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Theories of Leadership: Kouzes, Peters, Posner and Yukl

suggests that effective leaders rely "more on personal power than on position power" (Green, 1999). That is, they lead because of ...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Nursing Theory: Hildegard Peplau

of her theory is the "improvement of nurses relationships with patients," which is a goal that she proposed can be accomplished by...

TRAIT LEADERSHIP THEORY: ARE LEADERS BORN?

a person who "exceeded" other members in his group through intelligence, scholarship, dependability, activity and social participa...

SYSTEM THINKING AND THEORY OF CONSTRAINTS

of supply and inventory moves into a particular project, then goes through and ends up with the finished project. In a standard ma...

Eysenck And Bandura: Comparison Of Personality Theories

illustrates that while there is indeed merit to his conjecture, it nonetheless does not reflect the only manner by which human per...

Conditioning and Theory

the conditioned stimulus were removed and only the neutral stimulus presented, the same unconscious response that occurred when th...

Labeling Theory and Columbine

noted that they had previously made a video, for their class, wherein they killed "a jock on school grounds" (Bramwell, 2004). Thi...

Social theory and Mass Media

media was in response to meeting the needs of the individual, creating a mode by which information could be conveyed to address pe...

President Bill Clinton's 2000 Economic Report and Alternate Theories of Trade

In five pages this paper opposes free trade in an examination of various trade theories as well as the 2000 Economic Report of Pre...

Caring in Nursing Theory

paternalistic approach that has been favored by physicians. Watsons theory stresses nurses should "honor anothers becoming, autono...

Joint Ventures, Knowledge Acquisition and Strategy Theory

as Asker, argued that the two may be compatible (Thompson, 2007). To understand what is meant by each of these strategies ...

PUBLIC RELATIONS,SMEs AND THEORIES

PR was almost essential in order to get accurate news out to the public as a companys crisis unfolded (Sorter, 1998). McCusker (20...

Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, and Their Personal Property Theories

In five pages this paper examines Rousseau's On the Origin of Inequality and Locke's Two Treatises of Government in a comparative ...

Legal Theory and Billy Budd by Herman Melville

In six pages this paper examines this novel by Herman Melville from a perspective of legal theory. Four sources are cited in the ...

Key Behaviorist Theory Terms

that decreases the occurrence of or eliminates a behavior (Boeree, 2006). A good example is the child always talking out in class....

Developmental Theories of Erikson, Piaget and Kohlberg

they can be perceived as being hierarchical integrations of skills and abilities. They are different in a number of ways, also. F...

Feminist Theory and Videos of Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever” and Lil’ Kim’s “No Matter What People Say”

how old and new discourses about sex are portrayed within the context of a "televisual apparatus" (134). This refers to how the v...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Richard Wagner’s Theories of Music

Leitmotiv" (Brandt 3). This is a revolutionary idea that bears repeating. Today opera audiences have begun to demand singers who...

GAME THEORY AND MODERN MANAGEMENT

boost their happiness (Game Theory, 2009). The standard economic theory of supply and demand makes a pretty good backdrop ...

Skinner, Piaget And Vygotsky : Developmental Theories

existing cognitive structure (Ginn, 2009). Accommodation is the process of changing existing cognitive structures to accept then n...

GAME THEORY, MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC TOOLS

This is a lovely theory that has absolutely no place in the real world, however. One only has to examine the recent financial melt...

Employee Involvement; Theory and Practice

others, such as Brown and Cregan (2008) argue that employee involvement is not only desirable, it can be essential for organizatio...

Analysis Of Five Historical Speeches With Burke's Dramatistic Theory

become mantras for myriad people. 4. AGENCY While it may be true that war brings prosperity, Gandhi never put much...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

John Galtung/Theory and Methods of Social Research

located outside the social scientist himself, and we shall follow this tradition" (Galtung 9). As this indicates, Galtung does not...

Marx and Durkheim and Their Theories of Religion

oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless condition. It is the opium of the peo...

Infant Attachment: Theories

Piagets cognitive developmental theory is devised toward all stages of ones development, however, it is particular pertinent to ea...

Strain Theories of Crime

response to social structure. Merton argues that some social structure "exert a definite pressure upon certain persons in the soc...