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Maintaining police department morale during budget cuts

Organizational change, particularly due to economic factors, is a difficult time for leaders and their staff. While change is difficult for many people, maintaining staff morale in the face of cuts can be a particularly challenging task.

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Stakeholder funding and mission conflicts in public broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is guided by the principles of vision, mission, purposes, and values. The mission of its television programming arm, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), is to inspire, inform, and educate.

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Adult learner preferences for e-learning versus traditional learning environments

For a quantitative proposal you are planning, draw a visual model of the variables in the theory using the procedures for causal model design advanced in this chapter.

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Origins of feminism in temperance, abolition, and suffrage movements

Feminism started largely with the temperance movement, as well as within the abolitionist movement.

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SWOT analysis of therapeutic milieu strategies in inpatient psychiatric care

As the nurse manager of four inpatient behavioral health service units, I have a direct interest in the quality assurance and procedural efficiency of the psychiatric health facility where I am employed.

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Personal reflections on a 12-step support group meeting

Alcoholism is one of those tragic diseases that seldom affects only the person who suffers from it. It is often a problem that affects and destroys families, friendships, and professional relationships.

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Standardized testing and school accountability under No Child Left Behind

Standardized testing is important because the tests, for one, are highly accountable as well as reliable. They are able to judge the candidates on a common platform across states and nations. The 'No Child Left Behind Act' of 2003, announced by former president George W.

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Perception and fact in Ehrlich's Perito Moreno Glacier

Glaciers come in all shapes and sizes, offering the viewer to describe the form in ones opinion. Each observer may describe the same glacier in a plethora of ways. The valleys and streams, curves and bends are ever changing.

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Five causes of public trust and distrust in government

Aristotle (NDI) believed, "Man is by nature a political animal." This being the case it is only natural that people should form governments. People put their faith in governments for various reasons.

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Psychoanalytic and pharmaceutical treatment approaches for bipolar disorder

Steven V.'s psychoanalytic needs have not been met is exhibited by his rejection of the lithium carbonate treatment that has had the greatest positive physical effect upon his problems. However, a major issue with Steve has been his going "on and off the wagon" in terms of therapy.

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