Essays on Cultural Differences

Sandra Cisneros attempts to show the cultural torment that children have to undergo when two cultures clash and they have to adjust. "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros is a short straightforward story which is easy to understand. In line with the themes mostly revisited by the renowned author, culture is kept at the core of this piece as various comparisons are put forward. The use of various styles such as irony and symbolism play a vital role in creating visual impressions that are bound to evoke the reader’s emotions. This paper attempts to show the author is directly touching ...

Energy has played an important role in building the world economy today. From enabling man to perform daily activities to enhancing the functioning of many industries, it is sensible to state that energy is of great importance to the world. Due to its importance, fossil fuels such as coal have thus been burnt down to create energy. However, different negative effects are associated with burning such fuels to the environment. For instance, global warming gasses are emitted thus, causing global warming as a result of carbon monoxide, which is emitted while burning coal. Despite their disparities, both developed and ...

Introduction

The globalization of business, as well as the rise in the movement of the workforce across the geographical borders and nations, have significantly increased the diversity in the workplaces. The contemporary organizations come in all shapes and sizes. Most of them now have employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. With the increased workforce diversity, especially within the multicultural organizations, the concept of organizational justice has increasingly become vital. Notably, many researchers continue having an interest in this concept (Colquitt et al., 2001). The HR is required to ensure that organizational justice prevails so as to prevent conflicts in the workplace. ...

Business-Government Trade Relations

Introduction Since the question that needs to be resolved by examining real-world examples involves understanding whether government intervention in international business trade is harmful or helpful in businesses, picking Micromac Techno Valley Ltd. was a simple choice. The company works in the area of software and website development and that caters to the financial or banking industry in particular. Some of the products that they have designed so far are eDeal, DigiDoc, eDoc and PBMS and which cater to the banking industry in Bangladesh. Apart from this, they also design websites for a number of small businesses while also ...

Article 1:

Leininger, M. (1996). Culture care theory, research, and practice. Nursing Science Quarterly,

9(2), 71-78. doi:101177/08943184960090028

Introduction Nursing theories continue to play a critical role in the delivery of care to diverse populations in the present era. The health care sector is working towards advancing the discipline and professional of nursing by ensuring providers acquire relevant nursing knowledge to deal with present and upcoming health challenges. The author of the article, Madeleine Leininger, uses the culture care theory to show its relevance in helping educate health providers how to transform the practice of nursing through modern practices that accommodate cultural competency.

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The outcome ...

1. Information technology plays a major role in improving the efficiency and performance of business. There are different applications of Transaction Processing System (TPS) that could support business transactions. Three most effective applications of TPS are IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF), Hewlett-Packard NonStop system, and Transaction Management Executive (TMX). 2. Transaction processing system (TPS) is a software system that collects, processes, modifies, captures, and retrieves detailed information of transactions in an organization. The system stores information in the most up-to-date manner that helps to improve the operational performance of an organization. The system helps to process online banking and ...

Introduction

Culture can be termed as a people’s way of life, their values, symbols, language, religion as well as beliefs, while communication refers to the act that involves conveying the intended meanings thus, from one entity or rather a group of individuals to another. In the modern business world, communication is paramount for the successful execution of the organization’s daily operations, which, in turn, is significantly impacted by differences in culture.

Impacts

There are numerous and diverse cultures across the globe. People from the different cultures have different languages. Difficulty arises when people from different cultures come together, especially ...

Introduction

In the contemporary era, there is a need to adopt a mechanism in which one can serve better in the business setting in different cultures. Today’s global business society is composed the various cultures in which people face the various business environments. The manner of doing business in each of the nation affects the manner of doing business (Aslani, Brett, Ramirez-Marin, Tinsley, & Weingart, 2011). Culture is important in business, and it has an impact on the strategic direction of the business; it can also have different effects on the management of the internal structure of the organization as ...

