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Theory of Constraints (ToC)and Use to Assess the Value of Hedging

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

Issues in Addiction and Maladaptive Behavior

important to understand the difference between use, abuse and dependence because these terms denote the stages of maladaptive beha...

The Application of Realist and Liberalist Approaches in International Relations

This is a generally pessimistic approach to international relations, with statism being any central tenet of the theory, with the ...

Classical Conditioning - An Overview

would ring a bell every time he did so, alerting the dogs that dinner was imminent. He also noticed that whenever he presented the...

Making Decisions

alternative is selected and a plan is written to implement. With the classical model, a good decision would be one that is made f...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

Operant and Classical Conditioning and Addiction

dog; the dog naturally salivated with anticipation for his food. After a while, the dog would salivate when he heard the bell whet...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

The Role of Law

system such as due to the cost. However, the law may also have a positive influence; it may support social changes which are neede...

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 ...

American Society

In a paper of three pages, the author considers the nature of the American society in relation to cultural diversity. Though the ...

Formal Decision Making Processes

friend and I in particular had what we viewed as a stellar business idea. It had been suggested to us that we might prefer to stri...

Modern Developments within Organizational Theory

are significant limitations, and the most common approaches appear to be building on existing theories in order to better than, as...

Cognitive Growth Theories

a term applied to the education of handicapped children who had neurological, sensory, cognitive, and/or physical handicaps (Gindi...

School Leadership And Student Achievement

having excellent personal interaction skills, skilled in change management and a person who is capable of establishing a nurturing...

Classical civilizations

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

Is Corporate Social Responsibility in the Interests of Business and Society?

help the company increased sales, reduce costs, or improved profits then there is a potential argument that corporate social respo...

Classical, Celtic, Norse and Chinese Mythologies

One of the of the fundamental reasons for the success of the Romans was their ability to adopted the best components of the cultur...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Wealth Inequalities in American Society

while another might only have a Bic lighter and a camp fire. The blue collar worker category, in turn, also has its share...

The Application of Motivation Theory at Delta Airlines

employees to be motivated (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The Hawthorn studies undertaken by Mayo demonstrated that the e...

Article Comparison #2: Kerwin & Cameron

which to hurl its stones of morality. The problem, however, is how the unwitting recipients of these proverbial peltings are at t...

Decision Making Models

of their own limited abilities or because of the conditions that exist in the organization (Lahti, 2003). Other assumptions includ...

A Challenging Learning Experience

no positive reinforcement for me and an aversion to the machine developed. Positive reinforcement refers to when an event or stim...

Formulating Nursing Theory

verifies old knowledge (Wilkerson, 1998). As this suggests, the continuation of scholarly advances in the development of nursing t...

Historical Causation Does Not Necessarily Apply to Classical Historiography

we will find one single causal factor underlying all of history. Munro makes the same argument: while there are a great many theo...

Classical Theorists, Modern Warfare, and the 20th/21st Century

in populations, the increase in the complexity of players in any given war, and the evolution of humanity overall. In all honesty ...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Is the Death Penalty for Juveniles Constitutional?

Supreme Court disallows the death penalty for juveniles. This decision was made primary due to the fact that young brains are stil...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...