Critically evaluate Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a way of understanding employee motivation in contemporary Chinese business As is worldwide recognized‚ since the opening and economic reform was launched in 1978‚ China has made great achievements in poverty eradication and economic liberation (Brockmann et al‚ 2008); meanwhile‚ Chinese companies have become more powerful than before. However‚ in the world business‚ only a minority of them have the capacity to compete with foreign companies. Since
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analyze the profitability‚ Telstra have a good performance. Although‚ it has high profits‚ Telstra is not a good ethical investing which is because of the unethical issue. Introduction The purpose of this report is to evaluate Telstra‚ including the ethical and financial performance for a client who wants to have an ethical investment in it. According to Cowton (cited in Schwartz‚ 2003‚ p1)‚ ethical investing refers to ethical business behavior‚ such as establishing an
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Evaluating the Credibility of Sources of Information MGT/521 November 15‚ 2012 Dr. Scott Goldberg Evaluating the Credibility of Sources of Information Evaluating the credibility of sources of information is critical to ensuring the validity of the information used as supporting evidence for research projects. There are no comparable quality control processes to ensure quality standards of material presented on the Web equal to those for printed works. When debating the credibility of the
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Outline and evaluate the working memory model (12 marks) Baddeley and Hitch proposed that memory has 4 components. The central executive‚ phonological loop‚ visuospatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer. The central executive decides how to share out and direct attention to incoming information. The phonological loop can be thought of as a maintenance rehearsal mechanism for retaining verbal information. It is sub-divided into two other components‚ the phonological store (inner ear)‚ which holds
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Outline and evaluate the biological explanation of depression. Biological explanation of depression can be explained by neurotransmitter dysfunction. Neurotransmitters such as noradrenalin and serotonin have been shown to be linked with depression. Bunney at al (1965) found that there was low levels of noradrenaline function in the brain of depressed individuals. Also‚ post mortem studies found increased noradrenaline receptors in the brains of depressed suicide victims. When there is low noradrenaline
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Outline and evaluate psychological explanations for schizophrenia (24) One psychological explanation of SZ was put forward by Bateson et al (1956) who looked at childhood as a base for developing SZ‚ for example the interactions children have with their mothers. His explanation‚ the Double Bind theory‚ states that schizophrenia can occur due to conflicting messages given from parents to their children‚ for example when a parent expresses care but does so in a critical way. This means that the child
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Describe and evaluate social influences on gender roles (25 marks) Bandura and Walters (1963) proposed the social learning theory initially to explain aggression in children‚ yet they argued it can be readily applied to any behaviour. SLT suggests we acquire new behaviours via observing others‚ then modelling the observed behaviour. We are more likely to model behaviours if the behaviour is rewarded‚ via indirect‚ vicarious reinforcement. We can also learn new behaviours via being reinforced
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Outline and evaluate the Psychodynamic approach to abnormality (12marks) It claims that personality develops in childhood through a number of ‘psychosexual stages’ and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example between the ages of two and four children are in the anal stage – too much focus on holding in faeces during this time can lead to an ‘anally retentive’ adult personality which is obsessively neat and tidy‚ in some cases leading
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Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to psychopathology. (12 marks) Behaviourists believe that all of a person’s complex behaviours are the result of learning through interaction with the environment. Behaviourists deal with the following forms of learning: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In classical conditioning people learn to associate two stimuli when they occur together‚ such that the response originally elicited by one stimulus is transferred to another. The person
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QUESTION 3 :Explain how to evaluate commercial loan. A commercial loan is a debt-based funding arrangement between a business and a financial institution‚ typically used to fund major capital expenditures or to cover operational costs that the company may otherwise be unable to afford. Expensive upfront costs and regulatory hurdles often prevent small businesses from having direct access to debt and debt and equity markets for financing. Similar to consumer credit‚ smaller businesses must relay on
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