virtues. It helps to develop social virtues like co-operation, sympathy, sacrifice, affection, spirit of selfless service, obedience and broadminded. 2) Insurance against olds: Joint Family Acts as insurance for the members of the family at the time of crisis. It provides social security to its members especially to the old, the infirm, the unemployed persons, the orphans, the widowed daughters and sisters as well as the physical and mentally handicapped among them. For all such persons the joint
Words: 395 - Pages: 2
percentage of British Columbians are the least likely to be happy (Nanos Report, 2010). From my findings a large majority of Canadians are happy with their work-life balance because these employees have the power to make it happen, they enjoy leisure time and the freedom that technology creates, and the co-operation of family and employers. First, I believe that Canadians are happy with work-life balance because
Words: 1270 - Pages: 6
of activities favorable to the general economy of the country. For developed countries the following figures have been found: Domestic trips in the EU have been estimated at 510 million per year (Peeters et al. 2007),.The US domestic market is much larger at 1.2 billion domestic trips (WTO 2005). Another report using a broader definition even shows a stable figure of around 2 (!) billion person trips per year for the years 2006 -2012 of which around 25 % for business and 75 % for leisure purposes
Words: 1395 - Pages: 6
recently changed .The whole country is divided into this issue. As a result work provides life with satisfaction the main reasons are work and meaning, history of work, distribution of work, and work vs. leisure and managed. The most important reason of work giving satisfaction is, Work is any activity whether is paid or unpaid, that make people a feel the importance in their lives. As Baumeister (1991) stated work gives meaning to people’s lives. Some people, the effort they make performs as their
Words: 774 - Pages: 4
Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy Word Count: 3346 Company Description Holi-Rent is an equipment rental service that provides leisure, recreational and holiday appropriate equipment that will assist the target market, international students studying in Australia, to easily find and use necessities that they would need to enjoy themselves in their free time. Specifically the business will act as an intermediary between regular suppliers of holiday-related equipment and the customers, thereby
Words: 3517 - Pages: 15
individuals and utilize resources given to obtain organization goals. Great managers are known by how effective and quickly they achieve these goals and also how they are able to make optimum use of the resources available to them of which can include time, materials, employees, money etc some managers focus on a particular aspect at the expense of others. Managers like that have poor management skills. There are four aspect of management that serves as a blueprint to achieving your set goals. They are
Words: 589 - Pages: 3
Case C-426/11: Mark Alemo-Herron and Others v. Parkwood Leisure Ltd. Introduction This issue was about collective agreements that are negotiated regularly, whether they can bind an employer following a transer of employment. It is really a fundamental question, mainly in contracting out services, when the new employer may wish to make savings by not increasing wages. In this case it should be decided if in the transferred employees' terms and conditions of employment can continue to rise due
Words: 1555 - Pages: 7
the local economy. In fact the New Forest has more visitors per square kilometre than any other national park (7.5 visits/km2). Leisure and tourism is the world’s second largest industry in terms of income generated. In recent years there has been an explosion of tourism in the UK. This is due to: • Increase in personal incomes • Increase in leisure time • Paid holidays as part of employment contracts • Shorter working week • Earlier retirement • Increased mobility • Improved availability
Words: 1399 - Pages: 6
lose custom to their competitors.” – Michael Oliver, Senior Leisure and Media Analyst http://academic.mintel.com/display/545472/ Leisure Review - UK - December 2011 The UK leisure industry peaked in value in 2007, just before the credit crunch and subsequent economic recession. Since then, it has declined considerably, by some 3% in current price terms, which represents a 22% contraction in real terms. The prospects for the leisure industry remain difficult: the Chancellor’s most recent Autumn
Words: 1912 - Pages: 8
of entrepreneur. I will discuss what a lifestyle entrepreneur is as well as the major motivations that form an integral part of the lifestyle entrepreneur’s choice to follow the specified path. The following motivations of autonomy, family and leisure time, passion and intrinsic reward and satisfaction as well as life quality will be discussed at different stages of my assignment. I will also show how some of these motivations integrate together to form a basis for the lifestyle entrepreneur.
Words: 1768 - Pages: 8
