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  • Casullo's Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory

    Casullo's Fourth Version of the Bundle Theory

    The bundle theory states that any thing is simply a complex of properties which all stand in a contingent relation, called co-instantiation, to one another. Basically an object is nothing more than a collection of its properties. The bundle theory is an alternative to other theories of particulars such as the substratum theory and the substance theory of particulars. James Van Cleve proposes a few objections that he considers to be severely damaging to the

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Organizational Theory

    Organizational Theory

    Communication is a major and essential part of any business relationships. In today's business world communication and miscommunication can make or break an organization. Recently, Standard and Poor (S&P) made a serious error in its calculations and communicated wrong information to the world in regards to 612 mortgage securities. "Standard & Poor's admitted to making a nearly $5 billion blunder in correcting its own estimate for subprime securities it is reviewing for ratings cuts" (CNN.COM).

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Jack
  • Tannnebaum & Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership Theory (task, Followers, and Him/herself)

    Tannnebaum & Schmidt’s Continuum of Leadership Theory (task, Followers, and Him/herself)

    Review Tannenbaum & Schmidt’s theory and use it to explain why leaders should consider the task, the followers, and their own inclinations when selecting a leadership style. Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s continuum of leadership styles 3 factors must be taken into account before choosing a leadership style 1) TASK: Factors that should be considered when choosing the right leadership style: - Options available to perform the task i.e. only one best way to do it? Or

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Personality Theories

    Personality Theories

    Personality Theories Psychodynamic theorists And Humanistic theories Table of Contents Freud Jung Adler Rogers Maslow Humanistic strengths and weakness Psychodynamic strengths and weakness Some similarities of both Web Resources Freud Biography Biography Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856, in a small town -- Freiberg -- in Moravia. His father was a wool merchant with a keen mind and a good sense of humor. His mother was a lively woman, her husband's second wife and

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Hamlet’s Motive

    Hamlet’s Motive

    Hamlet has long-been associated with the name of William Shakespeare as a masterful work of literary art. It is one of the most debated, celebrated and studied pieces of all time; a marvel of showmanship from one of the most famous authors to ever pick up the elegant pen of words. Those who have read the drama often marvel at the complexity of Hamlet himself, and debate his hesitancy of action throughout the tragedy—namely, the

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    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Vika
  • Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

    Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis

    Psychoanalysis is a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis is the first dynamic theory of personality that talks about displacing, repressing, denying, venting, and regressing; about the unconscious; and about the significance of dreams. With all of the new psychodynamic approaches out there today, there are many differences between them and the original psychoanalysis, however they generally share five of the same elements. The first is the emphasis

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Theory of Nursing

    Theory of Nursing

    Theory of Nursing Before making the critical decision to enroll in a nursing program it is important to seek out information on nursing as a vocation. The program at this school is rigorous and time consuming and, therefore, should not be ventured into lightly. In this paper I will go through what I have discovered about nursing as a career, what nursing is, my definition of a good nurse, how I plan to provide care

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • Accounting Theory

    Accounting Theory

    Accounting is in the current state of being an art. It is referred to as a social science, but the question that still remains in view today is should accounting be an art or should it actually be a science? Although the move to scientific based accounting would be desirable in today’s society it is not possible. When you consider the facts of this issue in a true debate style, the scientific based approach does

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    Essay Length: 593 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: David
  • Theory of Constraints

    Theory of Constraints

    What is the Theory of Constraints? The Theory of Constraints is an organizational change method that is focused on profit improvement. The essential concept of TOC is that every organization must have at least one constraint. A constraint is any factor that limits the organization from getting more of whatever it strives for, which is usually profit. The Goal focuses on constraints as bottleneck processes in a job-shop manufacturing organization. However, many non-manufacturing constraints exist,

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    Essay Length: 850 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Motivation and Reinforcement

    Motivation and Reinforcement

    Motivation and Reinforcement Summary: Motivation is the art of getting people to do things or to do things more efficiently or quickly. Knowing what the human behavior will do is of the upmost importance. Some of the principals of theorist Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg will open your eyes up to what really motivate people. Finding out which type of motivation intrinsic or extrinsic, is a building block of how a person gets influenced

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s Theory of Meaning

    Wittgenstein’s theory of meaning is a theory meant to abolish the long time-accepted referential theory of meaning. In his own theory, the meaning of words is not about pointing to its bearer or to its reference; it is about the use of a word in a sentence or the use of a word in a particular language game. He presented his theory in a manner of presenting counter-examples. With these simple yet solid examples, many

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory

    Karl Marx: Conflict Theory The most influential socialist thinker from the 19th century is Karl Marx. Karl Marx can be considered a great philosopher, social scientist, historian or revolutionary. Marx proposed what is known as the conflict theory. The conflict theory looks at how certain social interactions occur through conflict. People engage in conflict everyday to gain more power then others in society. Karl Marx is known for studying the conflicts that occur between different

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Edward
  • Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Summary of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory

