are dependent on implementing different minorities into their company. First of all, divisions within groups often occur along cultural lines and promote disharmony, dissatisfaction and declining performance among multicultural teams. This problem, also called faultlines, is more likely to develop when the combination of the group fosters cultural divisions, for example German-Chinese teams often develop faultlines, since everyone knows who is German and who is Chinese. To prevent this, managers
not be able know the whole picture of it, potentially tax and legal problems arise more than with Greenfield investment, and there can be difficulties in “absorbing” acquired assets. Furthermore, acquisition is sometimes restricted by culture clashes of the two parties and given the history of acquisitions; they are notorious for short term return but lack of stability in the
Existence of innateness in language development Language acquisition is a continuous learning process and begins from the time we are born till we die. Human language is very unique and has been evolved and developed over time. But, has this language been born to be ‘natured’ or ‘nurtured’? Whether a language is an innate property or not is an ongoing discussion among rationalists and empiricists. The rationalists view was first formed as early as in 300BC by Plato, that is, basic principles of the
words are related by the same root. Students put the root morpheme cult- at the bottom of the trunk and the derivatives (culturing, cultured, uncultured, cultural, culturally, subcultural, intercultural, agricultural) in the branches of the tree. It is an advantage when students accompany the tree with a definition of each word and provide an example sentence containing the item. As the meaning of a concept is learnt better if it is presented in terms of its relationships to other words, students can
indigenous franchise stores came up with the help of Khadi & Village Industries Commission. The economy began to open up in the 1980s resulting in the change of retailing. The first few companies to come up with retail chains were in textile sector, for example, Bombay Dyeing, S Kumar's, Raymond’s etc. Later, Titan launched retail showrooms in the organized retail sector. With the passage of time, new entrants moved on from manufacturing to pure retailing. Retail outlets such as Food world in FMCG, Planet
this package and all of abrupt the guy who bought the Honda Accord is snubbing his nose at the guy driving a Toyota Camry. This marketing technique is used in every market, we must make a decision what road to take and stick with it. Another vast example of this is the reality that no Honda vehicles are used as Public Utility Vehicles. This is another aspect in establishing status. Some people do not want to drive the same car that all the city cabs are made out of. Toyota chooses to not take this
The world had become an international area and this caused many industries extend in their offer to also become worldwide. Development of the industries and company in globally needs to have recruitment of a multi culture people to work in each individual place. Selecting and recruiting the best staff is constantly the biggest challenge for the Multinationals Companies. It is essential to have a good staff as it is directly related with the performance of the staff which can have a big impact in
Technology and Second Language Learning Li Li Lin Alliant International University May 15, 2009 E-mail: lilylin1524@hotmail.com 2 Introduction Current technology provides new opportunities to increase the effectiveness of language learning and teaching. Incorporating well-organized and effective technology into second language learning and teaching for improving students’ language proficiency has been refined by researchers and educators for many decades. Based on the rapidly changing evolution of
people of different nations to communicate with each other” He made certain assertions that show the relation between culture and international language. His assumptions are: • It’s not necessary for a learner of an international language to adopt the cultural norms as well. • The ownership of the worldwide dialect gets to be denationalized. • The instructive objective of taking in a global dialect is to empower learners to convey their thoughts and culture to others. These presumptions by Smith are additionally
2.1 MOTIVATION The term motivation is derived from a Latin verb movere, which means ‘to move’. When a person does something, he makes choices, does the action and put in his effort in. What actually moves him to make certain choices, to do the action, to make effort and to continue the action, are some of the core questions for theorizing a motivational theory and to initiate its research. However, these simple questions have produced a rich theory and research on the topic, on which a considerable