1) Read the following two cases (Source: Cellich – Jain: Global Business Negotiations) and answer the questions after each case. You can do this either individually or with a partner. Assessment Pass/Fail. 2) Culture has a great impact on different types of negotiations. Find out the general features of business culture in your home country and how you negotiate in your own culture. Case 1 Background Brown Casual shoes‚ Inc. located in Houston‚ Texas‚ is a second-generation family-owned
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Cruz Maria Velazquez is 72 years old and she is my maternal grandmother. My grandmother comes from a family of 12 children. She grew up in poverty and had to drop out of school in the third grade to help bring money into the home. She was growing up in her hometown of Ponce‚ Puerto Rico and had to take a job in the home of a doctor living in San Juan‚ Puerto Rico. There is a distance of 1 hour and a half of travel‚ which she did by bus. My grandmother had to leave her family at the age of 9 years
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t takes place on 31st October. People for fun may try a lot of games and something like that on Halloween. Every year kids put on white sheets and then knock at every doors that there noticed. They always say “trick or treat” . Halloween came from United States to Poland. The biggest difference between the United States and Poland are eating habits. Firstly people In the USA eat mainly fast foods. The most famous is McDonald‚ even three – year old children learn that it is the best. Secondly
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Democracy in America: Individualism and Materialism. Volume 1 concentrates on the influence on democratic social state on laws and political mores. * Democracy in America * Impressed and optimistic Volume 2 concentrates on the influence of democratic social state on civil society and culture. * Democracy as such. * Apprehensive and gloomy. Volume II Part I: Chapter 1: On the Philosophic method of the Americans * “It is religion that gave birth to the Anglo-American
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There are many people from different countries with different cultures who want to live the American Dream. They want the idea of freedom and they feel that United States is the only country in the world who can give the people the liberty it offers. The life of a person whom no one speaks with because of one’s difference can be quite miserable. The story “This is what it means to say Phoenix‚ Arizona” by Sherman Alexie shows the audience how different the life of Native Americans are compared
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CULTURAL COMPETENCY Cultural competency is communicating and accepting everyone with no cultural barriers • Ensuring that the everyone the setting are aware of their own culture and have a clear view about other cultures • Ensuring that everyone has a positive attitude towards other cultures and belief. • Ensuring that everyone in the settings has a good knowledge about the different cultural practices across the world. • Ensuring everyone are skilled in communicating and interacting with people
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If someone examined a dictionary‚ they might be astonished by the wide range of meanings the term ’Culture’ has. Indeed‚ it is a notoriously difficult concept to outline while ‘Cultural Encounters’ is exceptionally clear in comparison. It merely encompasses how cultures interact‚ overlap‚ and transform. These encounters manifest in the form of conquest‚ submission‚ and exploitation. An obvious example is the British imperial forces. Another type is the peaceful conversion processes such as the missionaries
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Cultural Competence: Is it necessary? What is Cultural Competence? Many different definitions of cultural competence are out there‚ but probably the most widely accepted is the following: “Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors‚ knowledge‚ attitudes‚ and policies that come together in a system‚ organization‚ or among professionals that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations. “Culture” refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that include the
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Cultural diversity is prevalent and on the rise in our world today. It’s not going away people! Many people cannot even define it‚ let alone understand how to deal with it. Cultural diversity includes; race‚ ethnic background‚ sexual orientation‚ religion‚ socioeconomic status and age. When we put all of these variables together it is easy to see how complex cultural diversity can be. While I can understand how some students may disagree that a cultural diversity class should be mandatory‚ their
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