Conflict management styles paper
Case study - 2 pages - Administrative law
The hiring process is the steps that are taken with perspective new employees. The hiring process begins with the interview and ends with training of a new hire. If the manager is hiring for a position that requires the employee to work in a team setting, he or she should be looking for a team...
Communication Process
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Communication has been a humanistic function that has been present since the beginning of mankind. Communication is the process on how, we as human being share, and exchange information to each other. The way we communicate is not limited to information flow, but also expresses control,...
360-Degree performance appraisals: An overview
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Performance Appraisals is “the systematic, periodic and an impartial rating of an employee's excellence in the matters pertaining to his present job and his potential for a better job ." Performance appraisal is therefore the process of obtaining, analyzing, and recording information about...
Breach of duty of care/ negligence in tort law: Mr J Madisson in Caparo v Dickman
Law case - 4 pages - Civil law
The tort of negligence is one of the most important fields of tort law in modernized law. When a claimant suffers from an act or an omission on behalf of a third party, innumerable ways and means are proposed to impose liability on the defendant. It is essential and necessary for the claimant to...
What exactly is the difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism? Can rule-utilitarianism succeed where act-utilitarianism fails?
Essay - 6 pages - Humanities/philosophy
According to the meaning we give to ‘actions', we get two different theories under Utilitarianism. And there is a great debate between those two schools of utilitarianism about how exactly the individual utilitarian should make their moral decisions. The choice for the individual is between...
The issue of choosing a Supreme Court Justice
Essay - 8 pages - Constitutional law
Introduction In recent years, the stability of the Supreme Court has been challenged as a direct result of changes in the specific members that comprise the Court. Up until 2006, specific patters of decision-making could clearly be delineated. However, the death of Chief Justice William...
Law of war crimes: command responsibility and the Yamashita precedent
Essay - 5 pages - Criminal law
In an interesting article from the Legal Times untitled ‘From the top on down'1, two American military judges, namely J.D. Hutson and J. Cullen, lay emphasis on the need to hold Secretary of Defence D. Rumsfeld accountable for abuses on his watch mostly directed at Afghans and Iraqis....
Justice depends on the identification of the individuals with their community
Thesis - 5 pages - Criminal law
Seyla Benhabib in The Claims of Culture reported the case of a young Laotian American woman abducted from her work at Fresno State University and then raped. Her assailant, a Hmong/Laotian immigrant, argued that among his tribe this behaviour is the customary way to choose a bride. He uses...
The injustice of appearance discrimination
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
My paper is directed towards businessmen and women and business students. People who read Business Week Magazine are well educated and knowledgeable about numerous aspects of business and are most likely aware of the controversies due to treatment in the work force. Owing to their involvement in...
Economic freedom
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Amartya Sen argues that world development should not be judged by plain economic statistics such as GDP growth rates or income per capita. Instead he argues a form of measurement that uses a "freedom-centered understanding of economics" where the enhancements of individuals liberties is both the...
Views about the afterlife
Thesis - 4 pages - Humanities/philosophy
Nobody knows for sure what will happen in the afterlife, we can only estimate based on our religious beliefs and personal opinions. Five major western religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Ba Hai, also have very different outlooks on what will happen to us, individually and...
HRM training development and appraisals
Tutorials/exercises - 33 pages - Human resources
There is " . . . a basic human tendency to make judgments about those one is working with, as well as about oneself” (Dulewicz). Appraising is unavoidable and universal. Even in a basic work structure, people will naturally, informally tend to judge the work of others. However; this...
How well did the legal system of early modern England work?
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
A legal system can be defined as the legislation enacted by the State institutions on the basis of tradition or law. In early modern England, the legal system was complex, relying on with overlapping institutions -local criminal courts, Church courts and royal courts-, on itinerant judges...
The importance of the trial process: Fair and impartial?
Thesis - 4 pages - Civil law
The American legal system exists for the purpose of enforcing the laws created by the legislature. The trial process does not exist only because common law and American law deems it necessary. The processes that are involved are necessary for the enforcing the law. Each of the parts are defined...
Secretary of state for the home department
Thesis - 3 pages - Administrative law
This case concerns the detention of suspected terrorist suspects who are non British nationals. In the context of a World which is more security alert in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Her Majesty's Government reacted with new laws. However, these laws need to be tempered with age old principles...
