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If the motivation-hygiene theory holds, management not only must provide hygiene factors to avoid employee dissatisfaction, but also must provide factors intrinsic to the work itself in order for employees to be satisfied with their jobs.

Men and women frequently conform to certain roles and stereotypes. This, perhaps, begins with the colors blue and pink being traditionally prescribed to male and female infants respectively. It often continues with such things as make-up and lipstick for women and cut hair for men. Are such...

Media tend to generalize. In commercials, films, books, etc. it is much easier to generalize than to put together all pieces of the puzzle. Therefore, many "established prejudices" still remain, such as: * Women are portrayed as sexual objects. Beauty is being prioritized over education and...

Trends of what to wear and how to look have great impact on our everyday lives. The question is - does fashion have bad effect on people in general? Fashion is all about inequality. We all tend to look up to models and celebrities wearing expensive clothes. Fashion trends therefore harm...

The creation of a database of DNA would allow police to use DNA in order to search for a suspect, rather than merely to provide evidence once a suspect has been apprehended. The British police have operated a database of the DNA of convicted criminals since 1995. New York City Mayor Rudy...

Osama bin Laden was killed by American Navy SEAL forces on May 2nd, 2011. After being given a rapid burial at sea, a debate emerged surrounding whether the photos that had been taken of his dead body should be released to the public, mostly as proof of his death. After much deliberation and a...

Crime cameras are a relatively new development in crime fighting. With the technology behind cameras and information networks advancing dramatically in recent decades, the availability and affordability of crime cameras has increased. Cities around the world with high crime rates have, as a...

At the time where X-ray controls and body scanners are becoming more and more common at the airports, a question of violating - unjustifiably infringing on - one's privacy (which can be in this case defined as the ability to reveal pesonal information selectively). Do modern airport security...

Many countries restrict the right of those sentenced to imprisonment to vote in elections. For example, convicted prisoners are automatically banned from voting in Armenia, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Luxemburg, Romania, Russia and the United Kingdom. In Australia, prisoners...

In 1950, following the rise to power of the Communist Party of China under General Mao Zedong, Chinese troops invaded Tibet. China has controlled Tibet ever since. While disputed, Tibet was effectively independent between 1912 and 1950 and for much its long history. China also claims periods in...

Some environmental groups, such as Greenpeace, oppose fish farming and want it to be banned or severely restricted. However, supporters of fish farming argue that it is a cheap and sustainable way to provide healthy food to large numbers of people. Should fish farming be banned or severely...

Religious defamation, or blasphemy, is the use of the name of one or more gods, in a manner which is considered objectionable by a religious authority. It may include using sacred names as stress expletives without intention to pray or speak of sacred matters; it is also sometimes defined as...

Imagine if a "backwards" developing agricultural economy could learn to make use of American-style precision farming methods, such as satellite weather forecasts, GPS-guided fertilizer application, and online commodity markets. Even on a small scale, such knowledge could transform many...

Year-round schools educational institutions are based on a schedule that has school throughout most of the calendar year, as opposed to having no school in summer. A motivation is that higher student throughput is accomplished via more effective scheduling of school resources. Are year-round...

At present, the world and individual countries are as divided with regard to adoption as to other area of gay rights. As of 2000, four states in the USA (Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi and Utah) have specifically outlawed gay adoption, as have some Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, and...

Many Christians believe that the earth and all living things on it were created by God in six days, the exact length of these "days" being disputed. Since the origins and development of life are an important part of the school science curriculum, the question of what schools and should not be...

The one-child policy is the population control policy (or planned birth policy) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Chinese government introduced the policy in 1979 to alleviate the social and environmental problems of China. The policy is controversial both within and outside China...

The debate surrounding merit pay for teachers has existed for decades in many countries around the world. The debate has been particularly heated in the United States, where, since the 1920s, public schools began awarding pay primarily according to title and seniority rather than merit. Does...

Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions. The most common method today is through nuclear fission, though other methods include nuclear fusion and radioactive decay. All current methods involve heating a working...

"Enhanced interrogation techniques" were a series of harsh, coercive interrogation methods employed by the Bush Administration - through the Central Intelligence Agency and US Military - to extract intelligence for the intended purpose of strengthening the War on Terror and national security. Do...