...Low Context Cultures vs. High Context Cultures The video cultural difference in business is about a 17-year-old Valerie Hoek who traveled through the outskirts of Beijing China. She gained valuable knowledge about China’s culture by staying with the locals and learning how they lived and believed. This knowledge later helped her in business relationships with China. China, which is a high context culture, emphasizes interpersonal relationships in their personal lives and while doing business. The perception of people in high context cultures from people in low context cultures may be they are inefficient in their use of time; however, high context cultures may believe people from low context cultures are overly aggressive. This video also points out how in high context culture, earning trust is very important to them when doing business and building relationships over time is how this is achieved. Low context cultures like United States, relationships are not as important in business transactions as contracts and laws are. In addition, conversation is more direct straightforward, concise, and efficient in telling what action is expected. Words are in high context societies are not as important as tone of voice, facial expression, gestures, posture or the person’s family history and status. Saving face, as stated in the video, is a major concern in low context cultures because of the importance of building relationships and status. In low context cultures having a transaction...
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...Visit www.flightcentre.com.au | Call 1300 733 867 Flight Centre Limited trading as Flight Centre ABN 25 003 377 188 ACN 003 377 188 Flight Centre Booking Number 6516699 Your Itinerary: Issued Monday 29 April 2013 Present this itinerary with your photo ID (or passport for international travel) at check-in. Avoid delays at check-in. Confirm flight times and terminal information within 24 hours prior to departure. Flight Details Malaysia Airlines MH140 Fare Class: ZBT3MAU Airline Reference: L0GDW Travellers Mr Xiong Yang Departs Sydney 9:40PM Wednesday 15 May 2013 Baggage 40kg of checked bags included Arrives Kuala Lumpur 4:30AM Thursday 16 May 2013 Frequent Flyer Program International check-in 2 hours prior to scheduled departure time. You need a valid passport for international travel. Domestic check-in 1 hours prior to scheduled departure time. You need a valid Australian photo identification to check-in. Check in online at airlines' websites within 24 hours of departure. Important Information Confirm flight times and terminal information within 24 hours prior to departure. Qantas flights QF1-QF399 depart from the International Terminal. Jetstar flights depart from Domestic and International Terminals. Use this itinerary to check in. Australian and New Zealand flights use electronic tickets, you will not be issued with a paper ticket. Domestic check-in 1 hour prior to the scheduled departure time. You need valid Australian photo identification to check-in....
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...In this appendix i will be writing about the changes of the British Airways management process that occur in 2009-2011 In the 2009 British Airways facing a major financial problems, the British Airways has lost £466.9m in July 2009. factors that cause this financial problems are: - Significant increase in fuel price - British Airways staff salary is above the industry average - Sharp fall in the frequency of business class and first class passengers So in order to overcome the problems British Airways management come out with a few methods. As stated above. The BA staff salary are above the average. By doing that BA losing about £1.6m a day. So the management decide that average pay would be brought in line with staff at Virgin Atlantic, who are paid half as much as their BA counterparts. And hope it will cut down £140m a year off cabin crew costs and also reductions in its 40,000-strong workforce, in addition to the 2,500 recent job losses at the company. But it didn’t went well. In December 2009, a strike ballot was held by Unite the Union among its British Airways members concerned about job losses, a pay freeze and changes to the work practices of cabin crew. The proposed strikes were supported by Unite members. The second ballot was held in February 2010, and a series of industrial actions by Unite against BA followed in March 2010. After a long dispute between British Airways and the union finally in the April-May 2011 the Airways and the Union came to an agreement...
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...1. using System; 2. 3. class AirlineResevationSystem 4. { 5. static void Main() 6. { 7. int seatsFirst, seatsEconomy, reserve, i = 0, j = 6; 8. bool[] seats = { false, false, false, false, false, 9. false, false, false, false, false }; // seating chart 10. Console.WriteLine("Welcome to Airline Reservation System."); // greet the user 11. 12. while (true) 13. { 14. Console.WriteLine("There are " + checkFirstClass(out seatsFirst, seats) + " first class seats and " + checkEconomy(out seatsEconomy, seats) + " economy seats."); // check available seats 15. Console.WriteLine("Please enter 1 to reserve a first class seat or enter 2 to reserve an economy class seat or 0 to exit"); // promt user for input 16. reserve = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine()); // input from user 17. if (reserve == 1) 18. { 19. if (i > 5 || i == 5) 20. { 21. Console.WriteLine("There are no first class seats available. Would you like an economy class seat? Type 2 for yes and 0 to exit."); 22. reserve = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine()); // RIGHT HERE I WOULD LIKE THE PROGRAM TO GO BACK TO THE INITIAL IF STATEMENT AND CHECK THE CONDITIONS. ANY ADVICE? 23. } 24. else reserveFirstSeat(ref...
