...HOLIDAY DECISION MAKING: PROCESS OF LEISURE DISCOVERY AND ADAPTABILITY. The following essay attempts to discuss and critically evaluate the traditional problem solving, cognitive model of consumer decision making process with that of holiday decision making. The writing begins with the introduction phase which discusses the traditional model of consumer decision making process. The following subsection discusses the sequential stages involved in the traditional consumer decision making, following is a comparative analysis between holiday decision making and traditional consumer decision making based on the stages involved in traditional consumer decision making. A conclusion that summarizes this study follows thereafter. I. INTRODUCTION “Consumer behavior reflects the totality of consumers’ decisions with respect to the acquisition, consumption and disposition of goods, services, activities, experiences, people and ideas overtime.” (Wayne D. Hoyer, Deborah J. Maclnnis 2008). This means that as much as the consumer will purchase a certain product e.g. soap, based on his preference of brands, he may also purchase a product such as a book just because it has been written by a popular author. Consumer decision making is about market choice behavior where consumers must make a decision between two or more competing alternatives, and thereafter decide on whether to purchase the alternative. The consumer decision making process is the stages that a consumer goes through in order...
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...therefore, meant to guide controversial issues in a company environment. These issues include corporate social responsibility, discrimination, unlawful practices, corporate governance, bribery or corruption, insider trading and other irresponsible business behaviors. Ethics is at times guided by local frameworks chosen by different companies. These structures act as a way of enhancing their image and public trust, but it is a requirement that values is guided by a duly constituted legal framework (Paliwal, 2006). This paper, therefore, discusses business ethics in an organizational context and also delves into ethical dilemmas, moral leadership, interpersonal skills and teamwork in an enterprise environment. Appendix A- The Ethical Leadership Debate Ethical leadership incorporates two key aspects. The first point refers to the way the leader treats and works with the subordinates in his behavior in public, and also in his actions and statements. The second point lies in the decision-making process.In the leader’s mindset, in character, in values and the leader’s ability to make right decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas (Toole, 2010). The case study is very interesting as it presents a case for proponents of business ethics and ethical leadership as well as the...
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...widely known as Euro Disneyland was not successful for various reasons which include planning , cultural differences etc. Evaluating some of the areas that went wrong in case of Euro Disney: Walt Disney, a highly successful organization of US, comes up with a theme park, Euro Disney located outside of Paris, France. The Walt Disney Company was one of the American organizations which expand its business to the foreign soil. Doing a very successful and profitable business throughout US, California and Florida, the company established its first foreign venture Tokyo Disneyland, another winning and profitable business of Walt Disney. Being successful from Tokyo Disneyland, the company decided to further expand abroad and enhance its foreign presence, Euro Disney comes forward. But in case of Euro Disney, the company made some wrong steps in decision making which in turn experienced numerous complications from its inception. Below some areas are discussed critically that went wrong in case of Euro Disney. Location or area and environment selection were wrong in first place. Though French suggested to building the Euro Disneyland into the East Paris despite the West because it could turn the people from East to West. Paris is colder than California and Florida, so people weren’t interested to visit for a long time. Environment is a big issue for any business setup, but Euro Disney made the selection wrongly. Another bold issue was cultural differences. Cultural differences exist in...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Lahore University of Management Sciences] On: 02 May 2015, At: 09:58 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rana20 Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel Julia F. Hibbert a b a , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin a a School of Tourism, Bournemouth University , Fern Barrow, Poole , BH12 5BB , United Kingdom b School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University , Kalmar , Sweden Published online: 25 Jan 2013. To cite this article: Julia F. Hibbert , Janet E. Dickinson & Susanna Curtin (2013) Understanding the influence of interpersonal relationships on identity and tourism travel, Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 24:1, 30-39, DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2012.762313 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Taylor & Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in the publications on our platform. However, Taylor & Francis, our agents, and our licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness...
