”Does your organization have a mission/vision/value statement?” Analyze this statement and how well your organization promotes and follows its vision.

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Culture Case Study

Students shall choose an organization to research and analyze its corporate/safety culture.

There is no constraint on which organization is chosen as long as sufficient research and analysis may be conducted to meet the assignment rubric.

Students shall address either item 1A or 1B based on whether or not their chosen organization has a mission/value/vision/etc. statement.

Students shall address either item #2 or #3

1A) Does your organization have a mission/vision/value statement?

  1. Analyze this statement and how well your organization promotes and follows its vision.

OR

1B) If your organization does not have a mission/vision/value statement, develop one.

  1. How would you recommend management incorporate this change?
  2. How do you think this would impact your organization’s effectiveness?
  3. Analyze your organization based on the Five P’s of Corporate Culture.
  4. Is it an actively or passively managed culture?
  5. How well does your organization cultivate its core culture?
  6. How aware of the core principles are the average employees?
  7. Make three (3) recommendations for improvements to your organization’s corporate culture.

OR

  1. Analyze your organization’s safety culture.
  2. Is it an actively or passively managed culture?
  3. How well does your organization cultivate its safety culture? – e.g. Is it secretive, blaming, reporting, or just?
  4. How aware of safety and safety principles are the average employees?
  5. Make three (3) recommendations to improve your organization’s safety culture.

 

 

 

 

 

Based on what you have learned throughout this course, discuss the main characteristics of Arabic culture?

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Arabic culture

Based on what you have learned throughout this course, discuss the main characteristics of Arabic culture (hint: values, habits, hospitality, traditions, uniform, language, etc.)?

Minimum 8 slides of PowerPoint to get full 20 points

 

Understand what constitutes diversity. Explain the benefits of managing diversity. Describe challenges of managing a workforce with diverse demographics. Describe the challenges of managing a multicultural workforce.

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Managing Demographic and Cultural Diversity

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Understand what constitutes diversity.
  2. Explain the benefits of managing diversity.
  3. Describe challenges of managing a workforce with diverse demographics.
  4. Describe the challenges of managing a multicultural workforce.
  5. Understand diversity and ethics.
  6. Understand cross-cultural issues regarding diversity.

 

Identify four common organizational structures and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Explain why an alignment between an organization’s culture and its strategy can help a firm implement its strategy effectively.

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Strategic leadership business strategy

  1. a) Identify four common organizational structures and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
  2. b) Explain why an alignment between an organization’s culture and its strategy can help a firm implement its strategy effectively.
  3. c) Explain the differences between Transformational and Transactional Leadership, which are two common approaches to leadership styles
  4. d) Describe the leadership strategy which would fit your personal style and using the information from the readings describe why.
  5. e) How would you use Strategic Leadership for strategic change inside the organization

 

What is the “danger” in these single storiesof China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture? In what ways do “single stories” impact our own identities, how we view China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture, and the choices we makerelated to them?

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China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture

In this part of your essay, you can be personal, critical, and creative in expressing how the course content and learning experiences influenced or altered your feelings, beliefs, assumptions, or biases about China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture, helping you understand China beyond the “single stories.”It is important to include specific examples drawn from the course content and your learning experiences to explain how your perspective was challenged and/or changed and why, and/or introspectively state your current or new feelings, opinions, or beliefs about that experience.For instance, you may choose a few common stereotypes about China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture you encountered and explain how each one, even if partially accurate, does not represent the entire story.Particularly, you may reflect upon some of the following questions:

  • What is the “danger” in these single stories of China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture?
  • In what ways do “single stories” impact our own identities, how we view China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture, and the choices we make related to them?
  • What can we do to eliminate single stories of China, Chinese people, or Chinese culture from both our lives and the lives of future generations?Can we expect our media to change their course and supply multiple stories in this regard?

 

What is the character of human nature? What is the relation of humankind to nature? What is the orientation toward time? What is the value placed on activity?

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KLUCKHOHN AND STRODTBECK’S VALUE

ORIENTATIONS 32

The first taxonomy of cultural orientations comes from the anthropological work of Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck. They based their research on the idea that every individual, regardless of culture, must deal with five universal questions, referred to as “value orientations.” These “orientations,” or patterns, inform members of a culture what is important and provide them guidance for living their lives. After extensive study, they concluded that all people turn to their culture for help in answering the same five basic questions:

  1. What is the character of human nature?
  2. What is the relation of humankind to nature?
  3. What is the orientation toward time?
  4. What is the value placed on activity?
  5. What is the relationship of people to each other?

