...How far do you agree that the origins of the Cold War in 1945 and 1946 owed much to the ideological differences and little to personalities and conflicting national interests? The origins of the Cold War cannot be denied as being most obviously and most forefront due to the great ideological differences between the USSR’s communism and the USA’s capitalism, such as their complete opposing beliefs over nationalisation and system of government. However National interests, such as the fight over Poland and leaders personalities, such as Truman’s lack of experience in foreign policy cannot be overlooked as important reasons for growing hostilities between superpowers. The vast difference in ideologies is clearly the underlying factor which caused tensions for the superpowers of the world during the Cold War and the years 1945 to 46; however it cannot be denied that personalities of the leaders running these countries, were a contributing reason for the ever growing hostilities between them. Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR and communist regime, was a figure known for being shrewd, manipulative and ruthless, instantly suggesting that relations with other countries, so different from his, were to be quite strained. Though he was known for these negative traits, he was also commended for his sense of practicality and his skills as an administrator, this suggesting that perhaps his ability to put aside differences, may be better than necessarily believed. It was common knowledge...
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...[pic] Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Cattedra di Marketing Personality Traits and Prosocial Behavior: How Subjective Characteristics May Impact on Consumption Habits Relatore Candidato Prof. Alberto Marcati Giovanni Riefolo Matricola 163531 Anno Accademico 2012/2013 SUMMARY Chapter 1 1.1 A Destructing Species ……………………………………………………........… 2 1.2 The Need For Sustainability And The Green Economy …………………………………………………….…………….….. 5 1.3 A Deeper Insight ………………………………………….……………………….… 8 Chapter 2 2.1 The Extension of The Self Related to a Consumer’s Personality Traits …………………………………………………. 15 2.2 Personality Tests And Dimensions …………………………………………... 19 Chapter 3 3.1 The Survey: Methodology and Outcomes………………………….……… 34 3.2 Technical Analysis And Evaluations …………………………………..…..…. 41 Chapter 4 4.1 Political Insight And Social Normalization ………………………………….. 47 4.2 Conclusions ……………………………………………………………….………..…….. 54 Bibliography ……………………………………………………………………………….………………….. 57 CHAPTER 1 1.1 A DESTRUCTING SPECIES Starting from the 20th century, the human being experienced a tremendous growth, thanks to the introduction of the first automated technologies in the industrial sector (such as the first production chain invented by Ford for mass scale production), along with the huge improvements that...
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...insistence on systematic and methodical study is what distinguishes the social sciences from philosophy, art, and literature, which also comment and reflect on all facets of the human condition. In fact, insights into the nature of human behavior and the characteristics of societies have been expressed by artists, poets, and philosophers since time immemorial. How do the social sciences differ from natural and physical science? Competencies covered by this subject 113.1.1 - Social Science Theory and Methodology Scientific Method in Social Science To prepare for further study in this domain, you will want to familiarize yourself with ways in which the scientific method is applied in the social sciences. Keep in mind the crucial comparison between social and natural science. Consider the following questions: What is the scientific method? Scientific Method for Sociology An area of inquiry is a scientific discipline if its investigators use the scientific method, which is a systematic approach to researching questions and problems through objective and accurate observation, collection and analysis of data, direct experimentation, and replication (repeating) of these procedures. Scientists affirm the importance of gathering information carefully, remaining unbiased when evaluating information, observing phenomena, conducting experiments, and accurately recording procedures and results. They are also skeptical about their results, so they repeat their work and have their findings...
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...managers can be effective leaders. An organization needs both good management and effective leadership to achieve business success, but in real life it is hard to find someone who has both. It is true that a good manager needs to be an effective leader, according to Pettinger (2001), leadership is one of the most important assets of management. However, leadership itself is a skill and not a profession. For example, the ex-Italian president Silvio Berlusconi was the leader of the country and of his political coalition, however, the day to day government managerial role was undertaken by his minister of economy, Giulio Tremonti. On the other hand, Sergio Marchionne, the CEO of Fiat and Chrysler Motor companies, takes both an active leadership and managing role in both companies. By having leadership skills, it is possible to be a good manager and an effective leader at the same time. In this essay I aim to give definitions of both leaders and managers as well as making a clear distinction between the two, followed by how the theory of leadership has changed over time, starting from 'leaders are born' to 'leaders can be made'. A manager can be defined as 'To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, to command, to coordinate and to control' (Fayol, 1916) and that 'management is a social process…the process consists of… planning, control, coordination and motivation' (Brech, 1957). Buckingham highlights the matter to be a good manager as 'there is one quality which distinguishes great...
