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Drug Addiction Addictive Drugs
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4,209 words... ve drugs. The Addiction Research Center Inventory, an empirically derived test designed to measure the subjective effects of addictive drugs, detects the mood-elevating effects of psychomotor stimulants and opiates on the same scale (see Haertzen and Hickey 1987). On the other hand, the subjective-effects of these two drug classes can be easily distinguished. This is not surprising considering that ex-addicts report a preference for heroin over morphine (Martin and Fraser 1961), even though ...
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Addison Wesley Mcgraw Hill
1,865 wordsImagine you are the CEO over thousands of employees whom you depend on to make your business successful. Would you be satisfied if all of your employees did just a satisfactory job, just enough to get by? Probably not, you most likely would want the peak performance out of each employee, which would maximize the efficiency of the business. However getting people to do what you want them to do can be difficult. One way to improve the performance of your employees would be to implement a performan...
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Websters New World Resistance To Change
1,640 wordsPersonal Motivation The Individuals View Understanding what motivates people is at the core of relating to people at all levels. According to Websters dictionary, (Webster, 1976) to motivate is to provide with, or affect as, an inner drive, impulse, or incentive that causes one to act. A motivation can be a cause, purpose, or idea according the Thesaurus. (Webster 1997). Motivation causes behavior, incites action. Personal motivational drives may include pride, desire for greatness, competitive ...
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Intrinsic Motivation Corporal Punishment
1,540 wordsRole of Parental Motivational Practices in Childrens Academic Intrinsic Motivation and Achievement (Gottfried) Article Summary I chose to write my journal article research paper on the role of parents in childrens academic motivation and achievement. The article relates the parents role and at home practices, and the effect of these practices on the childs performance and motivation. In the longitudinal study of children ages 9 and 10, two types of motivational practices were assessed: Parental ...
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Motivation At Hitachi Automotive Products Organizational Behavior Analysis
1,686 wordsMotivation at Hitachi Automotive Products Hitachi Automotive Products, Los Angeles (HAP-LA) is a major manufacturer of automotive electromechanical parts, including alternators, starters, mass airflow sensors and distributors. HAP-LA follows in the steps of many Japanese-based companies in providing above-average motivational packages through excellent benefits packages, incentive programs, and retention incentives. Through these different motivational packages, HAP-LA is able to meet the needs ...
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Goal Setting Theory Theory Is Based
1,809 wordsProper Motivation: the key to an organization's success Motivation of our employees is one of the most important issues facing companies today. The need to instill our employees with motivation is becoming ever more important especially with the shift towards a more socially and culturally responsive workforce. So how does a company find out what motivates its employees? How do they provide a motivational plan that includes incentives both traditional (money) and nontraditional elements? What wi...
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Motivational Strategies In The Workplace
1,307 wordsMotivational Strategies in the Workplace Abstract: A good Sales Manager should always have a good and practical knowledge about motivational strategies for these are the important keys to the success of any organization. There is a greater chance to achieve goals if people involved in a particular activity are motivated and concerned with the achievement of the goal. No one can cause someone to do something; the person must first be convinced that he has to make an effort to achieve an endeavor....
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Abraham Lincoln Martial Arts
1,382 wordsCharacter development The Karate Kid In The Karate Kid, we see the emotional and motivational development of Daniel, a young guy who wants to be perfect in the martial arts. Mr. Miyagi, his guru in karate, contributes a lot to this process by constantly teaching Daniel and showing him a right path of development. It is evident that both emotional and motivational development will not progress that much if ones self esteem is low, and there is a group of people that Daniel is somewhat scared of a...
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Human Resource Management Sense Of Belonging
723 wordsWorkplace Motivation The word motivation is often used to describe certain sorts of behavior. A student who studies hard and tries to get top grades may be described as being highly motivated, while her friend may say that he is finding it hard to get motivated to study for an exam or to start an assignment (Motivation in 21 century). Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behavior but they do not really tell us how. Motivation can be defined as a concept used to desc...
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Cross Cultural Awareness For International Part 1
1,671 wordsCross Cultural Awareness for International Managers The foreigner interested in designing, implementing and evaluating effective management development programmes must read widely in order to gain an appreciation of this diverse and complex continent, its peoples and social organizations, and the context within which organization and management takes place. (Kiggundu cited in Miner 112) The advantages of inter-organizational cooperation have long been clear, including in international business c...
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Negatively Affect Physical Activity
2,260 wordsPsychiatric Rehabilitation is a philosophy as well as specific strategies that has been formed over the past 30 years about how treatment should be provided to those individuals who suffer from a mental illness. During the 1970 's, due in large part to pioneers like Fountain House and Fair-weather Lodge, a shift began in the paradigm that had till then defined the "treatment" of mental illnesses. A growing consciousness emerged that, in addition to medications, skill building and social support ...
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Abraham Maslow Corporate Culture
1,281 wordsREWARDING EXCELLENT EMPLOYEES Modern business world is highly competitive in every aspect. Today even employers have to find new original ways to reward outstanding employees, because only decent incentives will keep the level of their performance high and attract new talented people to work. And if you think that salaries and extra payments are original and highly motivating, you are, unfortunately, a bit of out date. I do not mean money is no longer important, it is not thus. But, given a norm...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,172 wordsThe word "motivation" is often used to describe certain sorts of behavior. A student who studies hard and tries to get top grades may be described as being "highly motivated", while her friend may say that he is "finding it hard to get motivated" to study for an exam or to start an assignment. Such statements imply that motivation has a major influence on our behavior but they do not really tell us how. Motivation can be defined as a concept used to describe the factors within an individual that...
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Goal Setting Theory Motivational Theories
1,871 wordsTheories of Motivation The Latin root of the word motivation means to move; hence, in this basic sense the study of motivation is the study of action. Modern theories of motivation focus more specifically on the relation of beliefs, values, and goals with action. It is possible review the work growing out of these theories of achievement motivation with a particular emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. Furthermore, although motivation theories have emerged from different intelle...
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Drug Addiction Addictive Drugs
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Intrinsic Motivation Corporal Punishment
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2,299 wordsMotivation is Motivation Introduction Motivation is a complex and diverse topic, as it applies to such a broad field of studies. This paper explores how a teacher builds an identity with a school through strong motivational factors, by first discussing the concept of motivation and offering some basic definitions. Then, it will cover some general topics that will effect teachers identity with a school and look at the theoretical concepts that relate to motivation, especially the motivational the...
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