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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Repenser la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises à travers une perspective de construction de sens : perceptions de 20 responsables RSE / Rethinking corporate social responsibility through sensemaking perspective : perceptions of 20 CSR managers

Boutiba, Rim 19 December 2014 (has links)
Ce travail de recherche a pour objet de s’interroger sur la contribution de la théorie de sensemaking à l’étude de la Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises (RSE). A cet effet, nous nous proposons de rendre compte du sens que les acteurs attribuent aux actions socialement responsables. Ce faisant, nous cherchons à mettre en évidence la variété de processus de sensemaking pouvant aboutir à une variété de représentations de la RSE. Notre étude qualitative consiste à explorer en profondeur le processus de sensemaking de la RSE. Nous avons eu recours à un procédé de croisement de perspectives méthodologiques : une analyse lexicale, une analyse thématique de contenu et enfin une analyse par les cartes cognitives. Les résultats font apparaître quatre classes de discours portant sur la RSE : la responsabilité vis-à-vis des parties prenantes (PP) et la cartographie des PP ; le comportement moral et éthique ; le développement durable, la certification et le reporting ; le cadrage et le déploiement de la démarche. Ces derniers montrent la nécessité de considérer cinq dimensions du processus de sensemaking de la RSE : les facteurs déclencheurs, le processus d’énaction, le processus de sélection, le processus de communication et le processus d’adaptation. Il ressort aussi de cette étude cinq types de perceptions de ce processus de sensemaking de la RSE : la perception englobante des responsables, la perception des responsables des entreprises et organisations tunisiennes publiques, la perception des responsables des entreprises et organisations tunisiennes appartenant au programme de promotion de l’ISO 26000, la perception des responsables des firmes multinationales privées et la perception du responsable du programme de promotion des principes du Pacte Mondial. / The aim of this research is to identify the contribution of sensemaking theory to the study of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Therefore, we propose to bring out the meaning that actors attribute to socially responsible actions. For that matter, we seek to highlight the variety of sensemaking process that can lead to a variety of CSR representations. Our qualitative study consists in exploring in depth the sensemaking process of CSR. We have used crossing methodological perspectives: a lexical analysis, a thematic content analysis and finally a cognitive maps analysis. The results suggest four classes of discourse on CSR: responsibility to stakeholders (SK) and stakeholder mapping; moral and ethical behavior; sustainable development, certification and reporting; framing and implementing the approach. These results show the need to consider five dimensions of the sensemaking process of CSR: triggers, enactment process, selection process, communication process and adaptation process. From this study appear also five perceptions’ types of the sensemaking process of CSR: the global managers’ perception, the perception of public enterprises and organizations managers, the perception of Tunisian enterprises and organizations belonging to the ISO 26000 promotion program managers, the perception of private multinationals managers, and the perception of the manager of the Global Compact principles program.
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A influência da cultura nacional em processos cognitivos de tomada de decisão

Oliveira, Rafael Mello January 2016 (has links)
A cultura nacional influencia o processo de tomada de decisão? Quais são os pressupostos da tomada de decisão? Qual a relação entre a cultura nacional do tomador de decisão, seus constructos pessoais, a produção de sentido e a tomada de decisão? Este trabalho buscou desenvolver um raciocínio acerca desta temática, criando um modelo que integra conceitos de culturas nacionais, a teoria dos constructos pessoais e a teoria da produção de sentido. Este modelo de análise foi então aplicado a estudantes universitários de origem alemã, italiana e ibérica no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Foram aplicados dois questionários estruturados, um aberto e um fechado bem como um quase-experimento para chegar-se aos resultados. Aproximadamente 700 pessoas participaram da pesquisa em 6 cidades. Os dados foram então analisados através de análise de conteúdo (para as questões abertas), e técnicas estatísticas como regressão linear e análise fatorial para as questões fechadas. A relação entre cultura nacional, constructos pessoais, produção de sentido e tomada de decisão foi evidenciada parcialmente. Observou-se que os constructos pessoais variaram conforme a origem dos respondentes, porém a diferença entre as culturas italiana, alemã e ibérica não foi significativa para a decisão individual, não influenciando de forma diferente a tomada de decisão e a produção de sentido. Houve no entanto, uma diferença importante entre decisão individual e organizacional, verificando-se a influência da origem cultural (ascendência) no processo de tomada de decisão organizacional, no que tange a percepção da qualidade, sem no entanto alterar a ordem de importância dos atributos (constructos pessoais) de decisão. Estes resultados são importantes pois ajudam a entender o processo decisório, ressaltando a emergência de uma cultura regional (geral), mais forte do que as influências dos países de origem (ascendências). / Does national culture influence the decision-making process? What are the assumptions of decision-making? What is the relationship between the decision maker´s national culture, his personal constructs, his sensemaking and his actual decision? This study aimed to develop an argument about this issue, creating a model that integrates concepts of national culture, the personal constructs theory, and the sensemaking theory. This analysis model was then applied to Brazilian university students of German, Italian and Iberian origins (ancestry) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Two structured questionnaires were applied as well as a quasi-experiment to get to the results. Approximately 700 people participated in the survey in 6 cities. The data were then analyzed using content analysis (for open questions), and statistical techniques such as correlation, regression and factor analysis for the closed questions. The relationship between national culture, personal constructs, sensemaking and decision-making was evidenced in part. It was observed that personal constructs varied according to the origin of the respondents, but the difference between Italian, German and Iberian cultures was not significant for the individual decision, not influencing in a different way the decision-making and the sensemaking. There was however, an important difference between individual and organizational decision, showing the influence of cultural origin (ancestry) in the organizational decision making process regarding the perception of quality, without changing the order of importance of the decision attributes (personal constructs). These results are useful to understand the decision-making process, highlighting the emergence of a (general) regional culture, stronger than the influence of countries of origin (ancestry).
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A influência da cultura nacional em processos cognitivos de tomada de decisão

