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David Ricardo's Comparative Advantage

manner than any other nation. Conversely, in international trade they should also import any commodity where they have the...

Specific and General Deterrence Criminological Theories

other citizens from committing the same behavior (Renteln 192). General deterrence operates under the assumption that no matter h...

The Theory of Utilitarianism

up with perhaps the earliest fully developed system of utilitarianism, of which two prominent features are noteworthy ("Utilitari...

Organizational Effectiveness and Theories of Leadership

was evil and President Clinton was insular (Randall, 2004). Clinton was so identified because "he did nothing to stop the massacr...

Organizational Study Contributions of Frederick Taylor

standardization of tools, machinery, and equipment, together with the systemization of the flow of production" (Nyland, 1996, p. 9...

Corporate Culture and Change

what the desired culture is (Duncanson, 2004). The objective then is to fill in the gap between what is and what should be (Duncan...

The Use of the Four Component Instructional Design

This 8 page paper examines the use of the four component instructional design (4C/ID) as a model to design an instructional progra...

Dorothea Orem and Florence Nightingale on Nursing Theories, Beliefs, and Values

prepared for this role" (McKenna, 1997, p. 87). Perhaps most significant of all was Florence Nightingales belief that env...

Theory of Knowledge or Epistemology

the Christian religion. In other words, in order to belief in God, the Bible as the proof of God must be justified or proved itse...

Practice and Theory of Leadership and Management

been concerned about the same thing for some time and several weeks before began keeping a time log categorized according to proje...

Management and Complexity Theory

some over-riding constraint" (Rosenhead, n.d.). Physical sciences have discussed the concepts of stable and unstable systems but ...

A Learning Activity and 3 Theoretical Applications

warm-blooded mammals that bear life young and most are insect-eaters (Krantz and Barrow, 2003). Considering the many misconception...

Practice and Theories on Human Resource Management

The concept of reality and rhetoric is not new, since the development of research into HRM there have been lags due to a number of...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Chaos Theory in Organization Development

words are complex and dynamic, so complex and so dynamic, in fact, as to appear chaotic" (Overman, 1996; 487). Therefore, it is an...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

Positivist Law and Natural Law

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

The Peter Principle And Human Resource Management

to do with the inertia of hierarchies in any type of organization wherein those who are promoted are not innovative but rather, th...

Attachment Theory

to her father and myself. This can be problematic in regard to the non-custodial parent, but Attachment Theory principles and rese...

Psychological Counseling Theories

Applications: techniques and procedures: An appropriate application for feminist therapy would be to "help clients understand the ...

Motivation And Job Performance

that enhance ones life. The bottom of the pyramid identifies the basic physiological needs for hunger, thirst, and basic bodily co...

A Review of Issues in Economics by Robert Guell

in depth the basics of theory. The section starts out with the more basic ideas of economics, first there is a chapter on opportu...

Crime, Victimology and Victimization

get close with one another. Another theorist contends it is segmentation that would divide people (Lilly, 2002). Lilly (2002) rela...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Human Resource Management Trends

training program that should be included is that of cultural sensitivity training (Banerjee, 2007). This all means the human resou...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

Decisions, Strategy and Leadership

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...