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    How Motivation and Morale Affects Productivity in the Workplace Coming from a military background morale and motivation were 2 key words that were ingrained in my head day after day while in serving in the armed forces. The command and control leadership style used fear of punishment for not performing your job vs. awards and recognition for doing it right. Even though my leadership always talked about change and ways to improve‚ morale and motivation were always issues. Organizations have

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    One theory of attachment that behaviourists such as Dollard and Miller (1950) have put forward is Learning Theorythis theory believes that all behaviours are acquired though learning which takes place through classical and operant conditioning. Learning theory provides explanations on how attachments between the caregiver and baby are formed‚ one explanation is through classical conditioning; learning by association. This is based upon Pavlov’s work with dogs in 1927. Before conditioning an unconditioned

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    The Crisis Theory helps us to understand different developmental‚ situational and existential crisis. Roberts (Roberts‚ 2005) defined crisis as “an acute disruption of psychological homeostasis in which one’s usual coping mechanisms fail and there exists evidence of distress and functional impairment.”“ In crisis a person can have an inability to cope with the stressor. Miller (Miller‚ 2011) mapped out three significant crisis that encompass the Crisis Theory. 1.) Developmental Crisis would be

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    like‚ and you will get responses that conjure images of mindless robots‚ programmed to follow orders without question. The actual cultural norm is just the opposite and that goes from the top generals to brand new recruits in basic training. For those who have spent time in the military‚ the familiar mantra from day one is continuous improvement. Each branch of the service (Army‚ Navy ‚ Air Force‚ Marines‚ Coast Guard) has its own cash award program. Each branch rewards innovation and ideas by giving

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    Cognitive Development Theory Biography: Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel‚ Switzerland on August 9‚ 1986 to Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson. At a young age‚ he displayed great fascination for Biology‚ his intellectual love. Jean Piaget‚ at the age of 10 published his first article‚ which described the albino sparrow he observed. Between the ages of 15 and 18‚ he published several more articles and most of them are mollusks. Jean Piaget was especially drawn to epistemology

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    management is a highly autocratic leadership style. This means management makes all decisions; direction and commands come only from the manager. This style of leadership is derived from the belief that managers are the source of all knowledge and that the only way of achieving production efficiency is to treat employees like machines that need constant direction and guidance. Summary Classical and scientific theories emerged in the 19th century The theories of Fayol view management as a process of planning

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    ‘THEORIES OF HOW CHILDREN LEARN – LANGUAGE ACQUISITION’ ASSESSMENT 03B/4 PART 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 2 MAIN STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 5 NURTURE‚ OPERANT CONDITIONING AND LEARNING THEORY 9 NATURE/NATIVIST THEORY 13 PIAGET’S COGNITIVE THEORY 16 VYGOTSKY AND BRUNER’S COGNITIVE THEORIES 19 CULTURAL RELATIVITY 24 FACTORS THAT AFFECT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 25 HOW ADULTS CAN PROMOTE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 28 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE

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    Introduction Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the most dangerous moment of the Cold War. This conflict was mainly about the occupational status of Berlin. Berlin Crisis initially emerged in 1958 by the provocation of the Soviet Union. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev threatened to conclude a separate peace treaty with East Germany unless the western powers recognized the Germany Democratic Republic (GDR) (I. W. Trauschweizer‚ 2006). However‚ the escalation of tensions began after the Vienna Summit in

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    My Experience from India The one foreign country I have been to is India‚ and it has changed the person I am today very drastically. The last time I visited India was April 2011‚ and that is when I realized most of the things I did‚ and it helped me change my outlook on a lot of things. For example‚ it gave me a completely different perspective on poverty‚ which is something they have a lot of in India. Living in Canada‚ I have not seen much of poverty‚ but after seeing the substantial number

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    Speech Act Theory and the Speech Situation Etsuko Oishi Esercizi Filosofici 1‚ 2006‚ pp. 1-14 ISSN 1970-0164 link: http://www.univ.trieste.it/~eserfilo/art106/oishi106.pdf AUSTIN’S SPEECH ACT THEORY AND THE SPEECH SITUATION Etsuko Oishi The talk starts with a question‚ why do we discuss Austin now? While answering the question‚ I will (I) present an interpretation of Austin’s speech act theory‚ (II) discuss speech act theory after Austin‚ and (III) extend Austin’s speech act theory by developing

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