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A-171 Louisiana Tech University, Department Of English, Life Sciences, Education, And Business Files, 1982-1988, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

University Archives Finding Aids

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Ample Provision: A Preliminary Study Relating Budget Composition And High School Graduation Rates In Select Washington State Public School Districts, Gregory P. Gadow

All Undergraduate Projects

How to allocate scarce resources for an optimal outcome is of keen interest to those who set the budgets in public education. Simply throwing money at schools is not enough; it is important that money is spent where it will do the most good. This study considers Washington State public school districts and examines how the share of per-student expenditures in seven budget categories relates to on-time high school graduation rates. It is an investigative study, exploring whether there is enough evidence to merit further, more in-depth research. Using budget and graduation information from academic years 1997-98 through 2016-17 for …

Governors State University College Of Business Annual Report - 2018-2019, College Of Business

Annual Reports

A report of the accomplishments of College of Business faculty, staff, students, and alumni in the 2018-2019 academic year.

Allocating In The Presence Of Dominance: A Mean-Variance Portfolio Choice Economic Experiment, Jack Gardner

Gettysburg Economic Review

I conduct a mean-variance portfolio choice economic experiment to evaluate how individuals’ portfolio choices deviate from what modern portfolio theory considers optimal. The experimental framework is comprised of three treatments. In each treatment the portfolio selection task involves choosing between two risky assets with zero correlation among their payoffs and one risk free asset. Participants are tasked with completing thirty choice rounds in which they must allocate a constant experimental capital amount to the available asset options after which they are shown period-by-period state-realizations. I utilize the definition of dominance as described in Neugebauer (2004), and Baltussen and Post (2011), …

The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 11, Spring 2019

Gettysburg Economic Review

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2019 Residence Hall Association Constitution, Morehead State University. Housing & Residence Education Office.

Housing & Residence Education Records

The constitution of the Morehead State University Residence Hall Association from 2019.

Death, Disrupted, Tamara Kneese

Media Studies

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Clock As A Mediating Technology Of Organization, Melissa Gregg, Tamara Kneese

Media Studies

The clock has long been a social technology, or a way of authorizing a singular source to propel collective activity. This chapter explores whether this social function continues in quite the same way in the wake of digital technology. It investigates the particular role of the clock in the workplace—how a predictable relationship to time accrued value for The Organization as an institutional form. The chapter traces the history of the clock, from factories to the contemporary digital workplace, asking how new technologies have changed the status of the clock as a way of organizing labour and productivity.

Confederation Of African Football, Michael Goldman, Mlondi Mashinini

Sport Management

Representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Africa officially established the Confederation of African Football (CAF, or the Confederation Africaine de Football) on February 8, 1957, in Khartoum, Sudan. During the subsequent 60-year development of Africa’s administrative and controlling body, CAF grew into the biggest of the six continental federations of FIFA. By 2018, CAF counted 56 associations as full or associate members, representing over 25% of FIFA’s 211 associations, although no African team had reached the semi-final stage of the men’s FIFA World Cup as yet.

This chapter documents the business and management research related to CAF, thereby providing …

Freshman Campus Visit Information Booklet, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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Transfer Student Guide, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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2019-2020 Financial Aid Information, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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2019-2020 Transfer Student Financial Aid Information, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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Junior Viewbook Ebook, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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Campus Life Ebook, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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Your Passion God's Purpose Viewbook, Southern Adventist University

Booklets

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Does Interacting With Trustworthy People Enhance Mindfulness? An Experience Sampling Study Of Mindfulness In Everyday Situations, Ravi S. Kudesia, Christopher S. Reina

Management and Entrepreneurship Publications

Mindfulness is known to increase after meditation interventions. But might features of our everyday situations outside of meditation not also influence our mindfulness from moment-to-moment? Drawing from psychological research on interpersonal trust, we suggest that interacting with trustworthy people could influence the expression of mindfulness. And, extending this research on trust, we further suggest that the influence of trustworthy social interactions on mindfulness could proceed through two pathways: a particularized pathway (where specific interactions that are especially high (or low) in trustworthiness have an immediate influence on mindfulness) or a generalized pathway (where the typical level of trustworthiness a person …

Fraud In Small Businesses: A Preliminary Study, Esther Bunn, Jack Ethridge, Kaili Crow

Faculty Publications

This study investigates the attitudes small business owners and managers have towards fraud and internal controls. Commonly small businesses consist of long-term friends and relatives and tend to embody a culture of family, love, and trust. Four factors were identified that lend themselves to a lack of internal controls and a breeding ground for fraud. A survey was distributed to small business owners and management. The responses were analyzed and compared to the data in the 2016 American Certified Fraud Examiners Report to the Nations. Of the four expectations studied, only the anticipated results of Expectation 1 were confirmed.

