As time went on humans began to cultivate their own crops and domesticate or tame their own animals allowing them to stay in one place. As this was introduced they changed from the…
Ways that Vietnamese and American are different are their ways of showing affection and greeting. When showing endearment in America, it is acceptable to touch your lady in public, as in holding hands or kissing. While for Vietnamese, it is an insult to them. Vietnamese also do not allow kissing in front of children what so ever. When greeting each other, Americans politely shake hands, but for Vietnamese the women must have her arms across her chest and slightly…
Also many people who have lived and grown up in such areas prefer to stay where they are and where their past is.…
Have you ever felt like you were a social outcast? Like you didn't fit in with your enviroment? Like you had to change your identity or adapt just to fit in? This is an example of how your enviroment shapes your identity. If your identity is not right for the enviroment you are forced to adapt, this is sometimes a consious effort, but sometimes not. Say for example you bullied over how you act. You would adapt, and try to consiously change your identity so you no longer got bullied over it. But to what extent does your enviroment shape your identity?…
Although change has become commonplace in modern organizations, the reported failure rates of change implementation range from 40% to as high as 70% (McKay et al., 2013). Considering our global economy and technological innovation, this rate is alarmingly high. It is no surprise that these statistics have prompted researchers to investigate the causes underlying change failure in modern organizational settings (McKay et al., 2013). Employee resistance has been identified as a primary source of change implementation failure across a range of organizations and industries worldwide (McKay et al., 2013). Change is a situation that interrupts normal patterns of organization and calls for participants to enact new patterns, involving interplay of deliberate and emergent processes that can be highly ambiguous for everyone involved (Ford et al., 2008). Employees resist change for a variety of more or less logical reasons (Baack, 2012). These reasons will be explored to understand the external and internal factors of change within organizations. In addition, a scenario will be presented to analyze how change was introduced, perceived, and implemented at a real life organization.…
In today’s America, many people may take for granted the ease of access to reliable and efficient transportation. Americans have access to private cars, commercial airplanes and trains, and even buses. An individual can fly from San Francisco to New York City in less than six hours. The average American does not know of a time when traveling from coast-to-coast was a journey requiring days or weeks to travel, often through harsh and unfriendly terrains.…
Vietnam is a country with many etiquette and customs and one should know the basic etiquette and customs before going for a visit. One of their oldest etiquettes are that woman would not sit next to a man unless he was her husband because of respect but this is not widely practiced anymore but it is important information to keep in mind. Younger people also do not look eye to eye and bow their heads when talking to men or to an elderly as a sign of respect. Ron Emmons the author of The Rough Guide to Vietnam wrote, when visiting avoid public displays of affection with a member of the opposite sex. Do not touch someone’s head or pass anything over someone’s head, do not stand with your hands on your hips or over your chest these are some of the basic etiquette Vietnam has.…
For many years, the world of business has experienced an increasing rate of change. Alvin Toffler (1970) predicted the trend several decades ago. Toffler also noted that people exhibit a natural tendency to resist change. This resistance to change is a major organizational challenge that organizations must learn to manage. As individuals respond to change in different ways, and as variations in responses produce different outcomes the recognition of this resistance to change is an essential step in the development and implementation of effective change management strategies. Change, positive or negative, is unsettling because people seek stability. Certain individuals are more resistant to change than others, at times there can be situational characteristics such as a lack of trust in management contributing to this resistance to change. Often this resistance to change is out of self interest, at stake can be factors such as income, job security, prestige, power, and personal convenience. Low tolerance for change, lack of trust in management, and self interest are all factors which result in resistance to change. However my experience suggests that lack of understanding of the need for change can be the single greatest contributing factor and is the factor which the organization has the greatest control over.…
Over the last century, the population of Mexico City has been increasing rapidly. The population has almost double in size every ten years in the last few decades. There are about ten thousand people per square kilometre and there are over three million registered vehicles in Mexico City.…
Millions of people from over the world leave their homelands to migrate to countries other than their own. People are forced to leave because of personal, financial or political situations. People’s decision to migrate can bring either happiness or difficulty. People may find it hard to adjust or settle in a place they have not seen before. These people are introduced with new laws, locations, and cultures.…
Change is an evolutional event that causes a transformation or modification, which occurs when something passes from one phase to the other. Change in inevitable, why are we resistant to it? Surely, we are all aware that as we are born, we will develop; as we develop, we will progress, as we evolve, as we evolve we will expire. Change is everywhere, why do we resist it and why does change disrupt our behavior?…
Human populations adapt to what environmental conditions they inhabit and they grow to adjust to those…
Adapting to ChangeTwo long term care facilities were chosen to conduct a study for change amongnurse assistants or CNA’s. The authors held twenty-three interviews with nurseassistants to find out how change affects the efficiency of work done. They concludedthat change should be an ‘engine’ rather than an ‘obstacle’ in the health carecommunity. I agree along the lines of their study and with the statements they had madethat teamwork goes a long way when you have a limited amount of time, and usually ashort amount as well.Some keys points are the questions that were asked to the nurse assistants. Theauthors only included four total categories of questions to ask, yet after the interviewsthey ended with six. Both added categories involved teamwork; which was reallyrevealing to me. I agree that nurse…
Looking back at my short seventeen years of life, my last five years after I moved to the states were the transition from a middle school sixth grader with a total dissatisfaction of the world to a future engineer of the world. Many middle school students have that moment of their lives as they go through puberty, and I was one of them. Puberty was not just about becoming sexually mature for me, but it was rather the most difficult time of my life due to the language barrier and the process of adaptation into the new culture. After hearing my middle school anecdotes about some mean middle school boys made sexual jokes about me in the middle of the cafeteria because they thought I could not understand English, many people suggested that I should…
My family did, however, move a considerable amount of times throughout my childhood. The different cultures allowed me to be open to diversity and allowed me to just gain an understanding of how unique people truly are in their own way. Experiencing different towns, cities, and parts of the country allowed me to gain an understanding of how different life truly is for everyone. The second life event that impacted my life direction is when I had a child when I was fresh out of high school. As a result of having a child, I grew up to become an adult and accelerated my plans on maturing at a faster rate. I immediately went into the world to find a job and started attending college. I wanted a better life to help raise my child. I knew my child deserved a role model who would provide what she needed in life. I did not want my child to have to suffer in this world because I failed to be responsible. I took responsibility for my actions and made a long term plan to find in order to be able to financially and mentally support for her. Although, it sounded so easy to find an adequate job to financially support my child it was extremely hard and I struggled in several ways. Lastly, my third major experience in my life was when I married a man who belongs to the army. There is also the part where most wife’s typically go through their spouse being deployed. This is one of the…