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Empresas hoteleiras, independentemente de suas operações, são importantes ícones de desenvolvimento socioeconômico. Para maximizar esses efeitos, deve-se entender os fatores que influenciam o ciclo de vida e o sucesso dessas organizações. Desse modo, destaca-se a sazonalidade e suas inferências sobre as operacionais e ritmos de consumo do produto hoteleiro. Assim, o presente trabalho demonstra como a baixa sazonalidade é responsável pela produção de impactos negativos que afetam a produção, a diversidade e a qualidade dos serviços hoteleiros. Para tanto, através de uma lógica quanti-qualitativa aplicada em um estudo de multicaso desenvolvido junto a três estabelecimentos hoteleiros ligados ao segmento corporativo fluminense, aferiu-se características e especificidades desse evento, observando as estratégias aplicadas a essa situação. A partir dessa conjectura, constatou-se a importância da proposição de estratégias capazes de minimizar os efeitos negativos sobre a produtividade hoteleira, melhorando a qualidade e a diversificação dos serviços ofertados, adequando-os as peculiaridades sazonais do turismo.

AbstractCommunicating the rationale for allocating resources to manage policy priorities and their risks is challenging. Here, we demonstrate that environmental risks have diverse attributes and locales in their effects that may drive disproportionate responses among citizens. When 2,065 survey participants deployed summary information and their own understanding to assess 12 policy‐level environmental risks singularly, their assessment differed from a prior expert assessment. However, participants provided rankings similar to those of experts when these same 12 risks were considered as a group, allowing comparison between the different risks. Following this, when individuals were shown the prior expert assessment of this portfolio, they expressed a moderate level of confidence with the combined expert analysis. These are important findings for the comprehension of policy risks that may be subject to augmentation by climate change, their representation alongside other threats within national risk assessments, and interpretations of agency for public risk management by citizens and others.

Esta investigación analiza el grado de interactividad de las páginas webs turísticas oficiales de los principales destinos de sol y playa españoles, dada su importancia en la consecución de una comunicación bidireccional. Del mismo modo se evalúan aspectos relativos a los medios sociales y a la web social, igualmente necesarios para lograr esa comunicación bidireccional a partir de la cual establecer relaciones con sus públicos. Metodología. En ambos casos se recurre a un análisis de contenido y funcional de una serie de indicadores que proporciona información descriptiva de su estado y una puntuación que permite un análisis comparativo. Resultados y conclusiones. Los resultados muestran importantes deficiencias en el ámbito de la interactividad, pero una notable evolución en lo que respecta a los medios sociales y herramientas de la web social. Del mismo modo señalan una serie de buenas prácticas en orden a favorecer los aspectos relacionales de los sitios webs turísticos oficiales, herramientas imprescindibles en las estrategias de marketing y comunicación turística.

Family satisfaction is an important outcome of palliative care and is a critical measure for health care professionals to address when assessing quality of care. The FAMCARE-2 is a widely used measure of family satisfaction with the health care received by both patient and family in palliative care. In this study, a team of Italian researchers culturally adapted the FAMCARE-2 to the Italian language and psychometrically tested the instrument by measuring satisfaction of 185 family caregivers of patients admitted into two palliative care services. FAMCARE-2 showed excellent levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's α coefficient = .96) and test–retest reliability ( r = .98, p < .01). The confirmatory factor analysis showed a single-factor structure with good fit. Satisfaction levels were significantly correlated with family caregivers being females with less education, patient length of care, and place of assistance and death. This scale can help health care professionals identify which aspects of care need improvement and enable family caregivers to manage their challenging role.

O objetivo do texto é discutir a necessidade da expansão da oferta de cursos públicos para o ensino superior e consequentemente o incremento na pósgraduação na Região Amazônica. Os dados apresentados têm como base as pesquisas do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), órgão pertencente ao Ministério da Educação (MEC), do Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária na Amazônia e de importantes estudos sobre o tema, dentre os autores, destaque para Martins (1986) que ajuda a pensar a questão agrária brasileira. A necessidade de expansão de cursos superiores públicos é constatada por todos os indicadores, ratificada pelas autoridades e instituições de ciência e tecnologia, e uma condição sine qua non para a consolidação das universidades públicas do Norte do país. Para demonstrá-las, dois grupos de razões podem ser listados: as que apontam para a diminuição das disparidades regionais e as que reconhecem a urgência de uma resposta aos impactos sócio-ambientais decorrentes da ocupação sócio-econômica recente da região.

