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    a wrong direction. The education must aim for enlightenments because the education is important. The school is just like our society where the power takes over justices and oppress individuals’ freedom under the name of regulations and customs. Obedience is the virtue in the school. “Whips” and professors treat younger students as their private servant. They abuse their prerogatives as

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    AUTHORITY‚ ACCOUNTABILITY & RESPONSIBILITY By Yusop B. Masdal I. INTRODUCTION Delegation (or deputation) is the assignment of authority and responsibility to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities (Blair‚ gerald 2002). However the person who delegated the work remains accountable for the outcome of the delegated work. Delegation empowers a subordinate to make decisions‚ i.e. it is a shift of decision-making authority from one organizational

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    Running head: EFFECT OF AUTHORITY Effect of Authority on the Likelihood to Conform Abstract To explore the relationship between increased power or social status and a person’s likelihood to conform‚ forty high school students (5 boys and 5 girls from each grade level: freshmen‚ sophomores‚ juniors and seniors) will be taken one at a time into a room with five confederates (classmates who are considered by their peers to be in the “popular crowd”). The participants will be shown a variety

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    Disobedience To Authority Disobedience has alway been thought as a sin. Is this always the case? Sin has always been associated with disobedience‚ but try to think of it from a different perspective. Disobeying authority allows for a change in freedoms‚ and these changes cause a change in the populous‚ as well as a change in the authority that we are disobeying. If it can do all of these things‚ then is it really a bad form of communication to authority? In my opinion it is not because sometimes

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    people view just authority figures. These scholars have described group mind and its effects on society and authority in different ways. For example‚ Lessing‚ the author of “Group Minds‚” says it is dangerous for us to misunderstand our human tendency to conform because we can be blindly obedient as a result. Brooks‚ the author of “The Follower Problem‚” contends that it is an issue that many in today’s society conform to the idea that we should automatically distrust any authority figure. On the other

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    critically assess psychological research into obedience Psychological research into obedience over the years has enabled us to understand more about the human mind than ever before. When experiments are conducted‚ the aim is to demonstrate cause and effect relationships between the independent and dependant variables‚ usually in order to make generalising statements about people. A well known study into obedience is the Milgram experiment‚ Milgram had a found interest in why during the

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    Case Study: S&S Air Inc. Founders of S&S Air‚ Inc. Mark Sexton and Todd Story recently hired Chris Guthrie to come on board as their financial planner. His job entailed gaining valuable information as to compare how their company was fairing with competing companies in the aircraft manufacturing industry. Through his research‚ Guthrie calculated many ratios through the careful examination of S&S Air’s balance sheet and income statement

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    The meaning and comparison between authority and authoritarianism is like comparing apples and oranges-they’re alike because they belong in the same group thus different in many regards. Authority is defined as: (1) the power to influence or command thought‚ opinion‚ or behavior;(2) persons in command. Authority derives from the Latin term augere‚ which translates “to create‚ to enlarge‚ to make able to grow”. Authority consist of three essential elements: the author‚ the agent of energy; the recipient

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    Q.1 Define Inflation? Ans. Inflation is a condition‚ when cost of services coupled with goods rise and the entire economy seems to go haywire. Inflation has never done good to the economy. Inflation and economic growth are parallel lines and can never meet. Inflation reduces the value of money and makes it difficult for the common people. Causes of Inflation 1. Demand Pull Inflation If the economy is at or close to full employment then an increase in AD leads to an increase in the price level

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    Delegation of Authority | Bushardt et al. (2010‚ p. 9) observed that ‘at the core of management practice is a process that involves assigning tasks to others (delegation)‚ granting these individuals the right to accomplish them (authority) and holding them accountable for accomplishing the tasks (responsibility)’. Dunham and Pierce (cited in Bell & Bodie 2012‚ p. 94) further defined delegation as ‘the process managers use to transfer formal authority from one position to another within an organisation

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