Communication (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.‚ 1972)‚ Chapter 2‚ “Communication Models.” A. What is a Model? 1. Mortensen: “In the broadest sense‚ a model is a systematic representation of an object or event in idealized and abstract form. Models are somewhat arbitrary by their nature. The act of abstracting eliminates certain details to focus on essential factors. . . . The key to the usefulness of a model is the degree to which it conforms--in point-by-point correspondence--to the underlying
Premium Psychology Education Learning
CENTRE FOR MICRO FINANCE at IFMR Business Correspondent Model: A Preliminary Exploration Report compiled by Binit Rath‚ Minakshi Ramji and Alexandra Kobishyn Published for the Microfinance India Summit‚ October 2009 Thanks are due to Dan Kopf‚ a former Research Associate at the Centre for Micro Finance (CMF)‚ and Upamanyu Dash (Summer Intern 2009‚ IIFM) who was closely involved in the Orissa case study. The entire research team expresses its gratitude to the staff at FINO‚ A Little World (ALW)
Premium Bank
The Job Characteristics Model Greenburg (2010) defines the job characteristics model as an approach to the job enrichment of employees. The model contained five core job dimensions that produced critical psychological states that in return lead to beneficial outcomes for individuals and their organizations. Work on the theory began around 1960 and the final draft was presented in 1980 in the book “Work Redesign” written by the designers of the model Greg R. Oldham and J. Richard Hackman. Hackman
Premium Job satisfaction Employment Organizational studies and human resource management
Relational Model: Data Structure The relational database model consists of three parts: data structure (this section)‚ data integrity‚ and data manipulation. The data structure model defines how to represent data. Most basic to the data structure model is the relation which is illustrated below: A relation‚ which is the most basic part of the data structure model‚ has two parts: relation heading and relation body: * Relation Heading A relation heading is a set of (attribute‚ domain) pairs
Premium Relational model Database Relational database
Module Title: CONTEMPORARY MANAGEMENT ISSUES (BAM3011) Assessment Title: Management models Student Number: 1011331 Module Leader: Barry Simmons Date of Submission: 27th April 2012 The two management models that will be critically evaluated on their usefulness to managers in the service sector are the Just-in-Time (JIT) and the Lean manufacturing models. These two manufacturing models were invented in the early 1960s which have been in used and practised in the manufacturing industries
Premium Lean manufacturing Manufacturing
QUT‚ Masters of Counselling | PYN007 Assignment 2 Essay | Models of Supervision | | Helena Bub | 6/13/2013 | | Marker: Glen Guy When experienced practitioners define their approach‚ while some align predominantly with one‚ many identify multiple influences and accompanying techniques. Identifying a sole supervision approach as my only influence‚ resembles asking a chess champion to identify their greatest‚ singular move. Too many contributing factors require consideration‚ including
Premium Psychotherapy Therapy
Modeling the Spread of an Epidemic | By developing a computer model of the spread of an infectious disease‚ the student develops an understanding of the role of the infection rate and the removal rate on the spread of the disease. The Threshold Theorem of Epidemiology claims that the extent of spread of an epidemic can be predicted if three values are known: initial number of susceptible people (S(0))‚ the infection rate (K)‚ and the removal rate (by quarantine or cure) (Q). The extent of the
Premium Infectious disease Infection
South African Journal of Education Copyright © 2005 EASA Vol 25(1) 11–18 Use of the Collegial Leadership Model of Emancipation to transform traditional management practices in secondary schools P. Singh De partm ent of P ostgra duate S tudies & Edu cational R esearch ‚ Nelso n M ande la Me tropolitan U niversity‚ P O Bo x 77 000 ‚ Port Elizabeth‚ 6031 South Africa prakash.singh@nm mu.ac.za The Collegial Leadership Mo del of Emanc ipation (COLME) is used to address the concerns of transforming
Premium Leadership Management
‘high-commitment’ model which ensures that investing in people/human resource makes good business. This lay a foundation for the human resource professionals to make point that people really are their most important resources to the organization which now leads to work out how principals can be then turned into practice. This report will show how human resource works in sports industry and there will be critical examine on hard and soft model followed in the Bolton Wanderers case study and which model is more
Premium Human resource management Human resources
head: FUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP MODEL IN HEALTHCARE Functional Leadership Model in Healthcare Functional Model Leadership in Healthcare The traditional leadership model focuses on three main areas which are looked at to be the core areas of leadership; task‚ individual‚ and team (Al-Touby‚ 1). Our text does not cover the traditional leadership model but‚ it does cover the path-goal leadership theory which in some sense relates to both the traditional leadership model and the functional result-oriented
Premium Leadership Medicine