...Running Head: INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT How do culture and environment influence one’s life? Name University 1 INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT 2 Influence of culture and environment on one’s life It is believed that the primary connection between human beings and the world is their senses. It is what one perceives, touches, smells or hears that constitutes their later output. Information picked up by these senses is provided by one’s immediate environment. Moreover, every action taken or utterance made has a direct or indirect bearing with the culture in the surrounding. The activities one engages in and the conversations held with different individuals in this environment, all make up one’s daily life. This influence can occur in diverse ways (Sarte, 2008). One way in which environment can influence one’s life is through language. Different people come from various ethnic communities. Each ethnic community has a native language that it teaches its offspring. Depending on where one was born, and the first language learnt, people can exhibit different accents. For instance, someone born and brought up in the American neighborhood will speak in the same accent as the Americans, irrespective of their ethnic background (Sarte, 2008). However, if the person had been brought up in an African setting, his/her accent would have been different. These differences are especially evident when one learns a second language. This logic explains why Black Americans may...
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...Culture and Environment Influence The environment one is born in and the cultural values they find themselves in have a great impact not only on their behavior and mental thinking but to their overall life as a human being. This is because what one experiences and interacts with shapes his or her mind towards a certain way of life which is very difficult to change since they keep seeing it on a day to day basis and this influences the way they live. Take for example someone born in a poor family which is struggling to raise their daily needs. This in most cases will motivate the individual to work hard in order to raise their living standards and ensure their life is not embroiled in poverty. However this may not always be the case as some of them may become demotivated by this environment and see it as way of life and they put no efforts to work hard to get themselves out of such situations. The culture one is born in is a very important factor in influencing the way of life of a human being. Different people born and brought up in different cultures perceive the world differently and thus they act and live in a certain way that is dictated by their culture. A child born in a Christian family will in most cases end up subscribing to the same faith while one born in an Islamic family...
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...Corporate Culture, Environment, and Strategy The purpose of this article is to discuss the nature of a corporate culture in terms of the systems that are designed to support it. While it is true that cultures cannot be designed, the point we make is that the various control systems of the organization can work to shape through judicious reinforcement and feedback the desired attitudes and behaviors that are consistent with a particular strategic direction. The "culture" of the organization can therefore be defined as the emergent pattern of beliefs, behaviors, and interaction that uniquely characterize the organization as it operates within an industrial and a societal context. From a system perspective three levels can be distinguished from the start: (1) the societal level, (2) the industry level, and (3) the organizational level. Importance of culture in understanding behavior in different societies From this perspective, then, a "corporate culture" must necessarily be at least minimally consistent with the societal culture it is derived from. Societal exposure and heritage foster a labor force with a given value orientation, beliefs, and expectations about work and the work environment that are the "raw material" of corporate cultures. These points suggest that, in addition to societal culture, the specific industry a firm operates in is an important context for understanding corporate culture. While a complex array of internal dimensions affect...
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...return to wellness of the whole body. This is contrary to the cure model used in traditional hospital which focuses on eradicating the disease. Healing health care focus of the need of the entire being rather than focusing on curing the physical ailment. This concept advances the idea that apart from addressing the physical needs, the healing process should also address the patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. The healing hospital paradigm is made up of three major components; these include; a culture of loving care, a healing physical environment and an integrated work design and technology. However, there are several challenges experienced when attempting to implement the healing environment in the traditional hospital environment. This paper will discuss the components of healing hospitals and the challenges involved in implementing the healing environment. Components of a Healing Hospital Healing hospital paradigm lays more emphasis on the patient’s healing environment. This includes the kind of care the patient is receiving and the conditions the patient is exposed to when receiving treatment (Samueli Institute, 2010). Under the healing hospital paradigm, provision of care is not only limited to provision of medical intervention procedures and medication but also come down to how medical caregivers engage the patients and their relatives in the treatment process. This concept is based on the idea that emotional and spiritual wellbeing contributes to physical well...
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...Introduction * Current business environment: Responsible business is good business Both of us used to consider that if we become rich someday, what we can do or do something significant after I read some articles on corporate social responsibility. It is true that most of great companies always contribute to their wealth and to overall societal wealth by considering the effective on their employee, customers, the environment they existed, they competitors, shareholders and others to maximum the both wealth and improve their overall value when they making the decision in the current world. Not only consider about the money any more, they’ve move the main point to the both sides. Most of great companies are move their strategies on the understanding of the relationship between responsible business and good business. The external investors and market will measure the company’s strategies and performance based on their corporate social responsibility. It is a good approach that the CSR activities will help the company to build an effectively relationship with their customers and employees to acting responsibly towards then both of them will create more and more additional value for the company’s shareholders, stakeholders, and overall sides of company. Somehow, the company need to working close with their stakeholders to better develop their innovative and economically viable products, processes and services in order to improved environmental protection and social conditions...
