Biodiversity in forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Interest in biodiversity began in the mid-1980s with the Biodiversity Symposium, held in Washington, DC, sponsored by the National Academy of Science. Within increasing human populations and rising demands for resources and living space, the need to conserve biological diversity rose to...
Cultural diversity is a source of international competitive advantage. Critically evaluate
Thesis - 8 pages - Management
Most of companies employ people from different culture and want to manage them in order to use in the best way as possible this diversity. The management of this kind of workers must be adapted. To become a real international competitive advantage, cultural diversity in the company...
Which voting system is best at representing diverse interests?
Essay - 5 pages - Political life and election
Nowadays, there have been increasing complaints of citizens who believe that politicians are not representing them properly, which makes it interesting to attempt to answer the question: which voting system is best at representing diverse interests? We will try to answer this question by looking...
Diversion and advertising
Thesis - 8 pages - Services marketing
The basis for success of any diversion is a shared knowledge specific to each country, group or culture. Many diversions for remain obscure to foreigners if they do not make an effort to understand the context. Every element is capable of being interpreted in various ways. The simple act of...
Latinos and healthcare in the United States: Diverse challenges and unmet needs
Dissertation - 26 pages - Social sciences
Since 2003, Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United States, composing over 12.5% of the population. Unfortunately, many Latinos are not able to access healthcare in a meaningful way, as barriers of availability, accessibility, affordability and adaptability create a...
The diverse nature of psychology
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychology happens to be an area in science which concerns itself with people's minds as well as the behaviours which people exhibit. As a discipline, psychology is quite diverse. It implicates other areas of science widely as well as makes use of problems that are solvable to create knowledge to...
Examine critically the advantages of a culturally diverse workplace in a global business world: Essay
Thesis - 7 pages - Management
Today the business world is becoming global. The interaction between countries and ventures, all around the world. Multinational companies have never been this important or powerful. Because of the augmentation of the interaction between different nationalities different cultures, people are...
Diverse nature of psychology
Case study - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychology explores the reasons why individuals carry out certain actions and by performing these investigations many subdisciplines have been created within the field. The creation of these subdisciplines has made psychology exceedingly diverse field. Having this diversity within the...
Diverse sexual orientations
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
In the world of today there are the homosexuals and the heterosexuals who are forming a part of our society. Although met initially with resistance the society is gradually accepting that the homosexuals are a part of our society and are not going anywhere. Diversity in sexual orientation...
Culture and cultural diversities impact on business in India
Essay - 17 pages - Management
Culture is defined as a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that the members of society use to cope with their world and with one another, and are transmitted from generation to generation through learning. This document focuses on the impact of culture and...
Can culture be the principal source of intercultural conflicts in organizations?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Human resources
It is true that intercultural conflicts happen frequently in all fields and industries and should not be seen as a dramatic phenomenon because it simply reflects divergences of opinion, experiences, beliefs and interpretations. However, can culture really be the principal source of intercultural...
Multiculturalism and Indigenous Peoples
Course material - 2 pages - Sociology
Multiculturalism entails how a particular society handles cultural diversity. It assumes that members of different cultural groups can easily coexist peacefully in a given region. Multiculturalism expresses the fact that a community is enriched through respecting, encouraging, and...
The origins and diversities of European welfare states
Thesis - 9 pages - Political science
Looking at the definition quoted by G.Esping-Andersden, the Welfare State seems to be a really simple thing: “it involves state responsibility for securing some basic modicum of welfare for citizens”. However, the welfare state corresponds to numerous realities across the world. The...
The Blindfold - Siri Hustvedt - Post-modernism
Essay - 2 pages - Literature
'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.' Is a quotation from Harold Pinter that illustrates the ideas of the post-modernist movement,...
Gender inequality and work/life balance
Summary - 1 pages - Labor law
Individuals spend most of their time in the workplace; therefore an appropriate legal framework should be put in place to protect their rights but also quality of life, regardless of their sex. In this report, women's rights in the workplace will be tackled first, then the balance between...
