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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the notion and function of silent landscape in a touristic experience by presenting the findings of a study on silent retreats in a Buddhist meditation retreat center in Northern India. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted a sensory...
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Purpose – On the background of China’s turn to a market economy and a consumer-driven society, the purpose of this paper is to recount the fortunes of the age-old religion of the Naxi people and their farmer-priests, the dongba . Design/methodology/approach – Detailed ethnography,...
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study results will be of immense benefit to managers of construction projects as well as managers of construction …
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polarisation. Furthermore, the survey carried out confirms the existence of some effective behaviours of public top managers … to br drawn. Practical implications – The result of this research implies that “ideal” competences of public managers …
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politicians and managers perceive their relationships and respective roles during the accounting cycle and using multiple cases of … literature, the paper depicts models of interaction between managers and politicians through the analysis of the cases of five … politicians and managers can be depicted in the analyzed cases. Rather, alternatively patterns of sequential or reciprocal …
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of efficient and effective public sector managers. Presents a practical, all‐encompassing action model, total stress …
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Public managers throughout the world work in an unforgiving environment in which to take risks. Managers face varying … managers is sought in drives to ensure quality in public services. Risk and quality appear strongly inter‐linked, although … concepts, as they are experienced by public managers, through two pilot case studies of managerial practice in the UK, based in …
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organizations; and then to create a model for how managers of larger organizations can work to create sustainable health. Design …/methodology/approach – The empirical data were gathered through interviews with managers at different organizational levels and workshops with … four successful organizations, managers should mainly consider doing the following: start measuring and evaluating the …
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Purpose – When finance managers face decisions, they do not always make clinical evaluations using rational methodology …
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Reviews the work published over the last ten years on the subject of the evaluation of individual and organizational learning. The emerging arguments are based on the proposition that the decision to provide training and management development is a strategic investment decision and as such is...
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