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Leader-Member Exchange Theory

to as the Vertical Dyad Linkage Theory (ChangingMinds, 2010; Rothbauer-Wanish, 2009). This is a leadership theory that focuses on ...

Why Adolecents Commit Crimes

is about one-fourth of the entire population. Of those, over two million are arrested each year. That accounts for about 17 percen...

Three Personality Theories

internal conflicts that must be resolved for the personality to develop. Major theorists in this area are Freud, Erikson, Adler, J...

ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND MANAGEMENT

In recent decades, organizational theory has become a booming business, with researchers and writers postulating all kinds of reas...

The Application of Organizational Politics and Leadership Theory in a Fast Food Restaurant

by examining the way that it can interfere with the normal organizational processes, such as recruitment, promotion, rewards and g...

HOLES IN MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY

In his 1952 article, in which he used the mathematics of diversification, he pointed out, through a variety of formulas, that inve...

McGregor's Management Theories

work and directing their own tasks. Theory Y presumes that workers should have more autonomy while Theory X sees the manager as ne...

Theories Moral and Social-Cognitive Development

bridge from behavior theorists to social theorists (Davis, 2006). It encompasses some of the foundations of each field. Bandura wa...

ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

Rainey also points out that public management can be improved by glancing through reams of literature about organizational theory....

2 Crime Theories Compared

typically combined with estate forfeiture, so the condemned mans wife and children were destitute. This is the sociopolitical cl...

Websites on Nursing Theorists Margaret A. Newman, Betty Neuman, and Virginia Henderson

are not listed on this introductory website. This theory remains relevant to contemporary nursing practice because it is client-c...

How Can Nations Gain Competitive Advantages

the industry. In Porters model the government is viewed as a catalyst to strengthen an industry. Porter also identified innovati...

Hubbert's Peak

(The Coming Global Oil Crisis 2003). Some Middle Eastern countries said their oil peaked in 1970, which allowed OPEC to create an ...

Nursing Theory, a Comparison

p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

Wallerstein's Theory of World Systems

most developed are powerful and this allows them to determine the type of governance that fosters their continued power (Martin, 2...

Delinquency and Deviance Theories

However, in some cases the desired goals would not be equally available to all social groups, in others there might be too...

Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Intelligence and Critical Thinking

its female counterpart; while this mentality has been somewhat reversed in certain global communities, it still takes precedent in...

Scientific Management and Taylor's Theories

has impacted on mass production and the criticisms of it the starting point needs to be with the work of the founder; Frederick Ta...

Caring Theory, a Critique

nurse-patient relationship, the nurse gives without the expectation of reciprocation (1991). Thus, a patient need not return the f...

Methodologies of Sociological Research

power, which indicate submissiveness, and so on....

Learning Theories of Piaget and Miller

This paper provides a comparison of the learning theories put forth by Piaget and Miller. The author discusses Piaget's Developme...

Male Gaze and Cross Dressing as Featured in the 1982 Film Tootsie

In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...

Nursing Theory and Pain Management

deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...

Theory and Nursing Management

resulted in harvesting being accomplished at a greater rate. There came a point, however, at which the addition of extra workers ...

Activity Cycles

classroom environment is therefore designed to encourage children to exercise control over the environment and to function with an...

Adult Learning Theory

2006, p. 551). The assignment calls for students to relate how the topic can be applied in their academic life. This perspective...

Equity Theory

When examining this very there are a number of inputs that need to be considered which will impact on the way that the...

GAME THEORY AND MODERN MANAGEMENT

boost their happiness (Game Theory, 2009). The standard economic theory of supply and demand makes a pretty good backdrop ...