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Transformational Leadership Strategies Small Business Owners And Managers Use To Increase Profitability, Renee Laura Yolande Morris-Phillip

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractEighty-two percent of small businesses fail. Small business failure is essential to the Antiguan local community, as small businesses are the pillar of the Antiguan economy with considerable contributions in employment and economic development. Grounded in transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore transformational leadership strategies small business owners and managers use to increase profitability. The participants comprised five small business owners and managers in Antigua, who effectively used transformational leadership strategies to increase profitability. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and reviews of company artifacts. Data were analyzed using Yin’s five-step data …

Intelligence Readiness And Operational Capability Of The National Guard Within The U.S., Jose Felipe Perez

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The National Guard has a highly specialized and operable intelligence force that can be useful to the communities it serves, and how that intelligence can be best used has been the focus of scholars in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated, however, that such integration of intelligence is a daunting task due to many barriers and misconceptions. Researchers have as yet been unable to establish how this might best be accomplished and those barriers diminished. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to define the National Guard’s potential roles and examine their possible integration into the domestic Intelligence Community. Theories …

Applying Change Management To General Aviation: Pilot Self-Briefings For Weather, Cassandra Domingo, Beth Blickensderfer

Preflight Weather Performance

General aviation (GA) pilots are increasingly relying on available weather technology to conduct preflight weather self-briefings, rather than call-in briefings to Flight Services. However, research has shown that GA pilots’ have difficulty in interpreting weather products, such as radar, and that this problem persists even after additional training. The domain of change management examines how to properly plan and implement transitions in technology. The current paper examines this transition from call-in to self-briefing using principles of change management, specifically from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology.

Strategies Information Technology Managers Use To Motivate Remote Employees, Jennifer Leonard

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some managers are experiencing challenges keeping remote workers motivated. Managers are concerned with motivating remote employees to ensure production levels are met or exceeded. Grounded in Vroom’s expectancy theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies information technology (IT) managers from five organizations in the Southeastern United States used to motivate remote employees. Data were collected from semistructured interviews with 5 business leaders, company website information, and other documentation provided by the IT leader. Data analysis involved recognizing frequent phenomena and coding meaningful and common themes, phrases, or key words. Four themes were evident: transformation …

Clinical Practice Guidelines For Assessing And Reporting Workplace Violence Against Nurses, Janice Lynn Canfield

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractWorkplace violence consists of physically and psychologically damaging actions while on duty. In healthcare, under a cloak of secrecy concerning workplace violence, an underreported epidemic exists. This problem is important to address because workplace violence can affect the quality of care delivered and patient care outcomes.. The purpose of this project was to develop a nursing clinical practice guideline (CPG) to assist hospital-based nurses to identify risk factors for workplace violence, identify strategies to mitigate violence, and report workplace violence. This CPG can be an effective tool for nurses to better understand the scope and nature of violence in the …

Mentoring Strategies For Enabling Employees’ Career Progression, Anticia Alston

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Organizations without mentorship programs are at risk for leadership skill development. Using successful mentoring strategies, human resource managers may increase their talent pool, increase organizational opportunities, and improve the organization’s overall climate. Guided by Kram’s mentoring theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore mentoring strategies that some human resource management (HRM) leaders working in civil service within the federal government successfully use to assist the professional development of their employees. Participants included five civil service HRM leaders within the federal government in the southeastern region of the United States who used mentoring strategies to assist …

Multigenerational Family Firm Succession Planning For Transgenerational Sustainability, Janine Michelle Moore-Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractFamily firm businesses represent 90% of the global economy and have a 70% first-generation failure rate; business sustainability could have a tremendous impact on the U.S. economy. Grounded in the sustainable family business theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies used by four California-based, multigenerational family firm leaders who successfully implemented succession planning processes to transfer leadership of their family firm. Data were collected by reviewing firm documents, public information, and semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis and methodological triangulation, and five themes emerged: leader strategies to implement succession planning, strategies for …

Emotional Intelligence And Leadership Performance In Manufacturing Organizations In Lagos State, Nigeria, Gabriel Onabote

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Poor emotional intelligence creates huge complications in the workplace. The consequences include diminished employee’s productivity and deteriorating leadership performance. Guided by the principles of emotional intelligence theory, this correlational study investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership performance at four selected Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies in Lagos State. The study relied on primary data gathered using the Work Profile EI Questionnaire to measure emotional intelligence, while leadership performance scale questionnaire was used to evaluate leadership performance. Two hundred and thirty-five participants were recruited using the stratified sampling approach. Pearson correlation and linear regression analysis were used to …