General Aspects of Indonesian Culture

Indonesia is an Asian country that comprises over 17,000 islands and with a population of around 256 million people. The country’s population implies diversity in the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious domains. Being an island means that Indonesia is basically multi-ethnic with small groups occupying geographic enclaves. Indonesia comprises over six hundred ethnic groups grouped into 31 broad categories based on the 2010 census publication with the majority being the Javanese (40.2%) followed by Sundanese (15.5%) and Bataks (3.6%) (Utomo and McDonald, 2014, p.7). Indonesians speak various languages and observe varying customs and religious beliefs, however, there ...

Introduction and Identification of Facts

Signode Industrial Group is a global leader in the manufacture of a wide range of protective packaging solutions. The company’s product lines include Contrax, Tenax, and GripPack, among other products. It has gone through various changes over its life with one of the major changes being the acquisition by the Carlyle Group in 2014 and the subsequent rebranding of the company from Signode ITW to Signode Industrial Group (The Carlyle Group, 2014). The year 2014 marked several changes in the human resources structure of Signode. The acquisition by the Carlyle Group brought with it the challenges of leadership ...

Impact of globalization on human resource management practices

INTRODUCTION Globalization is the process of integration of several economies with the goal of increasing economic interdependence and mobility of factors of production across the world economies (Lechner, 2009). Globalization has caused an increase in the number of multinational corporations across the globe. Globalisation has had implications on the operations of multinational corporations including especially in human resource management. Some corporations have been forced to review their human resource practices to adapt to the challenges associated with globalisation. Companies have several motives to go global.

Companies globalise for different economic, social and cultural reasons. These motives vary from one ...

Identification of Problems

Anne meets a male chauvinist named Jafar who sets the tone for their working relationship. Anne also encounters a culture that is different from hers and different cultural dimensions. She meets a male colleague that feels sorry for her for not having male children. That makes Anne expect some difficulty due to the culture difference existing between her and the people at the workplace. Further, Anne seeks an assistant to help her with the preliminary analytical work that she was doing. Despite Karim, Anne’s new assistant, being conversant with the English language, he was inexperienced for his age, ...

Introduction

We all know how difficult it can be to express you and ensure that we are understood by those, who surround us in our professional environment. Business environment demands respect and high level of tolerance from all of us, outlined by the corporate rules, strategies, culture and the expectations, which are we as peers and our superiors have in this situation. Such expectations make communication process in a way, more structured and easier to adjust to the existing norms and formal rules, set out by organizational hierarchy and cognitive and emotional behavior regulations. Politics and diplomatic tone in our ...

Margaret Nagle’s “The Good Lie” focuses on the experiences of a group of Sudanese refugees, namely Mamere (Arnold Oceng), Paul (Emmanuel Jar), Jeremiah (Ger Duany) and Abital (Kuoth Wiel) as they try to adapt to life in the United States of America. The film is extremely interesting because it is divided in 2 parts, the first part tracking the characters’ childhood struggle for survival during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and life in the Refugee Camp, while the second part focuses on the problems of adapting to an entirely new culture, with different values and worldview. The strong ...

Spirituality is explained differently by numerous scholars belonging to different epochs and periods. Some describe it as "the human response to God's gracious call to a relationship with himself “(Zinnbauer et al., 1997); nowadays there is a tendency to affiliate spirituality to individual phenomenon and define as “personal transcendence, supra-conscious sensitivity, and meaningfulness “(Zinnbauer et al., 1997). Mentioned definitions can be true, yet, what matters is the angle one looks at. This paper aims to tackle different associations and definitions of the term spirituality. Furthermore, it looks at the interconnection between the notions of scientism, postmodernism along with the ...

Purnell’s Model for Cultural Competence

Introduction The modern health care faces multiculturalism and diversity challenges that arise due to cultural differences of the health care professionals and among the clients. As such, various initiatives and strategies have become necessary to inculcate cultural sensitivity or competence among health care professionals. Healthcare organizations face the challenges pose by multicultural diversity as well as ethnic and racial disparities among the service providers (Campinha, 2011). Therefore, they are avidly adopting various strategies to address this issue. They develop statements, initiatives, and standards to encourage health care professionals to become culturally competent. Purnell’s Model has been proposed for ...

