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Jahangir, Nadim, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Relationship between Managers’ Use of Power and Employees’ Work Variables in Nationalised Commercial Banks in Bangladesh." Australian Catholic University. School of Business and Informatics, 2003. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp33.29082005.
Full textOrdonez, Asenjo Carolina. "Power, Social Identity and Fashion Consumption : A thesis on how female executives use power-coded dressing as a tool to accentuate power as a part of their social identity." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Marknadsföring, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-108867.
Full textAlakili, Nadin, and Victoria Evegren. "”Det sitter i väggarna” : En kvalitativ studie om brukarinflytande i samband med äldres flytt till särskilt boende." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-75431.
Full textKirk, Joyce. "Theorising information use : managers and their work /." Electronic version, 2002. http://adt.lib.uts.edu.au/public/adt-NTSM20031028.165129/index.html.
Full textHolguin, Emilsen Salazar. "Strategies Functional Managers Use to Control Cyberloafing Behaviors." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2604.
Full textLove, Sharon Belinda. "Strategies Retail Managers Use to Reduce Employee Turnover." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7162.
Full textBorg, Andrew Edward. "Strategies Agency Managers Use to Retain Recruiting Staff." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2790.
Full textAtkins, Christopher Sean. "Strategies Healthcare Managers Use to Reduce Employee Turnover." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7910.
Full textAdams, Jewel Darlene. "The Relationship of Managers' Power Motivations to Personality Pathology." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1333.
Full textMercier, Emma. "What matters to managers? : A qualitative case-study on managers' use of planning and development talks." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Pedagogik och sociologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-161033.
Full textLi, Li. "The use of technologies for hospitality managers' professional development." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2009. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/2120/.
Full textBegkos, Christos. "Accounting and strategizing : medical managers' use of accounting information." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/accounting-and-strategizing-medical-managers-use-of-accounting-information(dcf7df7c-b4d4-4dd5-9dfb-4a732b6c4006).html.
Full textSkym, Sophea Ey. "Strategies Clinic Managers Use to Reduce Missed Medical Appointments." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4256.
Full textDebesai, Yohannes. "Strategies Healthcare Managers Use to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Infections." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6414.
Full textDesir, Samara. "Strategies Department Store Managers Use to Increase Employee Engagement." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6416.
Full textSparks, Joe. "Leadership Styles Manufacturing Business Managers Use to Reduce Workplace Injuries." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5786.
Full textLima, Julio L. "Power, trust, police unions, and police managers| A quantitative research study." Thesis, Capella University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3732850.
Full textA Likert Scale Attitudinal Survey was distributed to sworn, non-supervisor, police officers at six police departments in the state of California in a department roll-call setting to measure the counterbalance of power, trust, and influence between police managers and police union leaders. The relationship between a police management and police union leadership is critical component in the internal dynamics of the police organization. The results from this study provide evidence that although on average rank and file police officers tend to trust and attribute more power within police organizations to police unions rather than to police managers, an analysis of the survey responses by inferential statistics showed that these differences were not statistically significant. Furthermore, an analysis of the survey results measuring the relationship between the specific leadership bases of power and trust revealed a statistically significant relationship between the perception of trust by rank and file officers and the use of specific bases of power by police managers and police union leaders. In conclusion, the implications for studies of leadership, power, and policing are discussed.
Andersson, Christofer, and Lotta Mähönen. "Managerial use of accounting information : A study on how managers use business reports at NCC." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-226799.
Full textAnsar, Atif. "'New departures' in infrastructure provision : an ongoing evolution away from physical assets to user needs." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1f938334-bf4e-45cc-81fc-be50afa5dc9e.
Full textKroll, Alexander. "Why public managers use performance information : concepts, theory, and empirical analysis." Phd thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/5979/.
Full textThe dissertation examines the use of performance information by public managers. “Use” is conceptualized as purposeful utilization in order to steer, learn, and improve public services. The main research question is: Why do public managers use performance information? To answer this question, I systematically review the existing literature, identify research gaps and introduce the approach of my dissertation. The first part deals with manager-related variables that might affect performance information use but which have thus far been disregarded. The second part models performance data use by applying a theory from social psychology which is based on the assumption that this management behavior is conscious and reasoned. The third part examines the extent to which explanations of performance information use vary if we include others sources of “unsystematic” feedback in our analysis. The empirical results are based on survey data from 2011. I surveyed middle managers from eight selected divisions of all German cities with county status (n=954). To analyze the data, I used factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, and structural equation modeling. My research resulted in four major findings: 1) The use of performance information can be modeled as a reasoned behavior which is determined by the attitude of the managers and of their immediate peers. 2) Regular users of performance data surprisingly are not generally inclined to analyze abstract data but rather prefer gathering information through personal interaction. 3) Managers who take on ownership of performance information at an early stage in the measurement process are also more likely to use this data when it is reported to them. 4) Performance reports are only one source of information among many. Public managers prefer verbal feedback from insiders and feedback from external stakeholders over systematic performance reports. The dissertation explains these findings using a deductive approach and discusses their implications for theory and practice.
