Business Strategy Assignment This essay will follow the course of identifying the key areas of the core competency theory that the article entitled ‘The Core Competence of the Corporation ’‚ written by Prahalad and Hamel‚ explores as well as positioning the concepts in the wider debate of theory‚ comparing and contrasting with other ideas from strategic theory. Secondly‚ this piece will look at some underlying assumptions of the business world that the article formulates when looking upon its
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Core Competence for SustainableCompetitive Advantage:A Structured Methodology for Identifying Core Competence Khalid Hafeez‚YanBing Zhang‚Naila Malak IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT‚VOL.49‚NO.1‚FEBRUARY 2002 Speaker: Pei-Yung Zhong 2002/08/14 1 Outline • Introduction • New Waves of Strategic Management • Capability is Formed by the Integration of Resources • Firm Competencies are Special Capabilities • Core Competencies are Flexible • Core Competence Identification:A Case Study • Discussion
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The United States is gradually becoming more diverse‚ racially and ethnically (Delphin-Rittmon‚ Andres-Hyman‚ Flanagan‚ & Davidson‚ 2013; Douglas‚ Rosenkoetter‚ Pacquiao‚ Callister‚ Hattar-Pollara‚ Lauderdale‚ Milstead‚ Nardi‚ & Purnell‚ 2014; Loftin‚ Hartin‚ Branson‚ & Reyes‚ 2013). However‚ multiple studies indicate there is a severe lack of health care available to care for this patient population. Inadequate access to healthcare‚ decrease quality of care‚ and poor outcomes for individuals with
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University of Phoenix Material Intercultural Competence Worksheet Part 1: Short Paragraph Instructions: Respond to each question below with at least 150 words‚ using complete sentences. Additionally‚ include an example from the reading materials that supports your position. 1. What does “intercultural” communication mean to you? Intercultural communication to me means many things. It mainly means the way that people communicate throughout the different cultures that they derive from
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Introduction Cultural competence in nursing refers to our ability to relate to patients within the context of their own cultural values (DeNisco & Barker‚ 2013). According to Purnell (2005)‚ one aspect of cultural competence is “demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the client’s culture‚ health-related needs and meaning of health and illness‚” (p. 8). Furthermore‚ cultural sensitivity means the nurse will avoid imposing one’s own beliefs or cultural norms of health or illness onto the patient
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Culturally Competent Care Name: Kristin Jones Institution: Excelsior College Introduction Cultural competence care is borrowed from the aspects of cultural competence in any other work or personal environment. Cultural competence refers to the aspect of developing awareness of the personal existence‚ thought‚ sensation as well as the environment‚ without letting this knowledge have any form of influence on other people’s backgrounds‚ thoughts and opinions (Murphy‚ 2011). This means that one has
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Competence-Performance Distinction A further difference between generativism and Bloomfieldian and post-Bloomfieldian structuralism - though in this respect generativism is closer to Saussurean structuralism - relates to the distinction that Chomsky draws between competence and performance. A speaker’s linguistic competence is that part of his knowledge - his knowledge of the language-system as such - by virtue of which he is able to produce the indefinitely large set of sentences that constitutes
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Article : Multicultural Competence by Paul Kivel Cultural competence is to understand another culture well enough to be able to communicate and work with them. This article talks about cultural competency and how it is important to have cultural competence to be able to help people of minority groups and become allies with them. Learning to be open and sensitive to other cultural expression takes lot of time. In addition‚ for those who are able culturally competence in their own culture along with
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patients receive (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002). When we achieve cultural competence‚ we remove cultural barriers among patients that might affect the quality of care they receive. Conclusion There may be various definitions and ways to be cultural to be cultural competent. Although some of us may have cultural competence‚ there are still many ways we can improve to become more culturally competent. When we improve on cultural competence and provide more culturally competent health care‚ the outcome is
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Cultural Competence: Is it necessary? What is Cultural Competence? Many different definitions of cultural competence are out there‚ but probably the most widely accepted is the following: “Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors‚ knowledge‚ attitudes‚ and policies that come together in a system‚ organization‚ or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. “Culture” refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that include the
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