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...Case Study #2 Holidays are “Party Time” Stacy has been a VP for 20 years in the Government Relations department at NYU Langone Medical Center. In addition to working at NYU she is a volunteer EMT at Harlem Hospital. She is consistently in the Amsterdam News because of her community activity and is always an honorary Marshall for Harlem Week festivities. Stacy has a stellar attendance record never missing a day in 20 years and has been commended for her outstanding work ethic. She formerly served as a Shop Steward, Chief Shop Steward and Organizer for the union. She earned a college degree at the National Labor College/George Meany Center of Labor Studies. She also earned a Master’s degree in Labor Studies from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Because she worked for the union and now works in management she is highly respected by both labor and management. During the holidays in December Stacy made the rounds at various parties at the hospital, City Hall and Albany. She has been known to like her beverage of choice. At each stop Stacy engaged in pulling a few folks aside to tell racial jokes. She has just gone through a nasty divorce with her ex-husband. Stacy has already announced that she cannot wait until the Labor Day festivities in September because she is really going to have a blast telling her jokes. She said she is considering attending an open microphone comedy audition at Caroline’s because she knows the manager. A recently...
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... Many people think this is the case that the Bible had been thrown out of public schools, but it was really the type of Bible reading that had been thrown out of Schools. There was a PA law that said, “At least ten verses from the Holy Bible shall be read, without comment, at the opening of each public school on each school day. Any child shall be excused from such Bible reading, or attending such Bible reading, upon the written request of his parent or guardian.” Edward Schempp challenged this law saying that the state should not be making Bible reading mandatory. The Supreme Court favored Schempp and declared “this type” of Bible reading in the public schools to be unconstitutional. They did however say, “It certainly may be said that the Bible is worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities.” Florey v. Sioux Falls School District This federal case dealt with Religious Holidays. The Sioux Falls school policy read, “Music, art, literature, and drama having religious themes or basis are permitted as part of the curriculum for school sponsored activities and programs if presented in a prudent and objective manner and as a traditional part of the cultural and religious heritage of the particular holiday.” However, the ACLU sued the school district over this policy, but ended up losing at both the local and federal level. The Supreme Court favored the inclusion of recognition of a holiday. Stone v. Graham This case dealt with a Kentucky law that required...
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...A’level Business - Scenario Case Study You are employed as a travel agent. Your customer the Smith Family has come to see you with regards to a holiday they are planning in the summer of 2015. The Smiths are a husband and Wife team with two children, John aged 7 and Arthur aged 17.The Smiths have a number of objectives they want you to consider when making a recommendation as to holiday choices. Their Objectives include: £2,500 budget for the entire trip They want evening entertainment for the whole family Kids clubs Easy access to the beach Sun, sea Your task is to write a report to the Smiths analysing three holiday destination i.e. Turkey, Disneyland, Florida and Majorca. You will need to structure your essay as follows: 1. a short introduction 2. Analyse destinations, look at the advantages and disadvantages of each destination and the impact it might have on the family and their objectives 3. Make a justified recommendation. Why is the option you selected better than the other options. Points to consider: Flight time, weather, activities, entertainment, distance to the beach, budget etc Year 13 HW Mr Ismail Within this report I will be assessing the suitability of three holiday destination for the Smith Family. In order to do this it is critical to understand the objectives of the family; evidence within the case study clearly shows that the family have a budget to work too i.e. £2500 and a number of resort requirements like sun, sea, sand, children’s clubs...
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...Energy unlike the majority of products characterizes for not being storable, creating the need for the most possibly accurate demand forecasts, since that allows doing an adequate planning in the generation systems. It is possible to estimate the necessary reserves and the flow levels, in the same way it is possible to increase the energetic system’s security and generally they allow doing an adequate management of the power system. Several forecast techniques have been used in the case of short term energetic demand, among which they are included time series, Kalman filters, exponential smoothing and pattern recognition, among others. These models have obtained adequate results, but it is not possible to represent with them the complex non-lineal relation existing between the influential factors and the charge curve. The current development of the neuronal networks permits to solve this kind of problems with more accuracy and speed. The majority of the models used currently are based on time series, which suppose that the energetic demand is produced in a lineal fashion...
