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Popular Culture: Forging a Distinctive Identity

Each of these distinctive elements of society sprang from the pressing need to forge a distinctive self identity. Each was fed by...

Frankfurt School & View on Mass Culture

way, attempted to "fix" Marxism and their ideas came to be known as "Critical Theory."5 When Horkheimer became director of the Ins...

Leadership and the Creation or Maintenance of Positive Cultures

to ensure that the rules were obeyed and the productively was maintained or increased. (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). The focu...

Can Cultural Values Have A Significant Impact On Business Structure, Strategy And Economic Performance At A National Level?

in the following way; " if the market is the fundamental means of allocating resources then, in order to work properly, it must be...

Globalization Across Mexico's Borders and NAFTA

changed gradually but surely by this interaction. Not only are they becoming acclimatized to U.S. material culture they are becom...

Cultural Consideration in Psychiatry

can complicate the provision of care for some Moroccan patients. Several more considerations will be outlined in the remainder of...

Anthropology of Rock Music

The Science Daily reports that songs with violent lyrics increase aggression ("Violent Music Lyrics," 2003). A study conducted by ...

Culture and Socialization; Assessing Change

it may vary from person to person and organisation to organisation, however, when entering an organisation it is often possible to...

Gary Jennings/Aztec

eloquent, but "inadequate to catch every individual word, not to mention nuances and adroit turns of phrase" (11). As this illustr...

Italian Business Culture

of prescribed gender roles. Societies that express a high degree of masculinity (MAS), as versus femininity. High MAS cultures are...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

Corporate Culture, Customer Relations, Social Responsibility

get a real live person on the telephone (PR News, 2007). This author recommends integrating communications and customer service de...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Empowerment Case Study

persuade Ed to just give it a try. He reminded Ed the company had been very slow to make changes, to create new products and they ...

Haas Dyson/Writing Superheroes

to explaining how children make use of semiotic resources is how this body of research relates the purposes played by oral languag...

Enron And Corporate Culture

Innovation and risk taking - willing to experiment, take risks, encourage innovation (Smith, 2004). 2. Attention to detail - payin...

The Relationship between Culture Modernity in South Korea

rituals undertaken in line with societal values of the time which may reflect events, to architecture output which lasts well beyo...

Organisational Culture; A Case Study

and ever changing (Trice and Beyer, 1993). Organisational culture embodies what is and is not accepted within an organisation in t...

Canadian Culture

governmental funding for the arts and culture in Canada would lead to an influx of American and British cultural programming and a...

The Culture of the Philippines

The vessels were rowed, and some of the larger ships held up to 100 rowers per side, in addition to armed troops (Philippine civil...

Convergence Culture; the Case of the Game Call of Duty 4

games. Against this background it may be argued that Call of Duty 4 could have been perceived as reaching the end of...

Ethics and Technology

software to weed out spam, and rules to assure that company employees are not engaging in unsavory practices, but many firms are u...

Cultural Differences; GE and DEWA

2003). From this it is apparent that the culture may be within the firms, but it is also likely to be influenced by external force...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Culture within an Organization

cook the meat for a hamburger, another may toast the buns, a third person puts condiments onto the buns, another will wrap the ham...

How Does Organisational Culture Affect A Managers Ability To Motivate Staff Through Non-Financial Rewards And Incentives?

praise as well as the employment relationship is able to provide for needs that will motivate employees. However, when loo...

Communication Barriers in the Modern World

Westerners tend, in general, to be more forceful in their communication styles than do those of Asian background. A Japanese work...

Unified Corporate Culture in Multinational Organizations

directors are given with two fingers rather than pointing with one, through to the customer service orientation value (Kober, 2009...

Changing the Culture of a Department

This should and will be changed later but right now, they have a deadline set. The COO will need to begin by letting the three man...

A Comparison of Five Religions

Koran, Jews follow the Torah or Tanakh (Rich, 2006), Buddhists follow the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama was is also known as the...