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Introduction In the modern world where information flows are often multidirectional and constant, cross-cultural communication has become almost a daily occurrence. On the Internet, the information passes through thousands of minds from every corner of the earth. Advancements in transportation technologies also made it possible to travel physically across the borders with high speed making the process of intercultural communication even more ordinary. However, this process takes certain efforts as every culture is diverse. It may create some particular and sometimes unavoidable barriers. That is why it is important to discover what role cultural awareness, trust building, and communication practices play in the process of cross-cultural exchange. Cultural Awareness When it comes to cultural differences, there might be a thousand and more nuances that need to be considered in order not to offend the other party in conversation. Every nation has its own patterns of behavior that involve mimics, gestures, words, jokes, and eye contact traditions, which in their own way influence the level of understanding between the representatives of other countries. For example, in Venezuela it is appropriate to touch a person during the conversation provided there is some minimal level of trust and familiarity between them. In Scandinavian countries, the psychological and physical distance between people is more sizable, so t
The paper aims to discuss the UK labor market conditions and characteristics focusing on their impact on policies and practices within the human resource function. U.K Labor Market The world of work has changed. Swiftly expanding developing and emerging economies, new technologies, and an increasingly international labor market are all having a tremendous significant impact on the overall demand for and supply of distinctive skills, prospects for employment, organizational practices and structure, productivity, inequality, and growth. As one of the world’s primary employment agencies, labor is seeking to contribute directly towards analysis of and policy debate related to these issues as an integral part of endeavors to display thought leadership in this specific new world of work. The paper outlines the features and characteristics of UK labor market. It then proceeds to discuss and present arguments focusing on the impact of such features and characteristics on the policies and practices within the human resource function. Statistics in UK Labor Market The unemployment rate in United Kingdom, according to a study, rose to 5.8%- up 0.4% over the quarter and also 0.5% on last year. Moreover, 29.4 million people were employed in the period from July to September as quoted by labor force survey. Recession in the economy continue to influence employment figures which has significantly decreased by ninety nine thousand on the quarter, yet still up by one hundred and thirty four thousand on the last year. Rate of working age employment is 74.4% which is down by 0.4% on the last quarter and down 0.2% on the last year. Manpower- A Global Leader in the Employment Services Manpower is the global leader in the employment services industry focusing and offering its clients a broad spectrum of services for the business cycle and entire employment that also includes temporary, permanent, and contrast recruitment, assessment and selection of employee; outplacement, training, consulting and outsourcing. The focus of work by manpower is on increasing productivity through efficiency, improved quality, and cost-reduction across their customer’s workforces, facilitating them to focus on their primary business activities. (Fernie 2007) The labor market is of critical significance for material well-being and the overall performance of economies. It has long been a core focus of research activities- and the resulting evidence and analysis have had a main impact on the people’s understanding of unemployment, inequality as well as primary interventions within the human resource functions. Almost two decades earlier, a large segment of people believed that higher rate of unemployment was inevitable. It was viewed as the result of technological change that could continuously generate the ‘end of work’. Some believed that different jobs were ultimately unaffected by many people hunting for work. The labor market of U.K has a high percentage of people in employment; almost three quarters of people, in the working age, have jobs. This proportion is, in fact, more than Germany, France, and even the United St
Kudler Fine Foods is a retailer dealing with food products. The retailer deals with local products and foodstuffs from other countries. Kudler Fine Foods is located in San Diego, and owns three stores within the environs of the city. The company has been doing well in the sale of food products in the geographical area it operates. In addition, Kudler Fine Foods has developed a new marketing plan in an effort establish innovative marketing. For the marketing strategy to succeed, the company has been doing research on their customers in order to realize success of its marketing projects. In the light of the success of the methodologies used by Kudler Fine Foods, research has proved to be an important tool in developing any sales promotion plan. In the following discussion, the importance of research in marketing strategies and tactics is highlighted with Kudler Fine Foods in focus. In order for an organization to succeed in marketing its products, a significant change is needed in the methods or approaches used in marketing. In this essence, marketing strategies and tactics involve change of the current methods. This change is accomplished by implementing the recommendations of a market research