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Elton Mayo and Kurt Lewin's foundations of participative management

Today's international world of business is too complex and competitive for an authoritative approach to management. In order to succeed, companies need the support and expertise of its employees. Businesses are being redesigned to be flatter, so decisions are made by people close to the action.

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Career development at TIAA-CREF: fifteen years as customer service specialist

Concrete Experience. In 1991, I accepted a position as a customer service specialist with Teachers Insurance and Annuity Associated, College Retirement Equity Funds (TIAA-CREF) in New York, New York which I still maintain today.

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Victor Frankl's logotherapy and the search for meaning

Man's Search For Meaning Reader's Search For Clarity, Basis, Adequacy And Implications In Victor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning

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Robert Johannsen's analysis of the Mexican-American War's media narrative

Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas. Oxford University Press, 1999. The thesis of the book To the Halls of the Montezumas by Robert W. Johannsen is that the Mexican-American War was America's first foreign war, even though Mexico was not the first foreign power America ever fought.

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Gender and separate spheres ideology in Frederick Douglass's autobiography

Still Bound to Notions of the Separate Spheres and Roles of Men and Women: Frederick Douglass My Life in Bondage One might like to think of Frederick Douglass as a purely radical thinker, a man on the cutting edge of female rights as well as Black liberation.

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Federal sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine

After a decade of contentious debate regarding the federal sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder cocaine, a number of significant initiatives to reform current policy have recently emerged.

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The magic bullet theory and its limitations in mass communication

"Agenda setting scholars corroborate the fact that our dependence on the media for news and information has shaped and reinforced our perceptions of the world around us.

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Propaganda, resistance, and human nature in Steinbeck's The Moon is Down

John Steinbeck's 1942 novel The Moon is Down can be interpreted as a propaganda piece, aimed at emboldening and comforting the conquered peoples of Europe during the Second World War.

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Hispanic women in the United States workforce and leadership

Hispanic-American women have struggled for centuries to get their respect and acknowledgment. Hispanic women have been at their helm, whether it is in the home, workplace or in the society.

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Political freedom and human happiness in Dostoevsky, More, Marx, Rousseau, and Nietzsche

The five thinkers examined here all premise their work on the major questions of political freedom for mankind balanced with man's happiness.

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