...This essay will focus on the various factors required when creating equitable pay and benefits packages for a British expatriate managers and engineers, who will be setting up production facilities in Denmark and Spain. Dowling and Welch (2004) defines an expatriate as ‘an employee who is working and temporarily residing in a foreign country’. This definition is also confirmed according to Harzing (2004) and Hollinshead (2010) they describe an expatriate as “a parent country national (PCN) working in foreign subsidiaries of the MNC for a predefined period, usually of 2-5 years”. (CEO Campbell Soup, quoted in Hollinshead 2010) “Too much emphasis on executives’ technical abilities - too little on cultural skills and family situation”. Baruch (2004) explains expatriates are prone to failure and it is a very risky approach; ‘The use of expatriate employees by organizations in their foreign subsidiaries represents a substantial investment with costs of expatriate failure reaching exorbitant levels ’. When focusing on the theory Trompennaar and Hall both indicate some culture issues that an expatriate may face. There are many reasons as to why an expatriate may not be successful and may return to their home country early this called repatriation, reasons for expats living early could be due to family concerns or the managers or engineers have accepted new position in the company, cultural adjustment challenges, security concerns and also career concerns. There are also number phases...
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...Didin Hasanbelliu Prof. Baker Wilson English 2 01 12 March 2015 Society’s Influence Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin is a perfect example of how society affects people’s decisions. The story is mainly about David a white American who moves to Paris, France, in search of his identity. In Paris he meets Hella, a white American woman which he becomes engaged with later in the story. At the beginning of their relationship, the two face some problems in which Hella is not sure if she wants to merry David or not, so she decides to go to Spain for a while to gather her thoughts and make a decision. During this time, David gets into an affair with Giovanni an Italian bartender that he meets in a bar in Paris. The decisions of these three characters are being affected by society they live in continuously in the story. In the novel the main character, David, is being affected greatly by the society he lives in. That is the reason he decided to move to Paris in search of his own identity. David is in constant denial over his homosexuality and refuses to embrace it due to the way of thinking of the American society that he grew up in those years. These ideas prevented David from expressing himself and made him try to be someone who he is not. He’s first homosexual encounter is the first evidence in the novel of how he was affected by this ideas of this society. We see this at the beginning of the book when he has sex with his friend Joey when he was a teen, as he describes it...
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...Zara Case Study Fast Fashion Zara’s success story begins by offering a product range capable of catering for men, women and children, providing affordable and stylish clothes whatever the season. Coupled with this, is their keen eye for discovering new fashion trends and translating these trends from the catwalk to the high street, both quickly and affordably. Zara boasts a marketing strategy of firstly product variety with a focal point of ensuring speed to market (Capell). At present, Zara launch 10,000 new articles per year across their portfolio of stores. Finally, store location, as any marketing is left to store location rather than advertising. Opting for a strategy of minimal advertising provokes the consumer into having to visit their stores. Zara is the most profitable brand of Inditex SA, accounting for 75% of the overall profit. Zara has remained focused on its core fashion philosophy that creativity and quality design together with a rapid response to market demands will yield profitable results. One of Zara’s many approaches is fast fashion. A contemporary term used by fashion retailers to acknowledge that designs move from catwalk to store in the fastest time (2weeks!) to capture current trends in the market. This "fast fashion" system depends on a constant exchange of information throughout every part of Zara's supply chain—from customers to store managers, from store managers to market specialists and designers, from designers to production staff, from buyers...
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...Literature under Spanish Colonialism (1893) 1565 * When Spain established their first permanent settlement in the Philippines. They place upon the on the Filipino people the Spanish Monarch and Roman Catholic Religion. Pueblos * (taga-bayan) Filipinos who settled where they were within easy reach of the power of the church and State. Hinterlands * (taga- bukid or taga bundok) are the Filipinos who kept their distance from colonial administrators and their native agents, staying close to the sources of their livelihood in the mountains. * The distinction were beyond indicating mere geographic origin and took an overtones of cultural snobbery as the effect of colonization seeped deeper into the consciousness of lowland Filipinos. Filipino * This name was reserved for Spaniards born in the Philippines, and everybody else who had only native ancestors was an “Indian”. Parish Priest * It was practically the only Spaniard who had direct contact with the Filipinos. * Became the embodiment of Spanish power and culture among the colonized populace, though their contact with him and the beliefs and values he carried, religion exerted a pervasive influence on the minds of Christianized Filipinos. Medieval Catholicism * These were presented by Friar began to be challenged by Filipinos who had by virtue of university education and come into the orbit of liberal minds in the 19th century Spain and Europe. * Also the literature of the entire period was...
