Attitude Article Reviews Samples For Students

Monique Wittig asserts that lesbians are not women. The argument has not only excited academic and non-academic interest, but perhaps most importantly, it defies dominant cultural definitions and categorizations of sexuality and gender. This argument also threatens the established theoretical structure of political work that is founded upon women’s identity, including feminism. There is effectively no natural categorization of women, and thus equally no natural subject matter upon which feminism could be founded. Hale questions the possibility that women do not exist outside the conceptual context of the heterosexual political regimes. Instead, Hale develops an alternative construction of ...

Leadership style

Being a leader can pose significant challenge to an individual and it also offers an interesting experience that determine activities outcome. Leaders ought to put into practice personal strengths together with skills to lead any group efficiently. Leaders may utilize different styles of leadership and the followers have a role to play in the decision making process. This paper evaluates the type of leadership exemplified by Dr. Cook in leading his team. Although Dr. Cook portrays some personal interest in the excavation process, he approaches the process with an open mind and this shapes his style of leadership. In his management ...

Article: Does the Need to Belong Moderate the Relationship Between Perceptions of Spirit of Camaraderie and Employees’ Happiness?

Authors: Amernio Rego, Solange Souto & Miguel Pina e Cunha
What research question (s) or hypothesis did the study address?
The main purpose of the authors for formulating the paper is to highlight how the perception of spirit of camaraderie can explain the 5 different dimensions of the employee’s affective well-being and how the mentioned relationship is moderated with the help of the employees’ need to belong (Rego et al, 2009). In line with the main purpose of the article, the authors listed the following hypothesis that they aim to address in the study: (1) Employees with ...

Article Review

a better teacher/student? Focus on the question/issues addressed and the findings as you relate these issues to practical use.

Chuansheng’s and Stevenson’s (1989) research paper titled “Homework: A Cross-Cultural Examination” explored the cross-cultural differences in homework among grade-schoolers, especially those in the first and fifth grades. The researchers investigated how cultural differences, beliefs and attitudes among Chinese, Americans and Japanese influenced academic success. The research methods used in the research included reading and math questionnaires, as well as, interviews of parents, teachers, and children. Even when Chinese learners were given extra homework over time, as compared to the ...

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Psychology: Luxury Goods

Executive Summary

Luxury products is a niche segment of marketing and is not focussed not pricing strategy alone. To effectively market these products, it is important to understand the psychology of today’s youth towards these products. The paper reviews the article “The behaviour of the young towards luxury products” written by Allérès in 1999, in the context of understanding consumer behaviour.
The review of the article establishes three points. First, the young people do aspire for luxury products. Second, the youth is familiar with luxury products and effortlessly recall names of the famous luxury brands. ...

1. State the purpose of the study and identify the problem.
The paper “Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities” by Lisa M. Black, presents research that was done on the attitudes of healthcare workers in Nevada regarding patient safety. The need to provide protection to patients in such settings is important as they are often profoundly affected by the prevailing beliefs and values that their caretakers have towards them. These cultural norms present an underlying problem when considering the results of poor patient care in a medical environment. The author’s intent ...

Article review

This is a review of the article “Establishing a Total Safety Culture within a Flight Department” by Homan, W.J., Rantz, G. W and Balden, R. B and published by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 1998.
The article presents principles and procedures based on behaviour. These procedures and principles are successfully applied to modify safety attitudes within Flight departments. It addresses the constraints and flaws of human condition and methods of employees to learn safe behaviour. It then goes ahead and propose management of crew resources as a tool of increasing general safety in the Aviation industry. Additionally, it identifies senior ...

The main research question that was studied in the article “Do airport hotels continue to be a growth opportunity, and which airports present the best opportunities?” by Joni Smith was to assess how hotels depend on the local airport to generate demand for their service. There was also a secondary hypothesis investigated studying the link between the premiums charged at average and peak travel times.

The methodology used to address the research questions were questionnaires given to the hotels in the areas of the airports asking for information about occupancy percentages, room rates, and vicinity in relation to the terminals, ...