Leadership Strategies To Reduce Employee Turnover In The Health Care Industry, Sheila Redmond

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In 2018, over 3.1 million the United States health care employees vacated their jobs. Leaders who lack strategies to reduce employee turnover impose a significant financial burden on health care organizations. Grounded in transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies health care leaders use to reduce employee turnover. Participants were five health care leaders from a hospital in Virginia who implemented successful strategies to reduce employee turnover. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and document reviews. The themes extracted using the thematic data analysis were work-life balance, employee engagement, training, and job …

University Libraries 2020-2022 Strategic Plan

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: White Papers

The 2020 Strategic Planning Team: Kelly Connor, Karin Dalziel, Lorna Dawes, Zach Eden, Regina Flowers, Ana Gomez, Lori Harvey, Andrew Jewell (chair), Charlene Maxey-Harris, Tom McFarland, Catherine Fraser Riehle, Claire Stewart

The goal of this plan is to push the University Libraries forward toward a more fully realized achievement of its mission, to enact our commitment to ethical and equitable practices and policies, and to ambitiously grow as a 21st century academic library. This plan is not inclusive of everything that we do; there are many valuable activities and services that are not mentioned, and that is not meant to …

Versatile Capabilities For Growth In The Context Of Transforming Countries: Evidence From Polish Manufacturing Companies, Maciej Mitrega, Dariusz Siemieniako, Hannu Makkonen, Krzysztof Kubacki, Stefano Bresciani

Plymouth Business School

This study follows the newest extension to the resource-based view of company strategy, namely the versatility approach, to explain how resource-restrained companies may expand on international markets. The focus is on dynamic capabilities in marketing and innovation functions, which are conceptualized as versatile resources in the context of companies from transforming countries. The paper develops a model in which these two capabilities are linked with market expansion and product expansion, whereby market expansion facilitates product expansion. The survey data is based on a sample of 590 Polish companies and provides empirical support for the hypothesized links. The trade-off effect related …

Educational Equity In Independent Schools: A Phenomenographic Study Of School-Wide Equity Practices, Barriers, And Leadership Behaviors Necessary To Achieve Diversity, Inclusion, And Cultural Competence, Christopher Gerard Lemieux

Theses and Dissertations

Independent schools are facing equity changes that had long been avoided, consequently, schools are now faced with adopting equity practices designed to produce equitable outcomes. Equity practices adopted have not been realized without corresponding leadership behaviors necessary to change cultural norms as well as overcoming associative barriers. This study explored how Heads of school in Southern California described the school-wide equity practices they utilized, barriers encountered, and the leadership behaviors that were necessary for achieving diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence at their school. This study used a phenomenographic design and included 11 Heads of school identified as having exemplary school-wide …

Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development In A Business-As-Usual World, Sarah Easter, Kim Ceulemans, Monty L. Lynn

Management Sciences

No abstract provided.

A Constructive Approach To Managing Faculty Conflict: An Action Research Study, Natasha L. Davis

Theses and Dissertations--Educational Leadership Studies

Research indicates colleges and universities are faced with an excess of challenges and issues, and one of these issues is dealing with conflict. The purpose of this mixed methods action research study was to implement a conflict management strategies workshop on the campus of Morehead State University as an intervention to address the problem of conflict between faculty and administrators. Data collected and analyzed from an exploratory pilot study included interviews of current faculty and administrators regarding situations of conflict. As a result, the following information was discovered: conflict does exist on the campus of Morehead State University between faculty …

Proactive Remedies To Prevent Permanent Solutions: Enacting Narrowly Crafted Legislative Reform To Reduce Jail Suicides, Kathryn E. Meloni

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

_Cla_2017_Communication_Ma_Program_Review, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

CLA 2017 Communication MA Program Review

Kean Joins ‘Culture Of Respect Collective’ To Proactively Address Sexual Violence, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

Kean University has joined 20 colleges and universities from across North America in the Culture of Respect Collective, a program that takes a proactive approach to addressing sexual violence on college campuses.

