...herald of the future. Despite its intimate connection with typified globalization processes, China’s modernization needs to be understood as “an endogenous process that will lead to a distinct form of Chinese modernity” (Friedmann). As the scale and size of China’s urbanization continues at an unprecedented rate, multiple socio-economic changes will occur that will have implications on both domestic and global levels. While unparalleled urbanization guarantees substantial new markets and investment opportunities, it also introduces many multifaceted challenges to overcome. The challenge of growing urban populations will transmit increasing demands on the security of funding for various social services, while affecting the supply and demand of essential resources such as clean water, land and energy. It is for these reasons, that, “stories of architectural construction are not only about engineering and aesthetics; they also include cultural and sociological perspectives”(). In essence, examining the intersections of the past and present within the contemporary urban backdrop of Shanghai will serve as a catalyst in assessing the effects of urban construction on Shanghai and its citizens. This reflection will focus on new and reconstructed space in a historical and contemporary context. The history of the Bund will provide the political context of Shanghai’s rise and fall during its colonization. The Pudong Skyline-the ultimate symbol of China’s ever growing clout-stands as a monument...
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... Study One Research in Motion. Managing Explosive Growth. Walter Demartis. Master programme in HR Development . Department of Human and Organizational Change. The George Washington University. 1. Overview /Introduction The case is about a successful company that has to deal with the complexities and challenges of a globalized environment. The organization faces a number of SHRD issues arising from: a) the specificity of a rapidly changing industry (smartphone), b) the need to cope with significant growth through strategic and diversified sourcing and talent management and, c) align mergers and acquisitions to the HR strategy. Moreover, the growth has resulted in work pressure, which is further affected by lack of physical space and staffing needs concerns also middle management posts. The following analysis further describes the internal and external challenges. The main issue is identified and solutions proposed in the ensuing paragraphs along with an annexed action plan. 2. Environment Analysis Internally, the recent growth and external competition have impacted upon the structures, the workload, and motivation and led the company to reconsider its strategy. Externally, the industry faces an increasing global demand particularly in the emerging economies, which calls for RIM’s penetration in markets like China and...
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...CHALLENGES OF HUMOUR TRANSLATION IN FICTION Reda Baranauskienė, Laura Pociūtė Šiauliai University Introduction Humour is not a modern invention nor is humorous literature. However, what concerns its perception, it appears that humour is highly dependent on cultural background of the perceivers not to mention different cultures and different languages in which people express themselves. All these factors affect the understanding of humorous material and its ability to travel from one culture to the other. Although humour has been studied from philosophical and psychological point of view in the first place, linguistics is not an exception. The patterns of humour and its mechanisms have been studied by Hazlitt (1903), Raskin (1994), Attardo (1994), Alexander (1997), Chiaro (2010) and Berger (2010). The problems of translation have been studied by Nida and Taber (1969), Newmark (1991), Bell (1991) and Chiaro (2010). What concerns translation into Lithuanian valuable contribution has been made by the Lithuanian linguists Armalytė and Pažūsis (1990). Translation of humour has been researched by Alexieva (1997), Chiaro (2010) and Lithuanian linguist Pažūsis (2006). The novelty of the work: the problems of translating English humour into Lithuanian have not been thoroughly studied, therefore it has been chosen as a subject of this paper. The article reveals the complexity of humour phenomenon which exists in every part of the world, nevertheless, travels from one language to another...
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...this course, students will be • familiar with key concepts like civics, ethics and profession • equipped with basic knowledge, skills and attitude of socio-economic and political issues of their country • familiar with government institutions, policies, strategies and legal provisions of their country • able to analyze the dynamics of socio-economic and political transformations of their country • able to develop the knowledge of work habit; professional, environmental, development and public service ethics, and their repercussions • familiarized with foundations of democracy and good governance and tools of democratization process • able to assess the values of multi-culturalism and tolerance for mutual understandings and co-existence • able to gain an increased awareness of the opportunities and challenges of globalization Course Outline Chapter One: Civics and Ethics for Professionals 1.1. Conceptual frame work of Civics and Ethics 1.2. Civics, Ethics and Citizenship 1.3. Relations of Ethics, Civics and Profession 1.4. The development of civics, ethics and profession in Ethiopia 1.5. Examining major value challenges 1.6. Rights and...
