993 Search Results for Collective Behavior
Obstacles to Achieving Greater Justice in Our Collective Lives
Today, major disparities continue to exist between the rich and poor in terms of money, political and health care access as well as treatment by the criminal justice system. Although th Continue Reading...
Efficacious Interventions for Grieving Families
In response to the recent mass shootings in Orlando, Florida that claimed the lives of 50 innocent Americans, Orlando's public and private sectors have come together to offer grief counseling services Continue Reading...
Organization Culture: An Analysis of Two Articles
Organizational Culture: An Analysis of Two articles
A collective organization approach is one that seeks to empower individual capacity to handle organizational issues at an individual level. In thi Continue Reading...
Hypothetical Case Study
Subjects
Two students, Jack and Bob, determined as aggressive by their educators and chosen using purposive sampling, made up the participants of the study. The two are, at present, enrolled in a behavioral support classroom s Continue Reading...
Functional Assessment
Leonard's behavior should be considered as challenging behavior. His behavior is disruptive to the class. When he is told to do something or to stop doing something, he does not follow instructions. He does not pay attention or Continue Reading...
Here, Aristotle recognizes the variances which appear
to define our establishment of the means to pursuing happiness, musing that
"the characteristics that are looked for in happiness seem also, all of
them, to belong to what we have defined happine Continue Reading...
Health Belief Model: Weight Management with African-American WomenThe health belief model (HBM) is based upon the concept of changing a subjects beliefs to motivate change in his or her behavior. Critical components of the model include perceived sev Continue Reading...
Earlier this month an Italian research team jointly authored a research article titled "Affective Basis of Judgment-Behavior Discrepancy in Virtual Experiences of Moral Dilemmas," with the results of their findings published in the scholarly journal Continue Reading...
Knowledge and skills of an administrator for this project
Although I have spoken of the variety of skills and some knowledge needed to successfully complete this project this information will be recapped for the reader in this section.
As a princ Continue Reading...
Anxiety in Post-Pandemic America Distress:In reality, the increasing prevalence of anxiety among Americans is understandable given the wide array of existential threats that are already arrayed against humankind. These threats are combined with nearl Continue Reading...
AbstractThis study examined the relationship between coal mining history, socio-economic impacts, and public health responses in Wales and Appalachia, with a specific focus on Covid-19 vaccination behaviors and attitudes. The study drew on survey dat Continue Reading...
Market for Cars
Understanding Consumer Needs In The Automobile Industry
Understanding and Satisfying Consumer Needs in the Automobile Industry
The automobile industry is rather different from other aspects of the economy. Car companies focus on es Continue Reading...
Team Organization
Models for team behavior within the organization
Teams have become an increasingly ubiquitous part of complex, modern organizations. One survey of 962 HR leaders found that fifty-four percent of respondents spent up to 30% of thei Continue Reading...
Organizational Leadership
Characteristics of Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership is leadership that creates an organizational environment that facilitates change with a high level of commitment, loyalty, productivity, and commit Continue Reading...
Crimonology
How do people react in a crowd?
In the first instance, differences must be made between the various faces of the 'crowd' and operational definitions must be arrived at. As Intro to Sociology defines it:
Crowds are large numbers of peop Continue Reading...
Organizational Cultures: Annotated Bibliography and Summary
Annotated Bibliography
Aronson, Z. And Patanakul, P. 2012. "Managing a group of multiple projects: do culture and leader's competencies matter?" Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 3(2): pp. Continue Reading...
This case does not directly illustrate this, because productivity increased 5%. If in the next quarter that productivity gain shrinks, that would demonstrate more clearly the law of diminishing marginal productivity. This is because, for example, if Continue Reading...
The basic assumption of the question itself, namely that there is a best method for organizing a social system independent of the needs, resources, or purpose(s) of that social system, could certainly be debated, but as stated the question's importa Continue Reading...
This, he says, is a big challenge considering the fact that all team members along with the top management come from different cultural backgrounds.
Polley and Ribbens (1998) in their pioneering research assert that team wellness has got to be tack Continue Reading...
Several days ago another friend of mine spoke about how he dreamed about him being a Chinese peasant in charge of a farm. He planted seeds into the ground and felt that the seeds were created by his soul rather than being ordinary seeds. He then sa Continue Reading...
Education Nursing Reforms
The teaching classroom environment is devoid of many of the social norms and customs and courtesies that are seen in everyday life. The hierarchical structure and enforcement of discipline creates a unique environment in th Continue Reading...
Sexual Orientation Discrimination
Discrimination can be carried out in the work place through many different ways. Federal and state laws go on to prohibit employers from carrying out unfair practices like hiring or terminating on the basis of relig Continue Reading...
Motivation
The concept of motivation has as many diverse meanings as there are its application and intended purpose for its application. Word Net (2011) gives a psychological angle of the motivation idea. It describes motivation as a psychological e Continue Reading...
Thus, this aspect can multiply into many sub-genres that focus on one or more aspects of the social world as they contribute to influencing behaviors and innate thought processes. Focusing on the social means looking for more abstract concepts that Continue Reading...
Westaby, J.D., Pfaff, D.L. & Redding, N. (2014). Psychology and social networks. American Psychologist 69(3): 269-284.
Westaby, Pfaff & Redding (2014) attempt to fill a gap in the literature on social networks by focusing on how social networ Continue Reading...
Cultural Analysis
Activity 1 - Discuss the two societal cultures that you will use to develop your GLOBE Paper. Why these two? I will discuss the Germanic and Latin European Cultures. Each of these divergent cultural paradigms has had a strong effec Continue Reading...
Carl Rogers Theory of Personality
Introduction to the Personality Theory of Carl Rogers
Twentieth Century psychologists Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was a founder of the Humanistic approach to human psychology (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2008). His theories Continue Reading...
For instance, Triandis (1989) notes, " on this point, Triandis indicates that "the more complex the culture, the more frequent the sampling of the public and private self and the less frequent the sampling of the collective self. The more individual Continue Reading...
Indeed, effective problem solving in these circumstances often requires high levels of creative collaboration (Richards, 2007a, p. 34). In recognition of this reality, employers consistently name the ability to work together creatively as a primary Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Life and Beliefs of Marshall Applewhite:
Delve into an exploration of Marshall Applewhite's background, tracing his journey from his early life to becoming the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult. An Continue Reading...
Adamek, Raymond J. and Lewis, Jerry M. “Social Control Violence and Radicalizat The Kent State Case.” Social Forces, Vol. 51, No. 3, 1 March, 1973, pp. 342-347.
This article focuses on the uses and effects of excessive force and social c Continue Reading...
Global Risks
Climate change is something affecting all countries, with particular relevance to low-lying coastal regions. Island nations in the Indian Ocean, for example, and the dozens of nations in the Caribbean are at risk of inundation not just f Continue Reading...
S. involvement in World War II.
Is it possible to have a general theory of war?
Perhaps the most well-known "theory" of war is articulated in Matthew 24:6: "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. . . . Such things must happen" (New International Continue Reading...