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Grounded Theory

(1998; 24). The main approach here is that the information gathered should be able to give an account of the influence or idea th...

Strategic Planning Theories

became popular in the 1980s because companies were faced with a significant amount of competition in a rapidly changing world. The...

Deviance in Conflict Theory and Consensus

the process of indicating which individuals abide by the prescribed societal rules and which ones do not. Generally, a community ...

Pedagogy Theories Compared and Contrasted

+ Pedagogy, 2002). However, the term often incorporates the profession of teaching and therefore a more complete definition would...

Concept of Leadership, Style, and Theories

Their individual research involved the personality variables that could be identified as having a positive correlation with leader...

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

Stephen Jay Gould's Bully for Brontosaurus

books, and view the publishing arm of their diversified empire as but one more item for the ultimate balance"(Gould 157). Apparent...

Corporate social responsibility, cognitive dissonance, and preserving the environment.

Inasmuch as "dissonance theory applies to all situations involving attitude formation and change" (Cognitive Dissonance #2), the m...

The Division of Labor and Adam Smith

for only one small part of the production process. The worker concentrating his or her full effort on being the best that he or sh...

Organizational Conflict Theoretical Model and Rondell Data Corporation

and negative, as has happened with Rondell. Research, overall, demonstrates that conflict can be multidimensional (Amason,...

Chief Executive Officer's Organizational Management Tools

Achievement Theory and Maslows Hierarchy of Needs (reviewed below). Content and process theories are both in place to explain what...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

Nursing Theory Selection and Implementation

are, meaning that their immediate physical conditions affect the likelihood of success of the procedures they are about to undergo...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Mechanisms of Sound Changes Within Linguistics

African American vernacular (Crowley, 1997). One can easily drawn parallels between the linguistic construction in many West Afric...

The Concept of Global Stratification

fact, stratification is likely a significant catalyst in this attack against America. In respect to stratification, Farr (2003) e...

Theory in International Relations and Marxism

ideas are not simply an alternative vision of the nature of international relations and world politics. They also present a wider ...

Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Conflict Theory

strive to maintain the status quo and those who derive less benefit will attempt to overturn or change it. Although evolutionary c...

Behaviorism and B.F. Skinner

The main point of Skinners theory was that learning was the result of a change in overt behavior, and those changes in behavior we...

Questions About Communications Theory

In nine pages conflict theory is among the topics discussed in an outline of fundamental communication theory questions. Six sour...

ICT Learning Program Design

Social constructivism is a part of the larger school of cognitive constructivism, developed by the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsk...

Democracy Critiqued by Plato

a democracy. Plato contended that it would be impossible within a democracy to have the kind of harmony and societal unit...

Bolman and Deal's Theories as they relate to School Systems

Bolman and Deal (2003) the "structural frame" within management practices deals with all of the goals, specialized roles, formal r...

Workplace and Intrinsic Motivation

are made. The company employees in the region of 150 staff and runs two shifts, one starting in the early morning, one starting la...

Examination of Game Theory

and then they may gain the additional customers (Nellis and Parker, 1998). Therefore the relevant probabilities may be seen a 0.7 ...

Collective Unconscious and Family Constellations

generation ancestors behaved as well. He classifies most relationships between family members as "the orders of love," and indicat...

Evolution of Management from the 1950s through the 1990s

has heightened both production and attention to human capital and likely, these trends will continue through the twenty-first cent...

John Rawls, Nozick, and Adam Smith on Business Ethics

actually benefited society. This is no longer true. in todays society, corporations use these and other precepts to pass on their ...

Leadership Theory and Application

The paper is written in three separate sections. The first section identifies modern commercial leaders and looks at the way leade...

Application of Benner's Theory to a Classroom

This paper describes the Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert Theory of nursing and Malcolm Knowles' theory of adult education. The...