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Managers, Mentoring, and Moving Up: The Role of Mentoring in Women's Career Advancement in the Chemical Industry

Paquin, Jill Denise - 2008

(NSB, 2000). Managers represent an untapped mentoring resource for women trained in science and engineering working in … industrial chemistry. This study sought to better understand how managers think about mentoring and women's advancement within … their field. Specifically, results suggest that managers' experiences with mentoring may have some influence on their …

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Innovation Transformation: A Guidebook for Small Business Development: Inform, Expand, and Deliver

Fitzgerald, Ann K. - 2008

Innovation Transformation Guidebook, ITG, is a collection of flash cards designed to help small businesses innovate by strategically improving their current offerings. ITG methodologies are inspired from research in an array of fields including design, entrepreneurship, education, psychology,...

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Brands we love to hate: An exploration of brand avoidance

Lee, Michael Shyue Wai - 2008

Brands, and the process of branding, are of considerable importance in both marketing academia and practice. Although most research has focussed on the positive attitudes and behaviours that consumers have toward brands, there is a growing interest in anti-consumption. This thesis contributes to...

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A strategic marketing approach to national development initiatives involving large scale collaborative ventures (LSCV)

Briggs, Maxwell J. - 2006

This paper relates to government initiatives which aim at advancing their country’s economic development and investor attractiveness. It identifies large scale projects that involve collaboration between government and business (termed: large scale collaborative venture – LSCV) as one aspect...

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Improving information security management in nonprofit organisations

Carey-Smith, Mark T. - 2011

All organisations, irrespective of size and type, need effective information security management (ISM) practices to protect vital organisational in- formation assets. However, little is known about the information security management practices of nonprofit organisations. Australian nonprofit...

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Consensual commitment: A grounded theory of the meso-level influence of organizational design on leadership and decision-making

Rowland, Paul; Parry, Ken - 2009

This research examined the relationship between organizational design and leadership in decision-making teams. It used a grounded theory-based qualitative research design. The validity of the research was enhanced by data triangulation, wherein quantitative psychometric data augmented the...

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Capacity building in nonprofit organisations in the development aid sector: explanatory research of capacity building in Indonesia in 2008 and an investigation into the diffusion o...

Parisi, Jacqueline - 2009

The terms capacity building and capability building are frequently heard in organisations and questions have been raised as to whether practices used in the private sector are transferable to the development aid sector.Gaps were revealed in the literature relating to conclusive definitions of...

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The challenges of introducing off-the-shelf systems into complex work organisations

Hasan, Helen M.; Suratmethakul, W. - 2005

This paper describes research into problems commonly experienced when implementing an off-the-shelf information system into the complex work-practices of an organisation. Encountering such an occurrence, the authors employed a grounded theory approach to study the case though the collection,...

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The Environment. You! Me?: a leadership theory

Kriflik, G. K. - 2007

This paper refers to the concept of Minimising Attainment Deficit (MAD). This is a leadership process whereby leaders help workers fulfil their expectations of achieving their potential in their work. A qualitative approach to the collection and analysis of data was adopted through the use of...

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Evaluating point-of-sale buying decisions: Understanding why consumers purchase timeshares

Thomas, Lisa Y - 2010

) Affordable Price or Deal. The grounded theory process and the emergent theory are explained. Managers could apply this …

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