Four-Drive Theory in the Workplace Organizational Behavior- MT3250 Dr. Carl W. Proehl‚ Jr. November 5‚ 2013 ABSTRACT One of the hardest jobs as a manager is getting people to do their best work‚ even in trying circumstances and deciphering what motivates us as human beings. A study in neuroscience‚ biology and psychology has led more researchers to learn about the human brain and what emotional needs people are driven by. In this paper we will look at the four-basic emotional drives that
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McDonaldlization is a theory applied to understanding services in the workplace and society. Ritzer defines McDonaldlization as “the process by which the principle of the fast food restaurants are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the rest of the world” Efficiency‚ predictability‚ calculability and control are the driving forces behind our society. Every aspect of society today is affected by McDonaldlization. Weber’s theory of McDonaldlization is that
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Imagine a time when being cool meant long hair‚ a slick car‚ and tickets to the weekend double feature at the drive-in. The 1960s made this dream the goal of teenage boys; near the end of the 2010s‚ if a person has similar things‚ they can still be considered cool‚ hip‚ and with the times‚ excluding the drive-in. Drive-ins are nearly extinct‚ so maybe just a normal movie. With its share of similarities‚ the 1960s did have profound differences in many categories. Some of these categories include
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The Freud dream theory also known as “wish fulfillment” states that dreams are disguised as a way to satisfy unconscious urges or to resolve internal conflicts. That to humans is too hard or complex to deal with consciously (Douglas Bernstein‚ 2008). I am in accordance with Frauds theory‚ the brain is a very complex and mystifying organ. I feel that there is no way that these images‚ or scenes are a type of waste that the body produces‚ like your regular bowel movements. However I do believe just
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Freud‚ S. (1919). The ‘Uncanny’. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud‚ Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works‚ 217-256 The ‘Uncanny’ I IT is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics‚ even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other strata of mental life and has little to do with the subdued emotional
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Drive reduction: The theory of motivation is drive reduction‚ drive reduction is you are driven by biological needs‚ they motivate you to satisfy them. According to the theory‚ the reduction of drives is the primary force behind motivation. (Schultz‚ D.P. & Schultz‚ S.E. (1987). A History of Modern Psychology. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publications.) Drive reduction category as primary and secondary drive. Hunger‚ thirsty‚ pain‚ warmth or sex are examples of primary drive reduction‚ whereby secondary
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Applied Game Theory Christophe Crombez Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 1 Applied Game Theory Introduction Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 2 What is Game Theory? • a way of analyzing strategic interactions • appropriate to study situations in which several people take decisions‚ and o their decisions affect each other’s payoffs • equivalent of decision theory o Crombez: Applied Game Theory. 3 Course Objectives • introduce you to game theory to understand papers that
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Some debate over who is right over Freud and Jung’s theories are questionable. Freud’s theory believed our consciousness is a thin slice of the total mind and describes it in an imagine of an iceberg. Believed that our unconscious mind holds all of our experiences‚ memories‚ and repressed materials. Our unconscious motives often competed with our conscious and create internal conflict which is in neurotic symptoms (anxiety and depression). Also Freud believed personality consisted of three systems:
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I am using two experts’ theories from the field of psychosexual development and analyzing them. One being Sigmund Freud and the other are Erik Erikson. Also I will be recalling on my own past experiences during these stages. The stages that are covered are Oral‚ Anal‚ Phallic‚ Latency and Genital stage. Freud explains during the oral stage (birth to 18 months) if the child focuses too much on the oral pleasures (sucking) too little or too much could result in an oral fixation/oral personality
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Freud’s dream theory 1990 1. The unconscious mind He thought that a large part of the mind is non-accessible and is completely hidden. He referred it as the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind may contain something that is repressed by a person to help him forget or to avoid from facing it in reality. The conscious mind tends to push or repress something into the unconscious part of his mind. People may not be aware of the “secrets” they were repressing into their unconscious mind as they
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