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Psychological well-being effects of job redundancy and unemployment

Redundancy is defined as "The state or fact of being unemployed because work is no longer offered or considered necessary…A dismissal of an employee from work for being no longer necessary; a layoff ("redundancy")." In other words redundancy occurs when an employee is fired because the job he…

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Corporate culture at Mercedes-Benz and Toyota Motor Company

Modern business entities have evolved continuously from their predecessors of several generations in terms of corporate culture as much as they have evolved technologically.

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How urban revitalization and gentrification affect sexual assault rates

As the population continues to grow, more and more people are finding themselves living closer to their neighbors. People are crowded into cities, and some areas are being revitalized and upgraded in an attempt to get more people moving back into them.

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Ethical implications of psychological assessment across clinical, legal, and educational settings

Psychological assessments are often used to give a quick, thumbnail sketch of an individual's psyche in a variety of settings. In a therapeutic or clinical setting they are often used to create a DSM diagnosis for insurance purposes.

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Secular humanism's rise and influence in the twentieth century

Basically, humanists believe in freedom and pluralistic democracy as virtually our first principle, and we are disturbed by any authoritarian effort to impose one point-of-view on America.

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Cheating as a culturally embedded form of academic dishonesty

Cheating takes a wide array of forms. An act of dishonesty or habitual acts of dishonesty used to deceive others, to advance one's self, to gain the upper hand in a competitive circumstance or to engage in illicit behaviors while attempting to obscure these behaviors, cheating conjures a number of…

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Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in social research

MIXING METHODS WITHIN RESEARCH PROJECTS? The objective of this work is to discuss some of the issues involved in 'mixing' methods within research projects? This work will further answer whether it is possible to work with more than one methodological approach simultaneously?

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Rote memorization versus critical thinking in high school mathematics

How important is it to teach students to think more critically, to connect and evaluate their ideas? Describe a course that you took in high school that you think would have been much more effective if it were taught through critical thinking instead of rote memorization and explain why.

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Ethnocentrism, stereotyping, and prejudice as barriers to intercultural communication

In what way do ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination act as barriers to effective intercultural communication?

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Eyewitness testimony errors and reliability in criminal justice

One of the fundamental assumptions of the American criminal justice system is that the testimony of eyewitnesses can be trusted -- in fact, that it can be trusted absolutely.

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