A Case Study: A Focused Study of Homeless Students Toni R. Brent-Willis Capella University ED8102 – Introduction to Qualitative Research, Dr. Patricia Ryan August 4, 2013 Case study research is designed to bring a greater understanding of a specific phenomena or experience. It can also serve to deepen the understanding of an experience that is already known. Yin (1984) defines case study as research method as an empirical inquiry that investigates a contemporary phenomenon within
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Organizational Behavior Unit through critical analysis of the concrete work situations and proposes possible argued solutions, supported by academic literature and incorporating aspects of different organizational behavior theories. In the first case study, we present how the need theories of motivation (Maslow’s hierarchy pyramid, Alderfer ERG Theory and Herzberg’s duality theory) are applied, by analyzing the concrete individual behavior of an employee in given work situation. In addition, achievers
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MARKETING COURSE Articles Books & Chapters Cases Course Modules Online Courses Simulations 2012 MATERIALS Harvard Business Publishing serves the finest learning institutions worldwide with a comprehensive catalog of case studies, journal articles, books, and eLearning programs, including online courses and simulations. In addition to material from Harvard Business School and Harvard Business Review, we also offer course material from these renowned institutions and
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research resulted in areas of consensus. These areas compare the how TBI severity and the age of the TBI effect developmental. Results from multiple studies show that the more sever the TBI, the more prevalent the developmental deficiencies (Gerrard-Morris, A., Taylor, H., Yeates, K., Walz, N., Stancin, T., Minich, N., & Wade, S., 2009; McKinlay, A., Grace, R., Horward, L., Fergusson, D., & MacFarlane, M., 2008; Morse, S., Haritou, F., Ong, K., Anderson, V., Catroppa, C., & Rosenfeld, J., 1999; Taylor
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HUAWEI CASE STUDY Executive Summary Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd is a Chinese multinational information and communications technology (ICT) company (Huawei, 2013). This technology solution provider was founded in Shenzhen, China in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei. The company has global sales of more than $35 billion. It employs over 150,000 people in more than 140 countries around the world. In its debut Huawei was a single sales agent of a Hong Kong telephone server company. Actually, it has become
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SYSTEM (As prescribed b y the BAR CO UNCIL OF INDI A and as per the Rules of Legal Education, 2008) Effective from the academic year 2011-12 THREE YEARS’ LL.B. POGRAMME First LL. B. Semester – I FIRST LL.B. - S EMES TER 1 (MONSOON ) PE R WE EK S UBJEC TS LEC TURE S OT HER S T OT AL C RED IT S (SE M)29 CORE COURSE 101 L aw of T ort i ncludi ng MV A cci dent And C on sum er Pr ot ecti on Law s 4 1 5 5 CORE COURSE 102 Crim in al Law P aper – I (General
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Introduction Cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug worldwide despite evidence suggesting a number of harmful effects (Caspi, 2005). It has attracted copious amounts of media attention regarding the possible long-term effects of smoking cannabis, as it has been suggested it can mediate a number of mental health issues, ranging from psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations (visual and auditory) and to the chronic clinical disorder, Schizophrenia. There has been great discrepancy about
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cost-leadership can create competitive advantage for a firm, which then has a better chance of outperforming other firms in a homogeneous industry. However, this notion has not been tested in the Chinese hotel industry. In response to this gap, this study empirically examines the relationships between the generic strategies of differentiation and cost leadership and hotels’ organizational performance. The results suggest that differentiation is the only significant generic strategy that influences
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security/stability anchor. These hypotheses were testes thanks to quantitative research. A survey was distributed on different IT people in our department companies. We review some significant articles of Schein, Delong, ad Thomas. Thanks to the research study to determine the impact of demographic background on the security/stability career anchor of IT employee in Dubai, moreover; come up with interesting findings and results. To analyze the data collected through the survey, we have used SPSS (t-test)
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Running Head: Online Game Addiction Perception of and Addiction to Online Games as a Function of Personality Traits Searle Huh University of Southern California and Nicholas David Bowman Michigan State University Online Publication Date: April 26, 2008 Journal of Media Psychology, V 13, No. 2, Spring, 2008 Abstract With the growing popularity of online video games, there have been anecdotal reports suggesting that these games are highly addictive, with some gamers spending
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