...Relationship Advice Dear Jamie Thank you for writing me with regard to the issue of whether to stick with a long-distance relationship. According to your letter, you have been with your boyfriend for two years and the last year you were in a long-distance relationship. Due to your graduation program, you might have to be in a long-distance relationship for two more years. Thus, you are struggling with the idea that whether to stick with the relationship or not. From my point of view, I suggest you keep your relationship and make more effort to maintain it. To support this idea, I will explain the reason for the maintenance and include some advice for you. The reason why I suggest you keep the relation bases on the lecture note of the sexualities and relationships course. According to the note, whether a long-distance relationship will work depends on: how long the separation is; how established the relationship already is; how serious the relationship is; expectations of each other; strengths/ weaknesses of each other; past experiences with long-distance (Long-Distance Relationship Lecture Notes, 03/20/2013). What I am going to talk about are the time of separation, the previous establishment of the relationship, how serious the relationship is and your expectations, which are relevant to your letter. Firstly, in your letter, you told me that you would have a two-year graduation program but you haven’t told me what your boyfriend’s future plan is. As the note showed, the long-distance...
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...How to Maintain a Long Distance Relationship when in College. At the age of 18, relationships have the potential to be very difficult. This is because two people fall in love and still do not if they are going to the same college. Falling in love right before college acceptances are out is very risky especially if one party is smarter than the other. That being said, if you do really love someone and you end up in a long distance relationship, you are not doomed. It is possible that it works out. If as a couple you are happy when you are physically together, then you should also be happy when you are some miles apart. However, before one attempts to be in a long distance relationship, they have to be very sure that this is what they want to do. They could potentially lose their other half even as a friend as fights when in a long distance relationship can get pretty heated, unless of course they have a very solid base. Nonetheless, it is tough when you are trying to build a new life elsewhere. It somehow feels like there is no space to fit a piece of your old life in. Your other half needs to know that there is space for them in your new life. That being said, communication is one of the main keys to making a long distance relationship in college work. You need to make your other half feel special and important. Also, you need to be able to remind yourself that he/she is still in your life. Although they are not physically there, they are there for you if you need them. Set...
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...WS, 913558430 SXS/PSY 320, Fall 2013 Long Distance Relationship and Marriage The article “Heartache That Taught Me Long Distance Love Is Always Doomed” is about a British writer who was suffering the pain of the long distance relationship and marriage. She met and fell in love with Mickael who worked at the hotel where she stayed over on her business trip in Nice. They bonded each other after their first time conversation about the books and culture. Later on they started hanging out and felt for each other. However, neither of them dared to admit their feelings. After returning back to her 13 years mysterious marriage, she found out that her feeling for Mickael was stronger and stronger. In spite of 600 miles away, they fell in love each other. They spent their time by sharing their feelings for each other, their rough daily life and interest through Google chat, video chat, text and email. She went back and forth to Nice and London every two months to write her novel and see him. Mickael also took a long weekend off from his job to spend his time with her. At first she was thrilled about counting the days to see him with passionate love. In the meantime, she had to end up living together with her husband due to the long court process after filing for divorce with him. However the relationship with Mickael was closer than the couples who were living together. As the time goes by, although she became more independent than before, she was getting tired of being alone and...
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...Alyse Tait Anna M. Mertz DRE 097 2 October 2014 Benefits of Long Distance Relationships For many people, dreams are the most interesting subject to think about. They have many underlying messages that are due to feelings that people hide in the back of their minds. There are many different types of dreams. According to Micu they are, “Revealing unconscious desires, primitive anxieties, archaic conflicts, and dreams can often be their metaphorical elaboration, but other times they can be a symptomatic manifestation” (Micu, 80). There are multiple positive assets that come from knowing what a dream is symbolizing, three of the most important are knowing how to deal with repressed emotions or memories, learn coping strategies, and increased individual happiness. As Micu points out, “The dream characterizes a very particular state of mind when the individual’s consciousness is suspended. This doesn’t make them any less credible in the message they convey but it does make them more difficult to decipher and often harder to accept, taking into account that part of the message of the dream was once conscious but it was repressed, and the other part never made it to consciousness” (Micu, 80). Dreams are very complex but are like a whole other world to people. Some look at dreaming as an escape from reality, others are terrified to fall asleep due to nightmares and even night terrors. Micu shares, “Perhaps one of the most significatnt ideas conducted by Frued was that “nothing...