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...Indian tribes. It was to end a destructive war and to settle disputes. 7. Alien & Sedition Acts- The acts helped to assist the government’s sense of security. Immigrants had to live in America for five years before they could get citizenship at the time. 8. John Adams- He’s best known for maintaining peace between the United States and France. Adam’s was a member of the Federalist Party. 9. Kentucky-Virginia Resolutions- They was written a protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts. The government was overstepping its boundaries and disrespects the idea of a contract with people. 10. Deism- Believe in God and God created the physical universe, but doesn’t intervene in its normal operation. Embrace scientific ideas. Chapter 8 Essay 1. Discuss the ethnic diversity of the United States in...
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...This essay will talk about what is currently going in Europe with the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the fiscal state the European Union is in, it is important and interesting because it is still current affairs and there are various factors and decisions that have helped the path that the crisis is going in, this essay will look at the crisis but on the implications and problems that European union face as well as what they have faced already and whether the European Central Bank are doing enough to improve the situation and what their plans are for the future. A sovereign bond serves as a floor for interest rates banks charged for loans and for the pricing of other financial contracts and securities. The global financial crisis led to the deterioration of government budgets and finances as nations utilized public expenditures to provide stability and stimulus. The Eurozone suffered because of heavy borrowing practices, property pebbles and living above their means. The Eurozone debt crisis started because Greece who had borrowed heavily in international capital markets over the past decade were turned against by investors this is because Greece in 2009 admitted that they had double the amount of debt that was allowed in the Eurozone limit. Ratings agencies started to downgrade Greek bank and government debt, and there was fear of Greece defaulting and not being able to pay back its debts but the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou insisted otherwise however this was...
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...It seems unrealistic that a disease could wipe a population from the map. Today, american society has medicine and cures for diseases. The Black Death arrived in Europe in 1347. According to Michele da Piazza, twelve Genoese ships were decked in the Messina port and it is alleged that their sailors spread it to European citizens. The ill men then moved to major porting docks in Italy, Spain, and France. While they were not in their ships, they traveled through Switzerland, Austria, England, and Denmark. Though, it is believed that the plague originated in Africa and moved to Europe through trade routes. During the time, people did not refer to this disease as the “Black Death.” Instead, they called it “pestilence,” “plague,” or “great mortality (2007, pp....
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...can tear families apart so they will never speak to ach other again. Love can also be a political force. It can be an act of rebellion by individuals. It can also be a means to control individuals. This is what has occurred in George Orwell’s book 1984. George Orwell was born on June 25, 1903 as Eric Arthur Blair, in Bengal, India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was an administrator in the Opium Department of the Indian government. (Mullen 3) Eric, his mother, Ida Mabel Limouzin Blair, and his older sister left India for England in 1908. (Flynn 9) In England the family lived as a “shabby-genteel family,” in his own words, at Henley on Thames. This was a happy time in his life and an inspiration for some of his writing, such as the essay, “Such, Such Were the Joys.”(Mullen 3) Also at this time Eric first showed signs of poor health. His mother recorded in her diary her concern for his bronchitis and a weak chest. (Flynn 11-12) In 1911 Eric went to St. Cyprian’s prepatory school. He was eight. (Flynn 19) Eric’s family kept him there at a great sacrifice to his family but at reduced fee because the headmaster hoped Eric would be able to win a scholarship. At the age of thirteen Eric went to Eton College after winning two scholarships. Eric was at Eton from 1917 to 1921. (Hopkinson 276) Eric praised Eton by complimenting its tolerant and civilized atmosphere but said that the school turned him into “an odious little snob.” After graduating thirteenth of fourteen in his class...
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...David George Joseph Malouf was born of a Lebanese Christian father and a Jewish mother of Portuguese origin on the 20th of March, 1934 in a private hospital in South Brisbane, Australia. His father’s family had arrived from Lebanon to Australia in the 1880s. His mother’s family was Sephardic Jews from Spain and had gone to England via Holland, before migrating to Australia in 1913. Malouf first attended Brisbane Grammar School and then completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Queensland in 1955. He lectured for a short period of time and when he was 24, like many young Australians during this period, he travelled overseas, moving to London to teach at Holland Park Comprehensive School from where he relocated to Brikenhead...
