CASE: ‘Insallah: An Expatriate Challenge’ [Saudi Arabia] Sells Bladeco & steel products “Wasta” = connections “Insallah” = a feeling or cultural norm – God willing Masculinity – Mustafa refused to conduct business with a woman High Power Distance – Helped get US representative out of jail for drinking water during Ramadan Relationship-Focused & Highly Collectivist CASE: ‘Co-operating & Communicating Across Cultures’ [Germany] German led project (Jim from US to Germany) Then; American led
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Exam Study Guide: Chapter 2 Strategic Management and the Entrepreneur 1) The strategic management process: Topic: Introduction 2) A small business’s "aggregation of factors that sets it apart from its competitors" is its: Topic: Building a Competitive Advantage 3) How is the strategic planning process for small companies different from that for large Page Ref: 41 Topic: Building a Competitive Advantage 4) ________ focuses everyone’s attention and efforts on the same target market
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STRESS (chapter 12) 1 What are Corticosteroids and what is their function? Stress hormone that activates the body and prepares us to respond to stressful circumstance 2 What is the Hassles Scale (Folkman & Lazarus)? With what outcomes is it associated? The Hassles Scale measures how stressful events‚ ranging from small annoyances to major daily pressures‚ impact our adjustment. 3 Who is Hans Selye? What is the General Adaptation Syndrome and what happens at each stage? What is the Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal
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lives 3) some leaders prefer to avoid the spotlight in order to support the group as a servant leader 4) leaders often rise to the occasion and thereafter return to the role of follower. No one leads at all times and in all circumstances What did the study by Bennis and Nunus (1985) reveal about a common set of qualities found in leaders? (page 114) “there was a great amount of diversity among the leaders…most were very ordinary in appearance‚ personality‚ and general behavior” Discuss the common-sense
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Cognition Final Study Guide #1 History and Perspectives Who were the structuralists? * Wundt and Tithcener * Their goals: sought to discover the laws and principles that explain our immediate conscious experience. Wanted to identify the simplest essential units of the mind and to determine how these units combine to produce complex mental phenomena. * Method: The study of conscious mental events and function of mental operations. The method was introspection. * Their contributions:
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Study Guide for MGT411 Exam 1: Key Learning Concepts & Issues Professor Waldman‚ fall 2014 1. Why leadership is important for organizations and aspiring leaders 2. The “are leaders born vs. made” controversy 3. What it means (and why it’s important) to consider differences and similarities of leadership at different levels of application (i.e.‚ individual‚ group‚ organization) 4. Leadership as both an art and a science 5. What the neuroscience of leadership project
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EXAM I STUDY GUIDE CHR 101 1. Kinds of truth a. literal – “historical” truth‚ or what really happened b. literary – what author affirms about God and human existence c. contemporary – the truth of the text for our day 2. Exile a. Babylonian – Babylon invades Jerusalem‚ destroying the city and Temple‚ and deported people (587 BCE) b. responses to Exile (creative time): i. Literary creativity – Torah is collected and canonized. 1st 5 books of exile (JEDP)‚ former (Deueteronomic histoty) and latter
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111 Study Guide Exam #1: Some of Ch. 4‚ the brief discussion summarizing Ch. 6‚ and Chptrs. 5‚ 7‚ and 8 HOW TO USE THIS STUDY GUIDE: You should be able to provide fairly detailed answers to the following questions and directions… this means you will probably use more room than is provided by the small spaces between them. Some of those answers will include things I talked about in lecture‚ as well as concepts that are explained by your textbook. You may want to reformat the guide on the
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MGMT 4020 Exam 3 Study Guide – Fall 2012 As I discussed in class‚ exam 3 will cover chapters 11-14. The exam will consist of 40 multiple choice questions worth 5 points each‚ and a one-page essay. You choose one of the essay questions to answer. Please bring your essay with you to the exam. I am expecting well-written five-paragraph essays with the first and last paragraphs being your introduction and conclusion‚ respectively. Keep in mind I want a one-page essay. Keep it
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EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE Be able to recognize the following verses and their references. • Ephesians 2:4a • Lamentations 3:22–23 • Psalm 86:3–5 • Hebrews 4:16 • Proverbs 16:18 • Galatians 6:7 • 1 Corinthians 5:6–7 • James 5:19–20 Questions taken from “The Call” by Dr. Gutierrez – Chapter 3 • What 1 word can describe what God desires from every Christian? • What is every Christian to do according to Micah 6:8? • What does it mean to “do justly?” • What does it mean to “live justly?” •
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