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...Student Name: Ilesh Patel Student ID: 21278596 Seminar Group: B Seminar Tutor: Mr. Yehia Nawar INTRODUCTION Tourism is repadily growing industries in the worlds and some of the country econamiclay dipands on turism, just like in Europe Switerzerland, Murituse, Maldive and many others in the world, being service inderstry turism also provide many jobs for local people Howeaver, just like other industry turisem industry also have own share of problem like social dislocation, as maetion ecomanilacl dipandency, also recently started threat terrorism, since learning about tourism people looking for more responsible holidays, amoung all type tourisim sustainable tourisim is most pouplelr. All tourism need to be a Sustainable whatehr is holiday, bussiness or conference perpose, Sustainable tourism is defined as “tourism that respects both local people and the traveller, cultural heritage and the environment” In this perticuler project explores the characteristic and objective of tourisem in Europe through a serise of a case studies, THE RISE OF TOURISM in Europe As mention tourism is fastest growing industris, for example by 1960 there were 25.3 millon international turist arrive by 1990 figure risen to 425 miloin, its 17 time morre then early figure, by 2008 It was 980 milon its been increease more then double and accourding to the world tourism organisation forecast numbkler will be rise to 1.5 billion by 2020. Europe is number one tourisem destionation...
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...– Case study The UK is a mature tourism destination and tourist generating country. -There has been a strong relationship between the average income in the UK and the average spending on tourism both at home and abroad. -Tourism provides employment opportunities. -Tourism supports an inflow of cash from abroad. Major issues -Negative balance of payments: more money goes out of the country than comes in through tourism. A major reason for this is the desire by UK citizens for guaranteed sunshine abroad. -Regional imbalance: This occurs when so much of the foreign tourism is focused on London and a few other ‘world famous’ locations -Pressure at honey pot locations: High volumes of tourists at a particular honey pot site can put pressure on the locals and the area. -Concerns about air travel: the growing concern over the impact of the increasing levels of air transport due to tourism. Plans to expand airports such as Heathrow and Standsted are particularly controversial. Apart from the direct impact on populations near airports, there is a growing concern about the contribution of air transport to climate change. -Seaside resorts: The continued decline of the traditional British seaside resort is resulting in high unemployment and urban blight in those resort areas. Tourist volume -There were 30 million visits from overseas to the UK in 2005, double the amount in 1984 and an all-time high. -Also in 2005 Britain made 66.4 million visits abroad, three times the...
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...that third-party representation would add anything for our customers, our employees, or our shareholders. We just do not believe it’s productive and adds value.” Using information from chapter 6, evaluate this position. Target has built a reputation of being a high end discounted retail store that caters towards the urban trendsetting families. When a consumer hears the name of Target Stores, the association with low wages or anti-union statements typical do not come to mind. The statement made by CEO Bob Ulrich and the company’s antiunion philosophy is a common feeling most organization have towards unions. The company is entitled to have such viewpoints and has the authority to express them freely as long as the company does not participate in unfair labor practices that will intimidate an employee’s legal right of inquiring into unions. Target has a right to be vocal about the organization’s stance and sway employees not to join a union. The biggest reason for employees to form unions is collectively, “employees feel their employer is treating them unfairly and a union can change that (Mitchell & Simpson, 2009). In fact, employers have greater supremacy to improve workplace conditions sooner, then employees implementing a union. As organizations continues to increase employee benefits such as work-life balance, competitive pay, along with the comprehensive study of employee engagement, the employer diminishes the...
