Conflict Management in the Workplace Case Study:

Conflict management in the workplace is the activity aimed at the resolution of the conflicts which occur between employees or employees and their boss. Naturally, conflicts cause harm to the process of production, because they consume much time and efforts which could be spent on work.

Moreover, the majority of conflicts in the workplace reduce productiveness, because the quarrelling sides fulfill their duties in the insufficient way and very often the quality of work reduces on purpose.

The manager who wants to restore the healthy working atmosphere is supposed to possess a range of communicative skill and knowledge about the human psychology and behaviour. The manager is supposed to be aware about the cause and effect of the definite types of conflicts and his solutions and decision should be based on the intensive conflict resolution when both sides understand their mistakes and start cooperating further. Continue reading →

Case Study on Behavioural Finance:

Behavioural finance is the branch of economics which dwells on the psychological theories aimed at the research of the problem sounding why people make errors in the sphere of the financial decision making. The problem is extremely urgent, because in spite of understanding the consequences of the wrong decisions many businessmen make serious mistakes leading to bankrupting and crises of the firm. Behavioural finance is closely connected with risk management and main task of the theory is to understand the logic of managers and executives who make serious mistakes being aware that their decision is wrong and the percentage of the possible success is very low. Most often businessmen think that their risk is wise and it can provide them with the enormous profit. Moreover, without the risk there is no way of the further development of the company. Finally, the manager’s disability to evaluate the risk objectively leads to the financial failure which often finishes with bankrupting. Continue reading →

Behaviour Problems Case Study:

Behaviour problems are the problems which occur because of the impropriate human behaviour.

Naturally, behaviour problems cause much harm to the human activity and social life and everyone should devote many efforts to train his will and maintain the appropriate type of behaviour. It is quite obvious that every event, every place and case requires its own type of behaviour, for example, at school students have to behave well following the rules and fulfill their duties. At the lesson the behaviour should be formal and restrained, while at the break up students have the right to behave informally and freely. In the regular conditions the individual is expected to keep his emotions, reactions and behaviour in the whole under control, but when one can not behave according to the rules and standards of the definite situation, behaviour problems occur. The problem is especially widespread among children. It is quite a common problem that children do not understand how to behave at school and with elderly people. Continue reading →

Benchmarking Case Study:

Benchmarking is the process of the company’s analysis and evaluation of the examples of the successful work of other companies with the purpose of improvement of its own work. The main processes related with benchmarking are evaluation and comparison. Most often, the role of an example of the successful and profitable company play the firms and great corporations which have already achieved something and occupied their steady places on their sectors of the market. It is quite wise to pay attention to the developed and prosperous companies while establishing your own firm. One is able to study the history of the establishing of the company, the stages of its development, the variety of its activity and production. Naturally, it is easier to learn on the mistakes of other people, so the example of the development of the other company can be quite useful.

Benchmarking is treated like one of the methods of the decision making and creation of the company’s strategy but very often this method is not useful and even harmful for the novice firm. Continue reading →

Case Study about Adolescent Problems:

Adolescent problems are the behavioural, psychological and physical problems which occur among the people of the age from 11 to 17. The period of adolescence is characterized with the radical changes in the young person’s body and her worldview. It is obvious that the human organism starts growing rapidly in this period and very soon young people reach to the height of the grownups. Of course, the adolescent age is the period of the rapid physiological changes, because their body growth, but the development of the nervous and cardio-vascular system is slower, that is why teenagers require more time for sleeping and they tired quite often. The biggest changes are observed in the endocrine system, because hormones influence the teenager’s life and their behaviour. Then, adolescent problems include social troubles, because the teenager starts entering the social life and communication with other people, especially with the representatives of the opposite gender. Continue reading →

Adolf Hitler Case Study:

Adolf Hitler is a public and political figure of Germany of the first part of the 20th century. He was a famous chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and the leader of the national-socialistic Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Hitler is mostly associated with the beginning of World War 2, where Germany was defeated by the united armies of allies. In spite of the strict foreign policy Adolf Hitler was sincerely respected in his country, because his reforms managed to restore the economics of Germany and cope with the consequences of the Great Depression and the previous defeat of Germany after War World 1.

Hitler took the active part in the War and was aware about the existing problems in the German armed forces being in the bottom of this system. He managed to carry out reforms in the military sector and wanted to restore the German pre war positions and started World War 2. Continue reading →

Behaviour Modification Case Study:

Behaviour modification is the complex of efforts aimed at the improvement and correction of the human behaviour in order to make it suitable to the environment, time and place. The techniques of behaviour modification are supposed to correct the human behaviour with the help of the various methods, including encouragement and punishment. It is obvious that different methods cause the different effect on the human behaviour and its effectiveness. The development and first ideas about behaviour modification appeared in the first part of the 20th century when the famous psychologists started thinking about the reasons of the behaviour problems. In order to cope with the problems it is important to brainstorm the right methods which can be appropriate to the patient, his social group, gender and age. The best results of the behaviour modification are received during the work with the younger people, especially children, because they are the most malleable to the influence of the corrector. Continue reading →

Acute Stress Disorder Case Study:

Acute stress disorder is the state of the strong anxiety and other symptoms which occur after a shocking accident which has affected the victim’s psychics negatively. the brightest examples of acute stress disorder occur after the tragic experience faced by an individual who has witnessed a car accident, air crash, the fire, the death of a great number of people or a close person. The person experiences the symptoms of the disorder during the first month after the tragic event and they are associated with anxiety, numbing, dissociative amnesia, etc. Amnesia is quite a common symptom after the strong shock, because the human mind wants to get rid of the stressing image of the irritant which causes harm to the human psychics. The irritant is forgotten and the person does not remember what has caused her chronic stress and constant anxiety. The negative side of the acute stress disorder is the risk of the development of the disorder into something more serious, for example, posttraumatic stress disorder. Continue reading →

Aeroplane Crash Case Study:

Aeroplane crash is the serious catastrophe which has occurred with the aircraft (plane, aeroplane, planet, etc) and caused a certain number of the human deaths. Since the development of aviation in the end of the 19th century, millions of human lives have been lost because of the impropriate technical condition of the aircraft or the unskilful activity of the pilot. Nearly every day we can read at least one news report about an aeroplane crash which took the definite number of the human lives. Of course, there are cases when people receive only a strong shock after the troublesome landing or taking off of the plane, but more often the plane is crashed seriously that there are at least several deaths. Because of the very slight chance for survival in the aeroplane crash, many people mistakenly think that travelling by air is the most dangerous means of travelling. Continue reading →

Adolescent Egocentrism Case Study:

Adolescent egocentrism is the teenager’s belief that the attention of the surrounding people is focused on his personality. The phenomenon of the adolescent egocentrism is quite a typical thing among teenagers, which starts at the age of 11 and lasts sometimes to the age of 23. The early adolescent egocentrism is the beginning of the young person’s understanding of her uniqueness and thinking about her body image. The teenager wants to look nice believing that her appearance is the most important factor which can help her reach to success. The peak of the adolescent egocentrism is observed among the teenagers of the age of 14 – 16. In this period they try to look and behave as if they are grownups. This age is supposed to be the most difficult for both teenagers and their parents, because young people suffer from constant stress and the desire of looking cool and mature. In this age they start smoking, consuming alcohol and even try taking light drugs in order to be accepted in their social groups. Continue reading →