 and axial and selective coding to analyze the results. Two themes emerged from the data; 1) United States women leaders value action over vision, and 2) they seek to be leaders in all areas of their lives, not just at work. Encouragingly, other women and workplaces are noted as contriubuting to the women’s leadership development. The …

Perceptions Of Secondary Intensive Reading Teachers Regardingthe Implementation Of Florida's Reading Policy, Rebekah R. Shively

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research was designed to explore the perceptions of secondary reading teachers regarding their experiences while they implemented Florida’s secondary intensive reading policy. The purpose of this research was to obtain feedback on the policy implementation process for continuous improvement in future policy implementation. This research was qualitatively designed and conducted with three focus groups consisting of secondary intensive reading teachers from three Florida counties respectively, Duval, Nassau, and St. Johns.

The bounding theoretical and conceptual frames of this study were founded in political systems theory and shared leadership. The data from this study were compiled from three focus groups …

The Leadership Roles Of Secondary Schools Department Heads At Two Government Schools In Belize, Ethel Mae Arzu Hernandez

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the leadership roles of secondary schools department heads at two government schools in Belize. Seven participants participated in the study and data regarding their perceptions of their leadership roles were collected through open-ended semi-structured interviews. Relevant sections from Belizean education documents were purposefully selected based on their relevance to the study. Documents were used to enrich the interview data.

Three data analysis strategies—content analysis (Patton, 2002), inductive analysis (Hatch, 2002), and educational criticism (Eisner, 1998)—were used in the study. Discussion of the analysis was based on the following three themes: (a) build instructional capacity, (b) increase learning …

Characteristics That Influence The Adoption Of Systems Improvement In Hospital Workgroups, Karen Roman

Open Access Master's Theses

This study presents the assessment of possible characteristics within workgroups that might be influencing the adoption of systems improvement initiatives at the Providence Veterans Medical Center (PVAMC). With the collection of data from a survey, hypotheses were elaborated in order to investigate the relationships between two workgroup characteristics: size and leadership-involvement, and the workgroup’s readiness to adopt systems improvement initiatives. The ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) statistical procedure was used for the testing of such hypotheses. Based on results, there was a significant difference between the small and large workgroup size categories. These results signified that large workgroups are more involved …

Governmental Accounting Innovation In Yemen : The Introduction Of Accruals Accounting & The Moderating Role Of E-Government / Abdulla Mohamed Hamoud Al-Tholaya, Abdulla Mohamed Hamoud Al-Tholaya

Student Works (2010-2019)

The adoption of accrual basis of accounting by governments is an important element to transform the bureaucratic administrative cash-based system to a more informative financial management system to ensure the supply of comprehensive, reliable, and meaningful financial information for appropriate accountability and decision making. Yemen is engaged in such reform, with advent of the E-Government, Information and Telecommunication Technologies era. This study describes the Yemen Central Government’s accounting and reporting system, its institutional framework, its policy characteristics and the environmental conditions that are in favour and unfavourable of such reform change. It also investigates the relationships between attitudes, innovative and …

Perkembangan Jiwa Agama Di Kalangan Anak-Anak Menurut Robert H. Thouless Dalam Karyanya Psychology Of Religion : Analisis Dari Perspektif Psikospiritual Islam / Husni Za'im Binti Abu Hasan, Husni Za’Im Abu Hasan

Student Works (2010-2019)

Perkembangan agama manusia bermula sejak sebelum dilahirkan dan berterusan sehingga ke lanjut usia. Pada saat manusia dilahirkan, manusia sudah pasti akan mengikuti agama kedua ibubapanya samada yang melahirkan itu beragama Islam, Yahudi, atau Nasrani. Setelah itu, apabila telah meningkat remaja, manusia mula berfikir tentang cara untuk mengimplimentasi ajaran agama dalam kehidupan seharian sehinggalah ke usia dewasa. Ketika ini juga akan berlaku konflik dalam jiwa manusia akibat dari pengaruh persekitaran. Hal inilah yang dikatakan perkembangan jiwa agama yang cuba digarap oleh penulis dengan memberi tumpuan kepada perkembangan jiwa agama melalui pendekatan psikospiritual Islam dan membuat perbandingan perkembangan jiwa agama menurut Barat …

The Ownership Of Water Services Company In Indonesia : An Islamic Economic Perspective / Abdul Malik Badeges, Abdul Malik Badeges

Student Works (2010-2019)

Air merupakan salah satu unsur yang paling penting yang perlu dirawat dengan cara yang betul. Rangkaian Air telah ditubuhkan untuk memudahkan kehidupan rakyat yang menjadi kebimbangan besar sebagai hak asas manusia. Berikutan gelombang sejarah jualan aset milik negara di seluruh dunia, penswastaan masih antara keutamaan dan mempunyai satu fenomena global. Disebabkan keadaan semasa, pemilikan syarikat perkhidmatan air Jakarta yang dikenali sebagai PDAM Jaya telah dipindahkan pada tahun 1997 daripada agensi kerajaan kepada pihak pengurusan sektor swasta, ia telah diswastakan selama 16 tahun dengan tujuan untuk pengurusan yang lebih baik dan beberapa penambahbaikan. Satu lagi isu lain sejak perkhidmatan air telah …

Stakeholder Theory, Value, And Firm Performance, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Andrew C. Wicks

Management Faculty Publications

This paper argues that the notion of value has been overly simplified and narrowed to focus on economic returns. Stakeholder theory provides an appropriate lens for considering a more complex perspective of the value that stakeholders seek as well as new ways to measure it. We develop a four-factor perspective for defining value that includes, but extends beyond, the economic value stakeholders seek. To highlight its distinctiveness, we compare this perspective to three other popular performance perspectives. Recommendations are made regarding performance measurement for both academic researchers and practitioners. The stakeholder perspective on value offered in this paper draws attention …

Issues With Airport Organization And Reorganization, Kim Kenville, James F. Smith

Aviation Faculty Publications

TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 40: Issues with Airport Organization and Reorganization examines organizational design, and current trends and practices in airport management.

