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Consumerism, Consumer Behavior and Identity: the Extent in Policy Decision-Making     Annotated Bibliography   Villegas, Bernardo M. (2005) Christmastime and Consumerism. Manila Bulletin. December 9. p. NA.   This brief news article is about the spending and consumer behavior of Filipino people during the whole year of 2005. The economic situation of the people affects their consumer identity and behaviors. Furthermore, the news also presents the cultural practices, backgrounds and attributes of the said setting. Specifically, Christmastime is the main event observed because this is the season when all people are engage in a rapid exchange of economic activities.   Barnhill, David Landis. (2004) Good Work: An Engaged Buddhist Response to the Dilemmas of Consumerism. Buddhist-Christian Studies, vol. 24, pp. 55+.   Barn's article relates to the cultural, social, political, religious, and psychological application of consumerism. In particular, he presented the principles of engaged Buddhism in relation to consumerism. Further, he is proposed several ideas to resist consumerism knowing the fact that it is an “ingrained part of our culture” and “paradoxically difficult to avoid and easy to ignore.”   Harris, Daniel. (2000) Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism. New York: Basic Books.   The author Daniel Harris presented the concepts of aesthetics in consumerism. It is an evaluation of the attitudes of consumerism among people – teens, household wives, and many others. He aims to identify “how the aesthetics of Credit:ivythesis.typepad.com

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Consumerism, Consumer Behavior and Identity: the Extent in Policy Decision-Making Annotated Bibliography Villegas, Bernard...

PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE TOPICS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK AMERICA

PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE TOPICS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK AMERICA PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST African Americans in History 1996, The University of Georgia African American 	Studies, viewed 26 October 2006, . Burch, A 2006, ‘Book Captures the Black Church Experience’, Miami Herald, 	16 April. Copeland, M.S 2000, ‘Tradition and the Traditions of African American 	Catholicism’, Theological Studies, vol. 61, no. 4, p.1. Gite, L 1993, ‘The New Agenda of the Black Church: Economic Development for 	Black America’, Black Enterprise, December. Lincoln, E and Mamiya, L 1990, The Black Church in the African-American 	Experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Mjagkij, N 2001, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American 	Associations, Garland, New York. Phelps, J 1997, Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk 	Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to Catholic 	Theology, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee. Philogène, G 1999, From Black to African American: A New Social 	Representation, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. Raboteau, A 1995, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American 	Religious History, Beacon Press, Boston. The African American Migration Experience 2006, In Motion Website, viewed 	26 October 2006, . Sernett, M 1999, African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness, 	 	Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Weems, R 2005, ‘Black America and Religion’, Ebony, November. Wright, W.D 2002, Critical Reflections on Black History, Praeger, Westport, 	Connecticut. ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY African Americans in History 1996, The University of Georgia Institute of 	African American Studies, viewed 26 October 2006, . 	This page is contained in the University of Georgia Institute of African American Studies website. On this page brief biographical sketches of several key figures in African American history are presented. The brief biographies include the lives of Benjamin Banneker, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, Alexander Crummell, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, E. Franklin Frazier, James Langston Hughes, Charles Drew, Margaret Walker, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lorraine Hansberry, Colin Powell, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, August Wilson, Carole Mosely-Braun, and Cynthia A. McKinney. Burch, A 2006, ‘Book Captures the Black Church Experience’, Miami 	Herald, 16 April. 	This magazine article discusses a new book entitled Johnson's Soul Sanctuary by Jason Miccolo. The author of the article views the book as a volume that captures the black church life in impressive images. It explores the black church, illustrating it as a glorious institution that embodies much of America's black community. The book is a collection of stories plucked from churches across the country and features three Florida churches including New Birth Baptist Church Cathedral of Faith in North Miami-Dade. The article opined that the book is an ambitious endeavor to capture the traditional rhythm and blues of the black church in an age when the faith and practice of religion are evolving. Copeland, M.S 2000, ‘Tradition and the Traditions of African American 	Catholicism’, Theological Studies, vol. 61, no. 4, p.1. 	This journal article speaks about tradition in general and the traditions of African American Catholicism. The first part of the article uncovers the reception and transmission of Tradition by 19th-century Black Catholics and undertakes to bring out some of the theological themes in the Address of the Fourth Colored Catholic Congress in 1893. It discusses the fact that African American Catholicism is not a 20th-century phenomenon. To prove this fact, the article demonstrates that Black Catholics had a vibrant ecclesial, devotional, and sacramental life in St. Augustine in Florida even before the British settlement in 1607, the arrival of Africans on the Dutch man-of-war in Jamestown in Virginia in 1619, and the arrival of the Pilgrims in Massachusetts in 1620. The second part of the article focuses on African American cultural retrieval as popular religion and briefly sketches the veneration of the ancestors and Marian iconography. The third part draws out the Black Catholic subject of Tradition. Gite, L 1993, ‘The New Agenda of the Black Church: Economic 	Development for Black America’, Black Enterprise, December. 	This magazine article tackles about the new economic direction employed by the Black churches in America. It narrates the stand of black churches that the Black people in America should be able to stand on their own for survival. In response to this, the black churches are on an economic endeavor to provide much needed jobs and businesses like shopping centers and senior citizen housing to the Black community. The business stories of some black churches like Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bridge Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, First African Methodist Episcopal (FAME) Church of Los Angeles, Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, Mendenhall Bible Church in Mississippi, and Greater Christ Temple Church in Meridian, Mississippi are presented. It also includes a related article on how to set up an economic development plan for a church. Lincoln, E and Mamiya, L 1990, The Black Church in the African-American 	Experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. 	This book is founded on the basic premise that black religion is significantly part and parcel of the American experience in religion. It is a study that took 10 years to complete and one of the most thorough examinations of the scope, internal structure and significance of the Black church in contemporary society. The contents are patterned from the interviews with more than 1,800 Black clergy in both rural and urban settings. The topics explored in the volume range from the attitude of the church toward women pastors, to the reaction of the church to the Civil Rights Movement and to the trends that will define the Black church in the next century. The research offers important insights into the growth and development of the Black church as well. Mjagkij, N 2001, Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African 	American Associations, Garland, New York. 	