Unit 1 Management Consultant – a person who provides expert advice to a company Crisis – a situation of danger or difficult Innovation – a new idea or method Objective (noun) – something you plan to do or achieve Promotion – when someone is raised to a higher or more important position Public sector – the section of the economy under government control Strategy – a plan for achieving success Subordinate – a person with a less important in an organization Unit 2 Work and motivation Labour relations
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(Persia) Cyrus the Great: established a massive Persian empire across the northern Middle East and into northwestern India by 550 B.C.E; successor state to Mesopotamian empires. Zoroastrianism: Animist religion hat saw material existence as battle between forces of good and evil; stressed the importance of moral choice; righteous lived on after death in “House of Song”; chief religion of Persian Empire. (Ancient Greece) Olympic Games: one of the pan-helenic rituals observed by all Greek
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facility in the basement of Stanford University. There was a small opening at the end of the hall and intercom system was placed for Zimbardo and his colleagues to observe and listen to the prisoners. An advertisement was placed on newspaper offering 15$ per day for participating in the study. Out of more than 70 responses they received‚ 24 male students were deemed mentally and emotionally stable enough to participate in the study after extensive interviews and personality tests to eliminate the ones
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(n.d.). To test his theories‚ Zimbardo conducted a study‚ known as the Stanford Prison Study‚ which confirmed his theoretical development of deindividuation. Zimbardo postulates that the individual in a group is less likely to follow normal rules of behavior‚ partly because they become anonymous
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In 1972‚ a Stanford professor named Walter Mischel conduct an experiment called "The Marshmallow Test" that tested the will power of young children. The main goal was to study whether deferred gratification can be an indicator of future success. To test his hypothesis‚ he choose to use children who’s ages ranged from four to six years old. The researcher would place a child in a room by his/ herself and give the child one marshmallow on a plate. He told the child‚ " I am going to step out of this
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The Stanford Prison Experiment Over the years there have been some controversial psychology experiments. Experiments are a way to find an answer to life’s unanswered questions and to make a difference in this world. Not every experiment ended in a wonderful way; instead it is the complete opposite. One of the most controversial experiments is the Stanford Prison Experiment. This experiment lead to a disturbing results leaving the subjects in trauma. Psychologists must stop experiments that can harm
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Progress Test 2 I. Reading Read the text only once. Choose the right answer. In primary school a child’s life is simple. Children form a close relationship with one familiar teacher. On entering secondary school a new more difficult world opens up. Pupils soon learn to be less free in the way they speak to teachers and even to their classmates. They begin to lose the free and easy ways of primary school. As teachers of different subjects see hundreds of children in a week‚ a pupil may be able to
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raped and that she has taken her own life. The raw emotion would be crippling. Imagine that a painter could take the guilt‚ anger‚ sadness‚ frustration‚ and every thing you felt at that moment and put it on a canvas. That is what Rembrandt did. A picture is worth a thousand words. Last winter I visited the Rembrandt exhibit in Raleigh at the North Carolina Art Museum. It featured the largest collection of Rembrandt paintings ever presented in an American exhibition. One of the most famous paintings
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"The Stanford Prison Experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity‚ in particular‚ to the real world circumstances of prison life." What was a psychological study? More as‚ what was the Stanford Prison Experiment? As soon as those words popped up on my screen‚ the very next thing I did was Google it. The very first things that appeared was a deep explanation of exactly what it was; "an attempt to investigate the psychological effects of power between prisoners and
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authority figures and inmates in prison situations. Conducted in 1971 the experiment was led by Phlilip Zimbardo. Volunteer College students played the roles of both guards and prisoners living in a simulated prison setting in the basement of the Stanford psychology building. Philip Zimbardo and his team aimed to demonstrate the situational rather than the dispositional causes of negative behaviour and thought patters found in prison settings by conducting the simulation with average everyday participants
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