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Work motivation is an often-studied topic in the fields of organization studies and organizational behavior. [148] They aim to understand human motivation in the context of organizations and investigate its role in work and work-related activities including human resource management, employee selection, training, and managerial practices. [149]
The major theoretical influence, acknowledged by de Morais, [3] [44] in the development of the LGC concept and method, is the work of Aleksei N. Leontiev [49] specifically his concept of Objective(ized) Activity [50] which means that, in order to change the mind-set of individuals, we need to start with changes to their activity – and/or to ...
She also had the students read books written by and about other teenagers in times of war, such as The Diary of a Young Girl, Zlata's Diary and Night. [6] Writing journals became a solace for many of the students, and because the journals were shared anonymously, teenagers who once refused to speak to someone of a different race became like a ...
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective.Almost any grammar or syntax textbook or dictionary of linguistics terminology defines the adjective phrase in a similar way, e.g. Kesner Bland (1996:499), Crystal (1996:9), Greenbaum (1996:288ff.), Haegeman and Guéron (1999:70f.), Brinton (2000:172f.), Jurafsky and Martin (2000:362).
The capacity of adjectives to be used as nouns is sometimes exploited in puns like The poor rich. As the frequency of nominalized adjective use decreased, the frequency of structures using the prop-word one increased (phrases such as "the large" were replaced by those of the type "the large one"). In most other languages, there is no comparable ...
Ella Josephine Baker was born on December 13, 1903, in Norfolk, Virginia, [8] to Georgiana (called Anna) and Blake Baker, and first raised there. She was the second of three surviving children, bracketed by her older brother Blake Curtis and younger sister Maggie. [9]
Coercive and reward power can also lead group members to lose interest in their work, while instilling a feeling of autonomy in one's subordinates can sustain their interest in work and maintain high productivity even in the absence of monitoring. [82] Coercive influence creates conflict that can disrupt entire group functioning.
Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. Following work by Michel Foucault , these fields view discourse as a system of thought, knowledge, or communication that constructs our world experience.