Thursday, December 26, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Dioserey Cabiling Victoriano: A Profile
Dioserey Cabiling Victoriano: A Profile
by
Melchor F. Cichon
December 15, 2013
December 15, 2013
Every time I reached the office, I would always see him mopping the floor or cleaning the Comfort Room. There at times, I would hear him singing. I presumed that he was happy doing his job.
Then he would wipe the glass divider of the internet section. Or wipe the tables and the chairs. Then he would do other things to make his area clean and tidy.
One time, his supervisor told him to look up the walls to see if there are cobwebs. He simply said, "Yes, Ma'am."
After that, I would always see him sweeping the upper part of the walls and of the ceiling.
Before he would leave our office for his lunch, he would always ask me if I have something else for him to do.
After his lunch break, he would again come back to our office to check if there were litters around or if there were chairs not pushed back to their proper places.
At four in the afternoon he would again come back to the library to close the windows and empty the waste cans.
And when I request him to help me carry some books or other library materials, he was always willing to help.
It seemed that he was not getting tired of doing his job as a janitor. Perhaps because he was contented with his job.
But he had to go because he only had a five month contract. with the school.
I am referring to Jioserey Cabiling Victoriano, the janitor who was assigned in our library for five months. He is known as Joss among his friends.
Joss was born in Gemumua Agahon, Passi City, Iloilo. It was there that he finished his elementary and high school education.
After high school, he enrolled at Interface Computer Science, where he enjoyed a scholarship. but then he had to quit because
Because of financial problem, he could not proceed to the course that he wanted to take. He said that he wanted to become a scientist. When I asked him to clarify, he told me he wanted to become an astrologer to know more about the planets and other celestial bodies in the skies. But I told him , he could read in the books and in the internet. But he said that, it is much better if somebody could teach him more, somebody who could guide him.
That's the reason why if given the opportunity, he read books.
He is fond of reading adventure books. And when he got a chance, he would see adventure and science fiction movies.
Now that it seems to be impossible to reach his goal, I asked him what alternative he is taking. He said, he wants to get into business. "Even just a small one. And when I have enough money, then I will try to pursue that dream of mine." Anyway, he is still young.
I told him that I often heard him singing while he was working. And I told him that he has a good voice.
"That's right, sir", he said. "While in high school", he said, "I used to join in some singing contests. In fact, I won second place in one of those contests. But I did not pursue that singing career because I was shy. I am glad I am not as shy now as before."
Before he worked in our office, he was working as a service crew at one of the branches of Jollybee in Iloilo City. It was there, he said where his self-confidence was improved. And that confidence I have was further developed when I worked in this office."
I asked him if he has something else to say.
"No one is perfect, but we can try to be perfect."
That's Joss, the personality who dreams to become an astrologer.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Book Review: Human Resource Management by Danny Araneta Cabulay and Christine Palafox Carpio.
Book Review: Human Resources Management in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry; a Comprehensive Guide for Teachers, Practitioners, Students and Industry Mentors by Danny Araneta Cabulay and Christine Palafox Carpio. Manila: Rex Book Store, 2009. 399p.
According to Mayor Aldrin San Pedro, Mayor, Muntinlupa City, in its blurb, this book is "highly informative and truly enlightening that students, practitioners and educators would find it a very useful tool. The anticipated growth of the tourism and hospitality industry makes it a 'must' reading material for everyone so that all sectors of Philippine society may contribute their share in pushing to reality the projections made."
The authors are both highly qualified to write the book, Mr. Danny Araneta Cabulay was a former dean of the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance of Far Eastern University and a CPA. He has served, among others, as Human Resources Director of Hyatt Regency Manila and Training Manager, Dusit Thani Hotel as Rooms Director. The co-author is a practicing lawyer, and she holds a master's degree in Business Administration (High Distinction) from the Far Eastern University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts from De La Salle University- Manila.
With the above statement from Mayor San Pedro, I checked the contents of the book, its citation, its bibliography, its examples, its presentation, and other aspects to find out the veracity of the statement of the honorable mayor.
Its table of contents, among other things, shows that the book is comprehensive in scope.
It divided into 6 parts.
Part I--Introduction to Human Resources Management
Part II--Human Resources Planning and Organization
Part III--Personnel Management
Part IV--Training and Organization Development
Part V--Industrial Relations
Part VI--Global and Local Challenges in Human Resources
Index.
