A Role for Equity Theory in the Turnover Process: An Empirical Test1 RODGERw.GRlFFETH2 AND STEFAN GAERTNER Department of Management Georgia State Universiw The purpose o f the present study was to examine the role o f equity theory in the context of the contemporary turnover process. A model was developed and tested with 192 hospital employees using structural equation modeling (SEM)‚ which placed satisfaction and intention to quit as mediators of employee turnover. The results strongly support
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The Idea of Mill ’s ethical theory is his Greatest Happiness Principle in that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness and they are wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the intended pleasure and the absence of pain. Unhappiness is the pain and the lack of pleasure. Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only desirable things.” Mill ’s view of happiness is hedonistic‚ which suggests that the only good thing in a person is pleasure and the
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home and came to realize that her classmates were not happy being housewives. Betty did not mean to write a whole book on this issue and only wanted to write an article that would be published in a magazine‚ but no magazine would publish it for her. Immediately after publishing The Feminine Mystique she received a powerful backlash. Many people used the words‚ “angry‚” and “anger‚” to describe The Feminine Mystique and Betty Friedan herself. The Feminine Mystique caused what is known to be “The Second
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Megger’s Article Response Betty J. Meggers article‚ Environmental Limitation on the Development of Culture‚ examines how environmental habitats directly affect and influence culture. Meggers discusses the differing environmental types and its resulting effect on the people and their cultural development. Her theoretical framework is grounded on the idea that the relationship between culture and its environment is not only based in terms of subsistence (802)‚ but largely to a culture’s experience
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BETTY NEUMAN’S SYSTEMS MODEL MAJOR CONCEPTS I. PERSON VARIABLES Each layer‚ or concentric circle‚ of the Neuman model is made up of the person variables. Ideally‚ each of the person variables should be considered simultaneously and comprehensively. -In the Newman System model‚ she states that a person or a client is made up of variables and they are functioning at the same time. PERSON VARIABLES 1. Physiological - refers of the physicochemical structure and function of the body.
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The use of Betty Crocker expresses the home/mother/nurturing side of some of its users because “Betty Crocker-as-person” is a mother figure: a traditional‚ small-town‚ all-American person who cares about cooking and about her family. Wearing the Nike brand reflects “Nike-as-person”: someone who is exciting
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John Hall’s Theory: Violence in Aum Shinrikyo Despite whether these actions have justification are no‚ new religious movements all across the globe have been at some point under scrutiny by those outside their realm of beliefs. Aum Shinrikyo is no exception. It was subject to violence when it suffered attempts to destruction and vengeance. In 1995‚ a Tokyo subway was the hit with a nerve gas attack. It was targeted towards devotees of Aum Shinrikyo‚ who were riding it. With many ways to examine
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The life of Betty Friedan began on February 4‚ 1921. She was born in Peoria‚ Ill. She grew up in Middle America. Her father was a jewelry store owner. Her mother became a housewife after quitting her job as a newspaper women’s page editor. As a girl Betty used to watch her father belittle her mother as she was growing up. She eventually became her High School’s valedictorian and graduate of Smith College in 1942. She then went off to University of California‚ Berkeley to study Psychology. After college
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Chapter I RAWLS THEORY OF JUSTICE 1.1) Introduction John Rawls‚ a modern and one of the most influential philosophers‚ who held the James Bryant Conant University Professorship at Harvard University and Fulbright Fellowship at Christ Church‚ Oxford‚ published several books and many articles. He wrote a series of highly influential articles in the 1950s and ’60s that helped refocus on morals and political philosophy on substantive problems. He is widely regarded as one of the most important political
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Chomsky’s Theory Chomsky believes that children are born with an inherited ability to learn any of the human languages. He thinks that certain linguistic structures that children use so accurately‚ must have already stuck in their mind. Chomsky believes that every child has a ‘language acquisition device’ or LAD. LAD encodes the major principles of a language and its grammatical structures into the child’s brain. Then the children only have to learn new vocabulary and apply the syntactic structures
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