The United States had appeared to be dominated by consensus and conformity in the 1950s. As the commotions of the first half of the century ended‚ people were relieved but faced oncoming internal issues. The Great Depression and the two Great Wars caused people to seek tranquility and harmony. The fifties were the decade of change led by president Eisenhower. During this time the nation was in an up rise in many ways. The economy was booming as the Gross National Product more than doubled from the
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think‚ accurately— summarizes recent efforts to do just that.1 These entail the identification of and subsequent assault on something called “the critical” or “critical architecture‚” usually accompanied by a collateral assault on something called “theory.” At the risk of erecting yet another straw figure that tramples on the subtleties of Baird’s analysis‚ it might be fair to characterize such practices‚ variously named “post-critical” or “projective‚” as sharing a commitment to an affect-driven‚ nonoppositional
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1 DERIVING CONSENSUS 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
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mix model in deriving a consensus ranking for benchmarking. According to the feedback from the respondents‚ we dynamically rank out the best element to be benchmark. The decision problem faced by management has been translated into our market research problem in the form of questions that define the information that is required to make the decision and how this information obtained. The corresponding research problem is to assess whether the market would accept the consensus rankings derive from benchmarking
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Phlogiston Theory According to the phlogiston theory‚ propounded in the 17th century‚ every combustible substance consisted of a hypothetical principle of fire known as phlogiston‚ which was liberated through burning‚ and a residue. The word phlogiston was first used early in the 18th century by the German chemist Georg Ernst Stahl. Stahl declared that the rusting of iron was also a form of burning in which phlogiston was freed and the metal reduced to an ash or calx. The theory was superseded
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ijpn@markallengroup.com Sales Manager Roger Allen email roger@markallengroup.com Editorial Make-Up Peter Constantine Production Manager Jon Redmayne Associate Publisher Liam Benison Publisher Matt Cianfarani Managing Director Mark Allen Building consensus ave you ever begun walking up a steep hill when it has been raining and misty‚ the route that you need to take is not clear‚ and the ground is wet and muddy underneath – you know that you need to reach the top but you are not sure how to get there
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Theory X‚ Theory Y by Douglas McGregor is a motivation theory. Douglas McGregor is a social psychologist and applied two sets of assumptions to the organizational structure called Theory X and Theory Y. His theory is based on managerial views of human beings. In his book‚ The Human Side of Enterprise‚ he outlined a new role for managers. He stated that managers should assist subordinates in reaching their full potential‚ rather than commanding and controlling. Theory X is negative and Theory Y can
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Scientific Method Theory By Fedrick Taylor And Human Relations Theory (Hawthorne Studies) By Elton Mayo Student Name: Subject: Human Relations Date: 14th October‚ 2010 The Scientific Management Theory (Taylorism) In 1911‚ Frederick Winslow Taylor published his work‚ The Principles of Scientific Management‚ in which he described how the application of the scientific method to the management of workers greatly could improve productivity. Scientific management methods called
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The Theory of the Business Abstract Peter Drucker’s article‚ ‘The Theory of Business’ discusses the different theories and assumptions many businesses‚ corporations‚ industries and organizations were once founded and run upon and the strengths and weaknesses that came with those theories. Drucker points out how these former theories and assumptions may have once provided great successes for many businesses‚ such as GM‚ now pose upcoming problems for current businesses that are not willing to
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Theory Research Paper Liberty University Online Theory Research Paper Define Theory. Theory can be defined as “a set of concepts linked through propositions to provide an explanation of a phenomenon” (Schmidt & Brown‚ 2012‚ p. 124). A nursing theory is a set of concepts‚ definitions‚ relationships‚ and assumptions or propositions derived from nursing models or from other disciplines and project a purposive‚ systematic view of phenomena by designing specific inter-relationships among concepts
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