...1.0 Back ground of the study America and China are two major names in the business industry. Both of it have their own character and ways in handling the business. Understanding the cultural background of these two countries will help us understands the style of each countries in managing the leadership culture. Due to globalization, organizations face many changes. It is such as changes in behaviour and technology. Steffi Biester had said that “Value the differences but also discover the similarities and then learn from one another, start to understand each other and start to change perspectives.” Leaders need to change their style for a certain purpose. By investigating two different cultures, we can see the ways that the organizations adapt the culture in their organization. It is important for multinational companies (MNCs) to be knowledgeable and improve their working strategy to stay in the right side with the cultural changes. 2.0 Introduction to Leadership And Culture Leadership come from the word leader which means an individual who are the leaders in an organization. Leadership also is the process of influencing the members of the organization. It may involve goal setting and become the person who give information and guide the employees in achieving those goals. In the process of achieving goals, the leader must lead the employees to make sure they are in the right path in doing their task. A quote from John Maxwell, “Leader become great not because of their...
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...(Drew, 2013). This is what makes up the population of every country in the world. It is one of the many things that makes us all different. When doing business with other countries it is a real gullible state of mind to think that all people in all places all have the same behaviors and ways of doing things. People should not be confused or taken for granted because they wear the same designer jeans, name brand shoes, or even speak the same language as they do. Same scenario when doing business, even more so if that business is to be done in another country or with someone with a different cultural background. Things such as higher levels of sensitivity, being more detail oriented or simple differences like their patterns of behavior can make a huge difference in some other culture (Drew, 2013). If you want to succeed in the cross-cultural business world of negotiations you must completely understand others, and using that knowledge to your advantage to recognize the desires of all parties involved; and then develop a situation that becomes a win-win setting for everyone involved. It is wise to keep in mind, that when doing cross-cultural business, the methods or approaches of the domestic could be different and may not apply if they are not culturally accepted by the other party (Drew, 2013). Some of the most common things you should know before negotiating business with another culture are as follows:...
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...of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Research findings: 5 Business Relationships can be improved through being Ethical and Socially Responsible 5 Strong Business Ethics will increase Efficiency 6 Social Responsibility will greatly increase our company’s Reputation 7 Recommendations 8 Conclusion 9 References 11 Executive Summary Ethics and social responsibility is on the mind of everyone in the world these days. We have all seen the effects of what happens when a company does not follow an ethical standard; it can lead very quickly to its demise. A strong ethical standard and being socially responsible is a must in the world of business. There are those who think that if they can get away with things, it can lead to higher profits and a bigger bottom line. This may be true in the short term but history has shown that those with strong ethics have the longevity and reputation to make it in the long run. The research for this report will show that not only is having strong ethics and being socially responsible the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do for our company. In all we do, we need to have good relationships with those that we need in order to conduct business. We have vendors, suppliers, stakeholders and consumers that we have to maintain a good and strong relationship with. By having a strong ethical standard and good social responsibility, it allows us not only to maintain these relationships but to build and make them stronger...
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...By hezy While doing this product I’ve learned that handling foods with light force will help to maintain the figure of your desired product. Right timing is also needed most especially when your cooking it. The quality of your ingredients is one thing you must consider .The freshness of the product is also significant . Everyone has a hard tasks in doing this project and for my contribution -- I help wrapping the fish to the flat dough that’s going to hold the fish inside. We make sure that the fish was boneless so that it’s easier to eat. All of us has become a runner or someone who’ll run outside the kitchen to buy some excess ingredients like forget ones or something that pump out in our mind. I’ve learned to handle time pressures when making this product at the same time when we are buying to the market: picking good quality products with right and reasonable price develops our business professional skills. As entrepreneur someday many things has to be considered and prioritized. The decisions we make may lead us into battle that we must conquer by our attitude and critical thinking. Remember that creating is not the right call to what we are doing but discovering. Whatever we may invent, either foods or things it is all created by our creator-- our Father in heaven. He gave us a lot of blessings that support our needs but thanks to wisdom he gave; We are able to improve this things according to upgrades today. By Vishara On...
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...302 Life comes at a person really fast and at times men and women don’t know how to react. This class gave me a great overview of what I need to do as a Christian in the field of business. This class taught me about how I should react and live my life. It also taught we 7 ways to better myself and help me along the way. The biggest thing that I learned is God is always there. God has blessed many people with the gift of business. This skill comes with great responsibility to have. The career choices many make in business have come with many stipulations. We need to hold ourselves to a standard one that lines up with Gods standards that he has set up for us in the bible. This standard has to be at the forefront of our minds when working. We need to make sure that we look out for the people that are less fortunate in our career choices. It is a hard concept for Christians to understand because the career choice of business is the basic explanation of greed itself. Most people in the field of business would have to have a different mindset instead of feeling that everything they are makings is for them. We as Christians have to have a different mindset such as how can I better others with my business. God has created us with a purpose to work. The purpose may be in business for myself but for others it may be another area of work. Work can be defined as anything to accomplish a goal. God created us to be workers and For instance, in Genesis, God tells Adam to take care of the...
