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    decision-making: Informal procedures vs. formal procedures. High organization loyalty vs. low organization loyalty: Cooperation vs. competition Short terms horizons vs. long-term horizon Stability vs. innovation: BUSINESS STRATEGIES 6 Ethnocentric Parochial Synergetic CONCLUSION 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY 7 INTRODUCTION Nowadays‚ the interaction among people from different countries is more diffused compared to three decays ago. Different cultures interact together especially

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    Outline and evaluate research into the duration of memory (12 marks) Peterson and Peterson researched into the duration of the STM. They used trigrams and asked their participants to recall them after a retention interval‚ the retention interval was different every time. They found that after 3 seconds participants could recall about 90% correctly but after 18 seconds only 2% could be recalled correctly. Peterson and Peterson concluded that the STM has a limited duration and when rehearsal is

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    ASIA PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN COLLABORATION WITH STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY UK BA (Hons) in Business Management Individual Assignment International Business Module Code & Title: BLB00005-2-INTB Prepared By: Sashi Ratnayake (CB 005146) / IF1431IBM Date of Submission: 12th May 2014 Instructor: Dr. Mahesha Samaratunga Submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business Management Word Count: 2162 (excluding headings and tables)

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    thoughts and feelings so to admit to being racist‚ sexist‚ or homophobic requires people to recognize that the self-images that they hold so dear are based on false notions of the self Being a White person in this society means chronic exposure to ethnocentric monoculturalism as manifested in White supremacy White helping professionals must free themselves from the cultural conditioning of their past and move toward the development of a nonracist White identity Models of White Racial Identity The

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    Using material from Item A and elsewhere assess sociological explanations for ethnic differences in educational achievement. As well as social class‚ ethnicity also plays an important part in educational achievement. Just as we can think of everyone as belonging to a social class‚ we can also see individuals being part of an ethnic group. Lawson and Garrod (2000) define ethnic groups as ‘people who share common history‚ customs‚ language and religion‚ and who see themselves as a distinct unit’

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    Executive Summary This report details several international management problems that Chiquita has been faced with over the past two decades. Many of these problems are to do with the company’s previously poor image when it came to Corporate and Social responsibility. Over the years Chiquita faced many accusations about the conditions workers were faced with at many of their facilities in Latin America and have also had their environmental policies questioned many times in the press. The company

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    Argument: 1) Development conceives social life as a technical problem to be entrusted to development professionals‚ 2) the development discourse is a real historical formation articulated around an artificial construct‚ 3) development is a “top-down‚ ethnocentric‚ and technocratic approach‚ which treated peoples and cultures as abstract concepts‚ statistical figures to be moved up and down charts of ‘progress’” (44). • early post-World War II “discovery” of poverty - “war on poverty” - “The discourse

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    Joyce Mosery John D. Crevecoeur was a French nobleman who lived in New York and Pennsylvania during the 17060’s and 70’s. “Letters from an American Farmer” is a document written by Crevecoeur discussing his discovery of a new kind of person‚ known as “the American.” He expands on the idea of the American by their stating distinct qualities‚ and how those qualities came to be. Let us not be mislead by Crevecoeur’s use of the word “American.” The group of people that inhabited the American soil

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    reveered in the same light‚ this just shows how very different these two cultures are. When jack returned home to Halloween Town he tried to report his findings to the people of his land but dispite his best efforts they were very confused their ethnocentric minds could not grasp a culture so strange to them. Like in the case where jack discribes to them the stalkings and they wish to know if there is still a foot inside because this would be the norm for them. The people of Halloween Town had never

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    (Labov‚ Mac an Ghaill); self-motivation of girls (Fuller‚ Mirza); lack of minority teacher role models; labelling & self-fulfilling prophecy (Connolly); ethnocentric curriculum; high levels of exclusions; teacher stereotyping (Wright) Differential attainment between & within ethnic groups Sociological theory: Marxism – ideological function of failing minority students

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