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Essays 1921 - 1950

Comparing 2 Theories: Freud and Jung

individual and the outside world, suppressing the hedonistic urges of the id and delaying gratification in order to achieve goals ...

Learning Theory Applied to a Government Department

the need to learn to develop and respond may not be seen as new, this dates back to ideas such as Sun Tzu and Confucius (Thompson,...

The Missouri Compromise, A Prelude to Failure

et al, 2000). However, Missouri bordered Illinois, which prohibited slavery, and the juxtaposition of the two made northerners une...

Issues of Capital Structure

at the theories regarding the way that capital structure may be determined, looking at ideas such as pecking order and trade-off t...

Theory of Human Caring/Jean Watson

experience of another person, and another can enter into the nurses experiences" (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003, p. 25). Watson rega...

American Theories of Leadership and their Potential Application in other Cultures

leaders such as political and military leaders. Burns (1978) argued that the transformational leader may be seen as an extension o...

Reflection on Leadership

influences, such as culture, available skills and needs and the training, development and/or programs that are, or are not, utiliz...

THE FAILURE OF 360-DEGREE FEEDBACK

Examines the 360-degree performance assessment system, and the proper methods of implementation. There is 1 source listed in the b...

The Failure of Compromise in 1850

end, it was clear that the growing United States was going to acquire vast new amounts of land from the conflict. But what was unc...

Jay Gatsby, The American Dream and His Failure to Grasp It

as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...

No Child Left Behind Success or Failure?

whether or not the Act will be successful hinges on a complexity of factors. Effective education encapsulates a diversity of cons...

Developing an Appropriate Leadership Approach for Public Service Department

the expectation of fairness and as such there is also likely to be a high level of applications of concepts such as employee equit...

A Comparison of Two Theories in Nursing Metaparadigm

who often preferred pure science over such an approach. These past perceptions, however, should not sway the student from a deter...

Friedman's Economics

take a stronger role in the economy (Taylor, 2009). Decades later, many other economists as well as state leaders would agree with...

Comparison of Two Humanisstic Theories

such as the environment, culture, biology and even luck but in the end, they must take responsibility for their own thoughts and a...

Corporate Culture Theory

it is a powerful force in that it tells those members of that culture how to think, what attitudes to hold, and how to behave. Ove...

THE FAILURE OF 360-DEGREE FEEDBACK

well. But the problem with use of the 360-degree assessment, as our CEO learned, is you cant just foist it on an organizati...

Using Theory to Create a Business Outline

that which has the smallest absolute disadvantage. They should also import commodities where the absolute disadvantage is the grea...

Thomas Malthus and His Theories on Population

1798) These theories were very significant as over two hundred years later they are still considered valid as arguments an...

Theories of Peplau and Orem in Patient Assessment

In this paper consisting of seven pages the importance of adequately assessing patient needs is discussed by examining the theorie...

Motivation Theories

In five pages types of employee motivation are considered in the theories of Adam Smith's 'economic man, Taylorism, social man of ...

Comparison of Equity and Expectancy Theories

all associated second-level outcome valences, with the perceived belief (or instrumentality) that the first-level outcome will res...

Human Action Determination According to George Edward Moore and B.F. Skinner

In five pages human behavior is examined from the perspectives of B.F. Skinner's theories concerning modification and determinism ...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

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

A FAILURE OF PROJECT SCOPE: VISTA AND GEOPLEX

certainly the case for AT&T with its doomed Geoplex project, and Microsoft Corp. with its latest OS, optimistically called "Vista....

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...

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...

Social Rebellion Success or Failure According to Frederick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson

In eight pages this paper discusses how social rebels either fail or succeed in a comparative analysis of Narrative of the Life of...

The Relationship between Kantian Theory and Environmental Destruction

The writer discusses Kantian Theory, which says that people who do not live up to their ethical responsibilities have no respect f...

2000 U.S. Presidential Campaign and Elaboration Likelihood Theory

In twelve pages this theory's concepts are examined within the context of the 2000 U.S. presidential election with attitude paths ...