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  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper Almost every individual in the US believes that he or she is part of the majority. Almost every citizen believes that his or her choices are the right one. If we all believe that we are correct and the majority, why is their so much conflict in this country? The answer is simple but the solution is not. We all base our beliefs on different racial, religious, and

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    Essay Length: 1,231 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics

    Running head: CULTURAL VALUES AND PERSONAL ETHICS Effect of Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Anne E. Bonidie University of Phoenix Effect of Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Decisions we make everyday are influenced in part by our core values. Our cultural background, individual bias, personal ethics, and past experiences help to form the basis of our value system. “We begin sharpening our values at a very early age. Our parents, teachers, friends, religious leaders, heroes

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    Essay Length: 331 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: July
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    What do we mean when we use this term? It is easy to let this term become overused and fall into the ever expanding volume of the "trite" archives along with phrases like "family values" or "personal responsibility". Those phrases, along with so many others like them are great catch phrases because they conjure up pictures and tones of voice and feeling that are generally positive. However, there is one major flaw in this -

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    Essay Length: 619 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper

    Cultural Values and Personal Ethics Paper The intent of this paper is to provide an overview of my cultural and personal ethics. Cultural values and personal ethics start the moment we are born. Throughout my life my values and ethics have been put through the test. In this paper I will provide some insight on my personal values, organizational values, cultural values and ethical dilemmas. Personal Values Personal values are principles that define me as

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    Essay Length: 943 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 2, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cultural Values

    Cultural Values

    Personal values, in my opinion, are something you develop over your lifetime. There are many things that influence a person’s personal values. Parents tend to push their opinions and beliefs as well as their own values and morals on to their children and try to get them to hold the same values, morals, and beliefs as their own. Our personal values also come from life experiences. I have always believed that abortion is not an

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    Essay Length: 712 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 7, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cultural Values and Ethics

    Cultural Values and Ethics

    To measure the ability for being a good employee, he must work hard. But are we ethically doing that responsibility? This is always the question I asked to myself since I start working. Working in an office environment, employees would see a lot of ethical behavior between the employees and their supervisors. As an Accounts Payable Specialist, I help out with matching checks and invoices, answering heavy phone calls everyday and reconciling vendor statements. Sometimes

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    Essay Length: 760 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values and Operating Practices

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values and Operating Practices 1) What strengths can you identify at Southwest Airlines? Why do you think Southwest is one of the most admired airlines in the world? What weaknesses or problems do you see at Southwest Airlines? Despite the crisis being dealt upon by Southwest Airlines in relation to the September 11 bombing, several strengths or advantages can be identified, which determines the airline's survival in facing the crisis. Primarily, compared

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    Essay Length: 3,376 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2011 By: royaljatt
  • Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, Strategies

    Southwest Airlines: Culture, Values, Strategies

    Case Study: Southwest Airlines in 2008: Culture, Values, and Operating Practices 1. Is there anything that you find particularly impressive about Southwest Airlines? The most impressive aspect of Southwest Airlines is their culture and how the culture supports the strategy of low cost airline. The spirit, which originated from the company establishment with all the litigations involved, has been developing with the company. The "warrior" attitude endorsed and encourage by Herb Kelleher in combination with

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    Essay Length: 1,158 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2011 By: mickeymouse31
  • Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis: Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture Representations of gender are portrayed as essential norms in today’s culture, creating standardized myths and sexism within society through the media. The normative portrayals of gender in society consist of stereotypical roles and images that are created through media devices such as, film, television, popular fiction, music and advertisements. Judith Butler draws on the idea of gender performativity and explains how

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    Essay Length: 4,490 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Values-Driven Culture

    Values-Driven Culture

    Values-Driven Culture Schad claims that the purpose of his company is "to be a role model of lasting business success based on our core values." The company’s core values — make a contribution, proactive environmental responsibility, passion for excellence, and uncompromising honesty — cascade throughout all of the company’s activities. For example: Husky’s commitment to environmental responsibility has made it a worldwide role model, and has earned it the Financial Post Gold Environmental Leadership Award,

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    Essay Length: 1,490 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Certain Clashes of Cultures

    Certain Clashes of Cultures

    We always have different opinions on how to take upon our life or perhaps how we perceive the very definition or life itself. Thus by far, I can only surmise that they way we live life and see it, is gravely affected by the way we think, and believe of it. This so called perception is called our "philosophy in life" which primarily is comprised of values and experiences. In the Hindu drama called Shakuntala

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    Essay Length: 392 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Clash Between Nigerian Culture and Western Ideas and Traditions

    The Clash Between Nigerian Culture and Western Ideas and Traditions

    The British took Nigeria as a colony around 1885 and into the early part of the 1900s. In 1914, Northern and Southern Nigeria were brought together to create one single entity known as Nigeria. The British created a legislative council in 1922. The council started off mainly Britains but slowly began to incorporate Western educated Africans. In 1947, the Britains established a new form of government in Nigeria based on a system of three regions.

