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  • Culture in an Organization

    Culture in an Organization

    Culture in an Organization An organizational culture is the internal environment of an organization including the shared beliefs and values that influence the behavior or organizational members (Schermerhorn, Hunt, & Osborn, 2005). Having a strong culture allows an organization to operate with their sight on the future that should be supported by well developed and well communicated beliefs and values. A high performance level, emphasized teamwork, and risk taking will also be prevalent in a

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    Essay Length: 965 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: regina
  • Cultural Values Personal Ethics

    Cultural Values Personal Ethics

    Running head: CULTURAL VALUES AND PERSONAL ETHICS PAPER Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper August 8, 2005 Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper All people have personal values and ethics, just as they have cultural values. Often times, those personal values and ethics may clash with those of their employer. As an example, as an individual, a person’s ethical guidelines might require honesty, integrity and respect. If that individual works for a company that does

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    Essay Length: 1,130 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices Evaluation of the company’s position and strategy: Southwest Airlines is one of the air-travel industry’s great success stories. For most companies, such rapid growth will cause problems: legions of frontline employees taking up the mantle of decision making from core executives and, inevitably, stumbling. A clear and precise strategic principle can help counteract this shortage of experience. In Southwest’s case, employees have consistently made trade-offs in keeping with

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    Essay Length: 1,259 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Steve
  • Cross Cultural Awareness for the International Manager

    Cross Cultural Awareness for the International Manager

    INTRODUCTION It is time for a fast-developing Bulgarian company to go international. According to carefully conducted marketing research the most favorable conditions for expansion at this point are in Germany and Brazil. Unfortunately "Noname.Co" is a new entrant in the global market and is quite inexperienced in dealing with countries of unfamiliar culture. The differences between Bulgaria, Germany and Brazil are not only estimated by means of square meters, but also by ethnicity, religion, temperament

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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • American Culture

    American Culture

    In order to understand American culture, one must have knowledge of the history of our country. America is traditionally a country of immigrants. Very few people today have ancestors who were natives in this land. Even our founding fathers fled to America…many because of religious persecution, and a few who were just looking to start a new life on the exciting untouched frontier. During the hundreds of years to come, America was seen as a

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    Essay Length: 323 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

    The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

    The Devil in the Shape of a Woman “The Devil in the Shape of a Woman” was an excellent book that focuses on the unjusts that have been done to women in the name of witchcraft in Salem, and many other areas as well. It goes over statistical data surrounding gender, property inherence, and the perceptions of women in colonial New England. Unlike the other studies of colonial witchcraft, this book examines it as a

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    Essay Length: 279 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • Influence of Cultures on “the Thousand and one Nights”

    Influence of Cultures on “the Thousand and one Nights”

    Influence of Cultures on “The Thousand and One Nights” Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Cultural Media Watch

    Cultural Media Watch

    Cultural Media Watch A few common assumptions would offer some very general stereotypes which most Americans are probably subjected to each time they tune into their favorite program. The problem with making assumptions based on stereotypes, racism, and bias maybe considered two-fold. Of primary concern should obviously be the narrow-minded and over generalized prejudice which exists in mainstream media culture. Then, of only slightly less distress, would be the willingness of society to accept

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    Essay Length: 868 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Max
  • Cultural and Political Forces Influence International Marketing Activity.

    Cultural and Political Forces Influence International Marketing Activity.

    Cultural and political forces influence international marketing activity. Discuss the impact of these forces and illustrate your answers with examples. Cultural • Language. Will language be a barrier to communication for you? Does your host nation speak your national language? What is the meaning of your brand name in your host country’s language? • Customs: what customs do you have to be aware of within the country? This is important. You need to make sure

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • Chinese Culture Around New York City

    Chinese Culture Around New York City

    Introduction As a New Yorker, it is very difficult for one to avoid the reality that we are indeed surrounded by Chinese culture. From Chinese take-out restaurants serving delicious Chinese food to entire Chinese communities such as the one in Chinatown, Chinese culture is all over the place. Chinese art, cuisine, religion, festivals, and more can all be experienced in one place. This is why New York is considered to be the cultural center of

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • Organizational Culture at Chrysler

    Organizational Culture at Chrysler

    Organizational culture Organizational culture can loosely be defined as the shared assumptions, beliefs, and "normal behaviors" (norms) of a group. These are powerful influences on the way people live and act, and they define what is "normal" and how to sanction those who are not "normal." To a large degree, what we do is determined by our culture. Organizational culture is similar to, say, regional culture. The same person in different organizations (or parts of

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Greek Influence on Western Culture

    Greek Influence on Western Culture

    What were the contributions to Western civilization from the ancient Greeks? The Greek civilization contributed greatly to the development of modern Western culture. Three of the most important contribution that are the foundations of our society are Language, Philosophy, and Government. The people of ancient Greece developed a sophisticated language with an extraordinarily rich vocabulary. It has existed for nearly 3,500 years, the longest of any language derived from early Indo-European. It also has a

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Kevin
  • 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: December 11, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Managing Culturally Diverse

    Managing Culturally Diverse

    Running head: Managing Cultural Diversity Managing Culturally Diverse Work Groups within an Organization Natasha Avies Troy State University Dr. Earl Ingram November 28, 2004 Abstract Cultural diversity has become widespread within many organizations today. The work groups in these organizations are increasingly being staffed by culturally diverse employees. The cultural differences exhibited in the groups can enhance or weaken the function of the work group, especially in a predominantly homogenous environment. These multicultural work

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    Essay Length: 3,567 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Monika
  • Gang Culture (short)

    Gang Culture (short)

    Gang membership is on the rise nationwide. Why are we seeing an increase? Several reasons - 1. Identity - Kids join to be a part of something. To be known as a Crip or a Blood offers identity. 2. Recognition - Acknowledgment for 'accomplishments' that they do not receive at home. This recognition builds gangbangers’ "juice" or rep within the gang. 3. Discipline - The gang, after being 'jumped in', becomes the child’s surrogate family.

