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Rational, Natural, Open Systems Organizations

created and designed to accomplish specific goals (Baum, 2002). The government is a good example of the rational model. There are ...

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 ...

DEFINING THE ORGANIZATIONAL PARADIGM

Systems The rational systems school of thought specifies that organizations are deliberately designed to attain specific g...

Comparing the Prose of J.S. Mill and Thomas Carlyle

In two pages this paper examines the style of prose employed by John Stuart Mill in a comparison with that of Carlyle and analyzed...

Good and Evil According to Immanuel Kant

one belonged. Kant believed that accessing this moral law which was indeed universal consisted of relying on our own instincts, n...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

Absurdity and Humor in Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

In 7 pages this paper celebrates the humor contained within Catch 22 by Joseph Heller which puts life and war absurdities into a r...

Changes In The Work Environment

re-evaluated management models and changed the structures to decrease levels of authority and the number of middle management posi...

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Sanity of Hamlet

In five pages this paper evaluates the sanity of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy and whether or not he had lost it or had never be...

Article Analysis: Approaches to Ethnic Conflict

This 5 page paper compares two articles, Ariel Dorfman's September, 1973 and My Pin-Up by Hilton Als. The writer contrasts the rat...

Budgeting with Algebra

In this case, one might look at the case example of an average University of Phoenix student, or indeed any student at any of the ...

REBT/Treatment for Alcoholism

ones life (Mulhauser, 2011). The first reaction, that is, normal grief, leads to sadness, which is a perfectly healthy, normal par...

Bias in Decision Making

manner to a lesser extent. In investment decision this is also known as the sunk cost fallacy (Howells and Bain, 2007). There ar...

The Application of Self-Analysis: Rational Emotive Thinking

and could not get it back. I felt like I was a bad person because I had put the project off so long. I became depressed because ...

Society and Explanations Offered by Sociological Theories

that tries to explain incidences in daily life in respect to resources like money, time, organizational skills and so forth. Ones ...

God's Existence and Logic

believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...

Radical Doubt in the Philosophy of Rene Descartes

philosophy" was intent on raising philosophical debate above the aesthetic and theological interests which had held it captive for...

Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud on Civilizations' Rational and Irrational Thought

lead to irrational ends (Lear, 1995). For Freud who used psychoanalysis to try and account for human irrationality it was determi...

Epistemology and Rene Descartes

In five pages this essay discusses how rational foundationalism is explored by Descartes in his Meditations on the First Philosoph...

Wendy Hunter's Eroding Military Influence in Brazil Politicians Against Soldiers

This text is discussed with the focus being on the author's proposed 'rational choice theory' in eight pages. There are no other ...

Brazil's Democratization Process and the 'Rational Choice Model'

is wise for us not to make a judgment about this action, bur rather make an effort to view it as reality, instead of being influe...

Rationally Analyzing Public Policy

In five pages the framework developed by Fisher is applied to a rational analysis of public policy with practical, social, and rea...

Iago and the Human Unknown

In seven pages this paper examines how Iago in Othello by William Shakespeare represents that elusive 'human unknown' factor that ...

Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics

In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...

Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

reality, however, although The Jungle certainly had a commendable socio-political impact on American society, it was not in the co...

Connection Between Making Decisions and Critical Thinking

looks upon his world as a direct reflection of him, his values, beliefs, experiences, conditions and development; contrarily, huma...

Policy Formulation, Globalization and Rational Choice

Hollis (2003) also makes the point that with the advent of increasing globalisation, it is no longer possible to assume that...

John Maynard Keynes on Economic Growth Stimulation Through a Public Spending Deficit

on which there may be high levels of interest payable if the tactic does not work as expected. The risk to a developing economy ma...