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Role conflict occurs when there are incompatible demands placed upon a person relating to their job or position. [ 1] People experience role conflict when they find themselves pulled in various directions as they try to respond to the many statuses they hold. [ 2] Role conflict can be something that can be for either a short period of time, or ...
Market failure. While factories and refineries provide jobs and wages, they are also an example of a market failure, as they impose negative externalities on the surrounding region via their airborne pollutants. In neoclassical economics, market failure is a situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not Pareto ...
Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs. Structural integrity is the ability of an item—either a ...
Failure mode and effects analysis ( FMEA; often written with "failure modes" in plural) is the process of reviewing as many components, assemblies, and subsystems as possible to identify potential failure modes in a system and their causes and effects. For each component, the failure modes and their resulting effects on the rest of the system ...
Role theory is a concept in sociology and in social psychology that considers most of everyday activity to be the acting-out of socially defined categories (e.g., mother, manager, teacher). Each role is a set of rights, duties, expectations, norms, and behaviors that a person has to face and fulfill. [ 1] The model is based on the observation ...
Some of these failure events have drastically changed the video game market since its origin in the late 1970s. For example, the failure of E.T. contributed to the video game crash of 1983. Some games, though commercial failures, are well received by certain groups of gamers and are considered cult games . The following list includes any video ...
Single point of failure. In this diagram the router is a single point of failure for the communication network between computers. A single point of failure ( SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. [ 1] SPOFs are undesirable in any system with a goal of high availability or reliability, be it a ...
Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. [ 1] The term is most often applied to the foreign policy between 1935 and 1939 of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, [ a ...