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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The overall objective for this dissertation research was to provide construct validity for the emerging love of the job LOJ model (Barling and Inness, 2007; Kelloway et al., 2010), to evaluate its measurement, and to situate ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)SRC variables are evolved stars (mostly M supergiants) that vary in brightness with semi-regular periods ranging from several months to several years. Their light variation is caused by a combination of pulsation, convection, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)This dissertation challenges the taken-for-granted status of humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontières. I will problematize humanitarianism and argue that the continued existence of ...
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In the beginning was the word : the discursive construction of spiritual work and spiritual workers (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The methods of critical discourse analysis are used to shed light onto workplace spirituality. This research is premised upon the idea that reality is socially constructed, and language is the central mechanism through ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)The current research used three studies to examine recruitment source usage, job seeker perceptions of recruitment sources and the relationships between several recruitment sources' correlates. The relationship between ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)This dissertation explores the apparent contradiction between the independence and autonomy of an elite profession and the pursuit of collective bargaining. Crown prosecutors employed in the Canadian public service bureaucracy ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)Recovery experiences (e.g., psychological detachment, relaxation, mastery, control) have been proposed to work in opposition of the strain process and help employees to unwind and restore their resources (Sonnentag & Bayer, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)To date the relationship between perceptions of safety climate and organizational justice does not appear to be empirically tested. There are no known studies that examine the relationship of distributive, procedural, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)This thesis explores empirical relationships between three phenomena in a health care organization, namely transformational leadership, workplace spirituality and employee well-being. A mixed method research program was ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies by creating an alternative methodology for history, one that I have come to call ANTi-History . In the development of this ...
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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)This thesis explores the meaning of work and its effect on the individual through an 'existential' lens using the 'job-career-calling model' as heuristic. A qualitative study was conducted consisting of in-depth interviews ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)Professionals have an inherent expectation of autonomy in their work, an associated lack of respect for both the managerial role and the people who hold managerial positions, and highly specialized knowledge and skills. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)Previous models of leadership have been based on an assumption of face-to-face contact between the leader and the follower. Increasingly, however, advanced information technology is being used by organizations to enable ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Previous research on aggression and violence in the workplace has focused on factors in an organizationally and physically bounded context. Over the last two decades, as organizations have adopted information and communication ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)A model of safety-specific transformational leadership and passive safety leadership was developed and empirically evaluated based on a sample of young workers. The results of structural equation modeling illustrated that ...
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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, 2005)A hermeneutic analysis of work-family interaction is undertaken from a feminist poststructural perspective to destabilize the definitions of 'work', 'family', and 'work-family' in organizational discourse. This hermeneutic ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)My objective in this research is to better understand the nature of employment relationships by examining violations of expectations and obligations by the employee and employer as evidenced by the dismissal of allegedly ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Although the subject of women in accounting has received considerable attention in the research literature in the past three decades the reported reasons for women accountants leaving public accounting firms have not changed ...
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