Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism beyond the Border (Jaguar Books on Latin America)

Michael Armstrong

Managing staff performance is an effective mechanism for developing both staff and organizational growth. By clarifying an organization's objectives, translating these into clear individual goals, and reviewing these goals regularly, performance management provides a well-structured and effective management tool.

Deborah J. Grider

Don't forget about the modifier. Missing or incorrect usage of modifiers is the most common reason that claims are rejected by payors. Leave off a modifier, or put in the wrong one, and your claim may be denied or paid the wrong amount. Coding with Modifiers: A Guide to Correct CPT and HCPCS Level II Modifier Usage provides step-by-step guidance for the proper use of CPT and HCPCS modifiers. Also included are specific requirements for modifier usage in both professional service and hospital reporting. -Information right from the source - The AMA's CPT nomenclature uses modifiers as an integral part of its structure -Organized by modifier - Makes learning correct modifier coding easier -Contains both CMS and AMA modifier guidelines - -Guidelines are designated with a symbol for easy identification and understanding of each interpretation -Decision Tree Flow Charts - Lead to determination of the correct code -Real-life clinical examples and...

Christopher Endy

Moving beyond traditional state-centered conceptions of foreign relations, Christopher Endy approaches the Cold War era relationship between France and the United States from the original perspective of tourism. Focusing on American travel in France afte World War II, Cold War Holidays shows how both the U.S. and French governments actively cultivated and shaped leisure travel to advance their foreign policy agendas. From the U.S. government's campaign to encourage American vacations in WesternEurope as part of the Marshall Plan, to Charles de Gaulle's aggressive promotion of American tourism to France in the 1960s, Endy reveals how consumerism and globalization played a major role in transatlantic affairs. Yet contrary to analyses of globalizaion that emphasize the decline of the nation-state, Endy argues that an era notable for the rise of informal transnational exchanges was also a time of entrenched national identity and persistent state power. A lively array of...

Neil Conway, Rob B. Briner

How can we understand the relationship between employer and employee? What determines the give and take of such relationships and what happens when they go wrong? This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and critical overview of what is now th major way to trying to understand the employment relationship-the concept of the psychological contract. Written contracts often specify very little in terms of the important details about what we are prepared to do for our employer and what we want bck in return. The psychological contract considers these implicit or unwritten aspects of the employment relationship. What do employees really expect from work? What happens when the contract, or 'the deal', with their employer is broken? How ell des the psychological contract help us understand what happens at work between an employee and their employer? Is the idea of practical value in managing employees? How can our understanding of this important concept be developed...

Jorge E. Lozano

The fruit processing industry is a major global business. While basic principles of fruit processing have shown only minor changes over the last years, major improvements continually occur. More efficient equipment is capable of converting huge quantities of fruits into pulp, juice, dehydrated, frozen and refrigerated products, etc. that make possible the preservation of products for year-round consumption. Fruit processing and storage involve physical and chemical changes that negatively modify fruit quality. The industry’s ability to provide a nutritious and healthful fruit product to the consumer is highly dependent on the knowledge of the quality modifications that occur during the processing. Fruit Manufacturing emphasizes the products rather than the processes, procedures, or plant operations. It presents the influence on a fruit product’s quality in relation to the different processing methods, from freezing to high temperature techniques, and...