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Understanding Hospital-Based Nurses’ Experiences Of Structurational Divergence, Lakesha Anderson

The Qualitative Report

This study examined hospital-based nurses’ experiences of structurational divergence. I used a semi-structured narrative approach to interview 10 hospital-based nurses and data was analyzed using phenomenological methods. This resulted in the identification of the following three themes, which capture instances of structurational divergence and resulting interpersonal, intrapersonal, and organizational conflicts: Managing Overload, Identifying and Negotiating Boundaries, and Substituting and Advocating. I also discovered an additional theme, Eating their Young.. Results have implications for future research in health and organizational communication and reflect the importance of research into the communication between and amongst nurses, patients, and physicians and the impact of …

Nebraskamath Final Report 2015

NebraskaMATH Materials

A Message from Jim Lewis, pg. 2

By the Numbers, pg. 4

2014 Nebraska Summit on Math and Science Education, pg. 6

Primarily Math Featured Teacher: Kristine Ray, pg. 8

Overview, pg. 10

Program and Certificate, pg. 11

Featured Teacher: Gwen Schultz, pg. 13

Research: Impact on Teachers, pg. 14

Featured Teacher: Allie Elsasser, pg. 18

Research: Impact on Students, pg. 19

Featured Teacher: Kristy Kennedy, pg. 21

Featured Teacher: Marni Driessen, pg. 22

Math Studio, pg. 23

Featured Teacher: Jennifer Kaminski, pg. 26

Math Early On, pg. 27

Featured Teacher: Andrew Boone, pg. 28

Nebraska Algebra and New Teacher …

Assessing The Emphasis On Information Security In The Systems Analysis And Design Course, William David Salisbury, Thomas W. Ferratt, Donald E. Wynn

MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications

Due to several recent highly publicized information breaches, information security has gained a higher profile. Hence, it is reasonable to expect that information security would receive an equally significant emphasis in the education of future systems professionals. A variety of security standards that various entities (e.g., NIST, COSO, ISACA-COBIT, ISO) have put forth emphasize the importance of information security from the very beginning of the system development lifecycle (SDLC) to avoid significant redesign in later phases. To determine the emphasis on security in typical systems analysis and design (SA&D) courses, we examine (1) to what extent security is emphasized in …

Toward A Corporeal, Biblical Narrative: A Study In Church Transformation, David C. Scafide

Doctor of Ministry

This dissertation claims that church leaders can enact healthier church-wide transformation when changes are processed on the narrative level of culture. As the church’s narrative is transformed, the church lives out her new identity more readily and with less resistance. Chapter 1 defines key terms and examines the state of current transformation models and why they are not having widespread impact in transforming churches. Without understanding underlying narratives, church leaders face unnecessary resistance resulting from the attempt to impose changes that are not assimilated by the narrative of the church. Chapter 2 demonstrates how people always live out their perceived …

Roli I Liderit Në Menaxhimin E Ndërmarrjeve Të Vogla, Dafina Hasani

Theses and Dissertations

Lidershipi shpesh është menduar si një forcë kryesore prapa suksesit dhe dështimit të ndërmarrjes dhe mirëqenies së personelit. Pavarësisht nga fusha e studimit në lidership, lidershipi në bizneset e vogla ka qenë rrallë në qendër të kërkimit. Rritja e rëndësisë së firmave të vogla në rritjen ekonomike dhe konkurrencës, ka ngritur disa pyetje rreth rolit dhe praktikës së lidershipit në ndërmarrjet e vogla.

Ashtu si suksesi dhe dështimi, ashtu dhe mirëqenia e personelit të kompanive shpesh janë atribuar te lidershipi. Pikëpamjet që kompanitë e vogla ndryshojnë në thelb nga homologët e tyre thekson rëndësinë e njohurive shkencore rreth lidershipit në …

Taboo Procedural Tradeoffs: Examining How The Public Experiences Tradeoffs Between Procedural Justice And Cost, Victor D. Quintanilla

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Legal Ethics, Decision Making, And The New Attorney's Unique Professional Perspective, Catherine Gage O'Grady

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Factors That Contribute To High School Drop-Outs Earning Their High School Diploma, Anne M. Gottlieb

Dissertations

What happens to young people that leave or are put out of their high school before they earn their diploma? Some of them attempt to re-enter school and earn their diploma. This study identifies factors that help students re-engage in their educational journeys. Two research questions guide this work:

• What factors prohibit high school drop outs from earning their diploma and working towards a post-high school goal?
• What can schools do to promote the factors that help students graduate and work towards a post-high school goal?