Looking deeper into the book, I found out that each chapter begins with a famous quotation, e.g. "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.--Oscar Wilde. Another one is "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily."--Zig Zigler.
Below this is a list of challenges which inform the reader, especially the students, what they are expected to learn after reading the chapter.
Then it provides a strategic overview wherein the students are given a further hint on what possible implications the said chapter has presented.
At the end of the chapter, one can find a synthesis of the whole chapter, then a list of key terms, discussion quiz, chapter quiz, and class activities.
And an internet research which provides a short background of a certain issue/event which is published in the internet and which the students are encouraged to read the whole write-up, and are then required by their professor to write a short essay on the said issue.
The last part of the chapter is the Endnotes or the list of sources that the authors had used.
Each chapter contains about ten relevant pictures.
I randomly checked the grammar of the sentences, and the spelling of some words, and I am convinced that they are OK.
There is a portion of this book that really caught my attention, and I quote:
"Mockery. Sometimes the quality of responses from trainees could pose a challenge. There are those who would sidetrack the trainer and undermine his capability or credibility. There are those who make fun of the sessions and not take them seriously. There are those who are boisterous, troublesome and inattentive during the sessions. Call these problematic participants once in a while to participate so they would tend to stop whatever undesirable behavior they are doing and learn to focus on the discussions. Give these participants some responsibility (sic), e.g assisting with the training equipment, facilitating teams, and the like', p. 252.
This book has a glossy and attractive cover with paperback pages. Its reprinted pictures are in black and white. Some pictures, however, are blurred.
But I noticed that its Endnotes need some revision because it does not have a place of publication and the name of the publisher. Its electronic sources are also very disturbing because it only provides the website. It should have the date when it was retrieved.
Although each chapter has a list of key terms but I think, this book will be more valuable, particularly, to the students if it has a glossary of terms.
Also, its index needs revision to make it more useful to the readers. Example, it has this entry on dismissal:
"dismissal, 202".
Looking at the other entry, I found this, among others:
industry, 328
constructive dismissal, 330
discrimination, 332,
It would have been better if the "constructive dismissal, 330" entry were also included in the entry "dismissal"' to lessen the time and effort of the readers in finding relevant information.
From its coverage, I can say that this book is indeed a "highly informative and truly enlightening" not only for students of management, more particularly to tourism, and hospitality students, but also to management practitioners,and teachers in management.
Whatever comments I have here are but suggestions to make this book more useful to all stakeholders.
Truly, if I have money, I will surely buy a copy of this book.
According to Mayor Aldrin San Pedro, Mayor, Muntinlupa City, in its blurb, this book is "highly informative and truly enlightening that students, practitioners and educators would find it a very useful tool. The anticipated growth of the tourism and hospitality industry makes it a 'must' reading material for everyone so that all sectors of Philippine society may contribute their share in pushing to reality the projections made."
The authors are both highly qualified to write the book, Mr. Danny Araneta Cabulay was a former dean of the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance of Far Eastern University and a CPA. He has served, among others, as Human Resources Director of Hyatt Regency Manila and Training Manager, Dusit Thani Hotel as Rooms Director. The co-author is a practicing lawyer, and she holds a master's degree in Business Administration (High Distinction) from the Far Eastern University, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Arts from De La Salle University- Manila.
With the above statement from Mayor San Pedro, I checked the contents of the book, its citation, its bibliography, its examples, its presentation, and other aspects to find out the veracity of the statement of the honorable mayor.
Its table of contents, among other things, shows that the book is comprehensive in scope.
It divided into 6 parts.
Part I--Introduction to Human Resources Management
Part II--Human Resources Planning and Organization
Part III--Personnel Management
Part IV--Training and Organization Development
Part V--Industrial Relations
Part VI--Global and Local Challenges in Human Resources
Index.
Looking deeper into the book, I found out that each chapter begins with a famous quotation, e.g. "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.--Oscar Wilde. Another one is "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing--that's why we recommend it daily."--Zig Zigler.
Below this is a list of challenges which inform the reader, especially the students, what they are expected to learn after reading the chapter.
Then it provides a strategic overview wherein the students are given a further hint on what possible implications the said chapter has presented.
At the end of the chapter, one can find a synthesis of the whole chapter, then a list of key terms, discussion quiz, chapter quiz, and class activities.
