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Explaining Behavior Through Personality Theory

psychology, in that it "accepts references to mental life and encourages the study of its full spectrum of manifestations as legit...

Kolcaba and Holistic Care

reporting. Lukas (2004) outlines the problems associated with pain well by pointing out that the potential for postoperative pain ...

Management and Complexity Theory

some over-riding constraint" (Rosenhead, n.d.). Physical sciences have discussed the concepts of stable and unstable systems but ...

Relations, Time, and Space

pushes it out of reach. There is, however, a way of being that is very conducive to its emergence which could be described as "te...

William Glasser and Jean Piaget's Theories of Personal Learning

understanding - including habituation and violation of expectation - with each stage represented by age-related limitations and sp...

Chaos Theory in Organization Development

words are complex and dynamic, so complex and so dynamic, in fact, as to appear chaotic" (Overman, 1996; 487). Therefore, it is an...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Business Ethics and Ethical Theory

ethical theory, utilitarianism and deontology often enter the picture. Mill (2001) for example, who is a utilitarian, claims that ...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Positivist Law and Natural Law

two very separate subjects. However, there are a number of laws where there are no apparent sanctions non-compliance, therefore s...

The Peter Principle And Human Resource Management

to do with the inertia of hierarchies in any type of organization wherein those who are promoted are not innovative but rather, th...

Roy’s Adaptation Model: A Case Study

particular condition because he at least is aware of his condition. About one-half of those with this disease are not as fortunat...

A Utilitarian Approach to Sports

school, and despite working as many hours as I could, I knew I could never afford tuition, so I had to win a scholarship. Winning ...

Did Bradwyn Intend to Escape?

he were tidying up and cleaning his cell, it is unlikely that he would strew items about. Rather, it is quite likely that he woul...

The Best Government is Not Always a Democracy

nature of man and provide a justification for the creation of government. For Hobbes, "human law and order made sense out of the s...

Dorris’ Broken Cord/A Theoretical Perspective

layer that is closest to the child and which contains the relational features with which the child has direct contact (Paquette an...

Are Criminals Made Or Born?

the head, cheekbones and jaws which were enlarged, lips that protruded and abnormal teeth along with dark skin (Jones, 2006; Willi...

Book Review: "The Nature Of Leadership" By Antonakis et al

what we know about leadership. This context also shows us patterns of leadership that we can use to analyze contemporary problems...

Crime, Victimology and Victimization

get close with one another. Another theorist contends it is segmentation that would divide people (Lilly, 2002). Lilly (2002) rela...

Nursing Vocabulary

is a term that refers to "a formal way of thinking (i.e. conceptualizing) about a process/system under study" (Conceptual Framewor...

Decisions, Strategy and Leadership

but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

Supermassive Black Holes

2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...

Human Resource Management Trends

training program that should be included is that of cultural sensitivity training (Banerjee, 2007). This all means the human resou...

Why did communism fail?

not dictate some of the things that manifest as a result of unscrupulous and greedy dictators. In evaluating the situation, a focu...

“On Variation in Interlanguage: A Response to Gregg”

unknown and that a learners performance is optimal at all times. In reality, Tarone argues, this optimal situation is seldom in p...

Motivating Teachers

their own supplies before and during each school year (Schmidt, 2005). Teaching has always been a low-status, low-pay job requiri...

Management Functions, Theories And Application

This involves recruiting, hiring, training, employee development, i.e., training, and monitoring performance. The company will onl...

Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...