Researching National Cultures: a comparison of Japanese and Australian national cultures Introduction In an increasingly global world‚ people will inevitably find themselves working within and across cultures. The national culture in which a person identifies with and is immersed in‚ has been proven to have a profound impact on an individual’s values and behaviours‚ this in-turn impacts on understanding of other . An ability to discern and understand potential variances in culture‚ without adopting
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Australian Stereotypes – Are they really what they are assumed to be? Stereotyping the Australians has always been a common practice by people all around the world. In fact‚ Australia has been classified as one of the most stereotyped nations in the world due to the sense that much of the international community believes that they have a solid understanding regarding Australian society‚ despite the fact that their beliefs bear little similarities to the realities of Australian life in the 21st Century
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Analysis of the case Unilever Australian Petone is a striking example of the up-to-date managed company which implements the modern management techniques to keep up with the times. New principles and techniques such as JIT and ECR allow the company to be more effective to satisfy the customer demand‚ to decrease the ‘waste’ costs including time‚ resource and materials. At the same time the usage of these techniques involves the thorough understanding and proper implementation of sophisticated methods
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Question 2 a) A fall in the value of the Australian dollar (AUD) against the U.S. dollar (USD) benefit Billabong in two folds‚ strengthened price competitiveness and translation advantage. Firstly‚ the Americas segment accounts for about 50% of Billabong’s sales revenue in 2008 and 2009. (Appx.1) In case of depreciation of AUD against USD‚ the price of imported surfwear to the U.S. in terms of USD will decrease. The US importers demand more for Billabong’s products. The sales increases from the
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The Divinity of Australian Identity From the fabricated tale of mystery in Peter Weir’s ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’‚ to the prototypical portrayal of Australian principles and behaviour in ‘Crocodile Dundee’‚ directors and audiences alike have been fastidiously and attentively representing their beliefs about how true Australian’s should behave in film for decades. With the recurring themes and values of courage‚ mateship‚ resourcefulness‚ and the toughness of the Australian people as the centre of
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seen the fall of many Australian businesses and the decline of industries such as the fruit and car industries. This is not just due to droughts and high fuel costs‚ but largely due to the amount of opposition from products that are imported from other countries. Consumers choosing products on price rather than the country of origin are having major effects on our economy‚ beginning with the employer to the employee and to the related businesses. We are not only losing Australian owned businesses to
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The Australian Identity I am here today to discuss our Australian Identity. How do you imagine a typical Australian? Maybe you see a blonde haired‚ blue eyed surfing babe? Or a bushman who drinks Bushels tea and four X beers while munching on some snags cooked on the BBQ? Or perhaps you see someone like Steve Irwin‚ our iconic crocodile hunter. Or do you picture the movie “Crocodile Dundee?” Australians are stereotyped and our typical Australian is usually imagined to be male. (Click) Russell
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Background Facts Paul Simard has accepted the position as the plant manager of Jonquiere plant in Ancol Ltd. In order to strengthen relations between management and employees‚ Paul decided to remove all time clocks from the plant. Instead‚ the plant would assume that employees had put in their full shift. Two months later‚ however‚ the absenteeism started to appear. Problems All of problems resulted from the removal of the time clocks were that the increased absenteeism levels were beginning to
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Australian Identity Mateship. Adventurous. Loyal. Free. Proud. These are the typical words Australians use to describe themselves‚ to identify themselves as different from the rest of the world. But who is an Australian? Someone that was born in Australia? Only people we choose to call Australian? People with great achievements that we choose to take credit for? Only people that love sport and vegemite? Or maybe only people with ‘Aussie’ accents? The Australian population is a proud one indeed
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Do Australian people have a distinctive culture or are stereotypes of in texts true? Australians are perceived in text as‚ beer-drinking larrikins‚ people who use kangaroos as a transportation‚ crocodile wrestlers‚ lack in fashion‚ foster beers‚ desert‚ sparsely populated and bushmans and mateship. However these representations are not true. Stereotype is a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. National identity is a person’s identity
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