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Current Policy Issue: Collective Bargaining under the Fair Work Act 2009

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This paper "Current Policy Issue: Collective Bargaining under the Fair Work Act 2009" draws the similarities and differences between the FW Act and the NLRA, determines how the two affect businesses in their respective countries and makes conclusions about which of the two is a better policy choice....

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How Globalization Affects Ethnic or National Identity

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This literature review "How Globalization Affects Ethnic or National Identity" examines how globalization affects ethnic and national identity.... The paper established that globalization is integral in re-orienting ethnic identity by impacting on cultural aspects that create a distinct ethnic group....

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Improving Positive Mental Health among Students in Australia

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This paper "Improving Positive Mental Health among Students in Australia" will examine the prevalence of depression among young girls and offer school-based counseling intervention to address depression and promote the positive mental wellbeing of the patients.... .... ... ... Depression is one of the most prevalent public health problems in the world....

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Relationship between Neoliberal Ideology and Corporate Crime

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The paper "Relationship between Neoliberal Ideology and Corporate Crime" outlines that because of neoliberalism, there are new forms of crime - white-collar crime, and a crime against the environment.... The perpetrators of the crimes are educated individuals who hold high social status in society....

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Readings in Sociology of Deviance

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This book review "Readings in Sociology of Deviance" presents Emile Durkheim as one of the major writers who authored revolutionary books in the field of sociology.... Suicide, authored by Emile Durkheim, is a unique publication and provides illustrations of the face of sociological monograph.... ...

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Juvenile Crime and Justice

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The paper "Juvenile Crime and Justice" discusses that the modern social setting gives limited time for parents and other elderly people to socialize with the youth.... Most of the time is spent in office work and thus neglecting the foundational upbringing of young people and children.... ... ... ...

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Analysis of Susanna Sawyer's Crude Chronicles

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The paper "Analysis of Susanna Sawyer's Crude Chronicles" discusses Suzanna Sawyer's 'Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador' which is an attempt to bring the latest objects of analysis into the domain of anthropology.... ... ... ... The book narrates the struggles that exist between the indigenous social movements, the multinational energy company, and the Ecuadoran state....

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Instructional Programs for Reading and Writing Difficulties

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This literature review "Instructional Programs for Reading and Writing Difficulties" focuses on the look, learn, cover, write, and check methods that need to be integrated into instructional programs.... This is due to the fact that the technique can be applied to children of all ages....

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George Orwells Homage to Catalonia

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The paper "George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia" describes that book serves as a reminder that twentieth-century European history is a matter of peasant involvement in politics; passion and belief in a cause is the motivation behind Orwell joining up, and the motivation of many others.... ... ... ...

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Corporate Identity and Corporate Communications

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This paper "Corporate Identity and Corporate Communications" deals with the future success of an organization which depends upon its ability to maintain and preserve its long-term existence in the market.... Reportedly, today's business world is characterized by a competitive environment.... ... ...

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The Most Significant 3 Pieces of Legislation in American History

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This literature review "The Most Significant 3 Pieces of Legislation in American History" focuses on Civil Rights legislation that finished what Reconstruction legislation started in terms of legally ensuring equality for Blacks.... It leveled the playing field for minorities, women and the disabled....

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Fundamentals of Information Systems

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This book review "Fundamentals of Information Systems" discusses enterprise architecture for profitability, Stair and Reynolds (2012) give practical means by which companies who implement information systems can benefit in terms of profit-making.... ... ... ... Quoting a number of companies and institutions who are using mobile commerce for-profit purposes, the authors advised that all forms of electronic commerce are a positive development and trend that when all stages of information systems are adhered to strictly, project managers should be in a position to benefiting from their efforts through some of these means as electronic commerce....

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Race and Revolution by Gary Nash

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The paper "Race and Revolution by Gary Nash" highlights that an exceptional novel about blacks during the Revolutionary time.... This book takes on the hard subject of controversial issues of a country fighting for their freedom while oppressing another element of their population.... ... ... ... Black communities have lasted to this day....

