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Considers a background to quality and the reasons why total quality management programmes tend not to produce the results normally expected of them. This is essentially due to the impact on the organization and its goals of unconscious predispositions of individuals and groups to maintain the...
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There are many instances of documented resistance to computer‐based technology. Presents the two most important causes … for resistance. Moreover, also presents solutions/techniques to reduce resistance. The first important cause for … resistance is based on the notion that, even though technical barriers have fallen, some features of computer‐based technology …
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the significance of nostalgia as a subversive practice of resistance with implications for women's career and identity … experiences. Change initiatives that seek to tackle resistance need also to address discourses of nostalgia in the medical … nostalgia may sometimes be mobilised as devices of resistance. This study questions simplistic focus on numerical representation …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge on the slow gender change in academia by examining university leaders’ defensive patterns of responses to feminist knowledge. Identifying the most common responses will enable scholars and practitioners engaged in equality...
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possible individual and collective resistance. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes as its point of departure Cho et …-status professions. The value of the paper lies in its special focus on how forms of resistance are affected by the frames of the … organisation. The findings stress the importance of intersectional analyses to understand the complex patterns of resistance and …
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Purpose Despite repeated attempts to implement gender education in schools, numerous forms of resistance still persist …, maintaining the current gender order, especially in Italy. Thus, in this paper, the authors focus on the practices of resistance … discourse analysis (cf: Fairclough's three-dimensional model). Findings As per our findings, teachers' resistance is attributed …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the unintended consequences of managing inclusion and diversity and how these unintended consequences relate to organisation members’ mediation between work tasks and practices of inclusion and diversity. Design/methodology/approach –...
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This article reviews the changing understanding of the word “innovation”. It contains a summary of the critical criteria for innovation to take place, based upon a study of previous researchers’ work in this area. Explores the way in which developments in materials and other technologies...
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resistance to quality control. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes a case in which the philosophy of Herman … resistance to it after six years, using the same philosophical approach. Findings – Economic goals of quality control were … achieved without any substantial employee resistance by addressing non-economic aspects. Apparently, social needs are not …
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