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...International Business Environment Spring Semester 2013 Instructor: Mustafa MAMMADOV, PhD Hours: 18:30-21:00 Contact email: mustafa160705@yahoo.com Day: Monday/Wednesday Room: 421 Books: International Business by Charles Hill, 4 edition; International Business by John D. Daniels, Lee H. Radebaugh, Daniel P. Sullivan; 10th edition Recommended reading: Global marketing management, 2nd edition by Brian Toyne and Peter G.P.Walters; Особенности маркетинга по-азербайджански, М.Мамедов, Баку, 2009 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE: Today we live in era of globalization. There is no definite answer whether it positively or negatively impacts on national economies, but it is obvious that companies seek more markets for its products and services than just local markets. The world became smaller and easily reachable. The national borders are something symbolic and open for international business. Companies are growing rapidly than ever and likely consider the opportunity to enter foreign markets and promote sales. Local business is nervously screening international news as any event in one point of the world could affect the other point considerably. The main goal of the course is to understand the entire international business environment, its background and peculiarities, concepts, theories and fundamental principles. Also the course will examine the main international tendencies and analyze...
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...BUS 101 – Business Organization and Management Text: Business, eleventh edition William M. Pride, Robert J. Hughes, Jack R. Kapoor South-Western Cengage Learning, 2010; ISBN-13: 978-0-538-47808-3 Course Outline: Introduction Unit 1: Chapters 1, 4, 5 Chapter 1 – Exploring the World of Business and Economics Chapter 4 – Choosing a Form of Business Ownership Chapter 5 – Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Franchises Unit Exam Unit 2: Chapters 9, 10, 11, 6, 7 Chapter 9 – Attracting and Retaining the Best Employees Chapter 10 – Motivating and Satisfying Employees and Teams Chapter 11 – Enhancing Union-Management Relations Chapter 6 – Understanding the Management Process Chapter 7 – Creating a Flexible Organization Unit Exam Unit 3: Chapters 12, 13, 14, 15 Chapter 12 – Building Customer Relationships Through Effective Marketing Chapter 13 – Creating and Pricing Products that Satisfy Customers Chapter 14 – Wholesaling, Retailing, and Physical Distribution Chapter 15 – Developing Integrated Marketing Communications Unit Exam Unit 4: Chapters 2, 18, 20, 3 Chapter 2 – Being Ethical and Socially Responsible Chapter 18 – Understanding Money, Banking, and Credit Chapter 20 – Understanding Personal Finances and Investments Chapter 3 – Exploring Global Business Unit Exam Final Exam (cumulative) Your final grade will be based on: Four Unit Exams 40% (10% each unit exam) Final Exam 20% ...
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... | | |Business Literature | Copyright © © 2011, 2007, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course explores business and the workplace through imaginative literature and essays. Students may study poems, plays, short stories, and essays with themes or story lines that emanate from the workplace. Students will read, interpret, and analyze the literature while responding to the connections between occupation and personal identity and the connections between the social and personal significance of their relationship with work. Students will note and discuss trends in society that are illustrated by business and workplace attitudes and portrayed in literature. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your...
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...of Responsible Commerce Assessment 2: In Class Essay (45 minutes) The aim of this assessment task is to help you develop a deeper understanding of the difficult ethical questions in business, and how to respond to those using moral philosophies. In doing so, we hope that you will be able to make more considered and informed business (and consumption) decisions for the benefit of both yourself and the wider society. In your week 2 tutorial, you were required to produce a short summary of your understanding at that time of the meaning and importance of the term ‘responsible business’. Since then you have explored various historical, moral, governance and economic aspects of business both domestically and internationally. Task In COMM101, you have been exposed to several cases of corporate unethical behaviour. Ethical misconduct of senior executives appear to be at the centre of these scandals. In Australia, the James Hardie Industries ‘asbestos’ case has been featured in the media for some time. The company has been accused of causing over half of the number of documented cases of mesothemilia, a lung cancer caused by asbestos. In your in-class essay writing, you are required to do the following. 1. Using utilitarianism, discuss two reasons each in favour of, and against, James Hardie executives’ conduct. 2. As summarised in your week 2 tutorial exercise, reflect in your essay, how your views concerning ‘responsible business’ have been influenced by a. your research...