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The Role of Vehicles in Tim Winton's The Turning

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The book review 'The Role of Vehicles in Tim Winton's 'The Turning' ' examines in detail such a topic as the role of vehicles in the Australian writer Tim Winston's storybook 'The Turning', showing how important the vehicles are for storytelling, how they can reveal characters, reflect their inner world, motivation and struggle....

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The Context of Corporate Crime

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This paper seeks to develop a concrete explanation of what corporate crime is.... This paper also seeks to investigate adding gravity to corporate crime by shifting it from civil (in most cases) to the criminal spectrum and the motivating factors behind this push.... ... ... ... Corporate crime, according to Simpson, is a crime done by 'white-collars....

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Analysis of The Jungle Book by Upton Sinclair

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The author answers the questions about the book "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair which is largely a representation of the nature of life led by the immigrants in America in the early 20th century.... Darwinism in a social setting is represented in the book showing the 'survival of the fittest'.... ...

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Carl Jung's Concept of Individuation

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The paper 'Carl Jung's Concept of Individuation' summarizes the philosopher's idea that everybody should get hold of the first stage (the shadow) and the second (anima/animus) before getting to the third stage (the Self).... 'Projection' on the people around points to the person's shadow essence....

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Ethnicity and Substance Abuse

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This paper under the title "Ethnicity and Substance Abuse" focuses on the fact that findings indicate that ethnic groups have preferences for particular drugs.... Poverty, though an important cause for drug addiction, the affluent society does not lag behind in substance abuse.... ... ... ... Grace Ma writes, 'Substance abuse has four characteristics: (1) it is primary; (2) it is progressive; (3) it is chronic; and (4) sometimes it is fatal....

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Americans in Waiting, by Hiroshi Motomura

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This book review describes the immigration issue, that has been at the forefront of political debate for many years now through the book written by Hiroshi Motomura, named Americans in Waiting.... The researcher outlines the analysis of the three typologies for citizenship.... ... ... ... Hiroshi Motomura in his book, Americans in Waiting, attempts to answer questions and to demonstrate how in America's view and treatment of immigration, has actually created the issues now faced....

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Children Roles as Child Soldiers

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This literature review "Children Roles as Child Soldiers" focuses on the different roles of child soldiers as outlined by different anthropologists showing the childhood crisis and illustrates it with examples.... The psychological impacts of child soldiering have been explained by theorists....

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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The paper 'Lord of the Flies by William Golding' focuses on William Golding who wrote the novel Lord of the Flies.... The setting of the novel is at the time when Europe is in the middle of a war.... A plane carrying a group of boys being evacuated from England destined for Australia is shot down....

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The New Jim Crow

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But if we have to follow the thoughts of Michelle Alexander, the author of The New Jim Crow, we would be led to find and believe that there are too.... ... ... Right from the introduction to the end, this book is a compelling narrative of how a large number of unsung blacks in the American society e still facing the ire of a white domain, which now looks to mark an African American a felon at the slightest hint of aggression, and then treat him or her with the same brutality that the racist society offered to blacks....

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Play Therapy with Families

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The author of this book review "Play Therapy with Families" touches upon the child development.... As the text has it, Axline presented the case of Dibs, a five-year young child, who was emotionally disturbed.... Dibs had been considered as an extra 'special,' which suggests of social barriers.... ...

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Culture in School Learning

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The writer Etta Hollins presents a process in developing a perspective in teaching that embraces culture as a central unit in school learning.... The book covers a six-part process that enables the teacher to meet the students' needs regarding different cultural backgrounds.... ... ... ... Discussion within the chapters is intended to generate discussions and critical thinking and not find answers to the questions....

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How Video Games Perpetuate Gender Stereotypes

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The paper "How Video Games Perpetuate Gender Stereotypes" expresses concern of gender stereotypes perpetuated by video games.... Most video games have gender-based contents that disregard the interest of female gamers, women characters' roles are mostly secondary to that of their male counterparts....

