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  • How Workforce Culture Can Boost Corporate Performance

    How Workforce Culture Can Boost Corporate Performance

    How workforce culture can boost corporate performance. This article addresses how the performance of employees and of an organization as a whole can be affected when the culture of the organization is not made clear to employees and when these cultures differ vastly from the values and beliefs of the employees. It is stated in the article that culture can determine mutual trust between a manager and an employee and the productivity the organization. The

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The culture of the Umuofia society before the colonial infiltration, may be hard to understand but we are forced by Achebe to realize it has traditions and customs that make it work. Although, looking at it from our Judaeo-Christian point of view we may be appalled by some of their practices. We also have to realize that they have strengths. Things Fall apart is the idea of balance and interdependence, earth and sky, individual and

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    Essay Length: 1,352 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing And Organizational Culture Thomas A. Hickok -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the impact of downsizing on organizational culture. First, it clearly appears that power has shifted away from rank-and-file employees in the direction of top management/ownership. Accompanying

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    Essay Length: 6,454 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Motivation in the Workforce

    Motivation in the Workforce

    Motivation in the Workforce Managing employees is cited as being the biggest problem to small business owners. This is because employers very often don't know how to handle employees. Effectively managing employees is a skill acquired through training and practice. Many books have been written on the subject, and courses are regularly offered through educational institutions. Motivation theories were developed or built upon the "human relations" findings. The new focus for motivation theory was on

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    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: July
  • The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    Many forms of popular culture today are inspired by themes, characters, and other references in various types of classical literature. John Denver's song "Calypso" parallels with a number of the themes in Homer's the Odyssey. The Odyssey's themes involving Odysseus' journey back home and the aid of gods and goddesses directly influence "Calypso." The first stanza in Calypso is influenced by Odysseus' journey to back to his homeland. The first couple of lines compare

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • 60's Culture

    60's Culture

    The article "From counterculture to Sixties Culture" clearly demonstrates that the hippie movement was not just founded on pure rebellion from what their parents had prescribed. The article reveals that the 60s culture was a product of many factors including the youths reaction to the Vietnam War, the outpouring of self expression on college campuses around the continent, the constantly dynamic civil rights, and especially the rejection of the counterculture by the mainstream society. The

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    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    OCI Paper I applied the Organizational Cultural Inventory (OCI) with the intention that it is a fictional company, J Enterprises. It will be assumed that it is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. The main emphasis of the responses comes from the department in which I work. However, the results could be indicative of the entire company. The OCI Circumplex showed that the company has a culture with moderately strong Oppositional

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    Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    People are damaging and killing themselves to fit into societies definition of beautiful. Currently we live in a society that is composed of many cultures. These cultures can influence what ones day to day worries are; one of them is being part of a society’s definition of beauty. Some of these cultures are American, European, and Hispanic to name a few. These cultures have influence that way people live, act, and think. Often people

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    Essay Length: 1,144 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • Women in Pop Culture

    Women in Pop Culture

    If Oprah emphasized racial oppression more aggressively, would she be as popular? After reading Tammy Johnson’s article, I believe that answer to this question is probably no. I myself am a fan of Oprah and I believe that she is extremely generous and does more for the world in one year than most people can hope to do in a lifetime. I believe that Tammy Johnson raised some interesting points, but I don’t necessarily agree

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Spanglish: Low Culture Versus High Culture?

    Spanglish: Low Culture Versus High Culture?

    Spanglish: low culture versus high culture? There are numerous critics of Spanglish among both Spanish-speakers and American-English-speakers. It is commonly assumed that Spanglish is a jargon: partly Spanish and partly English, “with neither gravitas nor a clear identity” . It is spoken by many of the approximately 35 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States, who, “no longer fluent in the language of Cervantes, have not yet mastered that of Shakespeare” 3. The

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    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Wendy
  • How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation? At the end of this case study, Bernal Flores asks if he should use the alignment strategy or the saturation strategy to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) at the San Juan facility. When the implementation process at Playa Negra and Bocagrande is evaluated, it becomes clear that better choices in implementation and management’s role could have been accomplished. For Bernal, it is a

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    Essay Length: 1,419 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Culture of Fear Fears Based on Fallacies

    The Culture of Fear Fears Based on Fallacies

    The Culture of Fear Fears based on Fallacies Americans have a tendency to underestimate the power of the media and its influence over our beliefs and expectations in society. News is delivered to our homes in many different ways including the television, newspaper and word of mouth. It is our first instinct to take what we see and hear from authority figures or news stations to be true. Therefore, we do not realize that the

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Vika
  • Cultural Context in View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

    Cultural Context in View from a Bridge by Arthur Miller

    Examine how cultural context is established in two of the texts on your comparative course When examining the topic of cultural context, one must become immersed in the world of the texts under discussion. The historical and geographical setting of a work creates a world that the characters can credibly inhabit. They are influenced and shaped by the customs, moral values and social structures of that society. The cultural environment created offers the reader a

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    Essay Length: 1,878 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Importance of Ethnic Culture - How Important Are Cultural Roots for Yourself?

    Importance of Ethnic Culture - How Important Are Cultural Roots for Yourself?

    Importance of ethnic culture How important are cultural roots for yourself? There are many races in this earth some with more culture, morals, influence, and values than others. That still doesn't change the fact that we all live in this earth together sharing what ever piece of land we live on. No matter what race we are -- we are always influenced to believe in our roots. I am Hispanic, my roots are very strong

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • 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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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mikki
  • 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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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • 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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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fonta
  • 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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    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
  • Diversity in the Workforce

    Diversity in the Workforce

    Diversity in the Workforce When someone uses the term diversity it can mean an array of things such as race, religion, color, gender, national origin, disabilities, sexual orientation, age, education, geographic origin, and skill characteristics. I believe the concept of diversity is just someone who is different than the person you see when you look into the mirror. There are some big advantages in the world today when a group of diverse people work together

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jessica
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: David

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