Current Issue : April - June Volume : 2021 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
The sustainability of agriculture and tourism are always challenged and their impact on rural development. The called for community-based approach is needed to make agriculture and tourism sustainable and thriving. The study aims to develop farm tourism through community-based approach towards sustainability of agriculture and its rural development. Specifically, it considered the steps in developing community-based farm tourism in two selected communities, evaluates its feasibility, documented its benefits and challenges, and determined the lesson learned from its process. It uses qualitative research design where it highlights and documents the process of establishing farm tourism through community-based approach and its feasibility. Two selected communities are the respondent of this study. Survey-interview and focus group discussion was utilized. Focus group discussion in the two communities was used during the orientation and process of establishing farm tourism. Findings reveal that establishing farm tourism through community- based approach requires preliminary actions before its actual process. There are four steps to start and develop community-based tourism initiatives such as community assessment; educate and prepare the community for tourism; identify and establish leadership team/local champion; and plan and design quality products. It was reflected that the main benefit of developing community-based farm tourism is the livelihood it offers and this is also the main reason why they join this project. Establishing farm tourism through community-based approach is a process; it needs a support system; takes time to thrive; and it needs a different approach to sustain the project....
In the contemporary workplace, discrimination is avoided while diversity is promoted. Up to recent, past gender, race, and age were the topics taken into discussion. But recently a growing attention is visible in the corporate sector for providing employment opportunities for the differently-abled candidates to give equal opportunities to them as well. It is even against the law to discriminate against anyone in the workplace, because they have, or are assumed to have, a disability. Hence, it is essential to investigate on how the differently- abled employees are managed in the complex, turbulent corporate environment. In this research, in a journey of ethnographic narrative, I set out to narrate the stories of the differently-abled shop-floor employees in the confectionery industry, as their stories are within the context of Sri Lanka. As a good organizational ethnography can reveal and explore the intricacies, challenges, tensions, and choices of life in organizations, I employ organizational ethnography as the prime methodological approach of this study. Exploring and analyzing the daily lives of differently-abled shop-floor employees— while being part of their work life—paved the path to realize that employees with disabilities are capable of being an “employee” which the society expects. Finally, it could be concluded that unlike in managing the people without disabilities, it should be more towards sensitivity, which was observed and experienced throughout the research study....
The promulgation of the General Provisions of the Civil Law of the People ’s Republic of China officially established the status of rural collective economic organizations as special legal persons, and the Civil Code of the People ’s Republic of China adopted on May 28, 2020 also affirmed the status of rural collective economic organizations as legal persons. At present, there is a lack of national-level legislation on the specific governance content of rural collective economic organizations. Most local regulations directly stipulate the governance issues of rural collective economic organizations, resulting in formalism in the content of regulations and inconsistent governance structure of rural collective economic organizations in the process of governance. Improve and “separate politics from economics” difficult issues. In this regard, it is necessary to combine the particularity of collective economic organizations, pay attention to the procedural matters and content of the formulation of the charter, establish a “three-tier” governance structure model for internal and external supervision, and achieve “politics” by separating the functions and personnel of rural collective economic organizations and village committees. After separation, the direction of governance will be clarified, and the governance problems of rural collective economic organizations as legal persons will be solved....
As the third largest population country, Indonesia had millennials as their biggest spender than baby boomers. The millennials allocate their income for eating at the restaurants after family expenses and savings. Meanwhile, the increasing number of casual dining restaurants in Jakarta, delivered satisfying experiences and less intimidated than fine dining but higher than fast food with affordable price. The restaurants gave them hedonic and utilitarian values that matched with the millennial behavior and lifestyles. This study intends to inspect the relationship between hedonic and utilitarian values on satisfaction and behavior intention among casual-dining customers in Jakarta. The data was collected from 150 millennials in Jakarta through a web-based survey. The respondents were informed that they would be asked about their experience in casual dining restaurants in Jakarta. Result revealed that customer satisfaction had a significant and positive relationship toward the hedonic value, customer satisfaction had a significant and positive relationship toward the utilitarian value and customer satisfaction had significant impact with positive effect toward the Behavioral Intentions. The findings of this study propose for theoretical and managerial implementations....
The linkage between academia and the industry is increasingly becoming an essential component of national economic development. Industries depend much on their workforce from Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) for both innovation and technological development. On the other hand, strong linkage scales down unemployment risk. As a result, this study assessed the existing linkage between HLIs and industry and its contribution towards semi- industrialized economy. The study involved two Universities, three non-university institutions and five local industries in Dar es Salaam and Coastal regions. Data were collected through interviews and desktop survey from the selected institutions’ databases. Five (5) research directors, ten (10) faculty deans from HLIs, and five officials (5) from five industries were purposively selected and interviewed. The collected data were then thematically analyzed. Findings from the study suggest that the linkage in terms of training output is moderate. Knowledge is mainly transferred from HLIs to industries through field placement and employment opportunities of the trained workforce. Likewise, research and consultancy services linkage are still very low compared to the training and consultancy functions. It is further revealed that low motivation to academicians, lack of trust among industry owners towards HLIs, and meager budgets for research and consultancies are some of the factors that hinder the desired linkage. Conclusively, there exists a weak linkage between HLIs and industries in Tanzania. It is, therefore, suggested that the government should be involved, and should legitimize the collaboration. The objective is to smoothen the road towards the industrial economy. Engagement of the parties at all levels is required by raising awareness and participation....
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