Essays on Natures

What is Organizational Development?

Within the business world today there are many terms for the many different processes that can be used by organizations in order to bring about organizational success. One such term is organizational development. Let us examine organizational development from two different definitions to include the standard and the new definition of the term.

Old Standard Definition of Organizational Development

The very natures of organizations today as well as the needs of the organizations are changing intensely. Organizational development must occur in order to meet these changing needs of the business. While there are several definitions to this term, the standard definition was created in 1969 ...

Abstract

Decision situations can be analyzed using different methods out which decision trees are useful to analyze complex situations. Frequently, decision situation is complicated because the payoffs are not only dependent on the initial decision but also dependent on the additional decisions are taken in the sequential step process. Decision trees can identify the best initial as well as the best subsequent actions. The decision criterion that a decision tree satisfies the Bayesian expected payoff criterion. The present case has multiple alternatives and multiple probabilities; decision tree is the best method for solving this. The resulting decision tree has three ...

The Eloi in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine

The Eloi are one of two races of people the Time Traveler encounters on his arrival to to the future. They are “a group of figures clad in rich soft robes” (Wells 20). They are graceful with a gentle and frail beauty who surround the Traveler and his machine in their first encounter. Their non-threatening nature which lacks aggression inspires a confidence in the Traveler as he faces the new people without fear. The Traveler gives the reader some perspective into his view of Eloi people. While the Traveler is revealed ...

In one of his most influential theological and philosophical works, Blaise Pascal defends Christian religion, referring to its complex nature, human thinking mechanisms and various misunderstandings that surround the issue. In this essay I shall demonstrate that throughout the discourse, Pascal appeals to spiritual agnosticism, when proving his point. This shall be established by analyzing the passage, which says: “We know truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart, and it is in this last way that we know first principles; and reason, which has no part in it, tries in vain to impugn them” (Pascal ...

In 1984, Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University biologist, noted that human beings have innate and evolutionarily-based affinities to nature, and hence it is not possible to disconnect their subconscious from the natural environment. He coined the term biophilia to refer to this case, in which humans remain always attached to the natural environment. The most compelling reason why humans must affiliate themselves to natures, that is tree and water, is that they are needed for survival. Many architectural designers are being pressured to incorporate biophilia elements in their designs. Trees and the natural environment in general are needed ...