- Activity 2.1 Question 1: a) The scores of UK‚USA‚Germany and Japan on the cultural dimensions. Power distance Masculinity Term Orientation UK 35 66 51 USA 40 62 26 Germany 35 66 83 Japan 54 95 88 b) The power distance is defined as the inequality social status between people‚it usually relate to centralization‚superiors and decision making in organization administration.The power distance of UK and Germany are both score as 35‚it indicates that the inequality in this two country culture
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The economic dimensions of globalization While the globalization process is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon‚ some of its most visible and influential aspects are economic in nature. This chapter contains an analysis‚ from a global standpoint‚ of major trends in trade‚ investment‚ finance‚ macroeconomic regimes and international labour mobility. This analysis covers a long period in history‚ from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present‚ and is structured
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Dimensions of lodging Lodging property may be defined as an establishment that chares fees for providing furnished sleeping accommodations to persons who are temporarily away from home or who consider these accommodations their temporary or permanent homes. Many of these establishments also provides food‚ beverages‚ cleaning services‚ and a range of other services normally associated with travel commonly sought by travelers. Different Types of Hotel and Lodging * Limited-Service Hotels. Typically
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Sales Selling creates the value to both seller and buyer. But to maintain productive‚ long lasting relations with the buyer the company should focus on creation of value for its buyer. Being the market leader in Industrial Cleaning sphere in the USA we want to create the ongoing relationship through mutual respect‚ trust‚ and authenticity. The company is selling not the product itself‚ but the solution. To offer the solution we have to know the environment‚ market‚ technologies‚ products‚ channels
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Corporate governance : 5 amministrators of the website user power users (users that gain points for the sharing information and by helping ohters. Answer to he questions) possibility to have new amministrators from the power users Web communities are an engagement between the site’s creators and the site’s users‚ and social norms evolve as users create a community identity‚ and as each individual contributes to the overall brand of the site. The community’s norms are also interwoven
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HR Issues Handled By Japanese Organizations Based On Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions There are several different challenges for Human Resource Management teams in organizations throughout the world. The HR strategies of these various organizations are very dependent on the culture of the country in which the organization resides. Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions is a great way to distinguish between the traditional HR aspects of organizations in different parts of the world. Although both
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Theme: High and Low Context Cultures Task 1: Edward Hall’s theory of high- and low-context culture helps us better understand the powerful effect culture has on communication. A key factor in his theory is context. This relates to the framework‚ background‚ and surrounding circumstances in which communication or an event takes place. High-context cultures (including much of the Middle East‚ Asia‚ Africa‚ and South America) are relational‚ collectivist‚ intuitive‚ and contemplative. This
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the population of its peoples. As countries expanded‚ prices rose‚ and population skyrocketed many European countries struggled to maintain power over the governed‚ consequently‚ allying with the churches via confessional division. France and The Netherlands were two major European countries to lead the way with the notion of a coalition between church and state but experienced dissimilar outcomes. France‚ having the largest population of any European country during the 1500s‚ became greatly reliant
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freedom‚ New Netherlands was barely governed. New Amsterdam‚ the center of main population‚ was a fortified military outpost controlled by appointees of the West India Company. Neither an elected assembly nor town council (the basic units of government) was established. Even though the Dutch were known for pride in having religious toleration‚ it would be wrong to attribute modern ideas of religious freedom to either the Dutch government at home or the new rulers of New Netherlands. Both Holland
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EJBO Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies Vol. 11‚ No. 1 (2006) An assessment of the ethical dimensions of corruption By: Geetanee Napal VNAPAL@UOM.AC.MU Abstract This paper addresses the ethical dimensions of corruption. Corruption in the form of bribery is widespread in the developing world and this includes Mauritius. Corruption assessed in absolute terms is unethical. However‚ if one were to use relativistic views‚ one would make allowances for ‘mild’
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