Theory X and Theory Y was an idea devised by Douglas McGregor in his 1960 book “The Human Side of Enterprise”. It encapsulated a fundamental distinction between management styles and has formed the basis for much subsequent writing on the subject (Economist. 2015) The theories look at how a manager’s perceptions of what motivate his or her team members affect the way he or she behaves. By understanding how your assumptions about employees’ motivation can influence your management style‚ you can adapt
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| |Research Methodology | |Difference between Theory and Law | | | Difference between the Law and the Theory Law 1) An empirical generalization; a statement of a biological principle that appears to be without exception at the time it is made‚ and
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Effects Of Ageing There first theory of ageing is social disengagement theory this is when the individual has a withdrawal of involvement. Many psychologists have studied this but the most known are henry (1961) this is common in older people because elderly people aren’t as mobile as they were when they were older so it’s harder for them to meet up with their friends and have opportunities. There can be many reasons for this: Ill Health- When an individual falls ill they may not be fully able to
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Social Disengagement Theory This theory was created and discovered in 1961 by two theorist called Cumming and Henry. Disengagement theory is when an older adult isolates themselves from the society; this is a process of mutual withdrawal. This is when elders slow down and aren’t able to do the things they were once able to do for example this may include golf‚ bowling‚ bingo‚ visiting friends and family and many other hobbies‚ this also may include voluntarily retiring as expected by society. They
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Schwann and M.J. Schleiden introduced the cell theory; the theory that individual cells make up all tissues.1 However‚ due to the lack of staining techniques at the time‚ not much was known about nervous tissue and many scientists wondered if it even conformed to the same rules followed by all the other cells in the body. Two major theories were proposed regarding the nervous system: the reticular theory by Josef van Gerlach‚ and the neuron doctrine theory.1 Eventually‚ in 1873‚ an Italian scientist
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Brown and levenson’s theory of politeness Brown and Levenson’s theory is based on the existence of speakers and addressees(1987:58).Both speakers and addressees are rational agents who have something that Brown and Levenson call ‘face’. The term ‘face’ could be translated as a public self -image. The concept of face derives from earlier work by Goffman (1967) and from the English folk term used for example in the idiom of ‘losing face’ (Brown and Levenson 1987:61) Politeness theory on hedges relies heavily
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Similarities and Differences Between Ethical Theories Ethical theories are based on explained ethical principles. There are three major ethical theories: virtue ethics‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics. in this paper the similarities and diffrences between virtue theory‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics. The meaning of virtue theory‚ utilitarianism‚ and deontological ethics would need to be defined in order to be able to distiguish the similarities and diffrences. The virtue theory judges
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Compare and contrast the differences between the psychosocial developmental perspectives of behaviorism and cognitive theory. Cognitive concerns itself with the thought process behind behavior‚ whereas behavior concerns its self with observable behavior. Cognitive works with stuff like decision making and memories. Behaviorism says that we learn by “trial and error” that certain actions are associated with certain consequences. The only two things that cognitive and behaviorism have in common is
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1960) throughout the globe. While convergence supporters may provide a somewhat utopian view‚ the principles behind convergence are idealistic in their view. This concept is streamlined while allowing for the transfer of human capital with little differences of awards‚ unionism and other factors. While this concept may provide the globe with a safety net‚ factors that may work against convergence are political‚ social‚ cultural and ideological as well as different IR systems that are in play globally
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Though there are many theories I studied one which is routine activity theory which was developed by Marcus Felson and Lawrence E. Cohen. These people strongly believed that crime is unaffected by social causes such as poverty‚ inequality‚ and unemployment. There are of course some sociologists who believe in the social causes of crime. Although there is of course some routine activity theory related crimes some sociologist just can’t agree. For crime to be committed‚ three aspects are needed A motivated
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