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"Gender, Ethics and Empowerment", 2002.
An evaluation of a recent paper published in the journal ?Women?s Studies International Forum,? published by Regina Scheyvens and Helen Leslie entitled ?Gender, Ethics and Empowerment: Dilemmas of Development Fieldwork.?
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 1 source, APA, AU$ 102.95
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This essay is an evaluation of a recent paper published in the journal ?Women?s Studies International Forum,? published by Scheyvens and Leslie, in which the authors present facts and discussions related to several important issues for researchers pursuing ethnographic and cultural studies related to women?especially third world women. This essay involves an assessment of the following: Is there, or should there (or not) be a power distinction between the researchers and their subjects? Can the work be regarded as legitimate because of the vast differences in cultural perceptions? Certain ethical questions also crop up: Can the researchers bridge the gender divide and have males research females in third world countries? Is there an imposition of a researcher?s sentimentality on the research, and is this exploitative? How valuable is such research?can it be presented objectively, honestly and more importantly in an unbiased manner? And, can such research help empower third world women? This essay addresses these issues within the context of the Scheyvens and Leslie?s paper.
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"The authors? work is also very limited. Consider the countries they talk about: Fiji, El Salvador, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. The title of their paper is misleading; it promises sweeping work that would lead to generalized conclusions. The countries used in the research do not allow that. The countries researched are very isolated, quasi-aboriginal and primitive cultures though, this is not an indictment of these countries. Developing countries (third world) like India and China where poverty and sexism exist within a modern infrastructure (and a range of social situations?urban and rural) would provide a better subject for such a study. Religion (or its lack in China) plays an important role in the customs and traditions of these countries. Also, India and China have enjoyed fairly evolved civilizations before becoming the over-populated behemoths they are today. The paper, in its limited scope, should be more aptly titled ?Empowerment of women of the Pacific Islands and El Salvador.? "
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Cross-Cultural Gender and Gender Relations in Horticultural Societies, 2002.
This paper examines the gender roles in horticultural societies.
1,990 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, AU$ 102.95
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This paper shows the difference that agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation made in gender relationships.
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"The first evidence of agriculturists, sedentary lifestyles, and social differentiation that archaeologists and anthropologists have distinguished come from groups termed Horticulturists. Though the past record remains relatively scant in regards, anthropologists have used existing ones as a locus of study and interpretation. More numerous than surviving hunter-gatherer groups, horticultural societies also show an incredible range of gender diversity between groups, more numerous, in fact, than any other extent societal model. The quantity of studies that has come as a result of this are astounding. Those done in the area of New Guinea alone, home to at least two hundred different horticultural societies, provide ample evidence to add weight to the debate of nurture over nature, by sheer examples of the differences in living and understanding gender roles in such a relatively small and homogenous environmental area. "
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Gendered Technologies and Gendered Jobs, 2002.
A comparison between women studying and working with computer technology and the sciences in North America and women studying science and technology in Asia.
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Explores how the gendered development of technology in a research setting impacts the gendered use of technology in the industrial or commercial setting, as well as the cultural barriers to women's advancement in the high-tech economy.
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Gender Issues and Third Gender Problems, 2002.
A look at how transsexuals fit into society.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 85.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper discusses gender from anthropological perspective and finds out how transsexuals are treated in different societies of the world. While males and female may fight each other over who is stronger, they are the fortunate ones for they belong to two accepted genders but for transsexuals adjusting to the norms of restrictive societies may not be easy as they are not considered a part of the social fabric in many cultures of the world.
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Empowerment and Organizational Management, 2005.
A look at the importance of giving empowerment to employees.
2,358 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 116.95
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The objective of this paper is to show how employee empowerment affects organizations. Empowerment refers to the act of delegating authority along with the responsibility for accomplishing given tasks. It looks at how it is unreasonable to expect an employee to complete a task successfully unless that employee was given the authority to carry it out and how empowerment gives employees the feeling of belonging, allowing them to feel pride in their work and take ownership of tasks that may otherwise be mundane.
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Personnel Responsibility
Special Cause Variation
Shewhart Control Charts
Control
Negative Impact of Empowerment
Breakthrough
Conclusion
Resources
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"The problems of achieving goals in business arise out of variation. The decrease in sales compared to the previous year, excessive costs when compared to the budget, and deviation of a product from the specified target are a few examples. The variation in a given outcome can come from hundreds if not thousands of causes. However, as "the grandfather of total quality management" Walter Shewhart stated, it will take several lifetimes to study all the causes that affect outcome. But if there is a way to separate the significant causes from the insignificant, it may be a reasonably good start. "
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Nurse Empowerment: Why Bother?, 2004.
Looks at how the empowerment of nurses can improve their job satisfaction level and reduce the high turnover rate.
