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  • Skeletons in the Corporate Closet

    Skeletons in the Corporate Closet

    Case 4: Skeletons in the Corporate Closet 1. A leader's role in creating and maintaining an ethical organization start with setting an example for the whole organization through their own actions. In order to build an ethical organization the leader must show high ethical standards, be held accountable for their own actions so that all of the employees and stakeholders will believe in that leader, follow that leader's good ethical behavior. By doing these you

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    Essay Length: 537 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems

    The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems

    The Cultural Identity Within Asian Writing Systems The style of Asian writing seems to be completely different from that of the western writing systems. For starters, many western languages are phonetic: words are spelled out with symbols that represent sounds. The way that a word looks has nothing to do with the meaning of the word. On the other hand, the most recognized form of Asian writing, Chinese characters, are completely pictographic. A single character

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    Essay Length: 3,052 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation - Organization and Trends

    Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation - Organization and Trends

    Introduction This paper will compare and contrast the perception of organizational power and politics among Kaiser Permanente and Oracle Corporation, it will compile a list of strategies for managing stress, as well as evaluate the business and ethical considerations of operating organizations on a global scale, finally, the paper will assess the evolutionary trends in organizational behavior and how they might impact organizations. Organizational and Trends Perception of Power Kaiser Permanente focused on keeping various

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    Essay Length: 2,122 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Anguilla - a Changing Economy and a Changing Culture

    Anguilla - a Changing Economy and a Changing Culture

    Anguilla A Changing Economy and a Changing Culture The Caribbean has long drawn tourists to its beautiful beaches and tropical isles. The islands that make up the Caribbean all have their own histories, cultures, and atmospheres. Some Caribbean islands became tourist hot spots decades ago, and others are only beginning to develop their tourist industry. The island of Anguilla has recently emerged as the "it" location for celebrities and the wealthy alike. This paper will

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    Essay Length: 2,405 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • United States of America and the Amish: Mainstream Culture and the Minority

    United States of America and the Amish: Mainstream Culture and the Minority

    United States of America and The Amish: Mainstream Culture and The Minority What does it mean to be Amish? They dress different and their lifestyle is different, but is that the only difference between the Amish and the people of the mainstream American culture? America's 150,000 member Amish minority, which is situated throughout the U.S. mainly in Indiana, Ohio, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been one of the most successful among the nation's religious and

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    Essay Length: 2,517 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Steve
  • Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Motivation

    Geert Hofstede Cultural Dimension and Motivation

    Model of National Culture To date, the most common way to study and draw conclusions about organizational behavior across cultures and explain the differences that exist is to use Hofstede’s framework. Prof. Geert Hofstede conducted perhaps the most comprehensive study of how values in the workplace are influenced by culture. Geert Hofstede analyzed a large data base of employee values scores collected by IBM between 1967 and 1973 covering more than 70 countries, from which

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    Essay Length: 1,521 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Janna
  • Strategic Audit of a Corporation

    Strategic Audit of a Corporation

    Strategic Audit of a Corporation I. Current Situation A. Current Performance . How did the corporation perform the past year overall in terms of return on investment, market share, and profitability? B. Strategic Posture What are the corporation’s current mission, objectives, strategies, and policies? 1. Are they clearly stated or are they merely implied from performance? 2. Mission: What business(es) is the corporation in? Why? 3. Objectives: What are the corporate, business, and functional objectives?