Professional Skepticism means an approach towards accounting which includes a questioning mind and being in a position which questions a possibility of fraud, errors or misstatement and is a critical evaluation of audit evidence. It is essential for a quality audit. Professional skepticism is a skill which is very similar to professional judgment and helps in providing an opinion for an audit engagement. Professional skepticism helps in asking questions which make sure that any information provided is true. It is an approach which is similar to a judgment and auditors with professional skepticism tend to make good decisions as well as provide correct information on the ...

Collaboration and Care Coordination in Healthcare: An Analysis Overview

The structure of a bureaucratic healthcare organization can garner improvements in partnerships leading to increased care quality as a result of key collaboration efforts, and coordination. The data indicates that a 30 percent ratio of traditional Medicare payments will gradually tie to value, or quality models, like accountable care organizations. Bundled payments are anticipated as optional choices in this scenario by the end of 2016, as well. Secondly, 50 percent of payments will tie to these models by 2018 especially considering that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a goal of attaching 90 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to ...

This article provides a comprehensive review of the article by Lin (2002). This article addresses how media portrays racism and its influence to lifestyle and health. A sociological approach to the problem of racism is applied, arguing that the society needs to understand the different forms of racism, biological origin of racism, and its meaning in the society. Therefore, sociological concepts such as ethnocentrism, race, and ethnicity can vastly influence media’s perception on racism. The three concepts have different meanings, but are all related and can influence health practitioner’s ability to evaluate media’s coverage of racism issues. ...

Introduction

Social, economic and business environment are becoming increasingly complex in their structure and interrelationships. The rivalry market environment and external pressures in place the companies in the hospitality and tourism industry consider cost reduction and look at alternative ways of building on their competitive edge. This competitive pressure drives he prices down and makes travelling and international mobility more accessible to middle and lower middle classes. Supported by various ways of financing, tourism has become an integral part of many people´s lives. With the above in mind, cultural, social and other elements of diversity become extremely important for ...

ABSTRACT.

Teaching involves leadership in guiding students and taking actions that create a motivating environment. Amongst the challenges faced by teachers are facing unmotivated students and developing positive attitude towards their stay in school and success, in learning. Sometimes it becomes hard for these teachers to identify the unmotivated learners and the reasons behind their lack of motivation. Assisting an unmotivated student may not perfect the student to A+ grades but may improve on their efforts towards learning and develop positivity in attitude. As much as it is the teacher’s responsibility to motivate learners, parents and principals play a critical part ...

In the past few years, various types of research have been done on the new and arising issue of drinking of young adult in New Zealand. This hazardous drinking, mainly apparent among the youths who are mostly young adult students in New Zealand is a public-health concern. The issue has raised a lot of questions and a need to look into the matter of discipline among these students. Too often daily headlines bring news of another tragedy of a young adult involved in alcohol-related behavior, either a case of excessive alcoholic poisoning on the campus or as a result of recklessness and other bad behavior ...

PSYC101 Journal Article ReviewAssignment - Part 2Article Analysis, Connection, and ReflectionDue: 11:55pm ETSunday at the end ofWeek 6of the 8-week course termYou may work on this assignment ahead of its deadline but may not submit it prior to Week 6.Points Possible: 140
OVERVIEW: For Part I of this two-part assignment you identified and summarized elements of a published scholarly article selected from the classroom Resources Folder. For Part 2, which is due by the end of Week 6, you will analyze, connect, and reflect on aspects of your selected article. Note that the words “succinct” and “thorough” repeat regularly ...

Women and Gender Studies

Article Review: Equity Study In Canada: Race, class and gender paradigms in Canada
Complex societies like Canada had a variety of challenges in terms of race, gender, and class imbalance. Razack, 1990 explains the various paradigms that determine each factor in the course of action. This review draws from a variety of major theoretical orientations that define the art of true activism. Race being vital in this outlook determines a complete set of nuances rather than other values like societies, gender, and class. These elements provide major inequities of all times. There is a critical interlocking between the major activities and the ...

Article Reviews

Mayer, J., Wilson, R., and M. Hazlewood. “Personal Intelligence Expressed: A Multiple Case Study of Business Leaders.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 30(2): 201-224.

Summary

This article acknowledges the wealth of intelligences that can lead to success in many different areas of life, focusing on the ways in which personal intelligence (PI) can influence life expressions. Defined as “the capacity to reason about personality and to use personality and personal information to enhance one’s thoughts, plans and life experience,” PI can increase one’s interest in one’s own personality, and the personalities of others, inspire the creation ...

