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  • Elisa Project: A Social Service Organization

    Elisa Project: A Social Service Organization

    Running Head: The Elisa Project The Elisa Project: A social service organization Carrie Boyd Lutter The University of Texas at Arlington Abstract Social services are those services provided to individuals or families experiencing difficulty in meeting their basic human needs, and are found at macro, meso, and micro levels. The Elisa Project is an important social service organization, supporting communities and individuals affected by disordered eating and unhealthy body image at all three levels. This

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    Essay Length: 557 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Change Has Become an Increasing Feature in Many Organizations

    Change Has Become an Increasing Feature in Many Organizations

    1.0Contents List 2.0Introduction 3.0Change versus stability 4.0PEST factors 5.0Forces For Change 5.1Workforce 5.1.2Leadership 5.2Technology 5.3Economic Change 5.4Competition 5.5Social Trends 5.6Politics 6.0Conclusion 7.0Bibliography 8.0References “The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created- created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths are not to

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    Essay Length: 1,855 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Why Should Organizations Care About Humas Rights?

    Why Should Organizations Care About Humas Rights?

    On the one hand, nowadays, business corporations wield a huge power and influence in the world. The influences that business organizations have are even more important than the influence of worldwide organizations. While the power of this kind of institutions such as United Nations are based on moral pressure, the power of business organizations is more real, governments want the investment and the prize of foreign currency. There is a huge interest from both sides,

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    Essay Length: 268 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The McKinsey 7s Framework - Ensuring That All Parts of Your Organization Work in Harmony

    The McKinsey 7s Framework - Ensuring That All Parts of Your Organization Work in Harmony

    The McKinsey 7S Framework - Ensuring that all parts of your organization work in harmony How do you go about analyzing how well your organization is positioned to achieve its intended objective? This is a question that has been asked for many years, and there are many different answers. Some approaches look at internal factors, others look at external ones, some combine these perspectives, and others look for congruence between various aspects of the organization

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    Essay Length: 1,444 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Organizing Researching

    Organizing Researching

    Multiple sclerosis (abbreviated MS, formerly known as disseminated sclerosis or encephalomyelitis disseminata) is a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Disease onset usually occurs in young adults, is more common in women, and has a prevalence that ranges between 2 and 150 per 100,000 depending on the country or specific population.[1] MS was first described in 1868 by Jean-Martin Charcot. MS affects the areas of the brain and spinal cord

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    Essay Length: 291 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Organizational Behavior Terminology

    Organizational Behavior Terminology

    In this paper, I will discuss organizational behavior and terminology and apply these terms to my workplace. The concepts we will discuss are critical to ensuring a strong, functional organization which achieves its goals. These concepts are, organizational behavior, organizational culture, diversity, communication, organizational effectiveness and efficiency, and organizational learning. Organizational Behavior Terminology and Concepts Paper The first term that we will discuss is known as organization behavior itself. Organizational behavior is the study of

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    Essay Length: 482 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Diversity and Demography’s Impact on Individual Behaviors

    Diversity and Demography’s Impact on Individual Behaviors

    Diversity and demography are increasingly important issues in today's workplace. Diversity is the "presence of individual human characteristics that make people different from one another" and demography is the "background characteristics that help shape what a person becomes" (Schermerhon, Hunt, & Osborn, 2005). By using demography, managers can learn how to handle the needs or concerns of people of different genders, ethnicities, etc (Schermerhon, et al., 2005). As both issues become more prominent in the

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    Essay Length: 845 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Virtual Organization

    Virtual Organization

    Inflation “Inflation is measured as the annual percent change in the prices of goods deemed necessary for life in that country. The specific goods included in this "market basket" change only rarely, so this measure reflects fluctuation in purchasing power of the national currency.” - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Inflation refers to a general and sustained rise in the level of prices of goods and services. That is, prices of the vast majority of goods

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    Essay Length: 3,969 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Organizing Function of Management