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...gender are different; gender is not inherently connected to one’s physical anatomy as biological sex is. When one thinks’ of the term “gender”, we are referring to the role and personalities one assumes within society, for example in American culture females tend to be perceived as more nurturing and males are aggressive and dominant. Hormones and behavior affect gender identity in significant ways each with a distinct purpose. To understand the difference of biological sex and gender, nature versus nurture, and how the environment has an effect this paper will review and explain the interactions between hormones and behaviors and how those interactions affect the determination of gender identity. Gender development starts at the point one is conceived. Gender identity is defined as an individual’s self conception of being either male or female, as distinguished from actual biological sex (Britannica, 2013). Gender differences exist in nearly every social phenomena and for most persons, gender identity and biological characteristics are the same however there are some circumstances in which some individuals experience little or no connection between sex and gender (Britannica, 2013). Starting at birth, gender expectations influence how boys and girls are treated. Sociologists make a clear distinction between the terms sex and gender. Sex refers to one’s biological identity and gender refers to the socially learned expectations and behaviors that are associated with...
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...Individualism versus Collectivism The center focus of the individualism dimension is the amount of interdependence within a society associated with its members (Laura, 2011). Individualism is when individuals within the society maintain the ideology that they are responsible to take care of them selves or immediate family only (Wang & Shi, 2010). Sierra Leone is considered a collectivist society; citizens belong to groups and take care of each other in exchange for a sense of loyalty within the group. The culture consists of tightly knit groups that expect their relatives or members of that group to consider them as a priority; a sense of “we” is displayed within the Sierra Leone country culture (Hofstede, 1994). Collectivism does not have a political meaning it refers only to the group and not the state as a whole. Maintaining a sense of loyalty in a country like Sierra Leone is essential and over-rides many other policies and regulations within the culture. The collectivist society displayed in Sierra Leone develops strong relationships that encourage every one to take responsibility for all of the members within the group; in this society any offence leads to shame (Hofstede, 1994). With regards to the business side of society and relationships between employees and their employers a family link is involved based on moral terms, factors such as hiring, promotion decisions, or firing take the opinions and views of the employees into account and management is in charge of managing...
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...several other natural resources. Struggling nations in the world, such as many African nations, are often plagued with a great deal of political turmoil and frequently lack the kind of leadership that exists in thriving states like Japan. A nation’s downfall or rise to power is due to a ruling body’s decision-making rather than resource availability, domestic lifestyles, or even luck. World leaders, as result, are under constant scrutiny from average citizens to pundits. Critics evaluating a leader’s strength do not think that strong leaders are people who simply have a lot of state power; an autocrat is not necessarily “strong.” Effective, strong leaders are considered “strong” because of their resourcefulness. Turmoil is inevitable, and a leader must be prepared for the worst. If French and American colonial leaders were unprepared to respond to the oppression they felt respectively from the French and British monarchies, neither the United States nor the French Republic, two very powerful states, would have ever been formed. Similarly, the decline of the French and British monarchy’s power can be attributed to poor defense preparation for the Revolutions they each faced. Renaissance politician, Niccolo Machiavelli, explains that traits of a strong leader primarily revolve around cunning diplomacy and militaristic success in his political essay, “The Qualities of a Prince.” Machiavelli notes that several prosperous states from his time,...
