...MGT 400 STUDY GUIDE 1 (MID-TERM) Materials needed for preparation: Lectures (slides): 1 – What is culture; 2 – Conceptual culture models; 3 – Culture shock and expatriate adjustment; 4 – Motivation; 5 – Decision making; 6 – Ethics. Textbook: Chapter 2 (Culture & International Management), 7 (Motivation), 9 (Decision Making) Cases: (1) Foundering Expatriate; (2) Black & Decker Readings: “The silent language in overseas business”; “Right ways to manage expats”; “Value in tension: Ethics away from home” What is Culture? 1. What is the definition of culture? Acquired knowledge people use to interpret experience and actions. This knowledge then influence values ,attitude and behavior 2. What are the three levels of culture? What are the examples for each level? Surface level food holidays Underwater level economy customs Deep level value belief 3. How is culture transmitted? Both formal and informal Informal transmission occurs every day as individuals interact with each other, watch television, or read books Formal transmission occurs through efforts to socialize as an individual, such as in schools and government 4. How does culture impact communication in organizations? Culture has an impact on how communication takes place in an organization, what is communicated (e.g., only work related or including personal issues), and the manner in which information is communicated (direct confrontation...
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...Matthew Santarsiero Film 101 3/8/12 The 400 Blows by François Truffaut The movie 400 Blows, a film that was created over 50 years ago is as modern and extraordinary as any film presently released today. It was made during the French New Wave timeframe which was a completely different style compared to many other films during that period of time and honestly was similar to most of the “Hollywood” movies that I am used to in this country. This new wave of films fundamentally surrounded itself by creating a feel of real life and personality on the screen that would captivate its viewers, and the movie 400 Blows did everything and more than I expected. This movie exclusively left out a realizable plot, but there is one thing that it did not do. It kept the life that Francois Truffaut was telling as real and as close to authentic as he possibly could. It was shot in first person singular which allows the viewer to imagine exactly what is going on inside the head of the protagonist, in this case Antoine Doinel. We as viewers, are able to follow the childhood of young Antoine as he constantly gets into trouble and ultimately how he deals with living with an uncaring and very difficult family in Paris during his adolescent years. It’s very easy to become captivated with the dialogue and acting within this picture because at certain points you feel the characters emotions and daily struggles as if they were your own. During the time of watching this movie I immediately felt...
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...10/21/2014 Greg Garland - Forbes 2 FREE issues of Forbes Log in | Sign up | Help The World's Billionaires Forbes 400 Richest Americans The Celebrity 100 World's Most Powerful People World's Most Powerful Women +more Greg Garland New Posts Follow (0) Forbes Video Lists Video Top-Earning Dead Celebs Most Popular America's Youngest Billionaires Forbes 400 The At a Glance CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director, Phillips 66 Partners LP CEO/Chairman of the Board/Director/President, Phillips 66 Director, Amgen Inc Age: 56 Profile Greg C. Garland became Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips 66 on April 30, 2012. Mr. Garland was appointed Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production-Americas for ConocoPhillips in October 2010, having previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LLC (CPChem) since 2008. Prior to that, he served [...] more Phillips 66 Compensation for 2013 Salary Restricted stock awards All other compensation Option awards Non-equity incentive plan compensation Change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings Total Compensation $1,441,667 $7,276,484 $311,413 $2,658,045 $4,108,750 $4,045,846 $19,842,205 Options Exercised for 2013 Number of securities underlying options exercisable Number of securities underlying options unexercisable 66,077 53,912 Stock Ownership for 2014 Number of shares...
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...The 400 Blows 1) Truffaut included the puppet show to show how Antoine and his friend are developing mentally. Their mind state is becoming more advanced and “mature” when it comes to stealing. They start to think things through instead of just going at it. The striking thing about that scene is that it shows the children enjoying the scene and having fun, while Antoine and his friend are in the corner plotting with evil thoughts, not enjoying the show. 2) One street scene that I found that interested me was at 24 minutes into the movie, after Antoine had left the carnival. While walking with his friend through the streets, he saw the once beautiful place of what was known as Paris (it’s still beautiful, just not as much as before), as well as his mother, while she was making out with a man who wasn’t her husband. Just this scene alone portrays that in the 1950s, Paris wasn’t the best place to be. Although it was pretty, it was also very busy and crowded on the streets. Anything could happen. 3) One scene I found visually stunning was the carnival scene where he was in the spinning ride. Although I may be wrong, but I feel as if the director included that scene to give an insight of how Antoine’s mind is and he's foreshadowing the rest of the film. The spinning of the ride refers to how Antoine is a confused kid just trying to get through. At one point of the ride, he is completely upside down. That is when his life turns for the worse when he’s sent off to boot camp/military...
