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St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa (1515-1582) was born in Avila as Teresa de Ahumada, the daughter of a prosperous family that likely would be middle cla...

Bobby Knight

communication, problem solving and decision making. While Knight borrows aspects of leadership from a few theoretical approaches ...

Germany's Poor Use of Submarine Warfare During WWII

it should be said that sea travel was quite important during these wars. Submarines, sometimes called U-Boats after the German phr...

Humanist Theory, Self Disclosure and the Times

degree of self-disclosure benefits relationships, increases self-esteem and leads to a more stable self-image" (Underwood, 2003). ...

Outside Influences on Employer-Employee Relations and Employee Motivation

and Burgard 2006). In addition, the recessions of the 1980s and 1990s caused businesses to offshore many of their operations and d...

The Societal and Industrial Transformation to Digital Television

U.S. households and the average number of hours devoted to the medium by each household make it the ideal medium for a number of a...

Database Management and Use

the past has been a repository of past events, a record of organizational history in several areas. "But these days we expect mor...

Conflict Resolution

the load. The host was fairly new and had been seating several tables at the same time in the same station, so that there was a lo...

Quality Engineering

in common, when implementing it, it was undertaken with commitment throughout the organisation to quality, and a desire the change...

International Terrorism

As most people would well assume, it was not really until the powerful attacks of September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States...

Budgeting Process and Uses

year. The sales department needs to be the most accurate in its forecasting for the future, for all other departments needs will ...

Information Management at Amazon.com

In 1995, it was a given that anyone purchasing goods from an online retailer would need to supply a credit card in order to comple...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Parents: the Foundation of a Cohesive Society

also protects its members (David and Chan, 2004). Among the traditional functions of marriage are childbearing; "social placement ...

The Inspiring Leadership of Winston Churchill

but they hoped to avoid it. In 1938, then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain went to Munich to meet with Hitler, and signed the Mu...

Can Reporting on Terrorism Expand Mental Models?

The writer looks at the way terrorism is depicted in the media and assesses if this has lead to increasing the world view of the a...

The Land Problem and the Collapse of the Roman Republic

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

Leadership Skills for the Supervisor

concept, management is very important too. Mismanagement can lead to chaos. Much has been written about management and leadershi...

Category Management

with suppliers. The concept of no longer being fully self-contained and remaining isolated from the outside has come to be less u...

Advertising Hershey Chocolate

a small volume of "old," classic recipes from early in the 20th century, updated to take advantage of electric ovens with thermost...

Medicare Policy Memo

insurance coverage, Medicare requires full participation by everyone over the age of 65 (Scanlon, 2001). As costs continue ...

Is Christian Doctrine Responsible For The Modern Ecological Crisis

develop a relationship with nature that emphasized the unity between man and nature and man must pull away from the thought it cou...

Changing Management Accounting in Line with a Changing Business Environment

that are gradually being seen introduced, but agent which there is still some resistance. Product costing has traditionally been...

House Bill 250: Analysis

context notes the need for investigative teams to help differentiate whether abuse and/or neglect served as a direct cause of deat...

Why did Barings Bank Fail?

the research on why businesses fail. A study by Moulton (et al, 1996) looked to identify the reasons for business failure. This st...

America's Waste Management Services

Figure 1 shows the position in 2001. Figure 1 US Waste Management Industry in 2001 (Repa, 2001) Sector Number of Organizations A...

Asset Allocation and Stochastic Optimization

approaching, being one that that is more dynamic and flexible, suitable as a tool for analyzing decision problems under uncertaint...

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

Analyzing World Wars I and II

the first of the two great wars where Europe all but destroyed itself began in 1914. And in some sense one can begin to see the si...

Innovative Managers and Leadership of Creative People

working alone, can be creative (Bergstrom, 2002). But studies have shown that there is a relationship between certain leadership s...