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Casual Articles - Cultural Awareness - an HR Perspective
You have heard it a million times: "you only get one chance to make a good 'first' impression." In a job search, that is doubly true. The materials you deliver to a prospective employer or contractor as an introduction to you as a possible candidate, must express your unique skills and, through the points highlighted in the materials, show you to be the best choice for the job in question. Simple spelling errors; or misuse of, or lack of punctuation; both transg
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“Is my vehicle ready, yet?” may seem like pretty innocuous words. However, these are the five little words that could hurt your dealership’s bottom-line. Anytime your customer initiates a call AFTER the promised delivery time, you have damaged your image in your customer’s heart and mind. Granted, if our answer is “Yes, Mr. Jones, I was just about to give you a call. We have completed all the work on your vehicle. You can come and pick it up at your convenie
My experience working in global companies in which effective cross-cultural functioning was critical, involved the devotion of considerable time and energies to ensuring that cultural training needs were identified and accommodated as necessary.
This commitment to bridging cultural gaps represents a perceptible shift in attitudes amongst British company global thinking. This is a shift from the prevalent subconscious (and sometimes not so subconscious) driver, which existed in previous years. Thinking typically held that the way in which the West did business was the norm to which to strive and that non-western citizens should assimilate into our own particular mode of cultural thinking as opposed to vice versa.
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Personalized candy is a new and creative way to get your message across. Whether business or personal you can now put your message on candy.Candy has long since been a way to give a simple gift to someone. For your business it will make a great gift for employees and colleges alike. You can personalize your candy with a label congratulating an employee on a job well done from your company. You can also use the labels to advertise your company. Why hand ou
This commitment to bridging cultural gaps represents a perceptible shift in attitudes amongst British company global thinking. This is a shift from the prevalent subconscious (and sometimes not so subconscious) driver, which existed in previous years. Thinking typically held that the way in which the West did business was the norm to which to strive and that non-western citizens should assimilate into our own particular mode of cultural thinking as opposed to vice versa.
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One of the toughest jobs a leader has to perform is to act as guardian of an organisation’s values.An organisation’s values are the things that are really important to it.In the early days of an enterprise, the values are sometimes the only thing that keeps the business going. When other factors make the chances of survival doubtful, such as funds, markets, and technology, it is the set of beliefs held by the original founders which pull the busine
This commitment to bridging cultural gaps represents a perceptible shift in attitudes amongst British company global thinking. This is a shift from the prevalent subconscious (and sometimes not so subconscious) driver, which existed in previous years. Thinking typically held that the way in which the West did business was the norm to which to strive and that non-western citizens should assimilate into our own particular mode of cultural thinking as opposed to vice versa.
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Franchise companies are not born they are made and when studying the history of franchise companies, it is amazing how similar they really are. To continue this story we are in the height of the Dot Com Bubble with money flowing in Silicon Valley and personal services and labor is at a premium indeed;Before Oil Maxx's downfall, Oil Maxx with the foresight of Mr. Winslow and the help of Lou Gurnick was a registered California Franchise poised to dominate t
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Currently, there is an estimated 40,000 multinational corporation’s world wide in and approximately 250,000 overseas collaborations running cross-continental operations. Globalization has allowed access to markets via technology and has reduced distribution, lower internal coordination costs. It has also allowed for networking of specialized services and products in support of corporate functions through business process outsourcings (BPO’s) whether within the c
Little effort was truly made to understand the cultural differences between countries. This thinking was gradually moulded and changed by the realities of the failure of such thinking including ineffective team functioning, lack of productivity and general dissatisfaction amongst cross culturally functioning staff. It also become apparent that the financial costs of failed cross-cultural initiatives could be readily assessed and had a tangible impact on the financial bottom line.
It is also interesting to note that the view that cultural awareness is unnecessary within other western groups has also changed.
Commonality of language can sometimes be an impediment as opposed to
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