This book is the most comprehensive reference work illustrating the rich history of black associations in America and their leaders. Organized alphabetically, the encyclopedia seeks to provide easy access to information about associations established by African Americans, such as the National Negro Business League; interracial organizations that served a predominantly black constituency, such as the National Urban League; groups working in the interest of African Americans, such as the President's Committee on Civil Rights; and association activities in cities with a significant black population, such as Chicago and New York. Entries trace the origins, goals, founders, membership, staff, activities, achievements, failures, and demise of African American associations. Moreover, they assess the historical significance of black organizations and the contributions of individuals who assumed leadership positions within their respective associations. Phelps, J 1997, Black and Catholic: The Challenge and Gift of Black Folk 	Contributions of African American Experience and Thought to 	Catholic Theology, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee. 	This book is a first of its kind volume where scholars jointly address issues related to the African-American Catholic experience. It discusses theology, theological education, ethics, scripture and history in light of the African American experience. It also presents the collective concerns of scholars about the state of Catholic higher education. The book aspires to provide a basis of knowledge for the reform of the entire American academic curriculum in such a way that the unity of the educational experience will be enhanced by the diversity of the traditions that make up that unity. Philogène, G 1999, From Black to African American: A New Social 	Representation, Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT. 	Gina Philogène, in this book, extends the theory of social representations to the realm of racism. This book uncovers in great detail the emergence of "African American" and the meaning taken by this term, the fusion of contrasts between the first part of the word combination, emphasizing the difference between Blacks and Whites, and the second part, which highlights what they have in common as Americans. The author undertakes a reinterpretation of classical works from Katz and Braly and puts them into a new perspective. Then she broadens her field of investigation to the representation pushed forward by the African Americans, in the quest for an identity which defines them neither by their physical appearance, by their propensity to obey, nor by memories of exclusion, so as to open a field to free their energy, their vitality, after touching the depth of racial discrimination and after the efforts of the last twenty years. Raboteau, A 1995, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American 	Religious History, Beacon Press, Boston. 	This book is a collection of eleven essays representing the result of attempts to understand the religious history of black Americans and to ascertain what that particular history means for the nation as a whole. Seven of the eleven essays have been published previously; some are new; a few have circulated widely in photocopy. This collection aims to encourage a renewed discussion of the racial and religious history of the nation as it moves rapidly toward the end of the twentieth century, a century dominated, as W. E. B. Du Bois predicted, by the "problem of the color line." The long encounter of black and white Americans, which began tragically under slavery and still proceeds under the long shadow of the plantation, remains the paradigmatic test of the national experiment. The African American Migration Experience 2006, In Motion Website, 	viewed 26 October 2006, . 	In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience is a website organized around thirteen defining migrations that have formed and transformed African America and the American nation with more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and more than 60 maps. It presents a new interpretation of African-American history with a focus on the self-motivated activities of people of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. It also explains the extraordinary diversity of African Americans living in the United States today Sernett, M 1999, African American Religious History: A Documentary 	Witness, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. 	This widely-heralded collection of fifty remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of Black Nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology of today. The documents include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume, Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan's farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee becomes a female preacher among the African Methodists. Frederick Douglass discusses Christianity and slavery. Isaac Lane preaches among the freedmen. Nannie Helen Burroughs reports on the work of Baptist women. African Methodist bishops deliberate on the Great Migration. Bishop C. H. Mason tells of the Pentecostal experience. Mahalia Jackson recalls the glory of singing at the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. writes from the Birmingham jail. This expanded second edition includes new sources on women, African missions, and the Great Migration. The author wishes to expand readership for this edition to those who will make the transition to the next millennium in preservation of the rich tapestry of the African American religious experience. Weems, R 2005, ‘Black America and Religion’, Ebony, November. 	This article narrates the central role of religion as a “shelter in the time of storm” for the African Americans. It illustrates the trend of thinking of successive generations of African Americans about some of the cherished traditions associated with the Black church. The article discusses the emergence of Black mega-churches and the Neo-Pentecostal renewal as the two most significant trends in the history of African American religion and the Black church. The author’s purpose is to illustrate how the mega churches, neo-pentecostal renewal, Muslim influence and social activism, and woman’s leadership of the church help shape how African Americans view, talk about and communicate with God throughout the years. Wright, W.D 2002, Critical Reflections on Black History, Praeger, Westport, 	Connecticut. 	This seven-chapter book represents an effort to augment the critical capacity of Black history. There are three primary ways in which the reflections of the chapters are critical: with respect to scholarship or commentary, analysis, and use of language. These chapters are presented to lay out additional discussions on the subject to the knowledge provided by other scholars over the last four decades. The volume offers definition of “Black history” on the basis of the struggles of the Black people in America from their early beginnings as slaves until the present day. The book includes discussions on the history of Black women as an under-researched and underwritten field in American history. It aspires to produce some revelations about America and observations about the role that Black women have played in American history and their contributions to it. Other contents of the book center on the famous African American people who made extraordinary contributions to the history of Blacks in the nation as well as different critical analyses on race, racism, slavery, class and gender issues. Credit:ivythesis.typepad.com

PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE TOPICS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND FOUNDATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF BLACK AMERICA

PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST AND ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE TOPICS DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH AND FOUNDAT...

Sample Essay Human Resource Management in Government

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY    Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government. Publishers, 2001   This book reveals that all firms and companies are governed by their primary goals and perspectives. These goals are often called or referred to as the “corporate vision” or “corporate philosophy”. Therefore, Cindery assumes that there has to be certain strategies that need to taken into consideration in order to successfully fulfill these visions and targets, and this makes up a critical factor in the identity of a firm or company. The bottom line is Cindery attests to the fact that human resources, without a doubt, are an integral aspect in terms of identifying the purpose of a firm or company. The book also states a well known fact that personnel have an essential role regarding differentiation and an integral source of competitiveness for any firm or organization. Therefore, the author believes that any firm or company must definitely allot sufficient resources to pursue human resource development activities even during times of inactivity in the industry. Connolly, Thomas R., et al. “Transforming Human Resources.” Management Review, June 2002, issue # 3   Connolly warns that the identification of the extent to which an organization can allot resources regarding human resources development is dependent on the financial status or situation of the firm or company. Budgetary concerns must also be taken into emphasis according to Connolly, because in the identification of the goals for training and development, the goals of the company should be in unison with the fundamental perspectives of a company’s human resource development strategy. Connolly also states that with regards to the current developments involving effective human resource development, there have been essential perspectives that have come out. Most of these perspectives are based on the concept that efficient human resource development entails a social process where information is rejected instead of being possessed in a passive manner. Connolly concludes then, that effective human resource development then, shifts into a process where interaction becomes integral. This process of interaction is being maintained through the active participation of all the stakeholders involved in the effective human resource development process including the management and the workforce. Essential, Russell A. “What Corporate Human Resources Brings to the Picnic: Four Models for Functional Management.” Organizational Dynamics, 2001   Essential affirms that the best quality of effective human resource development would entail the consistent guidance and support of the continued learning process of all the stakeholders involved. Essential state that in order for these processes to push through these would have to involve a comprehensive and structured strategy.  When in the extreme pursuit of effective human resource development, the interaction of the management with its employees creates a critical part towards its success. Collaboration as a type of strategy is slowly being utilized by most companies and firms nowadays, according to the author. Through this strategy, the employees can maximize learning from the management through the assimilation of their strategies in the effective human resource development processes. In the process, the employees gain the opportunity to see their own perspectives in a different way and thus be able to take other options into consideration. The relative success of this strategy is identified with the capacity of the employees to constantly challenge their knowledge by making initiatives to adapt to the interpretations of the management. Gilpin, Timothy J., and Patrick Murray. “Connect Human Resource Strategy to the Business Plan.” HR Magazine, March 2002, issue # 5   The authors Gilpin and Murray assert that aside from the employees and the management, the various resources of learning belong to another set of critical factors of an effective human resource development environment. Also, according to the authors human resource development strategies have shown signs of impressive progress over the last few years. As a result, gathering information transforms into a much more complicated process. This is because the changes in all this data into pertinent knowledge require the employees to acquire the proper reference frameworks. However, the management can definitely help the employees change valuable data into critical knowledge. The authors Gilpin and Murray also relate that the recent initiatives of firms and companies to educate the public concerning the freshest developments in effective human resource development would undoubtedly transform learning for every person a very easy process. Also, the emerging effects of information and communications technology (ICT) are able to jive with the greater change towards a knowledge-based human resource development. Gonzalez, Maria. “Synchronized Strategies.” Journal of Business Strategy, May/June 2003, issue # 5, pp. 9-11.   Gonzalez states that effective human resource development is being influenced by the presence of two primary factors. On the one hand, the instructional factors: the academic information provided by the company and its conversion into didactical ideas. On the other hand, organizational factors: the staff, infrastructure and policies related in this area. It is obvious that every organization must possess a sound vision of policies and the efficient use of the operating budget in order to effectively perform its strategic human resource development plans. Nevertheless, according to her strategic human resource development needs an interaction between both factors. This is because in order to respond to the new visions of learning, it will eventually transform into a model together with the various aspects of the environment. In return, the labor force will have to continuously monitor their limitations and along the process introduce innovations. Most companies and organizations are already adapted to ICT. Nowadays, companies and organizations are more and more using artificial intelligence systems in order to implement strategic human resource development. Grattan, Lynda. “The New Rules of HR Strategy.” HR Focus, June 2003   Grattan believes that the connection of HRM to the company and its workforce creates a chain reaction wherein good points provided for the workforce leads to positive results for the company as a whole. The workforce is one of the critical parts of any organization, without them, the organization simply cannot achieve its objectives. The HRM of a particular organization in a nation should be able to meet the needs of its workforce. It should recruit the best individuals available, provide them training for them to be efficient in the organization and most importantly provide care to these workers. Managers cannot afford to depend only on the available budget and technology; workers are essential in order to use these other factors. Though the employees are critical, the company must also provide specific measures so as to guarantee its effectiveness. The heightened formal process in recruitment, according to Grattan, transforms the primary hiring processes more structured and objective. As companies are able to filter the applicants more effectively, rising rates of worker turnover and wasted labor costs are suddenly cut; tremendous job advertising costs are also prevented.   Feuerman, Allan D. “Using Performance Management to Energize the Results Act.” The Public Manager, 2004   Feuerman asserts that effective training and learning is able to give the company a more efficient and hardworking workforce. He believes that every individual in the workforce deserves to be treated with respect in any company. Recruiting the perfect employees also require resources. Thus, certain ideas must be incorporated to HR practices so as to maximize employment results. Feuerman is convinced that human-resource planning is the primary step in strategic human-resource management as it includes predicting the human-resource needs of the company and planning several critical steps that the company must follow so that those human resource needs that will contribute a great percentage for its overall success as human-resource planning should be related to the company’s critical plans and objectives. The author asserts that human-resource planning is a tremendous adversity because the needs of the company are not always constant and there are instances where the needs do not meet and such adversity can be bigger if the pool of talented employees is scarce or if the individuals tasked of human-resource management have yet to receive proper training to predict the company’s needs to maintain and attain success in all areas of concern. Overran, Stephanie. “Big Bang Change: Re-engineering HR.” HR Magazine, June 2002, issue # 4   Overran believes that in the identification of a certain variety of importance in gathering credible data concerning the extent to which human resource planning contributes to the general success of the company, it is essential to put into emphasis some of the planning themes that may have a positive impact and or negative impact to the success of such company. Therefore, it is critical to determine and analyze these planning themes. The author is very much sure that an effective human resource planning will improve the efficiency of the company’s success in dealing properly to the origin of its occupation and be able to provide a comprehensive medium for interaction and communication wherein there exists a point to which it will propel towards the achievement of its objectives as well as the actualization of its vision and parallels in investigating efficiency with substantiality that many companies are successful with regards to human resource planning of a specific company is concerned with assessment of its findings and function to the culture of the company. Credit:ivythesis.typepad.com

Sample Essay Human Resource Management in Government

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government. Publishers, 2001 This book reveals that all f...

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