Oliveira, Rafael Mello January 2016 (has links)
A cultura nacional influencia o processo de tomada de decisão? Quais são os pressupostos da tomada de decisão? Qual a relação entre a cultura nacional do tomador de decisão, seus constructos pessoais, a produção de sentido e a tomada de decisão? Este trabalho buscou desenvolver um raciocínio acerca desta temática, criando um modelo que integra conceitos de culturas nacionais, a teoria dos constructos pessoais e a teoria da produção de sentido. Este modelo de análise foi então aplicado a estudantes universitários de origem alemã, italiana e ibérica no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Foram aplicados dois questionários estruturados, um aberto e um fechado bem como um quase-experimento para chegar-se aos resultados. Aproximadamente 700 pessoas participaram da pesquisa em 6 cidades. Os dados foram então analisados através de análise de conteúdo (para as questões abertas), e técnicas estatísticas como regressão linear e análise fatorial para as questões fechadas. A relação entre cultura nacional, constructos pessoais, produção de sentido e tomada de decisão foi evidenciada parcialmente. Observou-se que os constructos pessoais variaram conforme a origem dos respondentes, porém a diferença entre as culturas italiana, alemã e ibérica não foi significativa para a decisão individual, não influenciando de forma diferente a tomada de decisão e a produção de sentido. Houve no entanto, uma diferença importante entre decisão individual e organizacional, verificando-se a influência da origem cultural (ascendência) no processo de tomada de decisão organizacional, no que tange a percepção da qualidade, sem no entanto alterar a ordem de importância dos atributos (constructos pessoais) de decisão. Estes resultados são importantes pois ajudam a entender o processo decisório, ressaltando a emergência de uma cultura regional (geral), mais forte do que as influências dos países de origem (ascendências). / Does national culture influence the decision-making process? What are the assumptions of decision-making? What is the relationship between the decision maker´s national culture, his personal constructs, his sensemaking and his actual decision? This study aimed to develop an argument about this issue, creating a model that integrates concepts of national culture, the personal constructs theory, and the sensemaking theory. This analysis model was then applied to Brazilian university students of German, Italian and Iberian origins (ancestry) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil). Two structured questionnaires were applied as well as a quasi-experiment to get to the results. Approximately 700 people participated in the survey in 6 cities. The data were then analyzed using content analysis (for open questions), and statistical techniques such as correlation, regression and factor analysis for the closed questions. The relationship between national culture, personal constructs, sensemaking and decision-making was evidenced in part. It was observed that personal constructs varied according to the origin of the respondents, but the difference between Italian, German and Iberian cultures was not significant for the individual decision, not influencing in a different way the decision-making and the sensemaking. There was however, an important difference between individual and organizational decision, showing the influence of cultural origin (ancestry) in the organizational decision making process regarding the perception of quality, without changing the order of importance of the decision attributes (personal constructs). These results are useful to understand the decision-making process, highlighting the emergence of a (general) regional culture, stronger than the influence of countries of origin (ancestry).
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How Discourses Cast Airport Security Characters: A Discourse Tracing and Qualitative Analysis of Identity and Emotional Performances

