«This practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the Investor Relations & Strategic Development Director of Citigroup in Athens, Greece.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a prominent executive with the...» Document abstract
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SummaryThis practicum field project is the result of an interview conducted with the Investor Relations & Strategic Development Director of Citigroup in Athens, Greece.* The goal of this project is to compare the views of a prominent executive with the theoretical approach provided by famous scholars about the roles of a manager. So, the goal of this project is to compare theory to business reality.The above individual possesses profound academic background and diverse working experience. He is in managerial positions for the last eight years and he has contributed drastically to all the organizations he has been engaged in the course of his successful professional career.
Table of Contents- Abstract.
- Theoretical Approach.
- Famous Quotes about the Roles of a Manager.
- How would you define a manager?
- Do you favor expectancy theory in successful organizations?
- The leader-designer, the leader-teacher and the leader-steward.
- Is reflective observation significant in the process of management?
- Conclusions.
«In the war waged between abortion-rights activists and anti-abortion protestors, the front lines are often in front of abortion clinics or medical facilities that provide abortions. Since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, legal abortion in...» Document abstract
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SummaryIn the war waged between abortion-rights activists and anti-abortion protestors, the front lines are often in front of abortion clinics or medical facilities that provide abortions. Since the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, legal abortion in the United States has been one of the single most debated laws in recent memory. The issue, to many, is both personal and political. When issues of morality are put aside, the debate turns to anti-abortion protestors who historically picket abortion providers and harass pregnant women. While many forms of protest are allowed in this country, these protests have special circumstances to consider. For the purposes of this analysis, we will assume that the majority of abortion protests take place in front of abortion clinics.
Table of Contents- Place.
- Violence is Not the Answer.
- Time.
- On The Road.
- Manner.
- Taking It Personally.
- Necessary Restriction.
«The mistakes that leaders make in the context of strategy implementation are often the result of a narcissistic behavior which denies the participation of subordinates in the strategic decision making. Narcissistic leadership refuses updating...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe mistakes that leaders make in the context of strategy implementation are often the result of a narcissistic behavior which denies the participation of subordinates in the strategic decision making. Narcissistic leadership refuses updating obsolete organizational knowledge, participating to team schemes and active listening, resulting in a lack of confidence from organizational members towards top management. This paper identifies narcissist leadership as a major reason of failure in strategy implementation impacting profoundly the organizational welfare.
Table of Contents- Abstract.
- Introduction.
- Defining Narcissism.
- The role of self-esteem to the development of narcissism.
- Narcissistic Leadership .
- The types of narcissistic leadership.
- The reactive narcissist leader.
- The self-deceptive narcissist leader.
- The constructive narcissist leader.
- Narcissistic Leadership and Strategy Implementation.
- Conclusions.
«The emergence of Kosovo as a modern nation-state is a recent development, tracing its immediate roots to the 1990s. At this time Kosovo was still a province of Serbia and under the authority of Serbia’s leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic went to...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe emergence of Kosovo as a modern nation-state is a recent development, tracing its immediate roots to the 1990s. At this time Kosovo was still a province of Serbia and under the authority of Serbia’s leader, Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic went to extreme measures to put down the insurgency that had arisen in Kosovo in the form of the Kosovo Liberation Army: he authorized the massacre and expulsion of tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. The international community reacted and NATO commenced a three-month bombing campaign against Serbia in 1999, resulting in Milosevic’s withdrawal from Kosovo. UN Resolution 1244 placed Kosovo under the authority of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, maintaining the territorial integrity of Serbia but giving UNMIK, as it is called, complete control over the affairs of Kosovo
Table of Contents- Recent History of Kosovo.
- Importance of Civil Society.
- History of Civil Society in Kosovo.
- Civil Society Advantages.
- Civil Society Disadvantages.
- Civil Society Organizations in Kosovo Today.
- Conclusion.
«Despite being the most populous and regulated nation in Asia, China still does not have any official statistics on the number of homosexuals in the country. However, unofficial estimates indicate that there may be 20-40 million homosexuals currently...» Document abstract
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SummaryDespite being the most populous and regulated nation in Asia, China still does not have any official statistics on the number of homosexuals in the country. However, unofficial estimates indicate that there may be 20-40 million homosexuals currently living in China. Yet until recently, there was almost no mention of the word homosexual or any information on this topic, which is still considered a taboo in many parts of the country. The modern government, regardless of their many advances, still maintains a stoic silence akin to Communist-era China when it comes to gays and lesbians.
Table of Contents- Chinese history is full of accounts of homosexuality for more than 2,500 years.
- History.
- Psychiatric evaluations.
- Chinese gays: Relationships and sexual practices.
- Discrimination and homophobia.
- Mental health issues.
- HIV and homosexuals.
- Theories of Oppression and Repression.
- Conclusion.
«The model of labour demand in terms of hours worked by employees assumes that firms instantly adjust their employment when the economic environment or business cycle changes. A firm looking to change the size of its work force will always find that...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe model of labour demand in terms of hours worked by employees assumes that firms instantly adjust their employment when the economic environment or business cycle changes. A firm looking to change the size of its work force will always find that it is costly to make spontaneous changes to its labour force. A firm firing a large proportion of its workers, for example, will in most cases suffer some costs when the experience and knowledge of these workers disappear from the work environment. Differently, a firm wishing to expand employment or increase hourly working hours (this maybe due to a rise in output price) will find that hiring additional workers might be equally costly: the firm will have to process the job applicants through the personnel office and train new workers.
Table of Contents- The effect of adjustment cost on labour demand.