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...DDBA 8160: Business Strategy and Innovation Student Support and Calendar Information: So that you have all key information available to you offline, it is highly recommended that you print out the following items for your reference: * This Syllabus * Term Calendar * Instructor and Student Support Info Course Number and Title DDBA 8160: Business Strategy and Innovation Credits 3 credits Catalog Description This course focuses on the development and implementation of business strategies that enable competitive advantage, with an emphasis on understanding the current environment and innovation in which the organization competes and forecasting how that environment may change. Course assignments focus on the practical application of writing and critical-thinking skills and the integration of professional practice at the doctoral level. Learning Objectives Stated in Terms of Learning Outcomes By the end of this course, you will be able to: * Demonstrate an understanding of the evolution of traditional concepts of strategic management and thinking, including models of business-level competitive advantage * Evaluate contemporary challenges to traditional strategic management and thinking models * Apply systems-thinking principles to the framing and analysis of business problems and opportunities * Develop innovative business strategies designed to achieve sustainable solutions * Synthesize principles of sustainable strategic management...
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...Southern States University BU-502 Applied Business Research and Communications Skills Online Spring Quarter, 2016 Updated: April 4, 2016 CREDIT HOURS: 4.0 CONTACT HOURS: 40 (40 Theory, 0 Lab) (40 Online) Instructor: Dr. Peggy Bilbruck Email: pbilbruck@ssu.edu (inquiries will be responded within 24-36 hours). For any urgent technical problems with Moodle, contact the SSU-Moodle Administrator: ssumoodle@ssu.edu Office Hours: Wednesdays on Moodle from 11 – 12 pm ONLINE TIME ESTIMATE: This course requires four (4) hours of online activities every week on Moodle plus an additional 8 hours (minimum) of homework per week. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides an introduction to graduate business studies focusing on the applied business research and communication skills necessary to be successful in both an academic MBA program and the current economic environment and workplace. It covers information literacy, research and research methodologies, oral and written communication skills as well as critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making paradigms. As designed, the course will familiarize students with the tools necessary for the successful presentation of theories and concepts as they apply to real world managerial scenarios including business decision-making. Prerequisite: None Prerequisite(s): None Co-requisite(s): None What is an Online Course? This is an online course so we will not be meeting...
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... Social-class microcultures in consumer behavior 2 Implications to marketing practitioners 3 Suggestion for Improvement 4 Conclusion 4 Reference list 5 Introduction Market nowadays is so rapid-constantly changing and so broad. Company needs to adapt to these characteristics of the market and also understanding the consumer’s behavior in the market for them to survive and outrun their competitors. This discussion would further examine the company, Levi Strauss (Levi’s), marketing strategy in the garment industry in the context of Malaysia and also suggestions would be given for improvements. Levi’s first entered into the garment industry in 1873 with the birth of the first pair of jeans. Levi’s has been improving since and now, it is one of the world largest brand-name and also a global leader in jeanswear, according to San Francisco(2014). After gaining reputation as well as high profit, they have been selling other garment products besides jeans, such as clothings, caps, belts, and so on. Social-class micro cultures in consumer behavior A social class is a huge group of people, who have a similar position in an economic system, said by Moffitt(2015). Differentiating, positioning, and targeting different social class plays an important role in marketing. Consumers from different social class have different behaviors as well as wants. According to Moffitt(2015), there are four main social class recognized by societies, which is upper class, middle class, working...