    The Organizing Function of Management

    The organizing function of management is crucial to the success of the overall performance of a business. Each organizational resource depends on an extensive amount of organizing. I have chosen human resources and knowledge resources as my focus for this paper because I believe they are two of the most important resources. Human resources are the most valuable asset Summa Health System or any business organization can rely on. Human resources consist of the employees

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    Essay Length: 1,056 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • Organizational Behavior

    Organizational Behavior

    Organizational Behavior Organizational Behavior Organizations have been described as groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose. This definition clearly indicates that organizations are not buildings or pieces of machinery. Organizations are, indeed, people who interact to accomplish shared objectives. The study of organizational behavior (OB) and its affiliated subjects helps us understand what people think, feel and do in organizational settings. For managers and, realistically, all employees, this knowledge helps predict, understand and

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    Essay Length: 1,215 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Diversity Impact on Individual Behavior

    Diversity Impact on Individual Behavior

    Diversity Impact on Individual Behavior Behavior refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. Behavior can be conscious or unconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary. Behavior is controlled by the nervous system; the complexity of the behavior is related to the complexity of the nervous system. Generally, organisms with complex nervous systems have a greater capacity to learn new responses and thus adjust their

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    Essay Length: 878 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Organizational Behavior

    Organizational Behavior

    Traditional Assumptions • people try to satisfy one class of need at work: economic need • no conflict exists between individual and organizational objectives • people act rationally to maximize rewards • we act individually to satisfy individual needs Human relations Assumptions • organizations are social systems, not just technical economic systems • we are motivated by many needs • we are not always logical • we are interdependent; our behavior is often shaped by

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    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Janna
  • Manic-Depressive Behavior Exhibited in the Catcher in the Rye

    Manic-Depressive Behavior Exhibited in the Catcher in the Rye

    Manic-Depressive Behavior Exhibited in The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, portrays Holden Cawfield a New York City teenager in the 1950's as a manic-depressive. Holden's depression starts with the death of his brother, Allie . Holden is expelled from numerous schools due to his poor academics which are brought on by his depression. Manic depression, compulsive lying, and immaturity throughout the novel characterize Holden. Events in Holden's life

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    Essay Length: 688 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Steve
  • Diversity in Today’s Organizations

    Diversity in Today’s Organizations

    With today's workforce becoming increasingly diverse and organizations doing more to maximize the benefits of the differences in employees, organizations are relying on managers to get the people who get the job done. People have always been the central to organizations, but there strategic importance is growing in today's knowledge-based business world. An organization's success increasingly depends on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of its employees excluding there gender, age, ethnicity, and the differences in

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    Essay Length: 1,132 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Brainwashing and Cult like Behaviors

    Brainwashing and Cult like Behaviors

    Jarrod Felty January 10, 2006 Psychology Report I will be discussing with you the topics of brainwashing and cult-like behaviors. I'll be explaining the effects of brainwashing on the human mind and how it appeals other into it's dark and unknown world of misbeliefs. Brainwashing has played a major role in cult-like behaviors, everything from gang related activities to the KKK. Cults are a system or community of religious worship and rituals that are emtremist

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    Essay Length: 1,328 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Organized Religion

    Organized Religion

    ORGANIZED RELIGION In the movie As Good As It Gets, No one in the movie makes a direct reference to God. This is a little odd because all Melvin, Carol, and Simon are all going through very hard times in their life, and at no point in the movie does one of them ask God for help or anything like that. The reason this is odd is because, normally, when a person is going through

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Importance of Organic Foods

    Importance of Organic Foods

    Importance of Organic Foods The definition of organic agriculture is farming with the use of synthetic chemicals. After World War II, larger and increasingly automated farms, known as “factory farms,” put the synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides developed in the 1920s into widespread use. They found that more crops could be produced mass produced. What they did not realize were the dangers of using these chemicals and the effects they would have on the environment

