P3 - Outline what is meant by the terms ‘conformity’ and ‘obedience’ with reference to the public services. Obedience and Conformity are both highly looked upon in the public service sector‚ this is because to be a successful team in public services you have to be able to work together successfully as a team and obedience and conformity both are a desired attribute when the public service department are recruiting. Conformity- when you change your behaviour or actions to fit in with people
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Explain what is meant by a balanced approach to risk management. A risk is the possibility of a hazard’s potential being realised. A balanced approach to risk management is basically weighing up the benefits against the chances of harm and the severity of such harm. In schools risk assessments are necessary to note any hazards which could cause harm and are therefore a potential risk. Risk assessments need to be carried out in a way which minimises the risk but is also practical. There is a need
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explanations for Greek colonisation in the archaic period? Herodotus gives all ancient historians invaluable insights into colonisation in the archaic period‚ despite having his well known limitations. We must overall regard his work ‘The Histories’ as an equal to archaeological evidence and Thucydides’ work when it comes to studying colonisation in this period. Before I begin this essay‚ however‚ I must first quickly define two crucial terms. The term ‘colonisation’ (as we mean it during
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Q. Offer a critique of what John Rawls meant by ‘Fair Equality of Opportunity’ Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to discuss what ‘Fair Equality of Opportunity’ means and John Rawls view point on this subject. Rawls was a well known philosopher from the USA and arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. Rawls is well known for using the basic structure of society as his subject matter and most famously for his work entitled‚ A Theory of Justice (1971). Here he
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the West Indies in the 1950’s. The Dual Economy model- _The second publishing was on the agricultural revolution_ _The third seminal publication was on growth and fluctuation._ _http://sta.uwi.edu/nlc/2008/documents/Girvan_Lecture_full.pdf_ WHAT IS MEANT BY "INDUSTRIALISATION BY INVITATION" AND DID IT LEAD TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGION? Industrialisation is the process of social and economic change whereby a social group is transferred from a manual labor based structure to a more technologically
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Explain what is meant by ‘mechanical jurisprudence’‚ and discuss Hart’s objections towards it. The term mechanical jurisprudence was coined by Roscoe pound in his article in 1908. It is the concept that judges apply law rigidly according to precedent and legislation without thought of consequences. In this it is argued that every eventuality that comes before the law is legislated for in advance‚ it is just for the judges to apply the relevant law. This concept would insinuate that every case that
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relays this information to the brain. Top-down processing is the information processing guided by higher-level mental processes‚ as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations. Top down processing is the mind interpreting what our senses detect. Without top-down processing‚ one would be able to see someone’s face‚ but not recall that person’s name or remember him or her. This processing is akin to perception‚ which is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information
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Explain (and give examples of) what is meant by Social Facilitation and Co-action. Make the difference of the two clear. Triplett’s (1898) experiments demonstrate the phenomenon of the co-action effect‚ showing how improved task performance is generated by the presence of others involved in the same task. His experiment of “dynamogenic factors in pacemaking and competition”‚ where the comparison of a cyclist racing the clock around a track‚ as opposed to racing another cyclist‚ or with a pace maker
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What is meant by market failure and how can government attempt to correct it? Market failure occurs when there is no economic efficiency within a market. Whereas government intervention is put in use when a market may not always allocate scarce resources efficiently in a way that achieves the highest total social welfare. Monopolies are one of the main causes of market failure. Monopolies are firms whom have eliminated all‚ if not‚ most competitors within that market leaving them with most
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Global Business Environment Assignment 1 What is meant by market failure and how can the government attempt to correct it? Why do some markets fail? Market failure is said to occur when the price mechanism is unable to allocate resources efficiently. Meaning that the forces of supply and demand lead to a net welfare loss in society‚ that the resources were not used to their maximum capacity. When there is market failure it is down to the government to correct them. Here are five way in which
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