Crumpacker, M., & Crumpacker, J. (2007). Succession planning and generational stereotypes: Should HR consider age-based values and attitudes a relevant factor or a passing fad? Public Personnel Management, 36(4), 349-369.

Problem Statement

The problem statement in the article ‘Succession planning and generational stereotypes: Should HR consider age-based values and attitudes a relevant factor or a passing fad?’ by Martha Crumpacker and Jill M. Crumpacker establishes that the labour force of the present day consist of no less than four age groups, which spread more than sixty years apart. The capability of the department of the human resources to operate with the ...

Abstract

The article “Divorce Trends and Patterns in the Western World: A socio-legal overview”, written by Tony Fahey, contains a profound overview of all the patterns and trends in divorce in the modern world in developed countries of the Western World. It regards the definition of the world “divorce” and its meaning, the causes and reasons of divorce, the legal process, and usual consequences thereof. Tony Fahey has made a deep investigation of marital breakdown in the modern society over half of a century. The author indicates that though the number of divorces has radically increased recently, the reasons of ...

Introduction

Enterprises normally have many buyers purchasing their products such that they do not get a chance to know each of them personally. In such a case the business is required to pursue a rigorously tested study concerning consumer behavior. People are definitely different, but at some point their minds tend to react in the same way, and comprehending the aspects can assist the company to formulate strategies that will make customers accept their items or services. The creative measures should be ethical to conform to the universal values of the consumer base. This article articulates a critical review of ...

Abstract

This paper discusses the foundations of anti-discrimination law with respect to employment in modern American legal jurisprudence. The advent of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Title IV measure initiated a protective structure based on categories, or protected classes. Affirmative action is generally specific to protected classes carved out in Civil Rights Act of 1964. Affirmative action primarily designed to redress legacy of Jim Crow. Whereas civil rights law for disabilities is all about reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and making sure that ones physical limitations don't hinder their access to opportunities Protected classes have been extended to include ...

Article #1. Martins, S.R.M., & De Oliveira, D.S.F. (2014).
This article discusses the results of a two-stage speech therapy tests performed on the elderly, 45 in all and between the ages of 60 and 85 years old. The speech therapies resulted in improvements in 73% of subjects with dysphagia, and voice improvements on 62% after 11.6 sessions (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). Although the article makes no mention on the morbidity and mortality rates of dysphagia and dysphonia, it nevertheless affirms that “neurological diseases are common in the elderly” (Martins & Oliveira, 2014, p. 1120). In this respect, it can be ...

The servant leadership style tends to be highly effective in healthcare organizations. Adoption of the servant leadership model presupposes establishing a work environment aimed at promoting shared decision making as well as community experience.
It is considered that the term ‘servant leadership’ was proposed by the American philosopher Robert Greenleaf. It is worth noting that this type of leadership requires the deepest level of intuitive perception and understanding, empathy, the ability to look within and around, a sense of community and a stable framework of values (Marquis & Huston, 2012, 52). According to this theory, a person should be focused on helping and ...

The story is about the Mexican immigrant family travel “the circuit” of crop harvesting jobs around California. The story reflects the extreme poverty and poor living conditions which the immigrant’s family was experiencing. The oldest son narrates the story explaining the disappointments they pass throughout to the hard work, constant movement, and seasonality of the job as well as the children having to skip school to work.
The theme of the story is the survival of the immigrant family in a foreign land. Use of imagery paints the theme. The speaker describes the structures and life in a dramatic ...

Article Review

Introduction
MIS professionals have shown a substantially high rate of turnover which reached up to 20% in 1987 and is double of the average for business managers and professionals. Such high turnover can prove to be dysfunctional to organizations due to the shortage of experienced MIS employees and high costs associated with the training of new employees. The trend in turnover has made it very important for MIS managers to recruit, hire and train qualified MIS employees.

The purpose of this study is to test an integrated model of turnover intentions among MIS employees. The test involves using a structural ...

