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Browsing by Subject "Organizational behavior"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2006)Within the field of organizational analysis, Joan Acker's concept of the gendered substructure is one of the most widely cited in terms of potential for change yet under-explored in terms of application. In this thesis ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1994)This study evaluated a program designed to increase union commitment among rank-and-file members of a public service union. Two-day workshops, held over an 18 month period, involved discussions and presentations of material ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation contains three sequential studies that use a mixed-methods approach. The first study involved qualitative interviews with 29 individuals using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1949) and Peterson ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)Organizational recruitment information has become geared towards attracting high quality applicants in recent years (Curless & Imber, 2007; Grawitch, Tares & Kohler 2007). Organizational psychologists have identified ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)This thesis studies the concept of kindness. The study of kindness is limited in management and organizational studies and this research problematizes the concept of kindness, shows how kindness research is represented ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)The purpose of this paper is to explore Joan Acker’s system of gendering processes and to assess the potential of this framework to help researchers better identify those activities in and around organizations that maintain, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Given the emergence of unethical leaders in both the civilian and military sectors over the years, it is imperative that research investigate the nature of ethical leadership behaviour. This study contributes to research ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The current research investigated the relationship of eight Canadian Forces Occupational Stress Questionnaire (CFOSQ) job characteristics, and transformational leadership as measured by the Global Transformational Leadership ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2023-05-09)This study investigated the relationship between safety management systems (SMSs), SAFER leadership and safety-related behaviour. In particular, this study examined whether an indirect effect of SMSs on safety-related ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2002)The goals of the current study were: (1) to examine the relationships among multi-dimensional measures of job attitudes (employee morale), personality factors, and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), and (2) to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Work related injuries and fatalities can cause significant human suffering as well as considerable social and economic costs. A growing body of research has demonstrated that leaders can play an important role in enhancing ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2005)The focus of this paper is the narrative construction of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) by the United Nations. How the NGO is narrated by a legitimate institution like the UN is critical for both the sustainability ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2006)Natural Church Development (NCD) is an emerging model that was designed to assess and develop the health of a church (Schwarz, 1998). With modification, it is argued that the NCD model could make a significant contribution ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This thesis explores the relationship between the choices made by individuals and the influences of the groups to which those individuals belong. To interrogate the nature of groups, the thesis employs ideas from actor-network ...
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On the importance of being scrappy : entrepreneurial orientation and bricolage in social enterprises (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Social enterprises are hybrid organizations that create social value using market-based models. Social entrepreneurship (SE) as a process is increasingly seen as holding promise for tackling mounting social and environmental ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 2014)Very little research has been carried out to determine the links between social-cognitive mechanisms and employees' counterproductive computer security behaviors (CCSB). Accordingly, we aim to contribute to the literature ...
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(Atlantic Schools of Business, 1998)This paper proposes an integration of institutional theory, which explains the pulls of strategic conformity, and the resource-based view of the firm, which identifies the importance of strategic nonconformity. It suggests ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)Although ICT use enables flexibility and autonomy for workers, it also contributes to blurred boundaries between work and life domains and can result in impaired well-being (e.g., Day et al., 2012). This study explores the ...
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