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...Running Head: Multicultural Education and the Various Challenges Multicultural Education and the Various Challenges Oletha Y. Mask-York Grand Canyon University EDU 230, Cultural Diversity in the Classroom April 29, 2012 Issues within Multicultural Education As an educator I realize that teaching can be challenging. It requires one to be dedicated to self and the population they serve. It can be exciting or boring. It is how you approach this profession that makes a difference. Teachers have to look into themselves and critique their beliefs and values about the prejudices of the world we live in. Can they open their minds and hearts to a world that has so many different cultures that has breed so many children? These children can have learning disabilities, mental or physical disabilities, or be English Language learners. It is left up to us to follow a curriculum that is exceptional to the needs of all children and it can be challenging. Some critics of multicultural education oppose teaching about different cultures because they believe it will lead to numerous problems. They think it divides cultures and teaches students to think of themselves as being different from the rest of society. Some believe it does not allow students to express their individuality places too much emphasis on the diverse backgrounds. They think that educating students about the U.S. democracy it will focus on the origins of Europe. The belief is if people do not assimilate into the mainstream...
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...Implementing risk transformation in financial institutions Governance and culture Risk transformation can enable a financial institution to elevate risk management from a functional capability to an enterprise responsibility that permeates the entire organization. When that happens, every business, function, and individual becomes responsible for, accountable for, and capable of recognizing and addressing the risks within their purview. Moreover, risk awareness and appropriate risk-related skills can become an integral component of every individual’s responsibilities at every level. In these ways, risk transformation can enhance the organization’s ability to implement business strategies and achieve goals while addressing risks and complying with evolving regulations. This document is one in a series of four on the cornerstones of risk transformation (see Figure 1): • Strategy • Governance and culture • Business and operating models • Data, analytics, and technology As explained in Aligning risk and the pursuit of shareholder value: Risk transformation in financial institutions,1 when these cornerstone frameworks and capabilities are in place, risk management, risk governance, and regulatory compliance can be implemented in a more aligned and integrated manner. Figure 1: The cornerstones of risk transformation What vision drives the Organization? Business Model Operating Model culture What oversight ensures the strategy is executed? ...
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...The movie Hidalgo is a 2004 spin off of a traditional Western. Frank Hopkins, the American rider, faces many challenges across the Najd desert, but with each obstacle Frank overcomes, he begins to discover his true self. At the end the film, Frank has a great realization and transforms into a completely new person. Frank Hopkins begins as a man who hides his true Indian heritage, throughout the film he struggles to decide whether to be an American cowboy or Sioux Indian, but in the end he reveals his true self and embraces his Indian heritage. Frank’s journey unfolds very similarly to a traditional Western, but his true conflict is a new spin on Westerns. This film is similar to an ordinary Western because there is a courageous cowboy who is looked upon as a hero, several scenes of gunplay, and the archetypal situation of cowboys versus Indians shows up. According to Gary Johnson “ Conflicts [of Westerns are] often growing out of several archetypal situations” (328). In this film a new twist is thrown on the cowboys versus Indian conflict. Frank’s conflict is an...
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...PUBLICIS GROUP 2009 The ad sector has been changing these years: you want to have customers participate in the process and not only buy. Main challenges Publicis has been facing. Environment trends Publicis' strategy is the result of changes in the environment that is no longer the same. Competition of huge groups/ mergers in the globalized economy. Understand where P is evolving and what are the main banderies. To diffuse a message, big opportunities but complexities (Internet, smartphone,s social networks…) Marketing trends Shifting balance power to consumers - new tools that enable companies to be more specific about who they want to talk to, to focus the specific customers - less obtrusive in messages: a way to make customer ask for advertisement - viral marketing - enable the customer to live through the message, involving him in the creative process (exp: a piece of ad where you have to chose to see what follows--> Samsung follow your instinct) OPPORTUNITIES OR THREATS? --> interactions help companies collecting useful data regarding their customers --> campaigns can no longer be standardized. Marketing helps companies to know who are their customers, where they are, what they want… Competitive trends Four major companies: Omnicom, WPP, Interpublic and Publicis Group (PG was late on digital) The advertising industry Main trend since the 80s - multiplication of specialized agencies (only provide commercial for one sector e.g healthcare,...