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    Essay Length: 743 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Monika
  • A Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire Organization

    A Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire Organization

    A Primer on How to Create a Bullet-Proof Disaster Recovery Plan for the Entire Organization Elizabeth M. Ferrarini, She is a free-lance writer from Boston, Massachusetts. Reach her at iswive@aol.com Minutes after the first of two planes plunged into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Inc., the largest tenant in the World Trade Center, declared a disaster and rushed its disaster recovery plan into place with the

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    Essay Length: 359 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Artur
  • Metaphor-Organization as a Brain

    Metaphor-Organization as a Brain

    Each week we learn more about metaphors and organizations. Of course, the metaphor that describes organizations as machine still is the most easily to understand for me. Now we will look at organizations as a brain. In class we discussed that the brains links machine and organisms. With the machine you have set ways to do the job and with organisms you have the need to adapt. Both of these are important factors for

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    Essay Length: 384 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Top
  • Deception and Coercion as They Relate to Sexual Behavior

    Deception and Coercion as They Relate to Sexual Behavior

    Deception when used as a means for sex is achieved by getting one person's consent predicated on false beliefs that have been intentionally used. This interaction involves one person using the other. Deception can be achieved by giving the other person false information, but the simple act of withholding information can also be deception. A more vicious way to achieve sex is through coercion. Using coercion as a means either uses force or undermines the

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Steve
  • Organic Chemistry

    Organic Chemistry

    Homologous Series: An homologous series is a set of compounds whose components differ by a single repeating functional group. In the case of (straight chain) alkanes, CH2. Their general formula is CnH2n+2. The chemical properties of the individual members of an homologous series are similar and they show a gradual change in physical properties. Hydrocarbons: Compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon. There are three types alkanes, alkenes and alkynes. A saturated molecule contains single covalent

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: regina
  • Cis 319: Computers and Information Systems - Databases in My Organization

    Cis 319: Computers and Information Systems - Databases in My Organization

    Databases in My Organization CIS319: Computers and Information Systems Abstract Databases have been in use since the early days of computing programs. An Information Technology services company, such as Getronics, not only utilizes databases for information and record management, it earns revenue by providing database management services. Getronics uses Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as its database software. The clients that contract Getronics for Information Technology services rely and depend on the accuracy and currency of

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    Essay Length: 973 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Organization and Bureaucracy in Schools

    Organization and Bureaucracy in Schools

    Running Head: Organization and Bureaucratization: Strengths Weaknesses and Risks Organization and Bureaucratization: Strengths, Weaknesses and Risks The organization of schooling in the United States has been a topic of great controversy for many years. We compare ourselves to other nations weighing the pros and cons of alternative organization of education. We see the benefits of the centralized school system used in many developed European and Asian nations, but we are hesitant to move from the

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    Essay Length: 2,778 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Virtual Organization E-Business Paper

    Virtual Organization E-Business Paper

    Virtual Organization E-Business Paper The virtual organization that I have chosen to write this paper on is Riordan Manufacturing. E-business is defined “broadly as any business process that relies on an automated information system. Today, this is mostly done with Web-based technologies”. (Wikipedia, 2007). For this paper I will analyze the legal issues Riordan Manufacturing may face when conducting e-business and discuss possible solutions. I will identify issues that may arise in Riordan Manufacturing international

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    Essay Length: 507 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Hypothesis: What Is the Effect of Gender Behavioral Differences Among Children?

    Hypothesis: What Is the Effect of Gender Behavioral Differences Among Children?

    Hypothesis: What is the effect of gender behavioral differences among children? Many laboratory studies, field experiments, as well as co-rational experiments all reveal that though there is credible evidence which may suggest that there exist a direct cause and effect relationship of television in children’s lives. However the single largest common factor to emerge from these numerous studies is that watching television is one of the many vital factors affecting aggressive behavior amongst children. One

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Steve

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