How Culture Affects your Business Ing. Mansoor Maitah Ph.D. How Culure Affects your Business The Reasons of Growing Interest in Culture Study 1) The globalization of business‚ 2) Quantum advances in telecommunications and data processing‚ 3) The formation of global alliances‚ 4) The growing diversity in the domestic workforce‚ 5) The increasing mobility of workforce worldwide. Culture Definition • Culture is the collective programming of the mind which • distinguishes the members of one human
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Essay 1 Write an essay based on any of the topics covered in class during the period of week 1 and week 6. Paper must be between 2 and 3 pages (excluding cover page‚ annexes‚ and reference page). Cultural Relativism Theory Cultural Relativism Theory is morality that differs in every society‚ and is a convenient term for socially approved habits. It is also the oldest philosophical theory that speaks about the nature of morality. Cultural relativism theory claims that different cultures have different
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A) In a paragraph‚ describe the acculturation process that the author experienced and explain how her cultural identity changed. Catherine Pigott came from a Western background. In Africa‚ she experienced a dramatically different culture. At first‚ it must have been very difficult. There was little about her that appealed to the Gambian sense of femininity. She was far too thin by those standards. Consequently‚ she could not dance as they danced‚ dress as they dressed‚ or eat with the relish and
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English 1 Culture Identity “Sushila’s Bhakti” by Shani Mootoo is a story about a female artist who struggles with her distorted self-perception as “a good Brahmin girl.” In the story Sushila is confused about where she really comes from. To end her confusion‚ Sushila seeks a way to connect with her religion that does not contradict her unwillingness to bow before a patriarchal God. Her main goal in her path is to connect with her point of origin and feel properly rooted. “I want to connect with
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as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward matter and believes that it rests on how far individuals interpret what is being laid down as "obvious" or "self evident"
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How might theories of leadership and group identity help to explain the Enron collapse? Leadership means to motivate‚ influence and enable others to helps contribute towards the sucess of the organisation. The leadership of a company is one of the biggest reasons why a company will either fail or suceed. The leadership is the reason why Enron as a company failed‚ the leaders were inside trading with the companies stock shares for almost 10 years‚ which caused them to lose over 11 billion dollars
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Identity can be defined as a distinctive characteristic given to any individual. It also relates on how you see yourself (self-imagination)‚ your self-esteem‚ and individuality. Consequently‚ Weinrench gives the definition “A person’s identity is defined as the totality of ones self-construal in which how one constructs oneself in the present‚ expresses the continuity between how oneself as one was in the past and how one constructs oneself as one aspires to be in the future”.(Weinrench 1986a)
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interviewing Rani Hong with questions regarding her adolescence‚ James Marcia’s identity status theory was applied to her responses‚ including what status’ of identity were illustrated. Marcia’s Identity Status Theory James Marcia’s identity status theory was based off Erik Erikson’s adolescent stage of psychosocial crisis. Marcia believed that there were four different degrees to which an adolescent’s identity could have. There is identity diffusion‚ moratorium‚ foreclosure‚
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this when Indian constitution was drafted the makers of Indian constitution introduced reservation for certain caste and people ‚ Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes If we will check the records in the year 1858 also British People knew how to divide and rule India‚ and with this policy very intelligently they kept dividing India on name of Religion and Caste and sub caste. But the tragedy of Mother India is that‚ when British People left they handed over the India to such people who
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Soft Identity Theory In his book ‘Religion and Human Nature’‚ Ward makes an interesting emergentist argument in presenting what one may call a non-reductive identity theory of the soul‚ or‚ as he refers to it‚ a ‘soft identity theory’.32 Normally‚ it is reductionists who identify the mind with the brain‚ yet here we have a theologian (who is also a philosopher) identifying the mind/soul33 with the brain and nevertheless maintaining a non-reductive position. How so? By taking a high view of matter:
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