A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO 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
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Social care working with children and families Level 4 Final exam 1. In your own words summarise the major learning points from the whole of the programme with particular reference to : * Principles of social work with children and families * The process of social work with children and families * Working with adults in the family * Immediate protection of the child * Working with the family as a group * Working with children being looked after by the local authority
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Unit number: CYP Core 3.2 4 Understand how working practices can impact on the development of children and young people. 4.1 Explain how own working practise can affect children and young people’s development. As practitioners it is important that we know our own working practise affects the development of children that we work with. Most professionals can have a positive affect within the work place but it can sometimes be negative. Professionals must always meet the child’s needs and take
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major issue. Many surveys and estimations are done regarding income level of various groups of people. As a large portion of the overall children is being participated in the kindergarten‚ the target is to find out the income level scenario of kindergarten children parents. This report is based on a small scale survey conducted on parents of kindergarten children. It focuses on their income level; how income varies with variable factors such as job type (business or service-holder‚ gender (female
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Melissa McAfee Mrs. Bastian Dev022 April 11‚ 2013 First draft The Impact when one parent loses a Job When one parent loses a job it impacts the whole family. My household went from two incomes to one‚ in a matter of months. There was no time to prepare. My husband Bucky works for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad; therefore his pay was never the same. So‚ my income was very important. I got paid the same amount every two weeks. We could budget our expenses off that amount. We always
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23 November 2009 Business Environments Assignment #1 Explain the workings of market mechanism. What can cause markets to fail? Economists have to deal with a range of economic problems when studying an economy. But the basic economic problem is: “Scarce resources in relation to unlimited wants” – Bamford‚ 2001 Because there are unlimited wants and limited resources‚ societies have to confront three basic questions What to produce? Everything cannot be produced so we need to decide
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Are Children Raised by Same-Sex Couples As Healthy as Children Raised by Heterosexual Parents? Sylvia Bermudez California Baptist University August 19‚ 2014 “Although two parents are often more effective than one‚ the parent’s gender makes little difference in terms of the child’s development”‚ (Conger‚ p.3). Children usually benefit from being raised by two parents instead of one. However‚ studies have shown that the gender of each parent does not have a significant impact on the success
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UNDERSTANDING THE PRESCHOOL CHILD: A MULTIMETHOD APPROACH What is the pre-school child really like? It is not possible to find an adequate answer to this question by relying on any one theory of child development. The main reason for this is that most theorists usually concentrate on only that facet of child development which they consider important. Gesell therefore‚ concentrates on physical and physiological development since he feels that it is the main pre-requisite for all other forms of
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form professional relationships with many different people within the setting. In a childcare environment there may be a child who has behavioural problems‚ effective communication would then need to take place with a behavioural therapist in order to ensure the child has their individual needs met. As a practitioner it is highly recommended that they should develop high standards of communication‚ as it is required in all aspects of working with children. Communicating with the child’s parents is
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Unit 2 E3. Explain two theoretical perspectives relevant to the chose areas of development. There is a debate between theorists about the way children learn languages when they are younger‚ the debate is known as the ‘nature versus nurture debate’. B.F. Skinner has a theory that the language baby’s spoke was down to the nurture after doing experiments on rats‚ this was called ‘operant conditioning’. Skinner believed that “adults teach children to talk through imitation”. (Beaver.M et al‚ 2008
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