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...decision-making of company executives as they explore expanding business in the global market. The Coca-Cola Company is a perfect example of a company using both domestic and international marketing. Marketing’s importance in the business world increases day by day. For Coca-Cola to market at a domestic level, they must promote their local products to local consumers in local markets and satisfy the needs of the local consumers. For Coca-Cola to market at a global level, they must promote multinational business all over the world to international consumers in international markets. There are external factors impacting company operations. Both global and domestic companies feel the effect of these factors, which make up the marketing environment influencing company decisions. There are four environmental factors Coca-Cola took into consideration when expanding their market globally....
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...Healing Hospitals: A daring paradigm Mercy Cooper Grand Canyon University: Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V 11/24/13 Healing Hospitals: A Daring Paradigm Hospitals are embracing the paradigm of healing hospitals. This concept is based on research evidence that suggests that the environment of care has significant implications on patient outcomes. Creation of a healing environment thus represents a concerted effort to comprehensively address all the factors that contribute to the disease process (Giemer-Flanders, 2009). Healing physical environments comprise of the following components: healing physical environments, a culture of loving care, integration of technology into work design, and blended medicine. Healing hospitals, unlike traditional hospitals, concerned for the person as a whole. Caring for the whole person consists of attending to the persons mind, body, spirit, and the environment. Blended medicine, the first component of a healing hospital, refers to the use of both conventional medicine and complementary and alternative therapies. Conventional medicine is an evidence-based meaning that its clinical utility and effectiveness in the treatment of a given disease has been validated through high-quality clinical trials. Alternatively, the treatments may have been shown to be more effective in the treatment of a certain disease or they may have withstood the test of time. Complementary and alternative medicine, on the other hand, employs techniques that...
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...Chapter 3 Influences in the Business Environment Personal use only Businesses operate in a dynamic, often turbulent, environment. The business environment refers to anything that affects the operation of a business. Farmers have understood the impact of the environment for centuries. The farmer has no control over aspects of the environment The business such as drought. However, the farmer can prepare for possible adversity in the environment and environment refers to quickly adapt to those changes. Effective managers are constantly monitoring the business environment to pick up any change that may impact on their business. If they pick up a change quickly and respond before their competitors, it may lead to a significant advantage to their business. This is what happened when Woolworths’ managers picked up the trend to the healthy life style before the managers of Coles. The Woolworths’ managers immediately responded by developing a focus on fresh produce, delicatessens, bakeries and dairy. Customers responded by leaving Coles and shopping at Woolworths. Now that Wesfarmers Limited has purchased Coles its managers are quickly implementing strategies to regain their competitive advantage. anything that affects the operation of the business 55 HomeThink Draw the Woolworths’ logo. What does it represent? Is it effective? 3.1 External influences The external influences from the business environment are those outside the control of a business’s managers. The...
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...Sciences Bad Honnef · Bonn Masters of Arts International Management Is GHRM applicable to be implemented in all types of business? Name: Hisham Reda Student ID: NEC2160104 Supervisor: Dr. Tina Huesing Date of Submission: 10.04.2016 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I know it’s not a thesis or a huge research to write an acknowledgements but I wanted to thank Dr. Tina Huesing for being a great teacher for me and it’s a real privilege for me to still learning under her supervised. She is very helpful and inspiring for me especially I am still in the beginning of learning how to write a good research from her, and I would say thank you very much. Abstract GHRM is a concept of how the company going green and to change the culture of the company to a green business through implementing its practices and policies which are integrating to CSR to reach the social needs of the employees by keep them feeling afe and work in safety and health work place to increase their retention, but these policies are not suitable for all kind of businesses as they have disadvantages on some businesses and a lot of consequences and that what the paper will discuss from what are the types of businesses cant implement these practices and what are these disadvantages. Keywords: GHRM, HRM, CSR, social needs, green business, greenwashing Table of Contents II. List of Abbreviations 5 III. Chapter 1: Research Outline and Introduction:- 6 A. Introduction 6 B. Research...
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...---------------- MAN1100 – Assignment 2 Q1. Organisation (or corporate) culture is often considered an important component of successful organisations. Explain how managers can promote ‘work life balance’ within their organisation to improve the culture and therefore productivity. In recent times, there has been increasing interest among organisational stakeholders for introducing work-life balance policies to combat the reduced health and well-being among employees (Kalliath & Brough, 2008). However, Judiesch & Lyness explain (cited in Smith & Gardner, 2007, p. 4-5) that “Other research has also identified situations in which taking leave, regardless of the reason for it, was associated with fewer promotions and smaller salary increases suggesting a relationship between taking leave and perceived commitment to ones career”. This brings about the issue of promoting work-life balance policies in a positive manner so that negative connotations may be avoided. This assignment explains the difficulties associated with promoting a healthy work-life balance as well as how an effective use of policy and implementation relating to work-life balance can improve organisational culture and productivity. Management teams in organisations often find it difficult to promote the use of work-life balance policies due to the negative connotations associated. Wayne and Cordeiro (cited in Smith & Gardner, 2007, p. 5) state that “Employees may perceive that using family-friendly...
