1000 Search Results for Classics of Organization Theory
This is exacerbated by the problem that Carmen is close friends with the owner Kenneth. Kenneth has a similar conflict management style to Carmen. He can be extremely nice when dealing with people casually, but whenever a problem arises like Carmen Continue Reading...
John Rawls / Mencius
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice is concerned with distributive rather than retributive justice: there is precious little discussion of crime and punishment in Rawls's magnum opus, but plenty of discussion about equality and fai Continue Reading...
(Beasley, Branson, and Hancock, 2010, paraphrased)
Srimai, Radford and Wright (2010) report that management needs "arriving from the evolving business ecology and focused on creating and sustaining competitive advantage, drive the destiny of PM sys Continue Reading...
Training Needs Analysis
Abstract/Introduction: This paper focuses on "Strategic Organizational Culture Management and Its Training Needs" as a tool to preserve a company's competitiveness in a given market. While there seems to be unanimity that "St Continue Reading...
Ethics and Human Resource Management
As society progressed out of the 19th century - an era when two-thirds of all women were illiterate -- women embarked on a mass migration that would see them out of their kitchens and into the workplace (Thompso Continue Reading...
These two approaches to organizational design for structure are described in Table 1 below.
Table 1
Principles of Universalistic and Contingency Approaches to Organizational Design and Resulting Structures
Organizational Structure Type
Descripti Continue Reading...
Whole Foods Market Strategy
Whole Food Market Strategy
Congruence in a powerful measure of the overall health and functioning of an organization -- a key to understanding the organization in a static snapshot and to forecasting how well the organiz Continue Reading...
Terrorism is at this point one of the main threats that decision makers in the field of national security have to deal with especially in the United States. The issue has been raised mainly after the events from 9/11 2001, but have been a constant co Continue Reading...
Bancolombia: Talent, Culture, And Value Creation Management in Mergers
Supporting evidence
BIC
Banco De Colombia
Conavia
Confinsura
Change leader
Analysis of case data
- Efficiency
Profitability
Alternatives
Alternative 1-Focus profitabili Continue Reading...
Walmart Library
Wal-Mart and the Grandtown Public Library: A Case Analysis
The decision to create a joint use of space between Grandtown's new public library and a proposed Wal-Mart carries with it no small number of questions regarding that which Continue Reading...
Watkins offers a number of suggestions for making the change work in an organization, some similar to the other two reviewed in this paper, some original. He reveals the four kinds of transitions, and points to the challenges that each transition pr Continue Reading...
Rockstein and Sussman (1979) defined senescence as the period of life where the human body weakens and declines in function rather than grows, a period which is of course associated with physical aging. There is much individual and cultural variation Continue Reading...
The individual with high self-awareness will also be able to deal with others more effectively even if the other person is difficult. The self-aware individual has a better understanding of his or her own goals and so of the goals of others. The per Continue Reading...
Kurt Lewin. The influence of his theories on the field of psychology and obstacles faced by social psychologists are also dealt with. Lastly, a personal evaluation of how Lewin's theories may be applicable to daily life is included. The paper discus Continue Reading...
Juvenile Delinquency and Fraud in Australia1: The Media's Portrayal of Young People and Juvenile CrimeIntroduction and FocusThe media plays a pivotal role in shaping societal perceptions of crime, including those involving juveniles. The portrayal of Continue Reading...
" Once famed for its salmon runs, the river is now controlled in many parts by dams that help to supply electricity to western cities, and also feed reservoirs for agriculture. In other words there is considerable competition for the same water resou Continue Reading...
This is a contractual obligation, as money has been received for a certain service.
This is closely related to the third obligation in the model, which is "duty to the organization." The press has an obligation to provide the public with a wide var Continue Reading...
How is it possible, then, that we can come to know anything?
Methodological doubt is best represented in the first of the Meditations, "What can be called into doubt."
In this meditation, the meditator is forced to think about everything that he h Continue Reading...
Gift giving creates a bond between the giver and the receiver. Mauss felt that to reject a gift, was to reject the social bond attached to it. Likewise, to fail to reciprocate is viewed as a dishonorable act in some cultures. Gift giving is a means Continue Reading...
Summary
The Keller/PSI approach to academic and professional training has been documented to improve student performance as measured by course completion rates and subject matter retention among students. On the other hand, there are considerable Continue Reading...
