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Decisions, Strategy and Leadership

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...

Book Review: "The Nature Of Leadership" By Antonakis et al

what we know about leadership. This context also shows us patterns of leadership that we can use to analyze contemporary problems...

Human Resource Management Trends

training program that should be included is that of cultural sensitivity training (Banerjee, 2007). This all means the human resou...

Supermassive Black Holes

2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...

Crime, Victimology and Victimization

get close with one another. Another theorist contends it is segmentation that would divide people (Lilly, 2002). Lilly (2002) rela...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Motivating Teachers

their own supplies before and during each school year (Schmidt, 2005). Teaching has always been a low-status, low-pay job requiri...

Management Functions, Theories And Application

This involves recruiting, hiring, training, employee development, i.e., training, and monitoring performance. The company will onl...

Organizational Change; Theory and Practice

resistance and problems that they have encountered. However, even with the resulting problematic issues, which have included strik...

Middle School - Cognitive Development And Technology

Development Institute, 2006). Piaget also noted three fundamental processes that were involved in intellectual growth, assimilat...

Piaget/Elementary & Middle-School

symbols, such as numbers in more complex ways; however, their thinking is, as yet, not entirely logical. The full development of c...

Spain, the Basque Region, and Theories of Nationalism

Michael Hechters theory of what he calls "internal colonialism." He defines it as a sort of colonialism "practised by the center a...

The Contribution of Game Theory to Collective Bargaining and Negotiation in Contemporary British Industrial Relations

2000). When we look at the way the decision making process is followed in any firm or individual then it is likely that at some po...

Organizational Conflict Theoretical Model and Rondell Data Corporation

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Overview of The Five Biggest Ideas in Science by Wynn And Wiggins

Whether it was spending "frigid nights beneath the open observatory dome photographing nebulae" (Parshall et al, 1998, p. PG) or f...

Healthcare and Actor Network Theory

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

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 ...