in Bangkok. The hotel used to be very profitable and all the employees have always followed the orders and instructions from senior management layer clearly and carried them out conscientiously and carefully. However, the organization’s previous cultural made employees lack innovation and creativity. Indeed, employees were afraid of to be innovative and take risks because they would get the punishment from the management for their self-assertion and exceed superior authority. Meanwhile, in the past
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Scholars have contended that cultural intelligence is essential to successfully communicating across cultures (Earley & Ang, 2003; X. Lin & Miller, 2003). Cultural intelligence (CQ) is an individual’s natural ability to effectively acclimate to unfamiliar culturally diverse settings (Earley & Ang, 2003, p. 9). Groves & Feyerherm (2006) contends that interest in CQ has gained prominence today because fairly common capabilities including, cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, and social intelligence
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corporation led by a competent and dedicated senior management team. Riordan has experienced success with an operation opened in China in the past year and has made a decision to expand by adding a second production site. This new venture presents cross-cultural challenges Riordan has not before faced. Riordan must solve its problem so it can realize its goal of offering more components around the globe. To do this, a nine-step problem-solving model will be applied starting with identifying of issues
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Introduction This paper is devoted to the problem of international selection of personnel. Efficient allocation of the resources is one of the most important criteria in the success of a company, especially when we are speaking about human resources. Hiring and then deploying people to positions where they can perform in the most effective way is the primary goal of most organisations, whether domestic or international. Selection is the process of matching individual characteristics such as ability
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Cultural diversity advantages and disadvantages In the 21st century, work place diversity has become reality. With globalization taking place, diversification is the changing labor force in U.S. Increased emigration has mirrored into the workforce. According to Census Bureau data, immigrant workers made up 42 percent of the growth of the labor force in 2012 (Cohen, n.d). Managers now recognize that cultural diversity in the workplace is a challenge that must be addressed to lead an effective team
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preferences regarding their health and health needs. In the provision of care, nurses must acknowledge, respect and adapt the cultural needs of those patients and their significant others through identifying the differences between cultural groups that require health care providers to identify culture specific health and illness practices and caring behaviours that transcend cultural groups and appear to be universal care practices to enable the provision of care that is holistic, effective and culturally
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History of Japan & Understanding the Communication System. Culture is “more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster” (ITIM International, 2003). Communication across culture is not an easy assignment for an international manager to learn within a short period of time especially it is an ongoing learning process. Communication is “a process of shared meaning by transmitting messages through media such as word, behavior, or
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In reconciling cultural dilemmas in the business context, it is important to use the model presented by Trompenaars. She identified reconciliation as part of building transcultural competence. And there are three essential components of transcultural competence; awareness, respect and reconciling cultural differences, these are necessary steps towards developing transcultural competence. Individuals who find themselves in foreign cultures need to be themselves for the partnership to work. Therefore
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choice: A Cross Cultural Exploration of Effects of Country of Origin on the Choice of Branded Products by Adriana Cordeiro Socha A Thesis presented to The University of Guelph In partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Marketing and Consumer Studies Guelph, Ontario, Canada © Adriana Cordeiro Socha, September, 2012 ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF THE CULTURE DIMENSION ‘POWER DISTANCE’ ON PRODUCT CHOICE: A CROSS CULTURAL EXPLORATION OF EFFECTS OF CULTURAL TRAITS
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A STUDY ON BARRIERS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN ELECTRONICBASED COMPANIES 1 Bibi Noraini Bt Mohd Yusuf, 2Zurina Bt Zulkifli, 3Intan Maizura Bt Abd Rashid, 4Syahida Bt Kamil, 1,2,3,4 School of Business Innovation and Technopreneurship Universiti Malaysia Perlis 1 bibinoraini@unimap.edu.my, 2Zurina@yahoo.com, 3Intan Maizura@unimap.edu.my, 4syahida@unimap.edu.my, Abstract Rapid growths in economic development and trade globalization have necessitate the number of firms to expand
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