Essays about: "idealized identity"

Found 5 essays containing the words idealized identity.

1. 1. Volunteer tourism as a transformative journey - “ It's something that they still have, that many have lost at home”

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

   Author : Nathalie Regestad; Isabella Axelsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Voluntourism; existential authenticity; moral grandstanding; moral superiority; self-identity; the Other; exoticism; epiphany; epiphanic experiences.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Volunteer tourism is an alternative form of tourism that is constantly increasing. The increase can be considered related to trends about social participation, environmental awareness and moral demands. READ MORE

3. 2. Who are we and what do we measure? : A case study of the dynamic relationship between performance measurement and organizational identity

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Marcus Källgren; Adrian Vejbrink Kildal; [2022]
   Keywords : organizational identity; performance measurement system; performance management; identity-dynamics; PMS; HR; human resources; acquisition; change management; HR-metrics; employee reward system; evaluation; appraisal; organizational performance; employee performance; perception; tracking; monitoring; organizational culture; organizational control; medium; who we are; who we are as an organization; qualitative measurement; quantitative measurement; case study; life science; organizational members; shared understanding; we-ness; dynamic relationship; relationship; interrelationship; central; enduring; distinctive; CED; implications; identity-related; adjustments; top-down initiative; strategic initiative; strategic sensemaking; sensemaking; ideational; definitional; component; attributes; loose couplings; innovation; enhancing; reinforcing; guiding; stretching; enabling; challenging; threatening; constraining; R D; research; development; idealized identity; desired identity;

   Abstract : Performance measurements have been described as a tool by which management can communicate expected standards of behavior as well as a shared meaning among members regarding the intended direction of the firm. In parallel, the organizational identity field relies on the premise that members can answer the question “who are we as an organization?” through a sense of shared understanding. READ MORE

4. 3. CROSSING BORDERS: A Study of Transnational Living in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2014) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2019-10-22]
   Keywords : Taye Selasi; No Violet Bulawayo; Sara Ahmed; Afropoitanism;

   Abstract : Abstract: A number of authors of African descent published ‘Afropolitan’ novels around the year 2010. Several of these diaspora novels dominated the literary scene and caused intense debates about the contested concept of Afropolitanism. The authors Taye Selasi and No Violet Bulawayo challenge colonial images of Africa in their writing. READ MORE

5. 4. Performance at the Edge of Apocalypse : An ethnographic study of collective identity construction in a neo-nationalist social movement in Sweden

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Kristofer Lindh; [2017]
   Keywords : Populism; Performance; Neo-nationalism; Social movement; Identity; Democracy; Emotions;

   Abstract : In several countries of the Global North, right-wing parties are successfully mobilizing public support, influencing political debates and introducing arguments and rhetorics that draw on xenophobia, populism and ethnocentrism, ostensibly with a purpose to amplify the “national order of things” (Malkki 1992). This thesis addresses this development by providing an ethnography, based fieldwork, of the Swedish social movement Folkets Demonstration, which arranges anti-government manifestations on squares most usually in Stockholm. READ MORE

6. 5. Idealized Paradise? : Leadership in international volunteer organizations in the sustainable development process

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Alina Husung; [2016]
   Keywords : International volunteer organization; situational leadership style; sustainable development; intercultural communication competence; diversity; organizational commitment; creative tension;

   Abstract : In the sustainable development process, international volunteer organizations are rapidly increasing in developing countries but have become criticized for having over promising benefits and neocolonialism impacts on the local population. In the combination with a discussed inefficient leadership in these organizations, this study aims to understand how international volunteer organizations, with the focus on Mauritius, through leadership more efficiently can maintain their vision to contribute to long-term socio, environmental and economic sustainable development by managing volunteer participants in ways that lead to productive and satisfied volunteers and in its turn result in an improvement of project outcomes. READ MORE