2004 International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. All Rights Reserved. ISBN 978-0-9845627-0-1 Decision Making in Individualistic and Collectivistic Cultures Abstract How do cultural values influence individuals ’ decision making? One would expect answers to this question either from cognitive psychology or from cross-cultural psychology. Cognitive theories on decision making‚ however‚ rarely consider the factor of culture‚ and research in cross-cultural psychology deals only to
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delivery strategies‚ the product customization and the creating product demand. Cross docking is an important aspect of supply chain that is one of the major contributors of managing the supply chain successfully. Cross docking is basically defined as the process of the product delivery from the manufacturing plant to the consumer with minimizing the costs and procedures of handling the product and storing it temporarily. Cross docking primarily joins various reduced product loads into single criteria
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Kylee Russell English 111 December 8‚ 2013 Lieutenant Jimmy Cross In the continuous mix of gruesome and heart wrenching but yet still enticing short stories and war memories The Things they Carried byTim O’Brian leads us to fall in love and form a bond with one of the main characters in the book Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Tim O’Brian faces Jimmy Cross with the constant struggle of surviving while fighting in Vietnam. While trying to maintain his sanity‚ Jimmy"s inner struggle is between
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Misunderstandings LaRhonda Bacon Business Communications and Critical Thinking BCOM/275 October 1‚ 2012 Dr. B. Bourne Who was the sender? Both Co-Owners Who was the receiver? Employees What was the message? No bonuses for the upcoming year What channel was used to send the message? A memo What was the misunderstanding that occurred? The memo discussed the profit sales from memo ~ “What we think and what the company can do‚ based on generated profit‚ are two
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E.R. Dodds article on the misunderstanding the oedipus rex assets the situation in three points.His first point is‚ fate was the main reason the play ended the way it did‚ it was not decreed that he would know the truth‚he was destined to marry his mother and kill his father. The gods never indicate that he would know what he had done. Dodds backs up his claim by saying that oedipus and his own arrogance and pride are responsible for the tragedy that he suffered. In the play oedipus feels so proud
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Avoiding the Alignment Trap in Information Technology 1 About the Case • Article in “MIT Sloan Management Review” • Article is prepared based on survey of more than 500 senior • • business & technology executives and in-depth interview of 30 CIOs. The principle findings of the study is that even at companies that were focused on alignment‚ business performance dependent on IT sometimes went sideways‚ or even declined. Article talks about two primary factors for success in IT: • • Alignment
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Cross Cultural Issue in International Business Culture: Culture is a complex concept with numerous definitions. The definitions range from all-encompassing to limited areas of interest. As documented by Kroeber and kluckhohn (1985)‚ there are over 160 definition of “culture” alone‚ and great deal of material has been published on this topic. Rosinski defines culture as “the set of unique characteristic that distinguishes its members from another group” (2003‚ p.20). Because every individual
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December 2007 Excellus Creates EA and SOA Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Creates Enterprise Architecture and SOA Solution to Consolidate Disparate IT Systems Executive Overview When several Blue Cross Blue Shield programs in upstate New York merged‚ each organization brought its own business processes and IT systems to the new entity. Because they were so different‚ yet had to be consolidated‚ the new entity‚ Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield‚ wanted to first implement a strong business analysis
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Must You Point Out Misunderstandings During Negotiations to Your Counterparty? January 25‚ 2012 In Daventry District Council v. Daventry & District Housing Ltd [2011] EWCA Civ 1153‚ the Court of Appeal rectified an agreement for common mistake even though one party arguably did not intend to enter a contract on those rectified terms. The problem arose because the parties and their lawyers were at cross purposes on an important point during negotiations. The only person aware of the differing
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What is Cross-Cultural Communication? The phrase cross-cultural communication describes the ability to successfully form‚ foster‚ and improve relationships with members of a culture different from one’s own. It is based on knowledge of many factors‚ such as the other culture’s values‚ perceptions‚ manners‚ social structure‚ and decision-making practices‚ and an understanding of how members of the group communicate--verbally‚ non-verbally‚ in person‚ in writing‚ and in various business and social
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