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... | |Assignment Task | | | |Name of the Student | | | |11/10/2013 | | | | | Essay Introduction The targeted industry on which the effect of globalization will be studied is the garment industry, and the two companies which we will study in this regard are Zara and H&M. All the top garment industries notability Zara and H&M are doing a fine job in the garments industry as they have adopted well-defined quality standards. There is a diverse research made on the garments and fabric business as they do change with respect to the trends and fashion. Both H&M and Zara are strategically safe players and they have all what it takes to be the front runner in the market. Their stores are in the different areas of the world and most specifically in the main and posh markets. Globalization brings about your extension associated...
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...Ordinary people can do terrible things when told to by somebody in authority. Discuss. This essay will discuss obedience in authority, considering why people can do terrible things when instructed to by someone of a higher standing. It will first discuss social psychological explanations into obedience, outlining and evaluating agency theory and legitimate authority. It will then go onto evaluate the contrasting research of Milgram and Hofling’s studies into obedience, also looking at other similar studies. The third section will discuss and analyse the ethical issues into social psychological research referring to the specific issues contained in the studies of the previously mentioned psychologists. A conclusion will sum up the entirety...
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...Meadows Museum – SMU Dallas From the Gene and Jerry Jones Great Hall, where a canvas oil painting of Nude Lady Removing Garter, by Jane Doe, to the permanent collection of Cubist style paintings by Pablo Ruiz Picasso and Diego Maria Rivera; The Meadows Art Museum at SMU was an eye-opening experience even for the most cynically skeptical and unrefined of visitors as myself. The building itself is unremarkable, although clean and very symmetrical with its classic box-style museum aesthetics, it is highlighted with five two-story arches covering the loggia and wide stone stairs leading to the main façade. This two-story collegiate Georgian red brick edifice gives proper backdrop as the plaza is adorned by the Wave; a perpetually moving sculpture with a reflecting pool designed by internationally renowned Spanish architect, engineer, and sculptor Santiago Calatrava. The “Wave” design has a large pool with long bronze bars running its length. The bars are linked mechanically and move in sequence, creating a four-cycle wave motion above the pool of water. Although I was unable to visit the museum at night, I did see a photograph of the sculpture during the evening hours as the pool and lighting provided illumination from beneath the structure. They had my attention. As I walked into the foyer, the main lobby had a grand staircase leading to the second floor where the Meadows collection is on display. Before going upstairs, I was able to enjoy the artwork on the first floor...
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...faced were political issues inside the country itself. But moving forward towards 1803, the Louisiana purchase was bought more states were being admitted too. Many treaties were being passed and new amendments to the bill of rights and constitution. The United States were experiencing a major change in their politics and culture, it was like a new renaissance for the U.S. The age of romanticism of transcendentalism inspired many writers as romanticism encouraged people to explore and go on adventures. While transcendentalism inspired many religious activists to protest against the general state or the state of intellectualism....
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...fought story about the experience of the Seminoles and various groups involved in a plea for life. Brown tells this story in the form of an essay in which he shares his arguments and analysis as a historian, professor, a Floridian, and author in terms of the Florida Crisis. This paper will review Brown’s story as well as his main arguments and will evaluate the quality of Brown’s writing and focus on all areas and his weakness within this account. Summary This section contains a summary of The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole War. The Florida Crisis of 1826-1827 and the Second Seminole is an article by Canter Brown Jr. and it addresses the history of Florida in the war between Seminoles along with other groups of people and the United States. Brown reveals the political, and racial aspects that lead to the history of the war in the United States. The author exclaimed that this war was marked as the most expensive Indian war of all times. This crisis that broke Florida involved the Seminole people and this is why the title “The Seminole War.” The crisis involved the Indian territories and associated free blacks with inhuman repression and suffering; the threat of war ensued due to many transgressions and the desire for revenge. Brown explains the war was started by various tribes that were organized into band moving and settling in Florida which was by 18th century uninhabited. The tribes include Alabama, and the Creek people among other groups. The creek...
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...Both realize that they are attracted to men in the US, and both later go to Paris in part to attempt to understand their sexuality and come to peace with it. Mae Henderson also notes this correlation and recognizes David as a recreation of Baldwin in his essay James Baldwin: Expatriation, Homosexual Panic, and Man’s Estate. Henderson notes the absence of black characters in the novel, and recognizes that Baldwin uses the lack of race to place an emphasis on the sexual crises that both men must have gone through. David becomes the literary counterpart of Baldwin exploring what it is to be a man without regard to race, and what it is to be homosexual, “actual geographical expatriation freed Baldwin to interrogate the complexities of his own identity as writer, as American, and as homosexual, outside the sexually and politically repressive climate of postwar America” (Henderson 313). Both David and Baldwin feel that they cannot find internal satisfaction in America, and Baldwin picks Paris for both...
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