Trompenaars and Hamden Turner classified cultures along a mix of behavioral and value patterns. Their research focuses on the cultural dimensions of business executives. 1. Universalism vs. Particularism (What is more important‚ rules or relationships?) Universalistic Countries: focus more on formal rules than relationships; believe that their ideas and practices can be applied worldwide without modification (Germany‚ UK‚ US) Particularistic countries: more emphasis on relationships than rules
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Rosalyn B. Pertiz Dimensions of Education MW(10-11:30am) Reflection Paper Being in this class and having participated in every discussion had given me a lot of privilege to obtain knowledge‚ understanding and comprehension about the world of socialization and interaction; the reason why do people behave such a behavior; elements of effective communication; the pillars of education that a teacher must possess in his heart and mind; the cultural differences that each teachers should be aware
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Comparison of service quality of TNT express and DHL express with RATER dimensions The quality level of service provided by TNT Express and DHL Express in China could be described within the RATER dimensions of service quality. Samples and numbers are provided below to evaluate the quality of their service. Reliability Based on TNT Express annual report 2011‚ the service quality in that year has achieved an all time high with a 96% on-time delivery performance for the one million daily deliveries
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Van Tat Instructor: Eric Colon-Cortes SEVEN DIMENSIONS OF WELLNESS Wellness is much more than merely physical health‚ exercise or nutrition. It is the full integration of states of physical‚ emotional‚ intellectual‚ spiritual‚ interpersonal‚ environmental and occupational wellness. Each of these seven dimensions act and interact in a way that contributes to our own quality of life. Disruption of any wellness can lead to the imbalance of the whole well being. Family life style has a big
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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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How effective are Microsoft’s human resources policies and practices? Microsoft pursued human resources policies and practices that would address the critical psychological states‚ namely‚ experienced meaningfulness‚ experienced responsibility‚ and knowledge of results‚ of its employees. By doing so‚ they aimed high internal work motivation‚ high work performance and high satisfaction on the job. Microsoft hired people with already high growth need. They were newly college graduates with high
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1) Bill Gates believes that Microsoft’s ability to attract‚ motivate‚ and retain superior people is its source of competitive advantage. Do you agree or disagree? Why? Yes. Gates had long recognized that it took exceptional people to write outstanding software Microsoft is all about software. Microsoft is a pioneer in this industry and hence attracted extremely intelligent‚ creative and ambitious college graduates since its start up days. Bill gates knack of recognizing genius
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Children Competing in Beauty Pageants Many young children like to participate in pageants. I personally think that putting children in pageants is good for them. They make lifelong friends‚ gain high self-esteem‚ and learn that you cannot always win and children need each of these skills. Sure‚ they could gain these by playing an instrument or a sport but I believe pageantry is the best way to go. Whether a boy or a girl‚ pageants can teach kids the true cycle of life. They learn what goes up‚
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There is four types of competing values framework‚ (1) clan‚ (2) adhocracy‚ (3) market‚ and (4) hierarchy (Kinicki & Williams‚ 2013‚ p. 229). These competing values framework is periodically used classifications or tools to explain types of organizational culture (Kinicki‚ 2013‚ slide 18). This was designed by people who were examining measures of companies use of organizational effectiveness (Kinicki‚ 2013‚ slide 18). Based off of reading the competing values framework‚ I believe Verizon’s current
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Corporate governance : 5 amministrators of the website user power users (users that gain points for the sharing information and by helping ohters. Answer to he questions) possibility to have new amministrators from the power users Web communities are an engagement between the site’s creators and the site’s users‚ and social norms evolve as users create a community identity‚ and as each individual contributes to the overall brand of the site. The community’s norms are also interwoven
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