Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimensions Comparison: Brazil and USA Power Distance: The US has a score of 40 in this category. A lower score in this category shows that our country doesn’t have such a wide gap between the groups that do or do not have the power in society. Brazil scored a 69 in this dimension. They accept more inequality between the leaders and less powerful in society. In their culture‚ it is important for them to know where they stand in the community‚ so they know how much respect
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was also an era of civil unrest. The cultural advancements and diverse social landscapes of the 1920s were shaping a new society that threatened old ideals and exacerbated cultural conflict from those who so desperately wanted to cling to a set of values that were becoming obsolete in the new social climate. In the decades preceding the twenties‚ the Great Migration began and nearly six million African Americans moved from the South to the North. During the 1920s‚ African Americans had taken on prominent
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of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt
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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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exchange of promises. Each party to a contract must be both a promisor and a promisee. They must each receive a benefit and each suffer a detriment. This benefit or detriment is referred to as consideration. Consideration must be something of value in the eyes of the law - (Thomas v Thomas) (1842) 2 QB 851. This excludes promises of love and affection‚ gaming and betting etc. A one sided promise which is not supported by consideration is a gift. The law does not enforce gifts unless they are
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The economic dimensions of globalization While the globalization process is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon‚ some of its most visible and influential aspects are economic in nature. This chapter contains an analysis‚ from a global standpoint‚ of major trends in trade‚ investment‚ finance‚ macroeconomic regimes and international labour mobility. This analysis covers a long period in history‚ from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present‚ and is structured
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Rosalyn B. Pertiz Dimensions of Education MW(10-11:30am) Reflection Paper Being in this class and having participated in every discussion had given me a lot of privilege to obtain knowledge‚ understanding and comprehension about the world of socialization and interaction; the reason why do people behave such a behavior; elements of effective communication; the pillars of education that a teacher must possess in his heart and mind; the cultural differences that each teachers should be aware
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Primary activities – create customer value Inbound logistics – routines and processes that bring resources into the organization Because McDonald’s criteria is very high‚ so they require the products are of top quality base on the low cost. They purchase raw vegetables and other raw materials from its fixed‚ pre- defined suppliers only‚ some like local grocery and farm‚ to make raw materials is fresh. For example the soft drinks‚ the only supplier is Coca-Cola. McDonald’s has practiced a backward
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Dimensions of lodging Lodging property may be defined as an establishment that chares fees for providing furnished sleeping accommodations to persons who are temporarily away from home or who consider these accommodations their temporary or permanent homes. Many of these establishments also provides food‚ beverages‚ cleaning services‚ and a range of other services normally associated with travel commonly sought by travelers. Different Types of Hotel and Lodging * Limited-Service Hotels. Typically
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Geert Hofstede ’s Dimensions of Culture an d Edward T. Hall ’s Time Orientations Hofstede ’s "dimensions of culture" were derived mainly from his extensive organizational anthropology research in the late 1970s and early 1980s – the scores are general comparisons of values in the countries and regions he studied and can vary greatly within each country. Although Hofstede ’s work is somewhat dated and has rightly been criticized on a number of grounds the dimens ions are useful in unders tanding
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