Amusing facts about Sweden‚ Swedish Culture‚ and Swedish Governance‚ compiled by an American. As of 2004 you can pay your Swedish taxes by sending an SMS message from your cell phone. The government sends you a completely filled out tax form and if it looks good you just go online and click okay to pay your taxes. Taxes are generally between 50 and 70% of your income. (Of course your employer already pays the full amount of your salary to the government in taxes before you even get anything.) Companies
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| These cultural challenges‚ in relation to the qualities needed for mentors/mentees‚ will be analyzed in light of both Hoefstede’s and Dimmock & Walker’s work on cultural dimensions. While my aim is not to contrast and compare certain cultures and whether one is deemed more or less likely to succeed in a mentoring program than the other‚ I do wish to briefly analyze the challenges educational managers in Hong Kong may
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Personality Dimensions Assignment 1. Create a table of the scores on your “Scoring my Personality Dimensions” totals sheet. | InquiringGreen | OrganizedGold | AuthenticBlue | ResourcefulOrange | Picture Cards | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | Life Values | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | At Work | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | In Relationships | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | Traits and Characteristics | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | Final Score | 10 | 14 | 12 | 13 | My Preferred StyleGold | My Secondary StyleOrange | My ThirdStyleBlue | My hadow/Least
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Dimensions of justice Zuckerman • The justness of a system of procedure depends on whether we can be reasonably confident in its ability to produce “correct” results in which the truth is ascertained. A system of procedure should also not compromise legal equality by imposing higher risks of error on one class of litigants. • Excessive delay and excessive haste may both compromise the rectitude of a decision. Delay in the execution of justice carries the additional harm of eroding the
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Two Basic Dimensions of Leadership 1. Task Orientation( initiating structure) Task orientation relates to Blake and Mouton’s concern for production. It is the quality of a manager who maintains strong discipline to task completion and deadlines. A highly task-oriented manager maintains focus on timing and quality of work and‚ at the extreme‚ can lose sight of the importance of showing consideration for employees. A leader with strong orientation often gets labeled as an authoritarian leader
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The six Dimensions of Culture Armed with a large database of cultural statistics‚ Hofstede analyzed the results and found clear patterns of similarity and difference amid the responses along these five dimensions. Interestingly‚ his research was done on employees of IBM only‚ which allowed him to attribute the patterns to national differences in culture‚ largely eliminating the problem of differences in company culture. The six dimensions are: 1. Power/Distance (PD) "Power distance is the extent
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ACADEMIC DIMENSION All of us around the world have many very important activities‚ events‚ or experiences along our lives‚ which are kept in our minds as stories to remember forever. Some of them are sad and make us feel homesick and some are very happy that make us feel very exited; but In this essay I am going to tell you about my academic story by answering the following questions. What school did I attend? What was school like for me? What prompted me to consider teaching as a career? What does
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Definitions of the dimensions of health Humans have been around for many centuries. In this century‚ we are growing more aware of the negative effects illness and stress have on the human body. We are also becoming aware of the necessary steps needed to be healthy and accomplish a longer life span. With the ever-growing number of diseases around the human population‚ it is imperative that humans realize the importance of being healthy. People believe health is attained by just eating healthy foods
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Hofstede’s dimensions of national culture Hofstede distinguished five dimensions of national culture: Power Distance (PDI)‚ Individualism/Collectivism (IDV)‚ Masculinity/Femininity (MAS)‚ Uncertainty Avoidance (UAI)‚ and Long-Term versus Short-Term Orientation (LTO). For those readers who are unfamiliar with his dimensional model‚ a short description follows. The dimensions are measured on index scales from 0 to 100‚ although some countries may have scores above 100 on certain dimensions because
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Hofstede and Trompenaars compared Of these seven value dimensions‚ two reflect closely the Hofstede dimensions of Collectivism/Individualism and to a lesser extent power distance. Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner’s communitarianism/individualism value orientation seems to be virtually identical to Hofstede’s Collectivism/Individualism. • Their achievement/ascription value orientation‚ which describes how status is accorded‚ appears to be linked to Hofstede’s power distance index‚ at
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