Relevant literature offers information about the dropout epidemic in the United States, what other …

Military Innovation And Military Culture, Andrew Hill

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Mba Academic Teams Training And Measuring Team Skills Development And Team Satisfaction In The First Semester Of A Full-Time Mba Program, Crystal Clayton

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study explored the benefits of providing MBA academic teams with formal training. The purpose of this mixed methods, single case study design, was to investigate whether MBA teams training contributes to team skills development and student team satisfaction. Participants in this study were first year, full-time MBA students at a large Midwestern Research I institution. The Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) was utilized to regularly administer peer and self-assessment of teamwork skills and track student team satisfaction. The research was broken into three main components. The first component included a quantitative element utilizing regular assessment readings of …

The Changing And Unchanged Nature Of Inequality And Seniority In Japan, Ken Yamada, Daiji Kawaguchi

Research Collection School Of Economics

Wage inequality declined in the 1990s, while it increased in the 2000s for full-time male workers in Japan. We find that a decreased return to firm-specific human capital, which has been neglected in previous empirical analyses of inequality, is a key factor preventing a rise in wage inequality during the prolonged period of economic stagnation, known as Japan’s lost decades. We also find that, while changes in returns to general and specific human capital contributed to narrowing wage inequality in the 1990s and widening wage inequality in the 2000s, a significant fraction of the increase in wage inequality in the …

Profile Of Dorothea Salo, Vision Speaker At The 30th Annual Nasig Conference, Sharon Dyas-Correia

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

March 2015 Full Issue

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Using Social Marketing Principles To Understand An Extension Audience’S Landscape Water Conservation Practices, Laura A. Warner, William L. Schall

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

A substantial amount of water is applied to Florida landscapes, and encouraging water conservation through irrigation practices has been identified as a priority programming area where there is great opportunity to positively affect the state’s water resources. Florida Extension addresses this priority area through educational programming. Social marketing has been identified as a promising approach to changing behaviors that influence environmental issues, such as water-saving irrigation technologies and practices. This approach recognizes that there are barriers that prevent individuals from engaging in positive behavior changes. This study evaluated an irrigation seminar using a retrospective pretest-posttest design that incorporated elements of …

8th Annual Research Week- Event Proceedings, Office Of Research Development

Excellence Summit (Research Week) Archived Proceedings

8th Annual Research Week

Does Social Information Matter? The Moderating Effect On Port Reform Trust, Cheng-Hsing Yang, Rong-Her Chiu, Kung-Don Ye, Heng-Chih Chou

Journal of Marine Science and Technology–Taiwan

Trust is important for assuring the success of organizational change. This paper investigates the influence of social information sources and communication on trust in organizational change, and also tests the moderating effect of the credibility of social information. Taking port reform as an example, this research discovers the following results: (1) communication is significantly related to employee's trust in organizational change; (2) social information from supervisors is positively associated with employee trust in organizational change; but information from unions does not exert a significant influence; and (3) social information credibility from supervisors and unions partially moderates the relationship between social …

Organizational Leadership Academic Program Review, 2014, College Of Education And Human Services, Wright State University

Academic Program Review Reports - All

This 7 page report reviews Wright State University's Organizational Leadership programs, specifically looking at the time from Fall 2009 to Fall 2014.

Education Technology Academic Program Review, 2014, College Of Education And Human Services, Wright State University

Academic Program Review Reports - All

This 9 page report reviews Wright State University's Education Technology programs, specifically looking at the time from Fall 2009 to Fall 2014.

Education Technology, M.Ed Academic Program Review, 2014, College Of Education And Human Services, Wright State University

Academic Program Review Reports - All

This 9 page report reviews Wright State University's Education Technology, M.ED program, specifically looking at the time from Fall 2009 to Fall 2014.

A Discursive Institutionalist Approach To Understanding Policy Change: Ireland And Mexico In The 1980s, John Hogan, Brendan O'Rourke

Conference papers

Employing the critical juncture theory (CJT), a discursive institutionalist approach, this paper examines the nature of the changes to Irish industrial policy, and Mexican macroeconomic policy, during early the 1980s, a time when both countries went through economic crises. Did these policy changes constitute transformations, or were they simply continuations of previously established policy pathways? The CJT consists of three elements – economic crisis, ideational change, and the nature of the policy change – that must be identified for us to be able to declare with some certainty if the policy changes constituted critical junctures. Our findings will help explain …

Motivating Information Security Awareness (Isa): An Action Research Study, Grace Giraldo