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...Korea. It was recommended that my company use an approach to business negotiations that provides a win-win for both parties. Management was also told they needed to know the background of the Asian negotiator and that they should use a “middleman” to help them with the negotiation. Because of your work in China, the vendor would like your advice in this business dealing. The intermediary stressed the importance of etiquette and social customs in addition to the win-win model. The first thing we need to to do is research the company and their culture etiquettes. Then I will need to find the right person to conduct the negotiation and train others members involve information that they will need to know when doing business with this company as to the do’s and don’ts and how to have a win-win business negotiation. Then we should send the company our business information with the person that will be conducting the negotiation rank within our company. This will establish a first step business approach before doing business with one another. When doing business with China, Japan and South Korea the U.S. vendor must know the social customs as well as each country etiquette for this will play an important role on business negotiation. One should present there company information to each individual that it is seeking business before scheduling a meeting. When looking to do business with one of these countries it is best to know how each conduct negotiation and the right way to introduce...
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...Analytics or intuition Category 1: Financial Management and budgeting I use to work at a small business that specialized in t-shirt printing. With working at that company we had our high and low seasons. Our high season was during the spring and summer time when schools where going on senior trips and families doing reunions. I would have to say that we were more so on the analytic side. Because even though we were a small company we had an updated system that kept up with everything in the store and what we were making. I know that with having that system in 2010 it helped us to know how well we were doing and when we looked at other companies in the area we were able to see how we could stay on top of them. Category 2: Customer Service With having a small t-shirt printing business customer service is important because we didn’t have that many employees. I feel that with that business it was on the intuition side. I say that because since it was a close related place of work everyone was use to others attitudes. Honestly, some of the people who worked there did not have the proper customer service skills. For example, one time a customer called in and was just asking for the rates on different kinds of shirts and the phone receptionist had them on hold for 10 minutes without going back to let them know what was going on. Category 3: Sales and Marketing This business sales and marketing I would say on the intuition side. This company main marketing outlet was to make...
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...Business Ethics I have chosen to write my paper on business ethics and the different things that are being done to improve ethics in the business world. This tends to be the majority of what our book has focused on and what much of the corporate world is spending tons of resources to improve. I think much of the hype for improving business ethics stems from the most recent economic downturn in the world and America especially. This has led people to realize that corruption and unethical behavior was behind much of the financial meltdown that happened. People greed and selfish behavior led to doing bad business. That being said the government also had much to do with the business world becoming corrupt as well they seemed to promote this unhealthy greed and made people do the unethical decisions upon the basis that it felt good. It was the governments idea that everyone needed a home and should have a right because they live in America to own that home. Somewhere we forgot that owning a home has an ethical side to it as well. The ethics of owning a home are that a person makes a commitment to buy a home at a price and are obligated to pay for that home. An Ethical person would do everything necessary to pay for that home and honor the deal they made. On another Ethics note related to home mortgages if you look at the ethics of the lenders who are a business and the poor ethics that they maintained. An ethical company would not have given loans to people who could not afford...
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...Conclusion 7 Appendices 8 Appendix A – Coding 8 Appendix B – The Transcript for the interview 14 Appendix C: Interview consent form 29 References 29 Introduction The purpose of the report This report aims to identify whether Oshi Okomilo the Founder and Managing Director of Guestlist is an entrepreneur or a business owner according to the theories on entrepreneurialism. Oshi Okomilo is the managing director for Guestlist which he describe it in his own words with the multimedia platform dedicated to spreading positive vibrations across the planet in various ways. Discussion of the theory There is an example for Smith and Miner (1983) that was cited at (Wagener et Al, 2010) distinguishing between the traits of an ‘opportunistic’ entrepreneur and ‘craftsman’ entrepreneur where the opportunistic one had a business strategy that promotes innovation and expansion, while the craftsman was more interested in the maintaining the status quo. As Feist & Feist are referenced at (Wagener et Al, 2010) there are two fundamental ways of differentiating between entrepreneurs and business owners which highlight the differences between the business owners and entrepreneurs based on their personality and competencies. Research Question My research question is to establish whether Oshi (My interviewee) is an entrepreneur...