Frederick W. Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management, 1912

Thesis: According to Fredrick, the principles of scientific management when applied and given sufficient time can be very effective and produce far larger and better results for both employer and employees. The management of “initiatives and incentive” in which those on the management’s side deliberately provide a huge motivation to workmen who work for them and as return the group of workmen responds by putting efforts to their very best ability all the times in the interest of their employers.
“The first advantage which scientific management has over initiatives and incentive management initiative of workmen is obtained practically ...

Sue'Ann Easterling PE 551 Race in sports or athletics June 19, 2013 1 of 6

Shakib, S., Veliz, P., Dunbar, M. D., & Sabo, D. (2011). Athletics as a source for Social Status among the youth: Examining Variation by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status. Sociology of Sports Journal, 28(3), 303-328
The journal article highlights problems experienced in sports and athletics with a closer focus on the universities. The author has provided a broader sampling and research synthesis from different parts of the world thereby representing a wider and a better scope on the world of sports especially in addressing the race factor in different parts of the world. The author is an established researcher and a writer from the ...

Under the term bilingualism it is understood that educational process is presented in several languages. As a rule, two languages are used at class. To some extend such practice is rather widespread. However, not each use of two languages can be named a bilingual education. Technically speaking, it is possible to say that any educational system, which uses two languages, is bilingual. However, in practice, a lot depends on the proficiency of the language usage. True bilingual programs make use of both languages at the same level of proficiency.
Bilingual education is an extremely controversial issue. At the time when in ...

- Introduction: Older Workers and the paradox
An older worker refers to that worker aged over 44 years. Most employers have adopted the image that such a worker is ageing and has reduced workmanship in their jobs or have a low value in the employment sector.
For this reason, and with the complete disregard to their strengths and worth, these workers are deemed as unemployable in the society of today that constitutes of an ageing population and reducing birth rates that would need to retain and sustain the older people.
- Summary of the Article
The authors’ ...

The dependent variable in this article is social pressure and the independent variable is social conformity. Asch observes that social pressures are those conditions or forces around people that influence behaviors, attitudes, and opinions. “Groups, societies and experts are some of the group pressures that influence ones character” (Asch, par. 10). Consequently, social pressure is the influence of a group or person to think or act in a particular manner. Most of the people act in particular ways because they do not want to “be left out and thus base their decisions on what others consider to be right ...

Critical Thinking and Clinical Reasoning

Introduction
Critical thinking is the process by which nurses define clients’ problems, examine evidence-based practice and make a rational choice in the delivery of care. The fact that health care is a systematic process that involves the assessment of the current health situation, planning interventions and evaluating the outcome calls for critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Critical thinking is necessary since it makes nurses rely on facts in their efforts to promote positive patient care outcomes.

The article examines the teaching in class and the way it addresses the need for nurses to engage in critical thinking as the ...

Article Review: Feminine Protection

Article
The journal article was entitled “’Feminine Protection’: the Effects of Menstruation on Attitudes Towards Women”. It aims to determine the objectification of women by society with regard to reminding of her menstrual status. It was conducted by researchers Tomi-Ann Roberts, Jamie L. Goldenberg, Cathleen Power, and Tom Pyzczynski in 2002. It was published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly Volume 26 on pages 131 -139.

The primary research question in the study is whether there will be incidences of negative reactions and objectifications to women when they are reminded of their menstrual status. The researchers hypothesized ...

Invisible Poverty

The central idea of Cohen's article is the debate within researchers and policymakers about the relationship between poverty and culture. Several different views about the roots of poverty are presented in the article. The idea with more weight, supported by several types of research, is that poverty is a consequence of culture.
Poor people are not poor because they are lazy but because they are victims of the culture (4). Within the culture, community values and morality or ethics play a significant role. According to what people within a community interpret, or accept as their cultural norms and value, ...

Abstract

The article is about writing and critical thinking in the workplace. It covers issues on changing organizational environment, comparisons of traditional and new principles as well as understanding of public relations. The authors present these topics to how they affect the perception of technical communications amidst an increasingly demanding complex environment. They also show the adjustments that can be applied to help professionals adapt to the workplace.
Keywords: changing organizational environment, public relations, new principles, technical communication, professional adjustments, curriculum design, technical writing and higher education.

Introduction

Media personalities and CEO recognize the importance and the value of quality technical ...