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Lead Us Into Temptation- The Triumph of American Materialism

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The review " Lead Us Into Temptation- The Triumph of American Materialism" researches the upsurge of the consumption of goods and services in the United States has induced a new national culture and identity that once brought yearning, motivation and prosperity to American society but now seems to make people squander and suffer....

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The Inevitable Doom and Its Symbolism in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

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This book report "The Inevitable Doom and Its Symbolism in'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... describes the plot of this short story and main features of the Symbolism of Doom and it's an inevitability.... ... ... ... She became interested in writing after receiving Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a present from her grandmother....

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The War on Drugs In America

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An author of the following review attempts to discuss the development of the issue of drug abuse among American citizens throughout the end of the twentieth century.... Moreover, the writer seeks to investigate the relation between drug usage and rate of criminal activity in the US.... ... .... ...

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The Internet and Fame

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This literature review "The Internet and Fame" discusses the internet that refers to the wired or wireless mode of communication where the involved people receive and transmit information for varied operations.... Initially, the computer era focused on operating systems and programming languages....

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Product Placement Industry

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The author of this review "Product Placement Industry" discusses whether product placement in films and media should be controlled.... It is stated that while a beneficial relationship of the advertiser and the producer is achieved via product placement, the interests of the audience are neglected....

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Human relationships Between Soldiers in The Thin Red Line

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This work "Human relationships Between Soldiers in The Thin Red Line" describes a war film that depicts several levels of relationships.... The author outlines the hardships of war, the greater level of tension among characters.... From this work, it is clear about a crucible in which the emotions and relationships of these men are placed into an acutely defined state....

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Social Inequality in Movie The Help

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The paper "Social Inequality in Movie The Help" uses "The Help" as a good example of a movie that was able to show viewers the social struggles that were happening in the southern parts of the US, when Jim Crow laws were still being used as a guide in segregating the blacks and the whites.... ... ...

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Human Resource Management: Managing People in a Multinational Context by Peter J. Dowling

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This book review "Human Resource Management: Managing People in a Multinational Context by Peter J.... Dowling" presents the multinational world.... For expatriates working in a foreign land, it is as if at least two worlds are merging – this entails learning a lot of new details.... ... ... ...

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Production of Biofuel from Waste Paper

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This literature review "Production of Biofuel from Waste Paper" presents one of the most promising substitutes to the use of conventional petroleum-based fuels that is the production of biofuel from renewable resources like plant biomass (Guerfali, Saidi, Gargouri, Belghith, 2014)....

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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as a Feminist Film

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This movie review "The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as a Feminist Film" discusses gender inequality and irrelevance observed within the society.... The film depicts not only political moral crimes but also stresses biased attitudes and the humiliation women face.... ... ... ... Conceived in Berlin in 1942, Margarethe von Trotta is two things: the most imperative lady chief to rise up out of the New German Cinema, and account film's principal women's activist movie producer....

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Gender Equality in the Historical Context

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The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... The paper "Gender Equality in the Historical Context " is a perfect example of a literature review on gender and sexual studies.... In reference to Wood (2005), since time immemorial disparities between the two sexes have been inexistent....

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A Critical Examination of the Concepts of Gender, Race, and Class in the Maltese Falcon

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The paper "A Critical Examination of the Concepts of Gender, Race, and Class in the Maltese Falcon" describes that the story of Sam Spade, and his relationships with women, and also a black private eye from Walter Mosley's novel to better understand the concepts in question.... ... ... ... For services he provides to Brigid, Spade extracts a hefty retainer, almost all of her money....

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The Teacher's Role in Bullying Intervention

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This literature review "The Teacher's Role in Bullying Intervention" presents the perception of preservice teachers regarding the seriousness and likelihood of intervention in online forms of aggressive behaviors, the forms of interventions they would recommend.... ... ... ... The teachers involved in the survey all agreed that online bullying or such aggressive behaviors were likely to occur online and that they would intervene to some level....