Anarchy is but one aspect of the Realist paradigm. Anarchy is the impetus for all other components of the Realist theory to come into play. Elements such as power, security dilemma's, balance of power, polarity and alliances and ultimately war are a Continue Reading...
Charlotte's Web: Field Research, Psycho-Social Research, and a Textual Summary and Analysis
Introduction and Field Research Background
My niece Ariel, age 11, agreed to read Charlotte's Web by E.B. White with me, and to be my informant on this proj Continue Reading...
Antigua Guatemala Coffee
Antigua Guatemala International (AGI) will be a manufacturer and exporter of Guatemalan coffee to Japan and the global. AGI will use a new system in the food and beverage industry to offer Antigua Guatemala coffee in a time- Continue Reading...
On the other hand, competition brings about order, whereby the consequences of a particular behavior determine its selection and the most successful becomes the leader of the group (Dunne, 2007, p.49).
5. What does it mean to say that a theory is u Continue Reading...
It is through these inscriptions that the significance of human torture and sacrifice could be detected in the Mayan Culture. One of the greatest rulers of this civilization was seen in the shape of Lord Pacal or Lord Pakal the Great, K'inich Janaab Continue Reading...
Romantic and Modern Design Styles
Comparing the Ornate and the Natural: A Study of Two Theories of Design
History often dictates societal mentality more so than current climate, yet in times of peace, it seems that the beautiful and the artful flou Continue Reading...
Moreover, in addition to narrowing the purview of human sexuality to groups within the larger society, the sociocultural aspect examines social norm influences including the effects of external factors such as mass media or politics. These movements Continue Reading...
(Braga, et. al, 1999). However, the problem is that the study did not directly examine the broken windows theory. While the police present in the study did engage in some of the social order restoration that is characteristic of broken windows polic Continue Reading...
It was not until the Renaissance that the art of rhetoric would retain the heights it had reached in the classical period.
The Renaissance favored classical forms of rhetorical theory - particularly Latin. The Renaissance period can be seen as a se Continue Reading...
" (Croft, 2002) Typological research works toward uncovering and revealing these patterns and in the formulation of universal constraints on language."
SUMMARY and CONCLUSION
Typological studies of a community within the framework of the ecological Continue Reading...
Landon Carter's Character through
Erik Erikson's stages of development
Erik Erikson was an American developmental psychologist who was born in Germany and went to postulate eight stages of psychological development. He developed a model that talke Continue Reading...
travel industry is currently undergoing several changes because of the introduction and increased use of internet technologies. These technologies have provided several opportunities in this industry that have made it more attractive for small compa Continue Reading...
"I seek to discern the different analytical techniques Aristotle brings to bear on the problem of what justice is" (Allen, 2004). What is interesting to be noticed is that even in the beginning of the book, when presenting the racial segregation at Continue Reading...
morality of the George Bush administration. The writer looks at classic texts to garner a sense of what political morality should be about and then holds the administration of Bush against the measurement to illustrate the lack of morality and the f Continue Reading...
Hopefully, regardless of what happens in the rest of the communication world and media, such magazines either in print, electronic or digital form will continue to amaze children.
Unfortunately, most young adult books have hit rock bottom, dealing Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance: A review of Literature
What is Corporate Governance?
Principles of Corporate Governance
Theoretical foundations of corporate governance
Agency theory
Stewardship theory
Stakeholder theory
Post-Enron theories
Corporate Go Continue Reading...
Utopias Explored: THE TIME MACHINE and BLADE RUNNER
Science Fiction and Film
Utopian Societies Explored
The Ancient Greek work for "no place," utopia has come down to modern readers as something to be the ideal -- the Eden. The actual word comes f Continue Reading...
" When and if the U.S. cuts back on the use of fossil fuels to reduce global warming, other nations may well follow our example.
To wit, when we allow the United Nations to conduct searches for potential weapons of mass destruction in our own countr Continue Reading...
15).
He argues that there is a duty resting on convention, which he considers in a deep and morally weighty sense, based on an implied but nonetheless binding contract between the individual and the state:
It is a fact, then," they would say, "tha Continue Reading...
With the sole exception of a permanent exhibition room solely devoted to the work of Joseph Beuys - widely considered to be among the most important German artists of the post-war period - the Hamburger Bahnhof features a fair balance of works by co Continue Reading...