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Post-merger integration and organizational culture consolidation challenges

The fundamental challenge that an internal consultant faces when addressing post-merger integration is avoiding actions and behaviors that create winners and losers. When the culture of one organization unseats the culture of the other, the cost is lost synergy.

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Understanding agoraphobia: biological, psychological, and social factors

Agoraphobia refers to the fear of becoming embroiled in situations from which it may be difficult to escape, or situations wherein help is not available, if such a need arises.

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Authority and obedience in Milgram, Zimbardo, and Elliott's experiments

Both experiments were conducted, at least partially, to help explain why seemingly normal people became Nazi collaborators in the World War II era.

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Cross-cultural organizational values at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jude hospital is one of the leading research hospitals helping to find ways of dealing with and managing childhood cancer (St. Jude Hospital, 2015). The Hospital has spent over 50 years in finding cures and helping children to live to adulthood.

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Child shooting cases and cognitive development theory in law

Child development refers to a psychological, biological and emotional developments that occur between birth and adolescent. Biologically, a child refers to an individual between the time of birth and puberty. In other words, a child refers to a person between infancy and adulthood.

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Multicultural competencies in psychotherapy and clinical practice

Diagnosis, treatment and care of patient and their conditions are greatly influenced by cultural considerations. These actors determine beliefs and values related to health. Yet, these widespread claims about the real value of cultural role in healthcare do not come with sufficient research basis.

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Marcus Garvey's use of race and ethnicity in liberation movements

Black people in the Western Hemisphere have in the past lacked the ability to represent their tales to their own selves, from their point-of-view in museums.

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Jeffrey Dahmer's psychological profile and cycle of violence

American sex offender and serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, was born in the year 1960. From 1978 to 1991, he committed a total of 17 gruesome murders involving dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and necrophilia; his victims were all males.

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Leadership style and psychological strengths in organizational change

This website offers a serious, research-based assessment of some of the ways in which management style and decision-making strategy affect people's willingness to follow a leader. This seems to be an aspect of leadership that is often overlooked, especially within the literature of management.

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Thornhill and Palmer's evolutionary theory of rape as reproductive strategy

According to Thornhill and Palmer, men rape for various reasons, but they conclude that "rape is, in its very essence, a sexual act." (Thornhill and Palmer). They believe that rape has evolved as a reproductive strategy, and is a natural, biological phenomenon.

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