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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...

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...

Cultural Competency/Hispanic Population

six out of every ten Hispanics in the US identify themselves as being of Mexican origin (PHC, 2009). Nine of the other ten largest...

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...

Managing Cultural Differences

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

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. ...

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...

The Need for Cultural Competency Care

African-American culture tends to eat more fat than is recommended. Socioeconomic status as well as education play a role in meal ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Sexism in Cultural Artifacts: Dr. Pepper Ten is "Not for Women"

heavily muscled "action hero"-type spokesman who rampages through a jungle, punching snakes, firing a laser rifle, and ensnaring h...

Love Soccer and Cultural Expectations

Starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, the movie "Bend It...

Masturbation and Sexual Health - Exploring the Cultural Perceptions

unspoken assumption that masturbation is somehow morally wrong, or even detrimental. In other words, the alternative theories are ...

Cultural Change in Early Twentieth Century Taiwan

Colonialism inevitably had incredible effects on indigenous peoples around the world. These effects are recorded in a variety of...

Violent Media and its Cultural Effects

games by young players (Teng, Chong, Siew, & Skoric, 2011). The researchers attempted to produce a "clear consensus" on this subje...

Cultural Prejudices in Parent Teacher Communication

Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...

The Classroom and Cross-Cultural Competency

is especially true when dealing with children or adolescents, for whom cultural acceptance is often a critical aspect of social in...

Human Rights as a Cultural or Universal Concept

which even weak legislation can be supportive of human rights in the way that it is implemented and interpreted within the courts....

Twenty First Century Cultural Artifacts and Ideologies

643 Life in the twenty-first century has become more of a...

Sexuality/Cultural Differences

a universal factor in all human behavior, how sexuality is understood and expressed is mediated by culture and cultural factors. F...

Cultural and Technological Approaches to Information Overload

longer just affecting institutions and organizations that deal with large amounts of information, but also the public at large. As...

Organizations and Cultural Change

organizational results (Burns, 1978) Transformational leadership works to promote cultural change within an organization by allow...