Running Head: APPLICATIONS OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 3 Positive Psychology: A Brief History‚ Methodology‚ and Application 1. Introduction 1.1. A Brief History The genealogy of positive psychology established its roots in the development of humanistic psychology in the mid-20th century. The more traditional approaches of modern psychology as developed by Freud and B. F. Skinner‚ respectively‚ are psychoanalysis‚ and behaviorism. One theory may suggest that
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Primary methodologies are ways we gather information when conducting social research. There are multiple types of useful methodologies in collecting qualitative data like interviews and a focus group as well as quantitative data like questionnaires‚ surveys and statistical research for examples. There are many advantages and disadvantages to all primary methodologies‚ including the information collected being more personally suited to the researcher while being more time consuming than some secondary
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1. Introduction This study elaborates on the process of research methodology which was designed for collecting the scientific data to justify the effects of Chinese social media on Chinese market. It designed by graphically describing of the hypotheses relations from the research question. The positivism of research was then mentioned. Next it provided particular processes of research design‚ sampling‚ data collection‚ scales and questionnaire design on justification of hypotheses. This study concluded
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What type of methodology is generally used for financial research and why? There are two different methodologies that can be used to conduct research – a quantitative as well as a qualitative one. In order to find a response to which of these methodologies is most likely to be used in financial research‚ it is important to first gain a broader understanding of the context in which they appear in theory. Also‚ it is necessary to specify important assumptions underlying those theories in order to
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“The Role of Lean Management Methodologies in Developing Sustainable Organizational Excellence” The role of lean management methodologies in developing sustainable organizational excellence is quickly becoming one of the hottest topics in sustainable business. Lean builds long-term customer loyalty‚ lean methods eliminate all forms of waste in business processes‚ and organizational performance is dramatically improved in the long run. Building long-term customer loyalty is the primary focus of
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UNIVERSITY OF MALAYSIA PERLIS -BFT 501“BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY” INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Research Instruments: Interview - Structured Prepared By : Muzaphar Noman Abdulrahman Lecturer : Assoc. Prof. Dr. Idris Mohd Noor Interview-Structured CONTENTS Title Page Research Instrument ...................................................................................2 Interview - Structured .................................................................................3 Steps
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RANKINGS VIA MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING METHODOLOGY 1AmyPoh. AL‚ 2M. N. Saludin‚ 1M. Mukaidono 1Faculty of Science and Technology‚ Meiji University 2Faculty of Management & Defense Study‚ National Defense University of Malaysia ABSTRACT Purpose – This paper takes a cautionary stance to the impact of marketing mix on customer satisfaction‚ via a case study deriving consensus rankings for benchmarking on selected retail stores in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – ELECTRE I model is used in
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FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Introduction The discussion of research methodology is an important part within the research project‚ because it has great influences on the overall research activities and thus to make good piece of research work with valid conclusion and recommendation in accordance with research aims‚ objectives and research questions. For example‚ Kothari (2004 p.05-06) has described that depending on the type of research‚ the research methodology helps the researcher to
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How Effective is Public Management Research? An Analysis of Scope and Methodology David W. Pitts Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Georgia State University 14 Marietta St. NW Ste. 328 Atlanta‚ GA 30303 404.413.0111 404.413.0104 FAX pitts@gsu.edu Paper prepared for presentation at the 9th Public Management Research Conference‚ Tucson‚ Arizona‚ October 25-27‚ 2007. The author thanks Sergio Fernandez for assistance in developing the coding instrument and Ravtosh Bal and Lauren Edwards for
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The corresponding research problem is to assess whether the market would accept the consensus rankings derive from benchmarking result from the impact of marketing mix on customer satisfaction using a multi-criteria decision making outranking methodology. LITERATURE REVIEW The project ranking problem is‚ like many decision problems‚ challenging for at least two reasons. First‚ there is no single criterion in marketing mix model which adequately captures the effect or impact of each element;
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