One practice used by law enforcement to increase profits is reverse stings where an “officer attempts to sell drugs to an unsuspecting buyer” (Moores‚ 2009‚ p. 788). This tactic allows law enforcement agents to seize the purchaser’s money instead of drugs‚ because drugs have “no value for the agency” (Moores‚ 2009
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Purpose of Study‚ Research Questions and Hypothesis‚ Significance of the Study‚ and Summary Statement of Urban Adolescents Perception of Mentorship programs on Academic Performance. Background‚ Incidence‚ and Scope of the Research Problem Background Mentoring flourishes as an intervention tactic for addressing the needs that youth have for adult support and guidance throughout their development. For healthy development‚ urban adolescents need positive relationships with adults. A developmental
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The Affects of Affirmative Action on Social Inequality Noam Hassid Social Inequality in America Professor Todman 06/12/08 Affirmative action was created to help level the playing field for disadvantaged minorities. It was set in place by people that understand that because of inequality of opportunity‚ some minorities need a helping hand to get to a position that others in the society‚ who are not part of a minority group‚ don’t have to fight for. In its tumultuous
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Case Incident 2 GANERATION GAP: MENTORS AND protégés As the baby boom generation nears retirement‚ many Boomers are mentoring their future work replacements-Generation Xers. Some Boomers have found the process difficult. William Slater‚ a 47-year-old computer engineer who participates in his company’s formal mentoring program‚ has had negative experiences with three protégés. He recalls that one tried‚ unsuccessfully‚ to take his job‚ while another repeatedly spoke badly about him to his boss
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Managers Can Assist Employees with Career Development Managers can assist employees with career development through creating a strategic plan that enhance employees’ capabilities to efficiently carry out work related tasks. Managers can oversee training that leads to effectiveness and high success rates of transfer of training. As a manager with career development as a focus you want to optimize performance and reinforce the employee’s ability to take on broader responsibilities which can ultimately
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leave‚ and Ed called CJ with the same ultimatum. Self- Efficacy Due to the nature of self-efficacy‚ both Roger and Ed display low self-efficacy for some tasks and high self-efficacy for others. For instance‚ Roger has low self-efficacy for mentoring Ed‚ who doesn’t believe that new Web-based technology is essential for the survival of the company. On the other hand‚ Roger has very high self-efficacy toward his ability to “digitize” Armor Coat and help the company flourish. At one point‚
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faced with a variety of stressors in their beginning practice it is clear that a structured mentoring program could be of immense value. Such a program would provide technical and emotional support to nurses and so ease their transition into the unit culture. This article provides a critical review of the literature on mentoring‚ especially the impact that structured mentoring
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relationship‚ it would be critical to match the cognitive styles of mentor and protégé to enhance and impact tacit knowledge transfer successfully. Mentoring plays a role in building up the core capabilities of an organization‚ as the literature offers evidence for the transfer of skills‚ managerial systems‚ and values—including their tacit dimensions. The mentoring process fits the descriptions of both socialization (“sharing experiences”) and internalization (“embodying explicit knowledge into “Tacit”
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Leading Intergenerational Teams Workspace demographics now span four generations. A twenty-something hired this year can expect to find that they working with colleagues who are older than they are by fifty or more years. The reason for this is primarily due to labor shortages for trained personnel in many industries. In addition‚ many older workers are now delaying retirement due for economic or other reasons. Many of the baby boomer generation can now be expected to delay retirement into their
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on career plateauing and the relationship between job satisfaction‚ organizational commitment and turnover intentions and the alleviating effects of mentoring on the relationships between career plateauing and the three dependent variables. I reviewed Samuel O. Salami ’s article “Career plateauing and work attitudes: Moderating effects of mentoring others with Nigerian employees”‚ Salami collected data from 280 government employees in Nigeria‚ who were more than 30 years of age and came from a wide
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