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Discuss what you believe would be the different organizational culture and local culture aspects that you would have to take into consideration if your company was expanding into Germany? Would the consideration be different if the company expanded into Japan? Give specific examples that would affect the organizational culture in […]

Regarding Business and Management Ethics, (Textbook Beyond Integrity, 3rd ed.): The textual materials in Chapter 2, Case 2.1 at page 105 of the text, relate the story of Philippe Kahn. In engineering the growth and early success of Borland International, Kahn and his fellow incorporators envisioned taking on the software […]

“Entrepreneurship in Hard Economic Times”  Please respond to the following: Predict the impact of high unemployment on the number and nature of entrepreneurial startups. Speculate whether the trend in entrepreneurship would increase or decrease in hard economic times. Provide your rationale. From the case study, interpret the role played by fast-changing […]

Define social networks. Define upward and downward networks. Describe a previous position you held within an organization (e.g., academic, social, or professional). When you worked in this position, were upward networks effectively utilized? How did you know this? How did the utilization of upward networks influence organizational climate and/or culture?

Define intercultural communication. Identify and describe which dimension of intercultural communication to be most important. Justify your answer.

Describe the sources of power brought to the bargaining table by both the union and management sides. How might a multinational corporation better prepare itself for dealing with the differing union environments in other countries? Compare and contrast unions in the United States, Germany, and Japan. How are they similar […]