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The Television as a Cultural Artifact

Modern culture is replete with a diversity of what could be described as cultural artifacts. Consider, for example, the telephone...

Cultural Identity at the Organizational Level

an organizations culture emphasized providing low prices to customers at any cost, it would not adopt processes that contradicted ...

ROLE OF MEETINGS AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

The term "meeting" is defined as "an assembly for a common purpose" or "an act or process of coming together" (Meeting). However, ...

Home Depot - Implementing Cultural Change in an Organization

A number of tools were used to adjust the culture. The appointment of a new HRM head; Dennis Donovan, a former GE colleague, who a...

WAL-MART, CULTURAL NORMS AND TRANSNATIONALISM

whats going on at its headquarters and what is happening within its stores (especially in the United States). Author Ben J...

Need for Cultural Competent Care

quite frequently, they are seldom defined specifically, yet both terms hold significant importance in terms of their relevance to ...

GENERAL MOTORS AND CULTURAL CHANGE

veteran executive from AT&T) is tired of it. The problem here, however, is that Whitacre is proposing wholesale changes in ...

Considerations of Stereotypical Cultural Representations in the Literature

be erased, we must do so through more constructive means that taking away one of the most treasured liberties of free societies. ...

Managing Cultural Differences

case. This is the face of globalization. We have moved from a primarily agricultural subsistence lifeway to an industrial one an...

RESEARCH IN MOTION: SOCIO-CULTURAL FORCES

about our industry, company and products? Basically, cell phones have moved from being a luxury item less than 15 years ago to bei...

Autism Speaks and the Importance of a Cultural Diversity Action Plan

standards and expectations. DAPs identify objectives and delineate time frames for achieving those objectives. They also provide...

Cross-Cultural Management

and Doh, 2005). That was an inaccurate assumption. One aspect of the Japanese culture is that they do not like to admit or even ...

Cross-Cultural Management Solution for Riordan Manufacturing

as a result of any form of discrimination, which may take place at a conscious or subconscious level. Therefore, the issue is the ...

India, Cultural Attractions and Business Profiles

of British rule over India. The Presidential Palace took seventeen years to complete and Lutyens embodied many of the classic elem...

Counseling Ethics and Cultural Factors

marital status and socioeconomic status (Garcia, et al, 2003, p. 268). Additionally, researchers have indicated that there continu...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, But Never Won the Battle of Cultural Clashes

course of the novel. They are products of a highly conservative Latin culture, which is in stark contrast to an American culture ...

Cultural Influences in the Purchase Decision

subcultures with these cultures, where there may be influences that impact on the way marketing is perceived and received that wil...

Hypothetical Cross-Cultural Psychology Course

are inextricably intertwined within the complexities of social existence; that women have always had to confirm their worth as hum...

Negative Impacts to Cultural Diversity at the Hands of Globalization

ends of the scale in terms of to what degree they have been affected by globalization. Consequently, by examining these cultures ...

Counseling, Psychology And Cultural Concerns

basis upon which positive psychology operates. Indeed, there will always be a place for the type of therapy that purges psycholog...

Political and Cultural Influence on the Employment Relationship in India

and Townsend, 2002). In addition to this, where an employee is injured at work the employer has an obligation to provide adequate ...

Things Fall Apart: A Cultural Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Novel

This act served a dual significance - it ended Okonkwos life and anguish, and it was a parting shot to the Christianity that had t...

Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology

has moved beyond that to also incorporate genderless implication as well. III. DOES SOCIAL DARWINISM RESTRICT WOMENS GROWTH IN CO...

Puerto Ricans And Cross-Cultural Encounters

erects a significant communication barrier is quite easy to understand; because this barrier exists, it is not a simple task for P...

Organizational Change and Cultural Diversity

to cultural differences. The paper also discusses the McKinsey 7 S model for change, which can be very useful to managers. The pa...

Australian Cross Cultural Experiences

at the dominant culture as the principle culture and then at others which have subsequently entered, this undermines the indigenou...

Department of Canadian Heritage's Cultural Affairs Sector

are the strongest reflection of the diversity of multicultural issues and ideologies that underpin Canadian life. As a consequenc...

Collectivism and Commitment; Implications for Cross Cultural Management

tools such as 5 Ss and Six Sigma through to the general approaches of co-operative management (Katz and Darbishire, 2002). One ...

Mao Zedong's Cultural Vision Of China

grew tired of this gaping void in their marriage and had an affair, despite her complete loyalty and subordination to him. She ye...