BA361: Cross-Cultural Business Communication Fall 2012; CRN 11688 Lillis 255 Instructor: Kay Westerfield Office: 194 Esslinger Wing A (entrance next to MacCourt) Office hours: TUES 3:00-4:30‚ WED 12:00-1:30‚ and by appointment Email: kwesterf@uoregon.edu Office phone: 541-346-1094 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Materials (Note the 5th edition of textbook.) Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace. 2010. 5th edition
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Individual Assessment SM0269 Global & International Business Context Nurhuda Binte Md Yassin Student ID: 12034616 Word count: 3‚189 words INTRODUCTION This report aims at facilitating the company’s decision-making process concerning the consideration of expanding its international operations in food retailing to South Africa. The overall competitiveness and investment attractiveness will be based on the extended
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Cultural Analysis Dustin Dungan MBA 56 Culture is one of the most import elements within any organization. An organization needs to identify its culture and lead its employees into the future. E.H. Schein‚ (2006) states that the use of surveys will not help in identifying an organizations culture. He states that the survey would have to be several hundred questions‚ and still the organization would not know which dimensions are important. Schein states that one of the steps in identifying
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6433ch10.qxd_lb 10/19/06 10:43 AM Page 260 CHAPTER OBJECTIVES ◆ CHAPTER 10 Business Ethics in a Global Economy CHAPTER OUTLINE Ethical Perceptions and International Business Culture as a Factor in Business Adapting Ethical Systems to a Global Framework Global Values The Multinational Corporation Sexual and Racial Discrimination Human Rights Price Discrimination Bribery Harmful Products Pollution and the Natural Environment Telecommunications Issues Intellectual-Property Protection World
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the same region or country for generations. • Subculture: a cultural group within a larger or predominant culture distinguished from it by factors such as class‚ ethnic background‚ and religion‚ and unified by shared beliefs and interests • Counter Culture: A culture that has values or lifestyle that are in opposition to those of a current accepted culture. Members of a counter culture openly reject the established cultural values that surround them. • Culture Determinants: The main
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BUSSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN A GLOBAL MARKET Developing a business opportunity or introducing a new product into the global market place is a risky business at the best of times. Strong and precise business strategies along with extensive market research are the keys for developing a successful global enterprise. This essay will cover the core fundamentals required to best enter the global market while minimizing the risks. Core fundamental include‚ indentifying potential markets‚ product competition
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Leadership in Global and Multicultural Organizations Research Paper This paper will examine and contrast the essential characteristics of a global business leader as well as evaluate the characteristics and practices that may assist multinational organizations retain their workforce and boost their morale and team spirit. This paper will also examine views regarding the characteristics and practices necessary for global leaders to successfully manage within the global virtual team environment
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Strategic Human Resources Management Strategic HRM blurs the traditional boundary between people management and business management. – links HRM to a company’s strategic goals and objectives – seeks to establish a sustainable competitive advantage. 11-3 1 Strategic Human Resources Management • The goal of strategic HRM is to use human resources to improve business performance • Strategic HR recognizes an HR department’s partnership role in the strategic planning process •
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McDonald’s is a global fast food restaurant chain which can trace it’s roots back to humble origins. Originally started in 1940 as McDonald’s Bar-B-Q by brothers Dick and Mac McDonald‚ the restaurant was eventually bought out by Ray Kroc‚ the founder of the modern McDonald’s Corporation. Kroc was originally a franchisee who became a pioneer of the fast food industry by aggressively expanding the business into all parts of the country and the globe until his death in 1984. Today there are over 34
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BUSI 642: Week 2 Discussion Board 1 Liberty University Discussion Board 1 In a world that is quick to state discrimination has taken place‚ there is a new discrimination emerging (i.e. reverse discrimination). Is this form of discrimination really discrimination? What diversity practices would you put in place to prevent any kind of discrimination? Generally speaking‚ discrimination is rooted in within the “cultural fabric of the United States” along the lines of “housing‚ employment‚ health‚ and
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