copyright holder’s express written permission. Users may print‚ download‚ or email articles for individual use only. RELATIONAL JOB DESIGN AND THE MOTIVATION TO MAKE A PROSOCIAL DIFFERENCE ADAM M. GRANT University of Michigan This article illustrates how work contexts motivate employees to care about making a positive difference in other people’s lives. I introduce a model of relational job design to describe how jobs spark the motivation to make a prosocial difference‚ and how this motivation affects
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Database Project #1: Grocery Store Database DatabaseName: GroupStoreProject Project Description Today‚ there are many grocery store and grocery list apps on the market. Our task was to exercise our creativity and create a relational database to support a grocery list website for a corresponding application. First‚ we created the data model containing entities named Category‚ Chain‚ List‚ List_Item‚ Product‚ Section‚ Shelf‚ Shelf_Inventory‚ Shopper‚ Shopper_List‚ Store‚ and Store_Inventory.
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August 4‚ 2009 What is Database Normalization? Database Normalization is a systematic way of ensuring that a database structure is suitable for general – purpose quering and normalization is the process of efficently organizing data in a database. This process was first introduced in 1970 by E.F. Codd and has since been redefined to higher normal forms. The two goals of the normalization process are: eliminating redundant data and ensuring that data dependencies make sense. These goals reduce
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Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) The following is partially extracted from GC33-0754-00. 1. Overview An application is a particular use to which a data processing system is put‚ for example‚ a payroll application or an order entry application. Commercial applications typically process many similar items‚ for example‚ an order in an order processing system‚ a seat reservation in an airline booking system‚ or a credit query in a credit control system. The processing of one of these items is a
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An extract from the title Lord of the Flies was amidst the scene where the boys are hunting a sow. While on the literal sense the perception of this extract seems to be just killing a sow‚ this extended metaphor highlights the boys transformation into savagery‚ how its demonstrated is through use of imagery. At this point in the novel‚ the boys have been castaways for an extensive period of time now and with no adults and no females‚ their loss of social order leading to anarchy among the group‚
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Irenz BS Psychology Overpopulation and Poverty I. Introduction The whole world is always dealing with several problems. Overpopulation is one of the biggest global problems that we are experiencing now. In the course of time‚ overpopulation will result into a negative effect to each country that may experience it‚ since most countries are currently encountering this problem. One of the possible negative effects
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War What is it good for? ‘If we don’t end war‚ war will end us.’ – H.G Wells ‘The father of science fiction’. People have differing opinions about war. Some people believe you can begin and end one without any unnecessary bloodshed‚ however there is not enough evidence to suggest this and I would go as far to say that the inverse is true. In the 10‚000 years settled humans have been on the planet‚ war has always occurred. We cannot officially know when it started and no one will know when it
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After read this book‚ I have to say Kurtz is a complex man. He is the chief of the Inner Station which belongs to a company. The company is a Belgian company which plundered the ivory in Congo as matter as a hatter. Actually‚ Kurtz was the man who wanted to bring the civilization to Africa but at last‚ he corrupted‚ becoming a greed and crazy European colonist. First of all‚ it can be easily seen that Kurtz was greed extremely. He had a strong desire for ivory. All of what he thought was ivory
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The Ugly Duckling In this story‚ you will read about someone who was misunderstood. Be able to tell how this someone became happy. Tell also in what way this story could apply to people. It was a fine day and the sun was shining gloriously. The fowls and the other animals in the farm were having the time of their lives. The goats and cows were grazing contentedly. The hens were busy scratching for worms‚ while the ducks swam about in the big pond. Once in a while the ducks would tip upside
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PHI115 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE Plato’s Theory of Knowledge Divided line (Republic Book VI) What are the 2 worlds? What are the 4 divisions? The Greek terms The specific examples Allegory of the cave (Republic Book VII) What is the story? Plato’s method Socratic dialogue/method Socratic irony Why does Socrates never give the answer? 2 reasons: what are they? Socratic dialogue + Socratic irony = TRUTH Plato’s trilogy of works on the end of Socrates’ life Apology: Socrates’ defense
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