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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 ...

Communications and Consistency Theory

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

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...

Social Bonding Social Control Labeling

an outcast. They are not allowed to bond back into the society so they become more entrenched in crime (OConnor, 2006). Hirschi...

Can Depersonalized Bullying in the Workplace be Explained by Critical Management Theory?

and Clegg and Dunkerley (1980) who sought to study organizations using this paradigm. The Marxist approach is one that embodies so...

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...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Management Theory; The Links Between Theory and Practice

used to be highly correlated, but today power often comes from the way leadership is exercised, with power being that which is giv...

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...

Nursing Theories Core Concepts

2005, p. 4). She incorporated the environment into the theory along with numerous other factors and variables, all of which would ...

Expectancy Violation Theory

actor, that individuals evaluation of the behavior of the person conducting the interview are also likely to be positive according...

Change Models And Leadership

are very similar and one will find the same or very similar components and steps across models. 2. Theory E and Theory O Leaders...

Kolcaba's Comfort Theory Of Nursing

the plan may be objective where the actual healing can be measured or it may be subjective according to what the patient says (Dup...

Business Psychology; Team Work For Effective Organizations

the way that individuals will operate within teams. There are nine roles that are seen within balanced teams, with individuals nat...

Motivation In The Workplace

the very same types of activities as primary drives, i.e., the individual needs to meet that need (Encyclopedia of Psychology, 200...

Sports Facility Management

right thing. The confusion is valid because there is a thin line between a leader and a manager. In fact, managers do lead and l...

New Products - First Mover Theory

core capabilities (Open Learning World 2007). There are various schedules for introducing products from being the very first to be...

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...

A History of Temperament Theories

1995; Classical Astrology, 2003). If the person were healthy, there was a balance among these fluid substances (Heineman, History,...

Human Resoiurce Management in Public Organizations

survival means a profit needs to be made. In the public sector the ultimate failure is to fail the community with social consequen...

The Value of the Family

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

Motivation In Three Companies

to Maslows hierarchy of needs, specifically, the need for accomplishment and recognition, which is found under the esteem level. I...

Formulating Nursing Theory

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

Systems Theory and Systemic Family Therapy

child id the individual that is displaying the problematic behaviour the systematic family therapy approach sees this as part of t...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

Fundamental Theories/Nursing Faculty Shortage

in nursing educators aged 36 to 45 (Lewallen, et al, 2003). To complicate matters further, recent statistics show that nurses wh...

Spatial Interaction and Tourism

To consider this we need to look at the concept of spatial interaction. This is the interactions of two places that are a distance...

Leininger’s Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory

174). Slide 3 - Leiningers Cultural Care Diversity and Universality Theory ? Madeline Leininger agrees: ? Nursing is synonymous w...

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...

School Leadership And Student Achievement

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