Journal Review: Making Differences Matter
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
David Thomas and Robin Ely address what it would take for organizations to fully reap the benefits of a diverse labor force. Managers are on the view that a more diverse labor force will actually increase the effectiveness of the organization. It also raises the morale of employees and enhances...
Alternatives measures for young offenders
Case study - 3 pages - Criminal law
As indicated in the introduction above, diversion is alternative measures that are giving to younger offenders who commit a minor crime too including their first offense. The very means to alternative measures are basically programs that stored in placed “that uses victim/offender mediation...
Managing international teams
Essay - 22 pages - Management
With an ongoing globalization of activities and companies, heterogeneity in companies' workforce has become a reality. Managing diversity has turned into a major challenge for companies' survival. As a matter of fact, large companies can no longer boast their national affiliation as the...
Managing in a global context : How managers can overcome problems arising from cultural differences of employees?
Essay - 13 pages - Management
According to the United Nation Statistics in 2003, the globe constitutes of approximately 226 countries. All these nations have their own culture. this can be more or less similar from one country to another. However, it creates a multitude of differences between individuals that managers have to...
"People like Us" by David Brooks
Essay - 3 pages - Humanities/philosophy
David Brooks' “People Like Us” is an analytical essay on the issue of diversity seen from the eyes of the author. Brooks takes an emotional point of view of the way in which we take for granted how diverse our nation is although it is “relatively homogeneous” when...
Key cases of corporate ethics in the workplace
Essay - 7 pages - Management
Organizational leadership requires an understanding of organizational goals, the ability to reach these goals without violating the law or ethical standards, and the ability to communicate these goals to employees and the public. The issue of diversity is also important as it relates to...
The 'rediscovery' of ethnicity: Theory and analysis
Essay - 9 pages - Social sciences
The end of a millennium provides a rare opportunity to reexamine and assess achievements. In the sociological study of relations between diverse ethnic, racial and minority groups it marks a real, rather than a largely symbolic, watershed. There has been major transformation in the form and...
Intercultural Management
Essay - 11 pages - Management
The globalization of markets, the internationalization of companies through operations of mergers, acquisitions, partnerships or alliances have created an economic landscape where the intercultural aspect has became a daily reality for many persons in charge. Companies are increasingly working...
Anti-racist and multicultural approaches to education in the classroom:Overview and evaluation
Thesis - 5 pages - Educational studies
Part of becoming a teacher is developing a personal philosophy of education, and while certain elements are subject specific or specific to a particular teaching environment, one element that should be common to all teaching philosophies is the consideration of diversity in the classroom....
A different mirror- book review
Book review - 2 pages - Literature
The historical mirror can guide the living, helping them realize their past and present being. The book ‘a different mirror' presents a view of America's many cultures through the eyes of the minority who migrated to America aiming at getting a better life, the immigrants later got short...
Soft capitalism as related to therapeutic modes of work
Essay - 71 pages - Services marketing
The global village concept has fuelled soft capitalism and the rise of the ethos in this field within organizations. Let us first understand the basis of globalization. While not so different from traditional villages in its desire to engage in a free exchange of ideas, the...
Does the law of the sea provide a suitable framework for the regulation of marine genetic resources?
Case study - 14 pages - Literature
There are many challenges of marine engineering at the moment, and the industry is lacking the general ruling, law and indicators to work out a universal regulation, applied to all seas, oceans, including the territories of different countries. There have been many conferences held, and the...
Business Plan Gourmet and specialty food expo planning and execution Non-profit management
Business plan - 14 pages - Business strategy
We aim to be a non-profit non-governmental agency that specializes in the organization and execution of specialty food exhibitions and trade shows. With an emphasis on workplace diversity, we also intend to write a manual every year filled with successful strategies for implementing and...
Multiculturalism in education
Thesis - 3 pages - Social sciences
Canadians that live in the country's larger cities are aware of the growing cultural and ethnic diversity that is characterizing our cities. Canada has an aggressive goal of growing its population through immigrants, so this diversity is only going to increase throughout the years....
The term globalization used in relation to a host of social, economic, cultural and political processes
Essay - 12 pages - International relations
Globalization is easier to describe than to define. This is because, in its present form and usage, it is a new, complex, dynamic, multidimensional, and worldwide phenomenon, which means different things to different people and different things to the same groups across time and space. It evokes...
