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Luck and Chance as Viewed by Aristotle

In five pages the concepts of luck and chance are defined, described, and then examined from an Aristotelian perspective with the ...

Preventing Burnout in Coaching

Burnout is a problem in many high-stress, goal-oriented professions. This paper defines the concept, shows how it may be spotted a...

Burnout and the American Coach

Another symptom of burnout is the development of negative, cynical attitudes about clients and finally, a third aspect of the synd...

Retail and Supply Chain Management

at the retail suppliers there are several specialist issues that are not present or present different when suppliers are dealing o...

Nursing and the Caring Phenomena

on nurses increase (Cullen, 2003). Nevertheless, nurse educators and scholars stress that it is through recognition of caring as a...

Concept of Quanxi in Wild Swans by Jung Chang

quanxi that allow them to distinguish between actions that are virtuous and those that are dishonorable within the scope of this t...

Dramatic Monologue of 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

the complete submission and obedience of his wife to his will. She should concentrate all of her attention on him, or face dire c...

TQM and HRM

Marvin, 2000). Underlying this definition is the implication and philosophy that focuses on employee commitment and motivation, me...

Fast Food and the World Economy

Introduced by The Economist magazine during the late 1980s, the Big Mac index tries to examine if currencies are at the correct le...

Globalization and the Debate on Free Trade

(free trade) will positively impact the recovery of the U.S. economy. Therefore, (the) U.S. Government should not slow the outsou...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

Love Definition and Research

being wholly inferior. Others claim love is for the weak of both mind and spirit, the weak-willed who cannot live their lives alo...

The Culture of a Corporation

all, over time" (1998, p.60). Smith claims that managers have a difficult task if they want to change the organizational culture ...

Operations Management Concepts

cost leader in either the industry, or just the relevant segment of the industry. In each industry or segment only one company may...

Plato and Eternity

he make it eternal anyway? Many people think of the universe as something that was eternal in the first place, irrespective of wha...

Globalization and the Theories of Max Weber and Karl Marx

essential ingredient of the accelerated globalization of the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries" (p.319). Yet, one ...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Employee Stock Option Schemes in Accounting

of other standards I the past (Anonymous, 2005). In order to assess the impact of this and why the new standard is seen in such a ...

'The Study of Administration' Essay by Woodrow Wilson

Act ("The Bureaucracy," 2001). Indeed, nepotism was a large part of government and today it is frowned on. Today, such a reality i...

Judgments and Rational Thinking

ecologically rational if it is adapted to the structure of the environment (Bounded Rationality, 2003). Bazerman (1998) describe...

Definition and Principles of Leadership

activities within an organized group that involves establishing progressive standards designed to meet specific goals. The person...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Friendship Between Othello and Iago According to Friedrich Nietzsche

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

Crime and Victim Precipitation

But during the 1980s, the concept of victimology and victim precipitation was attacked, especially in cases of rape, by feminists ...

Language History Study

century. "He claimed that he made his language as simple as he could so that ordinary people could understand it, yet it is barel...

Quality Delivery

of the children. The first aspect is to ensure that the product offered is the right one for the market place, this...

Defining Public Relations

free advertising for her and her company, which is now doing well. How might one explain this phenomenon? People tend to root for ...

Management and Leadership Differences

should run like a well oiled machine, where enthusiasm and technical expertise reign. However, while leadership can take a company...

'Progressive' US President Teddy Roosevelt

ideals were perhaps grand and a bit idealistic as seen in the following: "Government should promote and, if possible, provide grea...

Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman in a Consideration of What Makes a Tragic Hero

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...