project. In market research, information about the customer is obtained and recorded. In addition, the methods used by competitors in marketing and the nature of the market are examined, and the data obtained is analyzed to help the managers of a company decided on the counteractive measures to be implemented. Research helps a business organization to identify and explore new markets by attracting new customers. The organization in question has to identify the customers and categorize them in order of their importance. This way, the managers of the organization are able to focus marketing power on the most important customers. Researchers at Kudler Fine Foods suggested that the company should adopt new methods to emerge as a powerful competitor in the market. Their recommendations were that since the company dealt with expensive food, it could hold demonstrations of how to prepare some of the products for a meal. Apart from familiarizing the customer with their products, Kudler Fine Foods was able to acquaint potential customers to the stores. This strategy would help the company make the customers keep in mind the particular store when they go about shopping for food. To develop interest in customers, Kudler Fine Foods demonstrated the culinary procedures of preparing foreign food products. Furthermore, acclaimed food experts were present and were used to demonstrate the procedures. People attending the parties organized by the company were encouraged to bring others such as friends along for the experience. Apart from the innovation of holding educative parties at Kudler Fine Foods, other methods were recommended after examinations of research findings. Researchers found out that th
Following the success of Spanish explorers and conquistadors in what is now called South America, other European nations began exploring Northern America in the hope of finding similar riches and resources. The desire for raw materials was twofold; first, the resources would increase the nation’s wealth by exploiting them. Second, there was the need for new trade routes after the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople increasing trade costs with the East (Corbett et al., 2017). The English began their exploration of the Americas later than the French and Spanish. While also desiring resources, some English colonists fled religious persecution in England. The Colombian exchange was the name given for the complex movement of goods and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Staples of modern agriculture like potatoes, chocolate, and beans, as well as diseases, such as syphilis, were transmitted from South America to Europe and Africa. Slaves were bought and shipped from Africa to North and South America, while livestock like pigs and horses entered America from Europe for the first time (Corbett et al., 2017). This rapid movement of capital and ideas would accelerate the European economies and revolutionize agriculture. In South America, the Spanish, following their initial conquests, enslaved and exploited the native population. The North American Natives were not enslaved in the same manner; however, both native populations were decimated by disease. Over the centuries, Europeans had developed antibodies against smallpox, mumps, and measles, but the natives had no protect
Introduction Simulink broadens video as well as image processing with a wide range of provisions that are able to offer rich, customizable structure for swift authentication, execution, replication as well as the blueprint of video and image processing algorithms and systems. Simulink has superior as well as fundamental algorithms used in several different applications such as surveillance for defence, medical electronics industries, teaching, consumer electronics, and communication in the automotive industry. Blocksets that use Simulink application have many capabilities. They include: morphological operations, geometric transformations, 2-D (two-dimensional) filters, motion estimation techniques, input/output (I/O) capabilities as well as 2-D transforms. For the purposes of C-code generation, simulation and modelling, the blockset is capable of handling floating as well as fixed-point data types. To be able to quickly optimize and debug models, it has statistical functions and has the ability to analyze data as well. Its useful functions are endless; it can validate simulation results, it has several image and video data visualization techniques, video displays and scopes. Optical flow estimation technique is one of the models it uses to estimate the motion vectors in each frame of the video sequence to track cars. Modelling and Simulating Video and Imaging Systems With Simulink, the blockset for video and image processing has a particular library for crafting the performance of your imaging structure. Regardless of your system’s intricacy, the Simulink environment offers apparatus for subsystem customization, data management, as well as hierarchical modelling that makes it simple to come up with crisp and precise depictions. Despite the fact that certain blocksets support integer and fixed-data point data types, all blocks used in the video and image processing blockset support both single-precision as well as double-precision floating-point data types. The video and image processing blockset and Simulink makes it much easier to quickly run simulations for real-time entrenched video, vision as well as imaging systems. To have a golden reference for the purpose of authentication throughout the design process, you can communicate to the system to downstream design teams through creation of executable specifications. Generating and Optimizing C Code To be able to automatically generate ANSI/ISO C code from your model, the video and image processing blockset has to interface with real-time workshop and