From Lex Informatica To The Control Revolution, Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Legal scholarship on the encounter between networked digital technologies and law has focused principally on how legal and policy processes should respond to new technological developments and has spent much less time considering what that encounter might signify for the shape of legal institutions themselves. This essay focuses on the latter question. Within fields like technology studies, labor history, and economic sociology, there is a well-developed tradition of studying the ways that new information technologies and the “control revolution” they enabled—in brief, a quantum leap in the capacity for highly granular oversight and management—have elicited long-term, enduring changes in the …

A Management Checklist For Primary Care Practice Mergers, Expansions, Or Acquisitions – Critical Components For Financial Planning, Space And Staffing Management, Training And Start-Up, Tamara El-Amoor

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Work-Related Feelings Among Teachers Within The United States And Jordan, Shahed Obeidat

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Human personalities combined with working conditions affect how employees react to different work situations. Personality and work environment have also been shown to affect workers' feelings. Employees' psychological health plays an essential role in their performance and productivity in the workplace, and organizational awareness of work-related feelings has sparked interest in investigating this field of study. Teaching is a stressful job; however, research evaluating discrete states of work-related emotions in teachers remains somewhat limited. This study investigated the effects of job demands on teachers' work-related feelings within middle and high schools in the United States and Jordan. The study results …

Identifying Strategies To Increase The Recruitment And Retention Of Minority Males In The Public Health Workforce: A Two-State Comparative Case Study Approach, Melicent R. Miller

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Non-White males have higher rates of morbidity and mortality from chronic health conditions as compared to Whites. An essential element for achieving success in eliminating health disparities is to increase the presence of racial/ethnic minorities (i.e., people of color) within public health careers. One of the most important competencies for a public health professional is the ability to work in culturally and racially diverse populations. Yet, individuals are significantly more likely to receive their care and experience greater satisfaction from providers that are of the same racial or ethnic background. The racial/ethnic composition of the health professions workforce continues to …

2021-2022 Undergraduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

The (Un)Predictable Impact Of Technology On Corporate Governance, Chiara Picciau

UC Law Business Journal

This article offers a novel account of the likely impact of new technologies—such as big data, algorithms, artificial intelligence, the blockchain, and smart contracts—on corporate governance. It shows that, contrary to common predictions, one of the most significant and immediate effects of these technologies on corporations concerns the distribution of competences and responsibilities among corporate bodies. The claim is supported by identifying five primary determinants of the current balance of powers in corporate organizations: (i) the speed and frequency of the decisions; (ii) the information necessary to decide and who has access to it; (iii) the costs of assigning decision-making …

Strategies To Handle Complaints Or Incidents Of Suspected Workplace Misconduct, Vonetta Ford-Thompson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractBusiness leaders often fail to investigate cases of workplace misconduct effectively, costing organizations millions of dollars in losses each year. Effective investigation of cases of workplace misconduct is essential to avoid costly lawsuits. Grounded in Adams’ equity theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies business leaders use to investigate complaints of workplace misconduct. The participants were three business leaders from three different organizations in Georgia, United States, with successful strategies to investigate complaints of workplace misconduct. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, organizational documents, and artifacts. Yin’s five-step process guided the data analysis. Two …

The Development Of A Survey Instrument To Assess Racial And Cultural Inclusiveness: A Case Study Of Staff, Jolene Rios

All Master's Theses

Background:

The hierarchy of the medical system and its lack of racial and cultural inclusiveness has created systematically inequitable healthcare with direct outcomes to health disparities. Inequitable non-inclusive healthcare perpetuated and negatively impacted health disparities among minorities and has been a major preventable public health problem. Research studies have established a correlation between racism and various adverse health outcomes, including higher mortality, lower rates of cancer screening, elevated blood pressure, higher C-reactive protein levels, substance use, and mental health conditions (Shavers et al, 2012). Measuring exposure to racism has been essential to establishing racism’s influence on equitable, inclusive healthcare and …

Succession Planning As A Strategy To Reduce Attrition In Advertising Agencies In Nigeria, Adenrele Babatunde Akinde

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractAn advertising agency is a professional service organization where workers create advertisements for the media on behalf of clients. The general problem was that leaders in advertising agencies in Nigeria were challenged with a high attrition rate, which was 43% in 2017, up from 40% in 2015. Attrition leads to the premature promotion of ill-prepared managers. The specific problem was that leaders of advertising agencies in Nigeria seem to lack strategies for succession planning. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of leaders in advertising agencies in Nigeria regarding succession planning in terms of …

A Quality Improvement Evaluation Of A Hospitalist Telemedicine Program, Kelly Marie Awes

