Executive Summary This assignment is to analyze the U.S. culture and Japanese culture by using Hofstede’s 5 cultural dimensions and Trompenaars’s cultural dimensions. According to the Wal-Mart’s Japanese strategy case to distinguish the difference culture in Japan compare with U.S. There are some problems that Wal-Mart may encounter which are Japan’s current distribution system‚ people’s traditional thinking of low price equate low quality and people would not going big shopping. The inherent
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How does culture affect diagnosis? (12) Culture can affect the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders‚ as different cultures have different attitudes to mental disorders. In Morocco‚ for example‚ it is thought you can catch a mental illness accidentally by encountering some sorcery‚ such as stepping on it. They truly believe mental disorders come from sorcery and evil things. This affects treatment and how the mentally ill person is seen – they are often feared as there is a possibility the
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Comments Topic: How culture affects economic growth. TS1: The first aspect of culture that affects the economy is people’s way of life. TS2: People’s values can also influence a country’s economy. Thesis: Economy can be affected both in positive and negative way depending upon the culture of each country. TS1: Culture is the thing to define the way of living of people in each country. SP1.1: Economy can be affected by people way of living. (eg. How people consume things and services
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Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review Berry C. Miller Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility (Axia)/XMGT216 July 11‚ 2010 Frank Czarny Business Ethics Across Cultures Article Review Managers and leaders of companies conducting business internationally face many ethical and moral issues. When companies conduct business with other nations many dilemmas may occur because of ignorance of the other nation’s customs and beliefs. Understanding the customs and beliefs of countries
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ACROSS CULTURE What is culture? In current usage‚ culture is that which distinguishes life in one group from life in another group; mental content‚ norms‚ institutions and physical objects‚ among other qualities. To demonstrate‚ consider the difference between the U. S. Plains Indian culture with that of Victorian Britain. Shortly‚ culture is the large-scale context of a given society. When culture (Latin: cultura‚ lit. "cultivation")[1] first began to take
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Cultural Values Value is something that is very important to an individual. My values are my life‚ children‚ family‚ health‚ partner‚ education‚ and my home. These are the most valuable things to me. I appreciate everything I gained throughout my life and the things I have and that god had blessed me with. I have 5 children that are the most valuable to me. My home is also the most valuable to me‚ considering that is where my children and I live in. Culture values are what you have learned
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How information value affects travel intention: A cross-culture perspective Introduction When an individual is seeking available alternatives of a certain product or service‚ information search process serves as an assistant role for fulfilling a variety of values that he or she desires(Diehl & Zauberman‚ 2005; Fodness & Murray‚ 1998; Gursoy & Chen‚ 2000; Hoffman & Novak‚ 1996; James & Bergh‚ 1990; Nishimura‚ Waryszak‚ & King‚ 2007; Vogt & Fesenmaier‚ 1998). During the
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Business Ethics across Cultures Article Review Paula Plattner XMGT/216 June 23‚ 2013 Swinton Hudson Business Ethics across Cultures Article Review The idea of globalized business ethics is an interesting idea‚ however what is considered ethical or moral in one culture‚ may not be if importance in another. The following paper looks at two different articles that appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics for two very different countries. The first article is Business Ethics in Canada: Distinctiveness
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When looking from one country to another around the world you need to understand that as you change the culture you are surrounded by‚ the business and personal ethics also tend to change as well. Take Australia and Spain for example. Even though these two places have some businesses that travel around the world‚ they still have their own set of guidelines that help to decide what their business ethics will turn out to be. In Spain‚ businesses are all about personal contacts. A businessman in Spain
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According to the text‚ Business across cultures by Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams‚ cultures can be observed as being three-layered. The first layer consists of explicit features that can be easily identified: Clothes‚ food‚ language and similar tangible attributes. The second layer is more difficult to observe but is still relatively easy to get familiar with: it consists of values and norms within a culture. In a way‚ values define norms because once a core value is established‚ behaving according
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