I chose to interview a close friend of mine‚ Rheanna Pieroni. Rheanna has been a friend of mine for ten years and counting. We attended the same grade school and high school‚ but now go to different universities. She is 19 years old and attends The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to major in marketing and supple chain. Rheanna likes to explore the city with her friends and educate herself on foreign cultures. She also has a passion for traveling and immersing herself in foreign culture. Rheanna
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Cross-Cultural Human Resources Management Abstract: As human resources management and organizational culture are closely related‚ it is very meaningful to study human resource management from the cultural and cross-cultural perspective. Effective management of cross cultural human resources is the guarantee of Chinese enterprises running successfully under cross cultural background and region. The article concerns that the following aspects should be understanding of the cross-cultural human resources
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HA 380 Cultural Interview Wen Bo Yang 2014/3/12 The person I interviewed is Makena Knapp. She is from California. 1. How they see your culture as different from their own Our culture has more history and traditions. 2. How they see your culture as similar to their own Her cultures have flourished in business and the arts. 3. What differences were most surprising or difficult to adjust to The language barrier is a difficult difference. 4. How they feel about questioning or disagreeing with
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Cross-Cultural Realities at Work John Doe Motivation and Leadership Professor: Frank Franks June 10‚ 2012 Cross-Cultural Realities at Work I conducted an interview with my neighbor who has a very different cultural background than my own and who does a job that is much different than my own. I would first like to give a brief overview of things that we discussed and then I will take this information and try to answer questions of culture‚ values‚ work‚ behaviors‚ and give insight into communicating
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| THE 101: Cross Cultural Issues in Tourism & Hospitality | Assessment No.2 | | Ariana Janjua | 201111790 | Culture‚ as defined by Geert Hofstede‚ is the "the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from another". (Hofstede‚ 2011) It is due to the research carried out by scholars such as Hofstede and Fons Trompenaars that we are able to understand cultural values‚ and the difference in cultures more thoroughly
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Russians and Americans. Throughout the 20th century‚ and often against serious odds‚ Russians and Americans have been falling in love and marrying. Visson‚ an interpreter and writer‚ herself married to a Russian‚ has interviewed some 100 of these cross-cultural couples and researched the lives of couples in the earlier part of this century in an effort to understand the strange mutual attraction between people whose countries were usually antagonists. While rational explanations can only partly answer
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I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing my supervisor Temitayo Bolaji for my cultural interview. Temitayo Bolaji‚ born Temitayo Ladenika‚ was raised in the city Ibadan in Nigeria‚ West Africa. Ibadan is located in southwestern Nigeria and is reputed to be the largest indigenous city in Africa (The postgraduate school - home‚ n.d.). There are over two hundred and fifty different ethno-linguistic groups in Nigeria but the three largest are in the Hausa-Fulani in the north‚ the Yoruba in the southwest
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future managers need to develop a global mind-set and cross-cultural skills. To develop skilled managers who move comfortably from culture to culture takes time but it is needed for an efficient global economy movement. Today’s companies are using Internet technology to connect with employees‚ customers‚ supplies and other stakeholders both within and outside the organization. The global economy has changed where meetings‚ conferences‚ interviews are all done via virtual presence. Managers are starting
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Cross Cultural Perspectives ETH-316 April 1‚ 2013 Cross Cultural Perspectives A money-spinning product fed by an incongruous campaign Just Do It‚ Nike a global company who increased its share from $ 877 million worldwide to $ 9.2 billion within 10 years (Nike’s “Just Do It” Advertising Campaign‚ 2011). A brilliant profit boosting marketing campaign‚ in which many evoked possibilities‚ audacity whereas others evoked indifference for human rights standards‚ and the ecological system. This paper
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Part 1 - Option B In no more than 500 words‚ after reading the following text‚ how can it tell us about cross-cultural encounters? --- This piece of text can offer a great deal of information on cross-cultural encounters between the Western world and the Benin people. It is an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the entry on ’Negro’‚ published in 1910-1911. The author was T.A. Joyce‚ an Assistant in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum‚ at the time of publication.
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