to Leadership After beginning a two year research to propose some leadership theories which focus on a particular characteristic of a leader‚ leaving out the followers and situations from the equation‚ I’ve been able to break down leadership into the following four categories: Charismatic Leadership‚ Attribution Leadership‚ Transactional Leadership‚ and Transformational Leadership. Charismatic Leadership The theory behind Charismatic Leadership emphasizes the ability of a leader to communicate
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obsessions and compulsions to which individuals may experience obsessions‚ compulsions or both (Andersen and Bech‚ 1981). To relieve these unwarranted desires individuals with OCD perform behaviours or acts that they feel compelled to do. There are multiple theories concerning the development and maintenance of OCD including: the behavioural theory‚ cognitive behavioural theory and the biological theory. This essay will focus on the behavioural theory and its hypothesis on the role of classical and
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Present and evaluate some important elements of HLA Hart’s theory of law. How does it represent an advance over Austin’s theory? What are some problems with Hart’s account? H.L.A. Hart presents a theory of law based on the assertion that‚ the most important characteristic of law is the element of rules that enforce obligation or duties rather than rules that confer authority or sovereignty. Hart intends to offer a superior analysis of the unique formation of a public legal system as well as an improved
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Designing Activity Systems Research The greatest challenge facing an Activity-Theory-based approached to researching interconnected networks and activity systems is the tension between the necessarily holistic view of “better contextuality” suggested by Kuuti‚ and the need for an appropriate level of analytic abstraction and “generalizable” research results required for the research to have utility across disciplines (as cited in Nardi‚ 1996‚ p. 22; Nardi‚ 1996‚ p.70). This tension can
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ARISTOTLE ’S VIRTUES AND MANAGEMENT THOUGHT: AN EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION OF AN INTEGRATIVE PEDAGOGY Bruno Dyck and Rob Kleysen Abstract: This paper develops and explores a pedagogical innovation for integrating virtue theory into business students ’ basic understanding of general management. Eighty-seven students‚ in 20 groups‚ classified three managers ’ real-time videotaped activities according to an elaboration of Aristotle ’s cardinal virtues‚ Fayol ’s management functions‚ and Mintzberg
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Conflict/Marxist Theory –Vold distinguishes between Marxist and Conflict perspectives‚ and lumps "post-modern" perspectives in with Conflict. Explain the differences between these two "critical" views of crime‚ particularly on the issue of social power (be sure to include Sellin‚ Vold‚ Quinney‚ Black‚ Chambliss & Seidman). How does one go about "testing" conflict theory? What‚ according to Vold et. al are the limitations of Conflict Theory? Finally‚ Post-Modern theory suggests that "domination"
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REPORTERS Objectives: 1. To identify the main characteristic of grounded theory. 2. ------------------------------------------------- To critically evaluate the methodology of grounded theory. Grounded Theory Grounded theory was developed in 1960’s by two sociologist‚ (Glaser and Strauss‚ 1967) one of whom (Strauss) had strong theoretical training in symbolic interaction. One of their earliest studies was grounded theory on dying in hospitals in which the prime controllable variable was characterized
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Theories of Sleep The ’Restoration Theory’ is a psychological approach to sleep which claims that we need to sleep in order for our brain to restore energy resources depleted from biological processes throughout the day and remove any useless waste from the muscles. Oswald’s research in 1966 proposed that the brain and the body are restored through different stages of sleep‚ the former being restored during rapid eye movement sleep and the latter during slow-wave sleep‚ part of non-rapid eye movement
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Personality Theories – Ch. 12 Assigned Readings: pg. 20‚ “Social Psychology & Cross-Cultural Psychology”; 383‚ “Revealing Who We Really Are”; pg. 398‚ “Murray’s Personological Approach”; pg. 407‚ “Can Personality Change”; pgs. 414 – 415‚ “The Type A/ Type B Behavior Pattern” I. Personality (pgs. 384) - an individual’s unique and relatively _______________ patterns of behavior‚ thoughts‚ and emotions; consistent behavioral traits; general style of interacting with the world A. Urich
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Refinements to Legitimacy Theory in Social and Environmental Accounting Matthew V. Tilling Flinders University‚ South Australia The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable support provided by the CPA Australia in funding this research through their Research Grant Scheme. COMMERCE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES NO. 04-6 ISSN: 1441-3906 “Legitimacy is a generalized perception or assumption that the actions of an entity are desirable‚ proper‚ or appropriate within some socially constructed system of
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