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...violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for Constructive Discharge. The company’s change of the working plan to a rotating shift system led to the violation of the employee’s rights or religious holiday leading to the litigation. It is in this regard that I write this memo to notify you about the finding of the case. Summary of the Findings Part A: How Constructive Discharge Legal concept is relevant to the scenario The company implemented a new workplace shift policy in the production department to meet the company’s growth needs. The workplace policy was implemented at the beginning of the New Year. The policy required that employees in the production department work 12 hour shifts with 4 days of work and then 4 days off in a rotating shift. This implied that somehow some of the working days would fall into the employees’ religious holiday. As a result, the former employee resigned from work after the implementation. The former employee is claiming a constructive discharge, which is a discriminatory workplace practice wherein an employee is compelled to quit the job due to the intolerable work environment (Thomson, 2007). However, to claim, constructive discharge, the courts must require evidence of deliberate discrimination on the basis of religion. In cases of religion discrimination, the employee needs to prove three important aspects which include: a) that he had a genuine belief that conflicted with the conditions of the work; b) that he had informed the...
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...`çêéçê~íÉ=pçÅá~ä=oÉëéçåëáÄáäáíó=áå= íÜÉ=eçíÉä=fåÇìëíêó=Ó=^=`êçëë= `ìäíìê~ä=mÉêëéÉÅíáîÉ= qÉêÉë~=kçêÇ Miljö och hållbart företagande Magisteruppsats 2006:4 Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning Vår välfärd bygger på att samspelet mellan människa, samhälle och natur fungerar. Forskning om hur samhället vårdar basen för sin välfärd, och når hållbar utveckling, kräver kunskap från flera områden. Därför finns Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning, CTM. CTM är ett fristående centrum vid Stockholms universitet som verkar för samarbete över fakultetsgränserna. Vi samarbetar med alla institutioner vid Stockholms universitet som bedriver miljörelaterad forskning. CTM utvecklar tvärvetenskapliga utbildningar, samordnar större forskningsprojekt och informerar omvärlden om universitetets miljöforskning. Centrum för tvärvetenskaplig miljöforskning hette tidigare Centrum för naturresurs- och miljöforskning, CNM, och har funnits vid Stockholms universitet sedan 1990. Hemsida: www.ctm.su.se STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY Centre for Transdisciplinary Environmental Research Sustainable Enterprising Master’s Thesis (20p) CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE HOTEL INDUSTRY: A CROSS CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE TERESA NORD Academic Advisor: Hans Rämö Stockholm University School of Business Master’s Thesis (20p), Fall 2006, Stockholm University ABSTRACT Attention to business ethics in varying environmental, economic and cultural contexts has become increasingly important as...
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...2.2 The TMA Part I of TMA 01 is based on the following case study. Original Travel Original Travel is all about travel ideas – and as you can guess from its name, the company likes to create inspiring, hand-crafted trips for discerning clients. A young and energetic company, Original Travel was created in 2003 in response to changing expectations in travel early in the millennium. Its founders - Alastair Poulain, Nick Newbury and Tom Barber, all of whom are still with Original Travel - wanted to help adventurous travellers to find new travel experiences with greater levels of service and cooler places to stay. Their starting point was the ‘Big Short Break’ – interesting places to visit and interesting things to do within five hours of London. The growth of the company since then suggests they succeeded. According to the latest Pricewaterhouse-Coopers review of discretionary spending, holidays have been knocked off their traditional perch at the top, being relegated to number two on the list of must-buys. Top spot in these testing times goes to paying off credits card bills and bank overdrafts. Also, the last decade has seen further adoption of ebusiness platforms. This has made the general holiday market far more competitive over pricing. But it's only a minor setback for Original Travel, a firm that specialises in holidays that offer a little more than simply sun, sand and sangria. The London-based niche tour operator may have seen enquiries drop and may be left looking at...
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...|Assessment Name: |Individual Assignment | |Total Weighting: |45% | |Total Marks: |60 | |Lecturer Name: |Krish Naidu | |Year/Intake |2015 /May Intake | |Due Date: |Week 15 (Tuesday class time) | Learning Outcomes (LO) Assessed: LO 6, 7&8 Assessment Summary – Answer all questions |Section |Topic |Possible Marks |Your Marks | |A |Organisational Structure |20 | | |B |Leadership and Motivation |20 | | |C |Change Management |20 | | | |TOTAL...
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