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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...

Three Nursing Theories

complete perspective, the study of several theories can build a broader one. The Case Mr. Johnson is 35 years old and has b...

Theory O, Theory E, and Change

increasing of their profits (Chryssides et al, 1998). The main aim of the business is to make profit for the shareholders. Jensen...

Crime - Two Viewpoints

theories: " ...such theorists viewed criminals not as evil persons who engaged in wrong acts but as individuals who had a criminal...

Falsification Theories of Karl Popper

In fifteen pages Karl Popper's 1934 The Logic of Scientific Theory is examined in terms of the proof and falsification theories de...

Festinger, Sternberg, and Seligman on Human Motivation

In four pages this paper considers human motivation in a discussion of the attribute changing ABCDE method by Seligman, the Triang...

Questions on Juvenile Delinquency

In nine pages this research paper examines juvenile delinquency questions in a compilation of 4 brief essays that include such the...

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...

Maslow, Neuroscience and Emotion

This essay discusses several different theories and theorists include Maslow's hierarchy, Vroom's expectancy theory, Schachter and...

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...

Managing Change

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

Theories of Change and Conflict

Any change brings resistance because change is frightening to many people. Leaders must be able to introduce, plan, and implement ...

Adult Learning Theories

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at adult learning. Theories of humanism, cognitive theories, and behavioral theories are...

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...

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...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

The Value of the Family

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

Paradigms of Radical Humanism and Radical Structuralism

In ten pages these radical paradigms are defined, compared, and then considered within the context of the market view, Theory X an...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

its female counterpart; while this mentality has been somewhat reversed in certain global communities, it still takes precedent in...

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...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Corporate Environment and Capital Finance

In five pages student submitted questions pertaining to commercial finance are answered regarding capital raising through weighted...

Hipparchus, Copernicus and Ptolemy and Their Theories of the Universe

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts theories of the way the universe works: the heliocentric theory versus the geocentric the...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

Workplace and Motivation Theories

best job in terms of satisfying employee needs. The employee who is on the first level is motivated primarily by the paycheck and ...

Critiquing Postmodernism

started to fall out of favour, and the fall of this from popualrity is claimed by Charles Jenks to have marked the end of the mode...

Commercial Environment and Complex Adaptive Systems Theory

role in the company itself as the system, but also may also change the commercial environment which will impact on other firms (Je...

Theories on Personal and Group Development

A leader is one who can effectively bring opposing views into submission to his own while still recognizing and honoring differenc...

State Views of Michel Foucault and Emile Durkheim

down, in eating certain meats...in not celebrating certain holidays, etc.?" (1933, p. 72) While such prohibitions are common in ma...

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...