...j [pic] Term Paper Title: Organizational Behaviors of Sustainable Tourism A Partial fulfillment for Bilingual MBA Programme 2013 Subject: Organizational Behavior (Code: BP6903) Lecturer: Dr. Yu Wang Presented by: Yinsi Tu (ID: 5539073 ) Shilong Chen (ID: 5569005) Xingjun Liu (ID: 5561065) Jialing Xing (ID: 55569009) Yunmei Wang (ID: 5569006) Content 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Organizational Culture of Sustainable Tourism 3.0 Government's Policies in Sustainable Tourism Management 4.0 Characteristics and Diversities in Sustainable Tourism 5.0 Tourist Behaviors in Sustainable Tourism 6.0 The Relationship between Sustainable Tourism and Environment Protection 7.0 Conclusion 8.0 Bibliography 1.0 Introduction Today, as the world economy,science and technology and cultural developing aggressively , the increase of personal income and free time, Labor and Leisure has become two important aspects of an integral human social life. Today, leisure sports and tourism is the world's most widely used recreational activities. Leisure sports, people enjoy the beauty and movement created by a pleasant activity in order to express themselves to the outside world. Homer and Swatchbrooke (1996) defined tourism as tourism refers to people temporarily leave permanent residence elsewhere in recreational activities. ...
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... Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures Sufi Heritage Assessment: A Comparison of Three Cultures America’s growing diversity is increasing day by day as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As United States has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 %, one tenth % of US population will be foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005). It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know about one beliefs and the health tradition. Heritage tool help the author recognized different cultures thoughts, beliefs. This tool helps to evaluate the similarities and differences between different cultures. No one becomes culturally competent overnight or with one or two hours of training; certain attitudes need to be learned, skills transmitted, and knowledge absorbed (California Endowment, 2003). People from different culture have different beliefs about their health traditions. They have a different approach for protection, maintenance, and restoration of their health. This paper will compare the similarities and differences regarding health practice methods among the Hindus, Muslims, and White cultures. This author, Hindu female from Nepal, completed...
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...How Geography Effected Ancient Cultures Mesopotamia and Egypt in the ancient world were in modern day Iraq, and Egypt is still there today. Culture in theses societies, was loosely based on their natural surroundings. While geography in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt differed in stability and protection, they were similar in farming opportunities, with comparable sources of water giving them both the chance to excel in agriculture. The river flooding in Mesopotamia and Egypt differed in predictability; while rivers in Mesopotamia were sporadic in flood patterns, the Nile in Egypt was very predictable in its flooding. This caused the two civilizations to have opposing ideas of the power of their gods. In ancient Mesopotamia, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were incredibly unpredictable, and when they flooded they caused frenzies in surrounding areas. This unpredictability was reflected in their religion, as they felt the flooding of the rivers was a punishment for something they did. In thinking they could never please the gods, the people of Mesopotamia believed one only had the underworld to look forward to after death. They viewed nature as something out to get them. This belief led to more selfishness in people, and as a result, people were generally less trusting. However, in Egypt, the Nile River and its yearly predictable flooding led to the creation of calendars to plan agriculture around flooding; therefore, the flooding would help, not hurt them. The predictability...
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...day by day as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As US has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 % 1 ten % of US population is foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005).It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know about one beliefs and the health tradition. Heritage tool help the author recognized different cultures thoughts, beliefs. This tool helps to evaluate the similarities and differences between different cultures. No one becomes culturally competent overnight or with one or two hours of training; certain attitudes need to be learned, skills transmitted, and knowledge absorbed (California Endowment, 2003). People from different culture have different beliefs about their health traditions. They have a different approach for protection, maintenance, and restoration of their health. This paper will compare the similarities and differences regarding health practice methods among the Hindus, Muslims, and White cultures. Health Protection Health Protection is the way of living healthy lifestyle by preventing from illness and diseases. It is how people from different cultures protect their and family health from diseases on a regular basis. Hindus Hindus follows religious teaching practice for...
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...1 summary Although it refers to the historical background of whale-watching industry, the location and natural resources of Kaikoura, and the factors of success We think that the key points of this case are the benefits and disadvantages of the whale-watching industry which contain the culture values, social values, environment protection and the problems it face after our discussion. Culture values: the success of maori venture has engendered a renaissance in maori culture in kaikoura. Social values: the profits from the whale-watch have been used to take young people off the unemployment register. It also used to promote the development of the school education. Environment protection: the profits from the tourism can be used to strengthen the education of environmental protection. It also promote the development of eco-tourism.all of those measures are benefit for environmental protection. Current issues: the whale-watching industry causing some serious problems such as: jealousy, racism and even sabotage. One of the biggest problems it faces is the establishment and maintenance of an adequate tourism infrastructure. In conclusion, the culture and social values, environment protection and current issues are more important than background, location, history and the factors of success. Part2 A vision statement is sometimes called a picture of your company in the future but it’s so much more than that. A vision statement is about applying to an entire company or to...
