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Factors influencing organizational change and development implementation

This is an article on various aspects of change with special emphasis on the factors for change and subsequent OD activities. It has 11 sources.

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Workplace violence prevention in organizations using behavioral theories

This is a paper that outlines the issue of workplace violence and its implications on security managers. It has 16 sources.

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Small group decoding instruction and reading achievement in children

Decoding: Identifying Improved Techniques and Approaches for Helping Children Learn to Read Because reading is essential to overall academic success, one of the most serious and explosive issues in the United States today is how to meet the educational needs of an increasingly diverse population of…

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Stereotyping and assimilation in a homosexual male's identity

The subject of this interview is a twenty-nine-year-old homosexual male of African-American descent, originally from Miami, Florida.

~21 min read

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Counseling skills and their applications in social work

Counseling skills can encompass many different aspects of life, and they are of great use to those in social work. Unfortunately, many social workers do not realize just how important these kinds of skills are and therefore do not get the training in them that they really need.

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King Frederick II's experiment and the nature versus nurture debate

Nature vs. nurture debate has been the center of discussion for many years. Some believe that human behavior is created naturally while others believe that human behavior evolves over time.

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Dissociative identity disorder: diagnostic criteria and clinical characteristics

Dissociative Identity Disorder is also referred to as multiple personality disorder, in which an individual's identity dissociates, or fragments, creating additional identities that exist independently of each other within the individual (Gale 2001).

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Slavery's impact on African-American women's sexual identity and family

The impact of slavery on the sexuality of African-American women has been largely overlooked for many years. In addition, the negative manner in which African-American Women are portrayed in the media has been a topic of debate in recent years.

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Leadership and organizational change in higher education administration

Headless chickens describes an organization which is alive, and able to operate and continue to exist, but that has no sense of what it is, or where it's going.

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Are quality circles effective mechanisms for organizational improvement?

Quality Circles became popular during the mid 1980s, when buzzwords such as Total Quality Management and efficiency teams became popularized in U.S. companies seeking to gain a competitive advantage over international production giants including Japanese manufacturers.

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