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    Essay Length: 2,571 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    Covert War: Nature Vs. Culture in the Last of the Mohicans

    In James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, a superficial reading might depict the novel as the story of a battle between societies. Yet there is an underlying depiction of a far more vast conflict. From the beginning of the novel, the reader is guided by descriptions of the struggle between the two entities. Cooper writes, “there was no recess of the woods so dark, nor any secret place so lovely, that it

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    Essay Length: 429 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Russian Demographic and Cultural Analysis

    Russian Demographic and Cultural Analysis

    Russia Cultural Analysis A- Population As of 2007 Russian Federation ranks tenth in the world with a total population of 141,377,2 people as of July 2007.(NationMaster). The biggest city in the Federation is the capital, Moscow, at 10,415,400 people(NationMaster). The overall sex distribution in the Russian population is 0.859 males/female however in the 15-64 year old range the distribution is much closer at 0.93 males/female. Even more interesting is the distribution between men and women

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    Essay Length: 1,224 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: David
  • Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas

    Cultural Challenges of Doing Business Overseas Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate,") generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significant importance. Different definitions of "culture" reflect different theoretical bases for understanding, or criteria for evaluating, human activity. Culture has been called the way of life for an entire society. As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of

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    Essay Length: 1,639 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Corporate Governance in India

    Corporate Governance in India

    THE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE PRACTICES IN INDIA By Mrs.ShilpaJain Faculty Members ICFAI National College Yamuna Nagar- Haryana INTRODUCTION: Corporate governance is defined as the system by which business entities are monitored, managed and controlled. Corporate governance practices have become an essential prerequisite for the ability to acquire and retain financial resources necessary for restructuring long term investment and sustainable growth. At one end of the spectrum the shareholders are the owners of business entity as they

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    Essay Length: 1,461 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: David
  • Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper

    Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper

    Enron Corporate Compliance Benchmarking Paper Many companies are involved positive and negative risk that it takes. Enron was a company caused by poor corporate governance. It has also triggered a flood of legislative and regulatory changes and codes of conduct across the developed and emerging worlds to improve systems for ensuring that public companies are run properly in shareholdersпїЅ interest (Good practice boost performance. Euromoney, [serial online]. September 2003). The situation Enron faced as a

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    Essay Length: 2,501 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: July
  • Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    Star Wars Pop Culture Icon

    American popular culture has always been a market for sales. Everything that is and has made pop culture what it is in America has been built through commercialization. The ability to sell the main product and then the countless other revenue items that go with that product define American culture. Today in the United States a person would be hard-pressed to fined a movie showing in theaters that does not have a soundtrack out, t-shirt

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    Essay Length: 1,030 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: regina
  • Historical and Cultural Comparisom Between Canada and Usa

    Historical and Cultural Comparisom Between Canada and Usa

    The tourist potential of the climatic, landscape, historical & cultural resources of Canada, & New York (USA) The designations I have chosen are both on the American continent. The statistics used are based on the European traveller. Because of the vast difference in population density of Canada and the U.S.A, I have decide to centre my comparison around the vast metropolis of New York and western Canada (Calgary-lively city lake Louise-scenic resort) Canada is situated

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    Essay Length: 2,988 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Religions and Japanese Culture

    Religions and Japanese Culture

    Religions And Japanese Culture Many religions are popular within the Japanese culture. Two of the most influential religions, Shinto and Buddhism that help shaped a lot of Japanese values are Shinto and Buddhism, played a large role in shaping Japanese values. Numerous similarities and differences run between these two religions; nonetheless, the Japanese often believe in more than one religion at the same time. This is possible due to the polytheistic nature of most popular

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    Essay Length: 748 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Global Communications Corporation

    Situation Analysis and Problem Statement: Global Communications Corporation

    Situation Analysis and Problem Statement This paper deals with the issue faced by the telecommunications company known as Global Communications. Global Communications competes in and industry that is known for unusual competitive pressures and very quick changes in technology. However, as stated by Dennis Drogseth (2005, p. 52) "The challenges faced by global networks have more to do with management and process than with pure technology." This paper will address the issue faced by Global

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    Essay Length: 1,701 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Yan
  • Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture

    Globalisation - How It Affects Both Trade and Culture

    Globalisation has made a great impact in the world by helping businesses, technologies and cultures spread throughout the globe. Today there is 12 times more world trade in goods and money than there was in 1945. (Globalisation and trade, 2001) While this can be considered as fact, there still remains a dispute about whether a global marketplace will be beneficial to everyone. Some people believe that globalisation does have the potential to create many opportunities

