CM J41 Strategy Execution [pic] 1.0 Resume: The case is about the turnaround of Nissan in the year 1999 to 2002. Nissan experienced great finances looses for the past seven out of eight years which resulted in a 22 billion $ debt and an outdated product portfolio with little liquid capital for new product development. In just 12 months the new COO‚ Carlos Ghosn (CG)‚ succeeded in turning Nissan into profitability with a new and more performance oriented corporate culture
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Cognitive Dissonance theory Core Assumptions and Statements Cognitive dissonance is a communication theory adopted from social psychology. The title gives the concept: cognitive is thinking or the mind; and dissonance is inconsistency or conflict. Cognitive dissonance is the psychological conflict from holding two or more incompatible beliefs simultaneously. Cognitive dissonance is a relatively straightforward social psychology theory that has enjoyed wide acceptance in a variety of disciplines
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Source: http://psychology.about.com Psychology Today‚ psychologists prefer to use more objective scientific methods to understand‚ explain‚ and predict human behavior. Psychological studies are highly structured‚ beginning with a hypothesis that is then empirically tested. The discipline has two major areas of focus: academic psychology and applied psychology. Academic psychology focuses on the study of different sub-topics within psychology including personality‚ social behavior and human
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History of Psychology Psychology is defined as "the study of behavior and mental processes". Philosophical interest in the mind and behavior dates back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt‚ Greece‚ China‚ and India. Psychology as a self-conscious field of experimental study began in 1879‚ when Wilhelm Wundt founded the first laboratory dedicated exclusively to psychological research in Leipzig. Wundt was also the first person who wrote the first textbook on psychology: Principles of Physiological
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The field of school psychology has evolved. Traditionally‚ school psychologists have used a refer-test-and-place model. Students were cognitively and academically tested then placed. The primary focus was on diagnosing disabilities. However‚ school psychologists are now moving away from that traditional test-and-place model to more of a problem solving model. Diagnosing disabilities is no longer the primary focus. School psychologists are now shifting their focus towards identifying effective interventions
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Lecture One i THE ROOTS OF EDUCATION ii THE ESSENTIALS OF EDUCATION [XIX] F O U N D AT I O N S O F WA L D O R F E D U C AT I O N Lecture One iii RUDOLF STEINER The Roots of Education Anthroposophic Press iv THE ESSENTIALS OF EDUCATION The publisher wishes to acknowledge the inspiration and support of Connie and Robert Dulaney ❖ ❖ ❖ These lectures are contained in the German Anthroposophische Pädagogik und ihre Voraussetzungen (vol. no. 309 in the Bibliographical
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for researchers and students‚ who have issues with understanding the cognitive process‚ how these methods interfere or contribute with our daily lives. The main purpose of this article is to explain how the Cognitive methods and Cognitive theories is bidirectional. Cognitive methods now being used in social-psychological research is what is being describe in this volume. Some methods that are poplar is social psychology are affective priming‚ response interference paradigms‚ mathematical models
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The Different schools of psychology Structuralism- the first school of thought headed by Wilhelm Wundt‚ a German‚ and later by E.B. Titchener started in 1879 when experimental psychology was gaining more incentive. The structuralists‚ as they called themselves‚ thought of psychology as the study of conscious experience. They started components experience. They started that all complex substances could be analyzed through their component elements. They held that elementary mental states such as sensations
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Cognitive Anthropology Tara Robertson and Duke Beasley (Note: authorship is arranged stratigraphically with the most recent author listed first) Basic Premises: Cognitive anthropology is an idealist approach to studying the human condition. The field of cognitive anthropology focuses on the study of the relation between human culture and human thought. In contrast with some earlier anthropological approaches to culture‚ cultures are not regarded as material phenomena‚ but rather cognitive organizations
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Wills‚ T.A. (1981) Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology. Psychological Bulletin‚ 90‚ 245-271. Part of social comparison theory (Festinger‚ 1954) Individuals are motivated to gain accurate evaluations of themselves by examining their opinions and abilities in comparison to others Downward comparison (Wills‚ 1981) – a person experiencing negative affect can enhance their subjective well-being through comparison with a less fortunate other‚ the process occurring either passively or
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