Defining “Culture” and “Organizational Culture”: From Anthropology to the Office Bruce M. Tharp ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER 04.09 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE WHITE PAPER Defining “Culture” and “Organizational Culture”: From Anthropology to the Office The topic of organizational culture is increasingly understood as a company asset that can be used to increase business performance. While important‚ organizational culture is a slippery concept to concretely define. This paper deals
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1. Orientalism Western’ interest and motivation on the “Orient” or Eastern-based cultures regions is an unstated‚ and perhaps unrecognized motivation to exploit the region and in doing so‚ enrich the west. When we look around our daily life‚ no matter you live in which continent‚ there are Iphones‚ Cocacola‚ Nikes‚ Mcdonald’s‚ L’Oreal‚ English expressions or ads. Some might said these are just multinationals and advanced technological goods. They are changing our daily lives and shaping the
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Association LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY: ISSUES AND APPROACHES Kathrvn A. Woolard 1. Introduction This special issue of hagmarl ’cs derives from a day-long symposium on "l^anguage Ideology: Practice and Theory" held at the annual meeting of the American Anthropology Association in Chicago‚November 1991.1 The organizing premise of the symposiumwas that languageideologyis a mediating link between social structuresand forms of talk‚ if such static imagery for some very dynamic processescan be forgiven. Rather
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Toronto: U of Toronto P‚ 1985. Barnet‚ Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Art. Boston: Little‚ Brown‚ 1981. Boone‚ Elizabeth‚ and Walter Mignolo‚ eds. Writing without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Durham: Duke UP‚ 1994. Clifford‚ James‚ and George E. Marcus‚ eds. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley: U of California P‚ 1986. Dundes‚ Alan‚ ed. Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth. Berkeley: U of California P‚ 1984. Freud‚ Sigmund
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Pancasila. It is the Indonesia’s philosophical foundation. The term of “Pancasila” etymologically is derived from two old Javanese words (originally from Sanskrit): panca meaning five‚ and sila meaning principles. It encompasses five principles considered to be inseparable and interrelated. First is belief in the one and only God. Second is just and civilised humanity. Third is the unity of Indonesia. Fourth is democracy guided by the inner wisdom in the unanimity arising out of deliberations amongst
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This thesis is located in medical anthropology because it grants insight into how and why people act around health and sickness in their everyday lives‚ the ways they deal with the challenges to health and the constraints they experience in creating healthy settings for themselves. This chapter opens with theories of medical anthropology regarding health - care and then discusses critical medical anthropology (CMA)‚ one approach proposed within medical anthropology to take account of the fact that
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Primordialist Model- model developed in the 19610’s‚ Clifford Geertz‚ essay “The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the new states. Describes how many 3rd world countries try to build nations and integrate their political institutions based on “civil order” a political system based
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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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traditions but may not fully understand the origins or reasons why they are celebrated. In fact there are a large amount of Jews in Israel who consider themselves to be secularised. The final claim in this essay is that of Judaism being a culture. Clifford Geertz speaks on the idea of culture in his book “the Interpretations of Culture”: “In any case‚ the culture concept to which I adhere has neither multiple referents nor‚ so far as I can see‚ any unusual ambiguity: it denotes an historically transmitted
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Intercultural Relations‚ 16‚ 295-310. Gannon‚ M. J.‚ & Poon‚ J. M. (1997). Effects of Alternative Instructional Approaches on CrossCultural Training Outcomes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations‚ 21(4)‚ 429-446. Geertz‚ C. (1973). Thick description: toward an interpretive theory of culture. In The interpretations of culture (pp. 3-30). New York: Basic Books. Gudykunst‚ W. B.‚ & Hammer‚ M. R. (1983). Basic training design: Approaches to intercultural training. In D. Landis & R. W. Brislin
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