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...has been the absence of any forthcoming information from insiders. Whistle blowing has been almost nonexistent during the run up to the financial crisis and its aftermath. This is reflective of the negative stigma that is associated with whistle blowing in most businesses and corporations. Combined with a culture of silence that is prevalent in the finance and accounting industries this is not a big surprise. Federal regulators and congress have been encouraging whistleblowers to step up in recent years, however more must be done. Regulators must continue to improve protection and incentives for whistleblowers to come forward. In addition corporate culture must change in its negative view of whistle blowing. Most importantly though professionals, especially accountants must understand that they are serving the public interest and thus must step up and reveal any fraudulent or unethical activities that hurt the public. Whistle blowing is hard to encourage and federal authorities have been doing terrible job of it until recently. The trend has been changing, first with the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 that included a provision for expanded whistle blower protection. The act made it legal for public companies to fire employees that reported any illegal activities in which a firm or its employees...
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...tattoos are trying to tell a story in the form of art and body piercing is a sexual expression. Likewise, other cultures around the world have been doing this for centuries. The African women will input rings around their necks and both sex will insert plates in their lips. Therefore, every culture practice these body ornamentation differently. Going back to the pages of history, tattoos in the early ages, were borne not for fashion. Instead, they were generally inscribed in body, essentially for the medicinal and spiritual qualities (iloveindia, n.d.). “While beadwork and jewelry are also frequently used as a means of beautification, there are a few types of body art that dominate. Body decoration and transformation occurs at set times in a person’s life and the decoration’s thought to enhance a person’s status and beauty” (Admin, 2010). In varies of cultures, tattoos and body piercing is the form of beauty and power because it reconfigures identity, sexuality, gender, and status. Africans and indians mark themselves for beauty, medical purpose, and protection from evil spirits. “Traditional tattooing in African culture is not a mere expression of one’s individuality. It’s a series of intricately designed patterns that carry major cultural implications, where the body displays the strength of the inner character. Tribal lineage, maturity, spiritual protection, political and social status as well as personal strength are all indicated through the art of African tattooing”...
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...Understanding one’s culture and beliefs is essential for deliverance of caring and compassionate care. Culture influences thoughts, beliefs, customs, communications, actions, religion, and social groups (The Office of Minority Health, 2013). Health care that is center to one’s culture and is sensitive to the beliefs and customs will foster a positive experience. The Heritage Assessment tool can be utilized to lay the foundation for health care professionals in understanding a client’s culture and traditions. The Heritage Assessment is a tool that a nurse can use to investigate a client’s ethnic, cultural and religious traditions. It helps identify how deeply a person identifies themselves to their culture and religion customs. The tool is useful in helping the health care provider establish an understanding of the client’s health practices. People who identify themselves with a heritage may view health differently than the health care provider. The client’s practices may differ and may see health as a holistic approach. Health as a holistic approach has three parts: body (the physical self), mind (attitudes, feelings, and behaviours), and spirit. The methodology of maintaining, restoring and protecting health requires the health care provider to attain knowledge and comprehension of health resources for the client’s heritage or religious background. These methods can be utilized in conjunction with modern medicine. The writer used the assessment tool on three individuals....
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...The Influence of Heritage on Current Culture Evaluation of how family subscribes to these traditions and practices is offered in detail, while offering insight and/or reflection.It is essential for nurses to provide culturally sensitive care to each and every patient in order to establish repor and maintain a safe working relationship with each individual. To provide culturally sensitive care to a nurses patient’s he or she must first assess their own beliefs, values, and culture at large. The nurse can do this by using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This tool shows the nurse how important their heritage is to them and if they have adopted their ways of life from their family’s history and influence. This gives the nurse a starting point for his or her own competency because once the nurse knows their own beliefs they will know what to keep in mind as their own biases that may hinder or limit care of their patients. The Heritage Assessment tool can then be used with the nurses’ patients in assessing how much they follow their cultural heritage. When interviewing families from different cultures one can see the disparities between them and their perception of their health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Applying the Heritage Assessment in Evaluating the Needs of the Whole Person The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool in evaluating the needs of the patient and in being able to provide holistic patient care. The Heritage Assessment Tool assesses whether...
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...QUESTION ONE. HOW GOAL SETTING MOTIVATES AN EMPLOYEE. 1. There is a clear and understandable job description reassures employees to put in the substantial effort since every employee knows what is expected of him or her. 2. Goals activate cognitive knowledge and strategies such as the technical aspect of every operation that help employees cope with a variety situations. 3. When employees participate in the goal setting process, they often do not need to be reminded about what is expected of them. Firefighters do not need to be reminded of their purpose to save lives and property. 4. Management should be a role model to all employees as this will set the foundation for organizational goals. Therefore a good role model motivates employees to work hard following the manager’s footsteps instilling courage and guidance as the chief leader takes responsibility of every task to be undertaken by every fire fighter within his department. 5. An organization should create recognition programs that reward the employees who meet the organizational goals. This include but are not limited to promotions of acknowledgement of best fire fighters on a monthly basis in recognition of their good performance by placing their pictures on a wall to be viewed by all and sundry. FIVE PRACTICAL LESSON LEARNT FROM RESEARCH ON GOAL SETTING. 1) Productivity improvement can managed through frequent training. This attained through regularly training of fire service personnel...