Individuals in organizations
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
In the Dave Green case, we are introduced to an individual straight out of college with good grades, good verbal skills and an excellent history in teamwork. He describes himself as a leader however his leadership skills are largely untested. He is assigned to a team in which he has to not only...
Team Effectiveness - How can it be achieved? An analysis of the team attributes that could contribute to team effectiveness
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Management
Theory holds that working together brings better results than working alone. Team structures often account for organizational success in the contemporary corporate environment. Modern organizations favor team structures and teamwork viewing them as key elements for organizational success. This...
Landscape ecology, use and application in forestry
Essay - 6 pages - Ecology & environment
Many ecological processes result in or are affected by spatial patterns. However, the relative importance of different processes is very sensitive to the scale of analysis. For example, at a very local scale, species diversity is often strongly affected by competition and trophic...
Ontario Landfill gas: Management, regulation & recovery. legal & policy issues
Tutorials/exercises - 17 pages - Ecology & environment
Landfills seem to be a major part of waste disposal life. Love them or hate them, they are a necessity in dealing with ever increasing amounts of waste. Statistics Canada reported that Canadians threw out about 20 per cent more garbage in 2004 compared to 2000, bringing per-capita output to 418...
The French cultural exception: Exception or exclusion?
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology
In a bit more than one decade, culture has become a crucial issue of the globalization process. In fact, the IT revolution along with the development of transport, the increase of the international commercial exchanges and foreign investments, and the constitution of multinational conglomerates...
Women in a Changing Economy
Essay - 3 pages - Social sciences
As of now, countries of South Asia comprise approximately one-sixth of the world's population. India, alone has over one billion inhabitants, and will soon surpass China as the world's most populous nation. In comparison with its size, this area could be considered by some to be one of the most...
Forest canopies
Essay - 12 pages - Biology
The word canopy is derived from the Latin conopeum, describing a mosquito net over a bed. For canopy researchers in many tropical and temperate forests, this derivation is all too ?tting. Forest canopies are home to perhaps 50% of all living organisms, many of which are uniquely specialized for...
Foliage feeders in temperate and boreal forests
Essay - 7 pages - Biology
Insect consumers of tree foliage comprise one of the most abundant and diverse feeding guilds in forest ecosystems. Known as folivores, this guild is integral to the structure and functioning of forests. Folivores in?uence vital ecosystem processes in forests, including nutrient turnover,...
Safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: Protecting languages as a vehicle of the intangible cultural heritage
Thesis - 6 pages - Social sciences
The 2003 Convention for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage defines the intangible cultural heritage as “the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills - as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts and cultural spaces associated therewith - that...
A study on GE's business strategy
Tutorials/exercises - 40 pages - Business strategy
GE Lighting is a leading supplier of lighting products for global consumer, commercial and industrial markets. Products include incandescent, fluorescent, high-intensity discharge, halogen and holiday lamps, along with portable lighting fixtures, lamp components and quartz products. GE also...
Strategic Intelligence Report - NSW, Australia
Case study - 14 pages - Services marketing
NSW boasts exceptionally diverse and preserved natural and cultural tourism potentials. This is a valuable asset that must be maintained and protected so that in the long term it may contribute to the development of tourism. Tourism needs to become one of the basic generators of development. Even...
French cosmetics in the United States
Thesis - 60 pages - Business strategy
The establishment of new French cosmetic companies in the United States is an interesting topic to discuss in the current scenario. For many years, France and its beauty products in particular have always enjoyed a good reputation across the Atlantic that allowed young French companies to achieve...
Sustainable development and tourism - Example of Accor
Dissertation - 40 pages - Management
For a few years already, we have attended a real awakening of the individuals, companies and public authorities on the need for acting for a sustainable development of planet. Within the framework of our study we will be able to be interested in a sector touched particularly by this topic:...
Intercultural Management - case of Bodega Torres
Case study - 10 pages - Management
Intercultural Management covers a very large sample of activities related to companies. Its tools can be used in all areas of management, including Communication, Human Resources, Marketing, Negotiation and Top Management. It allows us to easily recognize the different cultures surrounding us...
Introduction to cross-cultural psychology
Case study - 3 pages - Psychology
The practices and teachings of psychology are diverse and various since the structures are composed of sub-disciplines such as abnormal psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, social psychology and so on. The diverse beliefs and theories of each respected school of psychology is better...