Bok, Hai Suan. "Managers communication media : a field study of choice, use, and richness." Thesis, Henley Business School, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387834.
Full textCox, Stephen A. "The communication strategies managers and coworkers use to encourage employee exit /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9712797.
Full textBorbély, Adrian. "Managers in disputes and use of alternative dispute resolution in France." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, Ecole supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ESEC0006.
Full textThis dissertation explores resistance factors toward Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) that can be observed in French companies, more precisely in relation with the micro interactions between managers and lawyers as they respond to business disputes. It consists of three academic papers that feature new theory developments, transposition of agency theory in professional services, and two supporting empirical studies. The first one unveils the diverse and dynamic nature of manager-lawyer interaction schemes and offers potential organizational levers to promote efficient dispute resolution practices. The second relates manager individual behavior in disputes, especially in relationship to lawyers, with the successful use of ADR. As a whole, this thesis places at the forefront the notion of coproduction and invites to focus on client behavior in business dispute resolution. It suggests that, as ADR lies at the borders of the French lawyers’ sphere of competency, efficient dispute resolution may require adaptation on the clients’ side, as well as organizational redesign. These studies aim to offer new insights for conflict management theory and reflections for the further promotion of efficient resolution of disputes in France
Adeyemi, Akeem A. "Strategies Business Managers Use to Engage Employees in the Chemical Industry." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5600.
Full textRabogadi, Thulaganyo Arnold. "Strategies Information and Communication Technology Managers Use to Build Employee Competencies." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3573.
Full textMakoni, Eric. "Employee Engagement Strategies That Healthcare Managers Use to Increase Organizational Performance." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6730.
Full textBae, Eul-Kyoo. "Perspectives of training evaluation among nuclear power training professionals and line managers." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1258727940.
Full textNordström, Johannes. "To Talk the Walk : A study of top-managers' use of communication." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-38970.
Full textGirotto, Michele. "Strategy text roles: exploring practices-in-use and academic managers strategizing behaviours." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129108.
Full textThis study focuses on the use of the strategy text in strategizing from the view point of academic managers. Strategy research has become interested in practices, activities and behaviours of practitioners of different organizational levels in strategizing. Additionally, micro level activities and the relevance of strategy text in implementation process have thus become an interesting focus of research in different organizational settings. Even though the literature have acknowledged the significance of practitioners and practices in organizational strategy, the relationship between practitioners, practices and strategy texts in effective strategy implementation remains still little ascertained. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the strategy text in strategizing; exploring how variations in practices of academic manager‟s engagement in strategy practices and in strategy text usage can explain enhanced outcomes in strategy implementation in the university setting. As such, the activities, practices and perspectives involved in the construction and implementation of strategy text are studied through narratives of academic managers regarding their views and roles within the strategy process. In this manner, this study uses a qualitative design, with the application of an exploratory multiple case study, where semi-structure interviews with 42 top and middle academic managers in three typology of public Spanish universities were applied (technological, research and regional), which constitutes the primary data. Additional data is comprised of documentation of the official strategy processes of the three institutions, also observation notes, and informal conversations. The exploitation of these multiple sources of data grounded in strategy as practice as theoretical lens, informed by theory of discursive approaches to strategy making, supported by the grounded theory on analyzing the data, allows the identification of distinct patterns of narratives regarding strategy texts roles, strategy practices in use as well as strategizing behaviours and contextual elements driving this relationship. Based on the analysis of distinct forms of strategizing behaviours and practices in use, six roles of strategy text in strategizing are described: consultive, conversational and authoritative roles, which presented higher enabling engagement potential; prescriptive and contingent roles, which were associated with higher constraining engagement potential and the ambivalent role that presented a borderline perspective between the previous roles. By showing how both top and middle academic managers use strategy texts in strategizing, this study adds to our understating of elements that influences in strategy implementation and alignment. The study suggests that different academic managers engage in strategy and use the strategy text in different ways (in a more creative or restrictive form), however these differences are strongly context specific of the internal and external practices that frame strategizing behaviours, which consequently might derive into constraining or enabling text creative uses. The study proposes a dynamic framework that integrates strategy text roles within internal and external contextual elements, practices in use and patterns of strategizing behaviour and shows the relevance of the interaction of strategy text with elements that could be reinforced, changed or withdrawn when promoting the forms of interactive strategizing behaviours and text creative consumptions. Therefore, the study provides strategy research with new understanding of the role of strategy texts in the practice of strategy.
Ernst, Brian A., Jeffery J. Kubik, and Angel F. Cruz. "How program managers can use whistleblowing to reduce fraud within government organizations." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43909.
Full textThe objective of this project is to recommend how U.S. program managers can use whistleblowing policies to combat fraud within the Department of Defense. Whistleblowers are an underused asset for revealing hidden, immoral, fraudulent, or inappropriate actions within an organization. Not only may whistleblowing identify undetected problems, it may save lives and vast sums of money. This research project answers the following questions: 1) Why is whistleblowing important to a program-management office and its chain of command? 2) What makes someone want to, or not want to, blow the whistle within their organization? 3) How can U.S. defense organizations position themselves to fully utilize the potential power of whistleblowing? The history of whistleblowing in the United States, its positive and negative impacts, and whistleblower decision-making are discussed and an open-systems organizational model is used to demonstrate why a formal whistleblowing process is beneficial. Finally, recommendations are provided as to how organizations can create or strengthen their whistleblowing polices.