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...of cultural distance on entry mode choice: the moderating effect of language diversity Name: Rajae El Aiachi Student number: 10202773 Teacher: Dr Johan Lindeque MSc. In Business Administration – Theories of International Management Date: 27-09-2015 Abstract (50 Words) Previous studies have shown that the choice of entry mode depends on various types of aspects, containing also cultural distance between countries (Arora and Fosfuri, 2000). However, there is not a lot of consensus among these articles. A few articles mentioned the effect of language distance on entry mode choice. Keywords: Cultural distance, entry mode choice and language distance 1. Introduction In this time of globalization a lot of companies are expanding their international business activities in overseas market. The ways in which firms are expanding their business in overseas market differ per enterprise and country. The hierarchical model of market entry modes by Pan and Tse (2000) shows that there are different choices of entry modes. Entry modes can be seen as equity-based versus non-equity based. Within equity-based modes, there is a division between equity joint ventures and wholly owned operations. Within nonequity based modes, there is a division between export and contractual agreements. Prior research demonstrated that the choice of entry modes rely upon different types of components. Especially, a lot of previous studies focused on the effect of cultural distance on entry...
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...Sept. 23rd, 2013 How To Keep A Long Distance Relationship Healthy Its time to go to college: Brittney and Jacob have been good friends and talking for quite some time now. Unlike most people, Jacob decides to ask Brittney to be his girlfriend. The couple talks about how a long distance relationship is going to be hard since they are going away to different schools 5 hours a part from each other. Many people believe that there is no such thing as keeping a long distance relationship healthy due to partners not seeing, touching, hugging, kissing, doing activities with them, etc. Couples can become stressed out at the fact that things aren’t going to be the same as they used to. However, there are a number of steps that can be used by Jacob and Brittney to keep their long distance relationship healthy and enjoy the new experiences they want to enjoy in college. Some may say that a long distance relationship is impossible so they don’t get themselves involved. People that are experiencing a long distance relationship get worried that their partner will cheat on them or possibly lose interest. Jacob tends to worry a lot about what his girlfriend is doing at times and whom she is with. This is where trust comes into play. A couple should be able to trust each other in general. An article on www.thefrisky.com states, “so if you want your long-distance relationship to survive, you need to learn to fully trust each other or it’s simply not going to work.” When Jacob doesn’t trust Brittney...
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...Relationship Termination: A Look Into the New World of Mediated Breakups Versus Face to Face With so many options of how to communicate in today’s world, it makes it difficult to determine when is the appropriate time to use each method of communication in every day interactions. Even further, researchers wanted to investigate appropriate ways to use methods of communication in significant events in a relationship, specifically relationship termination. Each potential choice has its own consequences, which is why it important to examine what leads individuals to chose to terminate a relationship with mediated communication versus face to face. The purpose of this study is to explore a new area of romantic relationships, the mediums of communication used to terminate the relationship. Most communication research examines how relationships grow through the use of mediated communication. Research about how relationships are ended through mediated communication versus face to face is relatively absent. Pettigrew (2009) conducted a study on text messaging and the connectedness it can bring to close interpersonal relationships. Researchers discovered that participants valued text messaging because they felt it was a way to privately and directly communicate with their loved ones and gain constant connectedness (Pettigrew, 2009). As a result text messaging seems to be becoming a more acceptable way of communicating important messages to the ones you love, despite...
