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PhD Dissertations: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The taxonomy and architecture of foreign aid today is the result of a chaotic evolution that has made it into a flawed concept and project. The extensive literature on its effectiveness, dating almost as far back as aid’s ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)We present the first observation of a resonance state in the proton drip-line nucleus [superscript 20]Mg. The resonance state was populated via inelastic scattering of [superscript 20]Mg with a solid deuteron target using ...
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(Saint Mary's University, 2017)Despite the advances in research on social contagions, personality and contextual factors, there has been no attempt to test the effect of coworker contagion on unethical behaviour in a comprehensive model. There is also ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)We all want to belong, fit in and be accepted. It is not surprising that when there are difficulties feeling as though we belong, that we experience distress (Lau, Moulds & Richardson, 2009; Robinson, O’Reilly & Wang, 2013; ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)This thesis seeks to conceptualize an educational process that would allow Indigenous peoples to engage in a truly endogenous development, in which the elements of their ways of life that are most important and central to ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)For this thesis, I examined the relationship between positive leadership and follower work behaviours through two studies. In the first, 313 employees participated in a study to examine how leaders’ positivity and positive ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)An approach was developed in this dissertation to re-conceptualize the concept of organizational vision (vision) and its relationship with organizational performance. The literature on vision showed that the concept and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The field of management and organisation studies (MOS) adopted intersectionality framework from women-of-colour feminists to explain exclusion from power domains, according to gender, race, and class. A criticism of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)The determination of galaxy masses is an essential tool for our understanding of galaxy evolution. Looking at 67 local galaxies, we find that galaxy stellar masses are underestimated using traditional methods that assume ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)A key component to maintaining a safe work environment is having employees’ regularly engaging in safety behaviours. It is important to understand both the quantity and quality of motivation when trying to predict safety ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)A self-reported measure of work-related attention capacities was developed and validated in the current dissertation. The 12-item Workplace Attention Trifactor Scale (WATS) was created from the conceptual integration of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)In this thesis I present a set of scaling relationships for ZAMS rotating models. These relationships are applicable to models whose rotation rate produces a given surface distortion and are shown to be valid for stellar ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Employee mental health problems are among the most costly issues facing employers in the developed world. In North America, mental health problems directly affect 1 in 5 people and are the leading cause of workplace ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)Research has extensively documented the negative consequences associated with the experience of stress. An expanding body of psychological research has focused on the concept of recovery, and suggests that individuals can ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This research examines how a hospital’s transformation to lean management produced change-supportive behaviours and attitudes. Comparisons to a wait-list control group showed improvements in leadership trust, communication, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)In this dissertation, I investigate how ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ relate to non-white immigrants’ socio-economic marginalization, such as job ghettoization, underemployment and unemployment. Over the last three decades, the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Over the past 20 years, the Alberta-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 have revitalized their union through organizing diverse groups of workers in hard-to-organize occupations, increasing involvement in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)A critical assumption of the leadership development literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert & Kelloway, 2014). Drawing on self-determination theory, I address the question of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Despite its intuitive importance to organizational management, the concept of employee recognition has received little systematic research attention. Because there is no generally accepted construct definition, different ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)The objective of my research is to explore expedited arbitration in Canada. Labour arbitration remains an expensive and time-consuming process to resolve unionized workplace disputes. In the first of my three studies, I ...
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