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Software Engineering Requirements

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This literature review "Software Engineering Requirements" discusses the requirements engineering that is associated with the developments as well as documentation and maintenance of software requirements.... Software engineering requirements are about the development of software requirements....

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The Life of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier

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The author of the paper "The Life of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier" will begin with the statement that San Francisco de Xavier was a saint and Jesuit missionary, universally identified in English as St.... Francis Xavier as well as referred to as the "Apostle of the Indies.... .... ... ... Francis was the youngest lad of Juan de Jasso, then a privy councilor to a king of Navarre, Jean Albert, and his spouse, Maria de Azpilcueta y Xavier, the only heiress of two loyal Navarrese families....

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The Healing Path Critique

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The review "The Healing Path Critique" focuses on the critical analysis of the Allender's book, The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life which stresses the influences of the pain that people often experience throughout their lifestyle.... ... ... ... Allender explains that an individual's life is difficult, but the means we often use to adjust to these challenges define the person we choose to depict....

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Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher's Approach to Anger and Aggression

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The author of the paper "Social and Emotional Learning, Teacher's Approach to Anger and Aggression" states that social and emotional learning (SEL) entails the use of supportive context and relationships which make learning challenging, meaningful, and engaging for children (McDevitt, et al, 2012)....

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River Engineering Approach to Flood Alleviation and Navigation on the Mississippi River

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The object of analysis for the purpose of this paper "River Engineering Approach to Flood Alleviation and Navigation on the Mississippi River" is the documentary video that shows how the Mississippi river has evolved through the use of river engineering and its impact.... .... ... ... The documentary video is the focal point is on flooding and its effects and how river engineering has increased its frequency and magnitude....

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Approaches to Working with Communities and Skills when Working with Communities

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A number of professionals work with communities depending on the needs and aspirations in the community.... The author of this paper "Approaches to Working with Communities and Skills When Working with Communities" examines what community work entails.... ... ... ... This paper draws on various learning modules and critically combines a wide range of research to promote a personal understanding of communities, approaches to working with communities, and skills when working with communities....

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John Locke's Book, Second Treatise of Government

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"John Locke's Book, Second Treatise of Government" paper argues that at the start of his philosophical journey, John Locke took it as his mission to set out the grounds of knowledge, ethics, politics, and religion.... He took on a task of immense proportions that he has inherited from the rationalists....

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Sex Workers and Their Specific Health Needs

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The paper "Sex Workers and Their Specific Health Needs" summarises the major characteristics of sex workers, their social-economic status, and health deficiencies.... It included knowledge about protection use and how these sex workers perceive the risk of getting viral diseases such as HIV.... ...

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Slavery and the Founders: Race, and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

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This book report/review "Slavery and the Founders: Race, and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson" is about the birth of the American constitution on the one hand and the establishment of slavery as an institution on the other, are both two key but contradictory elements in early American history.... ...

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Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most

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The paper "Difficult Conversations - How to Discuss What Matters Most" is a perfect example of a management book report.... Having difficult conversations is not one of the things that are challenging in life.... There are different topics that make difficult conversations and how successful one handles them determines the experience and relationships that they will have later....

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Risk Assessment in Criminology

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The author of the "Risk Assessment in Criminology" paper critically discusses the usefulness of using static assessments to predict levels of risk in offenders.... Assessment is defined as a process of finding out about something to discover some issues.... ... ... ... Davies & Beech (2012) Reinforcing behavior change among the offenders need combined efforts....

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Evaluating the Usefulness of Traditional Content Theories of Motivation to Hospitality Managers

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This literature review "Evaluating the Usefulness of Traditional Content Theories of Motivation to Hospitality Managers" discusses some of the traditional motivation theories that can be useful even in today's scenario if the managers apply them in their true sense.... ... ... ... The reputation and strength of any hospitality organization depend on the managers and their employees....

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