Business communications

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RE: Cultural considerations for doing business internationally Dear Mr Bobby For business relations to thrive, it is indispensable to ensure that the sales personnel, managers are acquainted with proper training that involves making them understand the conflict across cultures and the communication difficulties. To further fortify the bond of international communications among the business personnel, it is decisive for them to look forward to areas of commonality. Based on the various studies about the effects of cultural and communication on business, it is evident that a conducive business environment is ...

Culture shock is described as the feeling of abandonment experienced by an individual, who has been exposed abruptly to a new or unfamiliar way of life. However, due to the rapid increase in immigrants in various countries, the concept of culture shock has been replaced by the concept cultural unrest. Cultural unrest is described as a situation where two cultures live together, but their togetherness is triggered by acceptance that has occurred due to shared concern, resentment, and indifference (Moufakkir 324). Four stages are involved in the cultural unrest. The first one is the stage of high expectations while ...

Globalization and changing environment lead to improvement of cultural interactions between people and, thus, require new approaches to education. The diversity in schools and universities and different cultural and family background of students result in the new role of a teacher as a "guide" who is able to perceive each of his students as an individual with a personal set of skills and is able to find to each of them personal educational approach. It is especially challenging for early education when children just learn to interact with each other and to be tolerant. The terms "diversity" and "cultural ...

I define the culture of an organization where I would like to spend a great deal of my time as a place where cross-cultural differences are appreciated. The difference among the members are not considered as hindrances in the attainment of organizational goals, rather, they are considered as assets that can be utilized for the advancement of a better cause. For instance, the organization encourages the members to express themselves, because different views and opinions are respected. I recognize how cultural differences can have an impact on the ability of people to collaborate towards solving problems, but this should ...

The point of peer reviews is to work together to locate what these papers are trying to say and then give informed, respectful suggestions to help the writer say it more clearly. Use these questions to help guide the discussion, but please be brief in answering them. The primary purpose of your peer review is to have a discussion. 1.) What is the thesis claim or question? Is this argument claim arguable (as in, could someone disagree with it)? Is the case claim interesting (in other words, does the thesis claim challenge or shed new light on the “ ...

Definition of the word “culture”.

Say two twins were brought up in different cultural setups: if either of the twins revisited the other, members of the society visited would be able to tell this to be a different person. This is only possible because of the knowledge on culture. The fundamental factor responsible for the existence of culture is that human beings are social creatures. Social scientists, for instance, believe that the social organization of human populations into societies that are governed by norms or unspoken rules is the major distinguishing factor between people and other animals. Human beings can communicate ideas, emotions, preferences, ...

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In the modern business world, many companies dream to become world leaders. However, such goal demands a variety of hard work and costs a lot for its creators due to the fact that new market can have several unexpected issues. For instance, cultural differences may create sufficient problems for the successful international market entering strategy. In addition, in some cases, new market demands from a company to build its reputation among potential buyers from the beginning. As a result, it will lose time as well as normal income. Truth be told, there are several strategies in ...

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a powerful and paradoxical piece of literature, which profoundly explains the trials and tribulations, both physical and emotional influences, on the Black community in a society living in pretense of newly received freedom. The narrator’s name is not revealed throughout the book, one of Ellison’s strategy of highlighting his invisibility. At the opening section of the book, Ellison introduces the narrator as a lost and naïve individual, struggling to find his place in the society. He indicates that he had to learn that he was invisible. The meaning behind ...

Culture and Adaptation: Anthropology is the study of human culture and language of different groups of people over a period of time. This helps us to identify how human culture adapted to changing needs and environmental changes. While culture refers to the sum of belief, practices, tradition, worldview, language, religion, food, clothing and social practices; adaptation refers to the gradual changes incorporated into the culture, so as to help survival in a changing environment. Certain cultural traits are universal to all humans and these traits help to differentiate humans from members of other related species like humans. For example, ...

