Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2004. / Adviser: Melinda Henderson. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.C.I.T.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 25, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

D.Comm. / In the South African context leading multinational companies within mining, automotive, financial and other sectors are faced with the complexity of: uncertain political policies, fluid market dynamics, and market follower status in global relations. In addition, emerging markets are directly affected by capital and structural adjustments in first world economies, as currency flows direct to safe-haven markets under uncertainty. Thus, additional complexities of: currency fluctuations, energy cost increases, implied inflationary spikes, and pending recession become a reality, and have an enormous impact on how organisations manage within the unforeseen complexity that this brings to the local economy. As complex environmental factors beyond organisational boundaries and management’s ability to predict and control, start impacting on an organisation’s material capital flows, this uncertainty will drive leadership to review their current worldview. This researcher argues that this new worldview must be a shift away from a Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm, that through its cause-and-effect scientific base has modelled the world and its structures around a rigid linear approach, that cannot cope within the complexities exerted on the system. It is suggested therefore, by the researcher that the shift in leadership thinking should be towards a different paradigm, built on complexity based models using quantum Einsteinian-Quantum physics as a metaphor. The impact of this shift in paradigm, towards an Einsteinian-Quantum worldview, has an has an implicative effect for organisations in terms of; mental models, subsequent organisational design, the values that support this, the leadership behaviours that are a response to these value sets and the resultant directional quantum leap outcome within a multi-dimensional range of examples including; material (financial), social and spiritual capital aspects of the organisation. This research set out to review the paradigm shift between the Newtonian-Cartesian and Einsteinian-Quantum worldviews with respect to leadership within a South African context.

Chik, Tsz Kwan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-86). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / TABLE OF CONTENTS / ABSTRACT --- p.i / ABSTRACT (Chinese version) --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / Chapter I --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Background of Study --- p.1 / Purpose and Significance --- p.3 / Delimitations --- p.3 / Limitations --- p.3 / Operational Definitions --- p.3 / Health-related physical fitness --- p.3 / Cardiorespiratory fitness --- p.4 / Body composition --- p.4 / Muscular strength --- p.4 / Muscular endurance --- p.4 / Flexibility --- p.4 / Self-reported questionnaire --- p.4 / Hypotheses --- p.4 / Chapter II --- REVIEW OF LITERATURE --- p.6 / Physical Fitness: Definition and its Association with Health and Mortality --- p.8 / Brief review on physical fitness and health --- p.10 / Physical Fitness Evaluation Programs --- p.12 / Existing Laboratory and Field Tests for Health-related Physical Fitness --- p.18 / Laboratory methods --- p.18 / Field tests --- p.21 / Problems associated with laboratory and field tests --- p.25 / Non-exercise prediction models --- p.28 / Self-reported Questionnaire --- p.30 / Perceived Physical Fitness Scale --- p.30 / NASA/JSC Physical Activity Scale (PA-R) --- p.30 / Multidimensional Physical Self-Concept --- p.31 / Validity and reliability of the self-reported fitness questionnaires --- p.31 / Merits and limitations of self-reported questionnaires --- p.33 / Setting of a Questionnaire --- p.35 / Summary --- p.35 / Chapter III --- METHODOLOGY --- p.37 / Development of questionnaire --- p.37 / Item construction --- p.37 / Content validity --- p.38 / Pilot test --- p.38 / Validity and reliability --- p.39 / Criterion measures --- p.40 / Statistical analysis --- p.43 / Descriptive statistics --- p.43 / Reliability --- p.43 / Criterion-related validity --- p.44 / Chapter IV --- RESULTS --- p.45 / Descriptive Statistics --- p.45 / Criterion-related validity --- p.48 / Reliability --- p.49 / Test-retest reliability --- p.49 / Internal consistency --- p.50 / Questionnaire revision --- p.51 / Chapter V --- DISCUSSION --- p.57 / Reliability --- p.57 / Test-retest reliability --- p.57 / Internal consistency --- p.60 / Validity --- p.62 / Limitations --- p.68 / Recommendations for further study --- p.69 / Conclusions --- p.69 / REFERENCES --- p.71 / APPENDIX / Chapter A --- Self-reported Physical Fitness Questionnaire for content validity --- p.87 / Chapter B --- Self-reported Physical Fitness Questionnaire for criterion validity (Chinese version) --- p.108 / Chapter C --- Self-reported Physical Fitness Questionnaire for criterion validity (English version) --- p.113 / Chapter D --- Health History Questionnaire --- p.119 / Chapter E --- PAR-Q --- p.121 / Chapter F --- Informed consent --- p.123 / Chapter G --- "Revised Self-reported Physical Fitness, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency (women)" --- p.124 / Chapter H --- "Revised Self-reported Physical Fitness, test-retest reliability, and internal consistency (men)" --- p.126

Thesis (M.H.S.A.)--University of Michigan, 1979.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1959.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1959.

Thesis (M.H.S.A.)--University of Michigan, 1979.

published_or_final_version / Sports Science / Master / Master of Science in Sports Science

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