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...Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing Green marketing in B2B organisations: an empirical analysis from the natural‐resource‐based view of the firm Elena Fraj Eva Martínez Jorge Matute Article information: To cite this document: Elena Fraj Eva Martínez Jorge Matute, (2013),"Green marketing in B2B organisations: an empirical analysis from the natural#resource#based view of the firm", Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, Vol. 28 Iss 5 pp. 396 - 410 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08858621311330245 Downloaded on: 26 October 2014, At: 19:59 (PT) References: this document contains references to 87 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 1841 times since 2013* Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: Downloaded by UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA At 19:59 26 October 2014 (PT) (2007),"Environmental management systems "must measure green performance"", Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Vol. 18 Iss 2 pp. Jerónimo de Burgos#Jiménez, Diego Vázquez#Brust, José A. Plaza#Úbeda, Jeroen Dijkshoorn, (2013),"Environmental protection and financial performance: an empirical analysis in Wales", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 33 Iss 8 pp. 981-1018 Lez Rayman#Bacchus, Sumita Sindhi, Niraj Kumar, (2012),"Corporate environmental responsibility – transitional and evolving", Management of Environmental Quality:...
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...global market and financial expertise and offer products and services in corporate banking, Private banking, personal banking and enterprise banking. 1.2 Research title, questions and research objectives. The proposed research title chosen for this project is “Analysis and review of organizational environment at DBS”. This project would outline the following objectives: i) Outline the influence of organizational environment on the company. ii) The role of organizational environment on company’s growth process. iii) Review the impact of change in organizational environment. 1.3 Research Rationale. Firstly, cross cultural management and managing change is becoming increasingly important in today’s world where company’s trying to expand globally are associating people, organization and countries together and this is where management across culture comes into play. The main concern for an organization is its environment as it exerts variety of pressures on organization and managers. This pressure’s would influence the organizations global strategy, organizational design, control and decision making process and organizational culture. A change in organizations environment could jeopardize and increase concerns about the company’s future. DBS is a...
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...basic legal environment of business is governed by state, country and international laws. This includes laws on what can or cannot be formed or sold, consumer and employee protection laws, tax and other financial laws, as well as many rules and protocols with respects to business ethics, when and how to seek legal assistance in case of differences. The production or sale of a certain goods is illegal or at least strictly regulated in many countries. This includes, among others, selling of dangerous drugs, guns and explosives. Employee protection protects laws against unfair perception based on race, color, religion, sex, or age; laws against partial removal and sexual or other harassment; health and safety laws and laws regulating minimum wages. The social environment consists of the sum total of a society's beliefs, customs, practices and behaviors. It is to a large extent, a fake construct that can be compared with the natural environment in which we live. Every society has ideas about their own social environment. Some of the customs, beliefs, practices and behaviors are similar across cultures, and some are not. For example, an American traveling to Britain will find many familiar practices but not so much if traveling to China. This is a social environment created by a society at large in which a business functions can be bring up to as its external social environment. If a business runs in a multicultural society, then the social external social environment is even more...
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...vision, mission, and values guide the division’s strategic direction. The guiding principles and values for the division in the context of culture, social responsibility, and ethics will be defined in this paper. New Product Proposal Alons’ Petroleum bombs for military weapons to defend the U.S. against terrorist, foreign, and domestic enemies of the U.S. Breathing petroleum vapors will cause nervous system effects (such as headache, nausea, and dizziness) and respiratory problems. High exposure will cause coma and death. When skin is in contact with liquid petroleum skin irritation occurs, it will also affect the blood and kidney system (Schneiderman, 2012). Most of us do not like the idea of new weapons to harm others but it is a necessity to defend our country, other countries, and innocent people of other countries against attacks and violence. The focus here is providing Petroleum bombs to the U.S. military to defend our country and innocent people from attacks. Alons’ innovation mission statement for the Petroleum bombs is to help the U.S. protect our country against terrorist, foreign, and domestic enemies of the U.S. by providing the military with petroleum bombs to defend the incent. Unlike most bombs the petroleum bomb is only meant to affect its’ target until the vapors dissipate; this is to prevent humans and our environment...
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...Lac,K. (2013). Make a decision to support eco-friendly tourism this Earth Day. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/article/make-a-decision-to-support-eco-friendly-tourism-this-earth-day-1 In the given article the author pings a caution reminder to the travelers to start some essential things on the Earth day April 17.Since tourism industry places huge stress on the environment, as a traveler we should support eco-tourism by using eco-friendly products. Some of the tourism industry began to encourage this by providing eco-friendly hotels, on-site bike rentals, biodegradable bottles. Likewise many airlines were putting their effort to lessen their carbon foot prints. Finally the writer supports the future generations to enjoy beautiful destinations as it is, for that we need to preserve our beloved mother EARTH. African Wildlife Foundation. (n.d.). Conservation Tourism:Conservation tourism turns wildlife into a local asset. Retrieved from http://www.awf.org/economic/conservation-tourism The given article emphasis how Africa’s wildlife is conserved besides threats and the initiative steps taken by AWF to develop the tourism. The foundation appointed some non-profitable trusts to preserve the forest areas from the occupiers. They face challenges from local community and they teach them the importance of wildlife and how to preserve it. They found some solutions to support the locals by developing ecotourism lodges, providing jobs, giving training as a safari operator to support...
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