Introduction

The child welfare organizations are objectified on assessing the prevalence of child abuse among the referred cases in order to prevent the occurrence of future abuse among the children who are identified at a high risk of neglect and abuse. The child welfare authorities are also focused on determining the prevalence of assessing the consequent neglect among the children with the history of being abused (Enosh & Bayer-Topilsky, 2014). The assessment by child welfare organizations are incorporated by the risk assessment tools in which the explicit criteria and undeviating approaches are used to derive the results. These results are derived ...

Following the American Psychological Association's Guidelines

In general, bribery is defined as a practice of offering something that is most usually money, with the purpose of gaining an illicit advantage. Historically, bribery is considered to be one of the simplest and oldest types of crimes. It has been existed already since the inception of the United States. The anti-bribery clause is even included in the American Constitution, and the reason of it is that this form of crime is a serious threat to the government and the justice system. (In Depth Look Into Bribery, n.d.) The main issue regarding whether or not an action is ...

1.1. The problem presented in the case was how the Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Tom Pederson, would transform the company by developing a strong company culture. Coming from a long history of struggles, employing talent of varying cultures to help get them thru the challenges they faced, the bank is now faced with the dilemma of how to merge these cultures to come up a with a unified organization. Pederson also had hesitations about the newly-implemented performance evaluation program, which is the first time employees are rated against the company’s vision and values. 1.2. As mentioned, one of ...

Abstract

The literature on international marketing provides conflicting ideas and perceptions as pertains to international marketing. On one hand, the standardization model purports that the behavior of multinational companies should be uniform to enhance a global corporate image and reduce total costs. On the contrary, the customization model argues that companies need to tailor their products to suit the unique requirements of each market. Sometimes, international companies may be forced to combine both customization and standardization models to come up with a mix strategy. This paper will delve deeper into each of these strategies, using companies such as McDonald’s ...

Ecological Imperialism in New England

Abstract: In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in “the New World” and marked the beginnings of its extensive colonization. When European settlers arrived in the Americas, they brought with them their cultural values and began to adapt American land to their needs. Those days started ecological imperialism; “wilderness” of the Indian nature was disturbed. European settlers intervened the setting and brought significant changes in flora and fauna as well as the habitual way of living of Native Americans. This paper reveals the long-term consequences of English ecological imperialism in New England and ecological changes brought by European settlers. The main ...

Market Entry Strategy

A properly planned method delivering and distributing goods and services to a new market is known as a market entry strategy. There are several ways through which a company can enter into a new market. A particular mode of entry into a new market is not feasible for all the companies, and different markets have different approaches towards new businesses. In order to develop a good strategy to enter a market, several factors that influence the decision must be observed before opting for any strategy. The best strategy that is available to enter the new market is direct exporting. ...

Question 1.

(a) Describe what you think is the best way to respond to the store managers behavior. Describe how you would model positive leadership behavior. The store manager's behavior had a negative effect on the managers and lower level staff. One of the fundamental principles to practicing Emotional Intelligence is the ability to not only remain calm but being able to calm down others. I would first analyze and filter my emotions of anger before approaching her about the situation. The next step in responding to the manager would be to meet on common ground. That is, to communicate to ...

Chang, N.-Y., & Liou, T.-Y. (2009). A study of Latino parenting culture and practices: listening to the voices of Latino parents. Hsiuping Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 12, 1-36. Retrieved from http://ir.hust.edu.tw/bitstream/310993100/1599/1/12-01.pdf The article studies culture and practices of childrearing in Latino families. As the authors write, “Traditional Latino parents, in general, may have more rigid parenting values compared to their Caucasian counterparts” (Chang & Liou, 2009, p. 1). The conducted study is based on the qualitative research. First, the authors provide a complete literature review regarding the main values of Latin culture and historical background of their living in ...

Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Based in the US, and headquartered in New York, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has a global presence. Since it was founded, IBM has always embraced a culture of diversity and inclusion. IBM take diversity as a strategy and they link diversity to their business goal (Thomas, 2004). IBM has a strong commitment to driving a cultural change through its innovative policies and principles as one way of providing employees with a workplace where they feel valued and welcomed for who they are. The company operates in 170 countries spanning nine time zones where more than 70 languages are ...

