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The Importance and Place of Neuroticism in Predicting Burnout in Employment Service Case Managers

Goddard, Richard; Patton, Wendy A.; Creed, Peter - 2004

This study investigated the ability of neuroticism to explain variance in burnout scores obtained from a sample of Australian case managers who work with individuals experiencing unemployment. Using a longitudinal survey methodology, 70 case managers completed the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI;...

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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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Giving patterns of Filipino evangelicals and their implications for developing fund raising strategies of evangelical-based non-governmental organizations

Arboleda, Lucy V. - 2002

This paper studied the giving patterns of Filipino evangelicals and what the implications of these giving patterns are in developing fund raising strategies of evangelical non-government organization (NGOs) in the Philippines. The main methodology used by the study was a random survey of...

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The Effectiveness of Strategic Planning Support for Building Up the Capacity of the Small NGOs in Bangladesh

Hoque, Mohammad Fazlul - 1998

Because of the rapid rate of change of today’s world, it has become necessary for the NGO managers to keep their plans current through strategic planning. This study examines the effectiveness of the strategic planning support to the small NGOs and their beneficiaries.It was done within the...

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A critical review of relations between corporate responsibility research and practice

Haigh, Matthew; Jones, Marc T. - 2007

This essay identifies epistemological, theoretical and methodological problems in a potentially influential subset of the interdisciplinary corporate responsibility literature, that which appears in the management literature. The received conceptualization of stakeholder analysis is criticised...

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Fixing the system? The experience of service users of the quasi-market in disability services in Australia

Spall, Pamela; McDonald, Catherine; Zetlin, Diane - 2005

A qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 31 people with disabilities and 32 carers in the state of Queensland, Australia, found that their experience of supportive service delivery had not improved despite reforms of the service delivery system driven by a version of the...

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Personas in the Design Process: A tool for understanding others

Williams, Karen Lindsay - 2006

Personas, fictional user profiles based on research data, have gained popularity in the design field over recent years. These profiles include names, personalities, behaviors, and goals that are representative of a unique group of individuals. This paper examines the creation and utilization of...

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Towards strategic intent: Perceptions of disability service provision amongst hotel accommodation managers

Darcy, Simon; Pegg, Shane - 2011

ascertain the perceptions of managers in the accommodation sector towards disability service provision with a view to … people with a disability to communicate their needs to the hotel; perceptions of accessible rooms by the general public; and … included: legislative responsibility, policy and building codes; disability as a market segment; staff awareness/training; and …

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Are workers with a disability less productive or less understood? An empirical investigation from an entrepreneurial business planning perspective

Hindle, Kevin; Noble, Jock; Phillips, Brian - 1999

group between workers with a disability and workers without a disability. On five measures of productivity, no significant … differences were discernible but on a sixth measure, length of employment, it was found that disability workers remained in … employment significantly longer. These results strongly refute the ‘intuitive wisdom’ that workers with a disability are less …

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Identity and ownership : Since I came to work at dal I don?t have a disability

Marks, Genee - 2006

receive federal or state disability funding, and about half as many support staff. Rather than being seen as an agency …

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