changing media‚ changing china This page intentionally left blank CHANGING MEDIA‚ CHANGING CHINA Edited by Susan L. Shirk 2011 Oxford University Press‚ Inc.‚ publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research‚ scholarship‚ and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic
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Social Time: The Heartbeat of Culture There is an old saying “Do in Rome as Rome does” meaning that you should follow the local tradition once you have been there. However‚ since the pace of life and perception of time are also elements of tradition‚ how could you follow the local pace correctly without listening to the “local drummer”? So‚ it makes a lot of sense to research the difference among kinds of perception of time in different cities or countries. If we discuss further‚ what is the underlying
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Changing Jobs and Changing Loyalties Cynthia Martinez was thrilled when she first received the job offer from David Newhoff at Crytex System. She had long admired Crytex‚ both as an industry leader and as an ideal employer‚ and the position the company was offering her was perfect. “ It’s just what I’ve always wanted‚” she told her husband‚ Tom‚ as they uncorked a bottle of champagne. But as she and Tom talked‚ he raised a few questions that began to trouble her. “What about the big project
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Preliminary Exploration of the Changing Paradigms of Leadership in Turbulent Times ABSTRACT: Globalisation and disruptive changes have made the organizations realize the need and importance of leadership in turbulent times. The frenetic pace of change‚ significant growth in technology‚ scarcity of resources and changing business models pose immense challenges to the organisations to keep competitive. One critical factor for the success of organisations in such times is the capability of the leader
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and have permanently changed the economics of running a premium airline. These problems are in themselves formidable. But‚ in addition‚ British Airways faced a list of daunting challenges of its own. These included the need to: • Raise finance at a time of continuing crisis in the debt markets; • Radically reduce
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Change in Time A culture’s sense of time is based on how that culture views the past‚ present or future. Americans have a very different sense of time compared to China and France‚ our view of time is time is important and shouldn’t be wasted on trivial things. Americans believe deadlines are more important than building relationships or getting comfortable with big decisions. China has a very different point of view on time‚ it’s to be cherished and used to build relationships and to make better
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There are four mechanisms for changing organizational culture. The four types are the leader is responsible for the organizational change‚ the process of culture change begins with targeting one of the three layers of organizational change‚ aligning corporate culture with the organization’s vision and strategic plan‚ and using a structured approach (Kinicki & Kreitner‚ 2012). Mr. Marchionne used all four mechanisms to change the culture at Chrysler. The first mechanism of cultural change is
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Changing School Starting Times: Better Sleep for Everyone Sleep and education are both very important to people everywhere‚ but today a dilemma occurs that has a significant amount of students fighting to maintain both. As adolescents enter and endure high school‚ their bodies begin to undergo changes that affect the way they sleep‚ needing longer sleep at later times of the night. The problem with this is that adolescents’ sleep needs clash with their need for education‚ because high school
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H.G. Wells’ representation of the future of human nature and culture in The Time Machine is based on an understanding of natural selection. The time traveler’s conclusion on humanity is that in the future humans‚ including their physical‚ mental‚ and social/economic structure will have all degenerate. This is demonstrated in the book through the characteristics of the Eolis‚ and Morlocks‚ and their society‚ this is connected with Darwin’s natural selection because the characteristics of the Eolis
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| Book Summary and Critique: The Hidden Persuaders Summary of THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS by Vance Packard 1. The Depth Approach. This book is about the large-scale -- and sometimes impressively successful -- efforts to use insights from psychiatry and the social sciences (and provided all too willingly by cooperative psychologists and social scientists) to channel our unthinking habits‚ our purchasing decisions‚ and our thought processes. The use of mass psychoanalysis to guide campaigns of
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