Essays Tagged: "empowering"

"Revolution Girl-Style Now!"

ation, no authoritive definition, just an attitude concerned with pointing out social hypocrisy and empowering people to "do it yourself", creating a culture of their own when they see that the mainst ... onventions and other consciousness-raising activities. The ethos is about supporting each other and empowering each other. In actuality, Riot Grrrl is a frame of mind. It's a way for them to come toge ...

(12 pages) 160 2 4.7 Jan/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Organizational Behavior class: A Manager as a Successful Oracle. Discusses the effects of self-fulfilling prophecy in the workplace. Examples from two movies: "Gung Ho" and "White Man's Burden".

We often become what unconsciously others expect of us, or we ourselves expect. How can such a self-empowering and at the same time discouraging research hold true? Aren't we the makers of our own fut ...

(4 pages) 159 0 4.6 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Captain William Kidd leading up to his trial for piracy.

d, would be a felony. Pirates hold no commission or delegated authority from any sovereign or state empowering them to attack others." In this paper I will examine the acts of William Kidd according t ...

(3 pages) 25 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Managing change of Avon Products Inc.

iding coalition63.1.3Developing a Vision and Strategy63.1.4 @Communicating the Change Vision73.1.5 @Empowering broad-based action73.1.6 @Generating short-term wins73.1.7 @Consolidating gains and produ ... ed a new "Let's talk" campaign and pushed for current corporate tag, "The Company for women".3.1.5 @Empowering broad-based actionAs the aggressive campaign to turn the company around, Jung needed more ...

(15 pages) 954 2 3.2 Nov/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Clothing, Footwear and Cosmetics

Empowered Education, Democracy in the Classroom. Do principles of democracy enhance success in the classroom or not? Yes, Also democracy is defined.

(Hoffman). Teachers and students are essential to keeping democratic education in the classroom. An empowering educational experience in the classroom must have open dialog and debate, there must be a ... husiasm and the teacher's inherent desire to teach. Student teacher interaction is essential for an empowering educational experience.Without diversity in the classroom ones understanding of the world ...

(5 pages) 265 0 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Femininity and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer.

ed upondefinition of feminism, and for the purposes of this paper, "feminism" will beconsidered the empowering of the female who takes control of her life to theextent that such control directly affec ...

(8 pages) 78 0 4.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Women in Management

t the past thousands of years, males have been in top management roles, but women are making strong empowering comeback to pose a superior role. According to Jones (n.d.)," In 1996, 7.7 million women ...

(10 pages) 442 3 4.2 Feb/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Implementation of empowerment: case study

tructures and returning control of employees. Specifically, the essay seeks to explore the role of 'empowering forms of work organisation (in this case using Fab Sweets as the case study) and of occup ... ATION AT FAB SWEETS LTDEmployee empowerment will not happen naturally in organizations. Too many disempowering structures have been built into them over the years. Changing leadership alone will not e ...

(17 pages) 423 1 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Critical Thinking & Global Success

lves" (Alwasilah, 2002). The author states, what matters most to students is whether the teacher is empowering intellectually. (Alwasilah, 2002) The article provides examples of a new improved method ... rticle infer that "teachers have no vision; students are most concerned with whether the teacher is empowering intellectually; the tendency among non-language teachers and professors to take language ...

(2 pages) 85 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"There's Nothing Worse THan A Woman" Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

t;and pretend to have an appetite myself; (201)It is incredibly inaccurate to say that this tale is empowering to women. How can it be empowering when the female protagonist is basically preaching to ...

(4 pages) 67 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucher

The Role and Function of the Holy Spirit in the book of Romans

w Testament writer links the concept of the Spirit indwelt believer, with the day to day living and empowering of the Christian life. As Paige muses, "Christians who were formerly alienated from God h ... nary interlocutor concerning the Problem of Flesh and Death in chapter 8. It is this indwelling and empowering which is at the very heart of all that will be discussed in this paper.For the purpose of ...

(10 pages) 129 3 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Bob Dylan's hurricane and how it helped to empower the black community in the 60's the way for black rights activists. Done in the form of a radio program.

the World' we would look at his song 'Hurricane' that touched the lives of many and contributed to empowering the African-American people in the 1960's.Musical break introducing the segment1966 was a ... aid had happened, and doing it in an acceptable form of music, so by using 'Hurricane' Dylan was disempowering the white people and empowering the black's with his words, and as you would expect this ...

(5 pages) 41 0 4.3 Aug/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

A Common Sense View of Therapy: A look at Person-Centered Therapy

mportant. I think that by assuming that people can help themselves if the factors are right is very empowering for a client and also aids in promoting healthy self-images and concepts. Predominantly s ...

(3 pages) 136 0 3.4 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The need to develop healthy public policy

are two main objectives that the new public health is trying to achieve by involving the public.Empowering peopleChoosing Health identifies how people can be empowered to make healthy choices. ...

(6 pages) 290 0 3.7 Dec/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Abortion: Women's Empowerment

at pregnancy is always an ugly parisitic thing that happens to you, and is never beautiful. Its not empowering or beatiful to be able to form an entire mini-ecosystem within yourself that can support ... ithin yourself that can support and care for a new life. Even if its something men can't do.What is empowering however, is to have an abortion because it gives me an extra special right that men don't ...

(3 pages) 29 0 1.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Subject should be "Human Resource Management" I will discuss what activities a Human Resource Manager should focus on and Why money should not be used as a retention strategy

lower level employees, monitoring and limiting "executive perks" of the upper level management, and empowering not only my managers, but my employees as well in terms of recommending employees for for ... e manager would be to focus on managerial interaction with the employees, limiting executive perks, empowering my employees, creating a "family friendly" work environment, and hiring people based on t ...

(4 pages) 109 0 4.7 Feb/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Empowerment: Theoretical Background and Applications

ructure to amore open, democratic and participative approach, a key issue manyorganizations face is empowering their employees. Empowerment is definedfor purposes of this paper as the ability of emplo ... in turn allows them to feel more engaged in the functioning of theorganization; two of the goals in empowering employees. By being betterinformed, the employees are more totally able to see that the o ...

(21 pages) 320 0 4.8 Feb/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Barbie doll represents many things in American society, but at the end of the day she is just a doll.

as a negative figure that presents an impossible body image to women, she can also be viewed as an empowering figure used to show young girls today that they could be anything they want to be by work ...

(3 pages) 56 1 2.7 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

The Gold Rush

workers a voice, and brought fairness in to the workplace. I believe that the union's early days of empowering a work force and forcing the implementation of federal laws to protect the workers has su ...

(1 pages) 1164 0 1.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Employee Motivation.

l board, and also a former Alcatel engineer.Our Principal likes to enforce innovative ideas such as empowering the employees, promoting flexibility, encouraging the feeling of ownership and using vari ...

(3 pages) 157 1 3.9 Oct/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management