Tepper School of Business Essays

  • Conflict Theory and the Movie Glory Road

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    structure, which designates social structure and influences the functioning of society. According to Steven Tepper, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, “Cultural conflict and moral regulation can serve to demarcate acceptable and unacceptable behavior, high- and low-status lifestyles, in- and outgroup membership, and reputable and disreputable values and beliefs” (Tepper 278). Caucasian society of 1966 placed restrictions, limits, and expectations that were dependent on race

  • Statement of Purpose for Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Science’s Economics Curriculum

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    While other children watched their favorite cartoon or played their favorite video game, reading business articles and watching the fluctuations seen in the stock market enthralled me. Renowned leaders in the business world have always been of interest to me, specifically Warren Buffet. My favorite quote by Buffet is “It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than you and you’ll drift in that direction.” By attending CMU, I would personify this

  • The Pros And Cons Of Workplace Violence

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    (2013, September 26). Boss’s Kindness Repaid With a Burst of Violence. Retrieved June 2014, from The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/27/nyregion/police-hunt-for-suspect-in-shooting-near-long-island-mall.html?_r=0#commentsContainer Tepper, B. J., Carr, J. C., Breauxc, D. M., Geider, S., Hue, C., & Hua, W. (2009). Abusive supervision, intentions to quit, and employees’ workplace deviance: A power/dependence analysis. In Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (pp. 156–167)

  • The Importance Of Personality Profile

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    the author similarly took and wrote down an absolute preference profile. This essay additionally explained two public situations- at the workplace and in school where the MBTI preference profile was necessary to solve difficult situations and how they would be handled differently with the knowledge acquired

  • Taking a Look at Psychoticism

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    Psychological Trait Analysis In the late 1970’s Hans Eysenck modified his two dimensional model of personality to allow for a third trait known as Psychoticism. This trait, now a part of Eysenck’s Psychoticism-Extraversion-Neuroticism model of psychology, is a pattern located in personality that Eysenck found and defined as the aggressive part of personality. It is from psychoticism that Eysenck believed all hostility in humans derived from. From Eysenck’s studies in the development of psychosis