5,477 words (approx. 21.9 pages), 20 sources, MLA, AU$ 216.95
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This paper looks at why the empowerment of nurses will benefit not only the nurses, but the health care industry and what can be done to promote this empowerment. Specifically, the paper looks at the measures and changes that must be made in jobs, organizational styles, and workplace protocols to lead to empowerment.
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"Exceedingly rapid technological progress has resulted in a change in our human resources and human activities environment. There have of course been changes within the healthcare environment for both licensed and unlicensed providers of care. These changes have required most workers to do more with less and place a greater emphasis on teamwork with independent decision making for each worker involved, no matter what their scope (Barker, 1990). All healthcare delivery systems are seeing dramatic changes in their manning and their organizational ladders. In order for all these changes to be managed effectively without any change in provision of quality healthcare, leaders and managers must understand how these changes and stresses affect workers? attitudes. The issues of leadership style and work related empowerment have become catch words but actually represent very important ideas (Douglas, 1995). That is fundamentally positive, referring to solutions rather than to problems and is dynamic in nature, power is taken over and given away, power is shared. Power is usually associated with a negative connotation ? there is an association with hierarchy, authoritarianism, and generally with the restriction of a person?s freedom of action. Empowerment is an abstract concept. It is especially important as personnel resources are not being increased but rather decreased. This represents a change in the delivery of care and will require a significant transition in the nurse-manager?s leadership style to help subordinates accept the adjustment in work and their new levels of productivity."
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Love and Women Empowerment, 2002.
An examination of the themes of love and women empowerment in D. H. Lawrence?s ?The Horse-Dealer?s Daughter? and ?Odor of Chrysanthemums?.
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?Horse-Dealer?s Daughter? illustrates the renewed strength that Mabel creates after she had been deprived for a long time of her right to make her own decisions, and be independent from her patriarchal family. Elizabeth of ?Odor of Chrysanthemums? also experienced women empowerment at the initial part of the story, but loses this as she realizes that her proud character was the reason why her marriage became unhappy and did not work out until her husband?s death. The themes of love and women empowerment are discussed in context with the two short stories by D. H Lawrence, including an analysis of how the character?s portrayal illustrates these themes.
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"A ?The Horse Dealer?s Daughter? show how Mabel, the protagonist, was illustrated as a woman deprived of a good life and is considered by her brothers and her society as a functional and self-reliant individual. The author?s description of Mabel illustrates how she is portrayed by her society: ?Mabel had no associates of her own sex? She regularly went to church, she attended to her father. She had suffered badly during the period of poverty. Now, for Mabel, the end had come. She would follow her own way just the same. She would always hold the keys of her own situation.? Lawrence?s use of Mabel?s character as a decisive and functional female is actually the external appearance of what Mabel wants to display in public; in reality, she is a woman beaten down by the pressures and limited opportunities society and her family had given her. Her family?s descent to poverty and the constant reprimanding of her brothers about her made her decide the ?keys of her own situation? through committing suicide."
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Addressing Tenants' Rights and Empowerment, 2002.
This paper addresses the concept that: "Tenants' empowerment is about attitudes, not structures."
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This paper addresses the concept that: "Tenants' empowerment is about attitudes, not structures." This is achieved through investigating the relationship that a tenant can have with their landlord in terms of their connection with the property, and the connection that the tenants can develop with their landlords. Through investigating these issues, it is demonstrated that tenants can achieve a more substantial degree of empowerment through their attitudes rather than their actual physical rights as tenants.
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The Teacher Empowerment Movement, 2004.
An analysis of the influence of the teacher empowerment movement to public school principals over the last twenty-five years.
983 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 55.95
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This paper researches and examines how the teacher empowerment movement over the past 25 years has influenced the public school principal to practice collaborative leadership. The paper contends that the empowerment of teachers not only leads to better pedagogy among teachers but culminates in the motivation of students, which raises achievement among students as well.
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Statement of Thesis
Introduction
The Roles of Principals
School Reform
Conclusion
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"The benefits provided to teachers through the teacher empowerment are inclusive of increases in teacher job performance, improved morale of teachers, increased knowledge of subject matter and pedagogy, and finally resulting higher motivation among students as well as higher achievement. As a result, teachers, and ultimately, their students and their schools, could potentially receive the full benefits of teacher empowerment if principals hone their focus on the appropriate leadership behaviors and policies to effectively maximize teacher empowerment (Keiser & Shen, 2000:115). Short and Rinehart (1993) "Teacher empowerment and school climate" p.592 state that, "Teacher empowerment relates to greater organizational effectiveness.""
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The Empowerment of Nurses, 2008.
An argument for the increased autonomy and empowerment of nurses.
713 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, AU$ 41.95
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This paper discusses the values of promoting the empowerment of nurses. It argues that, given greater autonomy in decision-making, nurses will feel more professional satisfaction and commitment, leading to higher morale and efficiency in the work place. It also claims that, when nurses are given a higher degree of informal power, the results are observed in greater accountability, productivity, and work effectiveness. Furthermore, this has an impact on collegiality since stronger alliances with peers are established.
