Confucianism Reports Samples For Students

For my market cultural report I have selected the country that shows one of the most rapid developing economics in the world, and that is China. I have always been fascinated by this country and not only by their success in economic growth, but also by the country’s beauty. The nature of China is unique and magnificent as for me, there are nowhere on Earth such places as in this country. Moreover, authentic culture and customs of these people are also very attractive to me. There is the highest mountain on Earth, Everest, there and unique place called ...

In the session, a unique relationship, the cultural relationship is illustrated, which involves a personal relationship or Guanxi among Chinese business people. Chinese business people cultivate an intimate relationship for conducting business. The ties developed are often based on family and seem to transcend the size of any organization. The rules and protocols for establishing and maintaining Guanxi are complex and subtle and require a deep cultural understanding (Wong 25). Too much reliance on family and friendship (Guanxi), however, may lead to choices that, over time, favor inefficient and inferior quality and a subsequent loss of competitiveness.
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Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism and Buddhism are the major religions in the world. Each of these religions has undergone development now and again in various regions across the globe with the basic aim of giving guidance to people to undertake their everyday activities in the most excellent and “welfaristic” way possible in any existing circumstances (Kumar 1). The religions are based on various principles and this makes them to be different from each other. However, these religions are in one way or the other similar to one other, and especially in regard to the beliefs held and the ...

Executive Summary

The contemporary business environment is characterized by globalization. This makes it imperative for the companies to understand and adapt to the local cultures through their internationalization strategy. This paper builds on the theoretic implication of Hofstede cultural dimensions to shape the understanding of the importance of cultural adaptation in the internationalization of operation. The relationship between company strategy and culture is the focus on which this report considers the problems that businesses might have to deal whilst working across many cultures. The report will use Virgin Atlantic Airways to illustrate the challenges that firms might face while operating in ...

Haniwa Horse

Description of the historical work in Ceramic Media
Haniwa Horse encompasses a small horse hollow terracotta statue placed in aristocratic graves during the Kofun period in ancient Japan (Haniwa uma 43). Haniwa is Japanese word that means circle of clay to refer to the unglazed red clay cylinders put around the burial mounds. Haniwa horse supports the ground on the imperial burial mound to provide stability and support the roof of the tomb.
The artisans of the Kofun era were the first to design the Haniwa Horse during Japan’s Iron Age. The Kofun means an old tomb ...

Assignment culture 3

The philosophies of Dr. Hofstede's dimensions are distance versus power, collectivism versus individualism, avoiding uncertainty, femininity versus masculinity and short term orientation versus long-term orientation (Sergiu, 2011). Over the years after he came up with these dimensions, there has been a variety of arguments. Some scholars are for, and some are against; to understand the basis of these arguments, it is first imperative to understand Hofstede's approach to cross culture application (Zaiț, 2002).
Dr. Hofstede's approach is used mostly in cross-cultural management (Zaiț, 2002). Cross-cultural management is the direct result of the world turning into a global village. Due to ...

Abstract

With virtually everything going international, globalization has become an inevitable concept. Technology has reduced, and to some extent eliminated the miles between the nations across the world – a situation that has seen business among people and organization from various countries flourish. The shortening and elimination of the distances has seen a rapid growth in the number of multinational corporations in the last three decades. Research indicates that internationalization of the firm is no longer an affair for the big organizations. On the contrary, small and medium enterprises are operating globally, with e-commerce being the main form of business. With globalization come ...

Wheelabrator Allevard is a manufacturing company that deals mainly in metallic abrasives. The company company’s flagship product is W. Abrasive, but is sells variations of the same or abrasives made of iron particles in other regions such as England and Slovenia. Wheelabrator Allevard has a presence in about 87 across the globe. The company grew from its humble beginning as middle sized European corporation in 19621 to an expansive corporation operating allover Africa, Asia Pacific, Arab Gulf, North America and South America. Currently, the company supplies about 13,600,000 tons of products annually; this is 30% of the global ...