...untr 1.0 Introduction For this assignment, the countries that I have chosen are the United States of America (US) and Japan. I will be comparing their customs, beliefs, culture, values and legislations as well as how this affects an organization to carry out international business. Add more you should introduce both countries 2.0 Comparison of customs | |Country | |Customs | | | |United States |Japan | |Table manners (Before meal) |Wet cloth for hand washing |Napkins placed on laps | |Greetings |Handshake and hugging |Bow down | |Tipping |Widely used |Not allowed | |Eating utensils |Forks, knives, and spoons |Chopsticks and Chinese spoons | In the US, napkins are...
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...Western Culture III 0126 22 December 2014 Country music and American culture When you walk along the street, you may hear Taylor Swift’s new album kept playing again and again; When you pass by a truck, you may be attracted by the euphonious ‘country road’ by Johnny Denver; When you step into a bar, country music will frequently appear among many energetic Rock songs. Undeniably, country music has been everywhere and even gained worldwide popularity in recent years. Caught by the beautiful sound and moving melodies of the American country music, I decided to lift the veil of American country music to people who have a passion for it. Besides the superficial acoustic enjoyment, the American country music is a perfect embodiment of American history, culture and customs. Once you could profoundly understand and sincerely appreciate the American country music, you are offered a golden opportunity to comprehend what the American truly value. In this paper, I will discuss how country music reflects the American culture in three dimensions, including American rustic culture, American family culture and view of marriage, and American urbanization and contemporary value. From where I stand, country music is more than a kind of popular music, but also the epitome of American culture. To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into five main sections. Firstly, the background knowledge of country music will be provided. Secondly, I will focus on the American rustic culture which...
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...of the 1800s that the North and South began to split into different directions. The North relied heavily on manufacturing while the South relied on its agriculture and farming. These two differences in producing goods led to the separation in values and cultures that would divide a nation. It would take a civil war raging throughout the nation to conclude the longstanding separation between the two. The North and South were two different cultures in the same country. In the North, the soil and climate did not favor large farmlands and plantations, and so they relied heavily on industry. Factories were set up making textiles from cotton from the South. Slavery had died out because many immigrants came from Europe to work in the factories. Irish, German, and other Europeans settling in the North led to a huge population boost between 1800 and 1860. There were many skilled workers and the large urban cities were centers of wealth. Both religion and education were organized and there were schools and churches in most towns. Very few boys and almost no girls continued on to secondary school and a college education was reserved for the wealthy. They were more likely to have careers in business, medicine and education. The culture of the North was determined by life in the cities. The South’s soil and climate was ideal for agriculture and growing crops. There were very few large cities and most southerners lived on small farms. Large plantations were owned by the wealthy. Most of...
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...organisations. Telenor Connexion will have a significant role within this growing business. Telenor Connexion is an independent mobile provider solely focused on M2M/Telematics communications. It is part of, and fully owned, by the Telenor Group, operating as a MVNO under Telenor Sverige AB. Revenue stream M2M communication is a rapidly expanding market. In Europe alone there are several billion devices that could potentially be connected. It is expected that the business will grow into billions of terminals within the next 10-15 years. Telenor Connexion estimates its share will be in the region of several hundred million terminals. In order for International roamers to use the M2M solution, it is important that +883120 is implemented. The country code and identification code, +883120 should be routed to the international carrier, Telenor Global Services (TGS) in Norway. The M2M solution creates a new and important revenue stream for carriers implementing the code Cost level Telenor Connexion is not a satellite operator but a mobile provider, with similar cost levels as other mobile operators in Sweden. It is recommended that you add maximum 0, 01 € on top of the price that you receive from Telenor Global Services. About Telenor Connexion Telenor Connexion specializes in...
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...How a Country’s Culture Affects Motivational Efforts How a Country’s Culture Affects Motivational Efforts Before examining how a countries culture affects motivational efforts, It is necessary to give a definition of the two aspects that we will be focusing on. Culture is defined as, “The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought”. ("Culture," 2012) Motivation is referred to as, “ the process by which a person’s efforts are energized, directed, and sustained toward attaining a goal”. (Robbins, DeCenzo & Coulter, p.266) These two concepts will be the focus throughout the paper. A countries culture can be described as a universal set of norms and accepted practices that members of a region feel exemplify what they stand for and support their actions and mannerisms. The best way to understand the true impact that a country’s culture has on its motivational efforts, is to comparing two varying countries. The countries I am going to compare are the United States and India. The cultures within these two countries vary in almost every way imaginable. They possess divergent expectations regarding workplace factors, career development and motivational influences. Once these differences are stated, it will create a clear picture as to how a countries culture can affect motivational efforts. In the United States, employees react well to a boss is outgoing and friendly. They expect their...