Dealing With White Privilege In The Hospitality Workplace, Ashley Camarillo, Jasmine Edwards

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

White privilege is defined as inherent advantages possessed by a white person on the basis of their race in a society characterized by racial inequality and injustice. White privilege is the societal privilege that benefits people whom society identifies as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances. In researching articles about white privilege in the workforce, we learned that this is very apparent in every workplace. In reading these articles, we found out that Caucasian people are not very aware of their white privilege, while people of …

Family Medical Leave Act: The Impacts On Family Relationships, Jaycie J. Case, Jennifer Newquist

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) authorizes eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons (H.R. 1, 1993). This policy allows for a total of 12-weeks of leave within a 12-month period. While this may be sufficient in terms of time off, it is still unpaid. Compared to other nations, the United States still lags behind on providing benefits and protections for employees who have taken on the role of caretaker (Arellano, 2015). This white paper will explain how employees benefit from paid maternity/paternity and family medical leave.

Hospitality Fighting Against Sex Trafficking, Ashley Camarillo

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

Sex trafficking is defined as “a commercial sex act that is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery” (USC, Title 22, Chapter 78, 7102, Sec. 9A and B). Whether we realize or not, sex trafficking is looming specifically in hotel and lodging facilities. The ease of traffickers to use …

Stereotypes Within The Hospitality Industry, Shelby Becker, Joli Ballew, Nikki Acayan

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

Stereotypes are present in our day to day lives as microaggressions towards people of different diversity subgroups. These stereotypes are toxic to the workplace in any industry, but especially in the hospitality industry. In a business that revolves around global travel, it’s imperative that stereotypes do not have a place in the day-to-day operations. Hospitality is an industry in which having an open mindset and welcoming people who are different from you needs to be the standard. People are not defined by titles or skin color, they deserve the chance to define themselves.

Sustainability In The Housekeeping Department Of A Lodging Facility, Samantha Kimball

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

Sustainability is a trend that has increased tremendously in today’s society. It is especially important in finding ways to go green, and to help the environment be cleaner and healthier. This comes to show in the hospitality industry especially in the lodging industry. The study consists of two surveys: one that is sent out to the different hotel managers in the Nacogdoches area and another that students in a hospitality course take based on their previous stay in a hotel.

Working With People From The Middle East, Savannah Holbrook, Erin Keir, Samantha Kimball

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

People from the Middle-East encounter a lot of issues in American society. They encounter public humiliation, religious oppression, and violence in many ways. In this assignment we looked at the cause, effect, and resolution of integrating Middle Eastern people into the hospitality workforce. Within our research, we want to look at what the common misconceptions of Middle Eastern people are, what the culture entails, and how businesses in the United States can be more inclusive to Middle Eastern workers.

Working With Older Workers, Walter Orocio, Alexandra Mulvey, Duy Nguyen

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

The workforce is aging as baby boomers move toward retirement. Younger employees and managers need to motivate and manage older workers in a way where they can work well with others and be used to their full potential. Both generations have very different views of the other and can learn a lot from each other. Both generations need to take the lead and create the climate in which older workers will remain engaged and productive. Younger employees need to throw out all assumptions that they have about older workers. Both generations need to get rid of their stereotypes in order …

Working With People With Disabilities, Victoria Wentzel, Christopher Toppeto, Patrick Winfield

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

Not everyone is created equally, but they should be treated as such. In this study we have found that through corrective lenses, seeing eye dogs, prosthetics, and many other methods, those with disabilities can lead normal lives. “...being told “you can’t do that,” …takes a toll on the self-esteem…” (Thomas 2016). We seek to change the way people see those with disabilities from one of something that’s broken or beyond repair to one where they are colleagues and friends amongst the workplace.

Working With Latinos, Monique Lampkin, Maysara Mainor, Stacy Kolander

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

For this article, our topic was “Working with Latinos/Hispanics”. We used social media, search engines such as google, worldly news, and other scholarly articles to research this topic. What we concluded was that many people had a stereotypical idea of what working with latinos was like. Many people don’t realize the cultural difference that America has in the workplace compared to other countries. As well as, the stereotyped idea of what jobs Latino/Hispanics work, how they carry out those jobs, and the struggles they face in those workplaces. In this paper we will discuss more, in detail, about what it …

Working With Native Americans, Rachel Strauss, Klaire Timmins, Shannon Taylor

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

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Working With Asians And Asian-American In The Hospitality Workforce, Alvaro Gutierrez-Frausto, Ryan Hall, Haley Harp

School of Human Sciences Research Showcase

After assessing what barriers are in place that impede the success of Asians and Asian-Americans, content analysis was utilized to determine what could be done to alleviate these issues. One of the bigger issues that came up frequently was the lack of advancement opportunities given to people in these communities. Over 25% of the workforce is a part of this demographic but only 11% are either executives or managers. When Asian people are put into positions of power they are often put there to fix an underlying issue or “go down with the ship”. This puts these executives in a …

Making Benefit Corporations More Beneficial: Drafting Statutes To Entice Entrepreneurs And Consumers Alike, Ryan Z. Ullman

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