Understanding Consumerism and the Rise of Experiential Tourism
Understanding Consumerism and Experiential Tourism
Consumption has always been a part of society, but today we live in an overconsumeristic world where nearly everything is connected to consumption in a significant way. Many people don’t believe they are consumeristic, yet most end up consuming like everyone else. The most obvious examples are linked to specific days or seasons, such as Black Friday, sales periods, or Christmas.
Companies try to persuade us to buy their products, but this strategy
Read MoreHR Management Essentials: Personnel, Power, and Communication
HR Management Essentials
1. Personnel Management Activities
Daily activities of the personnel department to optimize HR utilization and achieve organizational strategy. These activities include:
- Stabilization
- Development
- Dismissal
2. Model of Organizational Space
The organizational space encompasses dimensions such as values, goals, structure, organizational climate, and the external environment.
3. Social Groups
A group is a collection of individuals with a common goal, interdependence, and a shared sense
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Chapter 4: Attending to Tasks and Relationships
1. What Are Task and Relationship Styles?
a. Task Style: Goal-oriented, focused on achievement, and finding meaning in work. Task-oriented individuals often use to-do lists, calendars, and planners.
b. Relationship Style: Finds meaning in being rather than doing, seeks connection with others, and celebrates relationships. These individuals have a strong orientation in the present.
2. The Task-Relationship Continuum
The task-relationship continuum is often
Read MoreMastering Spanish Grammar and Literature: A Comprehensive Analysis
The Nominal Phrase
The nominal phrase is a grammatical structure whose kernel is a noun.
The Verb Phrase
The verb phrase is a grammatical structure whose core is a verb.
Concordance
Because a subject and a verb phrase must unite to form a sentence, their nuclei must match in number and grammatical person. This is called concordance.
Ellipsis
In some sentences, the subject is omitted. This is called ellipsis and is used to avoid unnecessary repetitions.
Impersonal Sentences
Some impersonal sentences do not
Read MoreWork-Life Balance: Flextime, Telecommuting, and Workplace Stress
Class 3-10-2015
Video About Time
Key Dimensions of Flextime
- Core hours (number of hours they have to work)
- Bandwidth
- Flexible hours (number of hours employee can control)
- Length of work week (how many hours people work in the week)
- Banking hours
- Variability of employee schedules (key issue: do you have control over the size, how many hours you work)
- Supervisor’s role (are they comfortable with that)
- Choice of starting/quitting times
- Variable vs. constant length of day
- Core time (differs from core hours, this
Figures of Speech and Text Construction: A Comprehensive Resource
Chiasmus: An Inadequate Example of (K)
Figures of Construction: The Whole of Expressive or Peculiar Resources of the Literary Language
Metaphor
Metaphor is the substitution of one term for another based on a relationship of similarity.
Hyperbaton
Hyperbaton is the alteration of the normal order of a sentence by changing the position of its terms.
Comparison
Comparison connects two terms based on a relationship of similarity through an explicit link.
Euphemism
Euphemism is the substitution of a harsh term
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