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Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Can Depersonalized Bullying in the Workplace be Explained by Critical Management Theory?

and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...

Cognitive Growth Theories

a term applied to the education of handicapped children who had neurological, sensory, cognitive, and/or physical handicaps (Gindi...

Dividend Policies and the Interpretation of Dividend Signaling

the firms performance (Lintner, 1956, p98). The basic hypothesis, based in research with a sample of 28 firms and interviews with ...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

The Application of Realist and Liberalist Approaches in International Relations

This is a generally pessimistic approach to international relations, with statism being any central tenet of the theory, with the ...

RISK, ARBITRAGE AND COMMON STOCK

State the formula for the arbitrage pricing theory. What are the three steps involved in estimating expected returns using this fo...

The Application of Motivation Theory at Delta Airlines

employees to be motivated (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The Hawthorn studies undertaken by Mayo demonstrated that the e...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Managing Change

There are many different change theories and models. this paper reports on several including Kotter's, Lewin's, Aitken and Higgs, ...

Word Processing Programs Support Cognitive Learning

Word processing programs support the cognitive learning theory by helping students learn how to edit their documents from beginnin...

Kolb Perry Belenky et al. Erikson

The entitled theories are discussed in terms of the writer's experiences from adolescence to adulthood. These are adult learning t...

Delinquency and Deviance Theories

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

Wallerstein's Theory of World Systems

most developed are powerful and this allows them to determine the type of governance that fosters their continued power (Martin, 2...

Principles of McGregor's Theory X And Theory Y

to gain job satisfaction and the managers behavior toward him. Maslows thoughts about drives and motivation resulted in a classifi...

Activity Cycles

classroom environment is therefore designed to encourage children to exercise control over the environment and to function with an...

Social Work Practice and Theory

In addition, she makes the point that when considering any social phenomenon, there will invariably be a diversity of interpretati...

Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Alternate Perspectives on the Product Life Cycle Theory

and grows in popularity, but should live out its allotted time when it becomes a cash cow (1990). Hence, this theory above all co...

Thibaut and Kelley's Social Exchange Theory of Communication

to determine the best possible behavior is not a new idea. This is basically what John Stuart Mill proposed with his philosophy of...

French Revolution and the Application of Principles from The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

In six pages this essay seeks to better understand the French Revolution through an application of the theories contained in Machi...

Nature of the Soul and the Theories in Phaedo by Plato

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

Enlightenment Theories and Rights for Women

In five pages this paper assesses equal rights for women in an examination of the Enlightenment theories expressed by Gouges, Woll...

Case Study on the Family Impact of Personality Theory

In five pages this case study examines the impact of such personality theories as Gray's anxiety theory, Kelly's personality theor...

A Review of The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan

The writer reviews The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan, in which the scientists challenges many current theories. The writer arg...

George Ritzer's The McDonaldization of Society

In five pages this paper examines the theory presented by George Ritzer in his text with Marxism among the topics of discussion....

Dividend Policy, Capital Structure, and Principal Agent Theory

In nine pages this paper considers Miller and Modigliani theories in a discussion of capital structure, hypothesis of shareholder ...

Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media

In eight pages this text is critically reviewed in terms of the theories McLuhan presented and critical points are argued....

Human Resoiurce Management in Public Organizations

survival means a profit needs to be made. In the public sector the ultimate failure is to fail the community with social consequen...