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...Neglect and Abandonment: Les 400 Coups Les 400 Coups, is a 1959 French film directed by François Truffaut is highly impactful first-person narrative. The protagonist Antoine Doniel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), is a young Parisian boy who struggles with life. The theme rejection is supported in the film, Les 400 Coups through demonstrations of abandonment, neglect and unhappiness, conveyed through robust cinematography. Abandonment is dramatically demonstrated in the opening sequence. Anotine Doniel, is first introduced to us in the classroom setting. The camera zooms in on him drawing on a pinup poster. Immediately Anotine gets in trouble and is segregated from everyone by being directed behind a large black board. He is being denounced from the...
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...The 400 Blows directed by François Truffaut changed many cinematic rules and planted the seed for new ones that are still being used today. This semi-autobiographical film played a large role in the beginning of the French New Wave. The most famous and still well used shot that came out of The 400 Blows was not used until the very end of the picture – the freeze-frame. This stylistic device was not used often at that time and it stuck in audience’s minds. The film itself follows the everyday life of a boy named Antoine. It’s not a particularly interesting life, but has its moments. He lives with his parents in a tiny apartment dealing with their oddities. His hurtful mom seems to only care about herself and his father appears to be a total fool. At school he is unfulfilled and everyone can tell. He can’t get away with anything in his attempts to make life a little less dull. For the majority of the film Antoine just plods along form one silly event to the next with his pal René. They skip school, go to see movies, and smoke. None of this is exception to watch or overly memorable. What is exceptional and memorable is how you viewed all this. Antoine travels throughout Paris, walking and sometimes almost jogging or running as if someone was pursuing him. His movement didn’t matter to me at the time until the end of the film when this now familiar trot is highlighted in his escape from reform school on route to the ocean. Even more memorable is how it appears on film. The camera...
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...Film 101 Mansour Week 4 – The Foreign Film (400 Blows, 1959) French New Wave (1959-1964) BREAKDOWN FROM CH 10 READING Origins Early French Cinema of 1930’s A period of Poetic realism which meant treating everyday life with emotional sensitivity, showing us how the hardships or highs/lows are supposed to FEEL Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher with existentialist philosophies: Artists should rebel against societal constraints Responsibility for their own actions Create their own world Alexander Astruc French film critic who said filmmaker needs to use all aspects of camera as a pen Compares it to a novelist and his novel French documentary filmmaking, called “cinema verite” of the 1960’s featuring: Portable camera equipment to make films mobile and flexible Rough, intimate look Informal framing, unsettled camera work British Free Cinema/Italian Neorealism Influence of surrounding film movements in Europe which used Advanced narrative structure Focus on real stories about real people New Wave Tenets Developed by Film theorist Andre Bazin Realism Realistic depiction of everyday life as opposed to exaggerated Hollywood style Mise-en-scene Meaning focusing the elements within the frame Characters, background, ANYTHING in the frame Authorship Director’s style – his vision/perspective Soon-to-be called “Auteur Thoery” New Wave Film Traits (moves away from traditional film making) Unsettled camera movement Unusual angles Addressing the camera Improvisational Rejecting traditional linear...
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...Business and CPA Management Case Healthy Steps Charity (HSC) was founded 30 years ago by Vlad Sabakin, a business entrepreneur who has a passion for health and fitness. HSC is a private-sector not-for-profit organization that provides free fitness classes, use of exercise equipment, and nutritional advice to mature low-income residents. With humble beginnings, HSC now has drop-in fitness centers in all the major Canadian cities. HSC’s head office, which is attached to its first fitness centre, is located in Canada’s fastest growing city, Barrie, Ontario, where HSC was founded and where Vlad still lives. Over the past year HSC has experienced substantial turnover at its head office. With the local economy struggling, many families have left the city of Barrie, resulting in vacancies at HSC’s head office. Even though HSC has managed to fill these vacancies quickly, due to the high rate of local unemployment, the new hires often do not have the ideal qualifications. In particular, the accounting department has been in disarray, resulting in questionable accounting information being produced. HSC is one of the largest employers in Barrie. HSC is a registered charity with the CRA and issues official receipts to its donors. HSC has been fortunate enough to receive government support, as well as corporate and individual donations from across Canada to achieve all its initiatives. Since day one, the Barrie Healthcare community continues to be a big supporter of HSC. HSC has received...
