There is nothing harder than influencing the others to behave the way you want them to‚ and this is exactly the duty of every manager. His/her job is to make people perform in the best interest of the organization which is quite a challenging objective. While aiming at maximum productivity‚ management should be well aware that job performance is a function of ability and motivation (http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/). And though the process of improving qualification is time consuming and expensive
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Examine some of the ways in which Marxists explain crime (12 marks) Marxists idea of crime is strongly linked to capitalism and the way it creates conditions for crime through exploitation and competition. There are two branches of Marxism; traditional and Neo-Marxism. They both focus on the idea of criminogenic state‚ however Neo-Marxist theory links in with the labelling theory to explain crime. Traditional Marxists such as David Gordon (1976) argues that crime is a conscious‚ rational response
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MIA > Archive > Mandel E. Germain The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics (August 1955) From Two Essays on Imperialism‚ New York 1966. Transcribed by Joseph Auciello. Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. Introduction Since the spring of 1916 when Lenin wrote his pamphlet Imperialism‚ that work has been a focal point of discussion by both Marxists and non-Marxist political economists. Many critics have attempted to prove that Lenin’s analysis
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Gm591 Walmart -Project Paper Improving Wal-Mart’s Employee Relations GM591: Leadership and Organizational Behavior April 20‚ 2010 INTRODUCTION The Organization that we selected as our topic of discussion in our Project Paper is the Wal-Mart Corporation. Sam Walton is the founder of Wal-Mart. He opened his first store called Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers‚ Arkansas in July of 1962. Their corporate office is currently located in Bentonville‚ Arkansas. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. incorporated its stores
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A Zero Wage Increase Again? Montclair State University Summary The owner of large furniture and building center‚ Mark Coglin was trying to figure out how to manage the next upcoming wage review process. For two consecutive years‚ his store’s staff has had to settle with a zero wage increase. Mark knows that if his staff were to settle for a third year without a raise‚ moral issues amongst his employee’s would arise leading to an exponential growth of problems; aside from the ones he already
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EMPLOYEE RELATIONS 13/02/2014 A MARXIST (OR RADICAL) PERSPECTIVE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP LOCATES ’THE ASYMMETRY OF POWER BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE’ AT THE HEART OF ITS ANALYSIS. (BLYTON AND TURNBULL‚ 2004: 34). The conviction that there exists a power imbalance in the employment relationship which gives employers a prejudicial benefit over employees takes its existence for several centuries. Karl Marx known for his theories and contributions related to the employment relations field‚ became
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Hamlet‚ if one looks carefully‚ one can see many aspects of Marxist thought prevalent in the story. To effectively analyze a story through a Marxist critical lens‚ the reader needs to pay close attention to how characters of different classes interact with one another‚ especially in respect to class oppression and social inequity‚ particularly if the actions or words of a character talk of rebellion against the upper classes. “To Marxist critics‚ a society’s economic base determines the interests
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spheres. Marxists conceive of the state as an institution of capitalism that can be transformed to benefit the working class‚ as the state is the only institution that is capable of organizing and managing the economy on a large scale. The state would be radicalized in that the workers and people would control it through direct democracy or council democracy. The state becomes an integral part of the economy in that it owns the means of production in the phase of socialism. Marxists see the state
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Outline and assess Marxist theories of crime and deviance. (50 marks) Marxists argue that the nature and organisation of capitalism‚ creates the potential for criminal behaviour. Gordon states that capitalism is characterised by class inequalities in the distribution of‚ for example‚ wealth and income‚ poverty‚ unemployment and homelessness. Gordon argues that the ideology of capitalism encourages criminal behaviour in all social classes. The term ‘crime’ means behaviour that breaks the law. For
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Proposal Analyze Kazakhstan-Chinese relations from a Realist perspective Kazakh-Chinese relations have been developed from a predominantly economic and trade contacts to reach the level of strategic partnership. China and Kazakhstan have promoted a rapid expansion of commerce and partnership over economic development‚ especially in harnessing Kazakhstan’s oil‚ natural gas‚ minerals and other major energy resources. Kazakhstan is trying to balance between China and Russia‚ but China
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