ABSTRACT

Risks and assumptions analysis play a pivotal role in success of a project. After the identification of all the possible risks, all risks need to be quantified though critically examining the degree of impact the risks would have one the outcome of the project and then prioritized. Economic analysis could be used as one of the tools for assessing and managing risks. The economic analysis of projects is carried out before actually investing in it and is conducted throughout the project analysis when necessary, that is, design and preparation phase, implementation phase and post evaluation phase of the project ...

Background

Pepperidge Farm is a United States bakery located in Norwalk Connecticut. It was established in 1937 by an American, Margaret Rudkin, who named it Pepperidge after a tree that is located on their property at Fairfield Connecticut ("Pepperidge Farm® – Heritage and History"). The bakery specializes in Milano, Nantucket cookies, varieties of bread and goldfish crackers. The business was born out of her attempts to bake a preservative-free bread for her third born son who was asthmatic and thus allergic to commercially made bread that was laden with preservatives. She ended up making bread so good that her son’s ...

Should every country in the world have a reasonable minimum wage?

Ideally, I think there should be a minimum wage set for every country. This would mean the assurance that each and every individual can provide for his daily needs. This would include rent, food, water, utilities. However, the minimum wage should cover enough of the spending to go beyond the poverty line and should cover inflation as well. There should also be the right balance between what a worker receives and what he pays in taxes. It would not be beneficial for one to receive high minimum wage while having a high tax burden to bear at the same ...

Executive Summary

International growth of a company is strictly defined by the expertise of its managers in training and developing human resources abroad that can work with the organizational structure of the parent company. But training employees abroad is considerably a demanding task. This is especially because of the cross-cultural differences that will hinder most of the usual training and incentive programs that are based out of the ethics of parent corporation. It is essential that the parent corporation understand the cultural practices as well as sensitivities of the target country before venturing into business with it. This is where the ...

The problem "Bing" experienced after being launched in China and Disney's failure in Paris are some of the examples testifying the significance of comprehending cultural aspects in communicating cross-borders. While taking stock of local cultures brings competitive advantage in the long run, failed communication crops up misunderstandings and plummets the customers' loyalty as well as stakeholders' interest. However, building rapport among the local population and adhering to their language, norms and gestures are among high-value challenges. It might prove taxing for the organization to be tolerant about varying values, customs, and etiquettes. Additionally, the organization may lag behind when ...

Business Revitalization and Multicultural Environment

Business Revitalization and Market Viability Assessment The company needs a Market Turnaround Plan to conquer the competitors. For that, the enterprise needs to have a turnaround management team in place. The team will accurately assess the situation; provide short-term survivability for the firm as well as ensuring that the turnaround is long-term and profitable. Further, the XYZ Company needs to reposition itself in the market. That involves the reorganization of the entire company. Its leaders must be motivated and revitalized, as well as dedicated to winning back the market. It should focus on increasing the revenue accrued from business ...

Question 1

I would recommend to my friend to not start coaching from the beginning. Coaching helps people achieve a goal in the workplace by finding and implementing their own solutions. When the coach works with the coached, the intercultural perspective while communicating has to be considered. This involves not only the environment and background of the coached but also the industry and corporate culture. The way a managing team is addresses in the UK may be different from the way it is done in the U.S. or when compared to the fashion industry and international bank. For a foreign national, ...

The case highlights that the business opened its first theme park in 1955 in California with the icon character of Mickey Mouse. In 1983, the part expanded its roots to the international market by opening part in Tokyo, Japan. These expansions led them part to Paris, France, and finally in Hong Kong in 2005. However, the critical issues that have been discussed in the case are cultural differences and social issues. The case explains that the global expansion for any company is a tricky business and organizations have to overcome political, legal, social, economic, and cultural barriers. The company ...

Ethics is moral principles that regulate the behavior of people or an organization, depicting how to behave towards other people and the consequences of misconduct. In engineering, ethics is the study of moral issues as well as decisions that face people and organizations working in engineering departments. The engineering profession in Ontario is under the regulation of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) that directs what to be done and the consequences of negligence. The act determines what professional engineers are dictated to do in their profession, and its principle objective is to shield the public from incompetent, unqualified or unfit ...