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...Reaction Paper Portfolio Course: World Film History Ma Vie en Rose (France, 1997, directed by Alain Berliner): Living Under Social Pressure The movie Ma Vie en Rose was directed by a Belgian director, Alain Berliner, in 1997. A seven-year old boy named Ludovic (Georges du Fresne) is the main character of the movie. He is a boy who wants to be a girl. Moreover, he is totally sure that he is a girl and that it was just a simple God’s mistake that can be righted. However, he finds it extremely hard to live under social pressure that he faces at home and at school. Ludovic’s family tries to ignore his female-oriented games at first. As Ludovic’s mother Hanna (Michele Laroque) says that at the age of seven he was like any other child searching for his identity and individuality. But what happens in reality is that every member of his family shares opinion that he was born a boy and should stay a male until he dies. In fact, he is not given freedom of choice by his family. Ludo adores his mother Hanna and grandmother (Helene Vincent) and admires their beauty and femininity. These two women can make him happy, but he wants them to love him as he is. However, Ludo cannot find enough respect and tolerance for his female identity even from them. Little Ludo learns that expressing his female orientation publicly evokes a negative reaction from both adults and his peers at school. His classmates accept it as a rule that girls...
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...François Truffaut’s film The 400 Blows (or Les Quatre Cents Coups) falls under the category of art cinema; its style and form can be understood by way of an understanding of the conventions or anti-conventions of the art film model. Truffaut’s treatment of story, character, image, and space conform to the generally recognized set of characteristics that typify the genre. In the film the life of the protagonist, Antoine Doinel, accords with the filmmaker’s conscious attempt at creating a film that challenges commonly held notions of narrative, character, and style. As such, Les Quatre Cents Coups is a film in which the central character’s motives are ambiguous, narrative events are loosely connected, and degrees of closure are limited. These characteristics will later form the basic structure of the art film model and can be used to understand the film and art films, in general. An understanding of Les Quatre Cents Coups proves a difficult task without some understanding of the French New Wave, an influential film movement falling roughly between 1959 and 1964. During this era, directors such as: Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut, sought to produce films with a casual style and ambiguous but psychologically developed characters; these directors were opposed to studio filmmaking and the norms of “classical style” and story, which promoted narrative clarity and unity. According to James Monaco, the “aesthetic of the New Wave cinema was improvisational and its photography and editing were...
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...Air-freight Industry Activity A British Airways PLC Activities The Company is engaged in the operation of international and domestic scheduled and charter air services for passengers , cargo and mail. Structure of the company: British Airways is one of the top ten airlines in the world and serves 200 destinations in more than 80 countries. The airline also operates a freight handling centre, Ascentis, which is considered as one of the most advanced freight-handling facilities in the world. Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd Activities Virgin Atlantic Airways is engaged in the operation of scheduled air services for the carriage of passengers and freight. Structure of the company: Virgin Atlantic was founded in 1984, and is one of UK’s second-largest long-haul carrier airlines serving the world’s major cities. The company’s schedule includes twenty one (21) destinations from its operational centres at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. Global Supply Systems Ltd Activities Global Supply Systems Ltd is a dedicated operation company using only freight aircraft to carry goods without having any dedicated scheduled flights. Structure of the company: The Company is a subsidiary of River Don ltd. Global Supply Systems ltd is majority owned by a British entrepreneur, while Atlas Air inc has a minority shareholding in the company. Channel Express(Air Services ) Ltd Activities The Company operates cargo aircraft on charter contracts in Europe. Structure of the company: The...
