Facts and figures have been given in each and every chapter of the book that helps in increasing an understanding of the content of the chapter, but if it were supported by latest published research, it would have been an important strength. Implications for Management Practice The book has highlighted a number of important facts, which if implemented in the organizations can be very helpful in building the required organizational behavior (Harris and Hartman 2011)
Leadership styles are one of the main ingredients of organizational behaviors. It is important that the leadership styles be inclusive of managing and looking after the employees so that commitment and job satisfaction is increased within the employees to enhance better employee experiences (Hellriegel, and Slocum 2007)
It has been mentioned that if the employees are rewarded and motivated in a proper manner by the managers, there are chances that more commitment and job satisfaction will be shown by the employees. This can have better effects on an overall organizational behavior displayed by the employee community (Kreitner, and Kinicki 2009)
Organizational behavior is a group-based practice that is more dependent on the individual as well as group-based behaviors of the employees working in an organization. Organizational behavior is very much dependent on the managerial strategies and the work-based relationships between managers and the employees (Miner 2007)
A number of other studies have also highlighted the same fact that the personalities and the behaviors of employees and authorities as an individual and as a group in the workplace play a great role in the determination of organizational behaviors. How the individual employees behave with the other employees is a strong fact presented by the authors that makes the choice of this book an easier task as compared to the other literature (Robbins, and Judge 2010)
Some of the main forms of the rewards and motivations mentioned by the authors include flexible working hours, and financial incentives. With better commitments and jab satisfaction within the employees, managers have a better chance to manage their subordinates in a better manner (Wagner and Hollenbeck 2009)
In addition, more values that this mode of knowledge delivery will add to the education system are to be discussed and be justified. Assuming implementation, drawbacks highly likely to be experienced during transition from print textbooks to digital textbooks are to be addressed, with a solution for each drawback being discussed in order to ensure that the feasibility of this large-scale project is viable for smooth approval and transition (Frabish, 2009)
Most readers have a cost to the tune of over $200, a situation that may discriminate students from the lower class. These issues would terribly isolate the lower class students not able to purchase such gadgets, thus class education as a status quo aspect (Fioriello, 2010)
The advent of Digital Textbooks would completely eliminate the need to carry bulky textbooks in a bid of knowledge search. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, lighter gadgets are bound to be developed that would further eliminate the clause that education is a burden (Catone, 2009)
A solution for this would, however, be to initiate engagement and commitment to the government implementing the very education curriculum to help service the finance for buying the equipment. This would better the speed of transition and will further ensure that such gadgets are school-owned, ensuring subsequent classes and students have enough supply of knowledge tools (Sager, 2011)
These E-books comprised of basically electronically processed versions of print books that had the same features apart from the mode of delivery. However, the current print industry has the threat of a more technologically advanced mode of delivering books: the new era Digital books (Federra, 2006)
Such features would include searching, zooming, and editing. With the case of a print text book, the furthest action one would perform to the physical print is drawing in it or underlining the content, something believed to be destructive in the long run especially if the book is intended for use by other future academics (Jefferson, 2010)
Still on the issue of internet connectivity, rather than students having to physically face the teacher before any knowledge is imparted, he connectivity will enable the connection between the tutors and the students to efficiently communicate and relay information that could largely include academic information. This value could greatly improve teacher-student interaction as it would eliminate the previous fears that some students had in interacting with their teachers physically (Rath, 2011)
Training usually requires considerable amount of time and expenditure thus slowing the whole process of adoption. Solution to this would be to initiate training while still maintaining the print textbook curriculum and only shift after both parties were ready for transition (Chris, 2005)
The whole earth, except the old and new Jerusalem, will be judged (Sisk). It declares that the lost tribes of Israel, now somewhere in the polar region, will be miraculously moved to Zion County and there to share the wealth of the Latter Day Saints Critics have argued that Joseph could not have written the Book of Mormon all by himself but that he borrowed or plagiarized most of its contents from certain sources, such as the Bible, Ethan Smith's "A View of the Hebrews" and Solomon Spalding's "Manuscript Story (Bowman 1989)
What is striking was for Joseph and his followers to overlook the Bible's express prohibition of dabbling in the occult in Deuteronomy 18:9-12, such as in using divination, observing the times, enchanting or consulting with familiar spirits or necromancy (Institute of Religious Practice 1999). The establishment of the Mormon Church by Joseph Smith occurred at the time of the Second Great Awakening of the revival movement in the early 1800s, starting in New York and spreading out until its disappearance in the 1840s (Klepp 2004)
His father, Joseph Sr., engaged in treasure hunting, witchcraft and superstition, while his mother was superstitious and observed and practiced extreme religiosity (Sisk 1992)
There exist many proofs that Joseph is a fake prophet and the strongest of them contradict Mormon theology itself, but the Mormons refuse to confront the evidence. They clearly do not rely on Biblical or historical evidence but on mere belief that Mormonism is the restored church of Jesus Christ and that Joseph Smith is its true prophet (Slick 2003)
But now I saw that it was. Their whiteness provided them with a pass to downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony" (Moody 33-34)
This era, so prosperous and wonderful for so many, allowed the middle and upper classes a chance to read, write, and experience art as never before. However, in contrast, the huge population increase and rapid urbanization caused by the industrial revolution drew large numbers of skilled and unskilled individuals to the cities where they were paid wages barely at the subsistence level, and situations of such abject poverty and despair that not only drastic political theories arose, but the realities of urban life were reflected in much of the literature of the time -- whether tragic or fantastic, all as a response to social and cultural conditions (Daniels, 2003)