Royal Dutch Shell- (RDS) Answer Guidelines: Q1. Discuss Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and how they impact Royal Dutch Shell in doing business abroad. Define culture: “culture is shared‚ learned values‚ norms of behaviour‚ means of communication and other outward expressions which distinguish one group of people from another”‚ or the collective programming of the human mind Main two theorists in Culture- Hofstede as the main and Trompenaars relational dimensions Dimensions are: Power distance
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Chase Rushing Darryl Pulliam 9/19/2012 Case Study #2 Human Resources 1. Brenda was called an exceptional employee before the company underwent changes. The changes required more telecommuting and positional autonomy in Brenda’s position. The new responsibilities were added to her job description without any discussion of the expectations by her superiors. Brenda’s manager did not evaluate her fairly due to the fact the he did not previously determine her requirements‚ so that she could
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CASE STUDY 2 Managing “Daddy Stress” at Baxter Healthcare For many years women have been torn between family and career. Now it’s time for the men to be torn. In today’s environment‚ some men are starting to rethink their priorities. Sometimes it’s because they want to be closer to their kids than their dads were to them. Or sometimes they change unwillingly‚ pushed by their wives to spend more time on family matters. Whatever the reasons‚ combine them with a tight labor market‚ technology that allows
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Oberlo Review – What is Oberlo? Oberlo was found in September 2015. Oberlo is eCommerce plugins for the online store‚ especially for dropshipping business. It specializes in automatically integrating products from sites like AliExpress into your online store. Oberlo is easy to use. Source image: https://yesucandoit.com/what-is-oberlo/ Oberlo has a tutorial on how to launch a store in 30 minutes (with products). You can learn and practice the tutorial. How to Create a Shopify Dropshipping Store
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The scheme manager who had supported me through this process was impressed with how I handled the case much to the dissatisfaction of the link worker who felt she should have been the one to make that call. The manager reassured me that I did the right thing and that if ever faced with a similar situation in future I should go ahead and take the same actions I had taken to remedy the situation. Decision Judgement The ability to make a well-informed decision often requires a considerable level of
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visitors thought it was just like all the other amusement parks in China. The park was undifferentiated. People did not know the traditional Disney characters‚ and did not appeal to them. 2. Many factors could have been foreseen and controlled by the mere study of history and culture of Europe. This study would have found that Europe has their own famous cartoon characters‚ and how long they usually tend to vacation. The research would have shown that wine and breakfast are important to the Europeans
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communication is most powerful tool it should be used effectively or it can cause self-inflicted harm. Here the term effective communication isn’t about pushing information to audience. Strategy is a process of ordered thinking: of thinking in the right order. 2. What subliminal messages did Bill Gates’ send to audience at DEC World? Bill Gates regaled his audience with tales of his house. He was utterly likable and his talk featured no discussion of business or computer technology especially of DEC. According
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1. Most research suggests we are not very good at detecting lying‚ and we think we’re much better than we are. Do you believe FACS would improve your ability to detect lying in others? When we look at every day at people in businesses or school or public institutions we tend to judge them unknowingly and form a pattern to detect of action that will happen with their behavior. We continuously try and evaluate people to see if they are saying the truth or trying to lie and bluff to us. Some professions
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Professional Standards that are under threat as a result of the conditions that the LPN is faced with. One of these is on responsibility and accountability where the LPN should take action to promote safe‚ competent and ethical care for patients. In this case however‚ the LPN ends up making decisions on medication without carrying out all the necessary checks which does not promote safe and ethical care for the patients. The LPN is also responsible for advocating development of policies and procedures that
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1. Because the Wakatsuki family is of Japanese descent‚ they are forcibly brought into Manzanar after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Once they get there‚ they are faced with circumstances that no human should face after being forced out of their homes and old lives and into an unknown terrain that diminishes every last bit of pride and dignity they had worked for. One morning‚ Mama Wakes up to find her family covered in sand from the sandstorm that had happened the night before. Mama gets Woody to
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