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...How Does Country Culture Affect Motivation Efforts Abstract: This thesis focuses on the influence of different country cultures on motivation by giving the definition of motivation, explaining two types of motivation, and comparing the cultural differences between China and the USA and at the same time tries to apply all the findings into human resource management in modern companies around the world. The key point of this thesis is the way country cultures affect intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Introduction: With the rapid development of globalization process, the economic exchanges between different countries are increasing. Social cultures vary greatly from country to country. So the motivations can be affected distinctly in different culture. In the 21st century, the competition among enterprises has turned into human resources. Therefore the motivations of human are significant. Human Resource Management is getting more important in business nowadays, because people and their knowledge are the most important aspects affecting the productivity of the company. 1. Country culture can affect motivation: According to web, motivation is the explanation about human behavior, such as actions, desires, and needs and which can also be defined as one's direction to behavior or the reason people repeat a behavior, which can be generally divided into two types: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Just as its name implies, intrinsic motivation means the inner...
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...k An understanding of national cultures is important to the formulation of strategy management. Most of cultures are Centralism of the Self Culture. If a global corporation invests to a country, the country cannot reject the investment. But if the investment is contradictory of their rules and to protect domestic industry, the corporation won’t be welcomed in the nation. So corporation must be understanding national cultures before enter to start business in a nation. k An understanding of national cultures is important to the formulation of strategy management. Most of cultures are Centralism of the Self Culture. If a global corporation invests to a country, the country cannot reject the investment. But if the investment is contradictory of their rules and to protect domestic industry, the corporation won’t be welcomed in the nation. So corporation must be understanding national cultures before enter to start business in a nation. k An understanding of national cultures is important to the formulation of strategy management. Most of cultures are Centralism of the Self Culture. If a global corporation invests to a country, the country cannot reject the investment. But if the investment is contradictory of their rules and to protect domestic industry, the corporation won’t be welcomed in the nation. So corporation must be understanding national cultures before enter to start business in a nation. k An understanding of national cultures is important to the formulation of strategy...
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...The Influence of the Culture dimension ‘Power Distance’ on product choice: A Cross Cultural Exploration of Effects of Country of Origin on the Choice of Branded Products by Adriana Cordeiro Socha A Thesis presented to The University of Guelph In partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Marketing and Consumer Studies Guelph, Ontario, Canada © Adriana Cordeiro Socha, September, 2012 ABSTRACT THE INFLUENCE OF THE CULTURE DIMENSION ‘POWER DISTANCE’ ON PRODUCT CHOICE: A CROSS CULTURAL EXPLORATION OF EFFECTS OF CULTURAL TRAITS ON THE CHOICE OF BRANDED FOREIGN PRODUCTS Adriana Cordeiro Socha University of Guelph, 2012 Advisor Dr. Brent McKenzie Committee Dr. Vinay Kanetkar Dr. Sara Mann This thesis investigates how cultural traits, such as the cultural dimension of Power Distance, influence preference for foreign made branded products. Cultural background influences several aspects of human behaviour, including the behaviours of consumers. In marketing, individual cultural differences affect consumers’ choice as well as their response to advertising message and brand associations. One example, impact on consumer choice, is related to the country of origin (COO) of the product. The effect of COO has been extensively explored in the literature. However, cultural frameworks like those of Hofstede (2001) have seldom been considered as a factor explaining the variability of consumers’ preference (or avoidance) for products originating in different...
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...How national culture of Sri Lanka impact on organizational culture and leadership Culture describes our behavior, our thoughts, our religion, our customs and everything in relation to our lives. Sometime it may be tangible and may not be tangible. From childhood culture is attached to our lives. Majority of the people in our country accept this culture without questioning it. As citizens in Sri Lanka we have a unique culture than the other countries. It can be called as “national Culture”. According to Geert Hofsted national culture means collective programming of the minds that distinguishes members of one group or category of people from another. We learn our national culture intentionally or unintentionally in our early childhood. As Sri Lankan people we highly respect others and also respect our family relationships. Especially we respect elder persons in the country. But in western countries they do not think seriously about family relationships. We show our feelings well. We cry when we sad. Laugh when we are happy. But Japanese people do not show their feelings to outside. Majority of the people are Buddhist in our country. Because of that Buddhist culture is embedded to our national culture. In India majority is Hindu people. They are not eating beef. Once Mc Donnels sells beef in India, Indians sued against Mc Donnels. That is to protect their culture. Although western people always try to keep a distance physically when they are talking, we do not have like this...
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...The term ‘culture shock’ has often being used nowadays. Most of us are already familiar with this term. When people have to live in a different and unknown environment or culture, they become anxious, surprises, disorientated, uncertain and even confused. This is what we defined as culture shock. People always tend to give negative opinion to this term. Why is that so? It is because they did not have much education of culture shock, thus they will always find themselves reacting negatively to this term. Believe me, if one is being asked about the effects of culture shock, one tends to give only bad or negative effects. What they have to know is culture shock need not be unpleasant. There are many times when people get to feel the rewarding effects of culture shock. We have to change our perception regarding this matter. To change this, we have to actually understand about the causes and effects of culture shock. The most importance cause of culture shock is the different language being used. As we know, there are more than 60 different languages in this world and each language has different dialect in difference place. To live in a new environment comfortably, one needs to have the ability of communicating easily with people around him. Language made it quite difficult to communicate. We may think that they can always use English to communicate around, but what will happen if one move to a country where the people there does not understand English. For example, countries like Japan...