And an internet research which provides a short background of a certain issue/event which is published in the internet and which the students are encouraged to read the whole write-up, and are then required by their professor to write a short essay on the said issue.
The last part of the chapter is the Endnotes or the list of sources that the authors had used.
Each chapter contains about ten relevant pictures.
I randomly checked the grammar of the sentences, and the spelling of some words, and I am convinced that they are OK.
There is a portion of this book that really caught my attention, and I quote:
"Mockery. Sometimes the quality of responses from trainees could pose a challenge. There are those who would sidetrack the trainer and undermine his capability or credibility. There are those who make fun of the sessions and not take them seriously. There are those who are boisterous, troublesome and inattentive during the sessions. Call these problematic participants once in a while to participate so they would tend to stop whatever undesirable behavior they are doing and learn to focus on the discussions. Give these participants some responsibility (sic), e.g assisting with the training equipment, facilitating teams, and the like', p. 252.
This book has a glossy and attractive cover with paperback pages. Its reprinted pictures are in black and white. Some pictures, however, are blurred.
But I noticed that its Endnotes need some revision because it does not have a place of publication and the name of the publisher. Its electronic sources are also very disturbing because it only provides the website. It should have the date when it was retrieved.
Although each chapter has a list of key terms but I think, this book will be more valuable, particularly, to the students if it has a glossary of terms.
Also, its index needs revision to make it more useful to the readers. Example, it has this entry on dismissal:
"dismissal, 202".
Looking at the other entry, I found this, among others:
industry, 328
constructive dismissal, 330
discrimination, 332,
It would have been better if the "constructive dismissal, 330" entry were also included in the entry "dismissal"' to lessen the time and effort of the readers in finding relevant information.
From its coverage, I can say that this book is indeed a "highly informative and truly enlightening" not only for students of management, more particularly to tourism, and hospitality students, but also to management practitioners,and teachers in management.
Whatever comments I have here are but suggestions to make this book more useful to all stakeholders.
Truly, if I have money, I will surely buy a copy of this book.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Book review: Tips and Techniques in Writing Research by Emerlita G. Magsajo-Sarno, 2010.
Book review:
Tips and Techniques in Writing Research by Emerlita G. Magsajo-Sarno, 2010.
by Melchor F. Cichon
Dec 11, 2013
One late afternoon, two female students approached me. They wanted to know if there is a book by a certain Joven that provides information on how to come up with the right sample size for their thesis on the taxi drivers in Iloilo City that serve as tourist guides. Since I could not recall of any book on statistics by Joven, I went to our Open Access Catalog (OPAC) to check if we have a book by that author. There was none. The students were disappointed. I suggested that they use other research books, but they were not amenable.
Two days after, a friend of mine told me to see the book by Emerlita G. Magsanjo-Sarno entitled Tips and Techniques in Writing Research published by Rex Book Store, 2010. I browsed the book, and I saw Slovin's formula on page 61. This is the formula earlier needed by the two students. This particular book does not only mention the formula, but it also provides a step by step procedure in computing the size of a sample.
This is just one of the best features of this book.
The author of this book is a professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific. A PhD graduate of the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 1980, Dr. Emerlita G. Magsajo-Sarno she used to be the Dean of Pasig Catholic College.
As the title says, this book really provides valuable tips in conducting any social and humanities research.
This book is divided into five parts. Part I talks about the nature of research and its importance. It also introduces the different kinds of research, its classification and types. Lastly, this part of the book gives us the techniques that one can use in research.
Part II provides a short discussion on the basics of research with a flow chart to help the reader on how to conduct a research. It presents the research process , the research problem, and the steps in preparing a working bibliography. It gives examples on how to use the APA style, the Modern Language Association of America Style (MLA), and Turabian and Chicago styles in preparing citation.
Part III provides the Parts of a Research Paper where the chapters of the research paper are being discussed in details. This is where research methodology is discussed with ample examples.
Part IV shows several sampling methods with equation. For me, this chapter of the book is the most important part of it. It provides statistical tools that could be used particularly when one is conducting quantitative researches.
Part V present the preliminary and of the reference part of the research paper. It is here where sample abstract, title page, table of contents, list of tables, and acknowledgement are presented.
Part VI discusses where the reference material are presented, and the appendix, and other articles appropriate for the back part of the paper.
In addition to the above contents, this book provides skeletal parts of a research paper. Not only that, it also has a list of references, a glossary, and an index.
