Report on the Cultural Adaptation on the PG Students in Middlesex University Executive Summary: When new students attend university in a new culture from their own culture‚ behaviors and expectations change. According to Zhou at el (2008)‚ traditionally researchers thought that culture shock was only about medical conditions. Historical theory has changed to contemporary theory of acculturation. This theory contains of cultural learning‚ stress and coping and social identification. We found
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Signals Intelligence in World War II: The Ancestor of Modern SIGINT Signals Intelligence in World War II began as a defunct system that appeared to be doomed and offered little to no valuable intelligence to commanders at all echelons. The United States Army formed the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in 1930 in an effort to consolidate all Army cryptologic functions underneath the Signal Corps. The Army identified the need for the SIS following the dissolution of the War Departments Military
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Assessing the impact of using Internet for competitive intelligence Here is the summary of an interesting scientific paper dealing with the impact of using the Internet for competitive intelligence. The Internet‚ as an information-rich resource and interorganizational communication tool‚ has transformed the way that firms gather‚ produce and transmit competitive intelligence (CI). The aim of this article is to assess the impact of the Internet on CI and the subsequent effects on the organization
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Multiple Intelligences Theory‚ there are nine different intelligences. These intelligences describe how people think and learn‚ and everyone is a unique blend of all nine learning styles. You may lean towards one or two‚ but you still use all of them‚ often at the same time. These intelligences are Verbal-Linguistic‚ Logical-Mathematical‚ Musical‚ Visual-Spatial‚ Existential‚ Bodily-Kinesthetic‚ Naturalistic‚ Interpersonal and Intrapersonal. People who are strong in different intelligences learn best
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sustainable in an aggressively competitive global marketplace. As cultural intelligence is also referred to the person’s capability to adapt to cultural settings that are new or foreign and or unfamiliar settings that are characterized by cultural diversity and still be able to generate the right behavioural attitude that are adaptive and also show an understanding over the diversified culture. The promotion of cultural intelligence capacitates the organization to can become more competitive and enables
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CARROLL 1 Shavasia K. Carroll Current Issues in OB Final Diversity Management and Cultural Intelligence Diversity Management and cultural intelligence is the crucial keys in today’s workforce to successfully compete in a global marketplace. Corporations can no longer use lack of cultural intelligence as an excuse. Organizations pursuing global success must embrace diversity in their thoughts‚ actions‚ and innovations. Diversity doesn’t just focus on making the numbers‚ but how the organization’s
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After the completion of the given multiple intelligence quiz‚ I was quite astonished by the accuracy of how my most dominant intelligences were intrapersonal (90%)‚ verbal-linguistic (80%)‚ alongside with logical-mathematical (80%) intelligence. From past experience‚ I have found myself to be very introspective‚ intuitive‚ as well as being adept at decoding my thoughts‚ feelings‚ and motivations. These traits are apparent through my prosaic‚ everyday life‚ such as my ability to comprehend my strengths
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position regarding cultural adaptation?’ Regarding the topic of cultural adaptation there are many theories. This essay‚ essentially‚ will analyse in depth the opinion of a Professor in the Department of Language and Business communication - Hanne Tange - ‚ whos major is inside the field of Intercultural communication‚ in opposite cultural and shock adaptation proposed by Sverre Lysgaard in 1995. At first‚ Tange illustrates in her article ‘In a cultural No Man’s Land – or
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Cultural Intelligence Article 1. Define cultural intelligence. What are the three sources of cultural intelligence? Cultural Intelligence is a person´s ability to somehow understand non-verbal communication in a foreign setting just as locals would do. It is also capability to adopt and use these gestures. People who tend to be more detached from their naturel setting are more likely to easily adopt the foreign body language. The three sources of cultural intelligence are following: Head – cognitive
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and environment affect management in an institution. A culture and its environment affect the operations of a business because that culture generates practices based on its environment. To clarify‚ how a business sets its policies is based on cultural exceptions‚ like politics‚ points of view‚ whatever is considered the “norm” for that environment. In many cultures‚ it is also safe to assume that women do not have the same pull as a man in charge. An example of how women are belittled can be
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