Seventh Edition INTERNATIONALEDITION INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT MANAGINGACROSSBORDERS AND CULTURES TEXTANDCASES Helen Deresky Professor Emerita‚ State University of New York-Plattsburgh Boston Columbus Indianapolis New York San Francisco Upper Saddle River Amsterdam Cape Town Dubai London Madrid Milan Munich Paris Montreal Toronto Delhi Mexico City Sao Paulo Sydney Hong Kong Seoul Singapore Taipei Tokyo PART OUTLINE Chapter 1 Assessing the Environment—Political‚ Economic
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Cross-culture communication in Japan Facts and statistics of the ‘Land of the rising sun’. Location: Eastern Asia‚ island chain between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan/East Sea‚ east of the Korean Peninsula. Capital: Tokyo Population: 12‚57‚30‚287 (Aug 2013) Ethnic Make-up: Japanese 99%‚ others 1% (Korean 511‚262‚ Chinese 244‚241‚ Brazilian 182‚232‚ Filipino 89‚851‚ other 237‚914) Religions: observe both Shinto and Buddhist 84%‚ other 16% (including Christian 0.7%) How are Japanese
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Cross-Cultural Observation: Macy’s Department Store In order to observe the interactions between individuals from different cultural background‚ my partner: Gina Nguyen and I went to the Macy’s department store‚ located downtown Boston. We selected this store because of the size and their reputation of having a diverse workforce. Gina and I started our observation at 3:30pm on Wednesday‚ October 24‚ 2012 and finished it at 4:20pm. We were observing the interactions between the coworkers‚ as
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The Power of Affect: Predicting Intention JON D. MORRIS This robust structural modeling study‚ with over 23‚000 responses to 240 advertising The University of Florida messages‚ found that affect when measured by a visual measure of emotional jonmorris@adsam.com response dominates over cognition for predicting conative attitude and action. CHONGMOO WOO The University of Florida chongmoo@ufl.edu FOR DECADES marketing and advertising profes- require cognitive processing
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ostracizing homosexuals from the limelight (Bynum). Directors in the 1930s decided to disregard the production code and shock the audience with violence‚ gender nonconformity‚ and scenes of passion in order to increase revenue. Notably‚ The Sign of the Cross‚ released in 1932‚ was a biblical epic that stunned the audience with the king’s implied relationship with a slave boy‚ erotic dancing between two women‚ and frequent nudity (Presley & Viera). As a result of World War II‚ directors made homosexuals
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NO! My life has been anything but simple to the point that even common sense doesn’t apply to me anymore so when I died during a car accident‚ I wasn’t even the least surprised that out of all the people in the world‚ it happened to me‚ Logan Cross. When I died‚ I thought to myself ‘It can’t get any worse than this right?’ but I was wrong… So wrong that I was in disbelief myself. After my death‚ I noticed that‚ even though I had died‚ I still felt ‘alive’ but that shouldn’t have been possible
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Effective cross-cultural communication is one of the most important issues dealt with in business‚ particularly when a firm operates at an international level. Communication is a process with three key elements‚ which includes a source‚ an audience‚ and a channel. Communication derived from businesses will have listeners that include‚ but are not limited to customers‚ employees‚ suppliers‚ and the community (Caddy et al.). These listeners contribute to the success of a firm‚ which is why there is
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Introduction: The Cross-Cultural Approach Myth: is a story or example believed as true from a religion or culture group (usually an origin story) (The Prophet Mohamad PBUH is true for all Muslims) -myth comes from the greek word “muthos” which means word: -“muthos” are not literal words (they are metaphors) -“logos” are literal words The difference between Myth‚ Legends‚ Fairytales Myth: origin stories Legends: stories that may or may not be believed Fairytales: stories that starts with
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motivation through work related outcomes. Work motivation can be contributed to the nature of individual needs and to the distribution by managers of work related outcomes perceived by employees as both valid and relevant. In other words‚ managers influence motivation by both making use of individual differences in employee needs and by providing rewards and punishments that are consistent with those needs. Problem: intensity employees need/amount of available rewards/punishment. Need of self-actualization
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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology PSY/450 April 20‚ 2015 Michele Wagner Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Cross-cultural psychology is the psychological practice that focuses on the study of the cultural effects on human psychology. It requires researchers to draw conclusions by using samples from multiple cultures (Shiraev & Levy‚ 2010). Human behavior shares similarities in basic terms of listening to others‚ sharing feelings‚ and behavioral traits‚ although the
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