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...? Culture Perspective Of Another Country: India India is a land of diversity. There is diversity of religions, cultures, traditions, languages, norms, values, foods, beliefs and professions. Even Hinduism that is the religion of a vast majority of Indians encapsulates diversity of castes and practices. The diversity is so profound that the low caste Hindus are considered inferior to the Hindus belonging to the superior classes. Mosques, temples, mandirs and churches are located at a distance of few meters from one another. Besides, there are so many languages in India that people of North India may not necessarily know the language of...
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...Cross-Culture Management: The Case of General Electric in India Introduction and Background: The Organisation and Key Aspects of its Management Structure
1.1. Introduction & Background
General Electric (GE) was generally considered as one of the most successful organisations in the world. Throughout the company’s history, it has been linked to almost uninterrupted growth and stable profitability (Grant 2004). GE was the outcome of the merger of Thomas Edison’s Electric Light Company with the Thomas Houston Company in 1892 (ibid, p. 336). Its enterprise was rooted in developing the patents of Edison pertaining to the generation and distribution of electricity, electric motors, and light bulbs. At some...
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...Cultural communication in relation to the culture of India
In this essay, I shall review the work of Larry Samovar in the book Cross Cultural Communications. It is vital to note that communication and culture works in tandem. This is because communication allows for the transfer of culture from one generation to the next. This book is a compilation of a number of interesting articles from a number of authors that reflects on the diversity in intercultural communication. My main focus in this essay is cross cultural communication in relation to the culture of India. It important to note that India is one of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. Religion plays a major role in the way of life of a people. In addition... to the...
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...bureaucracy under one umbrella, causing the general public to lose trust in the government. The amount that begins with five hundred rupees at the traffic police level increases to thousands for school and college admissions in the name of ‘donations’. Some of the top colleges of the state of Karnataka were infamously featured in the news for their acceptance of donation seats by the National Students Union of India three years ago. The amount for medical and engineering colleges mentioned was as high as five million rupees, or fifty lac rupees (Sharma, 2009). This culture of corruption in India follows a trend, where the amount of money involved in the bribe increases with the amount of...
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...All about India and Section # of All about India This Paper discusses the research and interview findings from an Indian person about his country. The paper focuses on India's location, its culture and other economic and social features. It then marks out any differences between the research conducted and the personal experience.
Introduction
One of the key features of globalization is the interaction of people from different backgrounds having diverse cultures, beliefs, traditions and values. People differ in many aspects like age, gender, ethnic group, skills, ideas, religion etc. These differences influence the way they behave, make...
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...___________ ____________ ____November 2007 Cultural profiling & comparison of USA and India using Hofstede's & CPAS model Introduction The most frequently deployed tool to assess culture in the academic literature is that of Hofestede's indices of culture properties. This model consists of four categories: Power Distance, Individualism, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Masculinity. Hofstede (2003) defined these five dimensions as follows: power distance: The extent to which power is distributed equally within a society and the degree that society accepts this distribution. A high power distance culture prefers hierarchical bureaucracies, strong leaders and a...
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...Cultural dissonance: Is India similar to the Bodley’s profile of Tribal Culture? According to John H. Bodley, the famed anthropologist and of ‘Victims of progress’, a book based on the effect of industrialization on tribal cultures, culture can be defined primarily as the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share. A people’s culture can be distinguished by its beliefs, rituals, dress, art, technology, and political and economic systems.
Cultures vary from place to place, with every group of people a starkly different contrast from the other in some ways, yet remarkably...
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...History and Political Science 08 February Research Paper Proposal: This research paper is discusses the history of ancient India. This paper has a specific focus on the Harppan Culture. For some period of time, there was a belief that the History of India started with the Aryans. But excavations at Harappa and Mohanjo-Daro changed the complete viewpoint and old beliefs. Starting with the finding of Harappa, almost thousand conclusions with comparable characters have been exposed. Scholars named it ‘Indus valley civilization’ (Around the Indus in 90 Slides par. 1). Indus valley civilization developed at two centers-Harappa and Mohanjodaro. Harappa is in Montgomery district of the...
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... Instrurtor: Dharma: Buddhist and Hindu Perspective. The Sanskrit word ‘Dharma,’ signifies the upholding, or support, of the established law. In the context of Buddhism, dharma refers to the teachings of Buddha, and is termed ‘the Law of Righteousness’ (Andrea and Overfield, 70). Buddha’s teachings emphasize the adoption of the ‘Middle Path,’ avoiding both extremes of pleasure and mortification. This Middle Path, of ‘The Holy Eightfold Path,’ consists of Right Belief, Right Aspiration, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Means of Livelihood, Right Endeavor, Right Memory, and Right Meditation. (Andrea and Overfield, 71). The rock edicts of Ashoka reflect the emperor’s strong adherence to the fundamental teachings of Buddhism. He... Instrurtor: ...
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