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Cultural Control and Knowledge Workers' Research

seen with many of the older crafts, or knowledge transfer, though training (Polanyi 1973). This may also be seen as the acquiring...

Team and Group Dynamics

The white football players talk of boycotting practice because they are certain that the black coach will not allow them to play. ...

The Basic Concepts Related to Chaos Theory

8 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the basic concepts related to the chaos theory. This paper outlines the...

Genetic Diversity and the Origin of Life

According to one theory, the universe and its components were formed in a single cataclysmic explosion between ten and twenty mill...

Tornstam's Gerotranscendence Theory

formulated by Lars Tornstam, a Swedish professor of sociology, has provided a new conceptualization of aging, as this theory perce...

Dividend Policies and the Interpretation of Dividend Signaling

the firms performance (Lintner, 1956, p98). The basic hypothesis, based in research with a sample of 28 firms and interviews with ...

Counseling the Poor: Exploring Organizational Dynamics

a social perspective. Problem Statement The role of social work in improving the lives of individuals has been the topic of mu...

Piaget and Vygotsky/Theories of Child Development

goes forward when its pedals are rotated, until around age eight or nine (Harris, 2009). However, there are numerous instances rec...

Corporate Culture Theories that Impact it

The corporate culture is like an unwritten code of conduct. It is not a document, it is just the way things get done in that organ...

Personality Development, Assessment Instruments

This research paper starts by indicating four characteristics of personality, then the writer offers a brief overview of three the...

Self-Care Deficit Theory, Dorothea Orem

The SCDNT regards the meta-paradigm of "Nursing" as an art, that is, a "helping service," but also as a technology ("Dorothea," 20...

Wal-Mart Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

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...

A Theoretical Approach To Cultural Change Within An Organization

are required. The concept of culture may be seen as the embodiment of the norms, values and beliefs. These may be seen...

Organizational Systems: A Pervasive Overview

we process information as human beings. Human epistemology is constructed as a system of categories; when we learn new information...

Organizational Change; Theory and Practice

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

Resource Dependency Theory, Contingency Theory and Core Technology

over a great deal with social exchange theory and the study of politics in the workplace (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The use ...

Organizational Change and Leadership Dynamics

In thirty pages this paper presents a research project case study in a consideration of the connection between leadership and orga...

Organizational Theory And Unifying A Nation

details about the exact smears that were used.] Another of the differences with the 2004 election had to do with information tech...

Systems Theory and Systemic Family Therapy

child id the individual that is displaying the problematic behaviour the systematic family therapy approach sees this as part of t...

Cognitive Development: Bygotski vs. Piaget

language and language facilitated thought. Speech, of course, develops in response to a childs interactions with others. This in...

Theories in Psychology: Freud and Erikson

genetics and psychosocial stimuli (Boeree, 2002). In their normal progression stage one occurs between infancy and two years of a...

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...

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...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

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

Learning Theories and Adult Learning

job" (Flint, 2001, p. 3). Employees who are categorized as being in the "professions" have, for quite some time, acknowledged the ...

Learning Theory: Impacts on Curriculum Development

distinctions made in terms of their view on the stages of learning and variations in the language learning processes for children....

Criminal Justice II

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

The Historical Jesus in 3 Views

the context of Jewish salvation history (Sanders 88). Nevertheless, the issue of Jesus supernatural birth, as related in the gospe...

Isaac Case Study on Career Decision Making

in intellectual environments, especially theoretical ones. This personality often prefers to work alone. The artistic component re...