Messerschmidt and colleagues have pioneered work in criminology using masculinities theory, yet many researchers in the field have not engaged with the possibility that the different patterning of correlated violent, sexually risky, and antisocial behaviors may reflect a disaggregation of the category of men into multiple masculinities. This lens can help understand men's violence and enable intervention targeting. We analyzed household survey data and identified three classes of men according to their use of violence and correlated behavior. Associations between masculinity categories and other acts of violence (against women), gender attitudes, and sexually transmitted diseases showed a dose–response relationship across the masculinity categories. Structural equation modeling showed how the psychological variables mediated pathways between exposure to trauma and teasing in childhood and the more violent masculinity categories. Our analysis provides a bridge between gender analysis (with intersectionality) and the psychoanalytic in understanding men's violence. This is important for interventions to prevent men's violence against women and other men and support arguments for targeting violence prevention interventions.

The Strand's more popular sister magazine, Tit-Bits, played a significant role in establishing Sherlock Holmes as a literary and cultural icon, particularly through its use of participatory practices, cross-promotion, and transmedia storytelling. I argue that Tit-Bits' late 19th-century New Journalism techniques like contests and prizes, inquiry columns, correspondence, and internal advertising fostered a corporately devised participatory fandom that directly contributed to Sherlock Holmes's popularity. Tit-Bits audiences were invited and encouraged to imagine new scenarios for their favorite character that were validated through publication. Such practices not only created a unique identity for Sherlock Holmes fandom but also directly contributed to the creation and maintenance of Holmes's fictional world. With fandom studies reaching more and more audiences—both academic and popular—historicizing early fan practices like the early publication and reception of the Sherlock Holmes stories provides important insight into how audiences have historically responded to, and interacted with, fictional characters, and how they helped sustain and expand those characters' fictional worlds.

O presente artigo apresenta-se como um convite à reflexão acerca da educação em saúde no ambiente escolar, com o objetivo de refletir sobre os principais desafios para sua efetivação. A fim de atender ao que se propõe, realizou-se um estudo de natureza bibliográfica, a partir de trabalhos publicados nas principais bases de dados, entre 2010 e 2015. Com base no levantamento realizado, identificou-se a necessidade em superar o ensino tradicionalista; considerar a realização de ações numa concepção dialógica entre escolas e serviços de saúde; envolver todos os segmentos da sociedade, partindo de uma perspectiva interdisciplinar e contextualizada, além da necessidade em fortalecer as políticas educacionais de formação dos educadores. Assim, de forma crítico-reflexiva, este artigo apresenta discussões importantes para a construção e/ou consolidação da educação em saúde nas escolas, esperando-se que possa contribuir de forma efetiva nas ações desenvolvidas no decorrer do processo ensino-aprendizagem, bem como na continuidade de novas discussões e pesquisas realizadas na área em estudo.

Feedback from rule-making is an important facet of regulatory processes. By examining the operations of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), a transnational private certification program, we explore two types of feedback that operate within and outside R-I-T relationships and potentially influence agenda-setting and rule-reformulation. Within R-I-T relationships, intermediation feedback results from the knowledge that intermediaries acquire as they translate rules into practical forms applicable to specific regulatory targets. Intermediaries may communicate this knowledge to the regulator to strategically inform rule-reformulation. But the regulator may also have access to this information if transparency obligations come with the responsibility of performing intermediation functions. Outside R-I-T relationships, evaluation feedback involves external evaluative audiences—actors outside the regulatory process that hold an interest in evaluating and influencing that process. Transparency about R-I-T relationships should strengthen this feedback, though lack of information will not prevent external evaluators from rendering judgments and seeking to influence rule-reformulation.

La gestion des talents est devenue en peu d'années un enjeu important pour les entreprises. Dans la littérature en management des ressources humaines, le concept de talent a également pris une grande place, suscitant des travaux théoriques s'attachant principalement à en préciser la définition ainsi qu'à figurer les changements introduits par cette notion. Cependant nous n'avons encore qu'une compréhension limitée des pratiques en entreprise. Considérant le foisonnement des enjeux affichés par les professionnels en charge des ressources humaines et la variété des dispositifs mis en place, peut-on encore parler de l'émergence d'un modèle ? L'étude menée auprès de professionnels RH dans 16 entreprises françaises de haute technologie indique que la notion de talent n'inaugure pas une ère nouvelle. Présentée comme annonciatrice d'un nouveau modèle laissant davantage de place à des évolutions et à l'autonomie du salarié, la notion de talent est en fait réintégrée à une perspective gestionnaire 'RH' adéquationniste classique, sous une forme associant les caractéristiques de la compétence et du potentiel.