    Emile Durkheim is one of the major leaders in the delineation of sociology. Durkheim set out on a mission to define how sociology should be considered and how the method of sociology should be used. Although Durkheim’s writing does touch upon certain moral, political organization, and intellectual issues, overall, Durkheim sets out to provide a theoretical construction for the study of sociology. Durkheim desires to understand societal life through various social constructs. His agenda entails

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    Essay Length: 981 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Victor
  • Narrative Theory

    Narrative Theory

    The person never is the problem. The person has a problem. A problem is something you have, not something you are. You don’t have to change your nature. You have to fight the influence of the problem on your life. All of us need to select from the huge amount of information the world throws at us all the time. We need to organise what we see, hear, feel and remember into a meaningful ‘story’

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Managerial Motivation

    Managerial Motivation

    Motivation Motivation is the process of stimulating people to act in ways which serve the needs of the organization providing the stimulus. Simply put, motivation is discovering and applying whatever is needed to get the employee to carry out designated activities in specified ways. However, a clear distinction is made between attitude, which is a state of mind, and behavior, which is a state of action. A milestone in the relationship between the behavioral scientist

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Prospect Theory

    Prospect Theory

    Summary of the learning points (ranked by importance to you) Today’s class discussed the mental accounting for money management. 1. Prospect theory. The theory can be represented by a value function, as shown below. The value function starts from a reference point, and is normally concave for gains, and convex for losses. It is also steeper for losses than for gains. The theory intends to explain why people behave irrationally when making choices. 2. Framing

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    Submitted: February 9, 2010 By: Max
  • Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory

    The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word cognition as; the mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning and judgment (Cognition). Piaget’s Cognitive Developmental theory was a unique concept at the time of its inception. It was the first in depth theory on the subject and remained the standard of the field for quite some time. Throughout this paper, Piaget’s theory will be broken down into its four stages and each will

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    Essay Length: 2,511 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Victor
  • Dependency Theory

    Dependency Theory

    DEPENDENCY THEORY Dependency theory is the body of social science theories which suggests that the wealthy nations of the world need a peripheral group of poorer states in order to remain wealthy. Dependency theory states that the poverty of the countries in the periphery is not because they are not integrated into the world system, but because of how they are integrated into the world system. THE PREMISES OF DEPENDENCY THEORY ARE: 1) Poor nations

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Janna
  • Information Theory

    Information Theory

    1. Introduction Information theory is the mathematical theory of data communication and storage generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon. The central paradigm of classic information theory is the engineering problem of the transmission of information over a noisy channel. The main result of this theory is Shannon's noisy-channel coding theorem, which states that reliable communication is possible over unreliable channels. It is possible to surround a noisy channel with

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    Essay Length: 1,349 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Workplace Motivation Paper

    Workplace Motivation Paper

    As corporations strive to boost earnings in an increasingly competitive environment, they inevitably turn their attention to the issue of employee productivity. When employees are unsatisfied with their current work situation, productivity decreases, tension builds in the workplace, and morale becomes very low. Companies have known historically that morale affects productivity, yet management has struggled to come to terms with the factors that can create positive morale and an environment that attracts and retains workers

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Jon
  • Achievement Motivation

    Achievement Motivation

    Highly competent children often do not display patterns of achievement motivation (Phillips, 1987). Research has shown that a child’s perception of his or her competence is a better indicator of achievement motivation than the reality of his or her ability. (Bandura, 1977; Covington, 1984; Nicholls, 1982, Weiner, 1979). Not only does the child influence his achievement motivation but teachers and parents have a significant impact and influence on how the child views his or her

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper

    Personality Theories Paper Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) started his interest in psychology while attending the University of Wisconsin. Maslow received his bachelors in 1930, his masters in 1931 and three years after that he received his PhD in 1934. Maslow’s theory showed up during his work with monkeys. He noticed that certain needs took precedence over others such as the need of liquids over food, breathing over liquids and so forth, hence the theory of Maslow’s

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Motivation

    Motivation

    Motivation The definition of motivation is to impel to action. To be motivated is a challenge in this day and time. One must realize what influences them, whether it is positive or negative. Motivation requires self discipline, and a scope of self actualization. Therefore, perceptual wise, regardless of the situation and/or circumstances, your thinking evolves to the next level; whereby you will be able to determine what basically impels you, to go beyond that which

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Mike
  • Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freuds Psychodynamic Theory

    Evaluate Freud’s psychodynamic theory. The godfather of psychology….as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time. Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg, Morovia, to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth, his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo, women were treated as second class and children

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Jon
  • Theories in Evaluating Personality

    Theories in Evaluating Personality

    I always stumble upon one particular question over and over again- what do I think of myself? To be frank, I can never actually answer the question because I am still quite ignorant about who I really am. However, I got feedbacks from various people about what they think of me and the most repetitive characteristic is my jovial personality. May times people wonder why I am constantly smiling. They also find it amusing

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: David