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Understanding Climate Part 2: Volcanoes, Oceans, and Internal Variability
After learning about how orbital variations and the sun affect Earth's climate, let's get a little closer to home and see how things like volcanoes and oceans can also affect the climate. There are very elaborate currents in the ocean,...
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Just World Effect
What is the Just World Effect? In psychology, the just-world phenomenon is the tendency to believe that the world is just and that people get what they deserve. Because people want to believe that the world is fair, they will look for...
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Frame Dependence
What is Frame Dependence? Frame dependence means that people make decisions that are influenced by the manner in which the information is presented. Frame dependence manifests itself in the way that people form attitudes towards gains...
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Change Agent
What is a Change Agent? In business, a change agent is an individual who promotes and supports a new way of doing something within the company. This can be the use of a new process, the adoption of a new management structure or the...
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Bridging Epistemologies Framework
What is the Bridging Epistemologies Framework? The framework Cook and Brown helps to think of knowledge in an organizational context and understanding why and how we know things collectively. Their model strengthens the link between...
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Biases and Errors in Decision Making
What are some common biases and errors in Deicsion Making? here are a plethora of cognitive biases, also known as subconscious errors, that have been studied by psychologists, and it is important to understand that each individual will...
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Belbin Team Roles
What are Belbin Team Roles? The Belbin Team Inventory, also called Belbin Self-Perception Inventory or Belbin Team Role Inventory, is a behavioural test. It was devised by Raymond Meredith Belbin to measure preference for nine Team...
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Approaches to Management Decision Making
What are the Approaches to Management Decision Making? Rational decision-making model, Bounded rationality decision-making model, Intuitive decision-making model, and. Creative decision-making model.
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Action Research
What is Action Research? Action research is a philosophy and methodology of research generally applied in the social sciences. It seeks transformative change through the simultaneous process of taking action and doing research, which are...
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Action Learning
What is Action Learning? Action learning is an approach to problem solving involving taking action and reflecting upon the results. This helps improve the problem-solving process as well as simplify the solutions developed by the team.
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Acceptance Theory of Authority
What is the Acceptance Theory of Authority? Acceptance theory of authority states that a manager's authority rests on workers' acceptance of his right to give orders and to expect compliance. Workers have to believe that the manager can...
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8 Discipline or 8D Problem Solving
What is 8 Discipline Problem Solving? What is 8D problem solving? Eight Disciplines Methodology is a method or model developed at Ford Motor Company used to approach and to resolve problems, typically employed by quality engineers or...
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Voting Rights - Preferred Shares
What are Voting Rights of Preferred Shares? Preferred typically have no voting rights, whereas common stockholders do. Preferred stockholders may have the option to convert shares to common shares but not vice versa. Preferred shares may...
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Stacey Matrix
What is the Stacey Matrix? It is designed to help understand the factors that contribute to complexity and choose the best management actions to address different degrees of complexity.
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Social Choice Theory
What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...
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Schwartz Theory of Basic Values
What is the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values? The recent theory concerns the basic values that people in all cultures recognize. It identifies ten motivationally distinct types of values and specifies the dynamic relations among them.
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Programmed and Unprogrammed Decisions
What is a Programmed Decision? What is an Unprogrammed Decision? Because managers have limited time and must use that time wisely to be effective, it is important for them to distinguish between decisions that can have structure and...
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Pre-Money and Post-Money - Business Valuation
What is pre-money valuation? What is post-money valuation? Pre-money valuation refers to the value of a company not including external funding or the latest round of funding. Post-money valuation includes outside financing or the latest...
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Marketing Controls
What are Marketing Controls? Marketing control involves setting a desired standard, measuring deviations from the standard and taking the appropriate action. In many cases the standard is expressed in terms of budgets and any substantial...
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Management by Objective - Explained
What is Management by Objective? Management by objectives, also known as management by planning, was first popularized by Peter Drucker in his 1954 book The Practice of Management.
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Recovering Intentionality
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) highlights the core difference between the social sciences and natural sciences, involving intentionality.
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Boire (to drink) — Past Tense
Alexa teaches the French verb boire (to drink) in the passé composé.
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Cinquain Poetry
Cinquain Poetry reviews the elements of a cinquain poem and composes one that describes a person, place, or thing.
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DEPUIS or PENDANT? How to say SINCE and FOR in French.
Alexa teaches you how to say SINCE and FOR in French.