EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: A DEFINITION AND KEY CONCEPTS It seems too simple to say that educational psychology is the psychology of learning and teaching, and yet a majority of educational psychologists spend their time studying ways to describe and improve learning and teaching. After reviewing the historical literature in educational psychology, Glover and Ronning (1987, p. 14) suggested that educational psychology includes topics that span human development, individual differences, measurement
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Psychological Capital, Job Satisfaction & Organisational Citizenship Behaviour explores the association of employees psychological capital with there job satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour in IT sector. The study also tries to examine the mediating role played by job satisfaction between psychological capital and Organisational citizenship behaviour. A self reported paper based questionnaire survey will be conducted on employees working in IT firms in Kochi. The study was conducted
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overview, purpose of study, methodology, key findings and limitations and opportunities of global leaders in various business sector. Article 1 Bishop, W. H. (2013). The Elements of Leadership in a Global Environment. Global Business & Organizational Excellence, 32(5), 78-85. doi:10.1002/joe.21505 Overview The articles states that American marketplace and globalization have led to recognition of diversity initiatives as not only the right thing to do ethically and culturally, but also a
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American social human studies, where the "culture and identity" ideal model was the prevailing from its initial days until the 1970s. Its closest relative, in spite of the fact that characteristically much unique in relation to its ancestor, is the field of mental human studies. These contrasts are so various it would be impossible notice, yet
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Louis A. Penner Karmanos Cancer Institute/Family Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 40202, and Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; email: pennerl@karmanos.org John F. Dovidio Psychology Department, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York 13346; email: John.Dovidio@UConn.edu Jane A. Piliavin Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; email: jpiliavi@ssc.wisc.edu David A. Schroeder
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Case Analysis: Oracle’s Larry Ellison: A Profile of Power, Influence, and Dominance Saint Leo University Abstract: The purpose of this case study analysis is to examine how Larry Ellison uses power and has used his power in the past to create one of the largest software companies in the world. This analysis will examine the different forms of interpersonal power that Ellison uses, how the two faces of power relate to his actions, if he uses his power ethically, and the influence tactics that
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1177/0149206310380462 © The Author(s) 2011 Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Servant Leadership: A Review and Synthesis Dirk van Dierendonck Erasmus University Servant leadership is positioned as a new field of research for leadership scholars. This review deals with the historical background of servant leadership, its key characteristics, the available measurement tools, and the results of relevant studies that have been conducted so far. An overall conceptual
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The environment plays a huge role in human behavior from larger things like whether the country that a person lives in is at war to smaller things like the type of weather that is typical for that specific area. You may have heard of the term nature vs. nurture before. This is a term that psychologists use to describe different reasons for why people behave in the ways that they do. Nature refers to people’s DNA. This is their inherent genetic makeup that plays a role in not only their behavior
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Open University of Malaysia WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE A study submitted to Project Management Department in Saudi Aramco BY Nowier Mohammed Al-Anzi Open University of Malaysia 2009 i Open University of Malaysia WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE A study submitted to Project Management Department in Saudi Aramco Nowier Mohammed Al-Anzi 51060418 Project Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement
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What Is Strategic Management, Really? Inductive Derivation of a Consensus Definition of the Field Rajiv Nag Department of Management WCOB468 Sam Walton College of Business University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR, 72701 Tel: (479) 575-6650 Fax: (479) 575-3241 Email: Rnag@walton.uark.edu Donald C. Hambrick The Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Business 414 Business Building University Park, PA 16802 (814) 863-0917 Fax: (814) 863-7261 dch14@psu.edu Ming-Jer Chen University of Virginia
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