ObjectivesThis study examines the contribution of general human capital, social capital, and financial management practices to the individual's relative financial well‐being following bankruptcy.MethodsMultivariate logistic regression models were estimated using secondary data from the Survey of Consumer Finances 2004 and 2007.ResultsIndividuals who possess higher general human capital and greater access to social capital are significantly more likely to achieve net worth parity with nonfilers following bankruptcy compared to similar individuals with lower levels of general human capital and social capital.ConclusionHuman and social capital are relatively more important factors contributing to attaining net worth parity with peers following bankruptcy than financial management practices and attitudes when controlling for ownership of protected assets. Congressionally mandated financial management training and counseling would likely have substantially better outcomes on bankruptcy filers' financial well‐being over the long term if additional human‐capital‐building—and consequently income‐building—programs are integrated into the mandated financial management training.

<em>Employee performance is the key driving force for organizational success and at the same time pressure become the part &amp; parcel in organizations for keeping employees motivated to win the competitive race. But undue pressure can causes stress which reduces performance .Stress is ubiquitous phenomenon and a straining condition that has a negative impact on an individual's physical, physiological, personal and family life. Quality of Work Life is an intricate and comprehensive concept implying a concern for the members of an organization irrespective of the level they belong to. It includes job factors such as health and well-being, working conditions, attitude level etc. the success of any organisation especially in banking sector depends on quality of work life of employees because management of people and management of risk are the two important challenges faced by banks today. So the present study aims to make a comparative study of the quality of work life among public and private sector bank employees in Haryana.</em>

AbstractImplementation of Product Stewardship Strategy (PSS) requires integration of 'voices of stakeholders' in business decisions to create 'differentiation' in the market place. Considering that absorptive capability (AC) is a critical aspect of organizational learning, it may deliver dynamic integration of stakeholder's expectations and know‐how in decision making. This paper attempts to link the attributes of AC with the features of PSS and presents outcomes of an empirical study of sixty Indian firms from several industry sectors. The result shows that firms demonstrating the traits of AC are in better position to implement PSS. This study also expands the scope of AC by including the additional source of knowledge as societal‐stakeholders to provide a comprehensive view that this type of knowledge is complimentary to technological and market knowledge for sustainable commercial success. Based on the research findings, the paper proposes some important managerial implications and suggests direction for future research. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

AbstractBased on a survey and content analysis of 76 empirical research articles, this article reviews the factors driving Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosure in both developed and developing countries. We find that firm characteristics such as company size, industry sector, profitability, and corporate governance mechanisms predominantly appear to drive the CSR reporting agenda. Furthermore, political, social, and cultural factors influence the CSR disclosure agenda. We find crucial differences between the determinants of CSR disclosure in developed and developing countries. In developed countries, the concerns of specific stakeholders, for example, regulators, shareholders, creditors, investors, environmentalists and the media are considered very important in disclosing CSR information. In developing countries, CSR reporting is more heavily influenced by the external forces/powerful stakeholders such as international buyers, foreign investors, international media and international regulatory bodies (e.g. the World Bank). Furthermore, in contrast to developed countries, firms in developing countries perceive relatively little pressure from the public with regards to CSR disclosure. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

How do foreign policy beliefs affect German parliamentarians' (MPs)
support for European integration? Despite important advances, the literature
has overlooked the effect of foreign policy beliefs on national representatives'
attitudes toward integration. This study provides a systematic investigation of
the role foreign policy beliefs play in shaping German MPs' support for European
integration. I argue that given the complex and contentious character of
European integration politics MPs derive heuristic cues from their foreign policy
beliefs to form opinions on the desirability of integration. Using data from
an original survey conducted with members of the seventeenth German Bundestag,
I show that a belief in multilateralism increases support for European
integration while isolationist and hawkish foreign policy orientations decrease
support. These results indicate that support for European integration is not
merely determined by party ideology, electoral pressure or economic considerations,
but also has a psychological foundation shaped by politicians' core
beliefs about how the world of international politics operates.