Dimension | SI Units | English Unit | Length | meter(m) | foot(ft) | Mass | kilogram(kg) | pound-mass(lbm)1 | Time | second(s) | second(s) | Electric Current | ampere(A) | ampere(A) | Thermodynamic Temperature | kelvin(K) | rankine (R)1 | Amount of Substance | mole(mol) | mole(mol) | 1http://www.mne.psu.edu/cimbala/Learning/General/units.htm Conversion Factors Length 1 m= 3.281 ft 1 m = 39.37 in. 1 ft= 0.305 m 1 cm= 0.394 in. 1 in. = 2.540 cm 1 ft. = 30.48 cm 1 yd= 91.44
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Two Basic Dimensions of Leadership 1. Task Orientation( initiating structure) Task orientation relates to Blake and Mouton’s concern for production. It is the quality of a manager who maintains strong discipline to task completion and deadlines. A highly task-oriented manager maintains focus on timing and quality of work and‚ at the extreme‚ can lose sight of the importance of showing consideration for employees. A leader with strong orientation often gets labeled as an authoritarian leader
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If we explore the Chinese culture through the lens of the 5-D Model‚ we can get a good overview of the deep drivers of Chinese culture relative to other world cultures. Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that
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Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet How large is the average person’s vocabulary‚ and how does Shakespeare’s compare? :the average person has a vocabulary of about 4000 words‚ whereas Shakespeare used between 17000 and 29000 The Elizabethan Theater 1. When was the original Globe Theater built? 1599 2. Where was the original Globe Theater located? Shoreditch‚ London. 3. From what was the Globe Theater built? timbers ‚nails‚ stone (flint)‚ plaster and thatched roof. The Plays & Sonnets of Shakespeare
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Globe Head Ballerina by Yinka Shonibare MBE Born in London (UK) in 1962‚ growing up in Lagos (Nigeria) and later returning to London‚ Yinka Shonibare likes to refer to himself as a ‘post-colonial hybrid’ . He works across diverse artistic media (including sculpture‚ installation art‚ painting‚ photography‚ film and performance) to explore ideas about the construction of identity and issues of colonialism. His piece‚ the Globe Head Ballerina was installed at the exterior wall of the Royal Opera House
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In 1998‚ management consultants Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner published their “Seven Dimensions of Culture” model to help explain national cultural differences in organisations and to show how managing these differences in a heterogeneous business environment is a major challenge for international managers. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner gathered data over ten years using a method that relied on giving respondents dilemmas or contrasting tendencies. Each dilemma consisted of two alternatives
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- Activity 2.1 Question 1: a) The scores of UK‚USA‚Germany and Japan on the cultural dimensions. Power distance Masculinity Term Orientation UK 35 66 51 USA 40 62 26 Germany 35 66 83 Japan 54 95 88 b) The power distance is defined as the inequality social status between people‚it usually relate to centralization‚superiors and decision making in organization administration.The power distance of UK and Germany are both score as 35‚it indicates that the inequality in this two country culture
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specialists. Cultural determinism is a reality created by numerous speculations clarifying default digestion of socio-cultural estimations of people and their impact on dispositions‚ mindsets‚ perceptions and their practices. In fact‚ analysts have uncovered measurements
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Dimensions of lodging Lodging property may be defined as an establishment that chares fees for providing furnished sleeping accommodations to persons who are temporarily away from home or who consider these accommodations their temporary or permanent homes. Many of these establishments also provides food‚ beverages‚ cleaning services‚ and a range of other services normally associated with travel commonly sought by travelers. Different Types of Hotel and Lodging * Limited-Service Hotels. Typically
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In chapter four‚ "The political dimension of globalization‚" Steger did a tremendous job in analyzing the intensification and expansion of political interrelations across the globe. Steger brought up two major issues‚ which I found intriguing‚ dealing with how globalization affects modern nation-state system‚ which traced back to 17th-century‚ and the demise of the nation-state that gave rise to a “borderless world.” On the other hand‚ Xiaohua Ma discoursed of reconciliation and forgiveness in her
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