INTRODUCTION For every business to be successful globally‚ the necessity of cultural awareness is vital. By understanding culture of doing business in a foreign country acts as a backbone for every successful international business‚ this involves understanding what influences the behaviour of your consumers‚ what are the rules and regulations for conducting business. This report is about understanding the culture of different countries such as in Asia‚ Europe‚ and the USA assesses the opportunities
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alliances to create a presence in foreign markets and to exploit advantageous production resources. One of the challenges of the globalisation process are companies might have lack of qualified local candidates. Companies have to build development of individual employees for international mobility (Peltonen‚ 1993; Anfuso‚ 1994) as cited in (Leslie et al.‚2004). Maintaining home office control (Boyacigiller‚ 1990; Nohria and Ghoshal‚ 1994) as cited in (Leslie et al.‚2004)‚ improving coordination‚ knowledge
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My job as an office assistant at the Assessment Language Center consisted of interviews students about their English language ability in term of speaking‚ listening‚ writing‚ and also to see if they speak any second languages at home. I also prepared and organized all the testing materials to make sure students have all the testing materials ready when they come in to take a test. When parents have questions about the test and the nature of the test‚ I will promptly explain why the test is needed
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communication skills and relationships within a single culture is often challenging. Bridging the gap between different cultures makes building communication skills and relationships even more difficult. I will discuss some of the challenges of cross-cultural communication and the pieces necessary to build effective working relationships. Typically‚ some of the basic assumptions we make when communicating with people from our own culture must be questioned and modified when communicating with people
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C427 Study Guide Appadurai’s model: Five dimensions of global cultural flows Scapes help us to define our imagined worlds 1. Ethnoscapes- produced by flows of people: tourists‚ immigrants‚ refugees‚ exiles‚ and guest workers 2. Technoscapes- the machinery and plant flows produces by multinational and national corporations and government agencies ex. cars‚ food 3. Finanscapes- produced by the rapid flows of money in the currency markets and stock exchanges 4. Mediascapes- the repertoires
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Brazil is the largest Country in South America‚ it borders every other country of the continent except Chile and Ecuador and has a mixture of many different cultures. In my cross-cultural study I will be comparing Australia to Brazil in relation to gender touching on characteristics such as the workforce‚ the educational system and family of these two cultures. The Brazilian education system includes both public (federal‚ state and municipal) and private institutions ranging from pre-school to
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“That’s a rare combination‚” my disciplinarian told me during my interview for the Diocesan Scholars Program. Toward the end of each year‚ the top students in each junior class in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia are eligible to interview to take college courses during their senior year for no cost. When the time for my interview came‚ I exuded nerves. Sure‚ everyone had told me there was no doubt that I would be accepted into the program‚ but I knew my fellow students were just as qualified. Into
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Question 1 In order to compare and contrast different cultures‚ one must first assess each of the countries included in the research in accordance with a cultural scale. Particularly in this case the Geert-Hofstede dimensions provide a strong base for comparison. By evaluating the the five dimensions of Geert-Hofstede‚ for both the Netherlands and the UK‚ a comparison can be made. The five dimensions as provided by Geert- Hofstede are; (1) power distance or PDI‚ (2) individualism or IDV
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Cross Cultural Perspectives Paper Ethics and Social Responsibility Ethics Cross Cultural Perspectives Paper The Microsoft Corporation is a fortune 500 company that ranked # 35 on the fortune 500 list in 2013 (Fortune 500‚ 2013) and is one of the largest business corporations in the world. It was founded in 1975 by two guys named Paul Allen and Bill Gates‚ the business developed very rapidly as the years went by and reached a marker of 89‚000 employees‚ with a revenue of $62 billion dollars and
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The career field that I’m interested in is Registered Nursing (RN) and I was able to have an interview with one of the RN’s at WellStar Kennestone Hospital Medical center by the name of David Snyder. During the interview‚ I was able to not only obtain the information that I needed‚ but I also gained further knowledge about my career interest. The following is my interview session with David Snyder. Q: What’s the difference b/t a Medical assistant and a Nurse? David: Medical assistants are trained
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