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  • Herzberg and Drucker - Management Theories

    Herzberg and Drucker - Management Theories

    After the end of the Industrial Revolution, large corporations were beginning to grow in size and power in order to satisfy what seemed the endless demands for new goods and services. As corporations and labor forces grew, there was a need to develop a more systematic study of organization and management, known as management theory, the significant being Frederick Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management which involved the development of training workers through special incentives and

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    Essay Length: 1,270 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Trait Theory and the Social Cognitive Theory

    The Trait Theory and the Social Cognitive Theory

    The Trait Theory and the Social- Cognitive Theory differ in several ways. The Trait Theory suggests that people are who they are born with certain traits or characteristics. Inherited traits determine who you are and what you are. There are five trait clusters that are used to categorize a person. This suggests that people belong to one of the personality types; however the traits are measured in different degrees. This all probably means that you

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    Essay Length: 334 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Vika
  • Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

    Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

    Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development Jean Piaget was born on August9, 1896, in the French speaking part of Switzerland. At an early age he developed an interest in biology, and by the time he had graduated from high school he had already published a number of papers. After marrying in 1923, he had three children, whom he studied from infancy. Piaget is best known for organizing cognitive development into a series of stages- the levels

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    Essay Length: 1,415 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • Marxist Theory and Sport

    Marxist Theory and Sport

    This essay will be an attempt to bring together the ideas from our class readings about the Marxist sociological perspective as well as insight from other readings to further my understanding of Marxism and its applications to sport. I will lay the groundwork for the theory then proceed with how his theory is applied to accessibility issues in sport, distribution of power in sport and commercialization of sport. Basics of Marxist Theory The most widely

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    Essay Length: 1,538 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Janna
  • Attachment Theory Developed by John Bowlby

    Attachment Theory Developed by John Bowlby

    Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby presents a set of organizing principles for understanding various facets of human psychological aspects. The theory offers a wide spectrum, which encompasses comprehensive theoretical paradigm for understanding diversities amongst relationships. Bowlby rejecting the old theories of attachment highlighted that attachment is not merely an internal drive to satisfy some need. This paper will focus on the seminal work and the principles on which the attachment theory is based. A

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Bred
  • Expectancy Theory

    Expectancy Theory

    wo simple eyeblink conditioning experiments with random intermittent reinforcement schedules were performed. In Experiment 1, subjects had to rate their expectancy for an unconditioned stimulus (US) on a seven-level scale prior to each trial. As anticipated, expectancy for US increased with a successive conditioned stimulus (CS) alone, and decreased with successive CS-US pairings. However, Experiments 1 and 2 showed that the frequency of eyeblink conditioned responses (CRs) evolved in a direction opposite to that of

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    Essay Length: 1,002 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Max
  • Grounded Theory Study of Unethical Labour Practices Associated with Global Brands in Developing Countries

    Grounded Theory Study of Unethical Labour Practices Associated with Global Brands in Developing Countries

    (2006, 2845 words, 80%) Abstract This is a grounded theory study about unethical labour practices associated with global brands’ operations in developing countries. The research paper develops a substantive theory or at least a set of propositions explaining the wider contextual underpinnings of unethical labour practices deriving from the operations of global brand companies. The grounded theory method chosen to undertake the research necessitates theoretical sampling of global brand companies that can substantiate the phenomenon

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Vika
  • Supply, Demand, and Price

    Supply, Demand, and Price

    Supply, Demand, and Price Economics is: the study of how human beings coordinate their wants and desires, given the decision-making mechanisms, social customs, and political realities of the society. This according to, “Colonder: Economics, fifth edition. Chapter 1”, He also went on to say that one of the key words in the definition of “economics” is “coordination”. I believe that coordination would be a good way to describe, “Supply and Demand”. On paper or in

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    Essay Length: 974 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on the Lower Class, and Small Business Owners

    The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on the Lower Class, and Small Business Owners

    The Social Effect of Rising Gas Prices on The Lower Class, and Small Business Owners One of the largest financial burdens on the lower class and small business owners over the past six years has been the steady rise in gas prices. “Gas prices have been steadily rising for more than six years. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average retail price of gasoline in the United States in March of 1999 was

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    Essay Length: 1,258 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Applying Motivation and Emotion Theories

    Applying Motivation and Emotion Theories

    Applying Motivation and Emotion Theories in an Analysis of Scrooge’s Behaviour Motivation and Emotion Theories 2 In the past many theories have been put forth in an attempt to understand the motivations of an individuals behaviour and the emotions involved. According to Reber & Reber (2001) emotional states tend to have motivational properties and the elements of a motivation will often have emotional ties. In addition, theorists have identified that physiological structures usually appear to

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Fisher Price Competitor Businesses

    Fisher Price Competitor Businesses

    My Business’s Competitors It is essential we research into our Competitor businesses as to ensure they aren’t getting too ahead in any aspects, e.g. if their technology is a lot more advanced, customers may choose to go there over us as they know they would then be getting more technology advanced products. Customers may choose to go there because they are offering something new and innovative. We have already seen how customers like Innovative and

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    Essay Length: 529 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Max
  • War in Iraq and Just War Theory

    War in Iraq and Just War Theory

    • Just cause: In my opinion, the United States had no right to go into Iraq based solely on a theory that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. According to the Just War Theory, war is permissible only to confront “a real and certain danger," to protect innocent life, to preserve conditions necessary for decent human existence and to secure basic human rights. • Competent authority: Just War Theory states that “War must be declared

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    Essay Length: 254 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Janna
  • Understanding Germ Theory with Kuhn

