Review Paper: Geopolitical Models Since the twentieth century‚ the geopolitical concept has evolved and developed. Geopolitics is the attempt to explain international politics in terms of geography‚ which includes location‚ size‚ and resources of places. It tries to describe the relationship between geographic space‚ resources‚ and foreign policy. One of the most talented geographers and politicians who made this discipline evolve is Sir Halford John Mackinder. Through his researches and international
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INSTRUCTIONAL MODELS Instructional models are the overall approaches to instruction that are designed to accomplish particular instructional goals. It provides orientation on what should learn and direction on how to learn the following specific steps (procedures and structures). Instructional models differ from the specific teaching strategies or techniques in that each of these models has its own theoretical basis behind it and encompasses specific steps (syntax) that are designed to attain the
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Theories o Role Theory o The Managerial Grid Participative Leadership o Lewin’s leadership styles o Likert’s leadership styles Situational Leadership o Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership o Vroom and Yetton’s Normative Model o House’s Path-Goal Theory of Leadership Contingency Theories o Fiedler’s Least Preferred Co-worker (LPC) Theory o Cognitive Resource Theory o Strategic Contingencies Theory Transactional Leadership o Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
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Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) Models 1-Introduction (Wysocki‚ 2012‚ p321) stated ‘the project management/projects landscape is based on two characteristics‚ goal and solution’ in complexity and uncertainly classification on the project. There are five (5) (MPLC) models to classify and mange of the projects. Linear and incremental in Traditional Project Management (TPM) approach. Iterative and Adaptive in Agile project management (APM) approach. Extreme in Extreme Project Management
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SPIRAL MODEL The spiral model combines the idea of iterative development (prototyping) with the systematic‚ controlled aspects of the waterfall model. It allows for incremental releases of the product‚ or incremental refinement through each time around the spiral. The spiral model also explicitly includes risk management within software development. Identifying major risks‚ both technical and managerial‚ and determining how to lessen the risk helps keep the software development process under control
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Models of abnormality Abnormality is defined as a behaviour that deviates from the ideal social norm. One definition of abnormality is the failure to function adequately and are unable to meet their activities of daily living independently for example getting washed and dressed daily‚ being able to hold down a job and interacting with other people. It suggests that people should be able to achieve personal wellbeing and contribute to society. Rosenhan and Seligman (1989) identified there as being
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examples of organisational communication‚ discuss what the four main approaches to media research explained by McQuail (2005‚ ch 3) offer to an understanding of company media communication. Communication is the exchange or transfer of information. It covers just about any interaction between people. It is described by McQuail as‚ “a process of increased commonality or sharing between participants‚ on the basis of sending and receiving ‘messages’.” As communication is the sending and receiving
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Development 3 1.2.1 Waterfall model 3 1.2.2 Rapid Application Development Model 5 1.2.3 Martin’s Approach to RAD 8 1.2.4 Aspects of RAD 10 1.2.5 Advantages and Disadvantages of RAD 13 1.2.6 Conclusion 15 1.3 Definitions 15 1.4 References 16 1.5 Contact Information 16 List of Figures Figure 1: Software Engineering a layered Technology [1] 1 Figure 2: Waterfall Model [1] 3 Figure 3 : RAD Model [1] 7 Figure 4: Martin’s Approach 8
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forces forces Mission and strategy Firm Organisational Human structure resource management Source: Fombrun et al (1984) The Warwick model of Strategic Change and Human Resource Management Socioeconomic Technological Political-legal Competitive Inner context Culture Structure Politics/leadership Task-technology
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Ed255 Week 6 CURRICULUM PROCESS: MODELS OF CURRICULUMDEVELOPMENT Curriculum development has been looked at in two ways. These are basically‘process’ and ‘product’. As the terms imply ‘process’ is concerned with the methodsand means ‘how’ whereas the ‘product’ looks at the outcomes‚ the end product‘what’. There are two approaches that have been developed: normative anddescriptive. The first approaches are called normative – Objectives (Tyler 1949) and the rational(Taba 1962 and Wheeler 1967) because
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