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Critical access hospitals (CAHs) encounter unique challenges in terms of providingquality resources to their community, often lacking quality measures and continuity comparable to larger regional and tertiary hospitals. One CAH in rural Minnesota implemented an overnight hospitalist telemedicine service to address concerns with provider resources and quality practice. An evaluation of quality improvement implementation was completed to address data regarding ER transfers and inpatient length of stay (LOS). Following the triple aim framework to improve patient care, population health, and decrease costs, Donabedian’s model of quality improvement was utilized. Three months of pre and postimplementation data were collected one year …

An Educational Program For Nurses To Improve Culturally-Appropriate Mental Health Assessment For Nigerian Immigrant Youth In Central Florida, Blessing Anyaiwe Onyekachi

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractNigerians, like other immigrants, face many health issues with rising waves of conflict and political instability that contribute to high migration rates. As a result, when they arrive in other countries, these immigrants not only have to deal with the trauma they left behind but face issues such as cultural stereotypes, stigma, lack of insurance, cultural and language barriers, poor communication, social discrimination, and low socioeconomic status. The question that this project addressed was whether an educational program for nurses would improve knowledge on culturally-appropriate mental health assessment for Nigerian immigrant youth in Central Florida. This was a nursing staff …

Complexity Thinking And Broadband Internet Penetration In Lagos, Nigeria, James Hyacinth Akpoja

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Considering the speed at which information and knowledge can transverse nations and organizations, the importance of broadband Internet connectivity cannot be overstated. The general problem is that the Nigerian broadband Internet penetration is considerably low, at 33% compared to other parts of the world. The specific problem is that community members and leaders have the behavioral intention to allow broadband Internet infrastructure deployment (BIID) at the local community level in Lagos. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between perceived usefulness (PU), perceived benefits (PB), perceived ease of use (PEoU), and perceive security (PS), and …

การศึกษาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างบรรยากาศองค์การและความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การ โดยมีความคล่องตัวของพนักงานเป็นตัวแปรกำกับ, รุ้งรัชนี ลีวงศ์เจริญ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยนี้มีจุดประสงค์ในการศึกษาวิจัยเพื่อศึกษาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างบรรยากาศองค์การและความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การ โดยมีความคล่องตัวของพนักงานเป็นตัวแปรกำกับ ผู้เข้าร่วมการวิจัยในครั้งนี้คือ พนักงานปฎิบัติงานในกลุ่มธุรกิจธนาคารพาณิชย์ของไทยสาขาต่าง ๆ ในกรุงเทพมหานครทั้งหมด 5 องค์การ โดยมีผู้เข้าร่วมการวิจัยทั้งสิ้น 306 คน เก็บรวบรวมข้อมูลผ่านแบบสอบถามออนไลน์ และทำการวิเคราะห์สมมติฐานด้วยการทดสอบตัวแปรกำกับ ผ่านการวิเคราะห์การถดถอยพหุเชิงชั้นในโปรแกรม SPSS ซึ่งผลการวิจัยในครั้งนี้พบว่า บรรยากาศองค์การด้านมนุษยสัมพันธ์ และด้านระบบเปิดมีความสัมพันธ์ทางบวกกับความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การในบางด้าน ในขณะที่ด้านกระบวนการภายในมีความสัมพันธ์ทางลบกับความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การบางด้าน ส่วนด้านการกำหนดเป้าหมายอย่างมีเหตุผลพบว่าไม่มีความสัมพันธ์กับความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การแต่อย่างใด นอกจากนี้สำหรับบทบาทการเป็นตัวแปรกำกับของความคล่องตัวของพนักงานพบว่า ความสามารถเชิงรุกเป็นตัวแปรกำกับทางบวกในความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างบรรยากาศองค์การด้านมนุษยสัมพันธ์และความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การในบางด้าน ส่วนความยืดหยุ่นเป็นตัวแปรกำกับทางบวกในความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างบรรยากาศองค์การด้านระบบเปิดและความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การในบางด้าน และความคล่องตัวของพนักงานทั้งด้านความสามารถเชิงรุก การปรับตัว และความยืดหยุ่นก็ยังเป็นตัวแปรกำกับที่ช่วยลดความสัมพันธ์ทางลบระหว่างบรรยากาศองค์การด้านกระบวนการภายในและความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การในบางด้านอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติอีกด้วย กล่าวคือพนักงานที่มีความคล่องตัวในระดับสูง มีแนวโน้มที่จะมีความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การสูงกว่าพนักงานที่มีความคล่องตัวในระดับต่ำ ดังนั้นความคล่องตัวของพนักงานจึงถือเป็นปัจจัยที่มีความสำคัญต่อความพร้อมต่อการเปลี่ยนแปลงองค์การเช่นกัน