Memo To: William Nubern‚ Chief Executive Officer for the Garden Equity Group From: Jacob Sumble Date: [ 4/28/2013 ] Re: General Mills Evaluation Message GIS faces a large amount of exposure from changes within the corn and oil commodities market. GIS uses a large amount of corn to process and create their products‚ but the market for corn is evolving. Corn is now used to: feed livestock‚ produce ethanol‚ feed the world’s growing population‚ and create corn based synthetics. As the
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Cultural Competence Haily Carter December 19‚ 2008 University of Phoenix CNSL/557 Colleen Moore Cultural Competence Culture is defined as the beliefs‚ values‚ and norm people of a particular group share. One aspect of training culturally competent counselors is making sure they are aware of their own culture and how it has shaped their beliefs and values. The beliefs and values individuals have define how they see the world and what they view on being important. An example of this is how a
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With the expansion of business across so many borders there is a greater amount of interaction between cultures that previously‚ did not communicate. This can cause a great deal of confusion and require businesses to update their understanding and appreciation for the differences between cultures. Cultures vary widely throughout the world‚ and with these variations in culture come differences in communication style and expectations. Through a greater understanding of cultural differences and a
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Cultural Competence To be culturally competent the nurse needs to understand his/her own world views and those of the patient‚ while avoiding stereotyping and misapplication of scientific knowledge. Cultural competence is obtaining cultural information and then applying that knowledge. This cultural awareness allows you to see the entire picture and improves the quality of care and health outcomes. Adapting to different cultural beliefs and practices requires flexibility and a respect
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Cultural identity is what I see myself as‚ positively or negatively. The way I see things and my judgement is varied by my own personal identity. This is the combination‚ result of many factors. Like physical appearances and environment‚ cultural background‚ gender‚ etc. My personal identity should be changing everyday‚ every moment by the building up of my intelligence and experiences. In the earlier stage‚ my personal identity is solely from my parents. This includes: heredity‚ culture background
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Cross Cultural Management Glenn T. Cunningham Reading: How Daimler‚ Chrysler Merger Failed This reading looks to explore reasons why two major car makers wound up not having a successful merger. The merger can be simply equated to a marriage and what each brings to it. There are certain expectations to which a merger as well as a marriage is predicated upon and when those expectations are not met then divorce is in the cards for both merger and marriage alike. In the case of business
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According to Cheesebro‚ O’Connor‚ and Rios (2010) “there are six principles in cross-cultural communication.” The first of these principles states that the more culture and language differences between people the more the likelihood of a communication breakdown. The second principle says when there is a communication breakdown it is often thought to be because of cultural differences. The reality is that these breakdowns are often the result of a misunderstanding. The third principle says that communicating
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| Work in a socially diverse environment | | | Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 Topic 1: Communication 3 What is communication? 3 Topic 2: Customers 3 Topic 3: Culture and social diversity 4 Define Culture 4 Topic 4: Working in a Socially Diverse Environment 4 Topic 5: Stereotyping 5 Define stereotyping. 5 Topic 6: Barriers to Effective Communication 5 Topic 7: Avoiding cultural misunderstandings 6 Topic 8: Resolving cross-cultural misunderstandings 6 RESOURCES
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English Essay | Cultural Identity | Selma Alejandra Saldaña EstradaAlonso Pérez CovarrubiasFrancisco Emmanuel Álvarez VegaJulio Cesar Martínez Contreras | 8-11-2012 Cultural Identity: Does your culture or mine? When we qualify the inhabitants of a town of dirty‚ stupid‚ selfish‚ cold ... we use stereotypes. We do not know the customs and values of others and fall in on subtle racism‚ that is‚ we believe that our culture is the only one that exists and we take as a reference to judge
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Facts and theories‚ when considered as a whole‚ are the building blocks of accepted knowledge‚ as theories represent the principles that are initially based on individualistic assumptions and personal knowledge‚ and facts refer to information generally believed as evidence by the mass public. These facts and theories are the factors that control the various paradigms followed by different cultural groups‚ as disciplines are based on concepts derived from diverse ethnic groups with dissimilar times
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