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...(P10081) Neeti Kumar (P10092) Raja Sameer (P10102) 3/23/2010 | ABSTRACT Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to measure the effect of perceived organisational politics on job performance, using perceived organisational support as a mediator. Further, this paper also aims to measure the moderating impact played by the respondents’ gender in the same. Design/Methodology/Approach A questionnaire was given to professionals working in the services industry through the internet asking about their opinions on the existence of politics in their company, the level of support that they receive from their organisation, and a self appraisal on their job performance. Findings Perceived organisational support fully mediated the relationship between perceived organisational support and job performance. Our study also concludes that perceived organisational politics has a greater impact on men than women. Research Limitations/Implications A self reported cross sectional questionnaire form was administered to collect all measures. The number of respondents to this survey was limited to the employees of the Service sector in India. Future scope in this area could focus on other sectors in India, to substantiate the findings in this research. Practical Implications The survey findings could be used in industry to create a conducive work atmosphere for the employees to work in. Also at a deeper level, the managers could predict the performance of male and female employees in...
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...Running Head: Psychological and Motivational Factors Involved with Obedience Psychological and Motivational Factors Involved with Obedience Crimes The dynamics of obedience have been researched for decades in an attempt to explain what causes humans to commit atrocious acts such as the Holocaust and why crimes of obedience are so prevalent in society. Are all people capable of committing crimes of obedience given the right situation? Is there a certain disposition or combination of personality traits that leads to crimes of obedience? Situations are unique and dispositions vary; attempting to distinguish what causes these occurrences is a complex task that has been the subject of numerous studies, yet no concrete answers are found. Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments ignited the flame of a subject that, instead of diminishing over time and becoming obsolete as a result of improved methods and new ideologies, has remained at the forefront of social and behavioral psychology. Modern research faces the critical challenge of attempting to study obedience under much more restrictive guidelines than previous studies; the results that are produced can only hope to shed light on one component of obedience and use other studies to synthesize a more complete explanation. The predecessor to all of this modern research was the Milgram obedience experiment and all of its variations. It has remained a fixture of social psychology for so long for several reasons: the...
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...African Culture And Personality: Bad Social Science, Effective Social Activism, Or A Call To Reinvent Ethnology? James E. Lassiter Abstract BACKGROUND This paper surveys and assesses the writings of selected African scholars on what they regard to be pan-African culture and personality traits, and patterns and processes of African cultural adaptation (1). Suggestions are also made for reinventing the study of African social, cultural and psychological characteristics, and using such knowledge to help solve socioeconomic problems in Africa. Finally, comments are made regarding the impact of sociocultural particularism and Western individualism on the study of culture and cultural evolution. During the late 1950s and 1960s, national character and typical personality studies were broadly condemned, breathed their last gasp, and were ultimately relegated to the dustbin of bad social science. Since that time, various African scholars outside the social sciences have nevertheless been sustaining and redirecting group personality inquiry. They are not, however, approaching their subject as did Western social scientists in the first half of this century who used questionnaire instruments to determine if Africans were "traditional" or "modern" (2). This was a particularly popular approach among Western occupational psychologists working in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s who sought to scientifically assign statistical coefficients of modernization to African populations. They did this...
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...Results May Vary: Adam Phillips’s Theory of Cloning and The Paradoxical Apotheosis of Individualism Adam Phillips’s essay “Sameness Is All” takes the form of a dialogue with two children to introduce the fantasy of cloning in which everyone is identical. Specifically, Phillips observes that cloning is a “denial of difference and dependence” which leads to a “refusal of need” (92). However, Phillip remains mindful that such fantasy of physical or psychological sameness is implausible as everyone is different - even clones. One then questions the significance of such wanting of sameness, or if the sense of sameness serves any purpose. Using the concept of Self and Other that Joanne Finkelstein examines in “The Self as Sign,” I propose that the sense of sameness that is offered by the illusion of cloning allows one to establish a sense of identity. In a final analysis, I will elaborate on Finkelstein’s arguments on the Self and Other to shed light on the question posed by Philips on whether cloning was the death or apotheosis of individualism, and suggest that cloning has the paradoxical outcome of reinforcing individualism even as one seeks uniformity. Cloning is supposed to lead to conformity and uniformity, the absolute sameness. Phillips argues that cloning is appealing to society because it seems to represent a cure for “the terrors and delights of competition” (90-91). What is interesting, however, is the eventual admission by Phillips that this...
