Explain how the SRRS was devised and evaluate the use of this technique. (8marks) Holmes and Rahe (1967) developed the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) which identifies 43 stressful life changes that can contribute to stress-related illness. Each one of the 43 stressful life events was awarded a Life Change Unit depending on how traumatic it was felt to be by a large sample of 400 participants. The highest Life Change Unit is 100‚ being death of a spouse. Participants calculate a total value
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| Evaluate international marketing opportunities | Unit Descriptor | This unit describes the performance outcomes‚ skills and knowledge required to evaluate the international environment‚ to identify market factors and risks‚ and to assess the viability of international marketing opportunities. No licensing‚ legislative‚ regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of endorsement. | ELEMENT | PERFORMANCE CRITERIA | 1 . Review the global market environment |
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Journal 2011‚ 10:46 http://www.nutritionj.com/content/10/1/46 RESEARCH Open Access Misleading measures in Vitamin D analysis: A novel LC-MS/MS assay to account for epimers and isobars Iltaf Shah1‚ Ricky James1‚ James Barker2‚ Andrea Petroczi1 and Declan P Naughton1* Abstract Background: Recently‚ the accuracies of many commercially available immunoassays for Vitamin D have been questioned. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC- MS/MS) has been shown to facilitate accurate
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Promote person centered approaches in health and social care 1.1 Explain how and why person centered values must influence all aspects of health and social care work: Because everybody has different belief systems‚ needs‚ disabilities‚ cultures‚ religious beliefs. Everybody has their own person centered care plans that help us approach them in an individual way‚ even if we know how to assist clients we still try to offer those choices and independence. We need to make sure we do not push
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‘How may conflict resolution and conflict management approaches be applied in educational settings?’ Abstract This assignment will review the nature of conflict‚ from psychologist theories to what form it takes in an educational setting. In order to apply conflict resolution and conflict management effectively in an educational setting‚ it is important to understand the background disciplines of conflict and theories
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Contemporary Approaches The evolution of management has two approaches the classic approaches and the contemporary approaches. Several of the approaches overlapped each other as they developed‚ and lots of times had a significant impact on each other (Bateman & Snell‚ 2013). This essay I will focus on the contemporary approaches and the difference between them all. There are four contemporary approaches: Sociotechnical system‚ quantitative management‚ organizational behavior‚ and systems theory
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yoPG-MBA batch of July 2011 & January 2012 Backlog: Freshmen The backlogs are now converted into hands-on assignments + intensive viva. Students will work on the following assignments individually and submit a professionally prepared‚ spiral bound report for each backlog. This will be followed by an intense viva before a panel. Assumptions (if any) made during the assignment must be highlighted in the report. Interview forms/questions must be annexed as part of the report and must
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Hawthorne Studies have been subjected to many criticisms. Yet‚ the evolvement of many of the management theories today would not have come about without the experiments done by Elton Mayo. This essay will cover the various aspects of management that has been refined through the findings of the tests conducted and how improvements were made to aid in the development of organisational behaviour. It will also discuss the various studies and will show how these theories implement Hawthorne studies as
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References: Armstrong‚ G. (1998). Football hooligans. Oxford: Berg. Branscombe‚ N.‚ & Wann‚ D. (1991). The positive social and self concept consequences of sports team identification. Journal of Sport and Social Issues‚ 15‚ 1. Branscombe‚ N.‚ & Wann‚ D. (1992). Role of identification with a group‚ arousal‚ categorisation processes and self-esteem in sports spectator aggression. Human Relations‚ 45(10)‚ 1013-1033. Burca
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Introduction to Service Dominant (S-D) Logic Recently there has been a shift away from the traditional product-orientated marketing perspective to a more service-orientated one which focuses on “intangible resources‚ the co-creation of value and relationships” (Vargo and Lusch‚ 2004). Merz‚ He & Vargo (2009) commented that goods were a “vehicle for service”‚ and whilst the provision of goods was still an important part of a transaction‚ there will always be some element of intangible service attached
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