Organisational behaviour

This thesis examines both organisational and consumer perspectives on the BOP market in Sri Lanka using a sequential mixed-method approach aligned under four phases of studies. The findings of the qualitative studies on organisational perspective confirm the market opportunities for large companies, particularly in the rural BOP market, but also find that the focus of alleviating poverty is lacking among practitioners.

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This thesis is the result of research into the different generations at work in an engineering consulting organisation in Victoria. The investigation was designed to research generational differences in values, attitudes and behaviours and their implications for management. This included a debate on whether the differences are generational or a consequence of age or stage-of-life.

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This research addresses the call for future research by Brown and Treviño (2014) and Resick et al. (2006) to expand on ethical leadership research into other cultures. They believed employees in organisations use their ethical and cultural value systems as an absolute standard against which to measure the behaviour of members of the other culture, or they adopt the norms of the other culture. Previous studies have demonstrated several gaps within the ethical leadership literature; this research will address these gaps.

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This study examined what people in mainstream businesses do in response to issues that affect the accessibility of their products and services. This study has taken a new approach to investigating root causes of some of the problems that PWDs experience, an approach that places business activities at the centre of the study.

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This study was conducted to explore information-seeking processes among primary school children using the Internet in a school setting. This chapter outlines the rationale for the research, describes the importance of information seeking for primary school children, and articulates the research problems. The research objectives and questions are then discussed, followed by a description of contribution to knowledge. The chapter concludes by outlining the organisation of the thesis.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of leadership behaviours on organisational outcomes within the context of organisations from the private industry sector in Australia. Specifically, this study was interested in examining the influence of authentic leadership and ethical leadership on perceived ethical climate, subordinates’ organisational citizenship behaviours, affective organisational commitment, and in-role performance.

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"Doctoral thesis of Philosophy: Free agents on underdog teams: international branch campus lecturers constructing the organizational integration of their individual and campus identities" is structured as follows: Chapter 1: introduction and overview; chapter 2: organizational-integration orientations of locally-hired IBC lecturers: background and exploratory framework; chapter 3: a constructivist grounded-theory approach to researching IBC lecturers’ identity constructions; chapter 4: relating to headquarters coaches: constructing cross-campus coordination relationships; chapter 5: free ag...

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This thesis adopts a systematic and novel approach to evaluating what scholars have written via a comprehensive and technical examination of the literature (articles published between 1988 and 2016 across ten computerized databases). Major articles were systematically reviewed using a machine-based text analysis, Leximancer, revealing which themes pervade the field of scholarship based on what is written.

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A diagnostic tool for assessing organisational readiness for complex change outlines the development of a new diagnostic tool that combines macro and micro levels of analysis in order to enable organisations to gauge their preparedness for complex change.

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