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...Culture and its implication on the international business management. Introduction Today, problems associated with global business management have been identified as factors that negatively impact the performance and productivity of multinational corporations and in turn, adversely affect regional and national economic growth The goal of this paper is to analyze the influence of culture in international business. The globalization of the world economy has intensified international relationships, increasing the importance of cultural dimension. The world is being affected by the globalization of the economy. This phenomenon is bringing movement of companies, assets, services, capital and people. Analyzing globalization this process is taking the world to major changes in the economic, technologic and social areas, which are having consequences in all organizations and societies that participate in this globalized market. It is a process that does not bring equal benefits to all participants. The globalization concentrates more of its actions in some sectors of economic activity and some regions and countries, rather than acting everywhere. With the world getting flatter doing business anywhere in the world is easier today, because of major changes in technology, global politics and expanded educational opportunities. But it is not only businesses that are affected. Governments, NGOs and society itself is changing at a fast pace. Nevertheless going forward can only happen...
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...manifestations of human intellectual achievement. Culture is like mental software and it has been defined as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others” Geert Hofstede, (2009). Culture diversity and multiculturalism are the problems faced by business firms who tried to do business globally. Cultural diversity related to variety of human societies like dress, language, traditions and cultures on a particular region or particular part of the world or as a whole, while multiculturalism with organizational promotion of multiple cultures. Multiple cultures mean giving respect to different types of culture at same time. All the aspects regarding the culture have to be considered when a concern is going to launch its products globally. So in the case of international business, understanding culture of different countries is important because then only a company can put forward its globalization strategies, marketing strategies as well as organization structure. Without proper foundation a company can’t keep moving globally and launch products since cultural world operates in its own internal dynamic, its own principles and its own law-written and unwritten. Understand words, material things and behaviour since culture is communication. Understanding the VINEETH KAKKANATTU AYYAPPAN: 000697414 4 cultural differences is not an easy purpose because each country has its own hidden code of behaviour since...
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...boundaries in the place of international business. However, how can we really learn and incorporate another culture into own businesses practices. The article questions our methods of learning another culture and challenges us to no just learn the “black and white” rules of another culture but to actually learn about the settle differences and apply them to our daily practices. It will take more than studying and reading about other cultures to fully understand and connect with people of other cultures. The U.S department of education held a conference to evaluate the meaning of globalization and what it meant to different people around the world. People who oppose the idea of globalization view it as a tool to impose western cultural values on different cultures around the world. Many people view globalization as a tool of “cultural imperialism”, in which America can spread their pop culture and consumer values for their own elfish needs. However, others view globalization has necessary and essential agreement between nations to effectively and efficiently spread world resources. These people believe that globalization can help stem worldwide poverty in some areas and stimulate positive growth in developing countries. From a more objective perspective, globalization is the “embodiment of the world merging into massive transactional networks and nexuses of countries in terms of trade, commerce, capital investment, production, and other exchange flows.” From a statistical...
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...with multicultural group which people learn different cultures and the way they interact with people. Different cultures have many ways of behavioring and the norm of living. In the US, different cultures are sub-cultures and foreign cultures within the U.S community. This paper will talk about the cultural issues within a global organization which comes from issues arise when groups of people believe another group is wrong in their behavior, ethical and social responsibility issues and also analysis the issues in the global organization. Cross-Cultural Perspective Culture is about the way we human beings definite ourselves for the purpose of uniting with one another, forming a group, determining an individuality and distinctive ourselves as unique. Cultural perspective is sensual in humans, in which we create activities, practices, and symbols that can be easily consumed by our sense. In this entire good example, we still have cultural issues in our global organizations and society. The global organization, have choosing to talk about is “Cross-Cultural solution”. Cultural Issues within Global Organization Cultural issues are define as the dispute in government and society based on differences of culture and origin (http://www.wikipedia.org/cultural issues). The cultural issue with cross- cultural solution is about languages and communication, socio-economic, and technology. The organization is a cross cultures organization that sends people across the world for...
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...Ethical Challenges in Latin American Cultures A Study of the Impacts of Culture in the Business Environment Warrington Thomas Edison State College International Management 372 Professor: Baker 06/16/2013 Elements Influencing Social Culture Culture is defined as a system of values and norms shared among a group of people and when taken together represent a system of living. Culture is not static but always evolving and it is important to take various factors into consideration when attempting to conduct business in international countries. Valuing cultural diversity in the workplace can boost morale and productivity. An effective employee who feels discriminated against because of cultural differences might get disconnected and leave the company. Values are the things that people believe to be right, good and desirable. Values are often reflected in the political and economic system of a country and includes society’s attitude towards things such as individual freedom, democracy, truth, honesty and loyalty among many other things. Ethics include the standards of moral behavior that are acceptable by a society as right or wrong. It includes basic moral values such as integrity, respect for human life, self-control, honesty, courage, cheating, cruelty and the list continues. Latin Americans are very proud of their culture individuals attempting to do business in this part of the world should be aware of the social conventions. ...
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