I have always thought that local government chief executives would make admirable permanent secretaries, because they combine political savvy with an orientation towards action.
She served as an editor, and during that time, the paper published incendiary articles on issues like race, sexual orientation, affirmative action and what conservatives viewed as the liberal excesses of the day.
"Perhaps individuals in modern society need not just the comfort and reassurance of the familiar, but have a need to be active rather than to accept passivity; a need to protect a fundamental orientation to action that is internalised in their personality and characteristic of their culture".
Adapting the revision framework developed by Severinson Eklundh and Kollberg (2003), Stevenson et al. (2006) and Barkaoui (2016), all revisions logs were manually coded by the researcher according to four dimensions: location, domain, orientation, and action.
The same ANCOVA was performed as in the orientation experiment: ACTION (grasping/pointing), CHANGE_MAGNITUDE (small/medium/large) and covariate 'order' (grasping or pointing first).
Third, the value of two O*NET variables that comprises motivational processes ("goal orientation" and "action planning") were assigned to the participants.
For this study, using unmarked transcripts, the first two authors individually deconstructed each "husband" story into the following story elements: abstract, orientation, complicating action, resolution, evaluation and coda, as defined by Labov and Waletzky [ 49].
Beside each elevator bank, a chart displaying, in capital letters, the library's curious organization helps guide the bewildered student: "FIRST FLOOR: IMAGE," "SECOND FLOOR: WORD," up to "FOURTH FLOOR: ACTION-orientation," with "Action" comprising "Cultural and Political History," and "orientation" "Magic and Science".
Action oriented futures studies and participatory futures studies are in close connection, because orientation towards actions and participation of non-professionals can be strengthened by their mutual interdependence in futures work.
The beacon of responsibility is the purposeful orientation of actions, as well as the prudent examination of their consequences.
The heterogeneity among the relevant SAFs is an expression of the various types of challengers' different and partly diverging orientations of action.