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"The primary moral principle invariably is respect for persons; from that main principle emerge other principles such as autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, confidentiality, fidelity, veracity, and justice (ANA, 2001). Respect for the inherent dignity and worth of every patient is the core principle for nursing practice (ANA, 2001). The ANA's (1995) belief that the person is holistic and possesses an inherent unity, which must be contextually and culturally defined, is correlated with that principle. Autonomy for nurses must be intrinsic and a personal choice; if it is the result of extrinsic influences, autonomy is extremely restricted. Intrinsic autonomy is only possible in nursing environments where staff can exert control. Accountability depends on the degree of autonomy that can be exercised as well as the extent to which nurses are empowered (Laschinger & Wong, 1999)."
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Empowerment and Group Decision Making, 2005.
Considers how empowerment and participative decision making improves the decision making process within organizations.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, AU$ 128.95
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This paper considers how empowerment and participative decision making improves the decision making process within organizations. It looks at downsizing efforts that empower workers and the benefits to the organization of participative decision making.
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"In recent years groups have become increasingly important in the American workplace as companies move toward fewer managers, more empowered workers and away from hierarchical organizational structures ..."
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The Empowerment of Education for Women, 2001.
This paper deals with the desirability of educational empowerment for the woman as reflected in the works of Bronte, Austen and Wollstonecraft.
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This paper looks at the way in which women have achieved empowerment through education as shown through the works of Austen, Bronte and Wollstonecraft. It looks at their personal experiences as well as the experiences of women in their works.
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"It should not surprise us that Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Mary Wollstonecraft should in their works emphasize the importance of education to the women of their own generation. Each of these women themselves had personal experience with the ways in which education had widened their own horizons. And each also had knowledge of women who had not received any education and thus had the already circumscribed role allotted to women made even smaller. These three women understood from the measure of their own lives that what freedom existed for women, and what power was available to women, would come through education."
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The Concept of Empowerment, 2008.
This paper explores the concept of empowerment and its application in psychology, nursing and education.
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The paper discusses how people need to define their jobs, businesses and even the directions they are taking in life in order to contribute what they can to the growth of human society. The paper explores how empowerment is utilized in the fields of psychology, nursing and education.
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Psychology
Nursing
Education
Conclusion
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"Empowerment is a process of unleashing the human potential and enhancing the human ability to effect and maintain societal growth (Rubino 2007). It has gained emphasis in these times of unprecedented change and crises encountered in the face of limited resources. Major transitions in society have produced an upheaval and a feeling of uncertainty. People need to define their jobs, businesses and even the directions they are taking in life. This transition incurs overwhelming change, accompanied by a sense of loss and uncertainty. This is particularly true to those who have not found their place in which to grow and fulfill their perceived role."
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Diabetes Education and Empowerment, 2001.
Analysis of empowerment based models, medical model. Evaluative issues. Proposes evaluation instrument.
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"The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK, 2000) estimates that approximately 16 million Americans have diabetes which the institute defines simply as too much glucose in the blood. The Institute further notes that 50 percent (8 million people) of those who have diabetes are unaware that they have the condition and are receiving no medical treatment; the seriousness of this fact is heightened when one considers that diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in America and constitutes a huge portion of yearly medical spending.
Indeed, the NIDDK states that while diabetes affects 4.5 percent of the U.S. population, it accounts for 14.6 percent of..."
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Empowerment in "Lara Croft", 2006.
Argues that the movie, "Lara Croft:Tombraider" serves to exhibit the antithesis of female empowerment and reinforces negative feminine stereotypes.
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The paper argues that "Lara Croft" may seem like an empowering role model for some women because of the way she triumphs in an apparently male-dominated world. However, Lara merely comes across as an object designed to inspire male fantasy as demonstrated by her clothing, demeanor, and relationships, all of which beckon for attention from a predominantly male audience. The paper argues that Lara's haughty behavior and demeanor not only broadcast the false message that a woman needs to be improper to succeed, but are also used in a way to shamelessly draw male attention. Finally, the fact that Lara doesn't have any men in her life at first gives the impression that she is a strong, independent woman. Though, as this paper explores, she is actually quite dependent on her father, while the absence of a male by her side invites the male viewer to occupy that empty space in his imagination.
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"Thus, male clothing becomes synonymous with victory over males, and Lara ostensibly becomes a symbol of female empowerment as one who transcends the overwhelming obstacles set forth by a male dominated society - all with the aid of her attire. In actuality, however, Lara's victory-by-apparel suggests that if a woman is to succeed in a male dominated world, she must wear a man's clothes, which ultimately disassociates her with her feminine identity, despite the feminine features her clothing may accentuate. Instead of signaling empowerment, Lara's clothes acknowledge that one must possess male traits in order to excel in an openly male-dominated world."
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