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...Wayne Grudem’s Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business analyzes a myriad of misconstrued facets of business and how these facets are rather intended and are able to be implemented as acts that glorify God. Primarily, these various components of business carry negative connotations, because, it seems, more often than not that businesses fall into corruption and scandal due to greed and lust. Grudem does an exceptional job in explaining that it is not the concepts of business themselves, such as money or owning multiple possessions, that are evil, but rather the acts of coveting, idolizing, or being wicked stewards of money or possessions. In business, Grudem articulates, the main position supported...
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...ntroduction Presently many of us have learned that managers are primarily administrators who have learned to write business plans, utilize their resources and keep track of progress. We must learn that we are not limited by job title, and that means we can utilize our management skills in any position that we are in. We must also know that we can use our leadership skills in the same situations. On the other hand we have also learned that leaders are people who have an impact on those that surround them. The main difference that separates these two roles is that management is a function that must be utilized in any type of business, and leadership is the relationship that the leader has with his followers, which in turn can motivate and energize the organization. Management Function There are many tasks that a manager does on a daily basis which include problem solving, facilitating meetings, and many other routine office tasks. "Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. Good managers do those things both effectively and efficiently." (Bateman & Snell, 2004) However many of these tasks should not be duplicated by a group of individuals. Different people can take on parts of the management function. Someone on a team can take care of the planning, while another person does the budgeting, and a third can monitor the progress and quality that each team member provides. "Management is like investment you want to invest...
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...Management vs. Leadership Introduction Presently many of us have learned that managers are primarily administrators who have learned to write business plans, utilize their resources and keep track of progress. We must learn that we are not limited by job title, and that means we can utilize our management skills in any position that we are in. We must also know that we can use our leadership skills in the same situations. On the other hand we have also learned that leaders are people who have an impact on those that surround them. The main difference that separates these two roles is that management is a function that must be utilized in any type of business, and leadership is the relationship that the leader has with his followers, which in turn can motivate and energize the organization. Management Function There are many tasks that a manager does on a daily basis which include problem solving, facilitating meetings, and many other routine office tasks. "Management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. Good managers do those things both effectively and efficiently." (Bateman & Snell, 2004) However many of these tasks should not be duplicated by a group of individuals. Different people can take on parts of the management function. Someone on a team can take care of the planning, while another person does the budgeting, and a third can monitor the progress and quality that each team member provides. "Management is like...
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...-9- INTRODUCTION The success of a businessperson greatly depends on a certain set of characteristic called Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies or PEC. Almost result from PEC, we can describes how are the true or reality of competencies on businessperson. It really help though im having a hard time looking for any tool in order to help student in diagnosing and assessing their PEC. PEC also will be guided on how businessperson will strengthen and align to improve their area of strength. All of the element in PEC will help people to be more attractive on doing their work because from the result of PEC, we will know what area or element we should increase. For example, in a information seeking element, entrepreneur can use the result to improve his services, satisfy his customer, and be ahead of his competitors by searching for new information related to his business. They also will show confidence in their business ad give their client the best value for their patronage. On the other hand, we can describes that PEC is a good test for businessperson to improve their level of competence and to align their awareness of business’s characteristics to be more structured. BACKGROUND. NAME : NASRUL HANIF BIN AHMAD NASRI DATE OF BIRTH : 10TH FEBRUARY 1991 SEX : MALE ADDRESS : NO 7, LOT 520, JLN YADI,TELOK GADONG KECIL, SELANGOR ...
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...the fundamental values behind every action and every decision. They are: To Serve and To Connect. As we work with our customers, we need to make sure we are constantly meeting these two standards. We need to serve them and we need to connect with them. think possible.” -Howard Schultz www.AmazingServiceGuy.com Copyright 2013 Kevin M.2Stirtz 2 62 Customer Service Tips & Quotes “Customer service is just a day in, day out ongoing, never ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.” To Serve When we serve our customers, we help them get what they want. We put them first. We focus our resources on helping them accomplish what they want to accomplish. And that is why customers come to us in the first place. They seek our help to accomplish something good or to avoid something bad. They are looking for a specific outcome and they want our help making...
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...effective people is a book about business and it is a self-help book. This book explains how people who have achieved a high degree of outward success find themselves still struggling with an inner need for developing personal effectiveness and growing healthy relationships with other people. 2. What was the author's purpose or purposes in writing this book? * Covey believes the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions. He wants us to help ourselves in changing for the better. To grow wisely as a person and someone who is capable of doing any task given to him or her. 3. What did the title have to do with the book? * I think that this was the title because the book emphasizes seven important things or reminders that would help a person grow. This reminders aren’t like the quick fixes the people nowadays want, this is a process in which we need to train ourselves so that it would be a habit for us in doing something that would help us personally. 4. Who do you think the author intended to read this book and why? * I think this book is for everyone who wants to achieve more in life and those who want to improve their status in the field of work they are doing. It is a very helpful book that could change a status of a man in the field of work they are doing. It is also a motivational book...
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