Date: 27 April 2012 McGregor’s XY Theory In 1960‚ American social psychiatrist‚ Douglas McGregor wrote a book titled ‘The Human Side Of Enterprise’. It was in this book that McGregor first proposed his famous XY theory. McGregor’s XY Theory is a type of motivational management. McGregor’s theory is incredibly simple yet effective. Most of the fundamental elements of the XY Theory rely solely on how the manager views their employees. Even though McGregor’s theory is over fifty years old‚ it is still
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Topic: Rational Choice Theory Rational Choice Theory With the exception of a person who has a severe mental disability‚ every human thinks and weighs out the benefits and the consequences of a crime they are about to commit. People do not get as much credit for committing a crime as they should and this can result in getting a lesser punishment. Rational choice theory states that law violating behavior is the result of carful thought and planning. This theory has been used by many scientists
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Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories Carmen Jimenez‚ Christin Ferebee‚ Allina Johnson‚ and Christopher Bilbrey PSY/405 August 25‚ 2014 Dr. Seeley Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories Humanistic and existential personality theories are a combination of philosophical doctrine moving towards the psychological realm. The intellects that formed humanistic and existential personality theories are Abraham Maslow‚ Carl Rogers‚ and Rollo May. Theorists first of their
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Hey guys‚ this is the probability Assignment. Last date for submission is 10 aug... Q1. What is the probability of picking a card that was either red or black? Q2. A problem in statistics is given to 5 students A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E. Their chances of solving it are ½‚1/3‚1/4‚1/5‚1/6. What is the probability that the problem will be solved? Q3. A person is known to hit the target in 3 out of 4 shots whereas another person is known to hit the target in 2 out of 3 shots. Find the probability that the
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Finite Automata Finite Automata • Two types – both describe what are called regular languages – Deterministic (DFA) – There is a fixed number of states and we can only be in one state at a time – Nondeterministic (NFA) –There is a fixed number of states but we can be in multiple states at one time • While NFA’s are more expressive than DFA’s‚ we will see that adding nondeterminism does not let us define any language that cannot be defined by a DFA. • One way to think of this is we might write
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Max Jacobson Morgan Kinsinger ECN 338 B. Ferguson 8 May 2013 Dish Duty Keeping the kitchen clean while living in a house with ten people is a frustrating day-to-day challenge. Ideally‚ everyone in the house cleans up each mess they make immediately after they make it. Instead‚ housemates often leave their dirty dishes in the sink or on the counter for hours waiting to wash them later. Even more frustrating‚ housemates may wait for someone else to get fed up with the pile of dirty dishes
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00X-7489/97 %17.00+0.00 The evaluation of nursing theory: a method for our madness Sharon L. Dudley-Brown Assistant Professor‚ University of Maryland School of Nursing‚ Department of Material and Clinical Health‚ Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ U.S.A. (Received 20 March 1995;revised 13 January 1996;accepted 11 March 1996) Abstract The profession of nursing has‚ in recent years‚ been trying to further develop‚ test and use proposed nursing theory. To utilize theory appropriately‚ in all domains of practice‚ education
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Book Analysis: Christian Grey from trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” Christian Grey is the central male character of the trilogy: ‘Fifty Shades of Grey‚’ he is a business magnate and entrepreneur. He has achieved remarkable success as a result of his own efforts with his business strategies even though he already enjoyed an affluent lifestyle for most of his life as a result of his adoption into a wealthy family as a young child. Throughout the book‚ the first of a trilogy‚ Christian is portrayed
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emphasis has been turned towards employee motivation. In this paper‚ the goal setting theory will be discussed. The reader will be guided through the main understandings of the theory and its relevance in the North American workplace. Research conducted in this field has indicated that there is a positive relationship between goal setting and performance outputs. The prime principles of the goal setting theory state that successful goal setting needs to be assessed on five dimensions: goal clarity
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Behaviorism‚ Cognitive and Humanistic All Summed Up Janice M. Brown Aspects of Psychology Professor Trego November 8‚ 2012 Behaviorism‚ Cognitive‚ and Humanistic Behaviorism‚ cognitive and humanistic are all perspectives (or theories) of psychology. Behaviorism is a perspective that suggests that all behaviors are learned. What I mean by that is according to John B. Watson who founded the school of psychology‚ suggests the behaviors can be measured‚ trained‚ and changed. [ (Cherry‚ 2012)
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