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Start-Up Private Practice business Plan for Advance Practice Nurse Practitioner in Northeast Iowa: Author: Harris, Sharon Eileen Jellings; Date: 2005-12-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: business concepts and business development are not routinely a part of nursing education at the undergraduate or at the graduate level. business plans are vital if a business is to have a chance to succeed. Many talents of the advanced nurse practitioner are transferable to the development of a business plan. Assessing, identifying problems (diagnosing), developing interventions, implementing solutions, and evaluating activities are equally important to the business plan and to the clinical practice of the nurse practitioner. This project addresses the problem of how nurse practitioners can us...; Download File | View full details

Planning business Improvement using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Design Structure Matrix (DSM): Author: Kristof, Gary Michael; Date: 2005-12-15; Program: Industrial and Management Engineering; Abstract: Many management system engineering ideas and theories have evolved to help businesses grow and achieve their goals. Applying these ideas and theories to a business system is a strategic planning issue and results in a bewildering array of strategic alternatives for business system improvement. Choosing the appropriate alternatives is a complex and difficult decision. The most appropriate strategic alternative must be executable. To be executable the strategic alternative must not only be technically feasible, but must also overcome social and cultural obstructions. This research presents a pla...; Download File | View full details

The Dual Process Model of Stereotyping: Using Social Cognitive Research to Reduce Bias in the Workplace with an Emphasis in Gender Stereotyping: Author: Betzen, Nathan John; Date: 2005-12-15; Program: Applied Psychology; Abstract: As more women and minorities enter organizations, the issue of the glass ceiling fails to evaporate, due in part to the less favorable evaluations of women and minorities in the workplace. A likely cause for this is the lack of research and understanding in the business environment on stereotyping and its results. The following narrative review seeks to bridge the gap between social psychological and social cognitive research and business and Industrial/Organizational research on the topic through the introduction of a dual process model that identifies and attempts to correct for the harmful ...; Download File | View full details

Importance of financial literacy and financial literacy content in curriculum: Author: Tschache, Candice Arrington; Date: 2009-08-15; Program: Education; Abstract: Teachers, administrators, parents, business owners, and community members need to know the importance and value of a Personal Finance class. In this study, a two page survey was given to teachers, administrators, parents, business owners, and community members to determine the importance they placed on financial literacy curriculum and what content they think should be included in a financial literacy curriculum at Bozeman High School. The results of this survey showed that most participants of the survey thought financial literacy was important and that financial literacy curriculum was also ...; Download File | View full details

Apathy: Author: Dinkins, Jonathan; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Fine Arts; Abstract: In this show, I'm commenting on the apathetic attitudes of our society that I find appalling. Our culture has become a thoughtless throw-away society with an unhealthy consumer drive. We are fixated on fast-everything along with its 'disposable' packaging. The willing and un-willing deterioration of the environment; seen through thoughtless (inhumane) killing for pleasure, unmanaged pest-control, littering, oil spills, and the desire to drill in refuge areas (ANWAR and East Front Glacier National Park); has created a consumer culture that relies on ignorance to excuse itself from environmen...; Download File | View full details

Men's Stereotypes of Women in Management: Are Women Aware of How They are Stereotyped?: Author: Crawford, Kevin Charles; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Applied Psychology; Abstract: It is commonly thought that men and women differ in the extent or frequency to which each exhibits various traits-especially traits that are frequently perceived to be more agentic and stereotypical of males (e.g., aggressive and forceful) or more communal and stereotypical of females (e.g., interpersonally sensitive and sympathetic). Further, stereotypes frequently influence behaviors, with many real-world consequences, not the least of which are those often manifested in the disparate treatment of men and women in the workplace. In a recent study (Martell & DeSmet, 2001), male MBA studen...; Download File | View full details

Seeley Lake Montana. Developing a Sustainable Community within a Grid-Dependent Town.: Author: Jones, Justin Balog; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Architecture; Abstract: Within ten years, Seeley Lake will be modernized and receive public services such as sewer, full water treatment plants, and cable television. When these developments are implemented in Seeley, the town will grow quickly and without regard for the existing physical environment. The economics of place will change as well; property values and taxes will be inflated to unseen levels. This thesis proposes that a central portion of the small town be redeveloped as offgrid community catering to the existing and future working class of Seeley Lake. Focusing on ten existing blocks in the center of See...; Download File | View full details

Sleeping with the Enemy: Integrating Big-Box Retail with Existing Communities: Author: Nash, Ronald James; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Architecture; Abstract: The intent of my thesis is to find a way to integrate a large big-box retailer into a community in such a way that it benefits the community as a whole. This must be accomplished within the parameters that mark the store as a viable option for the parent company as well. This ideal must be approached from the philosophy that box stores are a large part of the current American way of life and to let them grow unchecked will signal the inevitable death of downtown retail districts as more and more business gets sucked to the super-stores and the areas immediately surrounding them. To do this we ...; Download File | View full details

The Women's Protective Union: Union Women Activists in a Union Town, 1890-1929: Author: Case, Bridgette Dawn; Date: 2004-12-15; Program: History; Abstract: Women have organized into representative bodies to fight workplace oppression since the eighteenth century. Often the victims of abuse and exploitation, the positive attributes of collectively organizing were attractive to women. While many working-women found union membership alluring, few held positions of power within unions and many were denied entrance to unions altogether. In Butte, Montana, however it was a different story. Butte was a union town to the very core. Almost everyone who worked in Butte was a union member in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Although initiall...; Download File | View full details