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Result Variables And Contract Transitions In The Department Of Energy's National Laboratories And Production Sites, Harold T. Conner Jr.

Dissertations

Contract reform and improvement initiatives were mandated by Congress after the Inspector General's (IG) assertion that the DOE was guilty of waste, fraud, and abuse. As part of this contract reform process, the Department of Energy (DOE) undergoes contract transitions each year. This study examines these transitions in more detail to determine which factors are critical to successful contract change. In general, employees and contract management personnel have viewed contract transitions as costly, time consuming, and disruptive. It is widely felt that, in its contract transition process, the DOE creates morale and motivation problems within the research and production community …

Forward Thinking, Stephanie R. Tweed, Erika Bradley

ETSU Faculty Works

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Faculty Ambivalence Of Online Education: An Organizational Change Perspective, Lorianne D. Mitchell, Jennifer D. Parlamis

ETSU Faculty Works

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Emotional Reactions To Organizational Change, Lorianne D. Mitchell

ETSU Faculty Works

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Foreword: Systematically Thinking About Law Firm Ethics: Conference On The Ethical Infrastructure And Culture Of Law Firms, Susan Saab Fortney

Hofstra Law Review

In 1991 Professor Ted Schneyer wrote a seminal article calling for discipline of law firms. In that article, he used the term “ethical infrastructure” to refer to a law firm’s organization, policies, and operating procedures that cut across particular lawyers and tasks. In questioning how lawyer regulation focuses on the conduct of individual lawyers, he described the dynamics of practice and how various ethical breaches stem from organizational concerns that relate to lawyering in groups. Increasingly, legislators and regulators, as well as bar and firm leaders, have recognized the role of ethical infrastructure and culture in influencing lawyer conduct. Scholars, …

Unexpected Work Intrusions Into Employees' Personal Lives: Investigation, Measure Development, And Exploration Of Causes And Consequences, Angela R. Grotto

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The present research explored unplanned work performed during employees' nonwork hours in response to unexpected work intrusions. Three studies were conducted to achieve four goals: 1) better understand the nature of switching from nonwork roles to the work role in response to work intrusions during nonwork hours, 2) help distinguish unplanned role switching from planned role transitions (e.g., bringing work home), 3) develop and validate new episodic measures of work intrusions and three aspects of unplanned nonwork-to-work role switching (frequency, mental difficulty, and physical effort), and 4) begin developing a nomological net of antecedent and outcomes variables surrounding the construct. …

Reduction Of Observable Robbery And Larceny-Theft In The Twelve Largest Cities In The United States From 1980 To 2009, Andrew J. Costello

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The reduction in crime rates that occurred in large cities across the United States (US) over the course of the past two decades has been the subject of much speculation and research. However, there have been no definitive empirical studies that conclusively determine the causes for this phenomenon. The goal of this study is to identify the impact of certain factors to the reduction of crime in large US cities that occurred over the past two decades by examining data over a thirty-year period (1980-2009). The identification of contributing factors may allow government officials, both on a local and national …

Collaboration: Seeking An Organizational Model To Maximize Inter-Congregational Cooperation Within The North American Division Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Paul Campoli

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. Current organizational structure within the North American Division (NAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church appears to be relatively inefficient and allow for little or no collaborative efforts among Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) congregations within any given local ministry area. This situation encumbers the ministry effectiveness of local SDA churches. The redundancy present in the current organizational system, with large and often overlapping local conferences, results in substantial waste and inefficiency. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an alternative organizational model could foster greater levels of cooperation among neighboring SDA churches, and if such a change would correspond …

The Effects Of Psychological Contract Breach On Job Outcomes, Nichole Simone Ballou

Master's Theses

The present study examined the effects of psychological contract breach on attitudinal and behavioral job outcomes including job satisfaction, intention to remain with one's organization, perceived organizational support, and organizational citizenship behaviors. Additionally, the present study also examined whether the effect of the psychological contract breach on these job outcomes varied based on the type of psychological contract an employee had (i.e., transactional or relational). A total of 89 part- and full-time employees participated in this study. Results showed that the breach of one's psychological contract had a significant effect on one's job satisfaction, intention to remain, and perceived organizational …

A Blueprint For Change, William D. Henderson

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This Article discusses the financial viability of law schools in the face of massive structural changes now occurring within the legal industry. It then offers a blueprint for change – a realistic way for law schools to retool themselves in an attempt to provide our students with high quality professional employment in a rapidly changing world. Because no institution can instantaneously reinvent itself, a key element of my proposal is the “12% solution.” Approximately 12% of faculty members take the lead on building a competency-based curriculum that is designed to accelerate the development of valuable skills and behaviors prized by …