Uncertainty

Life is filled with ambiguity, never knowing if your opinion is the right one or if the actions you take are interpreted as good or bad, though, not everything fits into this binary of good or evil, right or wrong, her opinion or his. We live with uncertainty and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein reveals to its readers the ambiguity within our lives. Inside the novel Shelley introduces the readers to Victor Frankenstein, a scientist that creates a new race and has to deal with the consequences…

A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an oil on canvas painting currently located at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City as part of the museum’s collection of American paintings. Albert Bierstadt created this panoramic painting in New York in 1866. The piece’s accession number at the museum is 76.79. Just as the title indicates, the painting’s subject is a storm in the Rocky Mountains, specifically at the lake valley of Mt. Rosalie and with Native Americans riding horses along the…

(1986) argued that all organizations processed information under some degree of uncertainty and equivocality. When dealing with uncertainty organizations understand they must gather more data or information to fill in the gaps of what they need to know to be successful. When dealing with equivocality, the gaps are not so clear. Equivocality means ambiguity, and confusion about what is needed to be known. “Uncertainty is a measure of the organization’s ignorance of a value for a variable in a…

Table 2 shows that increasing performance decreases the probability of turnover, which is consistent with theory and literature. Bigger companies tend to have a higher probability of turnover. Higher power distance index is correlated with lower probability of turnover, meaning CEO is more secure and is being challenged less. Long Term Orientation leads to a lower probability of turnover. Having a long term orientation decreases as it gives CEO more time to improve her performance and makes…

Full employment refers to a situation where nearly all the labor resources available in an economy are employed in productive engagements. At full employment, an economy produces output at its maximum possible level. Full employment does not mean all the labor resources get a job, still some people do not have a job in this situation. However, all of the unemployed in this situation are belong to the frictional and structural unemployment, and the unemployment duration is very short. Even in…

with high Uncertainty Avoidance. South Korea and Mexico are renowned to have a rich and traditional culture, rules and social code which are the characteristics of a high uncertainty avoidance culture. On the other hand, Singapore scores a very low value of 8 for Uncertainty Avoidance. Unlike Mexico and South Korea, Singapore’s society highly abides to many rules and regulations. This is not for the people’s need for structure, but instead because of the nation’s high PDI. Low Uncertainty…

of the story struggles through and how the narrator faces all the confusion of an adolescent child. In the novel A Catcher in the Rye, J.D Salinger represents adolescence as a time of uncertainty and confusion as the narrator struggles to walk the line between childhood and adulthood. Holden expresses his uncertainty about the adult world through the use of the word “phony”. In Holden’s eyes, the adult world is filled with lies and deceit. He despises those who look or act differently than they…

doubt on beliefs that we may have. We cannot tell that we are always dreaming because the dream reflects on the reality of things and the may seem real, with normal real life events. The conclusion of the dream argument is that not knowing leads to uncertainty which leads to doubt which is the foundation of knowledge. The dream argument is direct to the external world. The overall message that Descartes is sending out is that are senses cannot be fully trusted because it may deceive us from what…

It is then advisable for businesses that they plan ahead through the conduct of forecasting and to consider the possible risks or uncertainties that they may encounter in handling such business. Bounded Rationality According to Herbert Simon, as mentioned in the Satisficing Behavior of International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2008), “satisficing behavior is to describe human…

When Roland Barthes casts his bone into the Rue Servadoni, he is performing the symbolic act of act of letting go. When Boltanski builds shrines to his past self, he too is trying to cast something away from himself, in a process of mourning and of consolidating. Whether we feel the need to dispose of them or hold on to them, there is no denying the ceremony around these objects- the agency they hold and importance they play for us. Our urge to collect, forever juxtaposed with our urge to be…