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Recognizing and addressing change fatigue in post-recession organizations

After recession, many employers expected their employees to inject more hours into work than they did before the recession. This trend is expected to continue in the near future because employers believe that working extra hours increase productivity.

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Learned helplessness in animals and humans: Seligman's research

The concept of learned helplessness is most strongly identified with psychologist Martin Seligman. Early animal experimentation by Seligman and colleagues defined the phenomenon of learned helplessness (Overmier & Seligman, 1967).

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Internet pornography addiction: consequences across relationships and workplace

Today, technological and Internet advances have brought about some severe consequences, including the rise and exponential growth of online pornography sites. One effect of this has been a high level of exposure and even addiction to such sites.

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Berlin's Many Thousands Gone and racial exclusion in early America

In Ira Berlin's (1998) Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, the author shows how groups in the U.S. struggled to exclude other groups.

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Prejudice against obese individuals in American society

While there is concern in many circles about the effect of images of beauty in our society on the psychological well-being of children, the reverse receives less study.

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Empirical evidence on gender differences in leadership styles

Is it possible to have different women and men leaders? This is a question surrounded with substantial controversy. However, the notion that there is a difference in the way men and women lead is dominant in management literature, which provides information for practicing managers.

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Professional appearance and first impressions in business communication

"First impression is the last impression." This statement especially in the world of commerce has become a significant declaration, whether it sounds good or bad. First impression counts a lot, indeed, it remains in the minds of the people.

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Interview strategies in qualitative management research

DiCocco and Crabtree (2006) discuss different interview strategies. One is the unstructured interview, a technique that originates in anthropology study. This technique is used when the type of information to be gathered is not known, or is only loosely-defined, because the technique is open-ended.

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Heritage assessment tool application to personal health beliefs and practices

Click http://wps.prenhall./wps/media/objects/663/679611/box_6_1.pdf order access "Heritage Assessment Tool." Assess Heritage Assessment Tool answering questions. In 1,000-1,500 words discuss usefulness applying a heritage assessment evaluating person, summarize learned Heritage Assessment Tool.

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Understanding tourist motivation through push-pull theory

Tourist motivation is why a tourist will probably decide to select one particular location over some other as well as the characteristics that control that behavior. This is significant for the tourism industry and tourist specialist businesses for several factors.

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