A democracy is a form of governance characterized by power sharing. The implication of this is that all the citizens have an equal voice in the way a nation is governed. This often encompasses either direct or indirect involvement in lawmaking. “Democracy” can be a very delicate subject for any writer. Throughout history, various scholars, including ancient philosophers, have had a divergent view on whether democracy is the best form of governance (Kelsen 3). Some of these arguments are discussed in this essay. Democracy appears to go hand in hand with national unity. This is particularly true because this form of governance is all about people, and these people are working together towards attainment of national goals. The cohesiveness also results from the freedom prevailing in a democratic environment. Unity and liberty in a nation lay a fertile ground for economic and social growth (Weatherford 121). In a democratic form of government, the entire citizenry is cushioned against exploitation and all form of abuse. As opposed to other governance approaches (for instance monarchy and dictatorship), democracy engages the people in decision-making processes. This ensures efficient delivery of basic services such as education, health care, and security. Moreover, these services will be of high quality. Having people govern themselves significantly minimizes the risk of running a nation into chaos. In operational democracies, policies must undergo thorough scrutiny by many organs of government and stakeholders before they are made laws. The modalities of implementing the laws are also carefully determined. In such a corporate system, it would be rare for all the involved people to be wrong. Therefore democracy protects a nation against the consequences of human errors. As a consequence of reduced possibility for human errors, people will experience a nation devoid of civil wars and strife. This atmosphere, in turn, perpetuates the general growth of a nation. Democracy acts as a framework within which the law about the basic human rights operates (Barak 27). In a democratic environment, the law gives equal entitlement to the bill of rights with total disregard of race, ethnicity or economic class. On the other hand, democracy may not be worth the high status it has been accorded for centuries by many schools of thought. Democracy gives an opportunity for all citizens to vote (Williamson 36). This can be technically hazardous to a nation. An average voter is not adequately equipped with the necessary information on the economic and political aspects of a nation. The direct implication is that a fairly large percentage of voters will base their choice on limited and incorrect information. This situation can greatly impair development. Democratic approaches tend to slow down the
The fates of talented persons often have similar milestones that affect their personal development and interest in art. Referring to Franz Kafka and Vincent van Gogh, it is necessary to state that these prominent personalities influenced the art of the 19 th -20 th centuries significantly. The lives of these men and their artistic paths seem to be connected in terms of inner motives that influenced their creative works. In this context, it is important to discuss in detail the unique connection that can be observed in relation to Vincent van Gogh and Franz Kafka. Although van Gogh and Kafka realized their creative intentions in different areas of art, they had the remarkable connection in terms of sharing problems in family relations; having problems in personal relations; struggling to find their identity and place in the life with the focus on religion; having problems with the psychological and mental health; sharing the dramatic end of the short life; and receiving the public recognition only after the death. Kafka and van Gogh were born during the late part of the nineteenth century, and they became the most intriguing representatives of the European culture. Van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands, in 1853, and he became one of the most prominent Dutch Post-Impressionist painters. In spite of the fact that the painter was not famous during his life, the critics admitted his unique style and passion reflected in used colors and techniques (Brower, 2000, p. 180). Kafka was born in Prague in 1883. He grew in the German-speaking family of Jews, and he had to conceal his interest in literature. As a result, Kafka’s complicated and absurd works became known to the wide public only after his death (Epstein, 2013, p. 49). Thus, the contribution of these talents to the culture of the nations cannot be overestimated. However, the detailed discussion of the artist and writer’s life and works is necessary to conclude about their unique connection. The Life and Works of Vincent van Gogh The birth of Vincent van Gogh was marred by the fact that he was born on the day of the first anniversary of his elder brother’s death. The parents of young Vincent spoke much about that child. Hyams notes that the child experience could significantly contribute to developing the overwhelming feel of guilt and to progress of the posttraumatic disorder in Vincent (Hyams, 2003, p. 95). Although the parents cared for the boy’s future, they lacked to demonstrate the enough support and love, and Vincent had rather problematic relations with his mother (Potter, 2003, p. 1194). As a result, Vincent felt he could not meet the parents’ expectations, he felt guilt and anxiety, and he often suffered from insomnia, self-doubt, and depression. Vincent tried to find himself in life while following both paths typical for his family: the art deale
