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Professional identity, commitment and gender in engineering: exploring the (mis)match between dispositions and cultures
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This dissertation examines the gendered experience of professional engineers in Alberta, Canada. The study is based on qualitative interview data collected from men and women trained in engineering (n=36) and textual analysis of materials produced by engineering organizations (Association of...
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Exploring the relationships among spirit at work, structural and psychological empowerment, resonant leadership, job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the health care workplace
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Health care workers are experiencing increasingly stressful work environments related to attempts to control escalating health care costs. Researchers (Kinjerski & Skrypnek, 2004) have developed a tool to identify the unique experience of individuals who are passionate about and energized by...
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Fall 2017
How do couples know and decide to be married? This question is posed to three couples who made such a decision. The research reviews the development of romantic relationships and commitment, psychological theories and frameworks for couple counselling, and secular and theological understandings...
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Nursing in Sri Lanka: Situating a Study of Nurses' Intent to Leave or Stay in an Organization within the Contexts of Professional Issues and Nurse Migration
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Aluwihare-Samaranayake, Dilmi S
ABSTRACT Retention of nursing staff is a worldwide concern. Inadequate workforce planning, resource constrained undersupply of new nurses, underdeveloped recruitment, retention and return policies, poor incentive and career support structures and complex quality of work-life environments compete...