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    Summarize and Discuss the Tensions Apparent in Contemporary Cultural and Communications Policy Debates. Include a Case Study Analysis of a Specific Policy Statement, Which Names and Discusses the Specific Rhetorical Frameworks Informing the Author's State

    First and foremost there are several approaches to the defining what is media policy. It is defined by Garnham as ‘the study of the ways in which public authorities shape, or try to shape, the structures and practices of the media…the study of the reasons for these policies, both in the sense of the reasons given by policy makers for their policies…in the sense of the economic, social, political and cultural forces to which the

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    Essay Length: 2,442 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy

    Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy

    Cultural Relativism: A Moral Fallacy Cultural Relativism is the theory that all belief's are equally valid and that truth itself is relative, depending on the situation, environment and individual. Those who hold the belief of Cultural Relativist, hold that all beliefs are completely relative to the individual within a cultural identity. In this essay, I will show that cultural relativism is unreliable as an ethical theory by showing the irrationality of the arguments that support

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture

    Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture

    Texts in Conversation: How the New Yankee Stadium Reflects American Culture Historical: Since the late 1800’s, Baseball and the United States have had significant cultural changes and had strongly influenced each other. In it’s early forms, Baseball was a sport that was sparingly played in the New York/New Jersey region of the U.S. In 1845, Teams such as the “New York Nine” and the “Knickerbocker Club” were already beginning to play organized games of baseball

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: David
  • Cultural Diversity and Business

    Cultural Diversity and Business

    In a globalized world it gets increasingly important for multinational companies to understand that cultural diversity can affect the business by building communication barriers. Cultural differences do not just mean that people speak different languages, it is also the way they think and feel and what traditions they have. Therefore we have to analyze how this diversity can influence the communication and what the consequences are. The old Japanese parable of the monkey and the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century

    Critical Reflection “ Uplifting the Race” Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century Uplifting the Race is a rather confusing yet stimulating study that goes over the rising idea and interests in the evolution of "racial uplift" ideology from the turn and through the twentieth century. In the first part of the book, Gaines analyzes the black elite obsession with racial uplift ideology and the tensions it produced among black intellectuals. Gaines

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Cross Cultural Management Jordan

    Cross Cultural Management Jordan

    Executive summary Transjordan separated from Palestine by Britain after the World War I, gained in 1946 its independence. In 1950 it is renamed Jordan. After King Hussein’s death in 1999, his son King Abdullah II assumed the throne of this constitutional monarchy. Jordan’s ethnicity is at 98% Arab and 92% are Muslims. Jordan acceded to the World Trade Organization in 2000, and began to participate in the European Free Trade Association and had a free

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • External Forces Shaping the Future of the Airline Industry

    External Forces Shaping the Future of the Airline Industry

    But a year later, at the age of 52, Gopinath began service in south India with a leased 48-seater, $10 million in investment and a conviction that India's burgeoning middle class, which was already buying color TVs and cell phones, would buy air tickets. Barely two years into its operation the no-frills airline, Air Deccan, has grown from one aircraft to 19 and from one daily flight to 123. It has placed a $1.1 billion

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Monika
  • Graffiti Culture

    Graffiti Culture

    I have chosen to do my essay on the sub cultural art form: Graffiti.. Graffiti though very controversial, is recognized in many circles, but different circles have different opinions of the art form, much like traditional art, we have the people who hate it and think it is a mess, and we have the people who appreciate it, in graffiti’s case, yes a lot more people hate it than appreciate it, but usually its because

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    Essay Length: 556 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Artur
  • Culture Bound Syndrome

    Culture Bound Syndrome

    Windigo Culture Bound Syndrome (CBS) is defined by the DSM-IV as recurrent, locally specific patterns of deviant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Such patterns of behavior are indigenously considered to be an "illness" or at least an affliction, and most have names specific to the region or culture in which they originate. Many CBSs are not literally syndromes; they are more like ways

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Janna
  • Discuss the Musical Construction of at Least one Character from Wagner’s Salome.Describe How the Composer(s) Use(s) Musical Techniques to Contribute to the Construction of Your Chosen Character(s).You Should Also Consider the Cultural, Historical and Mu

    Discuss the Musical Construction of at Least one Character from Wagner’s Salome.Describe How the Composer(s) Use(s) Musical Techniques to Contribute to the Construction of Your Chosen Character(s).You Should Also Consider the Cultural, Historical and Mu

    For the purposes of this essay, I have chosen to concentrate on the characters portrayed in Richard Strauss’ 1905 opera, Salome. The majority of the attention will be placed on Salome herself, but other characters will be referred to where applicable. Before the composition of Salome, Strauss had risen to prominence through his numerous tone poems, a form established by Franz Liszt in the mid 19th century, the most notable of which are Don Juan

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    Essay Length: 2,439 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Bred

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