A PAPER ON “CROSS CULTURAL TRAINING” -Ms. Sarika Kale INTRODUCTION: Globalization of business has led to cross border flows of physical‚ financial and human resources. It has resulted in both a large number of people working abroad‚ as well as an increasingly multi cultural domestic work environment. To face the ever growing competition‚ organizations are expanding their businesses‚ outsourcing and even establishing offices overseas. Organizations
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Subject： Impacts of Cultural Differences on International Business Negotiation Name： Chen Xiujuan Student No.: 0 8 5 1 0 3 4 0 Specialty and Class: Business English‚ Class 3 Department: Department of Humanities and Arts Supervisor: Liu Mifan Date: 2011-3-02 Contents Introduction 1 1. Types of Cultural Differences 2 1.1Value
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ways that cultural differences would affect doing business internationally‚ as well as what specific skills global managers would need to address with these differences‚ and finally if I think expatriate or foreign-national managers would be better equipped to deal with these challenges. This report will provide the reader with some facts on cultural differences and the affect on business internationally. It will also give some skills global managers can utilize to address those cultural differences
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challenges I expect to face from working in this environment are the potential cultural divides that can exist between the patient and physician. Language barriers and societal disparities are among some examples that I expect to come across. The ability to be willing to view your patient as an individual‚ with their own customs and outlooks‚ forms a large role in building trust between the patient and provider. Though at times cultural differences can be detrimental in providing optimal care to the patient
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Cultural Shock and Adaptation Cultural shock is when a person faces many stressors through experiencing new culture‚ and it may lead to psychological crises or social dysfunction. Cultural shock mostly occurs on immigrants (e.g. students‚ business people‚ social change‚ etc). The reaction of cultural shock depends on various factors‚ the experience of other culture adaptation‚ the difference between the home culture and the new culture‚ and the psychological characteristics of the person. There
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Cultural Diversity in an Organization 1 Cultural Diversity in an Organization Henry Jerkins Industrial Organizational Psychology Professor Withen April 5‚ 2011 Cultural Diversity in an Organization 2 There is no single definition to define cultural diversity in an organization. This topic has been studied from a variety of perspectives ranging from disciplines such as anthropology and sociology‚ to the applied disciplines of organizational behavior‚ management science‚ and organizational
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CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Alessandra Quartesan Monica Romis Francesco Lanzafame SEPTEMBER 2007 The Institutional Capacity and Finance Department (ICF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) developed this study on cultural industries in LAC. The study was conducted under the supervision of Francesco Lanzafame‚ Housing & Urban Development specialist‚ by Alessandra Quartesan‚ Urban Development and Cultural Heritage consultant
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CULTURAL POLICY IN SINGAPORE: NEGOTIATING ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL AGENDAS1 Lily Kong Associate Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Singapore 119260 Email: lilykong@nus.edu.sg Fax: 65-7773091 Geoforum For Special Issue on “Culture‚ Economy‚ Policy” 2000 This paper was written while I was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Culture‚ Tokyo University. I would like to record thanks to Assoc Prof Tong Chee Kiong for facilitating my
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organization’s meetings (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002). Having interpreter services available and developing health information for patients that is directed to language and cultural norms of specific cultural groups are also ways to become more culturally competent (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002). Communities/organizations can also provide cross-cultural training as a better way of becoming more culturally competent (Betancourt et al.‚ 2002).
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Personal Cultural Background A person’s identity is unique and has a foundation of various sources. These sources may be different for every person‚ ranging from a person’s upbringing to a person’s religion. This paper will define cultural background and examine the multiple sources that make up my own personal cultural background that helped mold my individual identity. Furthermore‚ the paper will speculate on the extent to which my current identity has been molded by assimilation‚ acculturation
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