BU8601: FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT Lecture 2: Organizational Environment KW CHING kwching@ntu.edu.sg kwching@singnet.com.sg What do you understand by the term “organizational environment”? The conditions within which the business operates‚ the sum total of all the factors which can influence the behaviors of the business and how it develops. Do you know The conditions that can influence the behaviours of a business exist both inside and outside the organization. These conditions include
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CHAPTER 1 – GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES A. INTRODUCTION 1. International Management Defined as: the process of applying management concepts and techniques in a multinational environment and adapting management to different economic‚ political and cultural environments 2. Multinational Corporation (MNC) i. Has operations in more than one country ii. Has int’l sales iii. Has managers and owners of various nationalities B. GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
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BuDAPEST BUSINESS SCHOOL | Life and work of Elinor Ostrom | Nobel prize winner for Economical Sciences in 2009 | | Alexa Andra | 5/1/2013 | | Contents Introduction 3 Early Life and Education 4 Career 6 1. Positions held 6 2. Early work 8 3. Later work 8 Nobel Prize 9 1. Small review of Elinor Ostrom research 10 2. Prize lecture 11 Conclusion 15 References 16 Introduction Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012)‚ or cordially
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broadening their choices. In consequence‚ products’ country-of-origin was added as a new variable for determining the quality of products. We conduct this research to determine Ethnocentric and Non-Ethnocentric purchase intention and what are the criteria that effect purchase intention of both Ethnocentric and Non-Ethnocentric consumer. Communication technologies these days have increased information diffusion and in line with that consumers’ exposure to a wider variety of foreign products. Country-of-origin
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has the perspective of being ethnocentric‚ then they limit themselves because of the mindset they have on the world. In cultural anthropology it is of great importance that researchers do not take on an ethnocentric perspective‚ because they learn more if they can set their own views and biases aside and focus on a different culture. Ethnocentrism leads to a narrow-minded perspective that isolates one set of ideas‚ values and morals. A society with an ethnocentric view believes that their culture
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that a predisposition to favor in-groups can be easily triggered by even arbitrary group distinctions and that preferential cooperation within groups occurs even when it is individually costly. The authors study the emergence and robustness of ethnocentric behaviors of in-group favoritism‚ using an agent-based evolutionary model. They show that such behaviors can become widespread under a broad range of conditions and can support very high levels of cooperation‚ even in onemove prisoner’s dilemma
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construct of people‚ processes‚ structure‚ culture‚ and incentives and controls. The human resource area is responsible for culture and incentives and controls. AstraZeneca believes in utilizing the polycentric and geocentric staffing approaches to create their “high potential” employees. Polycentric staffing refers to as “host country nationals are recruited to manage subsidiaries in their own country‚ while parent country nationals occupy key positions at corporate headquarters” (Hill‚ C. W.‚ 2013)
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Case 8 | Fred Bailey: An Innocent Abroad | Individual Case | | | | Table of Contents 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 2. PROBLEM STATEMENT 3 3. ALTERNATIVES 4 3.1. Premature Termination of the Contract and Return Home 4 3.2. Cross-Cultural and Language Training 4 3.3. Home Buddy Support System 5 3.4. Local Mentor Support and Expatriate Gatherings 6 3.5. Generous Compensation 7 4. CONCLUSION 7 5. IMPLEMENTATION 8 5.1. Short-Term: Alternatives 2 & 3 8
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them‚ work together with them in a partnership which allows them to take part in their care plan and get them to participate by setting realistic and achievable goals with them. Because being ethnocentric can often end with a negative result we as nurses need to be aware that we are potentially being ethnocentric and therefore
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cultural ethnocentric perspective causes them to react to a person from another culture based on the behavior/social cognitive theory. For the purposes of description‚ this presentation will explore both Irish and Japanese ethnocentric perspectives and how they relate to one another using the behavior/social cognitive theory. Ethnocentricity Before continuing on to describe Irish and Japanese cultural interaction‚ there needs to be clear understanding of what is meant by ethnocentric perspectives
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