Bridging the gap between strategy formulation and strategy implementation
Essay - 10 pages - Management
Organizational Behaviour Theories hold that successful strategy implementation is a lot more than plain market facts, figures and competitive advantages. Those quantitative aspects are the outcome of a successful strategy implementation, yet the qualitative, i.e. the cognitive aspects are those...
Isokinetic strength
Case study - 8 pages - Medical studies
Injuries and age lead to progressive declines in muscular strength and lean muscle mass. Evidence exists that age-related and injury related declines in muscular strength and lean mass (Feigenbaum & Pollock, 1999) can be impeded following mechanical stress on the body resulting in the form of...
The Change Management - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 14 pages - Business strategy
Charles Darwin said: “It is not the strongest species that survives nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change”. Among many examples, my favorite is the case of the primitive tribe of Colombian Indians, the Kogis. The main particularity of this tribal organization...
Change management seminar
Case study - 7 pages - Management
The first thing we highlighted during the seminar was about seeing changes and how the fact that we see it affect our attitude. Unseeing changes lead people to act normally and they are not trying to resist. Their environment is equal and stable. With respect to situation where changes are...
The cinema in Korea and France
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
South Korea and France are two countries which belong to two continents with different cultures. South Korea is situated in Asia and has known, since the end of the Korean War (1953), a rapid development but had some difficulties in implementing democracy. Now, it is considered as a dynamic and...
Home security and teleguard circuits
Tutorials/exercises - 49 pages - Economy general
In this project, we show how we can use the telephone as an electronics eye. With the help of a landline phone, we check and examine the position of the house automatically. In this logic, we attach some sensors with the telephone and if there is any miss-hap, the telephone is automatically...
Lewin's change theory and the problem of addressing nursing shortages using technology
Dissertation - 7 pages - Business strategy
Introduction - Nursing shortages are a world-wide problem that negatively impact many areas of the profession's goals, from level of job satisfaction to patient care, with an inverse proportional relationship between higher patient-nurse ratios, noted in much research. (Al-Kandari and Thomas,...
A comprehensive review of change management
Dissertation - 22 pages - Business strategy
Changes in an organization takes place for many reasons, it is sometimes done in order to find new ways of executing and organizing work. It is also done to change the processes in which people are utilized. Noteworthy changes in an organization usually occur when the organization wishes to...
Management Accounting Change in the French Public Sector: A New Institutionalist Perspective
Essay - 29 pages - Accounting
In the public sector management accounting change is often associated with the implementation of New Public Management (NPM) principles. This article uses the new institutionalist perspective to analyze the implementation of a new performance measurement and management system in a large French...
Capitalism's downfall
Case study - 5 pages - Political science
March 4th, 1883 is the date that Karl Heinrich Marx passed away, however his theories and legacy still live to this day. Post-mortem, his messaged was interpreted and criticized very differently between numerous political scientists, philosophers and theorists. Presently, the leftist movement,...
Japan and China in the 1930's - publié le 12/01/2009
Tutorials/exercises - 11 pages - Modern history
At the end of the XIXth century, the dominant position of European powers and of the United States in the Far East remained unmistakable. In fact, the European powers occupied Indochina and shared the occupation of China. Asia remained a stifled continent. But at the end of the century, Japan,...
The Jews of Denmark and Norway: A comparison of fates
Dissertation - 6 pages - Modern history
“Having developed along parallel lines in many areas, the Nordic countries appear as an entity instead of as separate, sovereign countries. The differences of the nations, however, show up clearly when one investigates the fates of the Jewish populations in the respective countries during...
Japan and China in the 1930's
Essay - 11 pages - Modern history
At the end of the XIXth century, the dominant position of European powers and of the United States in the Far East remained unmistakable. In fact, the European powers occupied Indochina and shared the occupation of China. Asia remained a stifled continent. But at the end of the century, Japan,...
Democratization and the rise of China's civil society through homeowners' mobilization
Case study - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Today, China is one of the greatest economical powers in the world; it has risen, in less than a century, from an underdeveloped country to a major player in the global order. Having achieved economical growth, China now faces many issues that will need sorting in order to ensure social peace...
Hardness test of metals: An experiment using the Brinell test and the Rockwell test
Essay - 6 pages - Physics
Hardness has been defined in several ways over time, mostly by physicists, metallurgists and engineers. Different definitions range from hardness being defined as a collection of properties of a material more or less related to each other to resistance to permanent indentation. The...
