FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AKURE DEPARTMENT OF QUANTITY SURVEYING QSV 102 ASSIGNMENT BY ADEWUMI OLUMIDE DAVID QSV/13/44O7 A. DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF A QUANTITY SURVEYOR AND IN YOUR OWN WORDS‚ B. WRITE THE HISTORY OF QUANTITY SURVEYING IN ANY COUNTRY OF YOUR CHOICE. SUBMITTED ON 20TH OF AUGUST‚ 2014 To Miss Ajobiewe D.T Question A 1. A quantity surveyor is a professional working within the construction industry concerned with construction costs and contracts-www.wikipedia.com 2. A
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Understanding Hofstede’s 5 Cultural Dimensions Geert Hofstede devoted over a decade to researching cultural differences and developed an internationally recognized model of cultural dimensions. There are five main dimensions of culture that serve as a guide to understanding intercultural communications‚ business‚ and effective social exchange. The five dimensions are Power Distance‚ Individualism‚ Masculinity‚ Uncertainty Avoidance‚ and Long-Term Orientation and were developed to provide a method
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2012 year end statistics sri lanka had 20.3 million mobile phone subscription. This is a massive figure when it is compared to the 20.8 million total population of sri lanka. This suggests that majority of the current population own atleast one mobile phone while another significant sector may own more than one connection. This value combined with the fixed lines that most homes in the urban areas and almost all business enterprises possess‚ it can be safely said that sri lanka is coming to a stage
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It is a well-known fact that Sri Lankans life style has been drastically changed recently. Health department’s researches corroborate the above. As result of the change of life style people have unknowingly neglected the value of balance‚ nutritious diet and they have forgotten the importance of the schedule of daily exercises that enables to keep a healthy body. I do say‚ people both rich and poor are unaware of the values of three main meals. Particularly‚ rich people tend to consume instant foods
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Sandip Kumar Kundu (Student Id: P000099745) Word Count: 4300 International Business Experience (BA 670) Introduction: The end of Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war in May 2009 and prevalence of peace for more than four years has given a new rays of hope to usher an era of sustained positive growth and economic development. Sri Lanka can still be a difficult place to business due to poor infrastructure‚ corruption and erratic policy environment‚ but the geographical natural location
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is another fundamental issue for any society‚ to which a range of solutions can be found. The IBM studies revealed that (a) women’s values differ less among societies than men’s values; (b) men’s values from one country to another contain a dimension from very assertive and competitive and maximally different from women’s values on the one side‚ to modest and caring and similar to women’s values on the other. The assertive pole has been called ’masculine’ and the modest‚ caring pole ’feminine’
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lawyers. They have dreams of their own and being a grape farmer is hardly one of them” For thirty long years Sri Lanka was torn apart by a malevolent war between the country’s majority and minority; a war that not only claimed the lives of many‚ soldiers and civilians alike‚ but also destroyed much property and dammed the country’s growth in uncountable ways. The whole of Sri Lanka grieved as one at all that was lost but it would not be incorrect to say that it was the north that suffered the
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Executive Summary Sri Lanka is an island with a rich cultural heritage‚ diverse landscapes‚ and a significant number of wildlife reserves. Today after three decades of ethnic unrest‚ tourist activities in Sri Lanka have shown promising signs of recovery‚ by becoming the fourth largest foreign exchange earner in Sri Lanka and contribute significantly to the economic growth and development of the country. Sri Lanka has immense growth potential in this industry if the correct blend can be presented
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Hofstede 1 Running Head: HOFSTEDE’S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: THE BASICS AND THE CRITICISMS ra oi M Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions: E. The Basics and the Criticisms Moira E. Hanna H Clemson University na an Hofstede 2 Abstract Hofstede’s model (1980) has been used widely in research in the past two decades. The culture-based model consists of four dimensions: power distance‚ uncertainty avoidance‚ individualism-collectivism‚ and masculinity-femininity. Each of these
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Contents Introduction: Etic or Emic? At what extent are McSweeney’s critiques valuable? 4 Research Validity 5 Research Reliability: 5 Research Sample 5 Back to Culture 7 Questionnaire and Dimensions 8 History and Research Validations 9 Conclusion 10 Bibliography 12 Introduction: Etic or Emic? At what extent are McSweeney’s critiques valuable? Arguably‚ Hofstede’s work (1980‚ 1997) represents a pioneering approach of culture as a way of comparing international management frameworks
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