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    During my interview with my director we discussed McClelland’s Three-Needs Theory. This theory asserts that employees acquire one or more of three types of “needs” that motivate them to excel at work—the need for achievement (“nAch”), the need for power (“nPow”), and the need for affiliation (“nAff”). He we asked how these needs have impacted him throughout his career with managing employees, managing managers, and how these needs have changed in himself throughout his own career. One thing that

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    Middle range theories “lie between the grand nursing models and more circumscribed, concrete ideas” (McEwen & Wills, 2014, p. 37). There are numerous middle range theories specifically created for the nursing profession. These theories serve to guide nurses in their nursing duties, offering insight into an abundance of topics ranging from objective, fact-based data to the more subjective, personalized material. Each middle range theory can be further grouped into four subgroups; descriptive, explanatory

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    Three main theories included in chapter 4 to chapter 6 are competence beliefs, achievement values and self-determination. Authors presented those three theories and their relations with motivation. These three chapters according to children’s reasons and attitudes for whether they join in the different activities or not to analyse their motivations. In chapter 4 and 5 focus on development of achievement value in different gender and ethnicity. In chapter 4, two authors firstly reviewed several

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    Winslow Taylor. Primarily, they both had contrastive management theories. Maslow believed that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfil the next one, and so on (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, McLeod, 2007). Taylor, on the other hand, applied his engineering and scientific knowledge to management and developed a theory called Scientific Management Theory (Frederick Taylor: Theories, Principles and Contributions to Management). There is, however

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    motivation? what motivate people toward satisfy needs. The paper will includes three main artical theory by Abraham Maslow ( Maslow's Hierarchy of needs ), Clayton Alderfer ( Alderfer's ERC Theory ) and Psychologist David Mcclelland ( McClelland's Theory of needs ). The author will explain why motivation is important in an organization and how it will impact the organization. The three motivation theories will also be used together in order to enhance the staff’s motivation level to work and help the

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    & Van Dierendonck,2013) is to investigate the members goal orientation in the relationship between performance and cultural diversity. The contribution of Pieterse, Van Knippenberg & Van Dierendonck (2013) is that they have developed and test the theory under the CEM model on how achievement setting stimulates the team member goal orientations that affect performance relationship. Pieterse, Van Knippenberg & Van Dierendonck (2013) also stated that pervious researchers have recognized the performance

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    Theory helps us to understand the rationale behind the strategies and interventions chosen for a particular health issue (National Cancer Institute, 2005). Although theories are presented in the abstract, and have are not based on specific content or topic area, they become useful as they contain practical goals, topics and problems, which lend us “tools to design and evaluate health behavior and health promotion” as they also give us a way to develop interventions based upon our understand of behavior

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    of various organization theories and their development from the perspective of legitimacy and efficacy; to evaluate selected discussions regarding theory development and various theories; to encourage the use of evidence based theory development and to provide a look into the model and related theories that are created after looking at the existing theories. While not rejecting the need for thorough testing of theories, I am simply looking into the suggestion of theories and models for their worth

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    Ethical naturalism is a realist, cognitivist position which posits that moral facts correspond to some sort of natural facts, which may or may not be capable of definition. Peter Railton in “Moral Realism” posits that such a definition is possible, offering an extensive account of non-moral good. Railton begins by noting an effective stratagem for a natural realist such as himself to take. In particular, he will attempt to construct an account of moral facts which must be posited to explain “certain

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    essay brings up the points of the practical man, and why they are at a loss of intellectual imagination because they don’t explore the unknown by viewing life as simple. As evidence, he uses an example of mass disease and poverty of a society. The theory is that in those conditions, there would still be much to be improved to produce a valuable society. Even if the society has the proper food supplies, they need the ‘goods of the mind’ (knowledge) to build a well-governed society. He believes practical

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