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    Essay Length: 1,311 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Clash of Cultures and Races in "a Passage to India"

    The Clash of Cultures and Races in "a Passage to India"

    The clash of cultures and races in "A Passage to India" A Passage to India, published in 1924, was E. M. Forster's first novel in fourteen years, and the last novel he wrote. Forster began writing A Passage to India in 1913, just after his first visit to India. The novel was not revised and completed, until the end of his second stay in India, in 1921, when he served as secretary to the Maharajah

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    Essay Length: 2,810 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Clash of the Cultures in Ballard's Empire of the Sun

    Clash of the Cultures in Ballard's Empire of the Sun

    "Young Goodman Brown" Symbolism, something that figuratively represents something else, is prominent in many literary works. One piece of literature that stands out as a perfect example of symbolism is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown." This story is completely symbolic, and provides a good example of an allegory, or a story in which concrete items or characters represent abstract ideas. Hawthorne uses both objects and people as symbols to better support the allegorical tones throughout

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    Essay Length: 1,906 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Culture Clash Essay

    Culture Clash Essay

    Jaclyn Dignan Culture Clash Paper 2/1/07 The one thing that humans have a hard time understanding is that animals do not think like humans at all. Their mentality is living off of food, shelter, and sex. Culture Clash really helped me realize just how confusing an animal’s behavior really is. It’s not impossible to get to an animal’s level of behavior using Pavlov’s operant and classical conditioning, which is fascinating. A few of the more

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    Essay Length: 1,597 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Critically Evaluation of Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card

    Critically Evaluation of Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card

    Critically evaluation of Porter's five forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card Given the demands of today's competitive and dynamic environment, it is quite challenging to understand strategic issues facing organizations and develop the capability for long term organizational success. This report aims to present a critically analysis of three frameworks across organizations: Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain and Balanced Scorecard. Such critical evaluation includes identifying the benefits and limitations of three frameworks and considering

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    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The Culture of the Umuofia Society Before the Colonial

    The culture of the Umuofia society before the colonial infiltration, may be hard to understand but we are forced by Achebe to realize it has traditions and customs that make it work. Although, looking at it from our Judaeo-Christian point of view we may be appalled by some of their practices. We also have to realize that they have strengths. Things Fall apart is the idea of balance and interdependence, earth and sky, individual and

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    Essay Length: 1,352 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2009 By: Edward
  • Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing and Organizational Culture

    Downsizing And Organizational Culture Thomas A. Hickok -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract In this article Hickok argues that, ultimately, the most prominent effects of downsizing will be in relation to culture change, not in relation to saved costs or short-term productivity gains. In particular, the author notes three observations in relation to the impact of downsizing on organizational culture. First, it clearly appears that power has shifted away from rank-and-file employees in the direction of top management/ownership. Accompanying

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    Essay Length: 6,454 Words / 26 Pages
    Submitted: March 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    The Oddyssey in Popular Culture

    Many forms of popular culture today are inspired by themes, characters, and other references in various types of classical literature. John Denver's song "Calypso" parallels with a number of the themes in Homer's the Odyssey. The Odyssey's themes involving Odysseus' journey back home and the aid of gods and goddesses directly influence "Calypso." The first stanza in Calypso is influenced by Odysseus' journey to back to his homeland. The first couple of lines compare

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Values and Beliefs of an American People

    Values and Beliefs of an American People

    Values and Beliefs of an American People Long before America received a name, there existed a dream of a good land that man might discover for himself, a land full of material riches and spiritual hope. The prospect stirred man's vivid imaginations as well as their explorations, and they were willing to sacrifice for their visions and ideals. The earliest of American writings were solely concerned with the dream of a new world and the

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    Essay Length: 882 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • 60's Culture

    60's Culture

    The article "From counterculture to Sixties Culture" clearly demonstrates that the hippie movement was not just founded on pure rebellion from what their parents had prescribed. The article reveals that the 60s culture was a product of many factors including the youths reaction to the Vietnam War, the outpouring of self expression on college campuses around the continent, the constantly dynamic civil rights, and especially the rejection of the counterculture by the mainstream society. The

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    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    Organizational Cultural Inventory Paper

    OCI Paper I applied the Organizational Cultural Inventory (OCI) with the intention that it is a fictional company, J Enterprises. It will be assumed that it is one of the largest financial services companies in the world. The main emphasis of the responses comes from the department in which I work. However, the results could be indicative of the entire company. The OCI Circumplex showed that the company has a culture with moderately strong Oppositional

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    Essay Length: 1,357 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    Cultures' Standard of Beauty

    People are damaging and killing themselves to fit into societies definition of beautiful. Currently we live in a society that is composed of many cultures. These cultures can influence what ones day to day worries are; one of them is being part of a society’s definition of beauty. Some of these cultures are American, European, and Hispanic to name a few. These cultures have influence that way people live, act, and think. Often people

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    Essay Length: 1,144 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • Nike’s Value Chain

    Nike’s Value Chain

    STRENGTHS Strong management team and good corporate strategy in both North American and overseas markets First movers advantage in e-commerce Brand recognition and reputation Trademark "Just Do It" Diversity and variety in products offered on the web (footwear, apparel, sporting equipment, etc.) Strong control over its own distribution channel Strong customer base Strong financial position with minimal long term debts Innovative designs in footwear enabling consumers to design their own shoes online Brand reputation and

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    Essay Length: 2,358 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Women’s Portrayal in Advertisement

    Women’s Portrayal in Advertisement

    Women’s portrayal in advertisement Women have always been portrayed certain ways when it comes to advertisements. No matter what the product is that is being sold women have been looked at in particular ways. There isn’t just one stereotype that’s placed on women but numerous stereotypes. Women have been used in advertisements for many years being portrayed in ways that reflected what an acceptable female should be. Women have always been looked at as

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    Essay Length: 786 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Janna

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