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  • Organizational Culture

    Organizational Culture

    Boeing is the top aerospace corporation and the largest producer of commercial and military aircrafts combined, with abilities in missiles, electronic and defense systems, rotorcraft, satellites, launch vehicles and advance information and communication systems. Boeing supplies to 145 countries in the world and is the number one exporter in US sales. Boeing’s headquarters is in Chicago, IL (Boeing, 2007). Planning Function of Management Of the four functions of management, planning is the first function to

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    Essay Length: 910 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Rise of Corporate America

    The Rise of Corporate America

    Since the end of the Civil War, corporations have taken the United States by storm; but, at what cost? As with any revolution, there are positive and negative effects. While Capitalism surged into urban America, family businesses struggled to survive, immigrants searched for "the American Dream," and farmers toiled into debt. However, this rise of industry did not prove to only benefit an elite few; many beneficial programs were launched as a result of this

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    Essay Length: 899 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Kevin
  • West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide

    West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide

    West Indies Yacht Club Resort: When Cultures Collide Project Cross-Cultural Management and Communication Outlines 1°) Introduction 2°) Symptoms 3°) Problems 4°) Solutions 5°) Evaluation of alternatives 6°) The best solution 1°) Introduction The West Indies Yacht club resort had been created by Joe Kimball who used to come into the north sound of Virgin Gorda and felt in love with this natural beauty. Kimball worked hard so his business could grow as fast as this

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    Essay Length: 1,223 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • Assessment of Exton Industries Inc

    Assessment of Exton Industries Inc

    To: Pat Johnson From: PWC Date: March 12, 2003 Subject: Assessment of Exton Industries, Inc. Dear Ms. Johnson: I have recently reviewed the Control Environment Questionnaire for Exton Industries, Inc. After evaluating the evidence collected by our staff member, I have come up with an assessment of the fraud risks. From the evidence gathered, I have concluded that Exton Industries has a weak control environment. Overall, it will not do an effective job of preventing

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    Essay Length: 1,035 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Modern American Culture and Indvisual

    Modern American Culture and Indvisual

    The 20th centaury is considered to be a money culture. Materialism, a devotion to making money and to having a good time are all products of a money making culture. All of technology is controlled by an interest in private profit (Dewey, p15). Sigmund Freud and John Dewy both see this day in age as a time devoted to the “scientific revolution” and profit from this drastic advance in mankind. Civilization, as we know it

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    Essay Length: 1,070 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Jackson Assessed

    Jackson Assessed

    With what president did democracy finally rise up and take its true shape? If the opinion of the ordinary American was a puddle before Andrew Jackson came into office, then by the end of his term it was a full-fledged ocean. President Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States, but the first elected who was truly an American. Born and raised by the common people, he truly was the epitome of

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    Essay Length: 2,188 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: David
  • Corporate Compliance Benchmarking

    Corporate Compliance Benchmarking

    Corporate Compliance Benchmarking In organizations it is asked for employees to have loyalty in the workplace, but is that loyalty ever reciprocated? Employers have a job that needs to be done and look to employees to show up to work on time, everyday and perform tasks to the best of their abilities. This type of atmosphere just doesn’t materialize; it needs to be cultivated, developed and strategically implemented. To see how to create this type

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    Essay Length: 2,240 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • Cultural Metaphors

    Cultural Metaphors

    Cultural Metaphors Culture is a behavior that consists of several critical elements, such as language, religion, race and ethnicity, clothing and politics. Culture is what one does in his/her daily life. In order to understand others, we must first keep in mind that every culture carries its own set of values and assumptions. Culture is an evolving, ever changing civilization, which includes several different groups of people. For immigrants, America is a land of opportunity;

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    Essay Length: 904 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Edward
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Culture consists of patterns, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior acquired and transmitted by symbols constituting the distinctive achievement of human groups, including their embodiments in artifacts; the essential core of culture consist of traditional ideas and especially their attached values. The basis of all human artifacts, behaviors, and beliefs is the groups’ specific value system. Values as “conceptions of the derisible” represent the core of any

