According to the omnipotent view‚ managers are directly responsible for an organization’s success or failure. The symbolic view argues that much of an organization’s success or failure is due to external forces outside managers’ control. The two constraints on manager’s discretion are the organization’s culture (internal) and the environment (external). Managers aren’t totally constrained by these two factors since they can and do influence their culture and environment. s the characteristics and
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Winterbourne View Hospital What happened at Winterbourne View Hospital was horrifying for both patients and their families.Many people were shocked‚angry and disappointed by the way people with learning disabilities‚autism‚mental health problems and behaviour that challenges were treated. Six former members of staff at Winterbourne View hospital were jailed for the terrible crimes they committed. Serious concerns were raised by families‚CQC and the public concerned for example patients placed in
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Although isolated virus particles are just assemblages of chemicals‚ they consists of chemical substances of a very special kind - the proteins and nucleic acids that are the essential constituents of living matter. In viruses these substances can be studied in isolation‚ and it was such studies that led molecular biologists to some of their greatest discoveries in the 1950s and 1960s. Nucleic acids are chainlike macro-molecules that carry information for self-replication and protein synthesis. When
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Mental Health Promotion Many people’s lives bring them to a place they never thought of being in. This is the case in the life of JE thus far. JE is a thirty year old‚ Caucasian male‚ who suffers from bi-polar disorder. JE has a hard time holding a job and has a long history of drug abuse and trouble with the law. His family life growing up was less than perfect living in a broken home mainly with an abusive‚ alcoholic father who was never satisfied with the accomplishments of his young
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when looking a picture it is useful to know it was done by an artist‚ however‚ it is more useful to know a painter produced it‚ and even more useful to discover Picasso painted it as opposed to any other painter. Each of the four causes answer a "why?" question. Aristotle believed that to gain a complete answer we needed to know the answer to each of the four causes. But not all objects will have four causes. For example a universal triangle has a final cause that states its definition but it does
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Freud’s view of civilization emerges from his understanding of the struggle between Eros and Death. Freud expresses the existence of two contrary instincts‚ Eros and Death‚ via starting from the speculations on the beginning of life and biological parallels. While Eros preserves the living substance and joins it into larger units‚ such as societies‚ Death dissolves these units and brings them back to their primeval state. The death drives appear to be regressive‚ striving for a return to a less differentiated
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Describe the historical significance of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion The Ottawa Charter first came into existence at the First International Health Promotion Conference in Ottawa‚ Canada 21 November 1986. Here‚ a never before charter of such reputed importance was forged that not only promoted health‚ but also implemented various strategies that an individual‚ group or community could adhere to in order to achieve a healthy overall well-being by the year 2000. The context in which
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Resource-Based View IO vs. RBV Business Level Strategy How do we compete in a specific business arena? Four objectives of business-level strategy Generate sustainable competitive advantages Develop and nurture (potentially) valuable capabilities Respond to environmental changes Approval of functional level strategies Business-Level Strategy The primary objective of business-level strategy is to create “sources of sustainable competitive advantage”. What is sustainable competitive advantage
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merely ‘nothing to us’ and the ‘privation’ of ‘sense experience’. He further expressed how the idea of death only causes ‘unnecessary pain’ when ‘merely anticipated’. Perhaps it is easier to enjoy life whilst we have it‚ rather than constantly dreading the inevitable. By "death‚" I believe Epicurus did not mean the mere process of dying which may‚ in some cases‚ be very painful‚ and thus‚ bad for us. He also did not mean the moment of death‚ of which we may or may not have an experience and which
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A Different View of Love We have heard definitions of love through our lives that have been passed on for decades. Some of us have felt love‚ and some of us have been in love. But no one ever seems to question what love is‚ as if it is something that just plainly is. People tend to just go with it‚ and think that what they are feeling is really complete and substantial love. In Plato’s The Symposium‚ the reader is confronted with some very different views of love as brought to us by Agathon
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