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Creator:: Newbore, Lisa M.
Abstract:: This research addresses the functional characteristics of a single organization. It specifically investigates one of the largest festival organizations in the United States, The Portland Rose Festival Association (PRFA). In this case, three groups within the PRFA are its foundation: the paid staff, the executive committee, and the volunteer directors....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: appropriate organizational characteristics. The characteristics correspond to Swanson's performance variables

Creator:: Doolen, Toni L.
Abstract:: Teams are an integral part of organizations today. This research explored the relationships between nine organizational context variables, team processes, and three measures of team effectiveness. The research was conducted within one business unit of a Fortune 50, high-technology company, Intact production and engineering work teams from manufacturing organizations were...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: The impact of organizational context on work team

Creator:: Goulard, Elizabeth Ann
Abstract:: Organizational culture is broadly recognized as a significant force in organizational action. Since the phenomenon of culture has real impact on organizations, our understanding of that impact is vital to organizational health. While academic settings provide a rich environment for studying culture, relatively little research on culture has occurred in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Lang, Sabrina A.
Abstract:: The overarching purpose of this study is to examine the communication implications of a self-proclaimed consensual organization (IT) within a classical organizational environment. The literature review of relevant theory and research covers both hierarchical and consensual organizations viewed via the classical, human relations, and system perspectives. The researcher compares organizational...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Education presented on September 24, 1996. Title: Comparing Organizational Theory to Practice: Using

Creator:: Qiu, Feng
Abstract:: To explore the possible causes of abusive supervision and rudeness, I used an interactive approach to test whether one domain of implicit personality (implicit aggression) and self-control resource depletion are interactive predictors. By using a sample of 83 students in a large public university in the North Western United States,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: workplace deviance and decreased organizational citizenship behavior (Schat, Desmarais & Kelloway, 2006

Creator:: Baker, Joshua D.
Abstract:: Organizational trust refers to the tendency of individuals or groups within an organization to trust each other. Tschannen-Moran (2004) describes trust as one's "willingness to be vulnerable to another based on the confidence that the other is benevolent, honest, open, reliable, and competent" (p. 17). The purpose of this study...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: studying organizational behavior. With my coaching minor I immersed myself in books written by John

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