Dissertations - ALL

The goal of the study was to identify and analyze specific environmental and social conditions that motivate middle management to advocate for Information Security Awareness (ISA), as well as to see if exposure to new information security knowledge would change their behavior. Using a mixed-method action research approach, a group of managers shared their awareness knowledge, advocacy behaviors, and challenges influencing their engagement in information security awareness advocacy. Post workshop feedback confirmed the effectiveness of the Action Research workshops in increasing ISA advocacy behaviors. The action research workshops provided an opportunity for the participants to increase their security knowledge and …

Tier 1 Intervention: School Values & Expectations, Reece L. Peterson, Jenna Strawhun, Natalie Hoff

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Conclusion

At present, school value statements are believed to be a useful component of efforts to improve student behavior and school climate. These statements of values or expectations have been particularly emphasized as one of the key components of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. Although there is strong research related to the overall outcomes of PBIS, there has been virtually no research about these values or expectations independent of PBIS. However, there has been some research on more global school mission statements, which appears to provide promise for future research on these more specific behavioral expectations. Based on the PBIS …

Are We There Yet? Data Saturation In Qualitative Research, Patricia I. Fusch Ph.D., Lawrence R. Ness

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

Failure to reach data saturation has an impact on the quality of the research conducted and hampers content validity. The aim of a study should include what determines when data saturation is achieved, for a small study will reach saturation more rapidly than a larger study. Data saturation is reached when there is enough information to replicate the study when the ability to obtain additional new information has been attained, and when further coding is no longer feasible. The following article critiques two qualitative studies for data saturation: Wolcott (2004) and Landau and Drori (2008). Failure to reach data saturation …

Transit Value Capture Coordination: Case Studies, Best Practices, And Recommendations, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Cto Updates - February 2015, Office Of Information Technology

Tech Talk

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The Army War College Review Vol. 1 No.1, Larry D. Miller Dr.

Articles & Editorials

The Army War College Review, a refereed publication of student work, is produced under the purview of the Strategic Studies Institute and the United States Army War College. An electronic quarterly, The AWC Review connects student intellectual work with professionals invested in U.S. national security, Landpower, strategic leadership, global security studies, and the advancement of the profession of arms.

The Management Of A Turnaround After An Ethical Breach In A Public Institution Of Higher Education, Ashley Stark

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

The field of management has built a wealth of literature on turnaround management as well as the effect unethical actions have upon organizations. However, there has been less study on the application of these topics to turnarounds specifically in small, regional, public institutions of higher education. It is important that an institution of higher education that has been affected by an ethical failure execute a turnaround to restore trust and faith in the organization, internally and externally. A small, regional, public institution of higher education in the upper Midwest recently encountered a series of organizational difficulties that negatively influenced its …

Homeland Security And Community Policing: Shift In Federal Funding Post Sep. 11: From Community Policing To Homeland Security, Mohsen S. Alizadeh

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

In the aftermath of the 9/11, Homeland Security became the major model of the American Policing system, thus superseding community policing model. The purpose of this research is to use "before and after study design" to follow the grant trends of policing systems in order to examine whether the catastrophic events of 9/11 had a positive or negative impact on the grant funds of the mentioned policing models. Preliminary analyses revealed that there is significant difference in the mean level of funding prior and after the event for Homeland Security, community policing, and general policing programs. Segmented and Stepwise Regressions …

Media Advocacy And Social Change: The Case Of Sexual Harassment In Egypt, Naglaa Atef Beshay Hanna

Theses and Dissertations

Social Change and media advocacy are two related concepts. In Egypt with all the changes that are taking place on the political level, social change is needed in parallel to achieve development. Sexual harassment is an alarming phenomenon that is growing in Egypt in the last few years. Media advocacy is a tool that should be included in the strategy to combat this phenomenon as it contributes to make social change which could eliminate the phenomenon. This study reviews some of the media advocacy attempts in Egypt that targets sexual harassment. It also studies the role of the governmental organizations …

Moderating Role Of Social Support In The Stressor-Satisfaction Relationship: Evidence From Police Officers In Korea, Seulki Lee, Taesik Yun, Soo-Young Lee

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction, and analyze the effect of social support on this relationship. In particular, this study analyzes the effects of three types of job stress – role overload, role ambiguity and bad physical environment – and two sources of social support – supervisor and coworker support. Regression analysis was performed using data from a survey of 619 police officers in Korea. The findings from the analysis are as follows. First, role ambiguity and bad physical environment are negatively related to job satisfaction. Second, social support …