performance. There are perspectives of managing the diverse workforce, which require organization leaders and managers of being responsible of attaining better diverse workforce. Diversity means differences, difference of age, sex, race, religion and culture etc. People with different demographic differences working in the organization makes diverse workforce. And it is becoming more important for the organizations to know about these differences and how to manage it. Diversity is also the common issue
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intellectual task of the present, within the global cultural perspective, is the establishment, implementation and practicing of a new kind of humanism. Current global conflicts in politics, economics, social, culture and religion demand strongly for defining and strengthening a global culture of values, morals, ethics, and humanity. Thus, a new role of humanity in the context of human belief system needs to be redefined. Extremism, fundamentalism, and terrorism in all aspects of human life (religious
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challenging. Especially when Middle Easterners are frowned upon constantly because of terrorism. Being a Middle Easterner is always a battle within daily life and school. I developed into American culture, but my beginning was difficult. When I first came to America, I never learned about American culture and history. In Lebanon, they mainly taught us about Lebanese history, so I had no knowledge about American customs. As I first started my first year in middle school, it was very tough because I
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Throughout time, and currently to the present, globalism has undergone a dramatic shift and has had an impact on individuals from around the world. Beginning in 1962, “the Canadian communications theorist, Marshall McLuhan, predicted the electronic transformation of the planet earth into a “global village” (Fiero 154). This means “every important new development—technological, ecological, political, economic, and intellectual—would affect every villager to some degree” (Fiero 154). The term “global
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Celibacy Sex is a huge part of American culture. Our media and culture is centered around the sexualization of everything, from cars to burgers. In contrast, research shows that one percent of the U.S population is actually celibate, meaning that quite a number of people are abstaining from marriage and other sexual relations. You might think that one percent might not be a very significant percentage, but compared to the 320 million people currently populating the United States, one percent is
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The United States helped Japan draft its Constitution, which laid the foundation for a “new” Japan. Although Japan had many outside influences after World War II, Japanese culture shares few similarities to those in America today. Values are one's judgment of what is important in life to guide his or her behavior in society. Formality is the strict following of rules of behavior under customs and rules of convention in an area. It would be one of the differing values between the Japanese and
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9301 Email: fayyu@hotmail.com hyu10@scu.edu.au Email: pmiller@scu.edu.au 1 The generation gap and cultural influence – A Taiwan empirical investigation Key words: Generation gap, Culture, Work characteristics, X Generation, Baby Boomers, Taiwan, Abstract It is well researched and reported that the culture of a nation has a major impact
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INTRODUCTION Nowadays, when people discuss the UK culture, there is a museum that would be mentioned -The British Museum, which was built in 1753, is the first national public museum in the world. Thus, it can be seen that the British Museum is one represent of the UK culture in people’s subconscious. However, there is an another opinion shown that the British Museum can represent most of countries’ culture well expect the British. Because this museum collected massively rare treasures
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discussion of the various definitions of nationalism is the difference between the concept of state and the concept of a nation. Because the boundaries of a nation are not drawn by state lines, but rather by various factors that form human identity -- culture, language, religion, common origin and ethnicity -- a nation can be defined as a cultural community. This differs from a state that is simply a political entity. In many circumstances, nations are spread over various states as in the example of the
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difficult to manage a team, to improve their motivation. MNE’s strategy is based on economic and political criteria, which can be instable from a country to another. For example, the collapse of communist rules in the end of the 1980s, the Gulf war with the increasing of oil prices , the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004 or more recently the Arab Spring in 2011. All of these events must be taken into account on the management performance because they have in impact on the way of management
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