Introduction

There are multiple definitions of racism as well as different perspectives. According to the oxford dictionary, racism is an advanced set of attitude that involves resentment based on the superiority of a particular group or an individual towards other supposed inferior groups or persons. Racism is solely premised on either the skin color or racial affiliation. In that sense, racism is relatively high in numerous educational institutional and is a real issue that consistently hits numerous social networks. Racist attitudes are critical issues as they can appear in any ethnic group and negatively implicate the current potential custom of ...

Homelessness is one of the very serious problems because it is constantly replenished the ranks of the homeless people today: they are troubled teens, graduates of boarding schools; migrant workers; veterans, people survived the crisis. The authors believe that homelessness leads to stress, mental disorders and substance abuse, especially alcohol, although this may be due to homelessness. Social exclusion is a strong negative factor, weighting personal and behavioral disorders in the homeless, especially for adverse childhood experiences.
Studies devoted to homeless show the interest of the researchers to the resolution of the problem of homelessness and about possibility for ...

Cynthia Hohner shows a rather conservative attitude to leadership issues as she believes that one person`s leadership style can not dramatically change. However, different life stresses might significantly change those people`s traits, which were laid in childhood. As a result, a person might change from tyrant to a democratic leader and so on. Cynthia has a humanistic understanding of leadership, as her top priority is to make the employees` lives better. These qualities are quite rare and highly valued among people, who pretend to be the leader.
A high score on the people`s leadership scale tells ...

Abstract

Alcoholism is one of the major problems in many communities around the world. Regardless of ethnicity and economic status, alcoholism can be problem that can affect the person’s finances in the event that alcoholism already requires rehabilitation or hospitalization if there is already a negative health effect. It was presented in the articles that ethnicity and religious belief can be the reason of either alcoholism or declining alcohol consumption. In the UK, it shows that Blacks and Asians are occasional drinkers, while Whites and Sikhs are the ones who frequently consume higher amounts of alcohol. In effect, alcoholism ...

Entrepreneurial Mindset

Module 1
Today, being rather poorly equipped the strategists of many companies face wicked problems. Though, the complexity of a problem may be caused by its incorrect definition by the scholars. Wicked problems are usually the result of the market instability, pressure of the shareholders, changes in the consumer behavior, unfair labor conditions and many other issues. The existence of wicked problems may lead to confusion and fear about the future among stakeholder as well as lack of progress in various fields. The main difficulties of such problems is that they are constantly changing, thus, there may be no ...

Racial prejudice and discrimination are issues that have occupied American social circles for the last four centuries that this nation has been in existence. American life has been characterized by race and class where a section of the population is deemed superior and others inferior. Racial discrimination is a historical issue that has seen people of the higher class discriminate against those of, the lower class, hat led to the historical slavery. The African American and other minority groups have often been depicted as underdogs and history have it that they have always been on the receiving end regarding ...

Introduction

the government is at the forefront of fighting against prostitution without understanding the reasons that motivate citizens to engage in prostitution

Authors thesis : the C-36 bill introduced by the government is aimed exploiting prostitutes

Prostitutes are prone to human trafficking and violence from customers which necessitates the introduction of the C-36 bill; The government is committed to the elimination of sexual adverts that target school going children and the larger society; each society has moral values; human rights violation such as human trafficking and violence affects prostitutes; and that the essence of legislation is to protect the vulnerable groups against prostitution

Body of the Essay

1. 1st argument: government of Canada is in the forefront of ...

An Article by Frances X. Frei

Summary-The article explores the different ways to make a service business robust and profitable. The service sector involves the increased interactions with the customers, so it offers challenges that are different from the product sectors. As per the author, the success of a service provider depends heavily on the choice of the targeted customers and the alignment of all resources to serve them better. The articles stresses that, to succeed in the service business, the focus is needed on the four major areas: (1) the offering, (2) the funding mechanism, (3) the employee management system, and (4) the customer ...

The falling oil prices have increased the purchasing power of the American people because the oil is one of the most eminent product for the American families, and thanks to the decreasing oil prices, they will spend less on the oil, and they will have opportunity to save relatively more, or they can consume relatively more from the other products and services.

What are the macroeconomic effects of falling oil prices?