- In choosing the amount of labour services, a company can alter the dimensions of labour input.
- The asymmetry between hiring and firing expenses will ultimately give rise to lower levels of employment in each coming cycle.
- The most common instance of changing the hours worked by employees is the increasing or decreasing availability of overtime.
- When hours worked reach ha at time t3 then the firm begins to take on new workers – as argued by Lindsay.
- A point that has not been treated so far is the fact of monopsonistic forces within the labour market.
How firms use efficiency wages to raise employee productivity and how it explains wage stickiness in the labour market
«Some firms will attempt to increase their profits by improving their worker productivity by paying a wage that is above the wage paid by other competing firms. A well known example of the gains from this sort of wage setting is found in third world...» Document abstract
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SummarySome firms will attempt to increase their profits by improving their worker productivity by paying a wage that is above the wage paid by other competing firms. A well known example of the gains from this sort of wage setting is found in third world economies. At the market level wage, workers may not get the necessary nutrients they require in order to carry out the working day’s hard labour and to maintain a healthy lifestyle. There is a vital correlation or interaction between a workers nutritional diet and their performance or productivity at the work site.
Table of Contents- The economic rationale behind a firm making the decision to pay efficiency wages in the above scenario.
- Demonstrating and critically examining how a firm sets wages in order to maximize profits.
- Firms in today's economic environment also now decide on how much wages to pay their staff.
- This further depicts that the economic theory of efficiency wages does in fact hold in the literal labour market.
- Let one assume for instance efficiency wage theory has a diminutive marginal product as an explanation of wage stickiness.
- This is just one of many of the criticisms levelled against the theory.
«Robert Marshall’s “Internet Filters Should Be Used to Reduce Access to Internet Pornography” addresses the controversial issues of pornography and Internet censorship simultaneously. Pornography is controversial because of the often graphic nature...» Document abstract
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SummaryRobert Marshall’s “Internet Filters Should Be Used to Reduce Access to Internet Pornography” addresses the controversial issues of pornography and Internet censorship simultaneously. Pornography is controversial because of the often graphic nature of the material; and its effect on people, while examined in numerous studies, cannot always be tangibly qualified. Internet censorship enters an uncharted grey area because while free speech should be protected, the Internet is an unsupervised, unregulated Mecca for material normally excluded from protection. As Marshall attacks public libraries and schools as places that should filter pornography because of the harm he claims it can inflict on minors, he makes recommendations for courses of action.
Table of Contents- Marshall's writing immediately loses credibility when 'pornography' is left undefined.
- Marshall makes an error when discussing what should and should not be allowed in a library.
- Marshall tries to appeal to people's feelings on the matter when talking about risks of sexual harassment and violence, inciting fear.
- Marshall does not seem concerned about the consequences of his writing in the sense that he doesn't fear public ridicule.
- The problem is that while some laws are helpful, most make these kinds of cases harder with vague.
- Ultimately, Marshall's presumptions about these rules don't work because his view is too simplistic.
«Organizational cultures have been a popular topic since the advent of the 1980s. At that time, the management literature began to popularise the claim that the ‘excellence’ of an organization is seen in the ways by which its members have learned to...» Document abstract
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SummaryOrganizational cultures have been a popular topic since the advent of the 1980s. At that time, the management literature began to popularise the claim that the ‘excellence’ of an organization is seen in the ways by which its members have learned to act and behave. Using the label ‘culture’ for the common, equally divided mental software of people in an organization is an easy way of making popular sociological views0. Yet organization cultures are a phenomenon so to speak, which are very distinct from national cultures.
Table of Contents- Communitarianism is a major dilemma for any business organization, unit or any culture, be it local or national.
- It is quite plausible to suggest that the development of online business activity in especially workplaces will tend to make employees more self-contained.
- A further pathology of the individualism that developing online business activity creates is the runaway greed.
- Summarily, PDI research scores have informed concerning dependence relationships in a country.
- The IBM database allowed the computation for each of the 53 countries and regions it studied using an individualism index.
- As already mentioned, there is evidence that the development of online business activity can weaken the influence of organizational culture on employees.
«One of the most prominent themes in “Hamlet” is acting. Its uses and abuses are constantly remarked on by Hamlet and other characters. Hamlet’s view of play-acting is a complicated one; sometimes he admires it, but at other times he is disillusioned...» Document abstract
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SummaryOne of the most prominent themes in “Hamlet” is acting. Its uses and abuses are constantly remarked on by Hamlet and other characters. Hamlet’s view of play-acting is a complicated one; sometimes he admires it, but at other times he is disillusioned with the fakery that playing demands. In this mood, he deplores the ease with which acting can be used to manipulate others. Admiration comes through when he thinks of the player’s tears for the non-existent Hecuba. He considers the actor to be able to turn his thoughts to concrete signs or actions, and wishes he was more like the actor. However, when others attempt to use acting to manipulate him, Hamlet sees acting as a cheap trick. This can be seen in his angry speech about Guildenstern attempting to “play upon” him.
Table of Contents- Rosencrantz remarks that in that case, the players will gain only a poor welcome.
- Hamlet goes on to imagine the distress the actor would show, while mocking himself because he has done nothing yet to avenge his father.
- Discretion, if taken to mean good judgment, is a trait Hamlet would have benefited from.
- Another aspect of playing and playmaking is that of manipulation. Hamlet hates to be played upon.
- It can even be argued that the ghostly king is playing upon Hamlet's filial affection.
- Without the references to playing and acting, 'Hamlet' would lose a good deal of its power.
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