Development and social change have been the common challenge of both developed and developing nations. Various models are proposed by investigators of development and social change to meet these challenges. However, such models are inevitably associated with particular patterns …
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This capstone investigates why business ethics are sometimes different from personal ethics. This can lead to moral dilemmas in business decision-making. Five courses from the Master of Management and Master of Business Administration program at the College of St. Scholastica we…
This research study looked at the cultural value preferences in Western management practice for African manager and non-manager employees exemplified by Nigerian cement industries. The study specifically focused on management practice of leadership, motivation, recruitment and p…
Problem. The problem of the study was to measure and delineate the value systems of preschool children, and to compare their ranking of health as a value relative to selected nonhealth-related values commonly present in their value systems. Procedures. This study was a cross-sec…
Background: Saudi Arabia is facing a nursing shortage, but it has traditionally been difficult to attract local Saudi Arabian women to this profession. Literature indicates that practising Saudi Arabian nurses experience value conflicts because of the poor status of nursing in t…
In 2006 a new training route for Educational Psychologists (EPs) was introduced, which extended the entry criteria to applicants from a range of professional backgrounds. The related literature indicates that this was a contentious issue. The aim of the current study is to explo…
Today for the first time in history, over 1.15 billion people live in urban slums. Of these, 581 million live in Asia, 120 million in Latin America, and 199 million in sub-Saharan Africa (UN-HABITAT 2010). Over 90% of the urban slum dwellers live in the cities of low income coun…
Social work struggles between the dichotomy of “individual” and “society” as it is characterized as enhancing both individual well-being and social justice. As these are not always easily balanced and social work has limited autonomy, social workers must develop their capacity f…
Since the topic of improving data quality has not been addressed for the U.S. defense cost estimating discipline beyond changes in public policy, the goal of the study was to close this gap and provide empirical evidence that supports expanding options to improve software cost e…
Today, there is a rapidly growing sense of impending crisis with dire consequences for all humanity. The way humanity currently lives on earth is no longer sustainable. The incidence and course of human misery and suffering and the likelihood of extinction are increasing signifi…
If a single phrase can be said to embody modern perspectives on many-body theory, it is P.W. Anderson's famously simple line, "More is different". This idea is well understood by practitioners of many-body theory, and field theory more generally, as drawing a distinction between…
The ministry project facilitator sought to equip Millennial parents to be the primary Christian doctrinal teachers in their family. The facilitator conducted six two- hour seminars on the following topics: (1) introduction of theological rationale and theoretical pre-supposition…
Değerler, toplumun en önemli dayanağını oluşturmaktadır. Tarihsel süreç içinde Türkiye Cumhuriyeti‟nin yapısal değişikliği ile beraber toplumda meydana gelen değişmeler, değer yönelimlerinde bir takım değişimler meydana getirmiştir. Bu değişmelerin yansıdığı zemin olarak dergile…
In an increasingly polarized political climate–particularly in the U.S.– environmental issues such as climate change and its effects on the environment have become hot-button partisan talking points resulting in further division. This has led to research on ways to communicate s…
This thesis is framed in response to core problems in the world of the Craftsperson today. Over the last century, the mass-production material culture of western capitalist societies has led to an overall decrease in the quality of work produced by the majority of craftspeople—a…
El estudio tuvo como propósito indagar sobre la influencia de la cultura organizacional y sus subculturas en el desempeño organizacional de instituciones financieras del área metropolitana de Puerto Rico. La cultura organizacional forma parte de la vida y crea y/o cambia el ambi…
This project interrogates the weaponization of heteronormative marriage in processes of state formation and in relation to practices of polygamy. This dissertation explores how gender and race have been used at the service of the white settler-colonial state via the criminalizat…
Adoptive law and policy is aimed to achieve permanent emotional connections to a new family. Adoptions of children from the American foster care system have a high failure rate, leaving nearly 30,000 children entering adult society with no permanent family connections, support, …
Although compassion is essential in clinical settings because it stimulates nurses to take positive action to alleviate the suffering of patients, a psychometrically validated instrument that measures comprehensively the multidimensional construct of clinical compassion in nurse…