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    During the nineteenth century, white mistresses and enslaved women struggled to acquire agency in an antebellum economically driven apparatus. Although these women encountered varying experiences, they intersected at the male and masculine hegemony that draped their existence. This has not traditionally been the focus point of some research within a historical and African American Studies context. Vie indicated has been dichotomized, critiqued, written, depicted, and investigated from two isolated

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    Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE PAPER Project Management Organizational Structures Paper University of Phoenix MGT 437- Project Management Roy Chuang December 2, 2012 Project Management Organizational Structures Paper A project organization is a framework of rules and regulations that companies use to facilitate the harmony and finishing point of project activities. Its foremost objective is to generate a atmosphere that will encourage relations between

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    Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J., 22: 777–792 (2001) DOI: 10.1002/smj.170 STRATEGIC REWARD SYSTEMS: A CONTINGENCY MODEL OF PAY SYSTEM DESIGN BRIAN K. BOYD1 and ALAIN SALAMIN2 * 1 2 College of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ecole des HEC, University of Lausanne, Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland, and Compensation Development, Firmenich SA, Meyrin, Switzerland A limited number of studies have addressed the idea of ‘strategic’ reward systems—the matching

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    Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 25, 67–80 (2004) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/job.243 Workplace deviance, organizational citizenship behavior, and business unit performance: the bad apples do spoil the whole barrel PATRICK D. DUNLOP1* AND KIBEOM LEE2 1 2 Summary School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary

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    George Gomez October 31, 2016 Project Planning, Execution and Closure PM610 Individual Project 4 Professor Ronald Burke The main purpose of this memorandum is to explain the effect of decision making on the project. This memorandum also explains the factors that need to be considered when accepting or denying the vendor offers. This memorandum also includes the budget, schedule and resources. This memorandum also explain the parties that would need to be involved in the decision-making process and

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    "Research has revealed that organisations that engage in strategic management generally out-perform those that do not" The connotation of the ancient Greek word "strategos", in its various grammatical forms, implies meaning of skilful manoeuvouring leading to achieving a highly crucial position or attaining a desired end. Commonly associated with the military operations, strategies aim at methodical out-performance of adversaries. Analogically, application of deliberate strategies in the business

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    Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 23, 401–423 (2002) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/job.146 So, how do people really use their handheld devices? An interactive study of wireless technology usey FRANCINE K. SCHLOSSER* University of Waterloo, Canada Summary Using a symbolic interactionist methodology, the diverse meanings assigned by employees to wireless handheld technology are investigated. Interviews were conducted

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    Fundamentals of Financial Markets Financial world might appear to be a chaotic and constantly dynamic environment to a beginner. Although, this is partly true, there are certain fundamentals that drive the financial markets. There is a basic pattern with certain rules and regulations underlying this chaotic outer appearance (Razaee, 2011).There are certain basic concepts to be understood as explained below: • Interest Rate: Interest rate is the rate of return paid by the borrower of funds to the

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    Criminologic theorists use one another’s work to develop theories further and apply them to different societies and times. The labelling theory has a small group of key theorists behind it, originating from a sociological influence on deviance (Goode (A) 2016, 64). In 1963 Howard Becker published Outsiders which articulated his theory of labelling (Becker 1963) (Hayes 2015, 244). Though the 1960s saw labelling theory rise and Becker is credited with the theory, there were three earlier works that

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    Cancer, a type of horrifying disease indicated by the uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells into lumps called tumors (Peter Crosta, 2013). Tumors on the other hand can be classified into benign and malignant, depends on their harmfulness to the body. Several factors contribute to the incidence of cancer or increase the risk of getting cancer, these include mutations of DNA, hereditary factor, carcinogens and induced by other medications (Peter Crosta, 2013). The incidence rate of cancers is increasing

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