Crowder, Mark. "Decision-making in practice : the use of cognitive heuristics by senior managers." Thesis, University of Chester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/314940.
Full textBranch, Harold Kenneth. "Strategies Construction Project Managers Use to Create Environmental Sustainability in Construction Projects." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6176.
Full textAyanwale, Ayanfemi M. "Strategies Nurse Managers Use to Reduce Voluntary Turnover of New Registered Nurses." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6772.
Full textDuclos, Gosselin Louis. "How Managers Can Use Predictive Analysis and Mathematical Models as Decision Making Tools." Thesis, Université Laval, 2011. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2011/26771/26771.pdf.
Full textMcknight, Peggy Ann. "Strategies Small Construction Business Managers Use to Reduce Safety Incidents in Their Organization." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5574.
Full textRoot, Kaitlyn. "SITUATIONAL AND GENERATIONAL WELFARE USE: PROGRAM MANAGERS’ IDENTITIES AND WELFARE IMPLEMENTATION IN OHIO." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron15905942786473.
Full textVan, Aswegen Laureen. "Power, Privilege and Identity at the Margins : Identity Work Transitions of Lower Echelon Managers." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/75480.
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Hass, Nicolette P. "The power of teams: Do self-managing work teams influence managers' perceptions of potency?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4961/.
Full textAppo, Dennis Keith. "The use of power in Aboriginal organisations /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe17843.pdf.
Full textRutberg, Michael J. (Michael Jacob). "Modeling water use at thermoelectric power plants." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74674.
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The withdrawal and consumption of water at thermoelectric power plants affects regional ecology and supply security of both water and electricity. The existing field data on US power plant water use, however, is of limited granularity and poor quality, hampering efforts to track industry trends and project future scenarios. Furthermore, there is a need for a common quantitative framework on which to evaluate the effects of various technologies on water use at power plants. To address these deficiencies, Part 1 of this thesis develops an analytical system-level generic model (SGEM) of water use at power plants. The S-GEM applies to fossil, nuclear, geothermal and solar thermal plants, using either steam or combined cycles, and outputs water withdrawal and consumption intensity, in liters per megawatt-hour. Two validations of the S-GEM are presented, one against data from the literature for a variety of generation types, the other against field data from coal plants in South Africa. Part 2 of the thesis then focuses on cooling systems, by far the largest consumers of water in most power plants. The water consumption of different cooling systems is placed on a common quantitative basis, enabling direct comparison of water consumption between cooling system types, and examination of the factors that affect water consumption within each cooling system type. The various cost, performance, and environmental impact tradeoffs associated with once-through, pond, wet tower, dry, and hybrid cooling technologies are qualitatively reviewed. Part 3 examines cooling of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, which presents particular problems: the plants generate high waste heat loads, are usually located in water-scarce areas, and are typically on the margin of economic viability. A case study is conducted to explore the use of indirect dry cooling with cold-side thermal energy storage, in which cooling water is chilled and stored at night, when ambient temperatures are lower and the plant is inactive, and then used the following day. This approach is shown to hold promise for reducing the capital, operational, and performance costs of dry cooling for CSP.
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Blackburn, Jessica L. "MOTIVATED REASONING: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING HIRING MANAGERS' INTENTIONS TO USE PERSONNEL SELECTION INSTRUMENTS." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1156188913.
Full textOwens, Avius A. "Case managers' perceptions of parental methamphetamine use on the Cobb county child welfare system." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2008. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/2083.
Full textKalapurakal, Rosemary. "Managers' market beliefs : nature and effects on information use in competitive pricing decision-making." Connect to resource, 1993. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1265986363.
Full textDakhel, Sabah Rasoul. "The use of interactive models to formulate managers' problems and to identify decision aids." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1987. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/65a900c0-4a87-4a3a-a28f-6b930176c24d/1/.
Full textElliott, Chastidy. "Strategies Middle Managers of Nonprofit Health Care Organizations Use to Motivate Their Administrative Workforce." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7923.
Full textOkwuosa, Innocent. "Exploring integrated reporting : accountant's understanding and sell-side analysts' and fund managers' information use." Thesis, University of Reading, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701796.
Full textRollison, Lynn Rachel. "Constructing leadership and power within an androcentric organization, a case study of four nurse managers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq21916.pdf.
Full textElkington, Katherine. "On the Use of Wind Power for Transient Stability Enhancement of Power Systems." Thesis, KTH, Elektriska energisystem, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-118931.
Full textAssémat, Céline. "Management of thermal power plants through use values." Thesis, KTH, Elektriska energisystem, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-175811.
Full textBecker, Johannes. "Collaboration and Power Use in Buyer-Supplier Relationships." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.503937.
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