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...Organizational Development and Planned Changed Lashawnda Norris Everest University Online MAN 5285 Organizational Development and Change Dr. Jimmie Flores Organizational Development and Planned Change Organizational development is a set of planned-change techniques or interventions designed to improve organization effectiveness and employee well-being (Balzac, 2011). According to Worren, et al. (1999) stated: “change management is clearly broader than OD in that it includes a wide range of intervention strategies that may enhance human performance directly or indirectly, including process consultation, work restructuring, strategic HRM planning, and the design or development of information technology (IT) solutions (e.g., user interface design) A crucial feature of change management is that it is seen as only one component of a larger organizational change effort, the other components being strategy, business processes, and technology”. In many organizations, organizational development is primarily concerned with managing change in such a way that knowledge and skills are transferred to build the organization’s ability to achieve goals and solve problems (Cummings, et al., 2009). Worren & Ruddle (1999) states: “Organizational development places specific emphasis on the human resources and organizational culture functions. Talent must be attracted, retained and shepherded in order to achieve long-term success in an information economy. Companies...
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...Vol. 3, No. 3; July 2012 The Strategic Transformation of Automobile Industry in China Som Techakanjanakit School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China Tel: 86-186-7239-9237 E-mail: som7125@hotmail.com Meifang Huang (Corresponding author) School of Economics, Wuhan University of Technology 122 Luoshi Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan 430070, Hubei, China Tel: 86-186-7239-9537 Received: May 28, 2012 doi:10.5430/ijfr.v3n3p8 Abstract In the past few years, the global automobile industry is developing difficultly because of the influence from the financial crisis. In contrast, China's automobile production and sales are still having a blowout type growth, and jumped into the world's largest automobile production and sales market. At the same time, Chinese automobile companies continue to deepen and join with international brand cooperation; independent research and development of the independent brand production, and their technical also get greatly strengthened. Similarly, in the tide of industrial upgrading and international acquisitions, strategic transformation era of Chinese automobile industry has gradually started. This paper based on the world economic crisis brought both challenge and opportunity to the automobile industry in China, comprehensively analysis China's automobile industry development present situation and development trend in the transformation era, with case analysis of China's automobile...
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...Cross- cultural Adaptation in the U.S.: Chinese Students’ Difficulties and Transformations Chinese students due to their special characteristics of Asian culture, face great challenges when living and studying in the US. This article plans to identify their difficulties, causes of difficulties, and strategies to transform. Since those difficulties exist, more efforts are needed to explore potentials, make changes quickly and successfully. Language Ability Language ability plays a critical role in the process of transformation, and language problems could trigger a set of inconvenience. Many Chinese students have pretty high TOEFL scores, but higher scores do not guarantee fluent English in living and studying. So, when they first come to the U.S., many feel totally lost, confused, and incompetent. They could not express themselves freely, sharing feelings; or even lost confidence and thinking ability. The reason for this problem is partly due to their learning habit. Students in Asian countries pay more attention to reading and writing in English language, rather than listening and speaking. In addition, the language leaning styles in Asian countries are teacher- central, and transferring knowledge is considered the duty of teachers. Most students are receiving knowledge from teachers, rather than discovering knowledge on their own. Therefore, students tend to be quiet, shy, and silent in classrooms. They do not like the way of public discussion...