    Understanding Germ Theory with Kuhn

    Germ Theory The germ theory began in the late 1880s and began as the understanding that organisms beyond the view of man could exist. Bacteria were the first found microscopic items, and took a decade to prove. Job Lewis Smith, a pediatric doctor in the late nineteenth century began studying outbreaks of cholera. No other doctors were able to explain why the children were getting ill. He worked in the slums of New York and

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    Essay Length: 1,341 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • Urban Options

    Urban Options

    MY VISIT TO “URBAN OPTIONS” On January 5, 2006, I drove down the cloudy streets of downtown East Lansing in my dad’s partially rusted ’94 Ford Ranger XLT, finally resting in a quaint old house behind City Hall. The sign out front read “Urban Options”. I was enamored at first; not quite sure what to expect of this place. I had been to many different science museums in the past, from planetariums to full-size museums,

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Corporations and the Decision to Expense Employee Stock Options

    Corporations and the Decision to Expense Employee Stock Options

    Corporations and the Decision to expense Employee Stock Options Businesses have always been in competition with each other to provide ever increasing quality, timeliness, and innovativeness of their goods and services. In order for a business to do so, it first needs to attract talented employees. In recent years, one of the more popular strategies for not only luring talent, but keeping them was to offer Stock Options to potential employees. Another use of options

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Coevolutionary Gaming Theory Can Facilitate Decision Making

    Coevolutionary Gaming Theory Can Facilitate Decision Making

    How Coevolutionary Gaming Can Facilitate Group Decision Making Introduction: Coevolutionary war gaming is an unconventional scenario planning process put forward by Jeff Cares and Jim Miskel in their article "Take Your Third Move First" which essentially builds on the argument that planning and subsequent decision making should not be conducted in a vacuum, i.e., it is not enough to just look at the current facts and historical data to make decisions and plans and just

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    Essay Length: 534 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Jack
  • Theory of Leadership

    Theory of Leadership

    While I would like to believe I am a transformational leader, there are times I find that I demonstrate the characteristics of the transactional theory in my everyday practice in formal leadership roles. Transformational leadership theory, as I understand it as described by James Burns, "looks for potential motives in followers, their needs, values, and morals" and "involves attempts by leaders to move individuals to higher standards of moral responsibility". James Fisher describes the transformational

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    Essay Length: 364 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Top
  • Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory

    Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory

    The Hierarchy of needs theory is a formation of the needs of an individual person. Basically this hierarchy are based on five level which is classified into Physiological needs, Safety needs, Love/Belonging needs, Esteem needs and Self-actualization needs. It can be illustrated with a diagram 1.0 The Diagram of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. This is diagram are has been developed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper of A Theory of Human Motivation which he

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    Essay Length: 1,480 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Mutually Assured Destruction: In Theory and Practice

    Mutually Assured Destruction: In Theory and Practice

    By definition Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which full-scale use of nuclear weapons by both sides would effectively result in the destruction of both side. It is not a complicated concept. An elementary school child could understand that the two biggest kids in the class don’t openly brawl because both would suffer unacceptable damage as well as put third parties in the danger of the crossfire. The concept of

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    Essay Length: 4,961 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Janna
  • Price Discrimination in the Mobile Phone Market

    Price Discrimination in the Mobile Phone Market

    Price Discrimination in the Mobile Phone Market Mobile phones are nowadays a part of our lives, the majority of us use them on a daily basis. Some people use them less frequently, when they are away from their homes, while for some they have already replaced the old landline phone. Young people use the SMS and MMS services quite often, while more senior people limit themselves to just making calls . Some prefer the pay-as-you-go;

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Tender Option Bonds

    Tender Option Bonds

    Overview of Tender Option Bonds (TOBs) TOBs are synthetically created short-term tax exempt instruments. A TOB sponsor will buy a portfolio of fixed rate, long term municipal bonds with ratings between AA-AAA and combine them with an interest rate swap to create short term tax exempt floating rate bonds. (Please see attachment 1 for a summary of the deal structure). The tax-exempt status creates a high level of demand particularly from investors who seek

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Steve
  • Immigration Theories

    Immigration Theories

    Despite on all complexity of political life in the modern world, the variety of political parties and public organizations has already been defined for couple of centuries by authority of liberal and conservative doctrines. Both liberalism and conservatism represents the complex of political principles, which have experienced crucial historical changes. These contrast ideologies not only will be defined in the essay, but also the origin of them will be explained. Some state that “all modern

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    Essay Length: 767 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Guns Germs and Steel, Theories Explained.

    Guns Germs and Steel, Theories Explained.

    The book Guns, Germs, and Steel is about how many different things attributed to the succession of societies versus the destruction of other societies. The book starts out with the author, Jared Diamond, in New Guinea talking to a New Guinean politician named Yali. Yali asked Diamond “Why white men developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea where we black people had little cargo of our own?” Diamond was determined to

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Monika
  • Air Travel Prices Have Gone Up: Security for the Cost of Privacy

    Air Travel Prices Have Gone Up: Security for the Cost of Privacy

    Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, airport security has undergone significant changes nationwide. For all air travelers this is an intense issue. Post-September 11, airline travel security has invoked the increase use of technology and better training of security personnel to improve travel security. Some of these suggestions, such as better training for airport screeners, checking all bags for bombs, developing stronger and safer cockpit doors, and putting air marshals on flights,

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Pricing Forecast

    Pricing Forecast

    Pricing Forecast According to "The Economist" the forecast price jumped from 8 to 15 percent, increasing from $1.09 to as much as between $1.19 and $1.25 (Leith, 2004),growth has jumped to 35%. Within the non-alcoholic beverage industry, Coca-Cola has strong competition from PepsiCo and Cadbury-Schweppes. Strategic pricing of products can have a big impact on sales revenue growth. If Coca-Cola increases its prices while managing to maintain unit sales volume, then its sale revenue will

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Edward

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