Academy of Management Journal 2010‚ Vol. 53‚ No. 6‚ 1474–1498. FROM RITUAL TO REALITY: DEMOGRAPHY‚ IDEOLOGY‚ AND DECOUPLING IN A POST-COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AGENCY ´ ANDRAS TILCSIK Harvard University Decoupling—the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices—is ubiquitous in organizations. Yet little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over time. This qualitative case study of a post-Communist government agency develops process models of what precedes and what follows
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The Reality of Police Brutality. “With Honour We Serve. Our vision is to help make Queensland a safe and secure place to live‚ visit and do business. Our purpose is to deliver quality policing services 24 hours a day.” Law Enforcement Officers are employed to enforce the law and to protect society. However‚ with every article in the newspaper or program on the television‚ which takes the public’s side in a Police Brutality case; Police Officers gradually lose their power to protect Society.
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Construction of Reality: Spinning Social Reality with Euphemisms Steve Eliason Montana State University‚ Billings ABSTRACT This paper describes an exercise I use in my introductory sociology classes that introduces students to language and the social construction of reality process. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is widely taught in introductory sociology classes and suggests that we perceive the world in terms of our own language‚ and that individual languages produce different and distinct realities for those
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In this research‚ I will discuss the claim that homosexuality is unnatural and the arguments we often hear from the moral traditionalists used to support the claim. I remember an article about John Corvino‚ from the Internet; he easily and deftly deals with the arguments about homosexuality. However his arguments have the potential to open up a can of worms with regards to incest and bestiality. Corvino’s arguments against libeling an activity as unnatural to gauge its moral value can be used to
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Can we ever know the truth about a person? Is it possible to know if someone is lying to us? How can we discover what lies behind the words someone tells us? Shakespeare was fascinated with these questions. Many of his most evil characters were thought by others in the play to be sincere and truthful. In Othello‚ this theme has its most potent and dramatic realization in the character of Iago. Iago fools everyone in the play into believing he’s honest. No one even suspects him of treachery‚ until
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Is The American Dream Just A Dream? I think that the American Dream is a social ideal based on equality in social‚ political and economic rights and privileges. The constitution of this country suggests that every person who lives on American soil is free. In the United States’ Declaration of Independence our founding fathers:" held certain truths to be self-evident‚ that all Men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights‚ that among these are life
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Seminar 2: Women in Medieval Life Questions and Issues: What sort of different means of power and influence did women wield in the Middle Ages? Medieval women faced some serious problems - a cultural rife with misogyny‚ a legal system based on assumptions of female inferiority‚ and a social structure that invested men with considerable power over women’s lives. Class was the critical marker of differences among medieval women (according to Power). Family connections - Eleanor of Aquitaine
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them. The antagonistic relationship between Blanche and Stanley is a struggle between appearances and reality. It propels the play’s plot and creates an overarching tension. Ultimately‚ Blanche’s attempts to remake her own and Stella’s existencesto rejuvenate her life and to save Stella from a life with Stanleyfail. One of the main ways Williams dramatizes fantasy’s inability to overcome reality is through an exploration of the boundary between exterior and interior. The set of the play consists
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Albania is a country in south-eastern Europe with surface area of 28748 km2. it boards Greece‚ Macedonia‚ Kosovo and Montenegro and is always 70 km by sea from Italy. Famous Albanian includes Gjergj Katriot Skandergeg and Mother Tereza. Having lived in different period and having done different works they are very close to each-other through their message on what Albania was and what it should be. Gjergj Kastrioti united Albanians in a struggle to resist an international power on behalf of the
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21 January 2015 Use of pathos in “San Antonio: A City Guided by Its River” and “Flood of Memories” In this essay from excerpts from “The Water and Culture Reader”‚ Alexis Harte talks about the history of the San Antonio River walk. It is also known as Paseo del Río which is a network of walkways along the banks of the San Antonio River. Today‚ the River Walk is an enormously successful special-case pedestrian street‚ one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk loops under bridges
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