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Employee empowerment as a personal leadership philosophy

Leadership philosophy reflects the values, ethics and virtues that guide one's actions as a leader and one's approach to the task of leading an organization in general (Leboeuf, 1999).

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Five actions for consolidating organizational change through employee autonomy

The five most successful approaches to consolidating change within an organization center on providing employees with the opportunity to gain autonomy, mastery, and purpose (Ramsey, 2010).

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Organizational diagnosis of a company's human resources department

This organizational diagnosis report refers to the company's human resources department. In order to determine the issues that must be corrected within this department, a series of interviews have been conducted.

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Positive emotions and resilience in Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory

Fredrickson et al. (2003) used Barbara L. Fredrickson's (2003) broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, which states that positive emotions (i.e. enjoyment and happiness and, possibly, interest / anticipation) expands personal awareness, creativity, and innovation.

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The Health Belief Model and Social Cognitive Theory in health behavior interventions

Health Belief Model (HBM) (Becker, 1974) was developed in the1950s by researchers who were seeking to explain why some reject health services such as immunization and screening despite the fact that these services were offered free of charge.

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Short-term rewards and employee satisfaction at a food bank

Of course that fat, end-of-the-year bonus check is lovely to get. Even in these lean days, when that annual largesse may have been put on a diet, the bonus given for a long period of good work is certainly beneficial in terms of proving to be an incentive for a worker to continue to put in his or…

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Self-supervision and professional autonomy in counseling practice

Given the nature of psychotherapy it inevitably requires, even in controlled, clinical environments, that a counselor perform some degree of self-supervision. To disallow some degree of freedom of self-assessment would be akin to parrying single-handed.

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Existential, behavioral, and cognitive approaches to psychotherapy

Existential therapists state that all human beings possess the ability to choose their destinies: they can choose to free themselves from constricting environmental circumstances, or remain where they are, 'stuck' in an unhappy situation.

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Theoretical orientation and philosophy in adult education practice

The importance of theoretical orientation in adult education is an aspect that is intimately linked to philosophical questions that relate to the praxis and meaning of this form of education.

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Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" as allegory for McCarthyism and Cold War fears

Fear over reason: Modern witch hunts depicted in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" and in the House Un-American Activities Committee

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