Japanese Companies in Germany: A Case Study in Cross-Cultural Management JAMES R. LINCOLN, HAROLD R. KERBO, and ELKE WITT'ENHAGEN* From a series of qualitative interviews with Japanese managers and German managers and workers in thirty-one Japanese-owned companies in the Dusseldorf region of western Germany, this article discusses differences in cultural patterns and organizational styles between the German and Japanese employees and the problems these pose for communication, cooperation, and morale
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Robotics: Utopia or Dystopia Robotics: Utopia or Dystopia? Table of Contents: Serial No. | Particular | Page No. | 01. | Introduction | 04 | 02. | Definition of a Robot | 04 | 03. | History of Robotics | 05 - 10 | 04. | The implications of robotics for jobs in manufacturing | 10-12 | 05. | The implications of robotics for jobs in the service sector: | 12 -13 | 06. | Robotics and future jobs, utopia or Dystopia | 13-15
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DVD From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the storage format. For the binocular vision condition, see Dissociated vertical deviation. DVD DVD logo.svg DVD.png DVD-R read/write side Media type Optical disc Capacity 4.7 GB (single-sided, single-layer – common) 8.5–8.7 GB (single-sided, double-layer) 9.4 GB (double-sided, single-layer) 17.08 GB (double-sided, double-layer – rare) Read mechanism 650 nm laser, 10.5 Mbit/s (1×) Write mechanism 10.5 Mbit/s (1×) Standard
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Executive Summary This report will introduce Toyota company of business ethics, in the first part, the report described the definition of business ethics, and then introduced the environmental scanning method and PEST and concretely introduces the Toyota company's ethical dilemma, how to solve this problem, from the Angle of moral evaluation, the whole situation based on different kinds of ethical theory, business ethics from the perspective of moral comprehensive understanding of the problem, and
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Intellectual Property Theft in the Automotive Industry Scope, Trends, and Mitigating Strategies Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..3 Scope of Intellectual Property Theft………………………………………………………3 Intellectual Property Theft and China……………………………………………………..4 Intellectual Property Theft in the Automotive Industry…………………………………...5 The Subtle Pick-Off……………………………………………………………….5 Piracy and China’s Global Emergence…………..………………………………………..6 Consequences of IP Theft…………………………………………………………………7
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WEEK 7 SHAREHOLDER ACTIVISM 3. Whether management proposals at the target’s AGM are controversial. * Understanding a target company's defensive measures and a shareholder's procedural rights is key to any solicitation * to determine the existence of matters such as limitations or prohibitions on the ability to call meetings, restrictions on shareholder proposals, the existence of a staggered board, the adoption of a poison pill and other limitations that may significantly increase the
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Máy bay thương mại lớn và thiết bị hàng không quân sự tiên tiến chứa đựng những công nghệ tiên tiến nhất thế giới. Việc thiết kế, lắp ráp, tiếp thị và nâng cấp các thiết bị này tiêu biểu cho lợi thế kinh tế to lớn theo qui mô và phạm vi. Việc thiết kế một chiếc máy bay mới đòi hỏi đầu tư khổng lồ với chi phí ‘trả trước’ đáng kể trong giai đoạn phát động. Trong khi chi phí của sự thất bại khá lớn, phần thưởng cho thành công cũng tương xứng. Một chiếc máy bay mới thành công có thể chốt chặt phân khúc
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 Michael Cain ELA2603 - Administrative and Personnel Law Professor Zara Sette August 17, 2012 Abstract The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's benchmark civil rights legislation, and it continues to resonate in America. The basic tenants of this legislation prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin and other protected classes as amended. Passage of the Act ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld
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To what extent was market maturity the cause of Caterpillar’s restructuring? Critically examine the extent the new strategy transformed market, productive and financial performance. The aim of this paper is to assess the extent to which market maturity influenced the restructuring phase that Caterpillar underwent after it was nearly put out of business in the 1980s. It will be argued that surely market maturity played a central role in the company’s restructuring, as the increase of competition
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