Ho, Tin Man Flora. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 40-43). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 摘文 --- p.iii / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter CHAPTER 1: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Knowledge Management --- p.1 / Social Dilemma --- p.4 / Factors Affecting People Contributing to KM --- p.5 / Individual Factors --- p.5 / Intrapersonal Factors --- p.6 / Interpersonal Factors --- p.7 / Organizational Factors --- p.10 / Conclusion --- p.14 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- METHOD --- p.16 / Participants --- p.16 / Questionnaire --- p.16 / Measures --- p.17 / Chapter CHAPTER 3: --- RESULTS --- p.20 / Validity Analysis --- p.20 / Demographic Variables --- p.22 / Dimensionality --- p.22 / Reliability --- p.23 / Model Testing Results --- p.23 / Hypothesis Testing --- p.24 / Chapter CHAPTER 4: --- DISCUSSION --- p.27 / Factors affecting past behaviors --- p.28 / Factor affecting future intentions --- p.31 / Conclusions --- p.32 / Implications --- p.33 / Limitations --- p.34 / Appendix I --- p.36 / References --- p.40

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2009. / Thesis advisor: Rebecca Wood. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in General Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 34-40). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.

Diss.-- Univ. of Bremen, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-205).

Thesis (M.Sc. Environmental Management & Policy)--Lunds universitet, 2004? / Bibliography: 77-81. Available also in print form.

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This qualitative study investigates the individual, structural, and social systemic interconnections of conflict in a nonprofit organization. It confronts the simplicity of mainstream, popular resolution methods that typically over-individualize and frame organizational conflict as a personal problem. In contrast to traditional organizational diagnoses based on individual self-reporting of past conflicts and the reduction of conflict systems into isolated parts, this study captures organizational conflict interaction in the moment and emphasizes the complex entanglement of organizational conflict networks. In the tradition of ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation captures conflict-rich events over a compressed timeframe of sixteen months. Critical ethnographic elicitation methods filtered through a social justice perspective, probe insider stories to reveal patterns and themes of complex meaning systems that contribute to contextually grounded analyses. This study intimately follows the conflict story within an animal welfare organization that dared to address conflict, and in doing so, managed to clarify organizational identity, identify contradictions between their implicit values and explicit mission, and unravel routines and reform relationships to reorganize and reclaim their organization. Key findings include the role of conflict in revealing significant differences in underlying ideology and the relationship of conflict to gendered organizational processes. The approach to conflict resolution outlined in this study is invaluable to grassroots and social action organizations seeking to maximize conflict for organizational growth and development.

This dissertation presents an alternative understanding to current works exploring the creative class. Extant views of the creative class portray it as a concentration of individuals and organizations producing clusters of interconnected cultural activities fostering positive socioeconomic change in the communities where they are located. By contrast, this dissertation articulates the creative class as time evolving geographical organizing of networked creative individuals whose presence over time in a community may or may not foster positive socioeconomic change. The creative class is thus conceptualized as contingent and continuously evolving processes whose emergence at any one point in time may or may not be sustainable over time. Framed theoretically through a nexus between strategic management, economic geography, and economic sociology, the unfolding of a creative class is explored as location specific phenomenon illustrating mutually co-constructing processes of organizations and their environment. It focuses –as its exemplar- on local socioeconomic processes enacted by an assortment of artists and artisans in a small New England (USA) former mill town. A case study was derived from data collected for over four years in fieldwork through a multi-method approach. Underpinned by interpretative notions, methodology included participative ethnography and social network analyses, where quantitative and qualitative data functioned in a complementary way. Exploring relationships between artists and artisans and their organizing attempts to become members of the community, observations focused on mundane situations through which these processes were enacted. Social network methodologies contributed to mapping processual linkages between community members, while further ethnographic work contextualized relationships uncovered through social network analyses. The resulting case study presents a narrative about the unfolding of a potential creative class as dynamic bottom-up phenomenon whose socioeconomic consequences cannot be guaranteed by formal planning. Artists and artisans struggle to become a community of creative practice and become acknowledged as such by their neighbors when their organizing opens up socioeconomic change. These processes, which may lead to a sustainable cultural economy in this location, are not independent or exogenous to the place. They are part of the local history, influenced by shared and ongoing socioeconomic processes, and specific to locality.

The problem addressed in this study was the limited available knowledge of why people volunteer. There had been an apparent lack of research among populations of volunteers based on current theory. The purpose of this study was to identify a theory of motivation appropriate for application to volunteers or develop such a theory if one did not exist, and to utilize that theory to explore motivation in a sample of volunteers. Related purposes were to develop an instrument which would be useful in subsequent research among volunteers and to pilot that instrument. A thorough review of the literature pertaining to volunteers and to motivation was conducted, and a model for organizing motivation theories was identified. The organizational model was adapted, and offered as a theory of motivation appropriate for application to volunteers. The theory was based on the individual's value system, and the thesis that an individual will undertake action to preserve and/or create that which is believed to be good and beneficial. A comprehensive list of reasons for volunteering was developed from the literature. Eighty-seven questions pertaining to potential reasons for volunteering were developed, offering respondents a range of seven responses from "not a reason" to "an extremely important reason" for volunteering in 4-H. These questions were combined with questions pertaining to demographic information to compile a self-reporting research instrument. The instrument was administered by mail to 453 volunteers in the Massachusetts 4-H program, and yielded in a response rate of 76%. The theory was found to be operationally useful. Analysis of responses confirmed the importance of values in reasons for volunteering. Visual inspection of rank ordered means of responses revealed that reasons clustered in groups corresponding to values, and factor analysis revealed that individuals responded to questions regarding motivation in accordance with individually held values. Subgroups based on motivation were identified within the sample. Every motivational construct was rated a motivator by some respondents and not a motivator by others. Additional findings included the existence of subgroups identifiable by their transiency versus longevity, and inclination in the sample towards continuity and perpetuation of present practices. Recommendations for further research included exploration of differences among motivators regarding causing people to agree to accept a volunteer role, to remain in that role over time, to increase productivity, to improve quality, and to change practices in that role.

<p> The purpose of this proposal was to develop a grant to create a psychoeducation program for individuals and caregivers with traumatic brain injuries that will be applied at The Brian Injury Association of California (BIAC) located in Bakersfield, California. Based on the literature reviewed, a psychoeducation program for individuals and caregivers with traumatic brain injuries has a strong potential to promote the message of healthy living to BIAC clients. The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation was selected as the potential funding source. Submission and/or funding was not a requirement for the successful completion of the project.</p>