Business customer difference Differentiation between business customers is an important element of business marketing that must be kept in mind when designing a business strategy. Traditionally, four types of business customers are identified, i.e., drivers, amiables, expressives, and analytical (Richmond 110). However, it should also be mentioned that, with the advent of technologies, another principle of business customer differentiation emerged. As soon as the concept of e-commerce was introduced into the worldwide business field, the phenomenon known as e-business appeared and was rapidly followed by the introduction of an e-business customer into the “game.” The principle of customer differentiation mentioned above is also applicable to the e-business realm. Segmentation methods As a rule, two key means of segmentation are distinguished; known as micro-segmentation and macro-segmentation, they differ in their scope. It is important to know for sure the approximate amount of customers that a particular product was designed for. The significance of the given factor is explained by the fact that it defines the scale of the marketing campaign that will be created later on to promote the product. It should be kept in mind that different promotion strategies are used for target groups of different sizes. As the names of the segmentation types show in a rather graphic way, the macro-segmentation process is designed to classify the types of buyer’s behavior within a comparatively large segment, i. e, within a particular market or a specific age group. Micro-segmentation, in its turn, is aimed at studying the peculiarities of buyers’ behavior within a relatively small group, e.g., a particular organization. Supply chain management Defined as the process of managing the acquisition, transportation and processing of the raw material, supply chain management, or SCM, is another crucial element of business evolution. While the process of raw materials search and delivery is often overlooked, it still makes a huge chunk of the entrepreneurship functioning. SCM is composed of four key elements, which are logistics, distribution, packaging and consumption, and can be defined as the process that includes the acquisition of the raw material from a particular source, followed by material processing, the distribution of the end product, product packaging and, finally, product consumption. In other words, supply chain is the process of raw material being transformed into a product and supplied to the end customer. Pricing Another crucial element of business marketing, pricing can be defined as the pricing policy that has been adopted by a particular company. As a rule, the key demand towards a pricing policy concerns its flexibility – a good pric
Introduction Khomeini was an outstanding political leader who strived to reorganize the government and imposes his religious vision of ruling the economy. In particular, his work entitled as The Necessity for the Islamic Government , he outlines his position towards the government and his vigorous apposition against Western tendencies in administering the state. The main point of his work is based on the idea that government should be guided by divine laws and there should be executive and administering organs that would implement laws and ordinances of Islam. In addition, Khomeini is reluctant to accept corrupt and ruthless regimes that contradict Islam teachings. He was more concerned with the necessity to preserve national and religious identity being the basic need of Islamic people. In contrast to his judgments, liberalist and socialist views on the government and its functions are quite different. To be more exact, their outlooks contradict Khomeini’s views on the government and power in terms of religion, political system, and social rights of people. Liberalism Response to Khomeini By juxtaposing liberalist and Khomeini’s outlook on the government, there are numerous aspects and ideas that considerably differ from each other. This particularly concerns such issues as individual freedom and equality of human rights. Another serious discrepancy is revealed through different views on the relation of religion and government. Hence, Khomeini envisions religion as the basis for constructing laws and regulations within governmental bodies believing that this will contribute to the “production of morally upright and virtual human beings” (Khomeini 42). In contrast, liberalism insists on the necessity to separate the church and the state believing that religion should not be involved in governing and administering people. Considering religious views, particularly the views on separation of the church and the state, it is necessary to resort to Thomas Jefferson provides his position which challenges Khomeini’s view. Hence, Jefferson believes that a religion is “a concern purely between our God and our consciences, for which we were accountable to him, and not to priests” (Jefferson as cited in Jefferson and Beileson 34). Interpreting this statement, liberalism envision religion is not a social phenomenon, there is no connection between religion and government because they are based on different outlooks. Besides, liberalism could also oppose to Khomeini’s idea about close connection of government to morality stating that these notions cannot be considered within one context. As it has been mentioned previously, the liberal ideas centers on the need of individual freedom. It was supported by many philosophers who did not believe in power of monarchy. Liberalism is known to entail different beliefs and ideas in what they call a better life. The liberalists seem to back Khomeini’s idea of having a good life in future without what they call a tyrannical authority. The renowned liberalism philosophers include John Locke, Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill