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  • A Unforseen Name Change (mark Twain)

    A Unforseen Name Change (mark Twain)

    "The Unforeseen Name Change" Samuel Clemens, a humorist and novelist, is better known by the pseudonym Mark Twain. Mark Twain, born on November 30, 1835 into a small village in Florida Missouri. Florida, Missouri, a town so small that he later joked that he had increased the population by one percent. Mark Twain's parents, John Marshall Clemens and Jane (Lampton) Clemens, both southerners, and mark the couple's fourth son and sixth child. The Clemens's moved

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    Essay Length: 516 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing And Organizational Culture Thomas A. Hickok -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the impact of downsizing on organizational culture. First, it clearly appears that power has shifted away from rank-and-file employees in the direction of top management/ownership. Accompanying

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    Essay Length: 6,454 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Social Change in Japan

    Social Change in Japan

    The Japanese culture has allowed for very little diversity. This started very early in their history. The social controls used to eliminate diversity are the family, the power of gender, the poor treatment of minority groups, the corporate Japanese mentality, and the respect required by people in authority. However, due to globalization and the shrinking of the world, Japanese society is starting to make the change to diversity. The individualistic mentality shared by the new

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    Essay Length: 1,698 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • In What Major Respects Had Europe Changed by 1971

    In What Major Respects Had Europe Changed by 1971

    From the 1815 until the 1871, Europe underwent a great change. As the revolution of the 1830s showed, the Vienna Settlement did not last, even though the great European powers were able for a while to take the situation under control with brutal repression. However, it was impossible to stop the liberal revolution, which led to important political events and deep social changes. In the political field there are three major events: the rise of

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    Essay Length: 2,227 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: March 16, 2009 By: Wendy
  • How Did World War one Change American Society?

    How Did World War one Change American Society?

    Introduction In 1917 America entered World War one. By doing this America played a grave role in conquering Germany and ushering peace to Europe. However, the Great War also meant that the US would change dramatically through historical issues and changes which resulted in American society. Industries had started to realise that it was not as simple as it was before to abstract the immigrants. As the country developed and became more successful it attracted

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    Essay Length: 1,587 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • My Changed View of the American Dream

    My Changed View of the American Dream

    My Changed View of The American Dream I believe that my thought of the American Dream was more or less lumped around freedom. I feel that has remained intact, but at the same time I find myself analyzing these readings and noticing through time the American Dream changes for each person. I look at Robertson's writing in Banners on the Tower and I interpret his writings of Columbus in the New World with the very

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    Essay Length: 320 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Election - Analyze the Changing Nature of the Media and How That Is Affecting Politics

    Election - Analyze the Changing Nature of the Media and How That Is Affecting Politics

    1. Analyze the Presidential election of 2004. What happened and why? 2. Analyze the changing nature of the media and how that is affecting politics. The two questions identified above cannot be adequately answered alone without one influencing the other because a campaign that influences the election of the most powerful position in the world is a public event. However, after months of predictions of a too-close-to-call contest, Bush won nationwide balloting making him the

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    Essay Length: 945 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    OCI Paper I applied the Organizational Cultural Inventory (OCI) with the intention that it is a fictional company, J Enterprises. It will be assumed that it is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. The main emphasis of the responses comes from the department in which I work. However, the results could be indicative of the entire company. The OCI Circumplex showed that the company has a culture with moderately strong Oppositional

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    Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • How the Creation of Airborne Soldiers, Change the Us Military Special Forces

    How the Creation of Airborne Soldiers, Change the Us Military Special Forces

    The first thing that comes to mind about Airborne soldiers is that they are crazy to jump out of planes. This particular narrative, I will concentrating on of the more prestigious soldiers our military has to offer - the Airborne Soldier (paratrooper). The whole purpose of being a qualified airborne soldier, is that you jump out of a plane with a parachute, and land behind enemy lines to out flank them. When it comes

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    Essay Length: 3,405 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • Character Changes in Huck Finn

    Character Changes in Huck Finn

    Jim helps Huck develop greater character changes throughout the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. In the story Huck learns a lot of lessons on how to grow into a better and more trustworthy friend. Jim helped him throughout the story to show him a different side of life, and how everyone is different and they grow in different surroundings. Jim and Huck both grew in maturity with their life, and wanted the best

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    Essay Length: 702 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Racial Profiling: Individual Prejudice or Organizational Protocol?

    Racial Profiling: Individual Prejudice or Organizational Protocol?

    Racial Profiling: Individual Prejudice or Organizational Protocol? Kelly Baymiller March 26, 2005 Racial profiling is generally defined as discrimination put into action based on a stereotype. No one is excluded from the potential to experience some form of racial profiling, regardless of one’s race, gender, or religion. Racial profiling has existed in various forms since slavery. During the reconstruction of the South, the first sense of racial profiling began with “Black Codes”. “Black Codes”

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    Essay Length: 1,749 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Victor
  • What Are the Risks for Companies Moving into New Areas of Business Made Possible by Fast-Changing Technology?

    What Are the Risks for Companies Moving into New Areas of Business Made Possible by Fast-Changing Technology?

