Gerard Hendrik Hofstede (born October 2‚ 1928 in Haarlem) is a Dutch expert in cultural studies [GHW]. Hofstede (1980) surveyed 88‚000 IBM employees working in 66 countries and then ranked the countries on different cultural dimensions. His research resulted in four dimensions (power distance; individualism versus collectivism; uncertainty avoidance; and masculinity and femininity). In the beginning‚ China was not included in this study but later Bond and Hofstede looked at Chinese values. From this
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Introduction Why did we take South Africa? Because South Africa is different than all of the other African countries. We made our choice to present the five dimensions of this country. South Africa has a big history and well known in other countries. For example‚ the separation between Black and White Which the nationalist introduced in 1948 and called the Apartheid. After Nelson Mandela stood up for the equal rights between Black and White in South Africa. There came an end of this ridiculous
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Discussion about Marketing Concepts and their Applications In Sri Lanka Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 1. Marketing Philosophy 2 2. Customer Value and Satisfaction 4 3. Marketing Myopia 6 4. Postmodern Marketing 8 5. Marketing Environment 9 List of References 11 1. Marketing Philosophy Every business organization in the modern world must be associated with Marketing. Its primary objective is to earn profit after fulfilling customer needs‚ wants or desires. Marketing will be used to
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To determine the impact of economic growth or GDP in the Sri Lanka‚ a simple econometric framework was adopted by Abaid (2013)‚ where in his study the function model which he derived from production function framework: Where: Y denotes the estimated output level of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth. The L denotes the amount of labor force of the country and the K denotes the domestically financed capital stock-proxied bt the Gross Capital Formation (GCF). A constant technology
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This is an essay i submitted to an essay competition recently. “THE RELEVANCE OF INFORMATION SECURITY IN 21ST CENTURY SRI LANKA” Information security is rapidly increasing in relevance and importance to 21st century Sri Lanka. The widespread growth of Information Technology has been the major deciding factor of this. Although we must realize that even though the relevance of information security is majorly increasing because of the advance in technology‚ we must not assume that the concept
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vsp.state.va.us&proxystylesheet=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vsp.state.va.us%2Fvsp.xslt ➢ Gun Law in the United States‚ 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_(by_state)#Wisconsin ➢ Ministry of Public Security‚ Law and Order‚ - Sri Lanka‚ 2004 http://www.moi.gov.lk/Direct_Services.htm ➢ Justice Stephen Breyer‚ 2008‚ International Herald Tribune
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The Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (SLWCS) founded in 1995 had been working exclusively in Sri Lanka to protect native species while aiding the social development of the Sri Lankan people. Headed by Ravi Corea‚ president‚ and Chandeep Corea‚ projects director‚ the SLWCS began its first major project in 1998 — an innovative electric fence designed to resolve conflicts between the native villagers and the elephants in Sri Lanka and protect the surrounding forests. The idea was to fence off
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The impact of IT in efficiency and effectiveness of banking sector in Sri Lanka THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT IN EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BANKING SECTOR IN SRI LANKA (WITH REFERNCE TO PEOPLE’S BANK AND PLC COMMERCIAL BANK PLC IN SRI LANKA) AUTHOR: M.R.M. FAZMEER 2005/2006 FMC SOUTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA What is information technology? The study or use of computers and telecommunications for storing and sending Information (Oxford dictionary‚ 2003) “The information
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Macro Theme - Post war Sri Lanka - Emerging tourism industry Meso Theme - Forecasting Change Situation Analysis Sri Lanka was seen as a low budget tourist attraction. Industry colapsed mainly due to the war conditions through out last 3 decades. Tourists started pouring in to the country after the end of civil war. Major infrastruture development projects are undergoing in the country Government has identified tourism as a main source of foreign income and supporting the industry
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FLOWS OF EDUCATION SYSTEM TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN SRI LANKA BY K.T.M.N.DAYANANDA ADBM – F – 092024 M.A.Y.B. KARUNALATHILAKE ADBM – F – 092069 K.S.D.SILVA ADBM – F – 092123 W.H.T.S.SILVA ADBM – F – 092124 A.J.L.WICKRAMARATHNE ADBM – F – 092150 J. WICKRAMASURIYA ADBM – F – 092153 This project is submitted in partial fulfillment of the ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 9.2 NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT November 2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
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