Author: chris

Managerial Decision Making

creating, justifying, and explaining a decision-making proposal

  • Executive Summary
    This summary is a short, carefully worded description of the problem situation that identifies the recommended solution. A brief justification and explanation of the selection method is to be included, highlighting factors that contributed to selecting the recommended alternative.
  • Decision Problem Overview
    Describe the nature and scope of the decision problem selected, its history together with causes, and the outcomes of any previous attempts to deal with it.

In order to define the problem correctly, the following questions should be addressed.

  • What is the general nature of the problem?
  • What event triggered the situation?
  • Are we imposing any constraints on the situation?
  • What are the underlying elements of the problem?
  • Are there dependencies on other decisions?

Sociology of Film

Draw on Carringer’s Making of Citizen Kane and your reading of Welles’ Kane to construct a well organized and richly documentation case, based on Kane, of Griswold’s conception of art as a "group creation."

MAIN SOURCES:
Robert L. Carringer. 1996, The Making of Citizen Kane, Ch. 2, 4

W. Griswold, "Culture and the Cultural Diamond." Pages 1-19 from Culture and Societies in a Changing World

W. Griswold, "Cultural Meaning." Ch. 2,Culture and Societies in a Changing World

W. Griswold, "Culture as Social Creation." Pp. 44-68 in Culture and Societies in a Changing World

Project Management and Control

You must carry out a critical evaluation of the UK project “The Millennium Dome”, focusing on the way in which it was planned and executed. Following your analysis and critique of the project, the final section of your report should give recommendations as to how the management of the project could have been improved.

practice development or critical incident within contemporary practice

a. What were the key features of the incident/ practice development which you feel influence your area of practice? Justify how you enhance content with detailed examination and evaluation of the literature.
b. What were the effects of the incident / practice development on the patient / colleagues/carers?
c. Identify and critically analyse your own role/actions in this incident/practice development and those of the other members of the multidisciplinary team, demonstrating the integration of the evidence you have discussed within the role developments.
d. What external factors and evidence may have influenced the incident? Policies, protocols, guidelines, environmental issues etc, and develop a discussion critically appraisin these areas.
e. What were the positive and negative features of this incident / practice development, and how did this underpin your action plan for practice?
f. On appraisal of you own actions discuss what you have learnt about your own strengths and areas for development?
g. What strategic and personal developments have you included to demonstrate how you have synthesised the evidence to underpin your action plan?

psychology

1. Some scholars have argued that some of ibn Khaldun’s ideas might have influenced the social theories of Marx and Durkheim via early translations of parts of the Muqaddima into French. Discuss in what ways ibn Khaldun’s ideas may have been an influence on:
either: a) Marx theory of class struggle
or: b) Durkeim’s theory of social solidarity.

2. Both Durkheim’s and Weber’s theories may in part be understood as a response to Marx. Discuss in what ways either a) Durkheim or b) Weber wrote "against" Marx.

3. While Weber regarded the rationalisation of social life as the distinctive characteristic of modernity, Freud put the irrationality of the modern human at the centre of his analysis of modern civilisation. Do you see a contradiction between the two theories?