means of living. ■ A livelihood is sustainable when it can cope with and recover from external stresses and shocks‚ and maintain or enhance its capabilities and assets now and in the future. The Sustainable Livelihood Approach The sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) is a way of thinking about the objectives‚ scope‚ and priorities for development activities. It is based on evolving thinking about the way the poor and vulnerable lives their lives and the importance of policies and institutions
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An Approach to Project Management Projects should not be confused with everyday work. A project is not routine‚ repetitive work. Ordinary daily work typically requires doing the same or similar work repeatedly‚ while a project is done only once; a new product or service exists when the project is completed. Recognizing the difference is important because too often resources can be used up on daily operations‚ which may not contribute to longer-range organization strategies that require innovative
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EBSCOhost 12/10/11 6:12 PM Record: 1 Title: Authors: Other Publishers: A contrarian view of the five-factor approach to personality description. Block‚ Jack‚ U California‚ Dept of Psychology‚ Berkeley‚ US US: Psychological Review Company US: The Macmillan Company US: The Review Publishing Company PsycARTICLES Database: A Contrarian View of the Five-Factor Approach to Personality Description By: Jack Block Department of Psychology‚ University of California‚ Berkeley Acknowledgement: This
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The Biological Approach The biological approach is concerned with how our biology affects us‚ such as genes and the biological environmental influences to which we are exposed to. This approach focuses on genetics‚ neurochemistry‚ the nervous and the endocrine systems‚ and brain structure. Our biology can affect us due to our genes as we can inherit a faulty gene which predisposes us to develop a particular disorder as we grow older‚ unfavourable environments can trigger the faulty gene to develop
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Explore the Person Centred approach in relation to counselling practice The roots of the Person Centred approach‚ now considered a founding work in the Humanistic school of psychotherapies‚ began formally with Carl Rogers in the 1950’s. Dealing in the ’here and now’ and not on the childhood origins of the client’s problems‚ basic assumptions of the Person Centred approach state that clients are essentially trustworthy; that they have a vast potential for understanding themselves and resolving
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"There is nothing permanent in life except change‚" said philosopher Heraclitus. Others have called change or variety as ’the spice of life’. So‚ changes (shuffle or reshuffle) in the government from time to time should come as no surprise to anyone‚ though changes in the political arena are often viewed with suspicion. Change is in the very nature of being. Every new day is different from the previous day. Body metabolism is one such process as also growth of trees and revolving of planets. Tides
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You are Who you know: a network approach to gender Most social theories characterize actors in terms of their individual attributes however network approach focuses on the fact that actors are only understood in terms of their relationships to one another Impossible to have a network theory of gender Network theory views actors as identically endowed and interchangeable nodes How can we apply a theoretical percepective based on relationships to an individual attribute like gender West and Fenstermaker-
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needs of employees and has authority over them. So we see that Rex’s style of leadership completely matches with authoritarian style in Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid. 2. What advice would you give Rex to improve his approach to leadership? He has to change his authoritarian style to the Team Leadership style which is the best style in this model. Team Leadership – High Production/High People According to the Blake Mouton model‚ this is the best managerial style. These leaders stress
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Dilemma of approach As a college student majoring in the discipline of psychology‚ I feel daunted by the seemingly constant shifting of approach and methods to counsel a mentally ill client toward mutual goals. Obviously the mechanism of client referral is significant. In the scenario of a new client interaction the first question that I thought of was; did the client self assess and recognize need for change due to inability to perform or function or emotional pain or did another professional
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Income and Expenditure Approach Ways of Measuring GNP Gross National Product (GNP) is the sum of all the final market values of goods and servicesin a given economy at a given period of time. This is the quantitative summary of all transactions of goods and services transacted within the economy in a year. It measures only legal and registered transaction. Non produced transactions are not included such as second hand sale‚ transfer of payments and buy and sell. Gross domestic product (GDP) is
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