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The concept of e-government can be broadly defined as the provision of government information and services by the help of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This study explains the dynamics behind the agenda-setting (coming up with the idea of a project, placing the idea on decision agenda) and policy formation (making important operational decisions) processes of e-government projects by using Turkey as a case. The key finding is that e-government projects are launched as means of controlling the flow of people, money and government transactions in a more efficient manner. It is also found that e-government policy-making is a highly political process. Finally, the findings show that while agenda-setting stage follows garbage can decision-making models, policy-making stage follows incremental models of decision-making. Knowing more about the nature and participants of the decision-making and planning processes in e-government might be useful to e-government researchers and policy-makers all over the world, as well as students of numerous social and technical sciences such as political science, public administration, computer science and information systems. ... Read more

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Very valuable source on e-gov policy
A must to read for everybody who works on e-gov policy issues. Very insightful and easy to read book. ... Read more

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Nurse Executive Competencies This grounded theory study investigated what basic social processes exist as competencies for success, as perceived by nurse executives who had successfully avoided a layoff in a transformed organization. Following data collection, data were coded and analyzed simultaneously using grounded theory method.The substantive theory of Integrated Knowledge was developed.The areas of Integrated Knowledge were leadership/management and communication.Leadership/management included the business processes used by the nurse executive in managing from the bottom up.Communication included the processes required by the nurse executive to talk the talk and walk the walk.An emotional response was also discovered.The emotion was an outcome of living day by day with the ongoing changes in the workplace, finding a place within the new organization, and the overwhelming commitment by the nurse executives to stay in the organization. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Effect Size, Grounded Theory, Likert Scale, Cronbach's Alpha, Reliability, Kuder-Richardson Formula 20, Visual Analogue Scale. Excerpt:Cronbach's (alpha) is a statistic . It is commonly used as a measure of the internal consistency or reliability of a psychometric test score for a sample of examinees. It was first named as alpha by Lee Cronbach in 1951, as he had intended to continue with further coefficients. The measure can be viewed as an extension of the Kuder-Richardson Formula 20 (KR-20), which is the measure's equivalent for dichotomous items. Alpha is not robust against missing data. Several other Greek letters have been used by later researchers to designate other measures used in a similar context. This article assigns the use of to psychology, yet the Cronbach's alpha statistic is widely used in other disciplines, e.g. social sciences, business studies and nursing. This article uses the term "item", while recognising that items are variable. When manipulated items are commonly referred to as variables. Definition Cronbach's is defined as where K is the number of components (K-items or testlets), is the variance of the observed total test scores for the current sample of persons, and is the variance of component i for the current sample of persons. See Develles (1991) Alternatively, the Cronbach's can also be defined where K is the number of components (items or testlets), equals the average variance for the current sample of persons and is the average of all covariances between the components across the current sample of persons. The standardized Cronbach's can be defined as where K is the number of components (items or testlets), is the mean of the non-redundant correlation coefficients (i.e., the mean of an upper triangular correlation matrix or the mean of lower ... ... Read more

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This study investigated how selected Australian universities evaluated and adopted various learning management systems in their teaching and learning programs, given claims of uncritical evaluation, problems and cautions in the Australian and North American higher education literatures. A grounded theory of uncritical decision making was ultimately developed around the core category ?falling behind?, which appeared in three university case studies, in interviews with experts from the Australian higher education sector, and was also found in both the Australian and overseas higher education literatures. This grounded model highlights the interplay between internal and external university environments, a range of internal and external moderating influences, as well as the significant influence of the Vice Chancellors in each university. This study should be of great interest to researchers, policy makers and managers in higher education, especially those with an interest in teaching and educational technologies. ... Read more

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Most recent studies of parental choice of schoolingthat were conducted in Israel had focused on elementary and secondary schooling and paid littleattention toparental choice at pre-elementarystage. More particularly, the process in whichsecular parents choose a Jewish ultra orthodox day- care remains largely undefined, under-researchedandunexplained. This book presents a theory, whichuncovers that the decision-making processexperienced byIsraeli secular parents who chooseJewish ultra orthodox day-caregoes beyond rationalconsideration of practical and pedagogic factors.While economic and educationalfactors areresponsible for considerable aspects ofparents'decision, the spiritual and emotive elementsdominate overtheir final choice. The findings ofthis study shed light to inform theoretical researchof parental choice of day-cares,and educationalpolicy making in Israel. ... Read more

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Hearing sermons is an important religious practice for Christians worldwide. In Protestant theology as 'theology of the Word' it exceeds all other religious activities as a primarymeans of grace. Despite this centrality of religion in hearing sermons, empirical research on sermon reception has been conducted foremost from social, psychological,rhetorical and communicative perspectives.This study brings into focus the religious qualities of the practice of listening. It provides answers to questions such as, how does preaching relate listeners to God, what is thefunction of faith in hearing sermons, and how do listeners become part of the community of faith?Based upon qualitative interviews with listeners and following the analytic methods of Grounded Theory the study presents an empirical theological theory of religious involvement. It enriches the study of preaching with athe concept of getting religiously involved and its various stages: opening up to listen, dwelling in the sermon and actualising faith. ... Read more

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Confusion from the Founder
This book is a difficult read. It's main message--just do the research and let it lead you to the theory--is sound, but it is repeated endlessly. The rest of the messaging can be confusing at times. It is loaded with typographical errors, has no references, no illustrations, no checklists, and (most egregiously) no index.

I'm glad I read Glaser, and will now read his former partner, Strauss. But this book should be taken for what it now is: a historical way station on one's journey to understanding grounded theory.