January 2013 (has links)
abstract: Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent creation of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), airport security has become an increasingly invasive, cumbersome, and expensive process. Fraught with tension and discomfort, "airport security" is a dirty phrase in the popular imagination, synonymous with long lines, unimpressive employees, and indignity. In fact, the TSA and its employees have featured as topic and punch line of news and popular culture stories. This image complicates the TSA's mission to ensure the nation's air travel safety and the ways that its officers interact with passengers. Every day, nearly two million people fly domestically in the United States. Each passenger must interact with many of the approximately 50,000 agents in airports. How employees and travelers make sense of interactions in airport security contexts can have significant implications for individual wellbeing, personal and professional relationships, and organizational policies and practices. Furthermore, the meaning making of travelers and employees is complexly connected to broad social discourses and issues of identity. In this study, I focus on the communication implications of identity and emotional performances in airport security in light of discourses at macro, meso, and micro levels. Using discourse tracing (LeGreco & Tracy, 2009), I construct the historical and discursive landscape of airport security, and via participant observation and various types of interviews, demonstrate how officers and passengers develop and perform identity, and the resulting interactional consequences. My analysis suggests that passengers and Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) perform three main types of identities in airport security contexts--what I call Stereotypical, Ideal, and Mindful--which reflect different types and levels of discourse. Identity performances are intricately related to emotional processes and occur dynamically, in relation to the identity and emotional performances of others. Theoretical implications direct attention to the ways that identity and emotional performances structure interactions, cause burdensome emotion management, and present organizational actors with tension, contradiction, and paradox to manage. Practical implications suggest consideration of passenger and TSO emotional wellbeing, policy framing, passenger agency, and preferred identities. Methodologically, this dissertation offers insight into discourse tracing and challenges of embodied "undercover" research in public spaces. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Communication Studies 2013
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Compreensão da geração de sentido da relação de negócios por parceiros envolvidos no desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias

VIEIRA, Ricardo Sérgio Gomes January 2006 (has links)
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[en] THE INTRODUCTION OF METAVERSES IN TEACHING: SENSEMAKING OF VIRTUAL WORLDS IN THE CONTEXT OF HIGHER EDUCATION / [pt] A INTRODUÇÃO DE METAVERSOS NO PROCESSO DE ENSINO: FAZENDO SENTIDO DE MUNDOS VIRTUAIS NO CONTEXTO ORGANIZACIONAL DO ENSINO SUPERIOR

TATIANA MARIA BERNARDO DA SILVA 22 November 2012 (has links)
[pt] A criação da World Wide Web (WWW) em 1992 permitiu a emergência de novas propostas pedagógicas e tornou a educação on-line mais acessível. A facilidade de uso da Web e a capacidade de apresentar ferramentas multimídias aumentaram o número de disciplinas que poderiam ser oferecidas on-line. Os computadores e a tecnologia da informação ampliaram oportunidades na educação e abriram o caminho para o uso de novos métodos educacionais. Essa mudança tecnológica exige uma mudança no papel exercido pelo professor, entretanto, a introdução dessas tecnologias no ambiente de ensino causa distúrbio no status quo, levando o indivíduo a ter que se reconfigurar e a percepção do mundo a que está ao seu redor também. Ele precisa reorganizar seu mundo de forma que o mesmo faça sentido novamente a ele, por meio do processo de sensemaking (WEICK, 1995; WEICK, SUTCLIFFE E OBSTFELD, 2005) os indivíduos reorganizam seu mundo. O sensemaking pode ser entendido como a interpretação que a pessoa faz sobre um evento que gerou um distúrbio no mundo a qual está acostumado, despertando um processo de reorganização de significados para entender o novo ambiente afim de que o mesmo faça sentido para ele. O objetivo deste estudo é entender como a introdução e o uso dos metaversos para o ensino afetam o ambiente de ensino a qual professores universitários estão acostumados e como eles reinterpretam e reorganizam seu mundo. O metaverso escolhido foi o Second Life dado o fato de ser o metaverso mais difundido no mundo (ANDREAS, TSITASOS, TERSIDOU E POMPORTSIS, 2010) e por algumas universidades adotarem este para o ensino (DE LUCIA, FRANCESE, PASSERO E TORTORA, 2009). Optou-se por um método qualitativo com a condução de entrevistas em profundidade, realizadas com professores de uma instituição de ensino superior da Região Sul. Suas opiniões e pontos de vista foram reunidos e avaliados por meio de análise do discurso como indicado no trabalho de Nicolacida- Costa (2007). Os resultados obtidos contribuem para uma compreensão mais profunda de questões específicas em relação ao uso de metaversos por professores, enquanto ao mesmo tempo, apontam possíveis fatores que podem facilitar a integração da tecnologia no ambiente. / [en] The creation of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1992 enabled the emergence of new educational proposals and made on-line education more accessible on-line. The facility of use of the Web and the ability to present multimedia tools increased the number of courses that could be offered on-line. Computers and information technology expanded opportunities in education and opened the way for the use of new educational methods. This technological change requires a change in the role played by the teacher, however, the introduction of these technologies in the learning environment cause disturbance in the status quo, leading the individual to have to reconfigure themselves and their perception of the world that is around them too. He needs to rearrange his world in order that it makes sense to him again, through the process of sensemaking (WEICK, 1995; WEICK, SUTCLIFFE AND OBSTFELD, 2005) individuals reorganize their world. Sensemaking can be understood as the interpretation that the person does about an event that generated a disorder in that world is accustomed, awakening a reorganization of meanings to understand the new environment in order that it makes sense for him. The objective of this study is to understand how the introduction and use of metaverses for teaching affect the learning environment which academics are accustomed and how they reinterpret and rearrange their world. The metaverse Second Life was chosen because of the fact that it is the metaverse most widespread in the world (ANDREAS, TSITASOS, TERSIDOU AND POMPORTSIS, 2010) and by some universities adopt this to teaching (DE LUCIA, FRANCESE, PASSERO AND TORTORA, 2009). We opted for a qualitative method with conduction in-depth interviews done with professors of higher education institution in South Region of Brazil. Their opinions and views were collected and evaluated by means of discourse analysis, as published in the paper of Nicolaci-da-Costa (2007). The results contribute to a deeper understanding of specific issues regarding the use of metaverses by professors, while at the same time point possible factors that may facilitate the integration of technology into the environment.
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PRICE WARS AND MANAGERIAL SENSEMAKING: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY

