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The Brain Trust Model: A proposed change to modern change management.
(2006)
The study of change management and innovation is a perplexing and challenging undertaking. A review of the literature revealed that change management practices and methodological frameworks are currently insufficient to ...
Understanding transferee assimilation through the analysis of egocentric networks.
(2006)
This project expanded on early research and examined employees as they began a new job after undergoing an intra-organizational job transfer. Consistent with earlier research the results demonstrated support for the ideas ...
Differential effects of leader style and group maturity upon subordinate satisfaction, task effectiveness, and task efficiency.
(1982)
This study tested the effects that four different leadership styles had upon groups' satisfaction, effectiveness, and efficiency. Fifty-six groups consisting of four to seven members each completed a subarctic survival ...
Institutional review boards: Politics, power, purpose and process in a regulatory organization.
(2002)
Alternatives are offered for consideration: (1) use of more precise terms, for example, distinctions between participant/patient, doctor/researcher, and therapy/research); (2) developing different rules for social research, ...
The relationship between supervisory communication style and ambiguity in superior-subordinate communication.
(The University of Oklahoma., 1982)
This study was designed to understand better the relationship among supervisory communication style, role ambiguity and communication ambiguity. In addition, an intervening variable, understanding, was expected to provide ...
Healthcare demand management system communication among the primary care provider, the beneficiary, and the nurse call center.
(1999)
The purpose of this study was to examine characteristics of communication in a managed care context. Nurse call centers were the focus of the study and several objectives were pursued. The study sought to determine the ...
The impact of culturally acquired behavioral norms on workplace communication.
(2004)
This study explored cultural diversity influences on the concepts of time and punctuality; allowable limits of expressiveness; kinesics and oculesic cues; request/response time; and ethnic and gender preferences for ...
Managing post-merger corporate culture: A case study of two mergers in the United States transportation industry.
(2007)
One company proactively sought to recognize and adopt the best cultural characteristics of both pre-merger partners. The other company chose to rapidly integrate two competitors with an expectation that the culture of the ...
Creativity-enhancement in media organizations: A study of the perception of journalists and media managers in Saudi Arabia.
(2003)
This dissertation examines creativity enhancement in the context of media organizations in Saudi Arabia. In the empirical component of this study, managers and employees in seven Saudi media organizations were surveyed for ...