Constitutional and administrative law: The concept of the Rule of Law as defined by Dicey
Thesis - 5 pages - European law
“The concept of the Rule of Law as defined by Dicey still remains valid: it provides a measure against which we can judge the attitudes and actions of Parliament, Government and the courts.” Explain what is meant by the concept of the rule of law. To what extent is the statement...
Objectivity and subjectivity in sociology
Thesis - 3 pages - Sociology
A sociologist is a man who examines the society by being as objective as possible. We may therefore define objectivity as the quality which provides a distorted picture of people and things, or anything that describes them and judge them without a bias. This paper analyzes the methods...
The United States and international religious freedom
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
In 1998, the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) created both the International Religious Freedom Office in the Department of State and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Since this date, a report has been produced every year within the United States,...
Breakaway (A continuation of "AmericanIdle")
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
To the surprise of fans and American Idol producers alike (in varying degrees of delightful glee and ghastly shock), Clarkson's second album conveyed an entirely different message than the first. Entitled Breakaway, the music simply delves deeper than the playful bubbles at the surface of all...
The Demarcation Problem: Conflict Between What to Teach And What Not To Teach
Essay - 3 pages - Educational studies
In late 2005 a federal judge barred a Pennsylvania public school from teaching “intelligent design” in its biology classes. The trial had taken six weeks and resulted in a resounding win for those who support the teaching of evolution in the classroom. The ruling was a tipping...
But the sun also rises
Book review - 4 pages - Literature
In Ernest Hemingway's book, The Sun Also Rises, both the title and epigraph create commentary on the attitude of the characters. By using both a Gertrude Stein quote and a passage from the book of Ecclesiastes, Hemingway shows how his generation was viewing life and, in contrast, how his...
Compare and contrast the main claims of Goal Setting and Expectancy Theories with regard to Employee Performance Appraisal. What are the implications for the design of employee appraisal systems?
Essay - 8 pages - Human resources
The history of performance appraisal in the literature is quite recent. Its roots in the early 20th century can be traced to Taylor's pioneering time and motion studies, which interestingly also sets the beginning of the goal-setting theory. But this may not be very helpful, for the same can...
Obesity in children
Essay - 5 pages - Social sciences
In the year 2002, America watched closely as Samuel Hirsch, a lawyer from the federal court of Manhattan, filed a lawsuit against McDonalds. Hirsch filed a complaint against the famous fast-food chain accusing the company of violating the state of New York consumer fraud statutes by intentionally...
A political analysis of: R. v. Badger
Thesis - 6 pages - Constitutional law
The supreme court of Canada stands as the highest level of court in Canada and is the final stop for all cases which have been appealed from the superior provincial courts. Unlike the lower courts, the supreme court of Canada seats up to nine judges with each appeal seating a minimum of 5...
A detailed look at brand management
Dissertation - 53 pages - Management
Marketers are now finding it extremely difficult to create new brands. The brand building costs tend to be very high. At the same time the developments at the demand side are creating pressures on marketers to fine tune their offerings as per unique needs of target customs. In order to cope with...
Oppressive impressions: István Szabó's Sunshine (1999), Jewish assimilation, the Shoah, and historical transition in twentieth-century Hungary
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
István Szabó's 1999 film Sunshine depicts three generations of a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century through the period after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Originally named “Sonnenschein,” the aging patriarch Ignatz becomes a prominent...
Study on the effectiveness of corporate education service with comparison between offline and online education service using SERVQUAL model
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Educational studies
In this research, we empirically evaluate the difference between off-line and on-line corporate education services in terms of their service quality levels. Especially, in order to judge the efficiency and effectiveness of the increasingly popular on-line educational service and to provide...
The towel-head earns respect
Thesis - 2 pages - Social sciences
Imagine walking into a school with a totally new look, where people are judged for what they wear and are not based on who they are. By changing style into cultural style, one is judged with a different perspective. People open their eyes to see the cultural shift that has been taken place in...
Current criminal justice
Thesis - 4 pages - Criminal law
The United States has been plagued with the issue of marijuana use for quite some time. The current policy set in place requires the use of many resources to deal with such a minor defiance. As of now, courts are backlogged because of the high number of arrests for minor offenses. Many are...
Classification and imprisonment in the United States correctional system
Case study - 6 pages - Criminal law
Many people wonder who decides what offenders go into what prisons and why some of those prisons are labeled “maximum security” while others are simply “minimum security”. Is it based on a state, local or federal level or is it based on the percentage of felony to misdemeanor...