The recruitment difficulties within an organization
Presentation - 11 pages - Human resources
The task at hand is: According to the British Chambers of Commerce, "recruitment difficulties and tougher trading conditions face firms amid sluggish UK growth" (BCC, 2018) Discuss the various recruitment difficulties that any organization might experience. Then, by narrowing your focus to two...
Comparative Arts Design
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
In this essay, we discuss contemporary art and how it has contributed in discussing about identity and diversity in the society. In the world of art, Identity is used a lot in describing the life of the moment the piece of work was made from the present time. Identity in art is viewed as...
Hard and soft human resource management - Theory and examples
Case study - 9 pages - Human resources
The concept of Human Resource Management has many times been described as an idea with two distinct forms: hard and soft. The two forms have been opposed along several dimensions, and frequently get used by different commentators as strategic devices for categorization approaches in the...
Spaces and exchanges
Essay - 2 pages - World geography
In this notion, we talk about Spaces and Exchanges. It is first about the immigration in Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954, it's the legal immigration. To continue with legal immigration, we talk about the Green Card Lottery. Then we can talk about the illegal immigration with the example of...
Refuge of Art - Andy Goldsworthy
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist born in 1956. His sensitivity to the beauty of nature comes from his childhood working on farms. After that, he studied Beaux-Arts at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic in Lancaster. This explains why his works combine nature and contemporary art and...
Harvard Business Review Response
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Factually, everyone is affected by communication and information irrespective of the level of connection as vital factors in acquiring shared knowledge for improving performance capacity. Given the scope of global interconnectedness, most situational activities demand continual interdependence...
Essay - Tolerance for Hate Speech
Essay - 4 pages - Educational studies
Upholding tolerance of each individual viewpoint is often met with mixed response in different circles. In reality, tolerance in the social settings is championed as an adorable accomplishment in the contemporary global order seeking diversity and equity. The desire to attain tolerance is...
Multicultural management theory
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Cushner, McClelland, and Safford (1996) defined diversity as a notion needed to "to include differences based on gender, ethnicity, race, class, age, and handicapping conditions" (p. xvii). Diversity is not simply "a notion of "other" ... that all Americans are, to some degree,...
Management of international human resources: Coca Cola
Essay - 7 pages - Human resources
According to Armstrong in 2006 "International human resource management is the process of employing, developing and rewarding people in global organisations". However, nowadays, one of the most complex challenges for a MNC, across the globe, is the management of human resources because of...
Reducing prejudice through exchanges between equals
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
America prides itself on its immigrant culture and great progressive values that have been the key to political, economic, and technological superiority. Indeed, the United States is comprised of a diversity of cultures and ethnicities. Even with its progressive history and values, America...
How canadians see multiculturalism
Essay - 24 pages - Sociology
Canada is described as a multicultural society whereby different ethnic groups live together and try to respect their different cultural background. Canadian ethnic mosaic includes, in addition to the founding French and British groups, a large number of German, Chinese, Black, Dutch, Italian and...
Effect of psychological contract forms on employee attitudes toward Affirmative Action
Essay - 71 pages - Human resources
Psychological contracts are individual beliefs in reciprocal obligations between employees and employers. In a sample of 1377 South African white collar-employees, this study examined the effects of Affirmative Action on psychological contract attributes and how these changes influence employees'...
On-site waste water treatment in Sydingosby
Essay - 16 pages - Ecology & environment
The project site is a farm located in Sydingösby. The Gunnarsson family is living here. Carina and Stefan have two children. Stefan works at the farm while Carina works at SLU. This site has already a system for waste treatment, but it is not satisfying and not sustainable. Actually it does not...
Why would Asterix and Obelix be a successful entrepreneurial founding pair?
Dissertation - 21 pages - Management
In this essay, our purpose is to prove that diversity in an entrepreneurial team often leads to success and that, reciprocally, failures may often be explained by the narrow-mindedness resulting from a too homogeneous partnership. When we talk about diversity, we talk about...
Inter-cultural management: Case of L'Oreal
Case study - 9 pages - Management
L'Oreal is a family company founded in 1909 by Eugene Schueller. At the time, it was known as ‘Societe Française des Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux'. Schueller gradually convinced the Parisian hairdressers to buy his products, with the help of some sales representatives. Keeping its...