How can the historical legacies of the United States and Russia produce discord and conflict? What is a contemporary example? How can a government use a nation’s historical legacy to generate popular support among the general population?

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DEVELOPING HISTORICAL MEMORY COMPETENCY FOR INTER CULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTERACTIONS

  1. How can the historical legacies of the United States and Russia produce discord and conflict? What is a contemporary example?
  2. How can a government use a nation’s historical legacy to generate popular support among the general population?
  3. How does national history play a role in shaping national identity? What is an example for the United States?
  4. During a state visit to China in 2010, the United Kingdom’s prime minister and his party were asked to remove the poppy flowers they were wearing to honor U.K. war dead, a national tradition observed every November 11. The Chinese indicated that the poppies might remind the Chinese of the Opium Wars of the mid-1800s, in which British forces defeated the Chinese. In your opinion, should the British representatives have worn the poppies? Why?
  5. Can you think of examples to help explain the notion that Russia remains in a transitional phase?
  6. How do Japan’s demographic separation, geographic isolation, and sense of self-consciousness manifest themselves during inter- action with strangers of other cultures?

What is meant by the phrase “Islam is a complete way of life”? What are some examples that would validate the truth of this assertion?

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ETHICS AND HINDUISM

What is meant by the phrase “Islam is a complete way of life”?

What are some examples that would validate the truth of this assertion?

What do Hindus mean when they say, “Truth does not come to the individual; it already resides within each of us”?

What in Buddhist philosophy led Buddha to instruct his followers that he was “Not a God, but only a man seeking the truth”?

How do cultures conceive of death in so many different ways?

Which orientation comes closest to your conception of death?

 

What is the purpose of life? Does law, chance, or “God” rule the world? What is the right way to live? What are the origins of the universe, and how did life begin?

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Worldview: Cultural Explanations of Life and Death

Society.”2 A culture’s worldview focuses on the major assumptions about life that all individuals, at one time or another, must deal with. Klopf and McCroskey note some of those assumptions:

Worldview is a set of interrelated assumptions and beliefs about the nature of reality, the organization of the Universe, the purposes of human life, God, and other philosophical matters that are concerned with the concept of being. Worldview relates to a culture’s orientation toward ontological matters or the nature of being and serves to explain how and why things got to be as they are and why they continue that way. 3

From Klopf and McCroskey’s description you can reason that worldviews deal with some of the following topics:

  • What is the purpose of life?
  • Does law, chance, or “God” rule the world?
  • What is the right way to live?
  • What are the origins of the universe, and how did life begin?
  • What happens when we die?
  • What are the sources of knowledge?
  • What is good and bad and right and wrong?
  • What is human nature?
  • Why do we exist just to die?
  • How do we determine “truth”?
  • What is our responsibility to other people?

 

How do these cultural expressions help define who you are, what you believe, or how you act? If someone saw only this list of cultural expressions, what might they conclude about you? What might be an incorrect assumption that someone could make? What do you think might be accurate?

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Cultural expressions

For this assignment, you will examine the ways that cultural expressions influence your daily life. You are welcome to use images in this assignment, however, the written content needs to be at least 750 words.

Share three items of cultural expression that influence your life. You may include the item of cultural expression that you introduced in your discussion for this unit, but the other two items should be new selections and not prior discussion submissions. You may want to write about recipes, art, music, sports, films, photography, religious traditions, or narratives about your family history. You are welcome to go beyond this list. These three cultural expressions should communicate something about your beliefs, customs, and way of life.

The assignment has four parts.

Part I:

Give an introduction to the paper. Include a preview of your main points and a thesis that establishes what you will demonstrate in the assignment. As the final sentence of the introduction, offer the reader the main idea of what will be learned through the exploration of these cultural expressions.

Part II:

Introduce the expressions one at a time. Tell the reader about the item. You may want to explain the “who, what, where, when and why” about this item. For example, what is it? Where did it come from and when? Who has decided to keep it? Why is it worth keeping?

Part III:

After you have introduced and explained all of the expressions, consider the three expressions as a group and answer these questions.

How do these cultural expressions help define who you are, what you believe, or how you act?

If someone saw only this list of cultural expressions, what might they conclude about you? What might be an incorrect assumption that someone could make? What do you think might be accurate?

Part IV:

Wrap up the paper with a substantive conclusion that reviews the main points and explains how they help to prove the thesis statement.