This paper supports the need of an interdisciplinary approach when it comes to human relations. Our world is constantly changing and increasingly interconnected and interdependent. In order to advance in today’s environment every individual and organization must remain flexible in dealing with the rapidly evolving world. Individuals today face an unprecedented range of social‚ scientific‚ economic‚ cultural‚ environmental‚ political‚ and technological issues and constant changes. These changes
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The use of mixed methods is currently increasing in social science research since it emphasizes methodological pluralism‚ and provides a broader and more credible understanding of the research problem than the use of a single method (Tashakkori and Teddlie 2010). However‚ mixing methods for no good reason other than the sake of it can produce disjointed and unfocussed research‚ and can severely test the capabilities of researchers. I raise some cautionary issues in this paper by critiquing the methodology
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anything-goes relativism‚ rather it is a "hybrid mixture of freedom and flexibility on the one hand and the longing for rigor and orthodoxy on the other."(p. 256) Put another way‚ religious bobos immerse themselves in the communities and traditions of their religion but pick and choose what they will believe and how they will practice it. Brooks observes of such spirituality that "somehow it is rigor without submission" and "orthodoxy without obedience." Such thorough refusal to submit and to obey is perhaps
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geometry are deduced from a small set of axioms. Euclid’s method of proving mathematical theorems by logical reasoning from accepted first principles continues to be the backbone of mathematics and is responsible for that field’s characteristics rigor. Elements is best-known for its geometric results‚ but it also includes many results in number theory‚ for example the connection between perfect numbers and Mersenne primes‚ the proof of the infinitude of prime numbers‚ Euclid’s lemma on factorization
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government legislation 3) Lack of project high level controlling & tracking processes * Focused on on-time‚ on-budget delivery. No ongoing tracking on project’s benefit‚ feasibility * Business case formats are inconsistent‚ data lack rigor * Monitor business unit after project is out of scope for IT dept * *** Business Impact * IT lack transparency‚ credibility => damage relationship & internal credibility. * NAF’s executive don’t see the value from IT investment
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POLICY ANALYSIS RETENTION & ADVANCEMENT 2 Introduction Schools labeled academically unacceptable‚ low performing schools in general‚ schools and teachers bearing the burden of low test scores; these are the indicators of schools that have a retention problem. These schools are either victims of poorly designed retention policies‚ or they themselves perpetuate these poorly designed policies. How is a student at the ninth grade level
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This passage from Henrik Ibsen’s play‚ Hedda Gabler reveals the marital discord between George and Hedda Gabler. Hedda is having a conversation with her friend Judge Brack‚ and it is through this conversation that readers are made aware of the dissatisfactions Hedda has toward her husband her reasoning for marriage in the first place. Although this passage does not include direct interaction between Tesman and Hedda‚ Hedda instead reveals thoughts and feelings she would otherwise not say when conversing
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such as the recession. The data imply that the shows led to a 5.7% reduction in teen pregnancy between June 2009‚ when the show began‚ and the end of 2010. This amounts to one third of the total decline of teenage pregnancy during that period. The rigor of the data collection and analysis in this study plausibly leads to an assumption of causality between the decrease in teen childbearing and the reality television program even allowing for some unmeasured intermediary factor. From a public health
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In Re Summary Settlement of the Estate of Melodia Ferraris Filomena ABELLANA DE BACAYO‚ petitioner-appellant‚ vs. Gaudencia FERRARIS‚ et al.‚ oppositors-appellants. G.R. No. L-19382‚ August 31‚ 1965 FACTS: Melodia Ferraris left properties in Cebu City consisting of 1/3 share in the estate of her aunt Rosa Ferraris. Ten years have elapsed since the last time she was known to be alive‚ she was declared presumptively dead for purposes of opening her succession and distribute her estate among heirs
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declare “However‚ our intention was not to seek generalizability. Instead‚ we sought to embrace all the richness and complexity of a real organization(…)”. Such an intention is hardly compatible with the deductive approach‚ which really cares about rigor in controls‚ methodology‚ sampling and other factors which have the role to guarant the process of generalization‚ and try to eliminate uncertainty. It’s easy to sense how the coding included in this research (in particular the categorization of impressions)
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