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...my best friend. I have been dating my boyfriend, Jason for four years now. We have been in a long distance relationship since the fall of 2013. He attends Southern Methodist University however I attend Oklahoma State University. We are both from Edmond, Oklahoma and went to high school together. Long distance relationships have difficulties of time, freedom, and insufficient physical encounters; therefore, it is important to communicate as often as possible in order to keep the relationship working. As relationships mature, they penetrate deeper and deeper into personal and private matters. This exposes vulnerabilities; therefore trust has got to be developed on the manner. Jason and I met each other because we both...
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...Introduction IKEA is the housewares and furniture organization which one of the world’s top furniture organization. IKEA also designs its products and sell those items in more than 300 IKEA stores that are from different countries around the world. IKEA offer the high-quality items at low prices. The largest market of IKEA is in Germany with 44 stores. United States has the second most IKEA store amount in the world with 37 (Loeb Walter, 2012). The company is care for the customers and in order to make more profit for the organization and IKEA also care for the customers, IKEA buy items in unpackaged, ships and stores matters unassembled using smooth packaging and customers assembled those a lot of items in their houses. IKEA was founded in 1943 in Sweden by Ingyar Kamprad (refernceforbusiness, 2015). In 1958, the first store of IKEA was founded in Sweden. After that IKEA extended to Scandinavian countries. Firstly, IKEA stores in Norway and Demark were opened which are the neighborhood countries and then IKEA started open their stores in Switzerland in 1973 and Germany in 1974 (Loeb, 2012). The first store in the United States was opened in Philadelphia (1985). The first store that IKEA faced problems is in Japan because of their culture differences, lifestyles and practices (Chaletanone and Cheancharadpong, 2008). Since IKEA entered into the country that has culture difference in social organizations, there will be numerous influences on organizational efficiency...
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... | |Yundong Huang | |Texas A&M International University | |Gwennie Bee Potzka | |Due 3/15/2013 | Dimensions of Culture The five dimensions of culture are individualism, masculinity, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. Individualism versus collectivism refers to how people see themselves and their relationships. Individualists say that individual interests dominate over group interests. Traits are that ties between people are loose, people only...
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...Week 5 Case Study Questions #1.) Relationships are dictated by the use of power of one or both individuals. What are the various forms of power and which type of power does Coach Johnson have with his team? Power means many different things to different people. For some, power is seen as corrupt. For others, the more power they have, the more successful they feel. For even others, power is of no interest at all. John French and Bertram Raven identified the five bases of power in the early 1960’s through a study they had conducted on power in leadership roles. The study showed how different types of power affected one’s ability and success in a leadership role. The five bases of power are divided in two categories: Formal Power Coercive power is conveyed through fear of losing one’s job, being demoted, receiving a poor performance review, having prime projects taken away, etc. This power is gotten through threatening others. For example, the VP of Sales who threatens sales folks to meet their goals or get replaced. Reward power is conveyed through rewarding individuals for compliance with one’s wishes. This may be done through giving bonuses, raises, a promotion, and extra time off from work, etc. For example, the supervisor who provides employees comp time when they meet an objective she sets for a project. Legitimate power comes from having a position of power in an organization, such as being the boss or a key member of a leadership team. This power comes when employees...
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...evalute the breakdown of relationships A01- Duck skills maintenance A02-Shavier, Rofhling IDA- gender bias PA- ccet - china A01-rollie and duck -stages of breakdown A02 - Tashiro and Frazier A03- methological flaws IDA - determinsitic Duck suggested that relationships breakdown due to various of reasons, such as lack of skills. This means that people in the relationships have a lack of interpersonal skills to make eachother mutally satisfyimg, if a person lacks interpersonal skills or social skills have poor conversational skills and are bad at indicatomg they like a particular person it could lead the other partner to believe they are unintresting, unrewarding in their interactions. This then leading to the breakdown of a relationship. Additionally, Duck suggested that if a raltaionship is lacking in stimulation then breakdown will occur. Lack of stiumulation is when you expect the relationship to change and develop but does not. This results in the partner being unsatisfied thus forming the relationship to stop. Maintenance diffulties is another reason why relationships breakdown. This is where there is a strain caused in a realtionship e.g if a couple can not see eachother for various of reasons. This may be due to not living close together or that their jobs causes them to find it difficult to spend time with eachother. Therefore if a relationship has maintenance difficulties Duck suggests it will lead to a breakdown in the relationship. study which supports...
