QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO SOCIAL RESEARCH Christina Hughes C.L.Hughes@warwick.ac.uk There has been widespread debate in recent years within many of the social sciences regarding the relative merits of quantitative and qualitative strategies for research. The positions taken by individual researchers vary considerably‚ from those who see the two strategies as entirely separate and based on alternative views of the world‚ to those who are happy to mix these strategies within
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Pharmacological treatment approaches It is widely accepted that at least one in three patients with depression will not respond adequately to a series of appropriate treatments.1 There have been several approaches to defining this difficult-to-treat depression. One recently developed proposal is the Maudsley staging method — a points-based model of degrees of treatment resistance‚ which takes into account details of the specific treatments employed and the severity and duration of the
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Bank of Canada using CRM and customer profitability tools to gain a competitive advantage in Canada’s increasingly crowded financial services market. Key Issues: RBC financial‚ a full service bank in Canada is facing fierce competition from leading financial institutes and new niche-market entrants after deregulation‚ the bank is also struggling with its 7th ranking out of 8 among financial institutions in the bank’s internal value for money study. Mr. Mclaughlin‚ the VP of CRM and information management
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geography. The development of critical geography can be seen as one of the four major turning points in the history of geography (the other three being environmental determinism‚ regional geography and quantitative revolution). Though post-positivist approaches remain important in geography the critical geography arose as a critique of positivism introduced by quantitative revolution. Two main schools of thought emerged from human geography and one existing school (behavioural geography) which made a
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right counsellor for your individual needs is essential‚ and consideration must be given to their training‚ qualifications and experience. Counsellor accreditation is often important if you are wary about which counsellor to choose: Counselling Approaches Psychological therapies generally fall into three categories. These are behavioural therapies‚ which focus on cognitions and behaviours‚ psychoanalytical and psychodynamic therapies‚ which focus on the unconscious relationship patterns that evolved
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Introduction Not many industries have seen such a dramatic change and decline in their traditional business model like the music industry has seen it in the last 15 years. The internet hugely damaged CD sales‚ along with the rise of MP3 Players that allow consumers to store entire record collections into a device the size of their pockets. If you look at the industry in 2013‚ one can clearly see that the traditional business model of record labels is about to vanish and market analysts even predict
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industries but the good news is that CRM can change marketing practices.” With the above indications of the importance of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in mind‚ I am going to discuss the implementation of a CRM system in a pharmaceutical organisation. Definitions of CRM and CRM systems are wide ranging and vary depending on the situation to which they are being applied. The definition that I feel is appropriate for the purpose of this report is given below: CRM is an information industry term
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2 APPROACHES TO ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT Organisational behaviour is a discursive subject and much has been written about it. The study of organisations and management has therefore to proceed on a broad front. It is the comparative study of the different approaches that will yield benefits to the manager. The study of organisations‚ their structure and management is important for the manager. Identification of major trends in management and organisational behaviour‚ and the work of leading writers
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Define politics‚ state and explain five approaches to the study of politics. The word politics is an area of great contestation by scholars‚ academia and even practitioners of politics‚ arguably there is no universally agreed upon definition of the term politics‚ in other words different scholars have come up with different definitions when they were defining the word politics. However the word politics cannot be defined by a single definition because it is very complex and thus an attempt will
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There are five types of Educational Approaches/ Theories. As an educator you will not use them all but the ones that is geared towards the way you teach and interact with your students. These five approaches/theories will be implemented into this course will be the Human Relations Approach‚ Multicultural Education Approach‚ Teaching of the Exceptional and Culturally Different
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