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    Essay Length: 574 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Structure, Communication, Culture, and Motivation of a Company

    Structure, Communication, Culture, and Motivation of a Company

    Structure The structure of a company is very important in order to be a successful company. Some companies tend to leave all the decisions and ideas to the top executives or consultants. Other businesses let anyone who works for the company to have a proposal introduced no matter what position the employee holds in the company. The company I work for would be considered “bottom- up”, which means any employee can come forth with

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    Essay Length: 442 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Evaluation of American Culture

    Evaluation of American Culture

    Evaluating American Culture The American culture is very diverse and eclectic. Not every single person has the same views on a given subject, partly due to environment, race, age, and religion. This exercise in where we surveyed five people made that very noticeable. I surveyed five people, five people of which have the same job environment, but varied from the age of 18 to 34. Surprisingly, the age was not a major factor in their

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    Essay Length: 594 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Artur
  • Corporal Punishment

    Corporal Punishment

    Corporal punishment is defined; A form of physical discipline that is intended to cause pain and fear and in which a student is spanked, paddled or hit on any part of the body. The dictionary gives different meanings on corporal punishment but they basically all have the same understanding, the infliction of pain. Over one hundred countries have now banned corporal punishment along with 28 states in America but states like Kentucky and Utah still

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    Essay Length: 401 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparison of Characteristics of Cultures Referencing the Human Relations Area File:

    Comparison of Characteristics of Cultures Referencing the Human Relations Area File:

    Comparison of Characteristics of Cultures Referencing the Human Relations Area File: Marriage, Tradition and Familial Structure Among the T’u-Jen and Korea (Pre-Modern) Introduction The cultures this paper will endeavor to compare are that of the Mongours, specifically T’u-jen, as stated in the HRAF and the traditional Korean culture. The T’u-jen are Mongols inhabiting the northwestern parts of China, specifically Kansu, descendent of a group who served the Ming Dynasty as borderland protectors. They remained settled

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    Essay Length: 2,804 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Jollibee Food Corporation

    Jollibee Food Corporation

    Jollibee Corporation Foods Jollibee Food Corporation, headquartered in the Philippines, was started in 19 as a family owned and operated ice cream parlor. In 1977 the company expanded its operations to include hot sandwiches and other meals in an effort to stem the economic impact related to events that surrounded a global fuel crisis. By the late 1990’s, Jollibee had grown into the largest fast food store in the country and was planning growth in

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    Essay Length: 1,231 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Starbucks Corporation

    Starbucks Corporation

    1. Aim of the report The aim of this report is to perform an internal and external audit for the company. Within the internal audit, we will have the analysis of the value chain, plus the identification of the core competencies of the company. The external audit will be based on the Microenvironment and Macroenvironment of the company. A SWOT analysis as a TOWS Matrix will be used. 1.2. Scope of the Report The report

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Multi Cultural Roles of Women in Business

    Multi Cultural Roles of Women in Business

    OUTLINE 1. Introduction a. Women in business b. Personal interest in subject c. Women in the world 2. History of Women in US a. Women’s rights b. Women’s rise c. Women today 3. History of Women in the World a. Women’s firsts b. Places where women are currently oppressed c. Other women’s movements outside of US 4. Women in business a. Europe b. Asia c. Latin America/Caribbean d. Africa/Middle East 5. Cultural Sensitivity a. US

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    Essay Length: 2,741 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Financial Accounting Corporate Report 1975

    Financial Accounting Corporate Report 1975

    INTRODUCTION In 19 the Corporate Report was published, this was the outcome from the Accounting Standards Steering Committee’s wide ranging discussion paper and in part considered the usefulness of financial statements (Dunn, April 2002) discusses that to meet their basic objective financial statements must be useful; and the information relevant and reliable. Information will have relevance if it influences the decisions of the users. Relevance and reliability are primary characteristics relating to content together with

