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    Gms Notes

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    Lecture 2: Information and decision making -change is inevitable and business is different from 20 years ago * Information tech in /new workplace * Knowledge workers provide a competitive (decisive) factor * Knowledge/intell capital are irreplaceable resources * Productivity of knowledge worker depends on computer/info compentency -stages of development in e-comm * Secure an online identity * Establish a web presence * Enable ecommerce * Utilize a service app model

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    discrimination‚ stereotype and even phobias. One of these discriminatory behaviors is ethnocentrism. Our world has many cultures each with its own unique practices and beliefs and when a person fails to recognize these practices as normal‚ they are being ethnocentric. Ethnocentrism is when a person views the world from the perspective of their own culture hence anything that is not practiced in their own group is abnormal to them. These individuals are viewing other cultures in an etic way and are being superior

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    Nicolaus Copernicus to be accepted by the general public. The greatest power in the middle ages was vested in the church. The church was the first to assume the earth being the center of the universe‚ and all humans at that time believed that the geocentric theory was the truth. Copernicus‚ an expert in astronomy‚ however‚ has casted doubt on the church’s idea and came out with the theory of heliocentricism after series of experiments. What he did at that time was obviously challenging the authority

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    ethnocentrism. Is it ethnocentric to be nationalistic? • What does ethnocentrism mean?

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    Atlas Eléctrica –recommendation: External strategy: 1) Buy La Indeca and the store chain La Curacao: - Why: To keep market shares and leadership in Central America‚ deeper market coverage. - How: Take long-term loans - Alternative: It will kill the company if other competitors buy La Indeca (Mabe‚ Whirlpool‚ LG‚ Samsung in Mexico)–they would take market shares from Atlas Eléctrica and by the time wipe out the company from Central America where Atlas Eléctrica has the biggest market

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    pot of cultures and in such‚ we see a wide variety of value systems at play. For our first Individual Work Worksheet‚ you will explore three values that you think are central to American culture. From there‚ let’s define ethnocentrism. Is it ethnocentric to be nationalistic? Finally‚ define cultural relativism. Are values culturally relative? Why/Why not? Please respond to all of the following prompts: 1. Explore three values that are central to American culture. What are the three values

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    Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies” was a book that challenged the way people think and made them rethink what they knew as fact. When Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473‚ there was only one view/model of the universe‚ which was Ptolemy’s model. His Geocentric Universal model‚ where the earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around us‚ there was no question that this was fact. That was the case until Copernicus came and opened their minds to another possibility. Copernicus was a man

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    Ptolemy

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    day‚ using a line through the north and south pole as an axis. The stars closest to the equator appeared to rise and fall the greatest distance‚ but each star circled back to its rising point each day.[2] The second common notion supporting the geocentric model was that the Earth does not seem to move from the perspective of an Earth bound observer‚ and that it is solid‚ stable‚ and unmoving. In other words‚ it is completely at rest. ------------------------------------------------- PTOLEMAIC

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    of the nurse assuming this‚ will most likely be non-compliance from the patient‚ as they may lack the knowledge or understanding required‚ also it may contradict with their own personal beliefs. Secondly‚ another implication of a nurse with an ethnocentric attitude is their lack of therapeutic communication. This is likely to occur when a nurse cares for international and culturally diverse persons‚ and can lead to a mutual sense of uncertainty and mutual sense of difficulty in establishing

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    Galileo Galilei

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    9/28/12 Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was a Roman Catholic and a scientist during the 16th and 17th centuries. He was prisoned because he went against the Church and their religion. The Church believed the geocentric model to be true. The geocentric model‚ theorized by Aristotle‚ had the Earth as the center of the planetary system‚ with the sun going around the Earth. Galileo believed the heliocentric model to be the true model. The heliocentric model‚ theorized by Copernicus

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