Cardot, Rick 21 June 2021 (has links)
No description available.
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An Exploration of the Changing Role of Principal Supervisors

Bennett, Mia H 12 1900 (has links)
Existing literature provides newly identified responsibilities of the principal supervisor but lacks in information about how districts should strategically spearhead the process of initiating, implementing, and managing the changes to the role of the supervisor. In this study, I examined the behaviors and actions of one school district's executive-level leaders as they shifted the position of the principal supervisor. Findings could contribute to a new area of research in how district leaders may navigate and manage the complicated process of initiating and managing the changes to the principal supervisor's role.
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Meningsskapande hos anställda efter en organisationsförändring

Borell, Amalia, Winlund, Johanna January 2021 (has links)
Att genomgå en organisationsförändring handlar hos individen om ett meningsskapande för att förstå samt anpassa sig till situationen. Faktorer som socialt stöd, förväntningar och kommunikation kan både försvåra samt underlätta denna process, detta beroende på hur dessa ser ut. Denna kvalitativa studie genomfördes med syftet att undersöka upplevelsen av meningsskapande efter en organisationsförändring, samt vilka faktorer som upplevdes underlätta respektive försvåra denna. Intervjuer genomfördes med 12 medarbetare inom olika organisationer som i efterhand transkriberades och analyserades genom en tematiseringsprocess. Det resulterade i två huvudteman: Underlättande faktorer samt Försvårande faktorer, dessa med tillhörande subteman. Resultatet visade att socialt stöd och förståelse för förändring främst underlättade, medan bristande kommunikation som ledde till osäkerhet och avsaknad av delaktighet istället försvårade den anställdes meningsskapande. I många fall överensstämmer resultatets teman med de faktorer som underlättar samt försvårar själva förändringsarbetet. Då en anställd genomgått en lyckad meningsskapandeprocess följer med stor sannolikhet ett lyckat förändringsarbete.
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Kollektiv sensemaking hos tvärfunktionella team : En studie som undersöker komplexiteten kring gemensam förståelse hos tvärfunktionella team vid situationer av samverkan

Jansson, Tamara, Norling, Amanda January 2022 (has links)
Då färre forskning har riktats mot kollektiv sensemaking hos tvärfunktionella team, ämnar denna studie att kasta ytterligare ljus över den komplexitet som det innebär i situationer av samverkan. Således kommer djupare förståelse utvecklas för vilka aspekter som påverkar en kollektiv sensemaking. Detta är en kvalitativ studie med ett abduktivt förhållningssätt. Den empiriska datan samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och analyseras i narrativ form. Studien är av interpretivistisk prägel, det vill säga tolkande. Expertiser, Obefogad tillhörighet; Beröringspunkter; Egen förståelse; Kompromisser; Horisontell kommunikation; Kommunikationsforum; Tydligt syfte; Att veta ‘nog’ mycket, visade sig vara aspekter som kan påverka förmågan till kollektiv sensemaking. Samtliga aspekter ger upphov till behovet av mer anpassad sensegiving. / As less research has focused on collective sensemaking in cross-functional teams, this study aims to shed further light on the complexity that it entails insituations of collaboration. Therefore, a deeper understanding will be developed of the aspects that influence a collective sensemaking.' This is a qualitative study with an abductive approach. The empirical data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed in narrative form. The study is of an interpretivist nature. Expertise; Unjustified belonging; Intersections; Own understandings; Compromise; Horizontal communication; Communication forum; Clear purpose; Knowing ‘enough’, turned out to be aspects that can affect the ability for collective sensemaking. All aspects give further need for a more adaptive sensegiving.

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