Overview Change Article The change article by Grant (2014), has been chosen for its in-depth psychological analyses of a predominantly human resource (HR) issue; executive coaching. It parades an analysis of executive coaching in times of change that eventuates into an opinionated, yet empirical outcome. Grant (2014) hypothesises that executives undergoing coaching, deliver on organisational goals more frequently. This is supported by a research case study that concludes building effective…
In the first chapter of Weapons, Robert Cialdini discusses weapons of human persuasion that are not only a developed phenomenon of human progress, but just as easily accessible in the basic environment of nature itself. He focuses on three main ideas throughout the chapter, triggers, exploitation, and perceptional contrast. He discussed how mother turkey’s maternal responses are “triggered by one thing: the ‘cheap-cheap’ sounds of young turkey chicks” (Cialdini, 3). The author goes on to explain…
After the civil war in 1865, the Reconstruction Era emerged. The south was in great tragedy as the war had a significant impact towards the economy, leading to recession. To resolve this problem, the Union came up with resolutions in order to reconstruct the south and let them re-enter the Union. They also had to think about how to retrieve self-reliance of the slaves and provide them citizenship. Some people abruptly contend that the reconstruction had led to a great success; however, it was…
The life of cosmopolitan women in late-antiquity has remained something of an enigma to scholars. Perceptions of general decadence and moral impoverishment date back to the early research of historians like Edward Gibbon, who argued that a loss of virtue-ethics plagued the secular government. Authors of the 5th and 6th centuries, like Procopius and St. Augustine, offer little to undermine that notion. One would be quick to assume that the general decline in quality of life in the late…
In a year filled with one shocking and dominating media story after the other; from Donald Trump's’ election and the Russia Scandal to #MeToo, one narrative has become a surprising fixture in American popular culture and media: Colin Kaepernick's protest of police brutality during the National Anthem. Although it has been almost 18 months since the former college standout quarterback and GQ magazines 2017 Citizen of the Year, took his last snap in the National Football League, his iconic protest…
FOMAL EDUCATION AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN INDONESIA Finding balancy between cognitive ability and character in education system. Here in Indonesia, people have realised the importance of education. People know already that education is needed to move forward, to succeed in the future. This thinking has brought Indonesia to higher level of education. Government started to invest more in education, created programs, and revising things to educate the nation more and more. The effort brought a…
2.1 History of the method Political discourse analysis – which will henceforth be referred to as 'PDA' – strives to establish itself as a balanced mix between linguistic analysis and political comment. It is a recent cross-discipline related to discourse studies, more precisely to critical discourse analysis, and political science. Nonetheless, PDA's roots go back to antiquity on which it built and drew inspiration from, as well as from the many studies developed in the interval. 2.1.1…
consideration of the complex set of identifications that are going between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world. Algeria in France, captures the book's argument that Algerian immigrants' subjectivities are forged through "the processes of collusion and contention, of appropriation and transformation, that link Algeria and France--Algerians and Franco-Algerians" across the Mediterranean (p. 7). This thesis departs in subtle nonetheless essential ways from earlier sociological work…
This chapter began with a brief introduction of physical security. This chapter described physical security as an important issue to organizations and their infrastructure. Indeed, physical security was addressed as a mechanism that protect data, systems, equipment, facilities, people and all company assets. This chapter equally observed that the issue of physical security in today’s world is very alarming and at a raising costs for companies because environment are now becoming more dynamically…
Final Exam 1. The Movie 13th discusses the Prison Industrial Complex. Using this movie and any other class material/discussions, describe the ways in which capitalism, politics, and the American legal framework have worked together to institutionalize racism in our criminal justice and prison systems. The movie 13th is an especially helpful source to answer how capitalism, politics, and the American legal framework have worked together to institutionalize racism in our criminal justice and…