Introduction “Global village” is no longer alien to people in the 21st century – a place where all cultures come together and cultural boundaries seem to be blurred. Besides opening new opportunities for people in over the world to learn about foreign cultures, global village probably presents such challenges as cultural conflicts, cultural diverging or assimilation. Thus, learning how to become a competent intercultural communicator in this century has never been more urgent than ever before. Therefore
CULTURE FACTORS COMBINING CULTURES SUCCESSFULLY Booz, Allen and Hamilton (1985) revealed a study of European CEO’s, that the ability to successfully integrate an acquired organization is one of the most important determinants of acquisition performance. In international acquisitions, integration problems due to different organizational cultures are often aggravated by differences in national cultures. Therefore, international acquirers often experience a “dual cultural clash” as argued by Larsson
increasingly interconnected. People migrate across continents and ,among materialistic belongings, bring their culture with them. Once in contact with other cultures they can clash, coexist or move one step further: interact with each other. This is know as interculturalism. While cultural conflicts have been covered intensively by scholars such as Samuel P. Huntington who predicts culture clashes to be the main source of conflict in the post-cold war world (Kirkus Reviews) and various books about
Indian textbooks (Asian Pacific Human Rights Information Center). A solid reason for the founders of Menstrupedia to attempt a change in original culture patterns of local Indians as better education (on menstruation) must be mentioned more. Acculturation arose as the founders came “into continuous first hand contact” with other members of other cultures where education is more advocated and advanced (Van Damme
1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND COMMITMENT Organizational culture and commitment have extensive significance in industrial and organizational environment. Culture is a coherent system of assumptions and basic values, which distinguish one group to another and familiarizes its choices. Hence, organizational culture implies 'a prototype of basic assumptions that imaginary exposed and urbanized by a given group as it learns from external and internal implementation. It has worked well enough to be
in Building Its Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy Through Its Culture and Technology: Case Study of K-Pop Music Industry I. Abstract In these recent years, South Korea has becoming one of the influential soft power by attracting others by its culture, especially on it entertainment aspects. South Korea nowadays in this globalized world also in its attempt to build and strengthen its diplomacy through the cultures they have. The cultures of South Korea are now becoming trends not only for Asian people
S.A. , the overwhelming need of Japanese managers is for management principles and knowledge applicable to Oriental cultural tradition. There are few who would today seek major changes in Japanese culture to adapt the culture known to management principles . . . In Industrial relations, Japanese feel an impending need of guidance. The labor move- ment and growing competition appear to be the chief factors inciting recognition of
Paying attention to cultural systems is very important to any one whether leading or managing, therefore, knowledge is a fundamental principle in intercultural training, and is included in the cultural intelligence model. People have to know how cultures are formed, understood, and shared, in addition to how cultural explanations, sense, signs, can influence behaviors and approaches. This component of the model is thought of as "Acquire" because of the need to acquire information and knowledge that
Attaining and maintaining optimal health and wellbeing in a society is a must. To attain optimal health, lifestyle that is health-oriented should be emphasized. Moreover, wellbeing has a close connection to health because it is seen to have correlation in terms of addition of life years, recovery from illnesses, having positive health behaviors and positive outcomes, and has implications toward the relationship between patients and health care providers (Smedley, Stith, & Nelson, 2002). Essentially
of history, language and culture in the process of becoming rather than being; not 'who we are' or 'where we have come from' so much as what we might become, how we have been represented and how that bears on how we might represent ourselves. Identities are therefore constituted within, not outside representation” (4). Consequently, what creates a nation,