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    Essay Length: 1,611 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop

    Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop

    Pop Culture Meets Hip-Hop Popular culture, otherwise known as “Pop Culture,” is defined by Encarta’s Online Encyclopedia as values that come from advertising, the entertainment industry, the media, and icons of style and are targeted to the ordinary people of today’s society. Some of the more influencing displays of pop culture today include movies, teen icons, clothing, celebrities, sports, and one of the most influential things, music. The music industry plays a huge role in

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    Essay Length: 2,207 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • Nucor Corporation - Structuring for Efficiency and Effectiveness

    Nucor Corporation - Structuring for Efficiency and Effectiveness

    Nucor Corporation - Structuring for Efficiency and Effectiveness Introduction Nucor achieved its position as one of the largest steel producers in the United States by carefully monitoring costs and paying attention to the needs of its markets. This strategy of providing its customers with a competitive product at competitive prices has brought success and growth to Nucor, in sales, income, and stock price. Recently, however, the control of the organization has been brought into question.

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    Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Personality Assessment Inventory

    Personality Assessment Inventory

    Personality Assessment Inventory Introduction The Beck Depression Inventory is a testing tool which is used to evaluate the continuation and severity of the symptoms of depression, as recorded in the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 2000). The test includes questions which asses the symptoms of serious depression, which may possibly call for hospitalization. The latest revised edition replaces the BDI and the BDI-1A, which includes items intending to indicate

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    Essay Length: 1,418 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • Chrysler Corporation

    Chrysler Corporation

    Chrysler Corporation Chrysler Corporation, one of the largest automobile and truck manufacturers in the country, entered a financial crisis in the late 1980's, early 1990's. In May, 1998, company reports indicated that the company only sold 17,713 vehicles outside of the United States, due to powerful competitors. Therefore, due to the company's lack of competitive drive globally, the company sought out sources to merge with “the largest industrial company in Germany, Daimler-Benz; this merger

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    Essay Length: 826 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jon
  • M&a: Culture Integration

    M&a: Culture Integration

    In 2001, James M. Kilts, then newly appointed as chief executive officer of Gillette Co., replaced two-thirds of the company's senior management team and trimmed 3,700 jobs, more than 10% of the company's work force. Employees of the century-old company thought they had seen the shake-up of all shake-ups. Just wait until they see what Procter & Gamble Co. could have in store. In announcing the $52.4 billion takeover of Gillette, P&G's CEO, A.G. Lafley,

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    Essay Length: 861 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: David
  • Corporate Governance

    Corporate Governance

    Corporate Governance Corporate Governance is the relationship between the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate character, bylaws, formal policies and rule laws. The corporate governance system was designed to help oversee the decisions and best interest of the shareholders. The system should works accordingly: The shareholders elect directors, who in turn hire management to make the daily executive decisions on the owner’s behalf. The company’s board of director’s position

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    Essay Length: 1,011 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    Language and Culture in an Immigrant Society

    The professor of my linguistics anthropology course this year, stepped up to the podium on the first day of class, and surprised us all with his feelings regarding language. He began by telling us that he specializes in human misery, perhaps insinuating language is a source of misery. Dr. Song is a Korean immigrant and the sounds of his own language repulses him. Growing up in modern society America has made him cringe at the

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • Apollo Corporation

    Apollo Corporation

    Unit # 7 – Enhancing Employee-Management Relations Homework Project – Case Study The Union Drive at Apollo Corporation: ULP’s and Organizing Tactics By: Jemayne R. Cullum 705 East 179th Street Bronx, NY 10457 917-528-5741 Professor Pat Lee MT203-04 Human Resource Management March 2008 Apollo Corporation is a general component producer for the communications industry. Bob Thomas, a nineteen year manager, that has been performing less than adequately in terms of punctuality and overall work performance.

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    Essay Length: 816 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Edward

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