Democratic transitions in the Arab world - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 6 pages - Political science
At the end of the Cold war, the political models of modernization different from democracy were totally discredited. Democracy, defined by Ghassan Salamé as an ‘arrangement institutionnnel qui permet de garantir la participation des citoyens au choix de leurs dirigeants par la voie...
Democratic transitions in the Arab world
Essay - 5 pages - Political science
At the end of the Cold war, the political models of modernization different from democracy were totally discredited. Democracy, defined by Ghassan Salamé as an ‘arrangement institutionnnel qui permet de garantir la participation des citoyens au choix de leurs dirigeants par la voie...
John Dunn and Locke's concept of State
Essay - 4 pages - Politic philosophy
John Locke, who was born in 1632, and died in 1704, was an English philosopher, a philosopher of the Enlightenment. His political theories founded what is called "liberalism". In his political theory, Locke is concerned with concepts that are specific, for example: the natural law, property,...
The CCR5-Delta 32 Genetic Mutation and Human Evolution - published: 27/11/2007
Essay - 2 pages - Biology
Genetic mutations are not uncommon. They can happen for a variety of reasons and have a variety of effects. Those with negative effects are weeded out by natural selection, and those with positive effects prevail and are accumulated due to natural selection. These mutations can be caused by a...
The CCR5-Delta 32 Genetic Mutation and Human Evolution
Tutorials/exercises - 2 pages - International relations
Genetic mutations are not uncommon. They can happen for a variety of reasons and have a variety of effects. Those with negative effects are weeded out by natural selection, and those with positive effects prevail and are accumulated due to natural selection. These mutations can be caused by a...
Bartleby: A Christ-figure
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance,” concludes the lawyer in Melville's “Bartleby the Scrivener” (Arp and Johnson 589). This statement rings true, as any reader of the enigmatic short story will find himself or herself equally aggravated by the...
The Social, Political, and Public Health Development of Tuberculosis
Essay - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Tuberculosis has borne an invasive and impressionable mark on public health history. Its presence has influenced the development of medical practice and public health responsibilities, and its impact is still very much felt to this day. Yet the existence of tuberculosis has not been immune to...
Preparation and analytical investigation of electrodeposited nickel aluminum oxide composite coatings
Dissertation - 11 pages - Physics
Composite coating methods play a major role in enhancing the life of the components by improving the wear resistance of the surface coating used. Electrodeposited composite coatings consist of a metal matrix with either a ceramic or cermets particle addition which represents the new...
Rethinking the Cold War- The intellectuals during the Cold War
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
After the Second World War, the Liberation unifies the intellectual world in the devastated vectoring Europe countries. The few intellectuals who had collaborated or had published about the beneficial effects of the arrests against Jews had been sentenced, such as Robert Brasillach, shot on the...
Petrarch's rime sparse
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
The reader of Petrarch's Rime Sparse is compelled as early as the first sonnet to impose narrative onto the poems. In Voi ch' ascoltate in rime sparse il suono, a poet-figure emerges and addresses the reader as he reflects on what he calls his primo giovenile errore. Finding herself at such an...
Genetically modified food
Dissertation - 3 pages - Biology
Genetically modified food made from genetic material (DNA) of a plant that has been changed in an unnatural way, also known as ‘genetic engineering'. Selected individual genes are transferred from one organism to another. However, traditional breeding cannot achieve the same effects using a...
Decolonizing Academic Capitalism: Reimagining Research Ethics and Knowledge Sovereignty in Indigenous Contexts
Thesis - 11 pages - Sociology & social sciences
This research examines the intersections of academic capitalism, colonial legacies, and indigenous knowledge systems within Cameroon's higher education landscape. Through qualitative methodological approaches, including institutional ethnography and critical discourse analysis of policy...
Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi review of Stride toward Freedom
Text analysis - 5 pages - Political science
"The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the ?back to nature' optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzche, I found in the...
The Federal reserve system - published: 02/11/2010
Dissertation - 7 pages - Finance
The structure of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve or Fed) is quite unusual and to understand why it is unusual we must analyze its history. The Fed was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, and was largely a response to a series of financial crises,...
The Federal reserve system
Essay - 6 pages - Finance
The structure of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve or Fed) is quite unusual and to understand why it is unusual we must analyze its history. The Fed was created in 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, and was largely a response to a series of financial crises,...