Literature Review

The literature review focuses on organizational learning, organizational memory, organization structure, shear tacit knowledge as well as KM tools and techniques. Organizational Learning (OL) can be defined as the means by which team detects errors and them by gaining knowledge through individuals who act as agents (Tom and Murphy, 2007). According to Huber, there are four constructs which are linked to OL, which include: knowledge acquisition, information distribution, information interpretation and organizational memory (OM) (Dalkir, 2016). One important aspect in KM is the organization chart can be defined as the manner in which an organization designs its management and ...

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MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES

There are some multi-national companies that are larger than entire national economies (Reilly 2016). When they enter some of these economies, they bring direct investment which creates jobs, open up new markets to the local economy, and bring technology and products that otherwise would have never existed. As a result, demand for an educated and skilled workforce increases, improving not only the standard of living of the local economy, but international relations as well (Reilly 2016). Finally, diversity brings the opportunity of learning about different cultures. A multi-cultural workforce offers some benefits to the multi-national company as well. ...

The History of Vietnam

The Vietnam War has a major influence on people's perspective of Vietnam as a business environment. In recent years, the Vietnamese economy has been on the rise since 2012. There is a lot of bilateral trade going on between Vietnam and the United States amounting up to over 6 billion USD (UKTI Team in Vietnam, 2013). Vietnam should be considered for business ventures since it offers a large number of opportunities. Vietnam is among the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. The government of Vietnam is also calling for foreign investors to invest in Vietnam in various ...

Cross-cultural communication means the way people from different cultures communicate in both similar and different ways. In the modern businesses, the workplaces are becoming vast by numerous geographical expansions that also span numerous cultures (Dima, 1990). The expansion may require communication understanding between the people from different cultural backgrounds so that they can achieve a common goal. Therefore, in the new world, cross-cultural communications is the new norm as it follows certain principles and also faces various challenges and barriers.

Principles of cross-cultural communication

Some main principles of intercultural communication are dependent on having the knowledge. The first principle of the communication is ...

Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Nursing is a profession whose primary function is to provide care to patients who need it. As a result, the practice is not inclined towards those who pursue it for a hefty paycheck or fame, but rather those who are ready to provide care and show support to their fellow human being. It is for this I decided to pursue the nursing profession. I believe that I was called to the practice and equipped with requisite skills and values such as honesty, caring, and understanding, to enhance the quality of my work. In other words, the nursing practice chose ...

Article Review: Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lap dancers

The hormonal changes in a woman during her ovulatory cycle have several effects on her daily life. The effects include alteration in the behavior patterns and sexual attractiveness. This study looked at the effects of estrus on the earnings of lap dancers. In the ovulatory cycle, estrus is the phase that is characterized by “increased female sexual receptivity, proceptivity, selectivity, and attractiveness” (Miller et al., 2007). This influences variation in perception of the women by their male counterparts. Estrus influences a woman’s sexuality in terms of her body curves among other things. The study was conducted on female ...

Is Translating a Global Business?

Globalization, international business expansion and mobility of individuals across international borders outline the profile of the contemporary business environment and create numerous opportunities on the market. At the same time, this process of dilution of the international borders makes companies, employees, and consumers significantly more demanding and ambitious. It is difficult to argue that a company in a modern business world has much wider choice and options in terms of business model and the strategy. This is determined by a better access to technology, access to companies to specific skills and expertise, which professionals across the borders can provide ...

Institutional

Introduction As Ford, Stuart and Vakil (2014) have clearly noted in their article Culturally Responsive Teaching in the 21st Century Inclusive Classroom, the main challenge that faces public schools in the US involves the ever increasing need to meet the exceptional or special needs of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. That is, the need to have a socially or culturally inclusive classroom in light of the diverse nature of the US population is becoming more relevant than ever before. This, they note, is informed also by the fact that there exists a strong link between learning and culture. ...

