Case Study: Ellen Moore (A): living and working in Korea Summary In 1990‚ Joint Venture Inc. (JVI) was formed as a joint venture between a Korean company‚ Korean Conglomerate Inc. (KCI)and a North American company‚ Western Systems Inc. (WSI) to implement the recommended systems into over 100 local offices in 7-10 years. The project was to begin in June 1995‚ and Ellen Moore‚ a Systems Consulting Group consultant‚ was sent to Korea as a qualified project management representative in order to
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Notes: - Ellen Moore- systems consulting group consultant. - Andrew Kilpatrick – senior consultant on a joint North American company and Korean consulting project. - Problems: - Korean kteam very reluctant to setup meetings. Page 2‚ 4th para‚ Andrew on the other side generally meets the client mgmt prior to preparing the proposal. - Meetings didn’t turn out fruitful at all. They were talking the same thing every time. - She had never worked in korea before‚ docs on korea not entirely
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1.0 Introduction The Ellen Moore case discusses the issues in applying Western management styles in a much different society; that of Korea. At issue is whether Ellen was to blame for the failures of the team to meet its performance goals and what were the other factors involved. 2.0 Background Ellen Moore was a Senior Consultant for Systems Consulting Group (SCG) which was part of a company known as Western Systems Inc (WSI). In 1990‚ WSI formed a Korean joint venture with Korean Conglomerate
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suitable example from the case study “Ellen Moore: Living and Working in Korea” (1997) and secondly‚ applying the theories of Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner (2012) on cultural diversity within a global business context to the situation in question. This paper is limited to their thoughts on “How we accord status” as their framework provides a holistic view on the different aspects of status‚ which help to understand the “clash of cultures” e.g. those in the Ellen Moore case: On the one hand co-manager
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Case Study: Depression Answer Sheet Ellen: Depression and Suicidality Student Name: Donna Diagnosing Ellen 1a. Refer to the DSM-IV checklist and list all symptoms that Ellen has that match the criteria for major depressive episode. Which of Ellen’s symptoms meet any of the criteria? (Be sure to match specific symptoms with specific criteria.) DSM criteria #1 depressed mood most of the day. Correlating Behaviors v Ellen has reported that she had been distracted for part of the day‚ but quickly
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Working For A Living Chris Stokke Williston State College Author Note This paper was prepared for College Composition II‚ taught by Professor Preus. Working For A Living What do you want to be when you grow up? The one question I have dreaded since the first time I was presented with it. The pressure of society to make outrageous amounts of money and excel with an extravagant job is tremendous. In this day and age it seems that the motto‚ “The bigger the better”‚ holds true
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Case 1: Ellen Moore (A): Living and Working in Korea 1. CQ: Is what happened to Ellen a surprise? Why or why not? Do you think what happened to Ellen would have happened to people like yourself‚ and from your background? Why or why not? ------------------------------------------------- Considering the Korea’s cultural context it was not a surprise what happened to Ellen. First‚ the collective behavior is highly influenced by the country national religion‚ the Confucian. Which dictates several
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Ellen Lubell is the founding co-partner of Tennant Lubell LLC‚ and specializes in non-profit and intellectual property law. Her clients range from universities‚ publishers‚ civic-minded start-ups and small businesses‚ to individual artists and academic faculty. She was recently General Council to a Latino organization conducting voter registration drives and civic engagement in Latino communities‚ an Advisor to an international scientific society about to publish a new peer-reviewed journal and
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household. Ellen Stowell wakes up‚ walks to the kitchen‚ and turns on the coffee pot. Belle and Andy‚ the two little dogs‚ come running around the corner to be fed. Ellen walks to the far right counter to open the big colorful can which contains the dog’s food. Within seconds of the dogs being fed‚ the coffee pot goes off indicating that the coffee is done. For years now‚ Ellen has drunk her coffee black without anything in it. Her mother never drank coffee with sugar of cream so Ellen doesn’t like
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North Korea also known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is one of the harshest places to live. From the lack of food‚ to the horrible living conditions. The people that live in North Korea are able to either barely make it day to day because they have connections with higher up or starve to death from lack of food. Their society is based off of status if you don’t live within the capital‚ Pyongyang or have connection than you’re out doing hard labor for most of your day to get paid very
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