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    Yigao Wang Take Home Exam MGT 672 1. Define what is meant by Organizational Behavior. Considering your discipline/industry (HCA‚ MBA‚ HR‚ Safety) discuss specific contextual aspects that illustrate the need for a contingency approach in managing individuals in your workplace or environment. Is the structure of the organizational a help or hindrance for what you need to accomplish. First‚ Organizational behavior is a field of study‚ it is the study of the system within the organization‚ the impact

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    There are 5 periods of the juvenile justice history. These periods consists of Puritan Period‚ Refuge Period‚ Juvenile Court Period‚ Juvenile Rights Period‚ and Crime Control Period. The Puritan Period was from 1646-1824. This period is where the family had control on how the juvenile was punished. The puritan philosophy for juvenile behavior was enacted during this time. They also passed the Stubborn Child Law which mad the first status offense‚ an act considered illegal for minors only. If

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    PIAGET Theory of Cognitive Development • Developmental psychology • Concerns the growth of intelligence‚ which for Piaget‚ meant the ability to more accurately represent the world and perform logical operations on representations of concepts grounded in interactions with the world • Schemata – schemes of how one perceives the world; emerges and is developed in developmental stages • We construct our cognitive abilities through self-motivated action in the world • Assimilation – take

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    Jeff Bray Consumer Behaviour Theory: Approaches and Models Consumer Behaviour Theory: Approaches and Models...............................................2  1.1 Consumer behaviour & consumer decision making ............................................2  1.2 Theoretical approaches to the study of consumer behaviour..............................3  1.3 Economic Man .....................................................................................................4  1.4 Psychodynamic Approach

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    possibility of no parole along with counseling and rehabilitation. Many believe that putting an adolescent in prison with a life sentence is a cruel and unfair punishment. In the past couple of years‚ the law changed to place underage delinquents in rehabilitation centers or juvenile hall for no more than a year rather than prison. Placing a youth in a prison is said to have a negative affect on the child‚ making parents afraid to have their teenagers locked away‚ even after committing heinous crimes. Nevertheless

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    Revisiting the Classical theories Introduction Organization indexes considerably more than the structures that lifts us out of ‘bare life’. Organization is also intimately‚ and utterly‚ connected to thought. While many‚ and by no means just those in the West‚ think of themselves as ‘free’ from enslavement by others‚ and even free from the organization of the state‚ who can argue that they are also free from the pervasive effects of language‚ culture and science? These are matters into which

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    strain and control theories one must factor into their analysis the sub-categories of each theory and how they contribute to the overall spectrum of crime‚ punishment‚ and social control. The following evaluation consists of those evaluations that consist of the varying forms of both the strain and control theories of crime; including the strengths and weaknesses of each standpoint‚ the empirical validity of each‚ and the overall ramifications for crime prevention. Strain Theories Frustration. This

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    1. What changes have occurred in Amanda’s behavior? What are some possible reasons for these changes? Amanda has been unmotivated to be an active student and poor employee at her local restaurant job. She continues to be affectionate‚ but his unaware that she expresses and is overly affectionate. Amanda can be overly affectionate because she wants to explore the dating world. Following with the previous statement‚ Amanda cares more about her appearance to receive attention‚ and that could be getting

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 2 2. DEFINITION OF TERMS 2.1. Theory 2 2.2. Community 2 3. HUMAN BEHAVIOR THEORIES 3.1. Social Construction 2 3.2. Examples of Social Construction 4 3.3. Asset Based Community Approach 4 3.3.1. What is Asset Based Community Approach? 5 3.3.2. Discussion on ABCD 5 3.3.3. How is it facilitated in communities? 6 4. CONCLUSION 7 REFERENCE LIST 8 1. INTRODUCTION

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    many different ways that juveniles can be deviant. Some deviance is as slight as running away from home and others as immense as murdering someone. Somewhere in between the two is where property crimes lie. Property crimes are defined as

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