    The main worry for any business planning to enter a market that utilises technology which has a high rate of change would be that anything they invest in today would be outdated tomorrow. Apex is a typical example of a company that was around when the internet was an emerging technology. The internet wasn’t the only new area that Marina was looking to explore. She also suggested producing menus for film productions published on the

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    Essay Length: 460 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Organizational Behavior

    Organizational Behavior

    I. Introduction. II. History and Organizational structure. III. Key biographical characteristics. A. Age. B. Gender. C. Marital Status. D. Number of dependents. E. Tenure. IV. Factors that determine an individual's personality. A. Personality determinants B. Personality Traits. C. Personality Attributes influencing Organizational behavior. D. Personalities and national cultures. E. Matching personalities and jobs. V. Summarize how learning theories provide into changing behavior. A. Theories of learning. B. Shaping Behavior VI. Reinforcement. A. Rewards B. Applications

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    Boeing is the top aerospace corporation and the largest producer of commercial and military aircrafts combined, with abilities in missiles, electronic and defense systems, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehicles and advance information and communication systems. Boeing supplies to 145 countries in the world and is the number one exporter in US sales. Boeing’s headquarters is in Chicago, IL (Boeing, 2007). Planning Function of Management Of the four functions of management, planning is the first function to

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Aligning Organizational Development with Staff Development

    Aligning Organizational Development with Staff Development

    Aligning Organizational Development with Staff Development Is the organizational career dead? This course has made me contemplate my career with the company I've worked for for the last eight years. I was recently promoted, and I'm very excited about the opportunity, however, it does make me think there could be limits to the opportunities? What if there was to be a change in the senior leadership I directly report to; would the replacements see what

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    Essay Length: 274 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Organizational Attributes

    Organizational Attributes

    WEEKLY HOURS. - No adult workers shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than forty-eight hours in any week. DAILY HOURS. - Subject to the provisions of section 51, no adult worker shall be required or allowed to work in a factory for more than nine hours in any day: Provided that, subject to the previous approval of the Chief inspector, the daily maximum hours specified in this section may

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Grounds on Which Lives Are Changed

    The Grounds on Which Lives Are Changed

    Have you ever just sat in the woods and taken in the smells? The rotting leaves and pine needles under your legs mixed with the fresh new scent of the green leaves over head just give me a feeling that is completely undescribable. Call it peace, or call it complete understanding, I don’t care, but this is the type of feeling that you don’t ever want to leave you. I’ve found myself sitting outside, just

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    Essay Length: 291 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Organizational Dark Data

    Organizational Dark Data

    How easy is it to manage your organization's content when you don't know where a lot this content is?” The answer is simple, you can not! This is due largely to the fact that many employee's are not knowledgable about the content and/or do not know where to begin to research the content. In the article, Working with Organizational Dark Data, Paul Chin discusses intranet (an internet like network whose scope is restricted to the

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    Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Confederation Vs. Federation the Need for Change

    Confederation Vs. Federation the Need for Change

    The US government transformed itself from a very weak government to a strong central government from 1776 to 1876. The maitenance and creation of order was deeply needed in america at this time. Due to the US Constitution, The Articles of Confederation, and the Bill of Rights America went through so much needed changes. Around 1776 America wanted a weak government because they had such a fear of monoarchy. When the trasformation of the new

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    Essay Length: 392 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Monika
  • Organizational Behavior Trends

    Organizational Behavior Trends

    Organizational Behavior Trends As the world changes and organizations respond to that change, so does the behavior of employees. Technology and ethics are two areas whose impacts on organizations have risen in recent times. In the wake of some highly-publicized accounting scandals, ethical decision making is becoming an established trend. There is no doubt that technology has and continues to change how we do business. It can be debated whether its impact in the long-term

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Changing of American Families

    The Changing of American Families

    The Changing of American Families Television reflects how American families are viewed. Leave it to Beaver and The Brady Bunch were the ideal families in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and in the 80’s, it was Family Ties. When the 1990’s approached us, television shows took on a whole new outlook on American Families. There were shows such as Full House, which was about a single father raising three daughters with the help of his brother-in-law

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    Essay Length: 1,064 Words / 5 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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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Management at Different Organizational Levels

    Management at Different Organizational Levels

    Management at Different Organizational Levels In this book there is no basic distinction is made between managers, executives, administrators and supervisors .To be sure, a given situation may differ considerably among various levels in an organization or various types of enterprises. Similarly, the scope of authority held may vary and the types of problems dealt with may be considerably different. Furthermore, the person in a managerial role may be directing people in the sales, engineering,

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    Essay Length: 291 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • How to Change a Flat Tire

    How to Change a Flat Tire

    How To Change A Flat Tire Changing a flat tire is not a very pleasant experience. It seems like your car purposely tries to get a flat tire at the least opportune moments. Like when you are rushing home from work to catch your favorite episode of "The Cosby Show," for instance. You know, the one where Cliff dreams he is pregnant. But if you are a hapless soul, changing a tire doesn't have to

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    Essay Length: 1,025 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Organizational Concepts

    Organizational Concepts

    II. Discuss the meaning and importance of corporate strategy for a firm’s profit goals. What explains the relative failure of most organizations to create effective strategy? Part of the problem is that corporations and their managers have great difficulty clearly and consistently defining what corporate strategy is, and much of that struggle can be traced to their interpretation of the word strategy itself. The original meaning of the word strategy derives from the Geek strategia,

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Max

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