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    Essay Length: 1,406 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • New Cultural Experience: Coptic Orthodox

    New Cultural Experience: Coptic Orthodox

    New Cultural Experience: Coptic Orthodox It was 8pm on the 8th of April when I arrived at the St Mary and St Merkorious Coptic Orthodox church for my cultural experience. I was a little nervous at this stage as I did not know what to expect. I was worries that I may inadvertently insult or upset the people of this culture. I was asked if I understood the Coptic language and after stating no, I

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    Essay Length: 1,759 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: David
  • Vietnamese Culture

    Vietnamese Culture

    My Bicultural Values After the fall of Saigon in 19, Vietnamese Americans became members of one of the United States’ largest refugee groups. The Vietnamese came to the United States from a culture vastly different from most American cultures. My two oldest brothers were among the hundreds of thousands who escaped communist Vietnam as “Boat People” in 1984. They fled with the clothes they were wearing and my parents’ wedding rings tucked inside. My family,

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    Essay Length: 933 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Cultural Dimensions in People Management

    Cultural Dimensions in People Management

    April 30th, 2008 Yongbei Liu Jingbin Xu Jingling Zhang Xianjing Zhou EMLyon Cultural Dimensions in People Management For any international organization, it is of extremely significance to understand cultural differences and make good use of them in the global context. Through insight into a culture perspective, the article analyzes the role and impact of culture. It starts by introducing prerequisite concept of socialization and then deals with four cultural dimensions on the national level. Finally,

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    Essay Length: 1,850 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • Cultural Differences Between Poland and England

    Cultural Differences Between Poland and England

    Culture may have its sources in different aspects of human life, as: language, nationality, education, profession, group, religion, family, social class, corporate culture. All these elements influence every member of a society and thus, culture is learnt and transmitted to others. Differences between people within any given nation or culture are much greater than differences between groups. Polish people and British, although have a lot of common in terms of historical inheritance, they vary in

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Dayton Corporation External/internal Factors

    Dayton Corporation External/internal Factors

    EXTERNAL/INTERNAL FACTORS External/Internal Factors Paper External/Internal Factors Paper In 1962, the Dayton Corporation opened Target, a discount chain store in Minnesota. Through the years, Target has grown considerably so that in January 2000, the Dayton Hudson Corporation changed to Target Corporation. The Target Corporation Annual Report 2007 states that 118 new stores opened in 2007, 33 of them being SuperTarget stores. Nearly 1,600 stores are operating in 47 states, with plans to have 2,000 stores

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jack
  • Newell Corporate Strategy

    Newell Corporate Strategy

    1. Does Newell have a successful corporate-level strategy? Does the company add value to the businesses within its portfolio? Newell Company’s strategy is to acquire different companies that will help them grow their business in the basic home and hardware products industry before 1994 and started diversifying into unrelated field such as writing instruments and window treatments to grow the company as a whole. These companies are mostly underperforming and suffer from high cost thus

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Monika
  • Culture and Defining the Role of Leadership

    Culture and Defining the Role of Leadership

    Culture and Defining The Role Of Leadership Abstract I believe a person can be taught to lead and manage but one can't be taught how to effectively and successfully lead and manage. I don't believe the corporate culture of the organization has to with it. I think leading and managing has to do with the individual person. How that person is motivated, how that person sees him/herself. Can he/she lead effectively or is managing

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    Essay Length: 1,106 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • Good Corporate Governance-Its Importance for Banks and Challenges

    Good Corporate Governance-Its Importance for Banks and Challenges

    Definition Corporate governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws and institutions affecting the way in which a corporation is directed, administered or controlled. Corporate governance also includes the relationships among the many players involved (the stakeholders) and the goals for which the corporation is governed. The principal players are the shareholders, management and the board of directors. Other stakeholders include employees, suppliers, customers, banks and other lenders, regulators, the environment and the community

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Janna

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