The decreasing oil prices will decrease the production costs in the US, and also, it is expected to influence the domestic demand positively. Considering that the increasing domestic demand might play an essential role in stimulating the ...

Article Review

Article Reference
Sekerka, L.E., Comer, D.R., Godwin, L.N., (2013). Positive Organizational Ethics: Cultivating and Sustaining Moral Performance. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. – 435-444.

Summary

What is essential to learn from the article is how to turn human failings into perspective prosperous future of the organization. It is also interesting to find out what distinguishes ethical and unethical organizational behavior.
Most important is the fact that the authors of the article do not just close the subject for further discussion. On the contrary they specify what questions would help researches advance in their studies.

Critique

I might disagree with the authors of ...

RACE-MAKING AND THE NATION-STATE

Anthony W. Marx article looks into the phenomenon of race-making and the nation-state using three nations that were most involved in the slave trade that occurred in the earliest part of the European colonization into new territories. These countries included the United States, South Africa, and Brazil. The focus of Marx’s article emphasizes the difference in how Brazil had less issues of racial divide than the United States and South Africa. What appears to be the problem in the way that each nation handled racial segregation and division had to do with the policies of the nation-states. Marx ...

David Tuff was a 24-year-old security guard at Villlage Square Mall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The mall is managed and operated by Blue Mountain Company, which also has a security services division that trains and supplies security guards to several shopping malls in some Midwestern states. Tuff strongly opposed Blue Mountain’s new company policy to order and escort intoxicated persons (including drunk drivers) off its parking lots and onto the public roads. He feared that drunk drivers might harm innocent people and that doing so would jeopardize his license, as he was required by law to report any illegal behaviour (drunk ...

The article The Weird Rules of Creativity written by Robert I. Sutton and published in Harvard Business Review provides an insight into the management issues. Actually, author writes about creativity and special environment that should be achieved within the framework of the companies. Creativity demands special attitude to flourish. According to the author creativity appears in conditions, which cannot be called friendly, low-stressed and funny. His studies confirm this theory. Sutton states that good manager should take everything he or she knows about management and stand it on its head. Furthermore, his article is dedicated to three ideas for ...

Action Research - Participatory teacher development at schools: Processes and issues.

Introduction
Several researches have been done into the effect that reflective processes have on a teacher’s learning process. Many are based on the assumption that teaching is associated with tr previous experiences in schooling and their cultural values. In a bid to assist teachers in recognizing the extent of their knowledge and to overcome any misconceptions that they may harbor, as well as to help them to gain a conventional understanding of what they teach and learn, they have to be given a way to explore their culture and knowledge.
They have to be exposed to a reflective process that promotes ...

The study conducted by Sihyun et al. (2014) indicates that children are directly being affected by their parental drinking problem. Therefore, children of alcoholics significantly have dangerous results during their stage of development and growth, for example, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, interpersonal difficulties as well as substance abuse.
The article indicates that most children of alcoholics who had experienced negative relationships with their parents possessed a greater degree of complications and risk, (Sihyun et al. 2014). The article claims that parental alcoholic abuse can significantly lead to negative attitudes towards parenting relationships. It includes poor parent-child as well as ...

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Storeygard, J. & Tierney, C. (2005). Including all students in meaningful mathematics: The story of Darrell, TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 1(3) ,Articles 4. Retrieved [January 31, 20014] from http://escholarship.bc.edu/education/tecplus/vol1/iss3/4
“Including All Students in Meaningful Mathematics: The Story of Darrell” by Storeygard and Tierney is the story of an intelligent, lively boy called Darrell who is with some learning disabilities. The school system and teachers did not adopt the right approach for his mathematics education, ...

Question: Evaluation of training of correctional workers

Design: The main objective of the author is to plug in the important subjects of correctional training. He discusses issues that are extremely important to correctional staff. The author examines the benefits of training correctional workers apart from the need to get “their in hours”. He also examines the key attitudes to correctional workers training. He also highlights the topics to be considered during training.
Results: The author finds that training of correctional workers is important to in ensuring safety and increasing knowledge and skills of the officers. In the research the author finds out the key attitudes ...