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...Dimension theory as it may too easily encourage stereotyping. Even in countries as small as the UK, not all citizens are alike – e.g. it is argued that the culture in the North of England is quite different to the South. Hofstede has also been criticized for being too simplistic; however Hofstede’s theory does give us a general base to work from. 74 countries are listed on Hofstede’s website from which information can be drawn to make comparisons not only between countries but against the world average to give a broader picture. The following graph gives a comparison between Germany and China. It also allows for assessment against the Asian average and World average and our own British culture as benchmarks. Hofstede Comparison: UK, Germany, China Asian Average and World Average [pic] Comparison of Germany and China [pic] Power Distance Index Germany 35 LOW China 80 HIGH Individualism Germany 67 HIGH China 66 LOW Masculinity Germany 66 HIGH China 66 HIGH Uncertainty Avoidance Germany 65 HIGH China 30 LOW Long Term Orientation Germany 31LOW China 118 HIGH Power Distance Index – PDI Power Distance measures equality of power in society and how much people are willing to allow or give in to superiority. Countries with high scores tend to operate with power being given to the top few, with little room for lower rank intervention. Low scoring countries either spread power through delegation or encourage input from more levels of...
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...Claytan Group. The company intends to invest in China as part of its international expansion project. The cultural distance between Malaysia and China is small. Based on Hofstede’s Value Dimensions Framework, China has almost similar cultural dimension compared with Malaysia. Malaysia is a collectivism society whose give priority to the goals of the group than personal goals. Besides that, there is high power distance between society members. Cultures that are relatively collectivistic generally have higher power distance. Both Malaysia and China has weak uncertainty avoidance. Collectivistic felt that uncertainty is a normal feature of life and each day is accepted as it comes. CFC will expand the production plant to China as a wholly owned subsidiary under the CLAYTAN Group due to cost-reduction motive. The implementation of minimum wage rate system in Malaysia, lower transportation cost, and the form of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) induce the company to expand its production plant to China. China and Malaysia categorized under high context communication style. However, certain degree of adoption is still needed. In term of negotiation, collectivism society such as China and Malaysia are more concern about in-group. The high power distance of both countries prolongs the negotiation process. When it comes to decision making process, high power distance of China and Malaysia also prolongs the decision making process. Employees always have to refer back to their superior...
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...trade activities by firms across national borders. Small, Medium, and Multinational companies who have the resources tend to be attracted at doing business abroad. There are nine reasons why firms choose to internationalize which are (1) to gain market share, (2) earn higher profits and margins, (3) acquire new ideas about products, service, and business method, (4) to follow and better serve key customers that have relocated abroad, (5) to be closer to their supply chain, (6) have access to lower-cost or better value factors of production, (7) to develop economies of scale in production, sourcing, research and development, and marketing, (8) to challenge international competitors more effectively, (9) invest in a potentially rewarding relationship with a foreign partner. There are different ways companies can engage in international business. Companies can be involved in international trade, exporting, importing, international investment, international portfolio investment, and foreign direct investment. Depending on the type of risk the company decides to take, for example if the company wants the lowest risk possible for doing business abroad then exporting would be one of the safest ways to get their products or service abroad. Foreign Direct Investment is considered high risk due to the structure of each country’s culture, government, laws, rules, regulations, language barriers and much more. There are risks and rewards for companies who engage in international business...
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