Discussion Questions Brittany Lewis University of Phoenix SOC/315 Cultural Diversity MU11BHA06A06HA Perry Martin 9-13-13 Discussion Questions What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? What does the DHS do for United States citizens? * A: DHS is dedicated to providing safety to everyone against crime and theft. It also protects us from terrorist’s attacks, natural disasters and man-made accidents. DHS helps individuals to get their citizenship and passports
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consumers during that period was price. Since its establishment Walton focused on Everyday low prices (EDLP) and always geared towards the low- income groups of the society. This provided Walmart better opportunities and helped them gain a competitive advantage in the industry. * Demographic factor: Another opportunity facing the industry was that Consumers (working Mothers and other American workers) wanted ease of shopping (fast, efficient and one-stop shopping). Walmart provided its customers with
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The first challenge that a Singapore company will encounter is that there will be a traffic problem. Unlike Singapore, it does not have a traffic flow as smooth as Singapore. Traffic congestion is a problem in Middle East. This would result in delay of transportation of goods as Singapore has few traffic congestion compared to Middle East. Hence, in order to deliver the goods on time, the company might need to take note at which particular time of the day does not have traffic congestion. The second
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FDI strategy vs. gaining competitive advantage in foreign markets- the case of Lenovo FDI in theory FDI is one of the options companies have while considering doing business abroad. The other possibilities are exporting and licensing. Licensing allows the company to use the property of the licensor in a foreign market. It’s intangible kind of intellectual property e.g., trademarks, patents, and production techniques. The owner of the license is charged a fee in order to receive rights to use
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backing from a large companies. Mr. R. Narayana Murthy is the CEO and chairman and Nandan Nilekani is the president and chief operating officer (COO), of Infosys Technologies Ltd. Being a company grounded on a Indian soil at that tome was not an advantage for Infosys because the economic policy supported by the government prior to 1991 caused many problems for business, especially for those businesses that wanted to import goods from a foreign market. Therefore the easiest business solution for Infosys
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A Critical Review of ‘Strategy as Stretch and Leverage’ Academics argue a lot on strategic approaches that a company should make to gain competitiveness advantages over its competitors. Hamel and Prahalad (1993) challenge the traditional way and come up with ‘stretch’ and ‘leverage’ concepts to exhibit a whole new way to run a company. This essay aims to give a critical review of this article in the wider debate, theoretical underpinnings and main strengths and weaknesses. There are so
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* Culture *** | * Administrative **** | * Geographic **** | * Economic ** | {key: (****-Most significant) - (*- Least Significant)} | Business Challenges | * Culture * Nigeria has local informal retail shopping market. Significant difference in culture (high context). * Variety of people from different cultures, challenge to please each one. * Administrative * It has an inefficient property registration system. * Government has restrictive trade policies. * Geographic
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Amanco Sustainability Strategy Abbas Ibrahim OCT 18, 2015 1. Is the Amanco strategy an example of corporate social responsibility or corporate self interest? Amanco Strategy is an example of corporate social responsibility. Amanco, part of the Nueva Group based in Costa Rica, produces and markets piping for irrigation construction, infrastructure, and industry in 13 countries of Latin America. The company’s vision is “to be recognized as an organization that creates economic value by operating
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Your HR manager has recommended a temp-to-perm policy. You know the advantages of this approach, but what might be some of the disadvantages? 2. Assume that you're a prospective job seeker (which you may very well be). What do you personally see as the advantages and disadvantages of taking a temp-to-perm position? Under what circumstances are you most likely to take a temp-to-perm position? 3. What sort of challenges are likely to confront a manager who supervises a mix of temporary and
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their knowledge for a better life.To do that,they choose to study in developed contries where they can get progressive education.However,everything has its advantages and disadvantages,so studying abroad is not an exeptation. In my opinion, I think studying abroad is the beat way to improve ourselve.As you know, there are obvious advantages to study abroad. Fristly, We have chance to improve our language. I think nothing is better than to learn language with the native speakers.Because we can
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