Introduction

The Bhopal disaster is considered to be the deadliest event in the corporate history of the world. Due to the leakage of lethal gases out of the factory, there were around 4000 deaths within 72 hours, while the number surged to around 15,000 within few weeks. It has been estimated by that 200,000 people became permanently disabled due to this incident. This incident is a pure case of intense corporate negligence. This case caused a major foreign investment dispute between government of India and Union Carbide Corporation. This dispute arose from the notion that some companies have ...

In the recent days, international trade has become a common feature of all global business enterprises. The adoption of globalization and the creation of regional trading blocs have greatly contributed to the increased international trade activities. This paper seeks to examine the interactions and relationships between the USA and Japan and Korea in the context of international trade. In the past, the US- Japan and US- Korea economic relationships have proved to be strong and mutually advantageous in various ways. These economies have a great integration through capital flows and trade in goods and services. Each country forms a ...

Describe and critically evaluate the types of pay and reward systems a multinational company could adopt to remunerate expatriate managers.

Some of the major problems that may come across the way of expatriates while going abroad for the assignments include inter-cultural management, managing the social inclusion of expatriates in the host country, providing standard health benefits, security and education, utilities and incentives keeping the exchange rates, and national/international compensation scale in considering and also facilitating their re-entry within the home country after the completion of the assignment. Thus, the major concern for the multinational corporation is to find out ways that keep the expatriates motivate and retain for the optimal period of time (Reiche, 2011, n.d). There are some ...

Cultural diversity characterizes today's world. The cultural differences between two geographical areas are shaped by numerous factors that include globalization, politics, their origins, lifestyle, beliefs, diet and even social norms. Culture influences people’s way of thinking as well as their views of the world. Variations in culture continue to be observed between different locations despite the beliefs and philosophies in an increasingly cosmopolitan society. Cultural differences may be defined according to the lifestyle of people in a particular area based on many variables like the way of greeting, physical contact, humor, table manners, the way they show gratitude, ...

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT

Business Organizations in a Global Context Increasing Competition in business has induced industries to expand their operations globally. Liberalization of laws related to foreign direct investments in developing countries has further facilitated transferring of business operations across boundaries. However, shifting of business operations to other countries needs an in depth knowledge about their cultural, social, economic, political and legal dimensions for conducting business functions smoothly. Firms contemplating globalization of their activities often hire business consultants to advice them about the business environment of other countries for easy transitions. The case discussed in this paper concerns the operations of a ...

Glocalizaton concept and its relation to standardization-adaptation debate in marketing literature review

What is glocalization Glocolization is a term that was introduced in early 90s by Robertson, it comes from combination of two words; globalization as well as localization. The globalization refers to the flexibility that is brought about by countries allowing the international forces to have impact on their local market environments, so as to attain some economic growth. Furthermore the term localization refers to the reiterating that is brought about by regions in order to maintain and protect some local culture and local conditions from them being carried away completely by the globalization forces. Therefore, glocalization attempts to balance ...

Introduction

In this paper, the author analyzes the case on the troubled alliance between Volkswagen and Suzuki, two of the biggest and most popular auto-makers in the respective regions that they cater. Suzuki is famous for their small, petite, and fuel efficient cars in Asia. Volkswagen, on the other hand, is famous for their powerful, elegant, and fuel efficient cars in Europe and the Americas. Because of the theory that was posed earlier suggesting that in the current industry environment, most automobile manufacturers are on a constant lookout for more ways to expand—the fastest way possible. From the start, ...

A Perspective of Japanese and American Folk Vocabularies on Emotions

Abstract This brief manuscript is an analytical and comparative study of Japanese and American folk vocabularies for emotions. The comparative analysis is based on the data from research studies that have solidified the evidence-based conclusions by subject-matter experts. Therefore, the narrative here rests firmly on the literature that serves as the foundation for this discussion. Key words: emotional intelligence, cross-cultural psychology, emotion, linguistics, Japanese folk vocabulary for emotion, American folk vocabulary for emotion A Perspective of Japanese and American Folk Vocabularies on Emotions Understanding that the term, psychology, can be described as the scientific study of the mind and ...

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...