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Empowering The Plus Size Body Using Dance As Therapy, Ashley Sampson May 2019

Empowering The Plus Size Body Using Dance As Therapy, Ashley Sampson

Expressive Therapies Capstone Theses

In Western society, having the “ideal” body image and size is a societal issue. It is advertised throughout media outlets that the “ideal” body is what should be desired, and any other body type is “abnormal”. This capstone thesis focused on the effectiveness of dance as therapy and changing the perspectives of all body types, to support and empower all bodies including plus-sized bodies. The use of individual interviews, in an open dialogue model, with a select few members (3) of Soul thru Sole, including the CEO of the dance company; which focuses on empowering women no matter their age, …


Supervisor-Subordinate Conflict Negotiation: Examining The Core Concerns In Light Of Communication Accommodation And Gender Roles, Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly May 2019

Supervisor-Subordinate Conflict Negotiation: Examining The Core Concerns In Light Of Communication Accommodation And Gender Roles, Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly

Dissertations

This quasi-experimental study examined a supervisor-subordinate negotiation of an emotion-laden conflict from the lens of the core concerns framework, communication accommodation theory, and gender roles research. Results empirically support CCF that, by accommodating or attending to the employees’ core concerns, managers can stimulate employees’ positive emotion and integrative intention. However, under- and overaccommodating the core concerns can lead to distributive intention. Additionally, the employees’ perception of manager goodwill can strengthen or attenuate the positive effect of core concerns accommodativeness on outcome variables especially for male managers. Thus, moderate accommodation is recommended for male managers. For female managers, the results show …


Impacto De Las Principales Variables De Clima Interno, Estudio De Caso: Restaurante De Un Patch De Bogotá De Una De Las Cadenas De Comida Rápida Más Famosas Del Mundo, Diana Carolina Martínez Castañeda Jan 2019

Impacto De Las Principales Variables De Clima Interno, Estudio De Caso: Restaurante De Un Patch De Bogotá De Una De Las Cadenas De Comida Rápida Más Famosas Del Mundo, Diana Carolina Martínez Castañeda

Administración de Empresas

El siguiente artículo evalúa el impacto que las variables de estructura, responsabilidad, motivación, comunicación y desempeño, tienen sobre uno de los restaurantes del patch2 de Bogotá perteneciente a una de las Compañías de comida rápida más famosas del mundo; con el fin de brindar alternativas que complementen y fortalezcan los ambientes laborales y contribuyan al empoderamiento de los colaboradores, brindando estímulos que despierten intenciones individuales y grupales que generen la innovación en ideas que el mercado competente exige. La investigación es de tipo descriptiva y explicativa; en la primera parte, como su nombre lo dice, describe cuál es el fenómeno …


Retaining Millennials: Values-Based Communication Tactics Employers Can Use To Appeal To A Supposed Risk-Adverse Generation, Erica Santillo Jan 2019

Retaining Millennials: Values-Based Communication Tactics Employers Can Use To Appeal To A Supposed Risk-Adverse Generation, Erica Santillo

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Millennials are growing within the workforce, but they are becoming difficult to attract and retain for longer than two years at a time. In addition, Millennials have generational-specific values that are different than their predecessors. Identifying and applying these workplace expectations to organizational policies have made it challenging for leaders to appeal to this generation. Millennials desire five aspects from their workplace: work with a purpose, to be their own boss or work for a boss that is a mentor, a collaborative work environment, flexible work schedules, and work-life integration and/or work-life balance. Using a survey research method, this thesis …