Value orientations by Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck Human Nature: What is the basic nature of people? Possible responses: * Evil. Most people can’t be trusted. People are basically bad and need to be controlled. * Mixed. There are both evil people and good people in the world‚ and you have to check people out to find out which they are. People can be changed with the right guidance. * Good. Most people are basically pretty good at heart; they are born good. My opinion: For
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Time is money Indeed‚ however the concepts of “time” and “money” are closely related‚ they are not equal. Some people complain about the lack of money‚ but do not know how to kill their time‚ while others earn decent amount of money‚ but cannot find a minute of free time. In the formula‚ “time is money” – there is great wisdom‚ which‚ however‚ is formulated too generally. As well as money‚ time is a resource. However‚ this is a unique resource. Time‚ unlike money‚ you cannot borrow‚ save‚
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| | Mounting western culture degrading India on the whole. Have you ever seen the pictures of Jatindranath Mukerjee or Chandrasekhar Azad or Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose? Apart from being leading revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle‚ these three great personalities had something more in common. Almost in each picture you will find each of them clad in perfect Indian attire or dhoti-kurta. Do you find the same dress among Indians still? Unfortunately‚ it is becoming almost extinct more
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Chapter 10 Pricing Products: Understanding and Capturing Customer Value 1) ________ is the amount of money charged for a product or service. A) Experience curve B) Demand curve C) Price D) Wage E) Salary Answer: C Diff: 1 Page Ref: 290 Skill: Concept Objective: 10-1 2) Price is the only element in the marketing mix that produces ________. A) revenue B) variable costs C) expenses D) outfixed costs E) stability Answer: A Diff: 1 Page Ref: 290 Skill: Concept Objective:
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would you define culture? Culture is the coordination of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Culture is the behaviours‚ philosophies‚ beliefs‚ morals‚ ethics and symbols that a group of people accept‚ generally without thinking about them. Culture is also passed along from generation to generation through communication and social learning. 2. Briefly explain the difference between high and low context cultures? High Context Cultures: In high context cultures the message is
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to complete a required task or fulfill a moral duty before or at a specific time. There is often an understanding that a small amount of lateness is acceptable.. However in some cultures‚ such as Japanese society‚ or in the military there basically is no allowance. Some cultures have an unspoken understanding that actual deadlines are different from stated deadlines; for example‚ it may be understood in a particular culture that people will turn up an hour later than advertised. In this case‚ since
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Explain the idea of myth and show how it is helpful to explain any American cultural form. Culture shapes the way we think. It is the society’s system of shared‚ learned values and norms; these are the society’s design for living. It has an influence on the way we look‚ our habits‚ our tastes and the way we relate to others. Values are an abstract of ideas which are about the good‚ the right and the desirable. Norms are the social rules and guidelines. The definition of myth is a “popular belief
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Ramos Math 217 June 27‚ 2008 The name of the article is Mastering Times Tables with Fun by Dhaval Shrimankar. This article talks about how hard it is to learn the time tables and uses the abacus as the best tool to learn the time tables. It explains how pictorial memory is certainly better than rote memorization and with the use of the abacus it is not only proved by test to be effective but also a fun way to learn the time tables according to Shrimankar. The facts stated in this article are backed
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Introduction Culture is the characteristics of a particular group of people‚ distinguished by everything from language‚ religion‚ cuisine (food)‚ social habits‚ music and arts. In other words‚ it is defined as the “ the collective programming of the mind of one category of people which is different from other category of people where mind refers to the way of thinking‚ feeling and behaving”. This gives people a sense of who they are‚ their belongings and social behavior. Different anthropologists
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speakers understand non-native speakers‚ even when they do not use the language in a correct manner. Sercu (2004) believes that the ability to find new things and to interact and to acquire and manage information‚ skills and attitudes in real-time communications is a central cross-cultural competency. Holden‘s (2002) interactive translation‚ namely the ability to negotiate the meanings can be compared to Friedman & Antal‘s (2005) negotiating reality. Negotiating reality is a
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