valuing and promoting cultural diversity in work with children and young Written Assignment 1 This assignment should demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding relating to these learning outcomes: Assessment criteria 1.2 • A description of the importance of supporting the rights of all children and young people to participation and equality of access Assessment criteria 1.3 • A description of the importance and benefits of valuing and promoting cultural diversity in work with
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Position paper Linguistic diversity creates a sense of cultural identity in an increasingly individualistic world and should therefore be preserved Introduction: In many ways‚ language provides a sense of identity. We establish our identity through our use of language. Language is so deeply embedded in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in terms of language. In a more and more globalizing and individualistic world‚ this means
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The Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension Business Essay This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section defines culture‚ its importance in international business and the various cultural dimensions for working globally. The next section describes the culture of India and U.K. and reviews the impact of culture on the working of Hilton Hotel Group in both the countries. Finally‚ it ends with a brief summary. CULTURE Hofstede (2003) defines culture as “the collective programming of mind
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Role of Cross-cultural Misunderstanding in Ruining Lia’s Life Lia is born of a loving Hmong family‚ and just three months into her life‚ begins to reveal epileptic symptoms. According to the Hmong community‚ the condition is curable‚ and the presence of spirits in such a patient’s soul is considered a blessing. However‚ American doctors in a community medical center fail to understand and appreciate Lia’s parents’ approach to the child’s disease‚ and are only interested in saving this child’s
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Coss Cultural Communication: Perspective of Royal Dutch Shell Shell has over 100 different nationalities in its employee population. In a global organization like Shell‚ people need to constantly work with people from other nationalities as part of expatriate assignments. We had a candid interaction with company’s global learning head Manojit Sen. We are elucidating few interesting points from the discussion. Global organisations like Royal Dutch Shell face the constant challenge of cross cultural
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TEACHING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Paul Kalfadellis Working Paper 34/05 May 2005 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT WORKING PAPER SERIES ISSN 1327–5216 Abstract The ability of managers to interact with individuals from cultures other than their own‚ requires a concerted effort on the part of business educators and academics to ‘train’ and ‘educate’ today’s students and tomorrow’s managers in the area cross-cultural communication. This is not necessarily an easy task. Teaching cross-cultural communication
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culture develops out of cultural diversity (ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ political‚ etc.). How do differences among culturally diverse members of an organization help to establish an overall culture that is unique to an organization? Page Limit: 5-7 pages‚ double-spaced. This paper portrait how culture affects an organization‚ it defines culture and cultural diversity according to different researchers. Further‚ it mentions different attributes of an organization cultural competency. And finalizes
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to regards the main issues in opening the Euro Disneyland and compare the French cultural with American cultural by using Hofstede’s cultural Dimensions and Trompenaars ‘s cultural dimensions. This essay will then end by gives out some solutions and recommendations for how to overcome those issues. Issues: There are several issues showed in this case. Firstly‚ lack of understanding and appreciation of cultural differences between U.S. and French. For example‚ different cultures have different
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INTRODUCTION Globalization is the system of interaction among the countries of the world in order to develop the global economy. Globalization refers to the integration of economics and societies all over the world. Because of globalization‚ the number of countries where products can be sold or purchased has increased dramatically. Globalization also cause an increasing influence of Multinational Companies (MNC). An example is a car company whose head office is based in Japan. This company has
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Cross-cultural challenges when doing business in China.(Research Note) Abstract With the globalisation of world business‚ China has become an appealing 有吸引力的market for foreign investors. The problem of cross-cultural management arises as the cooperation between China and its culturally different Western partners continues to increase at an unprecedented无前例的 rate. This paper presents an understanding on the general cultural differences between America and China by applying the cultural dimensions
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