The Cultural Web The Cultural Web Aligning your team ’s or organization ’s culture with strategy James Manktelow MindTools.com Mind Tools - Essential skills for an excellent career! What is the first thing that pops in your mind when you hear the term corporate culture? A great many people refer to the classic phrase coined by the McKinsey organization‚ that culture is “how we do things around here”. And while that may be true‚ there are so many elements that go into determining what you do and
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a comprehensive survey of all options of new Operating Systems as well as workstations‚ it is necessary to consider whether a Linux Based system is appropriate for our organizational needs at this point. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to investigate the pros and cons of using Linux in both a server and workstation environment. During this investigation several Linux distributions will be scrutinized. This examination will disclose what is really necessary to convert to a true
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Technical Report: Design Considerations for Microtunneling Successful design of microtunneling projects can be achieved by paying attention to the following: 1. Developing‚ understanding and defi ning project needs and requirements‚ 2. Exploring and defi ning ground conditions‚ 3. Superimposing the project “in the ground”‚ and 4. Creating a project “environment” that will allow for Contractor success. The design process has four stages: planning‚ risk assessment‚ design and contract documents
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What are the differences between “cultural assimilation” stance and the “cultural pluralist” stance as defined by Ting-Toomey and Chung? Which stance do you subscribe in consideration of immigrant issues? Why? According to Ting - Toomey and Chung (2012)‚ the "cultural assimilation" stance is an attitude towards the adaptation process in which individuals demand that strangers conform to the host environment. While the "cultural pluralist" stance is one that encourages a diversity of values‚ emphasizing
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Cultural Identity and Cultural Rights “People need to see that‚ far from being an obstacle‚ the world’s diversity of languages‚ religions and traditions is a great treasure‚ affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others‚” Youssou N’Dour (Musician). I certainly believe that cultural diversity is one of the most important matters in society and that we should learn to acknowledge it. Unfortunately‚ we may be culturally diverse but we tend to forget about equality amongst
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Below are four scenarios pertaining to cultural diversity. For this assignment‚ you will prepare a research paper that focuses on one of these scenarios‚ analyzing what happened‚ what the consequences either are or might be‚ and how the situation can be corrected and/or prevented in the future. These must be concrete suggestions that could actually be implemented rather than vague references or opinions. While the situations have been fictionalized‚ there have been actual situations that are very
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Middletons & Gramjon Limited a) Describe the matters that the partners of Middletons should have considered and the procedure(s) the firm should have carried out in determining whether it should accept the appointment as auditors to Gramjon Limited. The most general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person‚ organization‚ system‚ process‚ project or product. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information‚ and also provide an assessment of a system ’s internal
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Ethical considerations in the research of applied linguistics JIAN HE Monash University 1. Introduction In applied linguistics researches‚ there are unlikely considerable issues related to ethics or morality due to the harmlessness of the nature of language study. And in most cases‚ the participants are even able to get more or less some benefits from the research. For example‚ the participants may have an opportunity to gain certain knowledge of a target language via practicing
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Ethical Considerations and Applying Design Principles Ethical Considerations As a programmer you have to think about ethical issues that may appear in our user interface design. I believe we should think about these ethical issues early in the design process‚ even before building a prototype or developing the interface. The requirements should cover ethical issues. Ethical concerns raised by features of the system should be considered in the very first phases of systems development. If ethics
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CULTURAL TOURISM First of all‚ it is important to define cultural tourism as the basis around which the whole research is formulated. It is important to highlight the fact that the experts do not agree on a universal definition because of the wide range of activities it covers. Over the years‚ the definition of this type of tourism has suffer some changes depending on the field of study and one of the most popular definitions is the one stated by Richards (2001‚ p.37) in which the concept of
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