Browsing by Subject "Culture"
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Building on a culture of patient and family centred care in the mental health setting
(2014-12-12)Providence Health Care (PHC) is a faith-based care provider that operates sixteen facilities in Vancouver, Canada. PHC is beginning the journey towards patient and family centred care at all of its sites and programs. ... -
Collaborative approaches at Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre
(2015-07-30)This thesis answers the question "how can Tillicum Lelum establish internal collaborative approaches?" This was explored with action research included employees and management team members at Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal ... -
Fostering a collaborative culture through effective business practice at NAIT
(2015-07-03)This organizational leadership project investigated how the employees at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) may enhance their collaboration across departments, in particular, when managing key data systems. ... -
Green teams in government : action research to discover how to use green teams
(2015-01-22)Government Services (2007) has recognised their operations are having adverse effects on the planet. Energy, water, and material use, carbon dioxide emissions from travel and building operation, and waste disposal are of ... -
Honour, culture & valuing change : research on local culture shift
(2019-11-20)Assertions that organizational change initiatives experience high rates of failure suggests knowledge about how culture shifts is incomplete. Framed in the context of Operation HONOUR, the Canadian Armed Forces’ effort to ... -
Intercultural leadership : variations in Chinese Canadian perspectives of career mobility into senior leadership roles
(2015-03-10)This dissertation delves into the social issue of equity representation of visible minorities, specifically Chinese Canadians, in leadership roles. This qualitative study investigated the career experiences and perspectives ... -
Permaculture : building spiritual and cultural practices : Woodsong eco-farm cooperative
(2021-09-07)The goal of this research has been to explore how people describe their experience with integrating permaculture design into their lives, and what spiritual and cultural perspectives they have to offer to the permaculture ... -
Primex manufacturing : culture informing strategic succession planning
(2020-04-21)Primex Manufacturing’s management team was engaged in an exploration of the drivers of their organization’s culture and a review of the systems in place that support the culture, informing the inquiry question: How might ... -
Real time, intelligence-led operations : making collaborative policing work
(2013-06-07)Currently responsible for policing over one million citizens, the Calgary Police Service (CPS) has earned its reputation as a progressive law enforcement organization in part by focusing on the early recognition and ... -
Seeds of sustainability : food literacy communication in sharing gardens
(2014-10-03)Food is omnipresent in our lives. As humans, we spend a great deal of time thinking about it, growing it, marketing it, looking for it, and consuming it. Yet access to food is anything but guaranteed, even in a thriving ... -
A tribal journey : canoes, traditions, and cultural continuity
(2011-08-09)In addressing the necessity of cultural transmission from one generation to the next, this ethnographic study examines ways that Indigenous canoe journeys enable communication of ancestral teachings and traditions, ... -
West coast waters : fishing this place
(2015-01-15)Utilizing ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches this research explores the culture of recreational sport fishing around the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Grounded in the interpretivist paradigm, this research ... -
What is Canadian experience, eh? A financial industry perspective
(2013-09-17)This research identifies the dimensions of Canadian experience from the perspective of recruiters in the financial industry. Lack of Canadian experience is a systemic barrier to successful economic adaptation of new ...