The Sociological Imagination Chapter One: The Promise C. Wright Mills (1959) Nowadays people often feel that their private lives are a series of traps. They sense that within their everyday worlds, they cannot overcome their troubles, and in this feeling, they are often quite correct. What ordinary people are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood;
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ABACUS INSTITUTE OF STUDIES ABACUS INSTITUTE OF STUDIES ------------------------------------------------- DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT LEVEL 7 DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THEORY IN RELATION TO MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS SUBMITION - TO: RAGINI LAWRENCE BY: NUSHRAT JAHAN ------------------------------------------------- DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS AND ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT LEVEL 7 DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE OF THEORY IN RELATION TO MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS SUBMITION - TO: RAGINI
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THE PROBLEM WITH WORK Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries KATHI WEEKS Duke University Press Durham and London 2011 © 2011 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper co Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Minion Pro by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
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Handbook of Business Strategy Emerald Article: The ethics of business strategy Fred Hansen, Michele Smith Article information: To cite this document: Fred Hansen, Michele Smith, (2006),"The ethics of business strategy", Handbook of Business Strategy, Vol. 7 Iss: 1 pp. 201 - 206 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10775730610618828 Downloaded on: 09-04-2012 References: This document contains references to 16 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight
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Business vs. Ethics: The India Tradeoff?: Knowledge@Wharton (http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2897) Business vs. Ethics: The India Tradeoff? Published : January 03, 2012 in Knowledge@Wharton As Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, observed, "If you choose not to participate in [corruption], you leave behind a fair amount of business." Much has been written about the benefits of doing business in India -- low input costs, easy access to labor and a massive consumer
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ETHICS The history of “business ethics” depends on how one defines it. Although the term is used in several senses and varies somewhat for different countries, its current use originated in the United States and became widespread in the 1970s. The history of business ethics in the United States can be viewed as the intersection of three intertwined strands. Each of these in turn can be divided into at least two related branches. The first strand, which I shall call the ethics-in-business strand
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success -and to a far lesser extent the failure- of individual entrepreneurs as well as various business communities in World History. The most well known explanations and theories include: the concept of the stranger (Simmel); the spirit of capitalism (Weber); the innovator and the imitator (Schumpeter and Hoselitz); the collaborator (Gallagher and Robinson, in Louis) and the middlemen minorities (Bonacich and Dobbin).3 Despite these long and varied theoretical traditions, we are still unable to explain
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management, which oftentimes has self- Michael Livovich 1 ELAF 683 interest, not the needs of the customer, as the driving force. James MacGregor Burns (1978), noted political scientist, historian, and author of the book titled Leadership, states in this regard: Still, there are the single-minded power wielders who fit the classical images of Machiavelli or Hobbes or Nietzsche, or at least the portraits of the
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24 | Issue 1 Article 6 Jun-2005 The Importance of Leadership Dorothy J. Mulcahy Bridgewater State College Recommended Citation Mulcahy, Dorothy J. (2005). The Importance of Leadership. Bridgewater Review, 24(1), 7-10. Available at: http://vc.bridgew.edu/br_rev/vol24/iss1/6 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The Importance of Leadership by Dorothy J. Mulcahy Why
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possesses charisma. This concept makes it possible for people to overcome any stereotypes linked to their physical appearances and be an effective leader. An example of this is the case of Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, and first black President of the United States of America. Brown (2011 in Takala et al., 2013) claims his election as president marked a historical and cultural change, “reducing white male dominance amongst great-man leaders” (pg 149). He has an image of a charismatic
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