A) List and explain the three reasons Adam Smith said productivity increases with specialization. Who was Adam Smith? a. Adam Smith is writer. He wrote a book titled “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.”+ b. Three Reasons i) Repetition • The more times that an employee performs a task‚ the more capable the employee are at the task. ii) Continuity • A specialized employee doesn’t spend time exchange from one task to another. iii) Innovation • A specialized employee
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IMPACT OF MOTIVATION ON WORKERS ’ PRODUCTIVITY IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Ayodeji Olatunji Aiyetan1 and A. O. Olotuah2 1 Department of Quantity Surveying‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Akure 34001‚ Nigeria Department of Architecture‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Akure 34001‚ Nigeria 2 This is a research on the relationship between motivation and performance of workers in the Nigerian construction industry. It identifies a number of motivational schemes that enhance
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Chapter 11 Knowledge Worker Productivity and The Practice of Self-Management By Jeremy Hunter‚ Ph.D.‚ with J. Scott Scherer More and more people in the workforce—and mostly knowledge workers—will have to manage themselves. —Peter F. Drucker‚ Management Challenges for the 21st Century Toward the end of his life‚ Peter Drucker asserted that making knowledge workers productive was “the biggest of the 21st century management challenges.”1 Other scholars support Drucker’s position. Tom Davenport‚ a
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Conditioning You know that moment when you are just hanging out in the shower‚ doing your thing‚ and you hear the toilet flush? My immediate reaction is to jump out of the water as fast as humanly possible. I have been conditioned by the sound of the flushing toilet to get out of the water because it is fixing to get scalding hot. This is called Classical Conditioning. "Classical conditioning is the learning process in which a neutral stimulus
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in chapter 5‚ explain what is meant by the term “conditioning” and describe and distinguish between classical and operant conditioning. Finally‚ discuss how research into the effects of biology and cognition on conditioning has changed psychology’s understanding of the conditioning process Classical Conditioning Conditioning is an associative learning‚ which occur when we make a connection or an association with two events. Classical conditioning is when two stimuli becomes associated with each
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Psychology wouldn’t be where it’s at today if it wasn’t for two important psychologists Edward L. Thorndike and behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner. Operant conditioning was devised and studied by psychologist Edward Thorndike and behavioral psychologist B.F Skinner (Charles Strangor‚ 2010). Operant Conditioning is also known as instrumental conditioning (Kendra Cherry‚ 2013)‚ a different term but the same meaning. It is a term for a method in which involves punishment and rewards for different types
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Smoking is on the increase among young people. While is on the decline among adults‚ the latest US Surgeon – General’s report indicates that increasing numbers of youngsters are taking up the habit. Perhaps the main reason for this alarming fact is the seductive advertising campaigns aimed at young people by the tobacco companies. Other contributing factors include the lack of awareness on the part of school children of the dangers of smoking‚ and the widespread availability of cigarettes. Furthermore
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such as Japan‚ Russia‚ India‚ Bahrain‚ France‚ and so on. Expansion of Islamic finance leads to improvement in the economics of Islam. Islamic economics are discussed next. 1.2.2 Relationship between Islamic economic models and increase in productivity Both Western classical and Islamic economists classify economic activities as productive or unproductive. An economic model defined as a simplified framework designed in order to illustrate complex processes. Islamic economic model is a
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(PowerPoint‚ Mullin). One domain of learning theories named behavioral learning theories has 2 categories‚ classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Classical conditioning is widely used in modern psychology in the areas of neuroscience and cognitive science‚ and is the topic of this paper henceforward. Presentation - Ivan Pavlov‚ a Russian psychologist discovered classical conditioning. Pavlov was a physician who was studying gastric functioning in dogs by examining their saliva in various feeding
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The headlines of one of the leading newspapers often goes like‚ “A professor beaten to death by his own students”. Going through such headlines has become a routine affair for us. The country is plagued by many catastrophic‚ socio-economic issues like poverty‚ terrorism‚ illiteracy and corruption. The involvement of the youth in overcoming these problems is of great importance. The youth‚ in a rising nation like ours‚ plays a strong role in bringing reforms to restructure the nation. They protest
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