written contracts‚ meeting agendas and so on. Examples: Lawyers representing angry clients Example of countries: North America‚ UK‚ Australia 3. Outline and briefly discuss the five Hofstede dimensions. How might each of these dimensions impact on work practices? Hofstede’s 5 culture dimensions: Power distance Power distance expresses the degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. The essential matter here is how a society
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the America‚ it doesn’t matter how rich or poor people are‚ there is one product that any household has to have at least one. It is a car. In fact‚ cars have played an extremely important role in American society. A car wasn’t invented like other machinery‚ but it was the accumulation of many levels of invention and a combination of many scientific discoveries. Cars’ origin was in Europe by the French and the German and Paris and named by the Paris Academy of Sciences. But automobile industry brilliantly
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Dimension | SI Units | English Unit | Length | meter(m) | foot(ft) | Mass | kilogram(kg) | pound-mass(lbm)1 | Time | second(s) | second(s) | Electric Current | ampere(A) | ampere(A) | Thermodynamic Temperature | kelvin(K) | rankine (R)1 | Amount of Substance | mole(mol) | mole(mol) | 1http://www.mne.psu.edu/cimbala/Learning/General/units.htm Conversion Factors Length 1 m= 3.281 ft 1 m = 39.37 in. 1 ft= 0.305 m 1 cm= 0.394 in. 1 in. = 2.540 cm 1 ft. = 30.48 cm 1 yd= 91.44
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of life. Notorious Japanese workaholism is another expression of their masculinity. It is still hard for women to climb up the corporate ladders in Japan with their masculine norm of hard and long working hours. Uncertainty avoidance The dimension Uncertainty Avoidance has to do with the way that a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen? This ambiguity brings with it anxiety and different cultures have learnt
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Muscle cars have always been a big in the United States such as the Ford Mustang‚ Chevrolet Camaro‚ and Chevrolet Corvette. These cars are some of the most popular cars for the past 25 or more years‚ but over the past 10 years‚ Japanese cars are becoming more and more popular. Many people who are into muscle cars despise these ’imports’ and people who are into these imports have the same feelings toward muscle cars. These two types of car lovers have a strong dislike for each other and these cars. Many
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The economic dimensions of globalization While the globalization process is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon‚ some of its most visible and influential aspects are economic in nature. This chapter contains an analysis‚ from a global standpoint‚ of major trends in trade‚ investment‚ finance‚ macroeconomic regimes and international labour mobility. This analysis covers a long period in history‚ from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the present‚ and is structured
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Trompenaars and Hamden Turner classified cultures along a mix of behavioral and value patterns. Their research focuses on the cultural dimensions of business executives. 1. Universalism vs. Particularism (What is more important‚ rules or relationships?) Universalistic Countries: focus more on formal rules than relationships; believe that their ideas and practices can be applied worldwide without modification (Germany‚ UK‚ US) Particularistic countries: more emphasis on relationships than rules
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Rosalyn B. Pertiz Dimensions of Education MW(10-11:30am) Reflection Paper Being in this class and having participated in every discussion had given me a lot of privilege to obtain knowledge‚ understanding and comprehension about the world of socialization and interaction; the reason why do people behave such a behavior; elements of effective communication; the pillars of education that a teacher must possess in his heart and mind; the cultural differences that each teachers should be aware
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Dimensions of lodging Lodging property may be defined as an establishment that chares fees for providing furnished sleeping accommodations to persons who are temporarily away from home or who consider these accommodations their temporary or permanent homes. Many of these establishments also provides food‚ beverages‚ cleaning services‚ and a range of other services normally associated with travel commonly sought by travelers. Different Types of Hotel and Lodging * Limited-Service Hotels. Typically
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Comparison of service quality of TNT express and DHL express with RATER dimensions The quality level of service provided by TNT Express and DHL Express in China could be described within the RATER dimensions of service quality. Samples and numbers are provided below to evaluate the quality of their service. Reliability Based on TNT Express annual report 2011‚ the service quality in that year has achieved an all time high with a 96% on-time delivery performance for the one million daily deliveries
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