entertaining on the streets of Chattanooga as a duo. She sang and danced while he accompanied her on the guitar. Their favorite location was in front of the White Elephant Saloon at Thirteenth and Elm streets in the heart of the city’s African American community. Her older brother, Clarence left home in 1904 to join a small traveling troupe owned by Moses Stokes. “If Bessie had been old enough she would have gone with him,” Clarence’s widow, Maud, said. “That’s why he left without telling her, but Clarence
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to April 1994. By contrast SERVQUAL has been a keyword in just 41 publications. These publications incorporate both theoretical discussions and applications of SERVQUAL in a variety of industrial, commercial and not-for-profit settings. Published studies include tyre retailing (Carman, 1990) dental services (Carman, 1990), hotels (Saleh and Ryan, 1992) travel and tourism (Fick and Ritchie, 1991), car servicing (Bouman and van der Wiele, 1992), business schools (Rigotti and Pitt, 1992), higher education
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Child abuse Child abuse is a global problem that is deeply rooted in cultural, economic and social practices. It is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countries, there has been no understanding of the extent, magnitude and trends of the problem. The growing complexities of life and the dramatic changes brought about by socio-economic transitions
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A N I N S P I R I N G TO O L FO R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S A N D T H E P EO P L E W H O L E A D T H E M MOST IMPORTANT The Five Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization Peter F. Drucker Jim Collins, Philip Kotler, James Kouzes, Judith Rodin, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Frances Hesselbein 5 “Nobody, not even Socrates, has ever asked better questions than Peter Drucker. All the personality, all the wisdom is here to make your work dramatically more effective. There’s nothing
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glossed. It opens an arena for organizational analysis that is missed in r most theoretical frameworks. Tempered radicals, Meyerson and Scully argue, are individuals who identify with and are committed to their organizations and also to a cause, community or ideology that is fundamentally different from, and possibly at odds with, the dominant culture of their organization. Their radicalism stimulates them to challenge the status quo. Their temperedness reflects the way they have been toughened by
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Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad WANSON (INDIA) PRIVATE LIMITED In A u g u s t 1975, during a session in business policy in one of the Institute's management development programs, the 'casew r i t e r and the participants were involved in a discussion o n t h e role of leadership and ideology in building a business. One of the participants suggested, with some degree of conviction: "If y o u wish to s e e the importance o f ideology in a real life business situation in India, g o to
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- DRAFT - International Dimensions of Ethics Education in Science and Engineering Case Study Series Bhopal Plant Disaster – Situation Summary by MJ Peterson Revised March 20, 2009 During the night of 2-3 December 1984, a leak of some 40 tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas mixed with unknown other gasses from a chemical plant owned and operated by Union Carbide (India) Limited, a partly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Union Carbide Corporation, caused one of the highest-casualty industrial
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Community Development Vol. 41, No. 3, July–September 2010, 298–322 Incorporating social justice in tourism planning: racial reconciliation and sustainable community development in the Deep South Alan W. Bartona* and Sarah J. Leonardb a b Downloaded By: [University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY)] At: 06:29 3 November 2010 Social Sciences, Delta State University, DSU Box 3264, Cleveland MS 38733, USA; The College Board, Chicago, USA Tourism can serve as a vehicle for
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CHAPTER IV CONSUMER POLICY ………………………. 29 CHAPTER V ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES PREVAILING IN BANGLADESH …………….. 30 CHAPTER VI PERSPECTIVES ON COMPETITION POLICY ………………………. 31 A. Policy Makers ………………………. 32 B. Business Community ………………………. 33 C. Consumers ………………………. 34
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RELIGION IN MALAYSIA HISTORY OF MALAYSIA Situated in the heart of Southeast Asia at one of the world's major crossroads, Malaysia has always been pivotal to trade routes from Europe, the Orient, India and China. It’s warm tropical climate and abundant natural blessings made it a congenial destination for immigrants as early as 5,000 years ago when the ancestors of the aborigines, the indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, settle here, probably the pioneers of a general movement from China
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