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...* Personality and Foreign Policy: The Case of Stalin Raymond Birt Political Psychology, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 607-625 Page Scan Article PDF Article Summary Journal * 2. The Killing of the Father: The Background of Freud's Group Psychology Jaap van Ginneken Political Psychology, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep., 1984), pp. 391-414 Page Scan Article PDF Article Summary Journal * 3. The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives: Personality Profiles, Interaction Styles, and the Things They Leave Behind Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter Political Psychology, Vol. 29, No. 6 (Dec., 2008), pp. 807-840 Page Scan Article PDF Article Summary Journal * 4. A Kohutian Analysis of President Bush's Personality and Style in the Persian Gulf Crisis Robert H. Swansbrough Political Psychology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 227-276 Page Scan Article PDF Article Summary Journal * 5. Personality and Development in Childhood: A Person-Centered Approach Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins, Suzanne Fegley, Richard W. Robins, Jessica L. Tracy Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 68, No. 1, Personality and Development in Childhood: A Person-Centered Approach (2003), pp. i-iii+v+vii+1-122 Page Scan Article PDF Article Summary Journal * 6. Flight into Security: A New Approach and Measure of the Authoritarian Personality Detlef Oesterreich Political Psychology, Vol. 26, No. 2, Special Issue:...
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...The culture of the antebellum Northeast recognized the role of wives in the making of pleased and healthy families. Natural differences of personality, traits and ability between men and women were presumed to translate into different social roles and responsibilities. Some people claim women were expected to stay home to take care the children. ”The ideology of gender spheres was partly a response to ongoing chaos of a changing society-an intellectual and emotionally comforting way of setting limits to the uncertainties of early industrializations”(Boydston 130). Nonetheless, women’s domestic labor should not be separated from work labor that takes place in public like male spaces. Women’s housework should have never seen interpreted as basic and unnecessary work that is subordinate to the development of the economy and the social order. The sphere philosophy camouflaged the reality of females’ works such that females themselves understood their work as dissociated from productive industrialized labor. Distinct sphere ideology began as a metaphor and was then accepted as reality. However, the United States was experienced a substantial economic and social changes in the beginning of nineteenth century. In this rapidly altering society, the separation of work and home with emotional need to reserve a perfect family, directed...
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...ϑΟΙΝ τηε Ναρχισσισμ Στυδψ Λιστ. | |Το ϑΟΙΝ, ϖισιτ ουρ Ωεβ σιτεσ: | |http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/narclist.html ορ | |http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/narclist.html ορ | |http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse | ςισιτ τηε “υτηορ∍σ Ωεβ σιτε: http://samvak.tripod.com Βυψ οτηερ βοοκσ αβουτ πατηολογιχαλ ναρχισσισμ ανδ ρελατιονσηιπσ ωιτη αβυσιϖε ναρχισσιστσ ανδ πσψχηοπατησ ηερε: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html Χρεατεδ βψ: Λιδιϕα Ρανγελοϖσκα, Σκοπϕε ΡΕΠΥΒΛΙΧ ΟΦ Μ“ΧΕΔΟΝΙ“ Χ Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ Σ Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine Pathological Narcissism – A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists...
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...Kotter D) Bass E) Burns 2. Argued that leaders and managers are distinct; they are different types of people: A) Jago B) Zaleznik C) Kotter D) Bass E) Burns 3. Leaders' power to provide pay raises and promotions is A) Reward B) Coercive C) Legitimate D) Referent E) Expert 4. The power Bill Gates had when he and Paul Allen started the Microsoft company: A) Reward B) Coercive C) Legitimate D) Referent E) Expert 5. Defining leadership as a process means A) It is an inborn trait or characteristic. B) It is a transactional event. C) It is focused on influence. D) It may only take place in groups. E) It requires shared goals. 6. The following is not one of the classifications for a definition of leadership: A) The focus of group process B) An artistic process C) A behavior D) A personality trait E) An instrument of goal achievement 7. The primary functions of management are A) Planning, organizing, staffing, and controlling. B) Forming, storming, norming, and reforming. C) Building, breaking down, rebuilding, and maintaining. D) Ruling, listening, adapting, and adjusting. E) Directing, framing, extending, and encouraging. 8. Some positive communication behaviors that account for successful leader emergence are A) Sense of humor, facial expressiveness. B) Asking questions, being flexible. C) Differentiating...
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