Great Discussion on Grounded Theory
I needed a primer on grounded theory for my master's dissertation, and I bought this. What I didn't understand before I read this was that grounded theory was a methodology and a philosophy, not an actual set of procedures to follow. Mr. Glaser has written down a brilliant discussion about keeping an open mind while you collect data, and about observing what is really happening, as opposed to laying a theory down and trying to fit the data into that. I highly recommend this book to anyone using this methodology. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nephrology Nursing Journal, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2007. The length of the article is 7046 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: 3. Relate examples from the results of the study on the importance of spirituality to American Indians on hemodialysis.

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Title: Prayer warriors: a grounded theory study of American Indians receiving hemodialysis.(Continuing Nursing Education)(Report)
Author: Joni Walton
Publication: Nephrology Nursing Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34Issue: 4Page: 377(11)

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Political decision making is interesting in a numberof ways but particularly interesting that in somevague way the general populace views the process ascorrupt and even dirty. Some even suggests that theywould rather replace the entire process withrational decision making. The theory of Shoring-updemonstrates that political decision making isrational. It is rational in a way that societyforces an approach to political decision making thatdemands immediate action and generally forces thetaking of sides. A rational model of decision makingis forged through the process of reasoning bycalculation. Political leadership and the holding ofpower are dependent upon the politician?s ability tocalculate consequences and to estimate the abilityof special interest groups to exert influence at theballot box. As the rational model demands, there arefacts underlying all situations and politicaldecisions. Politics may be energized by emotion butits decisions are cold hard calculation weighing theconsequences as to how action could lead to a threatto power. ... Read more

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In this significant departure from and contribution to the existing psychotherapy research literature, Shaw employs a grounded theory methodology to guide the collection and analysis of interview data from clients who report unsuccessful therapy experiences. Shaw ultimately puts forth The Client's Helical Path" as a theoretical model that subsumes four subcategories: Embarking Evaluating Ending and Familiarity. Clients Embark upon a course of therapy with certain expectations; they later Evaluate their experience on the basis of these expectations; they End therapy when it is adjudicated as not sufficiently successful. Clients' Familiarity with therapy is enhanced with each successive experience and this familiarity implicates clients' subsequent Expectations Evaluations and Endings. The theory contextualizes clients? experiences of unsuccessful therapy at the level of the individual rather at thelevel of the course of therapy thereby providing an understanding for how past therapy experiences influence future ones. Shaw provides multiple credibility checks for his theory." ... Read more

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This book presents the findings of an in-depthAustralian study into Graduate-Entry Nursingstudents. The book examines the students' journeysto nursing. With the growth of acceleratednursing courses, an understanding of studentexperiences is necessary to develop nursingeducation. Graduate-entry nursing studentscommencing an accelerated degree have thechallenging task of returning to the tertiaryenvironment to attain their goal of becoming aRegistered Nurse. The decision to pursue this comesfrom deep thought comprising life experiences,acquired professional skills and previous universitystudy. Each decision is an individual matrix ofthese considerations and is unique to each student.The Graduate-Entry pathway is intense - a collectionof significant challenges and emotions. Theintroduction to the clinical environment is equallyemotive as students begin adjusting to the culturalrealities of the nursing profession. Often there isconflict with the surrender of a previous career inwhich the student may have excelled. The educationalexperiences also form an individual matrix offavourable and unfavourable experiences. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Forum, published by Nursecom, Inc. on October 1, 2004. The length of the article is 7289 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Finding the best fit: a grounded theory of contraceptive decision making in women.
Author: Joanne Noone
Publication: Nursing Forum (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2004
Publisher: Nursecom, Inc.
Volume: 39Issue: 4Page: 13(12)

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This book presents an interpretive analysis of theprofessional experiences of six beginning secondaryschool teachers in Malawi. Grounded theory was usedas the methodology and analytical framework of thestudy. Research in teacher education acknowledges thatlearning to teach is a complex process and that thefirst year of teaching has a very important impacton the future careers of beginning teachers(Stokking, Leender, De Jong and Van Tarwijk, 2003).The transition from the teacher training institutionto the secondary school classroom is characterisedby a type of reality shock in which the ideals thatwere formed during teacher training are replaced bythe reality of school life (Lortie, 1975). The bookpresents a three-stage substantive-level theoryof the beginning teachers' experiences and arguesfor the redefinition of the perception of teacherlearning in Malawi: from a definition of pre-serviceteacher education as teacher learning, to teacherlearning as a 'triadic process' comprised of teachereducation, school induction and continuedprofessional development. ... Read more

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This grounded theory study discovered that ?Carryingon with Life and Living? was the main concern sharedby Part-Europeans(Kai?Loma)from Fiji managing Type 2diabetes.The obvious contribution of this study isin the generation of a core category and the basicsocial and psychological process (BSP) of WALKINGTHE LINE that accounted for variation in change overtime, context, and behaviour in managing Type 2diabetes.This study is relevant to chronic illnessgenerally,and to studies of managing diabetesspecifically,where a basic social processof balancing,or?walking a fine line,featured as acore variable in their findings.This study informsreaders about how Part-Europeans(Kai?Loma)from Fijithink about diabetes and how their cultural beliefsand values are manifested in their process ofmanagement.The results of this study reveal that thesocial and historical contexts of Part-Europeanculture,such as heavy drinking,carrying on with lifeand living in the face of adversity,and takingtraditional medicine impacts significantlythroughout their managing process. ... Read more