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...and their culture. Therefore, if a child is removed, the child will not be placed in a non-native home, and will be placed with a native family, or family members related to the child. By removing a native child and placing them into a non-native home creates long-lasting trauma and can leave a child feeling disconnected from their culture and identity which can create a lifetime impact of harm. ICWA ensures that at all levels- county, state, and federal - native children are protected. As a social worker, it is important that historically social workers have played a role in social control, and that it is important to build trust with native families to work with them as much as possible. It is also crucial to remember that removal is the last possible option, if applicable, and the goal is reunification if a child is...
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...different health prevention, cultural practices and beliefs. The aim of this paper is to compare the American, American Indian and Ecuadorian health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration. Heritage Assessment and Culture The assessment of heritage is an important step in order to have understanding of one’s cultural status. A person’s traditions, beliefs, and everyday language play an important role in impacting on the patient as well as the health provider. Diversity in people brings about different beliefs regarding health, sickness, infection, virus, birth as well as death (Edelmam & Mandle, 2010). Heritage culture is the study of people’s cultural beliefs, religious practices, social, and physical lives. It defines the understanding and awareness of different ethnic groups of people, studying and evaluating their cultural background (Rogerio-Candelera, M. A., Lazzari,M., & Cano, E. (2013). In identifying the diversity among the American, American Indian and the Ecuadoran we can begin to understand how different or similar they are in their beliefs and practices, and how these affect their health practices. Comparing health traditions between these cultures Health Maintenance In dealing with health maintenance...
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...Heritage Assessment Tool Stacey Howard Grand Canyon University 4/20/2014 Heritage Assessment Tool The Heritage Assessment Tool is useful in determining how connected an individual is to their specific culture which enables the culturally competent practitioner to identify health traditions, evaluate needs, and create appropriate plans for health maintenance, protection and/or restoration of the patient. Heritage and culture are interchangeable words that represent the concept of learned or inherited thought processes, ideas, and traditions that have been passed down from parentage, nationality and/or ethnicity. It is important for the practitioner to understand the beliefs of their patient to better facilitate treatment compliance and enhance rapport with the patient and family. As noted by Edelman, Kudzman & Mandle (2014), culture has an impact on a person’s health, healing, perceptions of wellness versus disease and attitude towards health practitioners. Many times important revelations regarding the patient’s health practices, traditions, and perceptions are gleaned not from the patient answering direct assessment question but from their relaxed conversation, ramblings, and casual remarks. The patient will not feel comfortable to converse with a practitioner they don’t trust or have a rapport. It is through cultural sensitivity, competence and appropriate assessment that practitioners are able to develop the trust and rapport needed to assist them...
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...all over the world reside in the US. There are many customs, religion, values, beliefs, and so forth, in the US. To be in the healthcare profession, it is vital and necessary to be culturally aware and competent to provide culturally appropriate, holistic care. One of the ways to learn about a person’s heritage is by using the Heritage Assessment (HA). The HA tool has 29 questions and is a reliable method used to collect data on the patients’ traditional heritage. This paper will discuss the usefulness of the Heritage Assessment (HA) tool, this student’s summary of personal learning, this student’s cultural heritage common health traditions, in addition to the differences in health traditions from three different cultures in relation to health maintenance, protection, and restoration. We have to understand our own cultural beliefs, values, attitudes, and practices that are relevant to health and illness before we can understand others (Jarvis, 2012). People have different views on health and illness which is influenced by their cultural beliefs. According to Jarvis (2012), to be culturally competent, one must have knowledge of one’s own personal heritage, the heritage of the patient, nursing profession, and health care system. The Heritage Assessment is a useful tool to build cultural competency by collecting relevant data to assist the healthcare providers to provide better care. The tool assists healthcare providers to bridge the gap to better understand the patients’ belief...
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...Every individual has a cultural heritage. Each culture views the world differently. Heritage is whom we are, where we came from and our historical roots. The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background,” (Flowers, D.L., 2005). The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) , is a check list used by professionals to gain knowledge of patients culture and beliefs prior to initiating care (Spector 2000). In combination with questions that relate to health beliefs and practices the HAT assessment includes events in their childhood, which contribute to the values, and beliefs in adulthood (Spector, 1989). NursesThe Heritage Assessment Tool is a worksheet operated by people in the medical field in order to recognize the standpoint of a patient in respect to culture and beliefs. It’s an accurate method in which the medical professional comprehends the patients prior to beginning any interventions. Ultimately the objective is to diminish disease and ease anguish in the most effectual way that is feasible, it is wise for the licensed practitioner to recognize the utmost comfy actions for the client. (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) The heritage assessment tool aids medical professionals...
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