Book & Movie review

Book List:
The Organization Man, William Whyte
 Working, Studs Terkel
 Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
 The Human Side of Enterprise, Douglas Macgregor
 Tribes, Seth Godin
 I’m OK, You’re OK, Thomas Harris
 Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Roger Fisher
 Strengths Based Leadership, Tom Rath
 Drive, Daniel Pink
 First, Break All the Rules, Marcus Buckingham
 How To Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
 Who Moved My Cheese, Johnson and Blanchard and Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard (two books count as one)4
 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
 A Savage Factory: An Eyewitness Account of the Auto Industry’s Self-Destruction-Robert Dewar
 Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions-John Kotter
 Re-engineering the Corporation- James Champy
 The Fifth Discipline-Peter Senge
 The Tipping Point- Malcolm Gladwell
 The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2nd Edition)-Nassim Taleb
 The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First, Jeffrey Pfeffer
 The HR Value Proposition, Dave Ulrich and Wayne Brockbank

compare the creation story of two different cultures.

compare the creation story of two different cultures.
1. summarize the myth or story from each culture in your own words. this should not be the majority of of the paper.
2. how is the myth influenced by location, topography, climate, ect.?
3. how do the myths influence the outlook of the culture? (optimistic, fatalistic, ect.)
4. what do the myth reveal about the common needs and archetypes?
feel free to explore your subjects father.

ideological influence views about science

Do you believe there are some things that science should not explore or do you believe that we should be unlimited in our freedom to investigate the natural world?.

Do you believe that science itself is value-free or not?. Is the connection between science and technology a necessary connection?. Should our ideas about a particular type of technology affect or limit the research that might be used to develop that technology?.

Should we ever limit or prevent the public from accessing the results of scientific research?. Should we ever limit or prevent science from being taught to children?.

Is it appropriate to use the results of scientific investigation to influence our ideological beliefs?. Is it appropriate to allow our ideological beliefs to influence scientific investigation?.

hotel design:how vernacular architecture should affect hotel design around the world

definition of vernacular architecture and modern reinterpretation around the world.
-the importance of tradition in the history of a country, architecture as stereotype of a country.
-3 examples/case study : MOROCCO (riad), ITALY(trullo) and INDIA (traditional house)
-hotel design.structure of a general hotel
-how traditional architecture has change with globalization and has affect hotel design (all the hotel are the same)

PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

Why should organizations address controllable turnover?  From the employer’s point of view, what is the worst type of turnover?  What strategies would you recommend for addressing retention?

Why has Internet recruiting become so important? How do employees conduct Internet recruiting? What are the disadvantages of Internet recruiting?

Describe the relationship among job performance, selection criteria, and predictors in the employee selection process.

What are the purposes of background investigations of job applicants? What are some of the legal issues involved?