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License to Misbehave: Organizational Citizenship Behavior as a Moral License for Deviant Reactions to Abusive Supervision
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Abusive supervision research has found that subordinates engage in deviance following abuse despite the negative consequences of doing so. Why do individuals engage in deviance despite the expected sanctions? To explain ... -
Life After Harm: Exploring the Impact of a Restorative Justice Peer Support Group for People Who Have Sexually Offended
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)In recent decades, restorative justice approaches such as victim-offender conferences and circle processes have emerged as a response to people who have caused sexual harm. The traditional legal responses to sexual offending ... -
Life of the Woods: A Study of Emily Dickinson
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-24)Beginning with T.W. Higginson, the poet’s first public critic and posthumous editor, the prevailing view of Emily Dickinson has been of a maker of “wonderful strokes and felicities, and yet an incomplete and unsatisfactory ... -
“Lifting As We Climb”: The Emergence of an African-Canadian Civil Society in Southern Ontario (1840-1901)
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-18)This dissertation examines Black civil society organizations that brought the African-Canadian community closer to their rights as citizens of Canada West from 1840-1901. Past scholars have applied the concept of civil ... -
Lightweight Games User Research for Indies and Non-Profit Organizations
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016-05-07)The Games User Research (GUR) community has thrived at CHI with four workshops and a course since CHI 2012; all of these were well attended. In line with the #chi4good spirit this year, the GUR field must advance towards ... -
La liminalité et l’imagination du personnage-seuil dans un corpus romanesque québécois contemporain
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-01)Dans cette étude, nous nous donnons comme objectif l’analyse du personnage-seuil et, plus largement, du concept de liminalité dans deux romans québécois contemporains publiés par deux auteures importantes, reconnues surtout ... -
The Limits of Incrementalism: The G20, the FSB, and the International Regulatory Agenda
(De Gruyter, 2012-01)At their very first summit in Washington in November 2008, the G20 leaders placed the reform of international financial regulation at the core of their agenda. The issue has retained a central place in discussions and ... -
THE LIMITS TO INFLUENCE: THE CLUB OF ROME AND CANADA, 1968 TO 1988
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This dissertation is about influence which is defined as the ability to move ideas forward within, and in some cases across, organizations. More specifically it is about an extraordinary organization called the Club of ... -
Linguistic Features of Lectures and their Relationship with Student Performance
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Lectures are an important part of the post-secondary experience. Optimizing various aspects of this experience for the benefit of students’ learning has been examined (Mayer, 2019). However, the linguistic features of ... -
The Linguistic Landscape of Leipzig Today: A Place to Mix Sports and Politics
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)When looking at a space and the people within we often turn to polls, surveys, and elections to gauge the feeling of an area, but what happens when those are not enough or people choose to censor themselves in fear of ... -
Lire la tragédie protestante française à la Renaissance: trois approches des oeuvres
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)Notre thèse, composée d’une introduction, d’un état de la recherche et de deux modules autonomes, porte sur certaines fonctions de la tragédie biblique d’inspiration calviniste à la Renaissance. Bien que le drame protestant ... -
Listening to their peers: An assessment of toddlers' processing of other children's speech
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-29)Young language learners acquire their first language(s) from the speech they are exposed to in their environment. For at least some children (e.g., those in daycare), this environmental speech includes a large quantity of ... -
Literarische Wege zum Glueck: Die Repraesentation des Gluecks in gegenwaertiger deutscher Literatur in Kristine Bilkaus Die Gluecklichen und Schau mich an, wenn ich mit dir rede! von Monika Helfer
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)In this thesis, I set out to examine how two contemporary authors portray the motif Glueck in their novels. The analysis is based on the novel Schau mich an, wenn ich mit dir rede! written by Monika Helfer and Die Gluecklichen ... -
A Literature of Conscience: Yevtushenko's Post-Stalin Poetry
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-04)The tradition of civic poetry occupies a unique place in the history of Russian literature. The civic poet (grazhdanskii poet) characteristically addresses socio-political issues and injustices relevant to the era in ... -
Living as a Self-sufficient Second-class Citizen: Chinese International Undergraduate Students’ Journey to Permanent Residency in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-24)In recent years, Canada has become one of the world’s most popular destinations for studying abroad, and China has become the top sending country of international students to Canada. In Canada’s 2015 International Student ... -
Living on the Edge: Old Colony Mennonites and digital technology
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-18)Technology does not stand alone in any society. Each society negotiates its own relationship with technology and places its own value on it. Each chooses its own path. This thesis considers the path taken towards technology ... -
Loading… Loading… The Influence of Download Time on Information Search
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)When browsing online, there is considerable variation in the amount of time that one has to wait for content to appear once the link to that content has been activated (i.e., clicked). In two experiments we examined how ... -
Lobbying for the "Public Good": A Case Study of a Nonprofit Sector Lobbying Effort in Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Political advocacy research has often relied on concepts from social movement literature to explain the success or failure of lobbying efforts. The following study builds on recent efforts to partner social movement concepts ... -
Local Governments and Policy Responses:The Case of Shifang Protest
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)Most research on Chinese protests’ outcomes focuses on aspects such as the strength, resources, and strategy choices of these protests. Although studies on Chinese contentious politics have taken great consideration of the ... -
THE LOCAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN ONTARIO 1851-1985: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis is a study of the changing model of the local history museum in Ontario, Canada and the consequential changing interpretations of the past in these institutions. <br /><br /> Beginning in 1879, local history ...