The only negative part of this book is its index and its bibliography . Although the index is multi-layer, it is not comprehensive. Important term like Slovin's formula could have been included in the index, and its list of references are rather old. Although the book was copyrighted in 2010, it only has one citation in 2004. The rest were written in 2000 and below.
Over-all, I can say that this book is a one-stop reference material and should be in libraries of higher learning not only because it is easy to understand, but it also gives ample examples in all aspects of the research process, thus simplifying a research process in social sciences and the humanities, from the moment of conception to the moment of binding the research paper.
Tips and Techniques in Writing Research by Emerlita G. Magsajo-Sarno, 2010.
by Melchor F. Cichon
Dec 11, 2013
One late afternoon, two female students approached me. They wanted to know if there is a book by a certain Joven that provides information on how to come up with the right sample size for their thesis on the taxi drivers in Iloilo City that serve as tourist guides. Since I could not recall of any book on statistics by Joven, I went to our Open Access Catalog (OPAC) to check if we have a book by that author. There was none. The students were disappointed. I suggested that they use other research books, but they were not amenable.
Two days after, a friend of mine told me to see the book by Emerlita G. Magsanjo-Sarno entitled Tips and Techniques in Writing Research published by Rex Book Store, 2010. I browsed the book, and I saw Slovin's formula on page 61. This is the formula earlier needed by the two students. This particular book does not only mention the formula, but it also provides a step by step procedure in computing the size of a sample.
This is just one of the best features of this book.
The author of this book is a professor at the University of Asia and the Pacific. A PhD graduate of the University of the Philippines, Diliman in 1980, Dr. Emerlita G. Magsajo-Sarno she used to be the Dean of Pasig Catholic College.
As the title says, this book really provides valuable tips in conducting any social and humanities research.
This book is divided into five parts. Part I talks about the nature of research and its importance. It also introduces the different kinds of research, its classification and types. Lastly, this part of the book gives us the techniques that one can use in research.
Part II provides a short discussion on the basics of research with a flow chart to help the reader on how to conduct a research. It presents the research process , the research problem, and the steps in preparing a working bibliography. It gives examples on how to use the APA style, the Modern Language Association of America Style (MLA), and Turabian and Chicago styles in preparing citation.
Part III provides the Parts of a Research Paper where the chapters of the research paper are being discussed in details. This is where research methodology is discussed with ample examples.
Part IV shows several sampling methods with equation. For me, this chapter of the book is the most important part of it. It provides statistical tools that could be used particularly when one is conducting quantitative researches.
Part V present the preliminary and of the reference part of the research paper. It is here where sample abstract, title page, table of contents, list of tables, and acknowledgement are presented.
Part VI discusses where the reference material are presented, and the appendix, and other articles appropriate for the back part of the paper.
In addition to the above contents, this book provides skeletal parts of a research paper. Not only that, it also has a list of references, a glossary, and an index.
The only negative part of this book is its index and its bibliography . Although the index is multi-layer, it is not comprehensive. Important term like Slovin's formula could have been included in the index, and its list of references are rather old. Although the book was copyrighted in 2010, it only has one citation in 2004. The rest were written in 2000 and below.
Over-all, I can say that this book is a one-stop reference material and should be in libraries of higher learning not only because it is easy to understand, but it also gives ample examples in all aspects of the research process, thus simplifying a research process in social sciences and the humanities, from the moment of conception to the moment of binding the research paper.
Sunday, December 01, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Pacquiao-Rios Fight
Pacquiao-Rios fight--
Tacloban smiles
at evacuation centers
***Melcichon
Nov 24, 2013
Tacloban smiles
at evacuation centers
***Melcichon
Nov 24, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Friday, November 15, 2013
Moonbeams
moonbeams
shine on the bloated bodies
under Typhoon Yolanda's debris
***Melcichon
Nov 15, 2013
shine on the bloated bodies
under Typhoon Yolanda's debris
***Melcichon
Nov 15, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
At Home After Typhoon Yolanda
at home after Typhoon Yolanda...
now, worldwide
skies
***Melcichon
Nov 10, 2013
now, worldwide
skies
***Melcichon
Nov 10, 2013
Friday, November 01, 2013
Not Alone Tonight
not alone tonight
the full moon and your memory
stay with me till I fall asleep
***Melcichon
Nov 1, 2013
the full moon and your memory
stay with me till I fall asleep
***Melcichon
Nov 1, 2013
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