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Teacher Voice in Curriculum Development in Saudi Schools
Alamri, Noura - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
Little research into teacher voice in the area of curriculum development in Saudi Arabia has been carried out to date, and none in the area of Saudi native English Language teachers; therefore, this study contributed to this under-researched area and raised awareness of the issue in this...
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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India: Insights from Research and Programs
Krishnan, Suneeta; Madsen, Emily; Porterfield, Deborah; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in India, accounting for 17 percent of all cancer deaths among women age 30 to 69 years. At current incidence rates, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the annual burden of new cases in India will increase to nearly 225,000...
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Community Midwifery Education Program in Afghanistan
Mohmand, Khalil Ahmad - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
In the immediate post conflict period, Afghanistan's health services were in a deplorable and chaotic state. Access and utilization of reproductive health services and skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first month after delivery are key to saving those women at risk of dying due...
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Laboratory Professionals in Africa: The Backbone of Quality Diagnostics
Schneidman, Miriam; Dacombe, Russell J.; Carter, Jane - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female labor participation, with potential gender based...
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Health in All Policies as a Strategic Policy Response to NCDs
Lin, Vivian; Jones, Catherine; Wang, Shiyong; Barbd, Enis - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...
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Institutional change in the absence of the rule of law and market mechanisms
Bradley, Anne Rathbone - In: Public Choice 128 (2006) 1, pp. 197-219
institutional blueprint of society, and identifies the ubiquitous relationship between state, market and culture in any society. It …
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Leader behavior as a determinant of health at work: Specification and evidence of five key pathways
Wegge, Juergen; Shemla, Meir; Haslam, S. Alexander - In: Zeitschrift fuer Personalforschung. German Journal of … 28 (2014) 1-2, pp. 6-23
The extent to which leadership influences employee health and the processes that underlie its effects are not well … pathways between leadership and health, others remain underexplored. We also outline how future research might address these in …
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Leadership and culture in the MENA region: An analysis of the GLOBE project
Kabasakal, Hayat; Dastmalchian, Ali; Karacay, Gaye; … - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 4, pp. 519-529
This paper focuses on leadership and culture in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, using data from the … leadership prototypes shows a preference for honest, just and inspirational leadership that encourages loyalty. Further … examination of the leadership prototype using cluster analysis produced four sub-clusters of leadership profiles. These revealed …
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GLOBE: A twenty year journey into the intriguing world of culture and leadership
Dorfman, Peter; Javidan, Mansour; Hanges, Paul; … - In: Journal of World Business 47 (2012) 4, pp. 504-518
demonstrate that national culture indirectly influences leadership behaviors through the leadership expectations of societies. In … culture gives us a heads-up as to which kinds of leadership will likely be enacted and effective in each society. We believe …Since its inception in the early 1990s, the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) project …
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Stress, Task, and Relationship Orientations of Dutch: Do Age, Gender, Education, and Government Work Experience Make a Difference?
Nguyen, Lam; Mujtaba, Bahaudin; Ruijs, Alexander - In: Public Organization Review 14 (2014) 3, pp. 305-324
public versus the private sector. To explore the stress, task, and relationship orientations of people in the culture of the … appear to be a significant factor in their leadership orientation. Also, males seem to be less task-oriented and less …
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