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  2. Tick-box culture - Wikipedia

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    In social work, tick-box culture means there is too much emphasis on following rules instead of actually helping children. [7]In the US criminal justice system, some performance measures appear to have more influence on outcomes than others, and police targets have led to the criminalization of greater numbers of children, while goals for reduction youth in detention remain unmet. [8]

  3. Fish! Philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Each principle assigned to a group of the pediatric team that Ms. Gomez, charge nurse of the unit, divided. The feedback from the parents after the change was very promising. Ms. Gomez has stated, “They [the employees] like coming to work again…”. [7] The Fish! Philosophy is applied in companies as far away as the Middle East.

  4. Mobbing - Wikipedia

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    Some researchers claim that mobbing is simply another name for bullying. Workplace mobbing can be considered as a "virus" or a "cancer" that spreads throughout the workplace via gossip, rumour and unfounded accusations. It is a deliberate attempt to force a person out of their workplace by humiliation, general harassment, emotional abuse and/or ...

  5. Herd mentality - Wikipedia

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    Herd mentality is the tendency for people’s behavior or beliefs to conform to those of the group they belong to. The concept of herd mentality has been studied and analyzed from different perspectives, including biology, psychology and sociology. This psychological phenomenon can have profound impacts on human behavior.

  6. Foxes in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In Dogon mythology, the fox [1] is reported to be either the trickster god of the desert, who embodies chaos [2] or a messenger for the gods. [3]There is a Tswana riddle that says that "Phokoje go tsela o dithetsenya [Only the muddy fox lives] meaning that, in a philosophical sense, 'only an active person who does not mind getting muddy gets to progress in life.'

  7. The Hedgehog and the Fox - Wikipedia

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    In the original essay ("a fox who all his life sought, unsuccessfully, to be a hedgehog") FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver: Its logo is a fox, alluding to Archilochus' saying [7] Warren Buffett: William Thorndike Sigmund Freud: Peter Gay "a fox who at times affected a hedgehog's clothing" McDonald's: Tom Gara "firing multiple shots in all ...

  8. Herd behavior - Wikipedia

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    Shimmering behaviour of Apis dorsata (giant honeybees). A group of animals fleeing from a predator shows the nature of herd behavior, for example in 1971, in the oft-cited article "Geometry for the Selfish Herd", evolutionary biologist W. D. Hamilton asserted that each individual group member reduces the danger to itself by moving as close as possible to the center of the fleeing group.

  9. Learned industriousness - Wikipedia

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    Learned industriousness is a behaviorally rooted theory developed by Robert Eisenberger to explain the differences in general work effort among people of equivalent ability. According to Eisenberger, individuals who are reinforced for exerting high effort on a task are also secondarily reinforced by the sensation of high effort. Individuals ...