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...FINANCE FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong _____________________________________________________________________________________ ECON2102/2220 Intermediate Macroeconomics 2015-2016 ECON2102CD/2220CD Instructor: C. Chen Office: 901 KKL Office hours: Monday 1:40am – 3:00pm and Tuesday 4:40pm – 6:00pm E-mail: ccfour@hku.hk Semester: 2 Class meeting: ECON2102C/2220C: Monday 9:30am – 12:20pm in LE6 ECON2102D/2220D: Tuesday 1:30pm – 4:20pm in MB201 Mid-term Exams: ECON2102C/2220C: March/14th. (Mon.) 9:40am – 12:10pm in LE6 ECON2102D/2220D: March/15th. (Tue.) 1:40pm – 4:10pm in MB201 Teaching assistant: Mr. Yuk Kwan Wong. One extra class for ECON2102C: Please choose among March/7th. (Mon.) and May/3rd-6th. Q&A class for ECON2102CD: April/26th. (Tue.) Prerequisites: ECON1001/1210 introductory microeconomics and ECON1002/1220 Introductory macroeconomics according to the Regulations, Syllabus & Structure and List of Courses for the BEcon and BEcon&Fin programmes. The course is primarily for students majoring in economics and as such can be technical at times, involving the use of mathematics including elementary calculus. Slides are available at http://www.sef.hku.hk/~ccfour/#Teaching Textbook: Macroeconomics by Andrew B. Abel, Ben S. Bernanke, and Dean Croushore, 8th edition, Pearson Addison Wesley. Assessment: Homework (problem sets plus one short essay) Test (mid-term) Examination (final) 20% (10%+10%) 20% 60% Short Essay: Economics is...
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...Subject Discipline/Course Number: Business Law BSAD C131-50 CRN: 50074 [->0] Instructor’s Name: Anthony (Tony) Damiano Class Day/Time/Class Room: On-line Contact: [->1] or (760) 371-0633 (AT&T Cellular Service) After Hours: Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday 4:30 PM to 9:30 PM (All times are Pacific Standard) General Course Information: It is every student’s responsibility to ensure proper enrollment or withdrawal from this class. You are responsible for your administrative issues. I am responsible for your education and participation in this class. Course Title: Introduction to Business Law Course Description: This course introduces students to the legal environment of business and the American legal system. Students will examine contracts in depth and agency law. The course will include a study of the governmental regulation of business and the relationship between administrative/legislative (state and federal) law, and business ethics. Text: Business Law 4rd Business Ed Revised (2012): Morgan, Shedd & Corley ISBN: 978-1-61882-007-5 COURSE GOALS & OBJECTIVES: Provides an overview of relevant Business Law principles and practices as applied to contemporary organizations. The focus of this course will be the generally applicable laws affecting people and business organizations in the United States, any United States jurisdictions, and doing business with other countries. Student learning outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course...
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...genuine understanding of the material, and not on "memorization". (See last page of Syllabus for Course Learning Objectives.) Course Withdrawal Date and Policy: Last day to withdraw without academic penalty is Monday 03/03/2014. Students who wish to withdraw with a grade "W" must do so formally through the Registrar's Office on or before Monday 03/03/2014. Make-Up Exam Policy: No make-up exams will be administered during the semester. It is the student’s responsibility to check the course calendar and announcements in D2L. Attendance Policy: Attendance in online classes is determined not by physical attendance, but by your participation. Class success and enjoyment depends on your interaction online, including reading all materials and being alert for announcements. You are expected to check the VISTA course every week. Posts made to the Class Café by your professor are required reading, and may contain...
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...Lena Cavusoglu J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University Master in International Business IB 8090 - International Business Environment Essay Exam # 1 Email: lcavusoglu1@student.gsu.edu 1. GDP per capita as an indicator: What are the limitations of this statistic in the context of emerging markets? GDP per capita is often used as an approximation of a country's prosperity. However, this approximation excludes significant factors such as the distribution of income, home production, underground economy, and social cost of production, in making a decision on the well-being of a country's inhabitants. First, emerging markets generally have an unbalanced distribution of income. There may be significant gaps in income between various groups of the society. In such markets, GDP per capita is a misleading indicator of the economic situation because a wealthy minority may hold a large share of GDP. GDP per capita might underestimate the fraction of society who has an income below the poverty threshold. Furthermore, the inequality in income distribution gives rise to a higher rate of increase in underground economy, which may make up a large fraction of GDP generated in a country. Consequently, many places have a higher GDP than what is reported. Second, there is a large domestic production in developing countries such as Turkey, which is not calculated in GDP since these products are not sold on the market. Homegrown vegetables and knit clothing are examples...
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