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manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach … productivity of their employees. In a cross-sectional study of 86 employees and 17 managers in an Information Technology (IT …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a …
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transitional period.The goal of this research paper is to explore the attitude of managers of rapidly growing companies toward … changes and conflicts and to examine those managers‘ styles of management and conflict handling. Thus the phenomenon of … leadership in changes and undergoing conflict situations is defined. In order to achieve defined goal, the author pursued four …
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on the firm or industry but is reflective of the strength of the beliefs held by managers. This implies that the "black …
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Conduct an exploratory study on operationally focussed managers within a South African company, using both quantitative …
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This article describes a programme of practice-grounded empirical management research set within an NHS Trust Hospital in the UK that was conducted as part of an HRD Professional Partnership of the kind advocated by Jacobs (1997). The research was concerned with identifying the criteria of...
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While a number of algorithms for multiobjective reinforcement learning have been proposed, and a small number of applications developed, there has been very little rigorous empirical evaluation of the performance and limitations of these algorithms. This paper proposes standard methods for such...
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This research examines habitual entrepreneurship as undertaken by those currently creating a new firm and those who recently had. The suggestion is that habitual entrepreneurs have different motivations for firm creation, take different actions during the process, and have different expectations...
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A novel procedure is described for accelerating the convergence of Markov chain Monte Carlo computations. The algorithm uses an adaptive bootstrap technique to generate candidate steps in the Markov Chain. It is efficient for symmetric, convex probability distributions, similar to multivariate...
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study is to explore senior managers’knowledge of, feelings about, and perceptions towards their firm’s HIV/AIDS Policy … managerspurposively selected.The results indicate that only 8.3 per cent of the senior managers have a good grasp of thefirm’s HIV …/AIDS Policy and they also express positive feelings about the policy. Thereare 16.7 per cent of the senior managers who have …
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the products are farm-raised, having previous experience with purchasingseafood along with the perception that seafood is …
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