Positive Accounting Positive economic theory and accounting practices are objective and based on fact. Positive accounting focuses on analyzing the economic statistics and data at hand‚ and deriving conclusions based on those figures. For example‚ if corporate growth allows a company to increase shareholder dividends over previous dividend payments‚ positive accounting theory would conclude that corporate growth causes a rise in stockholder dividends. Most bookkeeping and data collection involved
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Maslow’s Theory of Needs: It is a psychological theory founded by Abraham Maslow in 1943. The pyramidal table is made for the purpose of meeting the specific needs and requirements of man. Dina. (2010) Starting from the bottom of the pyramid stating the most needed which are: Breathing‚ food‚ water‚ sex‚ sleep‚ homeostasis‚ and excretion; and the less need which are self actualization like morality and problem solving. The Importance of Maslow’s Theory of Needs Many Businesses run
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String theory is defined by Merriam-Webster as‚ "A physical theory in which one-dimensional loops travel through space and also merge and lyse as time elapses. This is in contrast to ordinary quantum field theory‚ which predicts point particles that emit and absorb each other. String theory is a candidate for a Theory of Everything." String theory would solve the long fight between Einstein’s theory of relativity and Quantum Physics. String theory proclaims that everything in our universe‚ from
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Post-colonialial theory as a recent field of study has lately become one of the most attractive academic disciplines - if it can be called a discipline - that incessantly triggers piles and piles of literature written by art of critics‚ social reformists‚ political scientists‚ literary critics and political economists. The continuous expansion of post-colonialism in its recent version made its own domains of interest and areas of functionality overlap with other fields of global academic studies
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Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is one of the most influential thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. He uses the notions developed by Ferdinand de Saussure in the field of linguistics and structuralism and theories of Sigmund Freud in the field of psychoanalysis to explain human psyche. His theories can be extended to the field of literary criticism‚ in an attempt to reveal the mental aspect of the writer and reader in the literature. In this paper‚ I will reintroduce some of the key concepts of Lacan
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The Evolution of Leadership Theory David A. Van Seters Stevenson‚ Kellogg‚ Ernst & Whinney‚ Vancouver‚ British Columbia and Evolution of Leadership Theory 29 Richard H.G. Field University of Alberta‚ Edmonton‚ Canada Leadership is one of the most complex and multifaceted phenomena to which organisational and psychological research has been applied. While the term "leader" was noted as early as the 1300s (The Oxford English Dictionary‚ 1933) and conceptualised even before biblical times
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Theories of Motivation Arousal: * A person’s state of alertness and mental and physical activation. Arousal Theory: * People are motivated to maintain an optimal level of arousal. * The optimal level is different for all of us. Stimulus Motives: * Motives that cause us to increase stimulation. * Appear to be unlearned‚ * Curiosity‚ exploration‚ and play that occur when your arousal is too low. Yerkes-Dodson Law Yerkes-Dodson Law: * Principle that performance on a
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler Review by: Mary McIntosh Feminist Review‚ No. 38 (Summer‚ 1991)‚ pp. 113-114 Published by: Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1395391 . Accessed: 20/03/2012 23:44 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers
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Maslow Concept of human needs Difference people got difference need ‚we have to know that the worker in which level in the hierarchy so that we can give what he want to motivate them .It is based on what the workers need. what he want ? we just give it as motivator Hierarchy factors need For maslow ‚there have a hierarchy with 5 lvl .a people will satisfied the level one by one according this hierarchy. the people will satisfied with the lower level and jump to the higher level until they reach
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freudian theory of sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality implicated the structure of the mind‚ namely the id‚ ego‚ and superego‚ and how conflicts among these constituent parts are resolved in shaping human personality. The id operates on the pleasure principle. It is regulated by both the ego‚ which operates on the reality principle‚ and the superego‚ which operates on the morality principle. Conflicts among these structures of the mind appear at each of Freud’s five basic stages
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