Review of “Industrial and Commercial Training”

The study indicates that 21% of the companies with at least 500 workers prefer providing online learning opportunities for their workers. The paper expresses that the human resources managements, in general, are still suspicious about the efficiency of online learning programs for the workers. Only 30% of the companies those provide online learning opportunities for their workers express that they have received positive results from the online learning programs, and the rest of the companies indicate that they need relatively more time to make a certain decision whether the online learning programs have positive results (Kirkup, 2014).
The paper ...

Article Review

Article Review

Introduction

The article, “Managing the Transition to a Free Labor Society: American Interpretations of the British West Indies during the Civil War and Reconstruction” by Nichola Clayton is devoted to the analysis of written sources regarding the slavery abolition during the Civil War in America and American isles. The main idea of the article is shown in the summary: American reaction to the abolition, shift in views of the white population and the political parties of the USA, an attitude of the Republicans to the black population freedom and black farmers. Firstly, the author describes the Morant Bay rebellion ...

SUMMARY ASSIGNMENT # 2: CONTEXTUALIZED SUMMARY

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Food safety issues pose important questions concerning risk management, as those constitute a major public concern on health and safety in food consumption. Understanding how risk management experts confront food safety issues requires a deeper understanding of the underlying literature, given the controversy arising from mismatching perceptions between consumers and experts. Such a discrepancy serves as an important point for clarifying the conduct of risk management on food safety issues, hence my choice of the article by Krystallis et al. (2007) entitled: A Perceptual Divide? Consumer and Expert Attitudes to Food Risk Management in ...

1. What is (are) the independent variables?
When dealing with procrastination, from the article, the independent variables include time, such that while a person is becoming a poor self regulator, the time they have to complete a task remains fixed and unaffected. For instance, if a university student is unable to complete an assignment in time, the time allocated will not change but the quality of work will be affected.
2. What is (are) the dependent variables?
On the other hand, there are dependant variables and these include the quality of work that somebody will deliver in the given time. ...

Swami et al. (2012) examines differences between tattooed and non-tattooed people on a range of personality and difference measures. Swami et al. (2012) takes a sample of 540 people from a section of people in German, central Europe. Later on, Swami et al. (2012) performs a survey based on the following main personalities: spiritual beliefs, sensation seekers, self-esteem, need for uniqueness, and attitudes toward tattoos. Most of the countries in the west have rapidly adopted the art of tattooing. Other countries are also developing an interest in tattoos in this decade. The pain and permanence of tattoos can explain the actual difference between ...

Abstract

The following work is aimed at reviewing the article by Dann van Knippeberg and Michaela C.Shippers (2007). Their article addresses the developments in the field of work group diversity since the publishing of the work by Williams and O’Reily (1998), offering a review of 40 years of research in the field of demography and diversity of organizations. Topicality of the study is called forth by an increase in diversity in groups that can be traced in all spheres of work. The article under study examines different approaches and conceptualizations of diversity with special attention to studying the effects of ...

Article Summaries

According to Scarr and Richard, the influence of intelligence is due to genetics and environmental variables that are difficult to segregate. Psychologists often argue about the nature and the nurture of genetic variation fixes in the human behavior (Scarr and Richard 262). Some offer that genetic differences are negating to change in behavior. This belief has limitation since it fails to distinguish the environmental and the genetic sources of individual differences in behavior. In this case, one is not in a position to assess the impact of heredity in behavioral domains since all people have a gene complement expressed over development.
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The article gives us an overview of the sleeping Eros, which is a Greek goddess of love. Since the discovery of the sculpture, it was transported and put in a museum. People from all walks of life travel just to behold how the original image looks like. This has also seen the modification of the sculpture as many artists come up with what they believe is a modern representation of the goddess. The sleeping Eros has been reproduced through paintings, wood and stone carvings and placed at strategic areas. Apart from its archaeological significance, it also has spiritual significance to the Romans ...

Summary

The journal A Cross-Generational Comparison of Motivational Factors in a Sales Career among Gen-X and Gen-Y College Students illustrates the factors that motivate young individuals in the sales sector to conduct their operations effectively. A critical examination and ranking of key motivational factors following the responses from 1390 college students indicates what most individuals expect while doing sales. Two categories of individuals, Generation X and Generation Y are the cases focused in the journal each representing a unique group. The priorities of each group are distinct which their age bracket mainly defines. For instance, Generation X students indicate that they find ...