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Exploring Intergenerational Value Changes Across Three Generations Of Emirati Women Using Focused Ethnography, Ebtesam Ali Alteneiji
Exploring Intergenerational Value Changes Across Three Generations Of Emirati Women Using Focused Ethnography, Ebtesam Ali Alteneiji
Dissertations
Intergenerational value change, influenced by technological advancements, economic development, formal education, and urbanization, becomes especially complex when it occurs in times of rapid changes, as in the case of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Through the lens of social change and human development theory, heavily constructed in the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft paradigm, this focused ethnography explored the push and pull of traditional boundaries within a collectivist society and the necessary navigation of infused Westernized philosophies promoting individualism and autonomy. Participants in this study (N = 24) were members of 8 family triads of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who represented 8 different …
The Impact Of Police Officer Age On Leadership And Workplace Preferences, Abigail H. Lauer
The Impact Of Police Officer Age On Leadership And Workplace Preferences, Abigail H. Lauer
Ed.D. Dissertations
Police departments are experiencing low levels of police applicants and high turnover rates due to the current climate of policing and internal and external stressors. Police department management desires to be proficient in recruiting and managing police officers of different generations who may have varying desires and needs. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the impact of generational differences on police officer leadership and workplace preferences in order to make recommendations to police department management about how to better engage, manage, recruit and retain police officers of different generations. The current study employed a quantitative design made …
The Impact Of Police Officer Age On Leadership And Workplace Preferences, Abigail H. Lauer
The Impact Of Police Officer Age On Leadership And Workplace Preferences, Abigail H. Lauer
Scholar Week 2016 - present
Police departments are experiencing low levels of police applicants and high turnover rates due to the current climate of policing and internal and external stressors. Police department management desires to be proficient in recruiting and managing police officers of different generations who may have varying desires and needs. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the impact of generational differences on police officer leadership and workplace preferences in order to make recommendations to police department management about how to better engage, manage, recruit and retain police officers of different generations. The current study employed a quantitative design that …
Ordinary Disasters: On Unexceptional Flooding In La's San Fernando Valley, Sayd Randle
Ordinary Disasters: On Unexceptional Flooding In La's San Fernando Valley, Sayd Randle
Research Collection College of Integrative Studies
Talking about flood as California's" other big one," otherwise known as a plausible natural disaster with the power to cause damage equivalent to that caused by a massive earthquake, does important work in capturing the imagination. Nearly a quarter submitted short stories about narrowly escaping death-by-ARkStorm, piling on the melodrama and watery metaphors. Because of its sheer scale, epic flooding is not hard to picture and/or to fear, even amidst the palm trees of Los Angeles.[...] I do fear that ignoring the more quotidian flare-ups and inundations and dry spells and snowstorms and other threats, the unevenly distributed" slow violence" …