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...Demographic transformation: the dilemma of sub-Saharan Africa Demographic transformation or transition is referred to as the process by which a country moves from high birth and high death rates to low birth and low death rates with population growth in the interim. The demographic transition model is comprised of 5 stages. The Sub- Saharan African region is believed to be still in stage 1, which refers to having high death rates and high fertility rates (birth rates) although the condition is far better than it was just a few years back. The demographic transition started in European populations living in Europe and elsewhere around 1880 and at present, almost all developing countries have entered the demographic transformation, i.e. mortality rates are declining and fertility rates follow. It was believed that countries in Sub-Saharan Africa will also follow the same pattern. But the demographic transformation has taken the speed of a slug in this part of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa mostly consists of countries regarded as underdeveloped or developing and is part of the so-called Third World. Third World countries share many characteristics but at the continental level they are not the same. For instance, sub-Saharan Africa is sparsely populated, in contrast to South and East Asia, and it is much less urbanized than Latin America. It stands out amidst the other major regions of the Third World for having the slowest rate of economic growth in recent years: an average annual...
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...number 10 in the Barron’s 500, and was chosen to Ethisphere’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies in 2012 and 2013. The company had achieved inspiring growth under the impressive leadership of Stanley Bergman and his executive team, several members of the team had been with Schein for decades. Besides impressive growth, small family-owned businesses are the backbone of the company’s growth the company heavily depends on small family-owned businesses, both inside the U.S., and out of the country. Bergman and his team spent a lot of their time on developing and sustaining culture stand on care and esteem and considered it, as a key competitive advantage for the success of the company. The principles behind Schein's culture and current challenges of sustaining the culture as the company continues to expand internationally are examined in a given case, also its object to be the first national distributor of dental supplies in China. Simultaneously, Schein was developing strategic alliances with its suppliers and distribution network to evolve from being primarily a logistics company to manufacture components with a value-added service to transform their business practice from a company with a prime focus on value-added...
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...with them, the sceptics totallyreject the notion of globalisation as anything essentially new. For sceptics, the concept of globalisation is a convenient ideologically constructed myth that helps justify the neo-liberal,free market capitalist system (Held and McGrew, 2003, p.5). In line with Marxist thought,many sceptics consider capitalism to be imperialist in its search for new markets. This line of thought was most prominently developed by Lenin in his “Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism” (Lenin, 1996). According to this view, globalisation is nothing more thanwestern capitalist imperialism. Modern globalisation only differs from the past in the level of interaction between nations, but this essentially is nothing new. From a cultural standpoint, asceptic may argue that cultures have always mixed and shared ideas, and that this in itself constitutes nothing new. Modelski alludes to this when he suggests that globalisation beganaround 1000AD (2003, p.55). So, from the sceptical viewpoint, to what extent is thecontemporary world actually globalised? The sceptics have argued that the current economicinterdependence that characterises the global system is not without precedent, and would point to statistics from over a century ago to back up their claims (Held et al, 2000, p.5). Thesceptics would also suggest that globalisation overstates its reach, with the current worldeconomic system not truly global in its reach. In this context, sceptics argue that what wenow have is...
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...International Dimensions in Organizational Behavior | Cross-Cultural Communication INTRODUCTION "We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat." – Bernard Baruch, American financier and statesman. The Internet and modern technology have opened up new marketplaces that allow us to promote our businesses to new geographic locations and cultures. And given that it can now be as easy to work with people remotely as it is to work face-to-face, cross-cultural communication is increasingly the new norm. For those of us who are native English-speakers, it is fortunate that English seems to be the language that people use if they want to reach the widest possible audience. However, even for native English speakers, cross-cultural communication can be an issue: Just witness the mutual incomprehension that can sometimes arise between people from different English-speaking countries. In this new world, good cross-cultural communication is a must. BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Obviously, not all individuals acculturate similarly. Some find the daily challenges of responding to another culture to be too stressful and overwhelming. If possible, such individuals will choose to return to their cultural origin; if they cannot do so, various kinds of maladaptive adjustments, or even mental illness, can occur. People misunderstand each other for a wide variety of reasons, and these misunderstandings can occur between people who are culturally...
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