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Lutheran Refugee Services

n.d.). In 1939, the organization established a Welfare Department that included "an office for the rehabilitation and placement o...

Discrimination and Its Impact on Racial and Cultural Understanding

some periods of history than in others (Sowell). Author Shelby Steele writes that "whites in America today are fearful of being co...

Cultural Gatekeepers and Search Engine Politics

established social, historical, cultural significance, and have become a major educator of students throughout the world (Introna ...

Finding Solutions to Problems Through Total Systems Intervention

these we can gain a more comprehensive understanding of the model. The main principle is that organisations are too large and comp...

Article Analysis: Two Human Resources Issues

that the measured used by HRM departments will often have further reaching impacts that initially perceived or even desired. Where...

Researching Language Across Cultural Lines

to this perspective is the fact that external forces also impact the linguistic development of a region, and as a result, linguist...

Social Work, Sexuality, and Gender

of counseling in culturally diverse populations and the way in which this can influence the patient/therapist relationship. Perha...

Counseling Gays and Lesbians

to seek additional mental health support following his diagnosis of HIV infection. There are two different sociocultural compon...

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman

sense of conflict has to do with his fathers participation in an Easter Sunday service at the Ohatchee Methodist Church, a time wh...

Personal Views of Liberian Cultural Values

taught the role of service, a role that is also intrinsic to the medical profession. As this suggests, traditional Liberian values...

Profit and Nonprofit Organizational Performance

missions of both of these institutions are different. In the example presented, for example, the for-profit hospital is in the bus...

Design and Job Analysis

Simons (2005) discusses job design in terms of continua that he calls spans. Four of these spans affect job design and determine ...

Elizabeth T. Boris and C. Eugene Steuerle's Nonprofits and Government

organizations; public societal benefit organizations (such as the Rockefeller Foundation and civil rights groups); religion-relate...

Functions of Different Communication Networks

interests, personal friendships or other specific elements (Adler and Elmhorst, 2002). Informal communication networks may be sma...

Importance of Cultural Intelligence

that agents deal with people and therefore: "maturity and a keenness to human nature as...

Foreign Markets Competition

is to own and control foreign operations (Kogut, 1998, p. 152). If this were not the case, the company could simply send exports ...

Communications and Ethnography

various ways in which gender bias is expressed in English. This preference for male speech extends to the classroom setting. Clas...

Assisting Poor Employees and Rewarding Good Ones

sure that their employees "feel that they are an integral part of the organization" (Wiens). "Each individual should understand [...

Performance of HMOs

GNP had increased to 15 percent and had topped the $1 trillion mark for a total of more than $4,000 for every citizen of the count...

Personal Ethics and Cultural Values

employees and put customers second (Value decision making). The student may want to use personal examples in this section to illu...

The Leadership Style of Anwar Sadat

discussed, in terms of his personal qualities, his commitment to nationalism, and his political strategies with regard to Israel, ...

Uncertainty and Culture Change

parents for the safety of their children, wanting to know where they are and who they are with. There is an increased feeling of t...

Multicultural Communities' Building

that culture can be considered interchangeable with subculture, and this is based in the belief that both allow for the commonaliz...

Codes of Ethics Comparisons of the Amerian Association of Pastoral Counselors, Association of Christian Counselors, and the American Counseling Association

These codes are of particular interest in the manner that they direct a counselors actions in regard to Sexual Intimacies, Conflic...

Cultural Images in the Media

The broader version promoted by Hall is that a "text" of any kind - "be it a book, movie, or other creative work - is not simply p...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

Mayan Technological, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Development

Mayan culture (Brady, 1995). There appears to be little differentiation in individual wealth levels as can be determined from exa...

Windward Islands and Bananas

and favourable import agreements for bananas. The economy of these islands has been built on this favourable trading relationship ...

Cultural and Economic Overview of Colombia

The population of the country is 42.9 million, and the median age of the population is about 26 years (CIA Factbook, 2005). The gr...

Organizational Systems of the McDonald's Fast Food Chain

The idea of serving food very quickly was fairly new at this time. Other burger joints saw food made to order. The ideas of fast...