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Communicating multiple change : understanding the impact of change messages on stakeholder perceptionsLaster, Nicole Mary 02 October 2012 (has links)
This study explored change implementation communication from a multifaceted (more than one at any particular time) change perspective. It examined how employees make sense of and respond to the organizational coordination of multifaceted change efforts. The case of a merger provides the backdrop for which to understand the multiplicity and complexity of organizational change (both planned and unplanned) and how the communicative organizational response to these overlapping and subsequent changes both complement and compete with the initially introduced change. This project was organized into two studies. The first explored the messages stakeholders recall receiving from implementers about multifaceted change. The second tested the relationships between change messages and specific individual and organizational change outcomes. Thematic analysis revealed that implementers used four different change messages. Statistical analysis revealed that multifaceted change messages create higher levels of change satisfaction, message quality, change liking, and organizational trust. Moreover, messages including information about the multiplicity (or magnitude) produced the least degree of perceived deception, the greatest degree of coping efficacy, and higher degrees of organizational competency appraisals. / text
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Superintendent visibility : effects on student achievement, staff accountability, and organizational cultureRueter, John David 16 October 2012 (has links)
School superintendents of today must balance leadership skills, political skills, instructional skills, and people skills. They are at the forefront of the school district and are the most public personification of the district. They are encumbered with and often held accountable for student achievement, ensuring that all faculty and staff are accountable in their respective areas, and fostering and many times creating a culture that must meet the needs of all of their constituents. Research suggests that being a visible presence in the school district is one way for school superintendents to gauge the effectiveness of the district. Given the complexity of the job, school superintendents must utilize every available moment to ensure that the work of the school district is done in an efficient and effective manner. The successful school superintendent will find ways to be a visible presence in the school district and in the community, thus enabling him to have first-hand knowledge about the actions of the varying constituents in the school district as well as providing opportunities for him to have a positive impact on those actions. This treatise utilizes case study design to analyze the actions of a superintendent in one suburban school district. From the analysis of interviews, documents, and interactions, certain themes emerged. This study suggests that superintendents maintaining a visible presence in the district and in the surrounding community have a positive effect on the studied areas of student achievement, staff accountability, and organizational culture. Additionally, the study analyzed and documented specific behaviors which enable the superintendent to actualize a visible presence in the school district. / text
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Similarities and differences between adolescent monozygotic and dyzygotic twins' quality of the sibling relationshipSmith, Mary Allen McMurrey, 1962- 28 August 2008 (has links)
This study examined the similarities and differences in the adolescent monozygotic (MZ) twin and same-sex dyzygotic (DZss) twin sibling relationship. Specific constructs investigated were: companionship, empathy, directiveness/teaching, avoidance, rivalry, and aggression. Participants included 192 same-sex twin pairs, age 9 - 18, and their biological parents. The data is part of a national study from the Non-Shared Environment in Adolescent Development Project. The nationally representative data set provided a measure of the Sibling Inventory of Behavior - Expanded Version (Anderson & Rice, 1999), whereby each participant individually responded to the paper-pencil questionnaire. Twinship status differences, gender differences, reporter differences and reporter by twinship interactions were examined. The results found significant differences between MZ twins and DZss twins on the constructs of empathy, companionship, avoidance, rivalry, and aggression. MZ twins demonstrated and reported higher levels of empathy and companionship and lower levels of avoidance, rivalry, and aggression, when compared to DZss twins. There was no interaction effect of twinship by gender, except on directiveness/teaching; however, significant differences were found between male MZ/DZss twins and female MZ/DZss twins on the constructs of empathy, companionship, directiveness/teaching, and avoidance. Female MZ/DZ twins reported and demonstrated higher levels of empathy, companionship, and directiveness/teaching, and lower levels of avoidance. Overall, there were no reporter differences between twins on any of the six constructs. There were significant differences between parental perceptions and twin perceptions on empathy, companionship, directiveness/teaching, rivalry and aggression. A significant difference between mothers and fathers was found on the constructs of empathy and avoidance. On the construct of avoidance, mothers and fathers differed from each other, however, fathers did not differ from the twins. There was no twinship by reporter interaction effect, except on directiveness/teaching. Overall, the results suggest that MZ twins report and are perceived as having a more positive relationship than DZss twins. The results also support the need for multireporter research in order to obtain a truer picture of the family relationship. The gender findings further extend the understanding of the role of gender in the sibling relationship. Lastly, due to the paucity of twin research, the results aid in the development of a framework for understanding the adolescent twin relationship.
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An investigation of reading without sound : a story about MichaelCowan, Shalia Holloway 18 April 2011 (has links)
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Creating a learning organization : a case study of a high poverty, continuously improving predominantly Hispanic school districtAlanis, Maria Aida 17 May 2011 (has links)
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"Cuando yo me reajusté--" : vulnerability to poverty in a context of regional economic restructuring in urban Mexico : three case studiesRojas-García, Georgina 23 May 2011 (has links)
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The milieu of prostitutes in one woman brothel in Hong KongMa, Man-wai, Thomas., 馬文偉. January 1998 (has links)
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Evaluation of a "class visit" program in an aided secondary school: a case studyNg, Siu-ki., 吳少祺. January 1994 (has links)
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The theory and practice of social casework: future directions for practice in Hong KongEbrahim, Rafia Zafir. January 1990 (has links)
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A hospital survey of cardiovascular disease in the Chinese: with special reference to coronary arterydisease.Barnes, Robert Joseph. January 1965 (has links)
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