Essays about: "self change on effort"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 essays containing the words self change on effort.

  1. 1. How to fail successfully: the struggles of PAR within academia

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Dimitra Moustaka; [2023]
    Keywords : Participatory action research PAR ; decolonial research; asylum interview; coloniality of the academy; intersectionality; self-reflectivity;

    Abstract : This research seeks to explore the origins and values of participatory action research, as well as its role in transforming possibilities to knowledge production and shaping equal relationships between research participants. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and decoloniality and with a focus on the experience of the asylum interview, the research seeks to explore the ways that those epistemological paradigms intertwine with participatory research to deconstruct the dichotomy between researcher and research subject (expert/community) and re-balance the power differentials embedded within academia, canonical knowledge production and traditional research methodologies, to initiate change. READ MORE

  2. 2. Language, Gender, and Sexuality in EFL Textbooks : The Case of Greek Public Secondary Schools

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Maria Koutsoupaki; [2022]
    Keywords : language and gender; sexuality; non-binary; LGBTQ ; heteronormativity; queer theory; patriarchy; EFL; Greek public school; textbooks; interviews;

    Abstract : The past few decades have been marked by increasing awareness of issues pertaining to gender and sexuality, since both concepts have started being treated as continuums or spectrums, rather than as binaries. Therefore, the fields of gender and queer linguistics have been growing in significance, in an effort to identify underlying ideologies and biases in language, and to challenge them. READ MORE

  3. 3. Making Success a Self-Plying Piano : A Study on How Management Can Influence Risk-Culture

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Emma Sjöholm; Oliver Uusitalo; [2022]
    Keywords : Management; Managerial Tools; Organizational Culture; Organizational Risk Culture; Communication; Incentives; Structure;

    Abstract : A common misconception is that the safest strategy when dealing with risk is to avoid it altogether, resulting in mainly risk hedging strategies aligned with a downside biased view of risk, only focusing on outcomes with a negative effect causing missed opportunities (Damodaran, 2007). Furthermore, another common misconception is the effort to quantify risk, to measure and prioritize it. READ MORE

  4. 4. Deng Xiaoping’s Meta-Discursive Ideology for economic development in the Reform Period and the Departure from Mao Zedong Thought

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Sara Bellamqaddam; [2022]
    Keywords : Deng Xiaoping; the rise of China; institutional change; Chinese characteristics; Mao Zedong Thought; economic development; Chinese Communist Party.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The rise of China and 1978-market reforms contrasts other post-socialist economies process of institutional and economic change. President Deng Xiaoping announced China’s continued commitment to socialism, yet his leadership is by some viewed to be the most radical social and economic transformation in contemporary Chinese history. READ MORE

  5. 5. Manager Motivation and Organizational Change A case study of how manager motivation is fostered in a company and impacted by an organizational change effort

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Emma Walldén; Fredrik Horn; [2021-02-24]
    Keywords : Motivation; Manager Motivation; Organizational Change Process; Self- Determination Theory; Expectancy Theory; Motivational Psychology.;

    Abstract : Organizations are a fundamental part of today's society, playing an important part in people's everyday lives as well as in economic development. The key to running a successful organization in today’s complex business environment is to constantly develop and continuously motivate one’s workforce. READ MORE