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...Facts Reason for Delay: The passengers could not board another aircraft since night curfew in Frankfurt would have kicked in by the time the alternate plane would have reached there. Report after the toilet was operated in Delhi “Everything made available to passengers for free was found flushed down the toilet," another official sai Passengers folding their legs on the seat is a typical desi habit which has led to specific instructions to the maintenance staff to look for socks in the rear fold of chairs. Similar attention to toilet maintenance may perhaps spare AI of troubles such as the one experienced on Saturday. Safety: In the last 30 years, Air India has had only one crash—that of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985—which ended in a hull loss and 329 deaths. But that crash was the result of terrorist action, not poor safety," said the Air India spokesperson, referring to the Kanishka tragedy where a bomb obliterated a Boeing 747 aircraft 31,000 feet over Atlantic Ocean This is also corroborated by the fact that Air India is the first airline in the country and amongst the first 10 in the world to have the IATA Operational Safety Audit certification, which is a benchmark for aviation safety norms," said the spokesperson Air India’s engineering facilities have an ISO9002 rating which is meant to mean it meets international standards Defense Blaming the Ailing airline is the easiest things to do. Point taken that AI has a maintenance issue. However...
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...estimates that the size of the aircraft, coupled with the advances in technology described, will provide lower operating costs per passenger than all current variants of Boeing 747. The A380 also features wingtip fences that will alleviate the effects of induced drag and increasing fuel efficiency and performance. 3. Fuel efficiency of A380-Freighter: With its three decks for cargo, the A380F freighter version is able to carry 50 per cent more freight than its closest rival Boeing– and to fly a full 1,400 nm further. Yet with its advanced technology and use of weight-saving composites – 25 per cent of its structure is made from composite materials – the A380F also burns 18 per cent less fuel per ton (per 2000pounds) than its rival (Boeing 747-400). 4. Fuel-burn: It is calculated that despite its ability to carry 35 per cent more passengers than its competitor, the A380 burns 12 per cent less fuel per seat – reducing operating costs and minimizing its effects on the environment at the same time through fewer emissions. Practically the A380 burns fuel per passenger at a rate comparable to that of an economical family car. Maximum fuel capacity: A380- 310,000 L-...
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...deliveries, including the impact of entry into service of the 787-8 and 747-8 Freighter, favorable new airplane delivery mix and higher commercial aviation services revenues. BDS revenues increased by $33 million primarily due to higher revenues in the Boeing Military Aircraft (BMA) and Global Services & Support (GS&S) segments, partially offset by lower revenues in the Network & Space Systems (N&SS) segment. Revenues in 2010 decreased by $3,975 million or 6% compared with 2009. Commercial Airplanes revenues decreased by $2,217 million due to lower 777 deliveries primarily resulting from a production rate change from 7 to 5 per month beginning in June 2010 and no deliveries on the 747 program due to the transition from the 747-400 to the 747-8. These were partially offset by increases in commercial aviation services business. BDS revenues decreased by $1,718 million primarily due to lower revenues in the N&SS segment. The increase in contractual backlog during 2011 and 2010 was due to commercial airplane orders in excess of deliveries and changes in projected revenue escalation for undelivered commercial airplanes. The decrease in unobligated backlog during 2011 is due to decreases at BDS of $3,135 million compared with 2010 primarily due to funding of existing multi-year contracts and termination for convenience by the U.S. Army of the Brigade Combat Team Modernization (BCTM) program, partially offset by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) contract for the KC-46A Tanker...
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...Domestic Fares & Ticketing Schedules Guide & Tariff Schedules Guide & Tariff Domestic Fares & Ticketing Provided for Australian College QED with permission by Pacific Travel Training. Important Notice: Pacific Travel Training has used it's best endeavours in collecting and collating the material contained in the schedules guide but cannot warrant that the information contained is complete and does not assume and hereby disclaims liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions in this schedules guide whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident or any other cause. Neither the whole nor part of any of this schedules guide shall be copied without the express prior approval in writing of owner, Pacific Travel Training. Specially prepared by Pacific Training Limited, February 2005 (5.1.1) © Pacific Travel Training Page 2 Australian College QED Domestic Fares & Ticketing Schedules Guide & Tariff TABLE OF CONTENTS TERMINOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Airline Designator Codes ...................................................................................................................... 5 Aircraft Codes........................................................................................................................................ 5 City/Airport Code...........................
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