I. INTRODUCTION: A. Company description – Thai Tuan Group Corporation Thai Tuan Group Corporation works in fabric production and fashion clothing, know as one of the leading Vietnamese textile product and fashion services supplying enterprises, and specializing in producing jacquard, plain from polyester, spandex and viscose, etc using advanced technologies transferred from Japan and the EU. B. Going International Their goal: “To become a leading Asian group in supplying textile products
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Below are key definitions (terms) & concepts from the assigned readings and lecture slides. You should be familiar with them for Exam 1. The key definitions / concepts are not intended to be an all inclusive list of what will be on the exam. I also included the pages of the chapters that will be covered on the exam. I will not ask questions from chapter pages that do not fall in the ranges listed below. I will not ask questions from the “Skills & Best Practices” & “Hands On Exercises” sections
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Key issues in cross-cultural business communication: Anthropological approaches to international business Tian Guang* and Dan Trotter Shantou University, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, Southern China. Accepted 8 March, 2012 Cultural factors have long been known to influence the communication and success potential of competition. Cultural awareness shapes how business firms behave in cross-culturally reflected international markets. It is broadly recognized that cultural factors act as invisible
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Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions: Jamaica Gerard Hendrik Hofstede was born on October 2, 1928 in The Netherlands. He received his PhD in social psychology in 1967. Dr. Hofstede founded and managed the Personnel Research Department at IBM International. IBM is where he began his research on culture, which led to his Cultural Dimensions Theory. Dr. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory consists of a model on national culture. The national culture model is made up of six dimensions: Power Distance
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of people. Ethnocentricity distorts one’s view of other cultures by believing that one’s own culture is superior to the culture of others, tending to make people to neglect important cultural differences. 2. Q: What is cultural literacy? Why should businesspeople understand other cultures? ANSWER: Cultural literacy is the detailed knowledge about a culture that allows a person to work effectively within it. Businesspeople should understand other cultures because it would improve their
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Veera Korjala CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT – How to improve cultural diversity workforce BACHELOR'S THESIS | ABSTRACT TURKU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES Degree Programme In Hospitality Management | Hospitality Management 2012 | 64 Susanna Saari Veera Korjala CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT The bachelor´s thesis investigates cultural diversity in the hospitality management. It aims at presenting effective ways to improve cultural diversity in a workplace
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Cultural Identity Intercultural Communication Madina Gasimova University of Connecticut Today we live in a world where different cultures, nations and religions intensively interact with each other. This, on the one hand, requires the construction of public relations between people of different cultures. On the other hand, every culture and nation is trying to preserve national, religious and cultural identity. However, this desire should not acquire forms of intolerance against carriers of
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Introduction Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. Cultural differences between countries affect individual personality and behaviour and organizational culture (Hofstede 1984, 1991; Karpatschof, 1984; Thanasankit, 1999). Each country has its own ways of expressing feelings, showing emotions, solving problems, and constructing its society. 1. What is a primary research
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conflicts. Application of Cultural Frameworks By applying the various cultural frameworks to the French and Americans, it allows for an explanation of why disagreements arose between Mouse, the mayors and the government. As per Hofstede’s theory of cultural dimensions, it is observed that France and United States (US) lie on opposite ends of the spectrum. Thus, it serves as an indication of wide cultural difference between the two societies. When comparing the power distance dimension, France scored 68
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perception of the metaphors in the organization. Our research was carried out in the Dubai branch of XYZ Company, a Swedish telecommunication company, to provide an analysis of the organization by observing it from two metaphoric perspectives: the cultural and the political. Organizational culture encompasses values and believes of the founder and is reflected in the structure, the practices and procedures of the organization, determining the working atmosphere and behaviors of its employees. Through
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