CHOOSING AN INFORMATIVE TOPIC I’m going show you an activity you can do later develop some topic ideas for an informative speech… …But first‚ we’ll talk about some general things you might want consider when picking topic for any presentation. 1. You have consider your audience… …You’re speaking for their sake‚ not yours. …You might think your topic is interesting…you may think it’s funny‚ exciting… …If your audience doesn’t feel same way…no matter how good your presentation
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France – Jamaica Power Distance France working culture is centraly based on working hierchies‚ indivuidualism and high uncertainty avoidance. France is a country with high (68%) inequalities acceptance . It is a country where laboral hierachy exist‚ and were power is consolidated in hands of the minority. Employees have a great respect for their superiors‚ and only report to their inmediate managers‚ where information formaly continues its flow hierarchicaly Also‚ this herarchy seem to limit
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Chapter 6: -Why we form relationships? Appearance Similarity - People who have the same interests‚ personality traits‚ mutual friends‚ etc. Complementarily - When a partner’s differences strengthen a relationship‚ and satisfies the others needs. Reciprocal Attraction – We are attracted to people who like us –usually. Rather than people who attack/ indifferent. Competence – We tend to be attracted to people who are good at what they’re at‚ but admit their flaws. Disclosure – Revealing
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Individual Behavior‚ Personality‚ and Values McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. MARS Model of Individual Behavior Situational factors Values Motivation Personality Perceptions Emotions Ability Individual behavior and results Attitudes Stress Role perceptions 2-2 Employee Motivation Internal forces that affect a person’s voluntary choice of behavior • direction • intensity • persistence
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Trying to Change the Corporate Culture of a Multinational Enterprise: General Semiconductor 1. In your opinion‚ what actions taken by Ostertag stood the most chance of changing General Semiconductor’s culture? His decision to “replace nearly every member of the company’s senior management team” could have been more effective and beneficial had he only replaced those on the management team who were not upholding and enforcing the values and cultures of the company. The “team-building meeting
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Gung Ho" and the Integrated Cultural Framework The purpose of this exercise is to apply the dimensions of the Integrated Cultural Framework to the movie "Gung Ho". Each company is discussed separately using examples from the movie and then summary values provided. United States ICF Dimension Low Moderate High Ability to Influence High Comfort with Ambiguity High Assertiveness Doing/Masculine Individual/Collectivism Individual Time Orientation Present Space Orientation Public
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Module Two‚ Critical Thinking Russell Clay‚ 25 March‚ 2012 Culture Shock—Power Distance & Individualism/Collectivism Working in a multinational company can be challenging if you’re requested to transfer to another country. With cultural differences from one country to another‚ someone can experience culture shock at any point while detailed to another country. In the video taken from the movie “Outsourced” we get a quick glimpse of two different cultures (Wing & Jeffcoat‚ 2007). The Indians
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Final Project GMT - 506 Management Theories & Practices Organizational Culture of National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Submitted to Dr. Faisal Asghar Imam NUST Business School Table of Contents 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 3 2 Organization’s Background .................................................................................
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1) Discuss the social identity issues present in the case Social Identity theory basically is a theory that explains self-concept (what a person thinks about themself and how they analyze themselves) to be a combination of personal identity – their unique characteristics and social identity – their membership in different social groups. There are numerous Social Identity issues in the case. Firstly‚ Catherine’s father is an accountant which is one of the factors that she chooses to be an accountant
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Assignments - Marks Allocation Breakdown | | |Setting the scene | |Introduction and issue analysis | |Exposition | |Directly addresses the question | |Uses a wide range of information drawn from course
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